(Journey to the West Series Interpretation No. 79)
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One
Many people thought that after the success of the sutra, the little white dragon was named the Eight Heavenly Dragon Guangli Bodhisattva, and the first thing he did was to return to the West Sea and raise his eyebrows.
The ancients said that if the brocade does not return to the hometown, the brocade will be nocturnal, which is a waste.
Quite simply, even if you are mixed up in the unit and have a very humble life compared to your colleagues, as long as you return to the small mountain village where you used to be, you are the person who goes back to the big city, the most beautiful boy in the ravine. At that time, Wang Dog Egg and Li Xiaofang, who once looked down on you, all threw envious eyes.
Therefore, even if you work outside, work as a coolie, and go home for the New Year, you will wear a new suit, carry a few bags of "rake Huahua", and earn enough for your face.
Everyone should remember how miserable Xiao Bailong was when he left the countryside - because he burned the pearl in the palace by fire, he was accused of a crime of disobedience by his father, and the Jade Emperor sentenced him to behead and show the public. Before cutting off the brain shell, I had to tour the streets for three days, which was simply a loss of dragon face.
Don't look at the West Sea Dragon King as a prince, but in the Westward Journey World, the status is very low, equivalent to a township leader. The son of the township leader has committed an accident, and this leader will certainly not be able to raise his head in front of the whole township.
Fortunately, the little white dragon's life should not be extinguished, and he encountered Guanyin at a critical moment. Seeing that he was pitiful, the bodhisattva interceded with the Jade Emperor and allowed him to atone for his sins and go with the Tang monks to learn the scriptures. But the indicators of the team had long been used up, and only a coolie position was left, and it was not yet a formal worker, and Xiao Bailong also agreed.
From the Third Prince of the Dragon King to the animals under the crotches of others, although it is not good to say it, it is better than being pushed out to cut off the head.
After that, Xiao Bailong followed the sutra collection team for fourteen years, walked 108,000 miles, and finally worked hard and successfully completed the task of taking the scriptures.
If there is no great disservice to the comrades who have learned the scriptures, even the temporary worker Bai Longma, he has also been given a position and given a positive fruit (formal establishment), called the Eight Heavenly Dragon Guangli Bodhisattva.
How good is this location?
First of all, there are fifteen bodhisattvas registered in the Western Heavens, and although the little white dragon is the last, he is also a bodhisattva. How beautiful is the Bodhisattva? Compare it with Guanyin.
Secondly, the "Eight Heavenly Dragons", also known as the Eight Heavenly Dragons, the Eight Dragon Gods, and the Eight Tribes, are equivalent to the Eight Protectors of the Western Heavens, that is, the security captain we are talking about today, Xiao Bailong is one of the eight captains, and he is a colleague with Rulai's uncle Dapeng, which is also a face.
Third, obtaining the middle job positive fruit, equivalent to the intermediate title, although it is a little worse than Sun Wukong's big job positive fruit (senior title), but also a person with identity (certificate).
From a prisoner who was about to be beheaded to a mid-level cadre in Lingshan, Xiao Bailong should go home and show off no matter what.
But in fact, he did not do this, unlike Brother Monkey, Brother Pig, Brother Sha and several others, he did not set up a banquet to celebrate, but rushed to do something.
What's the matter?
Two
Let's look at the original. On the hundredth occasion, after Rulai announced the appointment letter of the red head of the sutra team, the White Dragon Horse immediately went straight to the back cliff under the leadership of The Revelation. With the help of the revelation, he jumped into the Dragon Pool.
Between the whiskers, the horse stretched out, that is, withdrew its fur, changed its head horns, grew golden scales on its body, and silver whiskers grew under its cheeks, a body of rui qi, four claws auspicious clouds, flew out of the dragon pool, coiled on the Optimus Prime pillar in the mountain gate.
When I was young, my teacher told us an idiom: carp jumping the dragon gate. That is to say, even if you are a small carp, as long as you jump over the dragon gate with the help of the tide, you will be upgraded to a dragon clan, and your status is superior.
But in this Spirit Mountain, it was the Horse Jumping Dragon Pool, the Third Prince of the Dragon King, who was originally a small white dragon, and turned into a small golden dragon.
Everyone rejoiced only at his change, but did not pay attention to the last sentence: coiled on the Optimus Prime pillar of the mountain gate.
Many people think that this is the little white dragon playing cool, posing a very bullish shape to take photos and send friends. But as long as you know a little historical knowledge, you know that the Huabiao pillar is not a casual photo prop for people.
Huabiao column is a traditional Chinese architectural form. According to legend, Huabiao is a kind of totem symbol of the tribal era, which was set up in ancient times in front of large buildings such as palaces and mausoleums for decoration, and the pillar body was carved with dragons and phoenixes and other patterns, and the upper part was interspersed with carved stone slabs.
The above is an encyclopedic explanation. In fact, in ancient times, Huabiao one is a symbol of the majesty and specifications of the building, which ordinary people dare to tree two Huabiao in front of the door? The second is the place where the courtiers welcome the return of the monarch. As long as the monarch returns to the palace, he must first walk through the middle of the two huabiao pillars. Seeing the welcoming crowd under the pillar of the huabiao, even if the battle was lost, the king was much happier.
Huabiao Pillar (crouching on top is one of the dragons looking at the sky roaring)
The little white dragon coiled here, which was commensurate with his position as the eight Heavenly Dragon Guangli Bodhisattvas, that is, the captain of the security team. It can be seen that although the little white dragon has metamorphosed and become a golden dragon, the nature of the work has not been upgraded much, it is still not free, or it is still an errand to serve people.
Some people may have asked, if this is the case, why doesn't Xiao Bailong ask Guanyin to keep his promise, let him restore the dragon's body, and return to his hometown to return to Xihai as the third prince.
Of course not!
Three
In previous articles, snails have told everyone that one of the conditions for Guanyin to promise Xiao Bailong to atone for his sins is to take down the pearl under the item. This pearl is equivalent to the inner dan of the dragon. After the success of the sutra, Guanyin did not return it to him.
Quite simply, Guanyin did not want to let the dragon return to the sea, and needed to find a free labor force for Lingshan.
Secondly, the dragon in the journey to the west is not the dragon in our traditional Chinese mythology.
Mr. Ji Xianlin said in "The Indian Ingredient in the Journey to the West":
"Journey to the West" also talks about the East Sea Dragon King. With Sun Wukong is only a literary fight, there is no martial fight. The Dragon King itself is not a domestic product. The dragon of Ye Gonghao's dragon is completely different from the dragon, dragon girl or dragon king of later myths and legends. The latter is derived from India, the Sanskrit word Naga, which means snake, and the dragon king is actually the snake king. ”
The dragon (snake) king of India
Therefore, the so-called Three Princes of the Dragon King are actually the Three Princes of the Snake King! No wonder that after Rulai suppressed Sun Wukong, who was making a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, the Jade Emperor held a banquet for Rulai, and one of the dishes was dragon liver (snake liver)!
Not only the Jade Emperor and Rulai want to eat dragon liver, Rulai's uncle Dapeng Bird is even more addicted to dragons, just like many big girls and boys today, who are uncomfortable without scalding a few plates of goose intestines and duck intestines every day.
Dapeng loves to eat dragons, and it is also recorded in the Buddhist scriptures.
According to the Lotus Sutra, the protector of the Dharma, Kalura, likes to eat dragons, and the staple food every day is one great Naga and five hundred little Nagas. That is, eat 501 dragons a day.
The Buddhist scriptures spread to China, and Garula was translated as dapeng golden-winged eagle, which is also the uncle of Rulai in the journey to the west. It is said that he ate dragons, like we eat noodles. He often used his large wings to fan open the sea water, revealing the Dragon Palace, and grabbed the Dragon Son and Dragon Son to open his mouth and eat it. As soon as the Dragon Clan heard the name of the Roc Golden-winged Bird, its limbs became weaker in fright, even more afraid than the devils.
Dapeng often eats the Dragon Clan as noodles, so that the Dragon Clan still does not stop growing? So, one of the ancestors of the little white dragon ran to Rulai for help, and Rulai gave him an old robe and said to him:
"After you take it back, take this robe apart and distribute it to your dragon sons and grandsons, and each dragon will divide it into a thread of robes and tie it to the dragon's horn, so that Dapeng will not be able to eat you."
This allusion is mentioned in Journey to the West by Guanyin. In the twelfth time of the original work, she went to the Eastern Soil to find a person to take the scriptures according to rulai's instructions, and after arriving in the Tang Dynasty, she transformed into a scabies monk and sold them at a high price with a brocade robe and a tin staff given by Rulai. Tang Taizong asked her, "What is the benefit of that robe, it is worth a lot?" "Bodhisattva Path:
"This robe, the dragon draped a wisp, to avoid the calamity of the roc devouring; the crane hangs a thread, and the extraordinary and holy magic..."
"The dragon cloaks a wisp to avoid the disaster of dapeng devouring", which means that as long as the dragon wears a wisp of this robe, it can avoid the disaster of dapeng devouring.
However, as everyone knows, this Dapeng is not only Rulai's nominal uncle, but also the son of the demon king Phoenix, the younger brother of the Peacock Daming King, and the second generation of authentic demons, and he does not pay much attention to Rulai at all, let alone talk about martial virtue.
When he was in Shi Huoling, he ate a country, and he didn't dare to treat him like that. Later, Rulai took cadres above the middle level of Lingshan mountain to destroy him, but the people were not afraid, and they also cut Goku in front of him, and even wanted to seize rulai's Lei Yin Temple, making the old man very faceless.
Everyone says that the dragon (snake) clan is wearing the rotten clothes of rulai, is there a sense of security? Of course not!
Therefore, the biggest gain of Xiao Bailong becoming a bodhisattva is to become a colleague of Dapeng. At the same time, after the baptism of hualongchi, his body was covered with golden scales, and Dapeng was going to eat him, and there was nowhere to put his mouth!
Now, everyone understands that after the little white dragon obtains the positive results, he is not in a hurry to return to the countryside to show off, but quickly goes to the dragon pond to change the reason for the body structure, right?
Therefore, sometimes it does not matter what kind of official you are, what matters is whether the fate is in your own hands.
Go to the "Snail To See the Journey to the West" public number, you can see the related article "Little White Dragon Started Before the Eight Precepts, Why Didn't He Become the Second Master Brother?" Just because you didn't do three things well? 》
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