I think that basically every man has an idol in his childhood, and that is Sun Wukong. When we were young and ignorant, we had fantasized countless times that if one day we could have the magical power of Sun Wukong, how great would that be! Not only would he no longer be bullied by others, but he could also "bully" others and become a hero who helped the poor and fought for justice.
The original Journey to the West is a masterpiece among mythological and legendary novels. No one can surpass it, but when I appreciate it, there are always many plots that I don't understand: How powerful was Sun Wukong's Uproar in Heaven? He had defeated the 100,000 regular soldiers of the celestial heavens single-handedly, so why couldn't he deal with the small demons he encountered on the way to the scriptures? Moreover, most of these demons were the mounts and servants of the immortals and gods who did not dare to provoke the Great Sage Sun. When faced with these demons, the Great Sage, Heaven's Equal, who had caused their masters to be helpless when he wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace, was often helpless and even defeated by these demons. What was more, even a junior like Red Boy (this kid had no background in the Heavenly Court), the Great Sage Sun, was defeated by his magic. As a result, he had no choice but to ask for help everywhere. Even when he encountered a strong enemy, the Great Sage Sun simply used a method that was extremely incompatible with his usual conceited temperament, relying on drilling into the belly of the demon to win. Furthermore, he had actually used this method several times in Journey to the West. Even Red Boy's mother, the wife of the Great Sage Sun's sworn brother, the Bull Demon King, had used such a disgraceful method to win against a woman. The part of the book that made me the most dissatisfied was: When the Great Sage Sun faced an opponent he couldn't defeat, he would hire helpers to subdue the opponent. And often at this time, he would take advantage of the opponent's inability to fight back to kill the opponent he couldn't defeat before. The Six-Eared Macaque (Until now, we still don't know how this monster could be as powerful as the Great Sage Sun), although its magical powers were on par with the Great Sage Sun, but it died unjustly at the hands of our mythical hero, the Great Sage Sun.
A few years ago, there was a popular saying in society that went like this: " You only need to pay attention to the results of your actions, and you don't need to pay attention to the method of success." However, I always felt that this sentence had a negative meaning of " for the sake of the goal, by hook or by crook ". Such behavior was extremely inappropriate when used on the self-confident and self-confident mythical hero Sun Wukong.
Because he liked Sun Wukong too much, he had some regrets about Journey to the West. The contrast between the Great Sage Sun who was suppressed in front of the Five Elements Mountain and Sun Wukong who was in the process of learning the scriptures was too great, whether in terms of supernatural powers or personality. If he couldn't defeat the demons on the way to the scriptures, it was the Great Sage Sun's magical powers that were shrinking. Although he could win by drilling into the belly of a demon, it was not a portrait of the fearless, arrogant, and unruly character of the Great Sage Sun.
Because he liked the mythical hero Sun Wukong too much, whenever he saw the plot where the monkey could not defeat the monster, he felt uncomfortable. He felt that it would damage the glorious image of Sun Wukong in his heart. Thinking of this, regret welled up in his heart and he still could not let go. In the Journey to the West, if it weren't for the extensive divine pulse resources accumulated in the Heavenly Court before the havoc in the Heavenly Court, the Great Sage Sun would always be able to ask for help from the immortals and gods when he encountered difficulties. If not for this, even a hundred Tang Sanzangs would not be able to reach the Western Paradise. However, this would weaken the heroic image of Sun Wukong in my heart.
In my impression, the demons and monsters in the legends were all people who ate people without spitting out their bones. They opened their mouths and inhaled, swallowing eight to ten people in one gulp seemed to be no problem. Moreover, they all seemed to swallow meat and drink blood alive. Only the demons and ghosts in Journey to the West wanted to wash and steam Tang Sanzang after they caught him. If he didn't want to fry it, he just wanted to fry it. Otherwise, he would think of inviting the elders to share and taste it. (I didn't expect that in the face of the rare treasure, Tang Sanzang's meat, all the demons would become refined and even more filial than humans. Sometimes, people would kill each other for the sake of property and interests. In short, they would stall for time if they could. It seemed that there was a spy planted by the Great Sage Sun in advance among these demons to help the Great Sage Sun fight for time to rescue his master. Thinking about it, it was not easy for the Great Sage Sun. If there was a demon who ate more like a demon and immediately swallowed the Tang Sanzang after catching him, wouldn't the Great Sage Sun's hard work be in vain? Thinking of this, he felt that Tang Sanzang and his disciples were able to succeed in the Western Paradise. They were mainly grateful to the demons for being able to store leftovers in their kennel, which inadvertently made them and their disciples successful. Some people said that Journey to the West was a story about cultivators who were not afraid of danger, constantly growing and improving themselves, and finally achieving the right results. However, I saw that the four of them only managed to obtain the true scriptures, but I didn't see any improvement in their thinking realm. Zhu Bajie had gotten the right result. Not only did he not reflect on his performance along the way, but he even bargained with the Buddha Lord for the position of "Pure Altar Envoy". It was reasonable to say that cultivation was an individual's voluntary behavior, but in the original work, Tang Sanzang did not want to go to the Western Heaven to obtain scriptures. He had no choice but to share the emperor's worries because he had received benefits from the Tang Emperor. He had gone to the Western Paradise to obtain Buddhist scriptures in order to fulfill the wish of the chairman, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. He was just a wage earner. What did a part-time worker do under the boss's orders have to do with his pursuit of self-cultivation? Also, since Rulai wanted to pass the scriptures to the Great Tang, why not send his gods to the Great Tang? He believed that it would only take a year and a half for these gods to educate the people of the Tang Empire. There was no need to waste time and effort on Tang Sanzang to carry out this task. Because he couldn't understand the original work, he wrote this book to comfort himself.
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