Words || English commentary on the various gods and demons in journey to the west

This article is transferred from: China Daily English Dianjin

Summer vacation is approaching, how can you not broadcast "Journey to the West"? Speaking of "Journey to the West", some people can be said to be able to recite it backwards, but do you understand the English expression of "Journey to the West"? This issue takes you to interpret the various gods and demons in "Journey to the West" in English.

Journey to the West is one of the Four Great Classical Novels in China, usually translated as Journey to the West, also translated as The Journey to the West, Adventures of the Monkey God, Monkey: A Folk Novel of China, The Adventures of Monkey, etc. In Western countries, it is sometimes translated as Monkey. The story consists of a hundred chapters revolving around the tang dynasty monk Xuanzang's miraculous experience of pilgrimage to India to obtain Buddhist scriptures, which of course is a fictionalized account of historical events. On their way, they encounter all sorts of monsters and calamity, including bizarre scenarios such as flaming mountains, lair of spider-spirits, and kingdom ruled bywomen. They must go through 81 disasters to attain the True Scriptures.

[Tang monk]

Tang Priest is also often translated in English as Tripitaka, or Sanzang, which literally means Three Baskets of Buddhist Teaching. It is said that eating his flesh can lead to immortality byeating Xuanzang's flesh.

[Monkey King]

Sun Wukong is a monkey born from stone, 72 polymorphic transformations, immortality, self-proclaimed 'Great Sage Equal to Heaven', once ranked as a celestial bureaucracy, and then rebelled against the heavenly court, and was used by the Buddha with a spell ( talisman) was trapped under the Five Elements Mountain for five hundred years. His original name was Handsome Monkey King and he lived in cave of Water Curtains at mountain of Flowers and Fruits; Goku was the dharma name given by Patriarch Bodhi, meaning Imagination to Emptiness. His weapon is the will-followinggolden-banded staff. He also developed fiery golden eyes and talents at the eight-trigrambrazier. He used these skills to defeat demons. The Monk used a gold band to control him by chanting magic words, or tightening-crown spells.

[Eight Precepts of the Pig]

Zhu Bajie, which literally means Eight-precepts Pig or Eight-prohibitions, usually translated as Pigsy, Monk Pig, or Pig, was originally Marshal Tian Peng, or commander of TheHeavenly Naval Forces, due to flirt with Chang'e ( Princess of the Moon Chang'e) is banish to the mortal realm, characterized by insatiable appetites for food and sex. Also known as Pig Awakened to Power, he is a half-human halfpig monster who once became an ordinary man to marry in Gao Village. His weapon is the nine-tooth ironrake.

[Sha Wujing]

Sha Wujing is a river ogre, literally Sand Awakened to Purity, who is also called Friar Sand because he lives in the Flowing Sand River. He was once the Great General for Folding the Curtain, only to be demoted to mortality for breaking the heavenly Queen Mother's crystal goblet at the Peach Banquet. His weapon is the Crescent-Moon Shovel.

[White Dragon Horse]

The white horse turned out to be the third son of Ao Run of His Royal Highness the Dragon King of the Western Sea. The Third Prince of the Dragon King set fire to the bright pearls given by the Jade Emperor on the temple, violated the Heavenly Rules, committed a capital crime, but thanks to the intervention of guanyin bodhisattvas of great mercy and compassion, they survived and were relegated to coiled snakemountain to wait for the Tang monk Xi Tian to learn the scriptures. Helplessly, he did not know the Tang monks and apprentices, mistakenly ate the Tang monks to ride a white horse, and later was enlightened by Guanyin Bodhisattva, sawed the scales, changed into a white dragon horse, converted to the Buddha's gate, took the sutra road for the Tang monks to ride, worked hard and complained, went through hardships, and finally cultivated the right results, returned from the sutras, and was promoted to eight heavenly dragon horses by the Buddha.

[Guanyin Bodhisattva]

According to the Instructions of the Buddha, the Bodhisattva gave the task of going to the Western Heavens to collect the scriptures to the Tang monks and three disciples, as well as the White Dragon Horse, the Mount of the Tang Monks. They helped the Tang monks to learn the scriptures to alleviate the sins of the past sin that they had committed in the past. Guanyin, also known as Guanshiyin, literally means Serving the Sounds or Cries of the World, and is often translated in the West as Goddess of Mercy, sometimes transliterated as Kuan-yin or Kuan-shih yin. Kannon is pronounced in Japanese; Gwan-eum is pronounced in Korean; Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, etc. are also influenced by China, and there is this god, and the pronunciation is close to Chinese.

[Rulai Buddha]

For example, the Tathagata Buddha has boundless mana, and the eight Vajrapanis, the Eighteen Guardians of the Faith, and the Bodhisattvas under him have all changed in a thousand ways. The heroic Sun Wukong, a 18,000-mile cloud, could not turn over the palm of the Buddha's hand. The original meaning of Rulai is to come by the path of true rulai, that is, to come as it is, to be the ancestor of Buddhism. His racial name Sakya, muni means sage, together called Shakya sage, he was originally a prince in northern ancient India, because of dissatisfaction with brahmanism at that time, he became a monk and founded Buddhism.

[Taishang Laojun]

Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad, surnamed Li Ming'er, Changgeng, was the founder of Taoism, hence the name Taishang Laojun. He lived in tushita heavenlypalace and practiced golden elixir and often rode green bulls. He has a magic weapon called Diamond Bangle (Golden Bangle), very powerful, in the capture of Sun Wukong who made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, he made a meritorious contribution, but was stolen by his green bull, and defeated Sun Wukong, Pagoda-carrying Heavenly King, Eighteen Arhats and other gods in Jindou Cave many times, and finally Lao Junbao fanned it, took away the Golden Steel, and surrendered the Qingniu Essence (buffalo). He is a good old man who is quiet and does not fight with people easily.

[Too Platinum Venus]

The Great White Plane is a well-known constellation in the celestial realm, with great mana and relatively kind. Sun Wukong breaks into the Nether World and the Dragon Palace, and the Jade Emperor is about to send troops to conquest, and Taibai Venus intercedes for Goku, suggesting that Goku be made the Protector of theHorses who manages the imperial horses. When Sun Wukong returned to the Heavenly Palace on the second day, it was Venus who came forward as an envoy, and Feng Wukong was made a Monkey King, managing the peach garden. Later, on the way for the Tang monks and disciples to learn the scriptures from the Western Heavens, Taibai Venus secretly helped the four masters and apprentices defeat the Yellow Wind Monster (Yellow WindMonster) many times, and was a kind and good old man.

[Iron Fan Princess and Bull Demon King]

Princess Iron Fan, also known as Raksasi, is one of the most powerful banshees, beautiful and handsome, and is married to the Bull Demon King. They had a son, Red Boy, nicknamed Boy Sage King. Princess Tiefan lives in Plantain Cave in Cuiyun Mountain and has a very powerful plantain fan. The Tang monks took the scriptures from the west and were blocked by the Fiery Mountains of Eight Hundred Miles, and only by borrowing a banana fan could they fan out the flames. When Sun Wukong borrowed a treasure fan from The Luocha Woman, he was fanned by the Luocha Woman to Little Mount Sumeru, who knew that Goku was blessed by misfortune, borrowed the Wind-fixing Pill from the Bodhisattva Lingji, and then went to the Basho Cave to borrow the treasure fan, and later Goku turned ji into a worm and drilled into the belly of the Iron Fan Princess, forcing the Luocha Woman to lend him a banana fan.

[White Bone Essence]

White Bone Demon, also known as Lady White Bone, is a rare banshee that Tang monks meet on the way to the West Heaven, using double swords ( double swords ) , excellent martial arts, want to eat Tang monk meat , first become a beautiful girl of sixteen or seventeen years old ( beautiful girl ) , then become an eighty-year-old woman ( old woman ) , and then become an old woman ( old man), and sowing dissension to force Tang Monk to drive Sun Wukong away.

[King of the Golden Horn and Silver Horn]

The Gold Horn the senior demon king and the Silver Horn the junior demon king are two monsters from the Lotus Flower Cave on Pingding Mountain. The King of the Golden Horn was originally the servant boy wholooks after the golden furnace, and the King of the Silver Horn was the servant who looks after the silver furnace. In order to test the determination of the Tang monks to learn the scriptures in the Western Heavens, the bodhisattva borrowed gold and silver horns from the Taishang Laojun and turned into a monster to sharpen the determination of the Tang monks to learn the scriptures. The weapons used by the two kings of gold and silver horns are a sword of sevenstars, and there are red gourds (red gourd), vase of mutton-fatjade, plantain fan (plantain fan), golden cord (golden cord) several treasures, and Sun Wukong can not win or lose. Later, Sun Wukong used his brain to defeat the gold and silver monsters, confiscated five treasures, and returned them to Taishang Laojun with his belongings, overcoming a disaster on the westbound road.

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