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The Flame Mountain is a burning mountain in "Journey to the West" that has existed for more than 500 years, causing the people on the eastern side of the mountain to suffer from more than 500 years of extreme heat. The Iron Fan Princess has a banana fan, and she also knows the way to completely extinguish the Flame Mountain, why not extinguish the fire of the Flame Mountain, and let it exist for more than five hundred years, the captain said for you.
First, the origin of the Flame Mountain
Make a big fuss about the Heavenly Palace
Sun Wukong escaped from the alchemy furnace of Taishang Laojun when he was making a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, and also kicked the furnace down, causing several furnace bricks to fall into the mortal world, because there was mars in the bricks, so it became a mountain of flames that stretched for eight hundred miles. Afterwards, Lao Jun blamed the furnace keepers for dereliction of duty, and demoted him to the Flame Mountain as land, and waited for the flame mountain to extinguish before allowing him to return to the Heavenly Court to resume his duties.
Flame Mountain Land
There was no grass near the Flame Mountain, and the heat was unbearable. But the Princess of the Iron Fan of Cuiyun Mountain has a banana fan in her hand, one can extinguish the fire, the second fan can produce wind, and the third fan can also rain. Therefore, the people on the east side of the Flame Mountain honored the Princess of the Iron Fan as the Iron Fan Fairy, and every ten years they had to prepare valuable items such as four pigs and four sheep, chickens, geese and wine, and begged the Princess of the Iron Fan to wave three fans so that they could plant grain and maintain their livelihood. The people on the west side of the Flame Mountain called her The Lady of Luocha because they did not have to ask the Iron Fan Princess for rain.
Second, the Tang monks and disciples arrived at the Flame Mountain
Tang
The Tang monks and disciples traveled west to reach the vicinity of the Flame Mountain and found it getting hotter and hotter. Tang Monk felt strange and asked the three disciples. The Eight Precepts of the Pig replied, "Maybe we have reached the kingdom of Shari where the sun sets," Sun Wukong listened, smiled and said, "Far away, Master will not be able to get there even if he walks for three lifetimes." Hearing this, Pig Eight asked Sun Wukong the reason for the heat, and the sand monk thought that the climate was abnormal, and the three brothers quarreled endlessly.
Tang Monk found a village in front of him and asked Sun Wukong to ask him about the heat. Sun Wukong came to an old man's house and informed him of his intentions. The old man then invited the Tang monks and disciples to come to the house as a guest, and told him that the place was called the Flame Mountain, which was very hot all year round; there was a Flame Mountain in the sixty miles to the west, and it was eight hundred miles long, and even if the copper-headed iron arm crossed the mountain, it would turn into pus. When Tang Monk heard this, he was so frightened that he couldn't speak.
Monkey king
Soon a man's voice came from outside the door, shouting and selling pastries. Sun Wukong then pulled out a hair and turned it into copper money and bought a piece of cake. Sun Wukong took the cake and found that it was not hot enough, so he reversed his left and right hands back and forth. When the seller saw it, He laughed that Sun Wukong couldn't even stand this bit of heat, so he shouldn't come here. Sun Wukong then asked the cake seller, the weather is so hot, where did he get the cake powder? The man then replied that he had obtained it by asking the Iron Fan Immortal to rain and planting the land in time.
Iron Fan Princess
Sun Wukong handed the cake he bought to Tang Monk and asked the old man about the Iron Fan Immortal, and the old man informed the Iron Fan Princess of her residence. Sun Wukong then went to the Iron Fan Princess and asked for a banana fan. Sun Wukong came to Cuiyun Mountain, saw a woodcutter, and asked him where Princess Tiefan lived. After the woodcutter informs the Princess of the Iron Fan of her origins, Sun Wukong is worried that the Princess of the Iron Fan will hate him because of the red child, and he is a little worried. The woodcutter saw Sun Wukong's concern and instructed him to only mention the borrowing of the banana fan, and not to mention anything else. Sun Wukong listened, thanked the woodcutter and left.
Third, Sun Wukong extinguished the Flame Mountain
Cow
Sun Wukong deceived Basho Fan from princess Tiefan, but was tricked by the Bull Demon King and had to fight with him. Finally, with the help of Buddhism and the celestial immortals, the Bull Demon King was surrendered. The Bull Devil King was escorted by Nezha to the Basho Cave and asked the Princess of the Iron Fan to hand over the Banana Fan and save his life. Princess Tiefan then held the banana fan in both hands and bowed to Sun Wukong and other immortals, imploring them to let themselves ride with the Bull Demon King. Sun Wukong then took the banana fan and took the immortals to the Flame Mountain.
When the Tang monk saw that many gods and immortals had come, he asked the monk who they were, and the monk answered one by one. The Tang monk hurriedly saluted the immortals, and the four great kongs warned him to try hard to learn the scriptures and not to be slack. Sun Wukong took a banana fan and extinguished the flames of the Flame Mountain, and the immortals resigned. Sun Wukong asks the Princess Tiefan why she has not left, and she pleads with the Great Sage to return the fan.
Pig
Inohachi angrily scolded Princess Tiefan for being rude, and she pleaded bitterly. The land then persuaded Sun Wukong to completely extinguish the flame mountain fire, so that he could live here and bless the local people. Sun Wukong then followed the iron fan princess method, fanned forty-nine times, completely broke the fire root. Sun Wukong then returned the banana fan to Princess Tiefan and continued westward. Princess Tiefan was hidden in anonymity, and later cultivated into a positive result.
Fourth, why is it difficult to extinguish the flame mountain?
The walker said, "The cake seller said that this immortal has a banana fan." Pray for the future, one fire, two winds, three rains, you this side of the cloth harvest, you have to get the grain health. I want to seek him to breathe the flames over, and to make this party harvest the seeds according to time, and to live in peace. The old man said, "You have no gifts for this, but I am afraid that the sage will not come." Sanzang said, "What gift does he want?" The old man said, "My family here prays once every ten years." Four pigs and four sheep, red flowers, fragrant fruits, chickens and geese wine, bathing in piety, worshipping to the immortal mountain, inviting him out of the cave, and doing this. (Journey to the West, Fifty-Nine Times)
The land said, "Great Sage, take advantage of the fact that this woman knows the method of extinguishing fire, cut off the root of fire, return his fan, and the little god dwells here to be safe, save this people, ask for some blood and food, and sincerely do it." The walker said, "I asked the townspeople at that time: This mountain fanned out the fire, and only received five grains for one year, and then it was on fire again." How to cure the root cause? Luo Cha said, "If you cut off the fire root, you only need to fan forty-nine times in a row, and you will never send it again." (Journey to the West, Sixty-one Times)
Flame Mountain
Why the Flame Mountain burned for more than five hundred years, until Sun Wukong arrived, it was completely destroyed, mainly for the following reasons:
First of all, the fire of the Flame Mountain made the climate to the east of it abnormal, food crops could not grow, and if the local people wanted to survive, they must prepare a generous gift to the Princess of the Iron Fan in exchange for a rainfall to maintain their own survival. Therefore, as long as the fire of the Flame Mountain continues to burn, the Iron Fan Princess will be able to continuously squeeze huge wealth from the hands of the local people. Therefore, the Iron Fan Princess knew the way to completely extinguish the fire, and she was not willing to extinguish it completely.
Jade Princess
Secondly, both the Iron Fan Princess and the Bull Demon King covet wealth and live a luxurious life. The Bull Demon King covets wealth to the jade princess's home, the red child oppresses the land and mountain gods of the mountain, Ruyi Zhenxian squeezes the wealth of the Western Liang women's country with the help of the falling fetus spring, and the iron fan princess often accepts gold and silver satin sent by the jade princess. It can be seen that the Iron Fan Princess and the Bull Demon King are very greedy, and they will certainly not completely extinguish the fire of the Flame Mountain to cut off the financial road.
In the end, Sun Wukong went through a lot of hard work to surrender the Bull Demon King, only to get the banana fan from the Iron Fan Princess, and learned the method of completely extinguishing the Flame Mountain, and completely extinguished it. This proves even more that the greed of the Iron Fan Princess and the Bull Demon King will never hand over the banana fan until the last moment and completely cut off the fire.