Regarding the grievances of the Romance of the Gods and the two books of Journey to the West, let's talk about some more. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoJudging from the two books, there are too many places where Journey to the West "plagiarizes" other people's works, but some of the content of Romance of the Gods and Journey to the West overlap a lot. So let's analyze, the more reasonable conclusion is that Journey to the West "plagiarized" some of the poems of the Romance of the Gods, but also made a little seemingly small changes in it, which is very in line with Lao Wu's style. Then, it can be proved that the Romance of the Fengshen that Wu Chengen saw may be the original version, not the version in the later Wanli period.

But it is also obvious that some of Lao Wu's Journey to the West is specifically for you to become a god, aren't you advocating Taoism to win over Buddhism and belittle Confucianism, let's expose you from all aspects, so that everyone can see what the real Taoism is all about?

Lao Wu is relatively fair and objective, but it is more obscure, and he has also criticized some scum and people of Confucianism, and even criticized the emperors and princes, but he still has hopes and expectations for them. It's a pity that Lao Wu saw the stubborn void and wanted to break it, but Rao was so talented that he couldn't do it, and he didn't have a chance or a fundamental way. This is to break the stubborn void and have to Wukong, in the end, it is still the wall of the Anzhu kiln head adobe water to fish for the moon, only into empty ears, how not to make people worry about the ancients for the ancients to be sad.

Let's discuss the matter of the dragon king later, and now we will continue to talk nonsense. In the seventh chapter of Journey to the West, the great sage escaped from the gossip furnace, and the ape was determined under the Five Elements Mountain. "Wealth and fame, fate is determined, and people must not be deceived. Righteousness is bright and bright, and loyalty and goodness are profound. Some arrogance is punished by heaven, and there is no time to wait for the time to come. Ask Dongjun why, now the scourge is invading. is only for the sake of the high heart, regardless of the upper and lower rules".

In the 16th year of Zhizheng (1355), Zhang Shicheng conquered Pingjiang Road and renamed it Longping Mansion, establishing the Wu regime, known as Eastern Wu in history; later, Zhu Yuanzhang captured Jiqing Road in 1356 and changed it to Yingtianfu, and it was also the Wu regime established in Jiqing at that time, which was known as Western Wu in history. From May 1366 to September 1367, a great war broke out between the two families, and Lao Zhu finally eliminated Lao Zhang. Zhu Yuanzhang once said, "I didn't plan to kill Zhang Shicheng, but he was too strong to be attached." At the beginning, I had just won Jiankang, didn't the two families get along well? However, Zhang Shicheng began to provoke and was defeated by me many times. He patronizes his own pleasures, regardless of the hardships of the people. If you don't have real talents, you will only play some intrigues. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have beaten him so easily. Now that he's dead, I'm very sorry. ”

came back and said that Sun Wukong was tied to the demon subduing pillar, but he was invulnerable to fire and thunder. Taishang Laojun suggested that he send it to himself to open the furnace for alchemy and recycling. Erlang God, the Jade Emperor only gave some food and drink, and he didn't mention a word about the promotion, and sent him back to Guanjiangkou (Guanjiangkou, "Pingjiang City" also, Zhang Shicheng's nest - Suzhou), although he was dissatisfied, he had to be grateful. Zhang Shicheng, a character with many equally many advantages and disadvantages, is regrettable, in 1367, he fought with Zhu Yuanzhang, was defeated and captured, but refused to surrender, so he had to hang himself. Regardless of the success or failure of the heroes, Zhang Shicheng and Yu Qian are very comparable in terms of fighting against the Mongols.

Taishang Laojun was very suspicious at this time, untied the rope of the great sage, put the instrument that pierced the pipa bone, and then pushed it into the gossip furnace, used the Liuding divine fire, and burned a lot of charcoal (this charcoal is Laojun's statement, not very reliable), as a result, the monkey was smoked with a fiery eye, seven seven forty-nine days later, did not investigate, and planned to open the furnace to take the pill, but Sun Wukong took the opportunity to run out, and drove the old man away with a whole upside-down green onion.

This old gentleman is a little too inferior, but this shows that there is a problem. Taishang Laojun must know the secret of this monkey, the background and the origin of something. But he is pretending to be deaf and dumb, and he seems to be making trouble but making trouble, but there are many places to help Sun Wukong, a typical old treacherous and cunning and calculating, making money in a good way, and hiding deeply, and sitting firmly in the second golden position in this book.

Actually, Lao Jun did help Sun Wukong. Because the last book also said that Wang Yuan of Goryeo accepted Zhu Yuanzhang's edict and sent troops north to fight with the Northern Yuan, but in fact, the real purpose was to grab territory. Because Wang Yuan was first attached to the Yuan Dynasty, and later completely severed relations with the Northern Yuan Dynasty, this is the Journey to the West, Taishang Laojun first helped the Jade Emperor capture the demon monkey, and later discussed the preaching method with the Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha, and completed Wukong's theft of the golden pill (now this Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha can only be said to be Wang Yuan's mother, the Empress Dowager Mingde, Hong, who in 1369 had advised Wang Yuan to attach himself to Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty and not to reuse Xin Min again. Wang Yuan took the first suggestion and pledged allegiance to Emperor Hongwu. Although the second suggestion was not fully adopted, it also became wary of Xin Min enough and began to prepare for it);

Sun Wukong has been holding back for many days, and now the monkey is furious, knocking on the mallet all the time, and making trouble in the heavenly palace again. But the next three poems explain the background of Sun Wukong's origin, and finally say that Vientiane returns to the truth from the same reason, such as coming to live in Shuanglin, the mystery is quite mysterious, and I will talk about it later.

Monkey King tossed all the way, and hit the outside of the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, surrounded by dozens of immortals, but he was not afraid, he used the ability of three heads and six arms, turned into three golden hoop sticks, and danced in circles. Yuantuotuo, the light is scorching, how can people learn from the ages? You can't burn when you enter the fire, how can you drown when you enter the water? A mani pearl is bright, and the sword and halberd can't be injured. He can also be good or evil, and the good and evil in front of him are up to him. When it is good, it becomes a Buddha and an immortal, and the evil place is covered with hair and horns.

The poems in this show that monkeys and Buddhism have a lot of chance. Don't explain anything else too early, let's talk about the fur and horns. The general understanding is that animals are animals, but this is an allusion, Taoism has a woolly rhinoceros, and Buddhism pays attention to such as a horned tiger. However, when it comes to Lao Wu, what is it referring to?

But pay attention to this poem, when you look at the first time, there is a mess, and the second time, "Hey, Mani Zhu, is it ......? No, what is it?" With random speculation, I looked for it in the back, until the fourteenth time, and sure enough, the answer was given in the book. It is written that the Dharma Body Buddha has no appearance, and a round light contains all things. Let's take a look at the current monkey, it is three heads and six arms plus three wishful golden hoops and sticks flying in groups, isn't it just a bright ball.

About Monkey King, it was said at the beginning of the Journey to the West book that the stone monkey was born soon after it was born, and now it is shining again. Is there any way to say this? The Ming Shilu records that when Lao Zhu was born, his family's house was glowing red, and later he became a monk in Huangjue Temple, and there was light at night. Because Mr. Wu Chengen defined Zhu Yuanzhang as metallic, the great sage often emits golden light.

Ruyi golden hoop stick, how does the Dragon King of the East China Sea evaluate, hold some and die, knock some and die; Is it so powerful? Why do many monsters love and fear the golden hoop stick? Even Sun Wukong was later accepted by the green bull with a diamond bracelet after the golden hoop stick, somersaulted and escaped with his life, and lost his claim in a hazy way. Tears fell in his eyes, but now there is no scepter, how can he prosper with empty fists and bare feet!

In the last book, Caesar mentioned that the total weight of Emperor Jiajing's reward to Tao Zhongwen was 13,500 catties, which was exactly the same as the weight of this wishful golden hoop stick. The law set by Zhu Yuanzhang is a capital crime for officials who embezzle sixty taels of silver. Everyone also understands that this is the weapon of the unremitting struggle of Sun Monkey, which we envied in our childhood, and in Lao Wu's mind, a large part of it is actually money!!

(Zhu Yuanzhang's life is inseparable from "money".) If there is no money, can he build a city and accumulate grain? Can he go north to the Central Plains and the Northern Yuanhu? Where does the money come from? Lao Zhu took a lot of money from the "dragon king" Shen Wansan and others; from the high taxes paid by Zhang Shicheng in the areas occupied by Zhang Shicheng in the former Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Zhejiang; there were even confiscated proceeds from the killing of corrupt officials; and, of course, the money and grain handed over from various localities.

Lao Zhu was a rather picky emperor, but he was not stingy with military spending during the war. Armor, weapons, artillery, guns, horses, and warships are very well prepared; the soldiers' salaries are very high, and the whole family will not starve to death if a person is a soldier; military merit rewards and death pensions are very rich, the Ming army at that time was not afraid of death at all, and the infantry was not much inferior to the Mongolian cavalry that had lost most of the tradition, and the cavalry in the early Ming Dynasty was even more courageous, and the naval army was also terrible, but the most elite was the musket battalion. But it's all backed up by money!)

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but be furious when he saw that the Northern Yuan Dynasty had repeatedly counterattacked Beiping (Dadu), and he turned against them, and dared to covet my dignified China again! So in the third year of Hongwu (1370), he ordered Xu Da, Li Wenzhong, Feng Sheng (Feng Zongyi), Deng Yu, Tang He, and others to carry out the first northern expedition to the desert, among which Xu Da's Western Route Army crusaded against Timur, and Li Wenzhong went north to drive out the remnants of the Yuan. On the way to the army, Li Wenzhong heard that Emperor Yuan Shun had died on 28 April, so he took the opportunity to march in a hurry to conquer Yingchang (the temporary capital of the remnant Yuan Dynasty at that time)! Now Sun Dasheng's battle in front of the Jade Emperor's Jinluan Palace is actually referring to Li Wenzhong's attack on the Battle of Yingchang and the Battle of Dingxi (the western part of Andingzhou) commanded by Xu Da.

In addition, in May of the third year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty established Ying Changwei, but it was gradually abandoned by Zhu Zhanji.

Sun Wukong's Dharma Body Buddha fighting image was described by Old Man Wu as very legendary, and the pen of the true god is also. Zhu Yuanzhang is indeed the emperor of "fighting", and he is even more proficient in internal and external warfare! "The Art of War" is in the hands of Lao Zhu, and it is absolutely playful. What is especially rare is that Emperor Hongwu must have almost never read in his early years, all of them were tempered in the war years, and in his spare time without war, he had children with his wives, studied by himself, studied psychology, pondered power techniques, and so on. So why do monkeys have the image of a Dharmakaya Buddha? It can only be said that Sun Dasheng had a very high status in the Buddhist family in his previous life, but he was still a little short of becoming a Buddha. It takes an opportunity, that is, to be reincarnated and practice in order to become a Buddha.

came back to read the book, but the Jade Emperor could see it at a glance, oh...... I see, like this, after a long time, this guy is the reincarnation of the Buddhist family, so he sent a decree to ask Rulai to subdue the demon monkey. Many people don't have a good opinion of the Jade Emperor, thinking that he is incompetent or something, and I also agree with this. However, Caesar still put such a character with many shortcomings as the Jade Emperor in the book Journey to the West, and the most high-level immortals were on the top spot. Part of the prototype or soul of the Jade Emperor, Lao Wu must have put Emperor Longqing into it. This is an important basis for Caesar's insistence that Journey to the West was first written around 1560, and that it was first written between 1572 and 1582.

(In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Xu Da and others to the north, and after conquering Dadu, he started a fierce battle with Kuangkuo Timur.) Enlarged Timur, Han name Wang Baobao. His father was Sain Chitaku, who was later adopted by his uncle Tsakhan Timur. Chakhan Timur fought bravely and was almost invincible in the world. The anti-Yuan armies of all roads are generally vulnerable in front of them, including Zhu Yuanzhang. Lao Zhu was afraid of Chakhan Timur, so he pretended to take refuge in the Yuan court. Fortunately, in 1362, Chakhan Timur died tragically. Objectively speaking, instead of dying in battle, he died in treacherous schemes. Fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang and Chakhan Timur have not really confronted each other, otherwise the consequences are unpredictable. His righteous son, Kuangku Timur, began to show his edge, not only fighting against the anti-Yuan army, but also focusing on the internal warlords of the Yuan Dynasty. Since 1368, he has won and lost with Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinates, and in 1372 he has suffered a heavy blow to the Ming army of the Northern Expedition, and died around 1375. Zhu Yuanzhang called him "the strange man in the world", and his evaluation was even higher than that of the fierce general Chang Yuchun. Kuoku Timur (Chinese name is Wang Baobao), in the Journey to the West, alludes to Wang Lingguan, the assistant envoy of Yousheng Zhenjun. Lao Wu deliberately described his might, "Brave and loyal has a great reputation, and he has a bad reputation for deceiving the sky." One is low and one is fortunate to hold each other, and the heroes gamble together. The iron rod is fierce, the golden whip is fast, how can you endure it if you are upright and selfless? This is Taiyi Thunder Ying Huazun, and that is the Monkey King Ape Monster. The two families of the golden whip and iron rod are all immortal instruments of the Divine Palace. Today, in the Lingxiao Treasure Palace, it is so cute to show your talents. One is deceitful and wants to seize the Bullfighting Palace, and the other is trying his best to support the Xuan Shengjie. Bitter struggle does not allow the supernatural powers, and the whip and rod go back and forth without victory or defeat". Again, then maybe Yousheng Zhenjun is referring to Chakhan Timur. This "father and son" are really powerful, if it weren't for the bold and straightforward grassland iron man who "harmed" them, the Ming Dynasty is estimated to be established at least ten years later. ）

You Yi Lingguan (should refer to the Northern Yuan Dynasty general He Zongzhe) and Yi Shengzhenjun (Zhang Boyan of Pingzhang in the early Northern Yuan Dynasty) went to the west to ask the Buddha to surrender, and if he came to receive the order, he quickly took two apprentices to go, and saw Sun Wukong to introduce himself, and pretended to know nothing, pretending to ask the origin of the monkey or something.

Sun Wukong hasn't Wukong yet, where to take this to heart, but let the teacher teach a lesson, and finally reminded but I'm afraid it's a pity that the poisoner is the original face. Sun Wukong didn't understand or care at all now, so he agreed to bet on somersaults with Rulai. It wasn't until 500 years later that I understood a lot of the before and after, and I knew that Rulai had coaxed me, and even knew a little bit of my true colors. But what is the coaxing? What is the true face of the Monkey King? Caesar can only say that this is too complicated for now.

Not surprisingly, the Great Sage lost, but was crushed under the Five Elements Mountain. But the monkey has a saying, everyone should pay attention, there is a magic of an unknown prophet, I will never believe it! I don't believe it! What is this for, this is the old man Wu telling us through the monkey's mouth that there is no unknown prophet in the world at all, it is all a lie.

(In 1398, Zhu Yuanzhang died.) ）

The demon monkey was suppressed here, and Rulai was going to leave. I don't want Tianpeng and Tianyou to give an edict and ask the Buddha to stay. (At this time, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, who had not yet ascended the throne; Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, 1361-1425.) The fifth son of Taizu and the younger brother of Zhu Di. In 1370, he was crowned King of Wu, in 1378 he was renamed King of Zhou, and in 1381 he was named Kaifeng. In 1389, he was moved to Yunnan because he left his fiefdom to Fengyang without permission, and only returned to Kaifeng in 1391. After Zhu Yuanzhang died, he was demoted to a concubine by Emperor Jianwen because of his conspiracy. In 1402, Zhu Di released him, and Zhu Hu was obsessed with compiling medical skills and made great achievements. Perhaps this move was of great help to Li Shizhen later. ）

So there was an antiy conference in the sky (in 1402, Zhu Di ascended the throne. In the same year, the Northern Yuan Dynasty fell, and Mongolia began to divide. If you still respect the Jade Emperor on the surface, you don't dare to disobey, you call yourself an old monk, but in front of the monkey, you are sour, jealous and hateful. But Rulai is generally very satisfied, this time it was not in vain, the main purpose was achieved, and by the way, it also narrowed the superficial relationship with Heavenly Court, and gained more popularity. At the same time, Lao Wu is also informing us that this Buddhism has begun to raise its head again, and many people in the court and the central government are going to defect to the semi-defectors, and even come to see the actual master.

If you come to eat and take, but you don't know if you eat meat, that is, dragon liver and phoenix marrow, I didn't say. Returning home with a full load, call a joy. posted a six-character mantra on Wuzhi Mountain again, which completely shocked the monkeys. What does this six-character mantra mean, there are a lot of sayings, each is different, Caesar's understanding is that the Buddha and I are together, if you have to translate it in order, it is good, wishful, auspicious, Buddha.

If you are hungry, let you eat iron pills and drink copper juice when you are thirsty, reflect on it, and release it later. This is the enjoyment that only the master who should go to hell can enjoy, but this is arranged as such, and the purpose is to let the monkey feel good. Anyway, after coming out, Sun Wukong has changed, and has completely become a two-faced monkey, is it good or evil, virtuous or stupid? I can't tell clearly, the monkeys before this were all instinctive and liking to do things, and they didn't like to use their brains to think about problems. Indeed, after 500 years of pressure, Sun Wukong has realized a lot of simple emptiness.

Then he talked about the eighth journey to the west, tried to ask about the Zen pass, and asked for countless references, often ending up in old age. Grinding bricks for mirrors, snow for food, lost for many years?

The iron pestle may be sharpened into a needle, and the water droplets can also pierce the stone, the bricks can be used as mirrors to make people laugh, and the snow can be used as food to starve to death.

If you come back from the joy and ride the auspicious clouds, I will look at the Three Realms with a very deep sense of the ways that greet you. The fundamental primordial is extinguished after all. Like the void, there is nothing. Ambushing a good monkey is a matter of ignorance, the beginning of life and death, and the law is the same.

Well, this old Wu is too funny. The original text of the Buddhist scripture is that I have contemplated the Three Realms with a very deep Prajna. Fundamental detachment, after all, extinction. Like the void, there is nothing...... The name of life and death begins, and the law is the same.

One speaks of the original, and the other speaks of separation. Lao Wu is too talented, praise and applaud. So what exactly does Nyolai mean, purely from the analysis of Nyolai's words, it is like this. I have seen all over the Three Realms with great wisdom, except for Sun Wukong, I can't find the second fundamental origin, just the monkey has the most primitive root, the root of the coexistence of good and evil.

After listening to it, everyone celebrated the Buddha's success.

At the end of the opening poem, it is mentioned that the Three Treasures of the Dragon King are seen, and in the next verse of the poem, it is mentioned that the Dragon Palace Dharma Realm is used. This shows that Buddhism, like Taoism, has a dragon culture, and I will talk about it later.

Although Xizhou doesn't know the years and months (why the Buddha said this, it is precisely to prove that the life span of Sun Wukong in the book of life and death of the Hades Palace is 342 years, in fact, it refers to 342 months, which is the time when Zhu Yuanzhang was an ordinary "mortal". Since then, Lao Zhu has become Wu Guogong - Wu Wang - Hongwu Emperor, already considered the "Son of Heaven"), but if you are still not confused, you know that after a long 500 years or so, everyone will get together, and the Bon will be held (Zhu Di officially moved the capital to Beijing in the first month of the 19th year of Yongle), this good man and woman have offered so many good things, and everyone should have a good time.

You can't just eat, the Bodhisattva offers poems, such as talking about the root stream. As he spoke, he turned the spearhead and introduced the customs of the four continents, which is a classic commentary.

(In the Spring Festival of 1421, Zhu Di, Taizong of the Ming Dynasty, invited 27 heads of state or representatives to participate in the ceremony of Beijing, the new capital of the Ming Dynasty. Most of these heavyweights came from different coastal countries in Asia, Europe and Africa, and most of them came to China on Zheng He's ships to the West, so there were still many landlocked countries who did not have the opportunity to congratulate them. ）

In the end, Rulai said his actual thoughts, to pass on the scriptures to Nanzhou, after so many years of Taoguang cultivation, it is time to attack. But we can't take the initiative to attack too clearly, and we have to let a representative from Nanzhou come over to learn from the experience, but we have to send someone with magic to go over to Nanzhou first.

From the book, Sun Wukong was suppressed in the sixth year of "Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han Dynasty", and only came out of the Five Elements Mountain in 639 (because the book says the so-called Zhenguan Thirteenth) year, but the historical Master Xuanzang was in Tianzhu in 629 AD, and it should be about 623 years in the middle. So when I heard it, this 500 years is just an approximate number, but why don't you say 600 miles, just to make it sound good? It is very suspicious, let's analyze, in 1402, not long after Zhu Di ascended the throne, he sent Master Zhiguang to the Western Regions. The purpose of Ming Taizong was not to seek scriptures, but to promote Wanghua. So at this time, Rulai actually refers to Zhu Di, who changed Beiping to Beijing in 1403 and began to prepare for moving the capital. In 1421, the Beijing division was changed to Nanjing, and Beijing was changed to the Beijing division, and the world was announced, and the disturbance was quite big. That is, the Obon festival that was held in the past. Let's analyze, because the western sky does not know the years and months, that is, the months replace the years. From the beginning of the Battle of Yingchang in April 1370, to the first month of 1421, when Emperor Yongle officially changed the capital to Beijing, a total of 51×235÷ 19-8 ≈623 lunar months. If we calculate according to 639-6=633, then it is November of 1421. At this time, the city of Beijing was basically completed, and at the end of 1420, only the Forbidden City was basically completed. In fact, in the Journey to the West, Rulai's original words are "half a thousand years" instead of five hundred years. This so-called 500 years is mainly because after Sun Wukong came out of the Five Elements Mountain, he always likes to say this. Then the monkey's mouth "five hundred years ago made trouble in the heavenly palace" must have other meanings. ）

When Guanyin heard this, he circled around Rulai three times, and I went to give Ti a slip.

If you come to be happy, this Guanyin is exquisite, and generally anyone can fool you, and it is none other than you. Go, to explore all kinds of virtual and real along the road, there are five treasures, you shake candy in one hand and pick up a stick in the other, find a person to learn from the scriptures, and then touch a few demon helpers, just adapt to the situation and watch it.

Guanyin seemed to understand, but in fact, he was confused, so he also took his apprentice Mucha down the mountain, met the Yuzhenguan Jinding Immortal, briefly explained the reason, and left half-clouded and half-foggy.

In the middle of a few paragraphs, Zheng He, originally surnamed Ma, is a Hui person. He was in the fourteenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Fu Youde, Lan Yu and others to pacify Yunnan, Ma He was a prisoner of the Ming army, and later entered the Nanjing Imperial Palace, and came to Beiping in 1384 to serve Yanfu. Zhu Di cherished that he was a good seedling, and the 14-year-old Ma He received a good learning education. At the same time, when Ma He grew up, he was physically strong, so he was incorporated into the army, and made a lot of contributions in the Battle of Jingjing, and his art of war and ability to lead the army were trained in actual combat.

After Ming Chengzu Zhu Di ascended the throne, he personally wrote the word "Zheng" to Ma He in 1404, and it was Zheng He in the future. The surname, in commemoration of the war exploits, is known as "Zheng He" in history. In 1405, Zhu Di ordered Zheng He and Wang Jinghong to lead nearly 30,000 soldiers to the West for the first time (1405-1407); Zheng He returned to the West for only half a month, and then went to the West for the second time (1407-1409); after cultivating for less than three months, he went to the West three times (1409-1411), this time Yao Guangxiao also participated in it, and welcomed back the "Buddha's Tooth Relic" from Ceylon. After that, he made four more trips to the West for a total of seven times, and the last one died of illness on the way.

The first, second, and third trips to the Western Ocean that we are mainly talking about are all in the Indian Ocean, and the purpose is to promote Zhu Di's kingship, rather than showing off force and military occupation. Of course, it may be related to Zhu Di's bad situation at home and abroad at that time, the main opponent was the Northern Desert rather than the South and Western Oceans, and secondly, it must be shown that Ming Taizong was a benevolent and virtuous monarch.

The most relevant thing to the eighth chapter of Journey to the West is the third trip to the West. At this time, Buddhism had declined in India, and Nepal and Sri Lanka were the countries of Buddhism.

Then, the Guanyin at this time, Zheng He also. But Zheng He, on the other hand, was actually a devout follower of Mecca, whose parents and grandparents had made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Maybe Zheng He had this pilgrimage idea when he went to the West for the fourth time, his fleet was not far from the Holy Land, and it is not clear whether it will take place, after all, Zheng He, as the commander, has a heavy responsibility, how can he leave his post without permission, it is estimated that he is just watching and worshipping from afar at sea. Zheng He's fourth and fifth voyages to the West, which traveled the widest route to East Africa, were a huge milestone in the history of navigation and made people sigh.

Wooden fork, Wang Jinghong also. Wang Jinghong, as Zheng He's first deputy, has been to the West six times (he was absent from Zheng He's fifth voyage to make preparations for logistics support in China. After Zheng He's death on his seventh mission, Wang Jinghong led the fleet back as the interim commander, and in 1434 he went to the South Seas as the first leader, and this voyage became the final song of the Ming Dynasty's great voyage.

When reading Journey to the West here, you should pay special attention to the fact that when you mention Guanyin, you are talking about "Guanyin Venerable" and "Bodhisattva", which is neither the "Guanyin" mentioned in the sixth chapter of Journey to the West - the Goryeo "sage" is all over the monk Xinmin, nor is it the "Jurchen" in the tenth chapter of Journey to the West. Because in the tenth chapter of Journey to the West, when the "unjust soul" of the Dragon King of Jinghe, who was killed by Wei Zhengmeng, harassed Li Shimin, it was the "Jurchen" (Guanyin Bodhisattva) who temporarily used willow branches to temporarily save him. This "Jurchen" is obvious, and he is no longer the object of Zheng He's mapping, but someone else.

Although there is very little description in the book, it is quite a key point. Guanyin expects that the scripture learner will come in two or three years, but in fact, it took 5,040 days, and Buddhism 360 days a year, which is also 14 years. Even if it is undecided, it will only be six years to double the surplus, but this is too much.

Look carefully, this gold-topped immortal lives in the Jade True Temple, and it is obviously a Taoist priest. Guanyin was stunned by the offering of tea, and he was also in a hurry to do things for the Buddha, and unintentionally revealed the secret. This Jinding Daxian is a double spy, and he is responsible for collecting and transmitting information in both aspects, and the Jade True Temple is an office of Heavenly Court in Lingshan.

You see, Rulai is clear in his heart, but such things are normal and cannot be broken. When eating, drinking, and holding a meeting, I didn't invite Jinding Daxian to participate, but I didn't want Guanyin to have this awareness, so I was in a hurry and didn't want to say anything.

When I heard this, this gold-topped immortal heard it, huh? Buddhism has to make a big move? When I was angry, I was angry, oh, don't ask me to participate when you eat and drink, Guanyin, you won't bring some melon seeds when you come over, and you still know that you will be polite and let you drink tea. Are you doing this? You are unkind and unjust, regardless of the size of the matter, hurry up and take the time to report to the Taishang Laojun and them, and they can be regarded as having completed some task indicators, and maybe they can still be rewarded for meritorious service.

At this time, the golden-topped immortal, Hou Xianye. He is a Tibetan compatriot, whose ancestral home is Lintan, Gansu, an outstanding navigator of the Ming Dynasty, one of Zheng He's deputies, second only to Wang Jinghong. He became a monk as a teenager and later arrived in Nanjing. During the Hongwu period, he won military merits in the Northwest Campaign. As early as 1403, Hou Xian and Master Zhiguang went to the Western Regions, and since then they have continued to go to the West to engage in diplomacy. After retiring in his later years, he returned to his hometown, and the Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhu Zhanji specially sent someone to build the Houjia Temple (perhaps the Yuzhen Temple in the book) for him, enshrined the gold medal of the Hongwu Emperor, and became a local gathering place for Buddhist Tantra. Therefore, this golden-topped immortal is strictly a monk, not a Taoist. This is more complicated, but the main reason should be that Hou Xian's identities are too many, and his achievements are also diverse.

It is also said that Guanyin's master and apprentice came to the quicksand river first, met the sand monk, fought a fight, accepted Guanyin's fool, and agreed to the conditions, who wants to suffer in this old man, not to mention that he still wants to have a future.

Then I walked, and when I arrived at Fuling Mountain, I met Zhu Bajie, and I had a fight, and like Sha Seng, I also said part of my life experience and accepted the conditions.

But from the mouths of Sha Seng and Bajie, we know that these two only want to change their situation at present, and they are dreaming of at least restoring the scenery of the past. But the words are pointed out, and any kind of person in Buddhism dares to accept it.

The third met the third prince of the Jade Dragon, the son of Ao Yan, the Dragon King of the West Sea, and he will be slaughtered soon. Guanyin hurriedly went to heaven to intercede, spared the jade dragon, and prepared to be a foot force for the later scripture learners.

But this place is quite suspicious, this jade dragon is not quite the same as the sand monk Bajie. Sha Seng Bajie was degraded to the lower realm early after committing the crime, and the heavenly general holding the jade dragon seems to be waiting here, and there must be an edict from the Jade Emperor.

Moreover, when Rulai first instructed Guanyin, he did not consider the strength of his feet, and he was only ready to let Tang Seng accept a few apprentices, and Guanyin made his own opinion. And the Jade Emperor wants to slaughter the Jade Dragon, where is it not good, do you have to be on the way to Guanyin? It seems that the Jade Emperor has received a small report from the Golden Peak Daxian, and it happens that the father and son of the Ao family have a conflict, so they put the Jade Dragon on the road to verify the accuracy of the information and see if Guanyin is coming. Sure enough, it's here, okay, let's prepare, on the way to learn scriptures in the west in the future, although I can't oppose it openly, after all, they are all immortals and Buddhas. But let's also add some mess, at least for you to spend more than ten years.

Now it's time to tell the story of the Dragon King. In our 5,000-year-old culture, the image of the dragon is deeply ingrained, and there are too many true dragons and descendants of dragons.

But what is this dragon? Actually, many animals in totem worship put it together. At first, it didn't look good at all, but then gradually various factors were added to it, and it was quite complicated.

According to a very early record, the dragon turned into a dragon in 500 years, and the dragon turned into a dragon in a thousand years. There are scales called dragons, winged dragons, horned dragons, hornless dragons, and dragons that have not ascended to the sky. By the time of the Ming Dynasty, it was basically finalized, Li Shizhen's explanation, the dragon scale insect is long, and Wang Fu said that its shape is nine similar. The head is like a cow, the horns are like a deer, the eyes are like a shrimp, the ears are like an elephant, the neck is like a snake, the belly is like a snake, the scales are like a fish, the claws are like a phoenix, and the palm is like a tiger. It has eighty-one scales on its back, with nine or nine yang numbers. Its sound is like a copper plate. There is a beard next to the mouth, a pearl under the chin, and an inverted scale under the throat. There is Boshan on the head, also known as the ruler wood, and the dragon cannot ascend to heaven without the ruler wood. It can turn into water and fire.

Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" was compiled in 1552, the 31st year of Jiajing, and finalized in 1578, the sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty. The Journey to the West quotes a lot of its content, which also shows that the book Journey to the West will definitely not come out earlier than 1552.

But there are dragons in Buddhism, and the so-called dragons in ancient India are actually similar to the big cobras, and later they also changed their appearance. Guanyin later plucked the pearl under the jaw of the third prince of the jade dragon, sawed the horns, and retreated the scales. Later, after Buddhism was introduced to China from the Western Regions, the cobra was translated into a dragon, so that it was quickly understood. But this cobra had a king in India, and in China during the Han Dynasty, dragons were divided into black, white, yellow, red, and green, and there was no king at first.

Later, it became interesting, and gradually Taoism and Buddhism recognized a new thing, the Dragon King. It refers to the dragon king that most people in China understand now, which is common to Taoism and Buddhism, but it is limited to this name.

So now the third prince of the jade dragon saved by Guanyin is the quintessence of the eight classics - a typical Chinese little white dragon. His father is Ao Yan, the Dragon King of the West Sea, and now he says that he was accused of disobedience because he set fire to the pearl in the palace, and was played by Ao Yan as the Jade Emperor.

But in the forty-third chapter of the book, the Dragon King of the West Sea changed his name to Ao Shun, and changed his name to the Dragon King of the North Sea, and the prince of the West Sea Prince was called Mo Ang.

In the last round, as far as I said, it was Yulong who disobeyed his father's orders and committed the crime of unfilial piety.

Interesting, is it a clerical error? Definitely not, so what's the mystery in this? If you listen to Moang's name, you know that it means it's an Indian dragon name. This seems to be the battle between the two families of Buddhism and Taoism about the future throne of the dragon, and the jade dragon is just a victim. But if we look at the history of the Ming Dynasty, the battle for the throne between Ming Yingzong (reigned twice) and Ming Dynasty, as well as the dispute between the princes of their descendants, we can understand what Lao Wu is alluding to here, so it is not difficult to know who the soul of the jade dragon is.

Also returned to the book, in the end, Guanyin and the wooden fork came to the foot of the Five Fingers Mountain, Sun Wukong actually knew the Bodhisattva, when did he know, the book must not have been mentioned before, such as the first time I saw the true appearance before.

At this time, Sun Wukong had already realized some emptiness, and many things were a little remembered, and some things in his previous life were also remembered a little. This Monkey King is the reincarnation of a high-ranking figure in Buddhism!

Sure enough, "the great sage sees the nature and returns to Buddhism, and this bodhisattva cares about visiting the holy monk."

Seeing the nature of the mind, the book later mentioned several places, this point of view is put forward by Zen Buddhism in the sutra of Sinicized Buddhism, and has nothing to do with the content of the real Xuanzang master Xitian Sutra in history.

Sun Wukong naturally wanted to take refuge in the original, and he happily agreed to Guanyin's conditions. Guanyin and his apprentices continued to Chang'an, stayed, and did not let them reveal a trace of information about the land of Chenghuang, if you want to know how to find people who learn scriptures, please listen to the nonsense next time.

It seems that after Lao Wu made a summary of Zhu Yuanzhang, he began to turn his attention to his successors Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Di, Zhu Gaochi, and Zhu Zhanji. At the foot of the Five Elements Mountain, this Monkey King has quietly asked Zhu Qizhen (born in 1427, that is, in the second year of Xuande, and was made the crown prince only four months later. Zhu Qizhen was greatly influenced by his grandmother when he was a child, and he was very superstitious about Buddhism, although his father Zhu Zhanji did not believe in Buddhism at all. Therefore, Lao Wu will say that the great sage sees the nature and the clear mind returns to Buddhism) has transitioned.