Chapter 137: The ending of "Journey to the West" is a tragedy
"They have indeed achieved positive results, and they have even 'increased their official ranks', but who knows what they really want? What exactly are they going to pursue? In the eyes of others, are they really happy that they have already attained positive results? ”
Chen Ming's voice was a little low, and his speech speed was very slow. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Let's take a look at their experience first, oh, let's talk about that monkey first, after all, he is the most popular 'male number one'." Chen Ming was still joking, but this time there was no student to talk to.
Because at this time, the students were very curious about why such an obvious happy ending could be seen as a tragedy in the eyes of Professor Chen Ming.
At this time, the students were holding their breath, staring at the podium and quietly listening to Professor Chen's views.
"Speaking of that monkey, what did it do before it learned the scriptures?"
"Oh, this classmate, yes, that's you, this female classmate sitting in the second row with braids, can you please tell me, what did Sun Wukong do before learning the scriptures?"
The girl who was called up by Chen Ming wore a thick braid, and her face was full of shyness, but at this time she revealed an excited expression,
"Sun Wukong made a big fuss in the Dragon Palace before learning the scriptures, forcing the Dragon King to fulfill his promise, hand over the Dinghai God Needle, bravely enter the Hades to make trouble, and write off the list of monkeys in the book of life and death. made a big disturbance in the Heavenly Palace, killing 100,000 heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals fleeing from the wind. The peach feast that stirred up the queen mother's mother was stuffed into the gossip furnace of Taishang Laojun, and after smelting for seven seven and forty-nine days, the fire eye Jin Qing was refined. ”
Chen Ming waved his hand and motioned for the girl to sit down,
"The deeds of this Monkey King before learning the scriptures, the female classmates basically said it, and what they missed was nothing more than apprenticeship, occupying the mountain as the king, and calling himself the Monkey King."
"To put it simply, Sun Wukong's experience before learning the scriptures can be summarized in these words, 'He has been an official in heaven, he has robbed in the sea, he has burned the book of life and death in the ground, and he has been the king in the mountains at home'."
"So, Sun Wukong has done so many things before learning the scriptures, who can tell me why it did these things?"
"This classmate, yes, yes, it's you, Ling Hao's roommate, you and Ling Hao are in the same room, it is estimated that it is not difficult to get a copy of "Journey to the West" in the first time, right? Tell me why Sun Wukong has done so many earth-shattering things. ”
The guy who had been dozing off had woken up since Chen Ming had been in the first thirty-five minutes of "class time", and he didn't panic when he was called by Chen Ming at this time, and he took it very calmly.
"If I'm not mistaken, I learned the art because I saw the monkey in the mountain die, and I wanted to get the power to transcend life and death, and I wanted a ......weapon to grab the Poseidon Needle" It's just that the guy didn't say much, because he found that when he saw what Sun Wukong did, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong, but now that I think about it, many things Sun Wukong did were for no reason, and anyone who did anything would have his reasons.
"Can't tell, can you? Oh, I know, you must want to say that the things that Sun Wukong did didn't need a reason at all. Chen Ming waved the guy to sit down.
"Well, in fact, Sun Wukong really doesn't need a reason to do those things, because it's a monkey who has always done what he wants, and in general, its reason is 'I'm happy!' ”
"So let's sum up, before learning the scriptures, Sun Wukong was a freewheeling and unrestrained monkey, so what about after learning the scriptures?"
Chen Ming continued to follow the guidance step by step, luring the students to look at the Monkey King after learning the scriptures with a comparative eye.
"I believe everyone will be familiar with a line in "Journey to the West", 'My old grandson is the Monkey King who made trouble in the Heavenly Palace five hundred years ago', so what about Sun Wukong five hundred years later? It already has a tight spell on its head, it has been shackled, and the monkey who was originally unrestrained and let me go freely is now given the mission of protecting a monk to the Western Heavens, if it is you, are you willing to throw away your unfettered life to protect a stranger with shackles to a very distant place? Is Sun Wukong, who was forced to take on this mission, really happy? ”
Chen Ming paused for more than five seconds, and the students in the classroom were obviously lost in thought, and the classroom was very quiet at this time.
"I don't think it's happy at all." Only then did he come to the conclusion of his own opinion.
"Even in the ending, Sun Wukong also achieved positive results and won the title of Fighting to Defeat Buddha, but it is still unhappy, are they really enjoying bliss in the West as the book says? I don't think so, because I've only seen a monkey that used to be unrestrained become what it is now. ”
"In the same way, we look at the remaining masters and apprentices of Tang Seng from the same point of view."
"Let's talk about Tang Sanzang next."
"Oh, I believe that among so many "Journey to the West" readers here, there should be many people who hate Tang Sanzang, right?"
"Actually, I hate it too." Chen Ming looked at the students and smiled.
"I hate him, that's because I think he's too fake, that's because I don't believe, I don't believe that there are people in this world who really have such a high moral character, if he is really as he appears on the surface, he has no desires and looks like a monk, then how can some of the plots in the novel be explained?"
For example, when the heroine of the daughter country first showed her jade face, Tang Seng was shocked on the spot, in front of this almost perfect woman, he couldn't restrain his mortal heart, otherwise he wouldn't have eaten the peach; Even if it is a pipa spirit, a mouse spirit, and a jade rabbit essence, if you don't fiercely overlord the girl and take out the gentle methods of the queen of the daughter country, maybe the holy monk will follow. After all, he is still the unruly golden cicada in his bones. ”
"So Tang Seng is still selfish, of course, selfish people are not strange, everyone has selfishness, but he pretended to be 'I just have no desires, you don't understand me', so the inconsistency makes me very disgusted."
"But, in fact, the most unhappy thing for me is that in the novel, it is clear that Sun Wukong, who has contributed the most on the way to learn the scriptures, has to be frequently troubled by Tang Seng, which is like being in the workplace, obviously the person who does the most, but he will never be as good as the person who will perform on the back, but the leader always finds trouble with honest people, maybe Tang Seng reminds me of my youth at this point, I am still a freshman who has just graduated from college, and at that time, no matter how hard I work, our grade elders like to pick my brush ......" in the novel, summed up the end of the book with a sentence about the master and apprentice who have achieved positive results and enjoyed bliss in the West, but in my opinion, all these cultivation and canonization of Buddhas are not what they want. "In the eyes of others, who knows what they think in their own hearts under the glamorous appearance?"
"In the whole book, I only saw the changes before and after they learned the scriptures, and only saw that they were forced to be unable to resist before accepting the arrangements of the world to complete the glorious mission of 'learning from the scriptures'."
Chen Ming took a deep breath, exhaled softly, and sighed.
"I, I only saw them, driven to complete the task I didn't want to complete, I, I only saw them who were powerless to resist the arrangement of fate, isn't this a tragedy?" (To be continued.) )