Anyway, the chapter at the end of the first volume seems to be quite embarrassing.,There's always all kinds of weird things mixed in.,So send another one.,Doesn't it feel a little better?

Gossip and stop, chatter about dry goods.

I know many readers will feel this way: I have also read "Journey to the West", how come I have not seen the haunted house guarded by the devil mentioned in your article?

Well, this is because the common Journey to the West on the Internet now is the hundred-time version of "Journey to the West" engraved in the late Ming Dynasty ("Newly Engraved Journey to the West" in the twentieth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1597 AD), or the green deleted version on the basis of this edition.

As for why it should be deleted, it is because the chapters such as "Distressed Pansi Cave" in this edition are really indescribable, and it is not possible to delete them.

After saying so much, we actually want to tell the reader.

Before the embroidered version of "Journey to the West", there must be a complete plot of "Journey to the West" to provide inspiration for the author of the drawing of "Portrait of the Official Board", so that such a vivid embroidered image can be painted!

It's a pity that these ancient Journey to the West have been scattered in the long river of history, and future generations can only get a glimpse of their style from the notes of the times.

There is a literacy textbook for ancient Koreans to learn Chinese called "Pu Tongshi Proverbs", which records a lot of content about the ancient book Journey to the West.

Chao A: 'I'm going to buy paperwork from the two ministries. ’

Pilgrim B: ''What paperwork should I buy?'

Chaoren A: "Buy "Zhao Taizu Flying Dragon Story" (that is, "The Complete Biography of the Flying Dragon", describing the story of Zhao Kuangyin's army to establish the Northern Song Dynasty), "Tang Sanzang Journey to the West" to go. ’

Chaoren B: '''When you buy the Four Books and Six Classics (there is one more Book of Music than the 'Four Books and Five Classics', it has been dispersed), and if you read the Book of Confucius, you will reach the principle of Zhou Gong, how to talk about it. ’

Chaoren A: "Journey to the West is lively, it looks good in the stuffy season, and there is Tang Sanzang who leads Sun Xing......

Again:

Chao Ren A: "Today, when the mage went to the west, when he first arrived at the border of Shituo (the country of lions and camels), he encountered the harm of fierce tigers and poisonous snakes, and then encountered the black bear spirit, the yellow wind monster, the lady of the earth (white bone spirit), the spider spirit, the lion monster, the multi-eyed monster, the red child monster, a few deaths were spared, and then passed the thorn fishing hole, the flame mountain, the thin hole, the country of women, and the evil mountains and dangerous water monsters, and the suffering did not know how many, this so-called Diao Jian also. ”

Do you think this model of asking and answering questions between A and B is more familiar?

Li Lei, Han Meimei...... From ancient times to the present, learning foreign languages has been this routine.

Ahem...... It is not difficult to see from "Pu Tongshi Proverbs" that there is still a certain gap between "Tang Sanzang's Journey to the West" and the "Journey to the West" that we are familiar with.

For example, the prototype of the White Bone Spirit is Lady Diyong, and there are also two more caves where demons are entrenched, 'Thorn Fishing Cave and Thin Cave'.

It's a pity that 'Thorn Fishing Hole and Thin Hole', these two plots that cannot be found in the existing "Journey to the West", because there is no relevant record in "Pu Tongshi Proverbs", their content can no longer be checked.

Although the novel "Tang Sanzang Journey to the West" can not be found, the "Biography of the Sanzang Master of the Tang Dynasty Dacien Temple" compiled by the disciples of the Sanzang Master, that is, the prototype of the "Tang Sanzang Journey to the West", still exists in the world!

The house that can never leave as long as it touches the belongings on the ground is from "The Biography of the Three Tibetan Masters of the Datang Dacien Temple"!

Later, in the process of circulation, this story slowly became the story of Taishang Laojun's green bull spirit 'privately' in the lower realm, using the clothes and money scattered on the ground in the house as bait to trap Tang Seng Bajie and Sha Seng and the three of them.

Hey, someone asked, "Journey to the West" is changed from "Tang Sanzang's Journey to the West", and "Tang Sanzang's Journey to the West" is changed from "The Biography of the Three Tibetan Masters of the Tang Dynasty...... Why do people always like to change the books of their predecessors?

This is because 'Journey to the West' is a book that storytellers used to talk about in the past, and since it is a storyteller, you have to stop at any time to answer the questions raised by those curious listeners.

In the script, content such as 'this judge asked' should not be uncommon, right?

However, Mr. Storyteller is only a mortal, and due to the constraints of personal economic conditions, it is basically impossible to have the opportunity to travel abroad to increase his knowledge.

Therefore, some of the questions sometimes asked by the listener are not answered by the storyteller at all.

In other words, there are no answers, but it is smashing the storyteller's own signboard.

As a result, some of the contents in "Tang Sanzang's Journey to the West" that seemed really unbelievable to people at the time were either deleted directly, or tampered with one by one by the storyteller in a way that he could understand.

For example, if you've read Cha Lao's The White Horse Whistling West Wind, you'll be impressed by the haunted and treasure-rich Gaochang labyrinth in the book.

That's right, this is the house cursed by the devil recorded in "Tang Sanzang's Journey to the West"!

It seems that Zha Lao also got inspiration from the 'Tang Sanzang Journey to the West'.

In addition, there is the quicksand river.

First of all, it should be pointed out that the story of the 'Quicksand River in Distress' is completely deduced by the imagination of later generations, and only a 'waterhole' full of quicksand is recorded in the "Biography of the Three Tibetan Masters of the Daci'en Temple of the Tang Dynasty".

When Master Xuanzang passed by here, he specially led two apprentices to turn around and take a look.

Yes, there is no quicksand river, and there is no sand monk in the water house at the bottom of the river.

The prototype of Monk Sha was the apprentice of Master Xuanzang who received the Tongtian River (now the Mekong River in Vietnam) after seeking the true scriptures from the Western Heavens.

When Xuanzang and his entourage fell into the water due to an attack by an ironclad turtle (actually an Asian crocodile) in the Mekong River, this particularly fierce Sha junior not only jumped into the water and slammed the crocodile to save the master and brother, but also fished up most of the scriptures that fell into the water...... Later, the four masters and apprentices also looked for stones to dry the scriptures.

Okay, let's go back and talk about this quicksand 'pool'!

There is a saying that '800 quicksand realms, 3,000 weak water depths, goose feathers can't float, and reed flowers sink at the bottom'.

Throughout the ages, how many people have subconsciously thought that 3,000 weak water is a kind of water, and even wrote that '3,000 weak water only takes one scoop to drink'...... I hope that after our explanation, you can still face this sentence.

In the ancient geography book "Yu Gong", there is a clear definition of this 'weak water': weak water refers to those 'fluids' with extremely low buoyancy and cannot carry boats!!

（…… As for Heli, the aftermath of the weak water enters the quicksand, and the boat cannot afford it)

Isn't it surprising?

In this world, is there really 'water' that can't float wooden boats? And this 'water' can actually turn into quicksand??

Yes, there really is such a thing in the world, but it is certainly not water!!

Let's introduce a knowledge point.

If a large amount of gas passes through the gaps between the gravels quickly, then the gravel will have some of the properties of a fluid in a short period of time, and thus flow like river water, and this phenomenon is called 'solid fluidization'!

Whether it is weak water or quicksand, the real quicksand river is not a river at all, but a local soil gravel fluidization phenomenon caused by a large amount of underground natural gas gushing out of the surface!

This is the real 'goose feathers can't float, and the reed flowers sink to the bottom'!

The goose feathers, which are extremely lightweight, will be carried away by the rapid flow of natural gas between the sand and gravel the moment they come into contact with the fluidized gravel, and it will look as if it is 'sinking' in the quicksand.

This is the weak water that really 'can't afford to carry boats'!

Because the air flows in the gravel, its buoyancy is much smaller than that of the river, so it is natural that a wooden boat cannot float!

Well? Why do I know this, you ask? Hey, because we're professional!

Don't hit, don't hit, put down the bricks in your hands, I really learned this major!

According to the research of later generations, the Heli recorded in the book "Yu Gong" is the Heli Mountain near Zhangye City, Gansu Province today.

Its mountains lie in central Gansu, with the Tengger Desert in Inner Mongolia to the north, and the famous Hexi Corridor to the south.

Not long ago, in Qingyang City, Gansu Province (700 kilometers away from Heli Mountain), a large oil and gas field with proven reserves of 358 million tons and a predicted oil and gas equivalent of more than 1 billion tons was discovered.

Many people don't understand what this concept is, for example, China's largest oil field, Daqing Oilfield, has a reserve size of 5.67 billion tons, in other words, Qingyang is equivalent to one-sixth of Daqing!

One of my classmates, who works in the Qingyang oilfield, once sent me a video of him leading a team to repair a perforated natural gas pipeline (the video was taken to document the actual damage to the pipeline).

In the video, the soil gravel near the perforation of the pipeline has been completely fluidized by the action of natural gas ejected at high speed at the perforation.

It's like an alchemy cauldron being stirred back and forth by an invisible witch, the soil, sand, gravel, and grass roots are tumbling up and down like potions, and they are bubbling out......

There are many things in the world, and although some things seem magical, they may not be explained by science in the future.

I bet with my professionalism that the quicksand river that Master Xuanzang encountered back then was actually a natural gas well at the foot of Heli Mountain, which accidentally (such as an earthquake) broke through the surface from the ground and showed fluidization!

Thanks to Master Xuanzang, he didn't have the habit of smoking a cigarette to calm down when he encountered an incomprehensible phenomenon, otherwise there would be no more......

Gossip and live.

With Lao Jinyu in front of Cha, we are also going to take "Journey to the West" and copy it, but the copy is a copy, and it is directly copied...... That would be stupid.

Want to know how I will copy Journey to the West? Keep reading, and you'll understand.