Cannibalism is a normal form of yokai in the Journey to the West world. Just as people want to eat chicken, duck and fish, powerful monsters also eat people. Except for a very small number of yokai, for various reasons, people do not feed on people, and the more powerful the yokai, the more people are often eaten.
So, in the Journey to the West world, which demon kings can enter the cannibal (foodie) list?
When it comes to the man-eating demon king of the Western Journey World, many readers will first think of Dapeng.
Sun Wukong once transformed into a small demon and explored the origin of the three demons of Shi Huoling. The little demon Xiao Zhenfeng introduced: "The three kings do not live here, and his original residence is four hundred miles away from here. There is a city in that box, called the kingdom of lions and camels. Five hundred years ago, he ate the king of this city and the civil and military bureaucrats, and all the men and women in the city were eaten clean by him, so he took his country, and now it is full of monsters. ”
Dapeng walked so far on the glorious avenue of cannibalism that he ate all the people of a country.
However, how many people did Dapeng eat?
In fact, the so-called one country in the westward journey world is often a national capital. Xiao Zhenfeng also said "full of men and women of all sizes in the city", which shows that Dapeng is eating the people in the city of lions and camels.
How many people are there in the Lion Camel City?
10,000? 100,000? A million?
When the Tang monks and disciples came to the Lion Camel Country, they couldn't help but be shocked when they saw that the city was full of monsters. However, the original book does not mention how many soldiers and horses there are in the city. On the contrary, when describing the Lion Hump Ridge, it was specifically mentioned that there were forty-seven or eight thousand little demons under the command of the three demons.
Hearing that there were forty-seven or eight thousand little demons in Shi Huoling, the Eight Precepts of the Pig were suddenly frightened and wanted to.
In fact, forty-seven thousand or eight thousand were already the most powerful fighting forces in the Demon Realm in the Western Journey World. Only five hundred years ago, when Sun Wukong made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, HuaguoShan gathered so many soldiers and horses.
Since Dapeng had worshipped with the Lion Demon and the Elephant Demon and joined the gang, then the demon soldiers in the Lion Camel Kingdom should also be among these forty-seven thousand or eight thousand.
On the way to learn the scriptures, the Tang monks and apprentices went to many countries, some countries are very large, such as Zhu Ziguo, especially mentioning that prosperity is like the Tang Dynasty, and some countries are extremely small. This lion camel country is actually a very small country.
Where do you see that the lion camel country is very small?
How far is it from Shi Huo Ling to Shi Huo City? The original text said: "The westward march is more than four hundred miles, and suddenly the cities and pools are close." ”
It turned out that from the Lion Camel Ridge to the Lion Camel Country was only more than four hundred miles, and the overall situation should be eight hundred miles. In the sparsely populated area of West NiuheZhou, it was already good that there were 10,000 people in the eight-hundred-mile land boundary.
Therefore, dapeng devouring the people of a country seems very frightening, but in fact, the total number is not much. When the original book describes Dapeng, it is not written at all that he is gluttonous. He ate the Lion Camel People, in fact, for another purpose.
Counting carefully, the sand monks most likely ate more people than Dapeng!
Before the monk became a monk, he was a well-known man-eating demon. In the original work, there was a poem cloud: "One is to occupy the quicksand world for a long time to eat human essence." ”
Everyone looks at this, the author did not call the sand monk a quicksand essence, nor did he call it a water monster, but said that he was a human eater. It can be seen that in the matter of eating people, the sand monk has eaten out of the realm and eaten out of fame.
He never shyed away from cannibalism. When I first met Guanyin Bodhisattva, the monk said, "Bodhisattva, I have eaten countless people here, and I have always eaten people who have taken sutras several times. ”
So how much is this so-called innumerable? Sha Monk himself also said clearly: "Helpless, hunger and cold are unbearable, during the day, go out of the waves to find a pedestrian to eat." ”
Sha Monk said that he was not eating sea plugs and wasting resources, but when he really couldn't stand it, he jumped out and looked for one or two pedestrians to eat.
The sand monk was only degraded because he broke the glass cup at the peach meeting, and by the time Tang Monk came to the east, more than one hundred and forty years had passed. Counting the three days of eating one person, the sand monk ate at least sixteen thousand eight hundred people.
As the General of the Heavenly Court Curtain Curtain, Sha Monk is strict in nature and steady in doing things, and he said that how much he eats people, the fact should be how much. He stressed that he was starving and had to eat people only as a last resort, which should also be true.
I really don't know, I'm scared!
However, eating more than 10,000 people in a hundred years is not much?
It depends on who he compares with, more than the average youkai, the sand monk is definitely more, but compared to the other one, he is much inferior.
The demon king who traveled to the west to eat the most people was Lao Sha's second brother, the pig demon in the cloud stack cave in the past years, and the later messenger of the pure altar, the Eight Precepts of the Pig.
The Eight Precepts of the Pig and the Sand Monk are the same as those who are before and after, and he also generously admits that he once ate people.
When meeting Guanyin Bodhisattva and discussing the conditions with Guanyin Bodhisattva, the Eight Precepts of the Pig said: "I bite and kill the sow, but the group of people can die, occupy the mountain field here, and eat people to survive." Bumping into the bodhisattva unexpectedly, wanwang pulled out the rescue. ”
When fighting with Sun Wukong in front of the Yunzhan Cave, the Eight Precepts of the Pig said: "The heart of the stone cave once ate people, and Gao Zhuang was happy to marry and marry. ”
It can be seen that before meeting Guanyin Bodhisattva, accepting the "five meats and three disgusts", and holding the vegetarian conditions, the Eight Precepts of the Pig are eating people to live a life.
So, how many people did the Eight Precepts of the Pig eat in total?
It is not mentioned in the original book. However, we can combine some plots and infer from the side.
First, during negotiations with Guanyin, the Eight Precepts of the Pig repeatedly emphasized that they could eat. Tube fullness is an important condition for the Eight Precepts of the Pig to join the sutra team.
At first, Guanyin Bodhisattva reasoned with the Eight Precepts of the Pig and told him not to kill and kill. Inuyasha was annoyed and shouted, "The future, if you follow you, teach me to snort the wind!" It is better to catch a pedestrian and eat his wife fat and greasy! ”
Seeing that the Eight Precepts were so gluttonous, Guanyin Bodhisattva had no choice but to change his strategy, not to talk about the future, not to talk about morality, but to talk about the benefits of submitting to the Buddha's door: "If you are willing to return to the right results, you have your own place to nourish yourself." There are five grains in the world, and they can help the hungry. ”
Hearing that Guan Was full, the Eight Precepts of the Pig only then paid homage to Guanyin and accepted the shaving.
Second, the eight precepts of the pig have a wide intestine, and the amount of food is two or three times that of the sand monk.
On the Chenjiazhuang on the banks of the Tongtian River, there is a plot about the Tang monks and apprentices eating. Chen Qing and Chen Cheng were two old men who were large landlords, and dozens of servants came to serve and help add food to the Tang monks and disciples.
In the original work, pig eight precepts laughed and said, "The white-faced master needs only one person; the hairy-faced thunderous mouth only needs two people; the obscure face needs eight people; and I have twenty people to serve Fang Yi." ”
The Eight Precepts of the Pig made it clear that his meal was twenty times that of ordinary people (Tang monks), ten times that of Sun Wukong (ordinary demon king), and two.5 times that of sha monks (foodie-level demon kings).
Wu Cheng'en's writing is quite rigorous, which can be echoed in many places later in the text.
In other words, the Eight Precepts of the Pig have eaten at least thirty or forty thousand people in a hundred years or so.
We combine the positioning of the Eight Precepts of the Pig in the whole book of "Journey to the West", he is a big stomach king, and every meal can attract many viewers to watch. Therefore, to say that the Eight Commandments of the Pig is the first demon king who eats people in the western world should still be reliable!
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