Introduction: As one of the four famous works in China, Journey to the West has many readers in China. In 1986, Journey to the West was also remade into a TV series, which caused a huge sensation in The Land of China. At that time, when we watched Journey to the West, we would notice a problem, in which the Red Child and the Bull Demon King were the only father and son in the monster group in Journey to the West.
Why don't red children have horns? The Bull Demon King didn't say a word, but the Iron Fan Princess said that she had missed her mouth!
When we first saw the image of the red child, we felt that the red child looked very cute and had some similarities with Nezha. However, the red child's personality is too naughty, and his hands also use two guns, which causes great trouble to Sun Wukong, and when we look at the red child, we feel that the image gap between him and the Bull Demon King is too large.
In the original Journey to the West, the Red Child is not introduced, and Sun Wukong, who was the brother of the Bull Demon King before, has not been able to recognize the Red Child. Sun Wukong knows the identity of the Red Child, also through the Land Duke, according to the description of the Land Duke, the Red Child is the son of the Bull Demon King, who began to learn spells under the guidance of the Iron Fan Princess since childhood, and he has been practicing in the Flame Mountain for 300 years before coming to the Horn Mountain.
In the end, the red child was subdued by Guanyin Bodhisattva, and when the red child sat on the spiritual platform, he was just a small child, and did not appear as a small calf in our imagination. We can see from this that the red child is born, this is beyond doubt, at this time we not only have a question, he is the son of the Bull Devil King, why he has a human body, not even the most distinctive feature of the Bull Devil King, the horn of the cow.
There was a mystery hidden in it, and when the Tang monks and disciples passed by the Flame Mountain, they knew the mystery inside. In the original Journey to the West, the Bull Demon King has always been silent about this matter, but the Iron Fan Princess inadvertently leaked this secret. We have seen the original work and we will know that the spells cultivated by the Red Child and the Bull Demon King are not a system at all, and the Red Child is born with the True Fire of the Three Tastes.
We can know from the Journey to the West that the Samadhi True Fire is a relatively advanced flame in the Three Realms, and this flame only exists in the alchemy furnace of Taishang Laojun. The performance of the red child in the Journey to the West, there is a point that must be said separately, he seems to know all the gods and immortals in the sky very well. Therefore, many people doubted the true identity of the red child at that time, in fact, it was not the child of the Bull Demon King, but the taishang Laojun.com.
In fact, we can also see in another paragraph of the original work that the Bull Demon King was once surrendered by the Jade Emperor and the Buddha of Rulai, and then the Iron Fan Princess said a paragraph in order to intercede. She told the Buddha and the Jade Emperor that although she and the Bull Demon King had cultivated humanity, they had not yet been rehabilitated, and now that the Bull Devil King had been surrendered by the two of them, the bull devil king's true body had returned to the west.
Looking back at Journey to the West, the most distinctive feature of the Bull Demon King is that he wears a silver iron helmet on his head and a pair of gold armor on his body. When the Bull Devil King opened his blood basin mouth, his teeth were like copper plates, and the Bull Devil King's roar was also full of power, which could calm the mountain gods, and the Bull Devil King in journey to the West did not have any dirty image at all.
We can also see from the performance of the Journey to the West Bull Demon King that the red child has no horns, which is justified according to legal theory. In fact, many of us think that the horns on the red child's body should be completely because of the Bull Demon King, the name of the Bull Demon King is too brainwashed, and his reputation in the Three Realms is also famous.
But in fact, through continuous cultivation, the Bull Demon King has already degraded his horns, and his true identity is no longer a cow. At the same time, in the original Journey to the West, the Bull Devil King's head did not have any horns, and we all misunderstood the image of the Bull Devil King, all because of the TV series, because some brainless screenwriters did not have an in-depth understanding of this cultural history when portraying the script.
When portraying the Bull Demon King, it appeared in front of us in the public with a very wrong image, when we had preconceived notions and began to think that the Bull Devil King should have horns on his head. Therefore, some people think that the bull demon king has horns on his head, which is a completely in-depth understanding of culture, and this behavior should be laughed at.
According to the above inference, it is completely normal for a red child to have no horns, and if horns appear on his head, it is contrary to history. There are many stories in Journey to the West, it is broad and profound, it represents a lot of our Chinese religious culture. If we want to thoroughly understand Journey to the West, we must have a deep understanding of our Chinese Taoist culture, otherwise many of the questions we ask will make people laugh and be generous.
Journey to the West can be widely spread in China, there must be its own strengths, there are many paragraphs of description of Taoism in the original text, are extremely in line with religious history, Journey to the West is also in disguise to spread religious culture. Therefore, from now on, we cannot regard Journey to the West as a novel, but we must understand Journey to the West from the perspective of religion and history and humanities, so that when we read Journey to the West, we will have a different feeling.