(Snail Watches Journey to the West No. 2638)
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Many people ask about snails: They all say that Monk Tang took four animals to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures. Sun Wukong is a monkey, Zhu Bajie is a pig, The white dragon horse is a dragon, so what kind of animal is Sha Monk?
When Sun Wukong collapsed from the stone, he was a stone monkey. No one had any objection to saying that he was an animal. Little White Dragon was originally the third child of the Dragon King of the West Sea, and no one had any objections to saying that he was an animal.
But some people may argue that Zhu Bajie is a pig, because he was Marshal Tianpeng when he was in heaven, and he was also a human. It was only when he was demoted to the lower world that he was accidentally thrown into a pig pen and became a monster with a pig's head and a human body.
The eighth chapter of the original work, Guanyin went to Chang'an to recruit the leader of the Buddhist scripture learning team, but was blocked and robbed by him in Fuling Mountain . "I own this mountain..." Before he finished reciting the line, Guanyin scolded him: "You are the wild pig that became a spirit over there. Where is this old pig that makes trouble, dare to block me here?"
Zhu Bajie quickly made a solemn statement. ——
"I am not a wild pig, nor an old pig, I am the marshal of Tianpeng in Tianhe. Just because I brought wine to tease Chang'e , the Jade Emperor beat me with two thousand hammers and demoted me to the mortal world. A spirit of true nature came to seize the body and be reincarnated. Unexpectedly, I took the wrong path and was cast into a sow's womb, and I became like this. "
But it turns out that he lied (why he lied will be explained by Snail another day). Before he was appointed Marshal Tianpeng, he was actually a pig demon!
In the 85th chapter of the original work, Zhu Bajie and Leopard read a limerick in front of a fight:
The giant mouth and fangs are powerful, and the Jade Emperor ascended to my canopy to be handsome.
is in charge of the 80,000 soldiers of Tianhe, and the heavenly palace is happy and comfortable.
He sold his hero just because he was drunk and played with Gong'e.
Overwhelmed the Bullfighting Palace with one mouthful and ate the Queen Mother's Ganoderma lucidum.
The Jade Emperor personally struck me with two thousand hammers and demoted me to the three realms.
Teach me to aspire to nourish the soul, but underneath there is a monster
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Everyone, please pay attention, isn't the giant tusk a wild boar? He overturned the bullfighting palace with one mouthful and ate Ganoderma lucidum vegetables with one mouthful. Isn’t that the behavior of a pig? "But there is a monster below", the word "and" proves that he was a monster before.
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Since Zhu Bajie turned into an immortal from a pig demon, was Sha Monk also an animal in his previous life?
Let's first look at how Sha Monk came to heaven -
He was born with great energy and wandered around for thousands of miles.
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all traveled far and wide because of their studies, just to find a teacher.
I carry my mantle with me all year round, and I can’t let it go every day.
I traveled dozens of times and took more than a hundred leisurely trips here and there.
Therefore, I have to meet the real person and lead to the golden light of the road.
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Judging from his autobiography, there is no trace of being a demon before, and of course it is impossible to tell whether he was an animal before.
At Mount Futu, Monk Tang asked Zen Master Wuchao about his future. Lao Wu read a poem, the last two sentences of which were as follows:
The wild boar carries the burden, and the water monster meets him ahead.
Judging from Lao Wu's tone, Sha Monk seems to be a water monster. Stephen Chow's movie "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" made Drifting a Shark, but in "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", he was made into a Smurf again. In the original work of
, when Guanyin saw him for the first time, he had such a killer appearance -
Green but not green, black but not black, unlucky face; long but not long, short but not short, bare feet and tendons. His eyes flicker like the twin lamps on the stove; his mouth and mouth flicker like the fire bowl of a butcher's family. The fangs support the blade of the sword, and the red hair is shaggy. The roar was like thunder, and the running feet were like rolling wind.
This is indeed like some kind of fish becoming a spirit. In particular, "the corners of his mouth are forked, just like the fire bowl of a butcher's family. The fangs support the blade of the sword, and the red hair is shaggy", which looks very much like some kind of fish.
However, in the 61st chapter of the original work, Sun Wukong became the Bull Demon King and deceived the Rakshasa Girl's banana fan. The Bull Demon King chased after him on a shared bicycle. When he almost caught up, his heart But he was thinking -
"It turns out that the hozen has learned the method of using it. If I asked him for it face to face, he would definitely not give it. If he slaps me, he has to go hundreds of thousands of miles away, but it doesn't work. What did he mean? I heard Tang Monk waiting on the road.His second apprentice was the pig spirit, and his third apprentice was the sand flow spirit. When I was a monster, I also met him and transformed into a pig spirit to cheat him again. It is expected that the hozen will be happy with its success and will not take any precautions. "
Here, Mr. Niu revealed another piece of information to us. Lao Sha is actually a sand flow essence. Remember, it is a sand flow essence, not a quicksand essence!
What the hell is a sand flow essence? Sand becomes a essence?
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We need to find out. For the source of Shaliu Jing, we must read "The Biography of Master Sanzang of Daci'en Temple" written by Xuanzang's disciples Huili and Yantou. ", the book records an unforgettable experience of Xuanzang.
Master Xuanzang sneaked to Tianzhu and passed through a vast desert, about 800 miles away. , water is life, but he accidentally knocked over the water bag, and the water leaked out. After holding on for five days, he finally died. He thought that his life was about to end here.
At the end of his life, Suddenly he saw a tall, bearded man with a weapon in his hand and said to him, "Get up, there is water ahead!" He suddenly woke up, struggled to get on the horse's back, and the old horse galloped, and sure enough he was taken not far ahead. He was saved by a pond ("While he was sleeping, he dreamed of a great god several feet long, holding a halberd and saying: Why not force it? "Lie down!")
Later, Xuanzang told people about this experience, and the locals told him that this tall god in the dream was the God of Deep Sand, who specializes in protecting Buddhist scriptures.
According to the records in the book, The prototype of Sha Monk is not an animal, but a god in the desert, equivalent to that The land of this place, or the village chief today.
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But later on, how did the good village chief turn into a cannibal and specialize in eating Buddhist scriptures?
In the original work, Sha Monk took cannibalism to a new level. . When he saw Zhu Bajie, he immediately gave this ingredient a 3-star rating based on the standards of a professional chef -
Mo Yan was too rough to taste, so hold on to the chopped bream sauce!
Zhu Bajie was extremely dissatisfied that it didn't get a 5-star rating. He said angrily: "You bastard, you don't even have a look at it! I'm an old pig and I'm still spitting out water. How dare you say that I'm rough and want to chop bream! It seems that you think of me as an old traveler. "
Two foodies had a fierce fight.
It is said that the image of Sha Monk fell from an earth god to a man-eating chef, mainly due to "The Poems of the Tripitaka of the Tang Dynasty".
Many people may not understand what "Poetry" is, and it is related to What is the difference between the previous "Ji" and "Zhuan"? To put it simply, most Buddhist believers at that time did not even have a kindergarten diploma and could not read a single word. Reading "The Biography of Master Sanzang of Daci'en Temple" which we can't quite understand now is equivalent to playing the piano to an ox.
However, it was not difficult for the smart ancients to draw the stories in them into wall charts or murals, like today's PPT. , shown to the believers one by one, accompanied by professional commentators.
In order to prevent the people below from dozing off, these commentators added more fuel, foam at the mouth, and added a lot of information. What a vivid plot, and the fake ones are told as if they are real. Many of the stories in today's "Journey to the West " are created in this way.
But everyone's brain is different, and the things they tell are often different. What Zhang San said is contradictory to what Li Si said, and what Li Si said is different from what Wang Wu said. In order to solve this problem, a unified lecture text is needed, which is called "Shihua". Today's cross talk textbook.
Sha Monk is a god in the desert, and the desert feels very dangerous to people. Master Xuanzang's lack of experience has shown his superiority, so the PPT commentator can only feel wronged by Village Chief Sha. He is half black.
The original text in the Song Dynasty version of "The Poems of the Tripitaka of the Tang Dynasty" is as follows:
Shen Shayun: "I have eaten you twice, a monk, and you are left with dead bones." "
is about Master Xuanzang who also went to Tianzhu to seek Buddhist scriptures in his previous life, and was eaten by the Shensha God when passing through the desert. In this way, the good man Shensha God turned into the monster Sha Monk, which is what Comrade Niu Mowang calls the sand flow spirit. .
Later, talking about the Eight Hundred Miles of Quicksand turned into the Eight Hundred Miles of Sadness flowing backward into a river. Monk Sha was also forced from the sand into the river, and the two Buddhist monks he ate became nine, and he was beaten hard on the neck. Added seven skulls.
After many adaptations, it became the description in the original work today -
Bodhisattva, I have eaten countless people here, and I have eaten many people who came to seek Buddhist scriptures several times. The human heads that were eaten were thrown into the quicksand and sank to the bottom of the water. In this water, even goose feathers could not float. 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 played with it in my spare time.
Therefore, "Journey to the West" is the result of many adaptations and creations by the people in ancient times. If you cannot move a word according to what some gangsters say today, then the "Journey to the West" we are seeing now can only be Master Xuanzang's Journey to the West.
