(Journey to the West Series Interpretation No. 73)
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One
Speaking of the Pleiadian Officer, everyone is certainly not unfamiliar, that is, the chicken god who scared the scorpion essence to death (why does it sound so awkward), but the process of his appearance and the process of scaring the scorpion essence always makes people feel that something is wrong.
In the fifty-fifth time of the original work, Tang Monk tricked the queen into escaping from the palace, and before he could sing "Daughter Love", he was swept away by a fierce wind. The one who him this time was the Scorpion Essence.
The Scorpion Spirit said to Tang Monk: "I am not that delicate queen, I will not twist and turn, if not from me, then the overlord hard bow!"
But before she could use her strength, she was built through the door of the cave by the nail rake of the Eight Precepts of the Pig. The scorpions were so angry that they carried three forks out to them. But her fists were hard to beat six hands, and in a critical moment, she used the barbs on her ass to give Eight Commandments and Goku a hard shot.
The mouth of the Eight Commandments was originally long, and this time it was even more swollen enough to be drunk and dishes; Goku loved to look around with his head lit up: Come, me, me! Because his head was harder than steel plates, he didn't expect that the scorpion essence's thorns could even pierce the "steel plate", and the pain caused his face to twitch and deform.
In the face of the most powerful "thorn head" in the Three Realms, Sun Wukong nibbled on the pumpkin, unable to bite, afraid that if it was too late, Old Tang would be strong. When she was in a hurry, Guanyin disguised herself as an old mother to point out the mysteries:
"This goblin is very powerful, and his three forks are the two pincer feet that are generated. The person who pierces the pain is a hook on the tail and summons the inverted horse poison. It's a scorpion spirit in itself. He listened to the Buddhist sutras at the Lei Yin Temple, and when he saw him, he didn't push him with his hand, so he turned the hook and stuck the thumb of Rulai's left hand, and Rulai was also in pain, that is, Vajra took him, but he was here. If I want to save Tang Monk, I can't get close to him except to tell one of them. ...... Go to the Palace of Light in the East Heavenly Gate to ask the Pleiadian Star Officer before you can surrender. ”
After Guanyin finished speaking, a puff of green smoke rose from her ass and ran away. From her words, it can be seen that the scorpion essence is not only afraid of her, but also afraid of Rulai, to put it bluntly, the whole Western Heaven can't take her. However, Guanyin knew that the Pleiadian star function could lower the scorpion essence.
Sun Wukong listened to Guanyin's instructions and immediately went to heaven to ask for help. Xingguan had just finished attending the Jade Emperor's morning shift meeting, and his work clothes had not yet had time to take off. After listening to Sun Wukong's request, he immediately agreed to the nether realm to lower the demon for him.
After the Pleiadian officer came, even the poison that Rulai, Guanyin, and Sun Wukong were afraid of behaved very abnormally——
Only to see that the star was standing on the hillside, showing its true appearance, it turned out to be a double-crowned big rooster, with its head held high, about six or seven feet high, shouting at the goblin, and the monster immediately appeared in its original form, a scorpion spirit the size of a pipa. The star officer cried out again, and the strange body was soft and soft, and he died in front of the slope.
This scorpion spirit was also too unsung, and the star officer only shouted twice, and she died in front of the slope. What about the might of yesteryear? What about the stinger? Even if you are afraid of chickens, you will not die so badly, right?
What kind of energy does the Pleiadian Star Officer have that can frighten the scorpion spirit who is not afraid of Rulai and is not afraid of Guanyin?
Two
The name of the Pleiadian is mentioned again in the episode of The Centipede Essence.
Centipede Essence is the world's first poisoner, and the limited edition drug he refines will even be shouted "YYDS" when the immortals eat it. However, Sun Wukong was invincible and was not afraid of his poisons at all. The centipede spirit took a look, took off his clothes and opened his arms, and the left green dragon and the right white tiger lit up the posture - it turned out that there were still a thousand eyes on his body, and each eye emitted essence, and Sun Wukong was shaken to an upside-down onion and fell to the ground, and the pain was so painful that he quickly "walked his mother's".
On the back mountain, Sun Wukong was crying bitterly and could not complain about the government, but he heard someone crying louder than him. Looking back, a woman dressed in heavy filial piety, holding a lamp of cold syrup and rice in her left hand, and holding a few pieces of burnt paper and yellow money in her right hand, came crying step by step.
It turned out that she was the old mother of Li Shan who used beauty effects. The old mother told him that in order to break the golden light array of the centipede essence, he had to go to the Thousand Flowers Cave to ask Vilambo to get it done. However, she added:
"I just came back from the Longhua Meeting, and when I saw that your master was in trouble, I pretended to be a filial wife and borrowed the name of my husband's funeral to save him from death." Go and ask him, but don't say that I am the one who instructed him, that the sage is a little strange. ”
In previous articles, snails have introduced to you that the status of the old mother of Lishan is very high, but she is so afraid of Vilan po, is bi lan po more powerful than the old mother?
According to the road map drawn by the old mother, Sun Wukong found Vilambo, and just explained his intentions, Biranbo immediately became vigilant:
"Who told you?" I have been to the Oban Society for more than three hundred years, and I have not been out. I am anonymous, let alone known, but how do you know? ”
Sun Wukong did not dare to betray Li Shan's old mother, so he had to say, "I am a ghost in the field, no matter where I am, my family will visit." ”
Of course, Vishnu did not believe it, and said to Sun Wukong:
"Or maybe I shouldn't have gone, but the Great Sage of Naimon is coming, and the goodness of the Scriptures cannot be extinguished, and I will come with you."
Why would she say she shouldn't have gone? Are you afraid of offending anyone?
However, she said the way to fix the centipede essence: with the embroidery needle in my hand, I can subdue him.
Sun Wukong laughed at her: I have a basket in my hand for embroidery needles, and I don't have to work with you.
Vilambha said, "Only my treasure, not steel, not iron, not gold, is what I have refined in my children's eyes." ”
And her little one is the Pleiadian Officer!
Later, Sun Wukong led the centipede essence to fight, and Vilambo threw the needle into the golden light needle, and the centipede essence immediately covered his eyes and shouted, and even the road could not be seen clearly. When the Eight Precepts of the Pig were about to kill him, Vilambo said, "The canopy is angry, and the Great Sage knows that there is no one in my cave, and I will accept him to guard the portal." ”
Before he said that he didn't want to go out of the mountain, why did he suddenly change his concept and want to collect old poison as a security guard?
Three
After Vilambo left, Sun Wukong's brothers discussed her mysterious identity. Monkey Road:
"I think Pleiadian is a rooster, and this old mother must be a hen." Chickens can best lower centipedes, so they can ambush also. ”
Sun Wukong was not sure, and the Eight Precepts and the Sand Monk did not say a word after listening to it. Why? According to the Lotus Sutra:
At that time, there were Luocha women and so on. A blue woman. Two Vilambhas. Three curved teeth. Four Chinese teeth. Five black teeth. Six multiple shots. Seven are tireless. Eight hold the company. Nine testicles. Ten snatched the essence of all sentient beings. It is the Ten Rakshasas Women.
What is a Rakshasa Girl? It is the man-eating ghost girl, to put it simply, the man-eating demon. But after they were all enlightened, they became bodhisattvas. For example, the devil's mother beside Guanyin, snails have introduced her "advanced deeds" in the past (see link after the article). And Vilampa is also one of them.
It is said that male Luocha is extremely ugly, while female Luocha is extremely beautiful.
What is the image of Vilampa? "Shaped like a dragon king, with a wind and clouds in his right hand and a rosary in his left hand, his clothes are turquoise, his face is white, and he has a front mirror platform."
Therefore, Sun Wukong's guess may be mostly wrong.
If Vilambha is not a hen, then who is the father of the Pleiadian official?
In this regard, someone looked for chickens that had appeared in the Journey to the West, and it turned out that in addition to their mother and son, only one had appeared in the Heavenly Court in the story of Fengxian County.
Because the county guard kicked over the Jade Emperor's offering table, the Jade Emperor was furious and punished the place for not being allowed to rain for three years, and the people were miserable enough to change their children and eat. Sun Wukong went to heaven to intercede, and the Jade Emperor said three conditions: the chicken pecked the rice, the dog licked the noodles, and the lamp burned the chain, so that the program could be modified and it rained.
Monkey King ran to take a look:
See that there is a rice mountain, about ten meters high; A mountain, about twenty meters high. There is a big chicken with a big fist on the side of Mt. Rice, where it is tight, slow, and eats rice. There is a golden retriever pug on the side of the mountain, where it has a long tongue and a short tongue, and eats it.
Some people say that the chicken with the big fist is the husband of Vilampa and the father of the Pleiades.
Such a high-ranking god as Vilambo, even Guanyin's mother, Li Shan' old mother, would be afraid of, would submit to a small chicken boy? I'm afraid I'm not joking, right? Therefore, this conclusion is really too unconvincing.
In addition to this little chick, is there any race similar to the chicken in the journey to the west? Of course there is, that is, the Hydra and the Phoenix Peacock family.
The nine-headed worm, in fact, is not a worm, it is a kind of bird, called a ghost car, a bird, which looks extremely ugly. However, he has a wife, that is, the Princess of All Saints in Bibotan.
The phoenix peacocks are all female, and the phoenix gives birth to peacocks and roc, and the peacocks are crowned as Buddha mothers by Rulai. Therefore, in the row, there are only roc birds.
Dapeng was Rulai's uncle, who was of considerable height and had many similar characteristics to chickens (former chickens were also capable of flying, referring to today's pheasants).
If this hypothesis holds, and then check the information about Vilampa, you will find that there are many amazing coincidences:
1. As one of the Ten Great Rachas, why can Vilampa participate in the Buddhist festival of Menglan Bon? It was the light that stained Dapeng was Uncle Rulai.
2. Why did Vilamba participate in the Menglan Society three hundred years ago and go into seclusion when he returned home? Because at that time, Dapeng had already gone down to the lion and camel country to eat people. Although she used to eat people, she was enlightened by the Buddha and changed her taste earlier, and now she sees Dapeng eating people and does not want to be implicated.
3. Vilambhava was a Rakshasa woman and was so close to the Western Heavens, so why was her son, the Pleiadian, able to ascend to heaven as a celestial court chief? This is also related to Dapeng. When Sun Wukong first arrived at Shi Huoling, Taibai Venus introduced Dapeng like this——
"When the goblin came out with a letter, five hundred Aro came to greet him; a piece of paper was written in the Heavenly Palace, and the eleven great yaos were all admired. The Four Seas Dragon had been friends with him, the Eight Caves Immortals often met with him, the Ten Lands Yan Jun was called a brother, and the Sheling City God was in love with his guests. ”
With his network of connections, it should be no problem to get his son to the Heavenly Court as a small trumpeter, right?
It was precisely because of Dapeng's strong relationship and the violent temper that even Rulai dared to kill, so the Scorpion Spirit was frightened when he saw the Pleiadian Officer coming.
Of course, these are all speculations, which the original book does not explain. I wonder what everyone thinks?
Go to the "Snail To See the Journey to the West" public number, you can see the article no. 215 "Sun Wukong asked Guanyin to subdue the red child, why did the bodhisattva send the devil's mother to meet him?" 》