(Journey to the West Series Interpretation No. 63)
Text / Walking with a Snail
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Monsters eat people. Although it is hateful, at least we can understand it. Just like a ferocious beast wants to hurt people, it is not because it hates people, but because it is an instinct for survival.
But in Journey to the West, the gods also want to eat humans, which is a bit ruining the world view.
In the minds of mortals, what are gods? They are the idols we worship and the goals we strive for! After becoming a god, not to mention Zhao Benshan 's bicycle, even spaceship can be taken at will. You can travel around the world eight times in one day without any travel expenses. It’s as exciting as you want. No wonder people say is as happy as a god.
At the same time, gods are also the incarnation of justice. When we encounter difficulties, we should pray to the gods and hope that they can help us; when we have done bad things, we must confess to the gods and hope that the gods of justice can forgive us. I am usually cautious about what I say and do, for fear of offending the gods and being punished by them.
However, these incarnations of justice and role models for mortals all looked like dogs in the heaven. When they came to the world, their faces immediately changed. They opened their mouths to eat people. Their mouths were full of the smell of blood, and the appearance of eating was quite ugly. You will not be punished by Heaven or the West.
In Journey to the West, such gods abound.
For example, Kui Mulang is the love saint in the sky and one of the twenty-eight constellations. People on the earth have to pay homage to it from time to time. But as soon as he became a yellow-robed monster , he treated people as appetizers, taking a bite of human flesh and drinking a sip of wine.
Another example is The Golden Horned King The Silver Horned King . In the sky, they are just two honest children who burn boilers. But when they come to the world, they suddenly become so awesome that they won’t eat non-human meat barbecued pork buns, and they even want to catch Tang Monk and beat him as a tooth sacrifice.
Not only the little gods want to eat people, but the big gods are also not immune.
Guanyin mount Golden Hair Roar Under the banner of revenge for Buddha Mother , the lower realm calls itself " Sai Tai Sui " and plunders the Empress of Jin Sheng Palace into the cave. Because the empress is wearing colorful rosy clothes, he can only look at her but not I want to move, so in March and February, I ask for two maids from Noble Kingdom , and eat them after playing with them.
The Antarctic Immortal is specially used to send birthdays to people, but his mount sika deer changed his ways in the Bhikkhu Kingdom and asked the king for the hearts of 1,111 babies. You say a small sika deer, What are you doing with so much heart and soul?
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Not only the supporting characters want to eat people, the protagonist is also a habitual offender.
Among the four disciples of Tang Seng, the one who eats the most people is Sha Seng. In the eighth chapter of the original work, when Guanyin led the recruitment team to find Sha Monk, Sha Monk made no secret and said:
"Bodhisattva, I have eaten countless people here. I have eaten many people who have come to seek Buddhist scriptures several times. Everything I eat has been eaten by me." The human head was thrown to the quicksand and sank to the bottom of the water. Even the goose feathers could not float in this water. Only the skeletons of the nine pilgrims floated on the water and could no longer sink. I thought it was a foreign object, so I threaded the rope in one place and brought it out at my leisure. Playing. "
Sha Seng not only eats people, but also likes to eat Buddhist monks. When he is not satisfied with eating, he will also play with their heads, which is much crueler than many monsters!
Faced with Sha Monk's atrocities, Guanyin only said lightly:
"You can hang the skull under your head and wait for people to learn from the scriptures. It has its own use."
Zhu Bajie eats people, and he eats them in a very high-profile manner. , quite domineering. When Guanyin sent him a recruitment letter, he actually said:
"Future! Future! If I follow you, teach me how to drink the wind! As the saying goes: 'Kill according to official law, kill by starvation according to Buddhist law.'Go! Go! It's better to catch a pedestrian and eat his wife fat! No matter what two sins, three sins, a thousand sins, ten thousand sins! "
Even Guanyin couldn't stand it anymore, and criticized him:
"'If people have good wishes, God will follow them. ’ If you are willing to take refuge in the right path, you will have a place to nourish yourself. There are grains in the world, which can help the hungry, so why eat people to survive? "
means, if you can join our company and ensure that you have enough to eat every day, why bother eating people? In the eyes of Guanyin, it seems that cannibalism is not a big deal, but if you want to leave a good reputation, it is best Still don't eat.
Did Sun Wukong eat people? There is controversy in the original work. When rescuing the king of the Wuji Kingdom, he needed artificial respiration. The Tang Monk said that Bajie and Sha Seng had eaten people and had foul breath in their mouths. , only Wukong is clean and can save him.
But during the three fights with the White Bone Demon, Wukong personally said to Tang Monk:
When the old Sun was a demon in the Water Curtain Cave, if he wanted to eat human flesh, he would do this: or It turns into gold and silver, or it turns into a table, or it turns into intoxicating, or it turns into a woman. If those infatuated people fall in love with me, I will lure them into the cave, and steam or boil them as they please. It needs to be dried in the sun to prevent it from being cloudy!
Snail thinks that even the details of eating people are not made up. It can be seen that Wukong is also suspected of eating people.
These are the people-eating demons. Even if they are high-ranking officials at the ministerial level in heaven, even if they make mistakes and are demoted to the mortal world, they can be cleansed through Buddhist scriptures, or become Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, or Arhats, they are not held accountable for their cannibalism.
What’s even more ironic is that yesterday’s incident. Cannibals have become the protectors of mortals today.
Are gods guilty or not guilty when they come down to earth?
In other classical mythological novels, including "The Romance of the Gods", gods can only hurt people. Eat less people. Why are the immortals in "Journey to the West" so hungry that they even eat their own food and clothing?
To understand these issues, we must first understand the definition of immortals in "Journey to the West" and other mythological novels. The difference between CUHK and CUHK is that they are immortal, but not immortal (immortality only refers to a long time) . At a certain stage, you will have to die. Of course, this death is not the kind of death we understand, where the body is erect with just one kick, but the lower realm reincarnation .
It’s okay if you reincarnate as a mortal, you can practice and return to heaven again, just like the Eight Immortals. If reincarnated as an animal, the gap would be too great, and living would be more uncomfortable than death.
Even if you are reincarnated as a mortal, without your magic power, the enemies in your previous life will come to you and cause trouble. You will either be thrown into the Nine Netherworld and never be able to stand up again, or you will continue to be reincarnated and eventually end up in the animal world.
Therefore, no god is not afraid of death. What should I do if I don’t want to die? There are two kinds, one is to take great supplements such as flat peach, ginseng fruit , and the other is to practice on your own.
Flat peaches are grown in the Queen Mother’s Garden, and ginseng fruits are guarded at Yuanzi’s house in Laoji Town. They are not easy to get. So, is it easy to practice cultivation on your own? Harder! Maybe he died in one calamity before he cleared the level.
This is not snail nonsense. While at Wuzhuang Temple, Sun Wukong pushed down the ginseng fruit tree , and the first one he found was the three stars of fortune, wealth and longevity. The three stars told Wukong:
"You monkey, you don't know what is good or bad... He got it very easily." , we can live as long as the heaven; we also need to nourish the essence, refine the energy, preserve the spirit, reconcile the dragon and the tiger, and catch the obstacles and fill the gaps. I don’t know how much time it takes.How do you say his energy value is very tight? There is only this kind of spiritual root in the world! "
Look, even Samsung has to practice hard to save his life, let alone ordinary gods!
So, besides this, are there any shortcuts? Yes, that is eating people in the lower world!
In China In ancient times, due to their ignorance of natural science, the gods regarded the human body as the best offering to heaven. By eating humans, the gods could absorb energy and add it to themselves (a bit of energy conversion) , thus extending their lifespan. , to avoid premature reincarnation.
But different human sacrifices provide different energy to gods. Babies are first-class, boys and girls are second-class, and ordinary people are third-class. It is a defective product.
Defective products not only cannot increase energy, but also consume energy.
Therefore, Antarctic Immortal wants first-class products, Guanyin wants second-class products, and Sha Monk and Bajie can only eat third-class products. Those who can eat defective products become heroes and are truly worshiped by the people.
Lao Tzu once said, "Heaven and earth are unkind, and treat all things as stupid dogs" ( Chapter 5 of "Tao Te Ching" ). In the eyes of the gods, mortals are just a dish, which they can eat at any time, so it is not a sin.
Of course, the gods do not admit this statement. Their argument is that eating people is also a way to save people., being eaten. This is what people’s lives are like, we are just helping. “You’re welcome, this is what we should do! "
No matter how nice the gods say, mortals still have doubts. In order to solve this problem, the Jade Emperor and Tathagata stipulated that heaven and lingshan must not eat humans, and defined the immortals who eat humans in the lower world as monsters. Since they are Monsters, you can eat them freely and openly, and eat them with confidence.
When you return to Heaven or Lingshan, you only need to repent and shed a few tears, and then nothing will happen. After burning the fire for Laojun for a few days, gold fish essence , sika deer, etc. were not even scolded, because while they were eating, they gave more offerings to the owner to enjoy.
went to "Snail Watching Journey to the West". Official account, you can see the 172nd article "Why do gods practice magic weapons? Why didn't Sun Wukong bring them out when he was causing trouble in the Heavenly Palace"
