Now popular tricks to interpret "Journey to the West", open the mobile phone, the left bowl of chicken soup "Sun Wukong said a paragraph, let how many people are silent", the right a conspiracy theory "Killed in the Spirit Mountain is the real Sun Wukong, learn the scripture is the six-eared macaque", as if not digging three feet to dig out a one-two-three-four, "Journey to the West" is read in vain.
"Journey to the West", as one of the four masterpieces of Classical China, is based on the historical event of "Tang Monks Taking the Scriptures", and through the author's artistic processing, it is mainly used to satirize and depict the social reality of the Ming Dynasty.
In the eighth episode of the novel, Rulai said at the "Menglan Bon Society": The people of the Southern Gift Continent are greedy and happy, and they kill more and fight more. Therefore, Nan Ganbu Zhou is "the fierce field of tongue and tongue, the sea of right and wrong", he has three Tibetan true scriptures, which can persuade people to be good, why not directly assign them to the world?
The explanation given by Rulai is afraid that the world will be stupid and slight the Buddhist scriptures... It was precisely because Rulai had such an understanding of the Southern Ganbu Continent that Rulai asked Guanyin to go to the Eastern Lands to find a person to take the Three Tibetan True Scriptures.
In "Journey to the West", when the Tang monk arrived at the Two Realms Mountain, he was the super ghost of his father who had passed away by the hunter Liu Boqin, and Liu Boqin's father, Tuo Meng, said: "After obtaining the holy monk, reading the scriptures, and eliminating the karma of sin, the king of Yan sent someone to send me to the family of the elderly in the rich land of China." ”
It can be seen from this that in and around the border of the Eastern Tang Dynasty, it is still a blessing to be able to be born here with "China's rich land" as the place of yearning in our hearts. The "rich land of China" and "the family of the elderly" are the intuitive impressions of ordinary people on the Eastern Tang Dynasty.
Then later, the Tang monks came to Jinping Province in West NiuheZhou, which already belonged to the jurisdiction of the same state capital as the Great Lei Yin Temple, and it can be said that the distance was very close, and the words spoken by the monks here and here when they saw the Tang monks were: "The people who are good here, reading the sutras and chanting the Buddha, all expect to cultivate until you are born in China, only to see the teacher Fengcai's crown, and sure enough, it was cultivated in the previous life, so I worship it now." ”
From this point of view, under the rule of the Buddha of Rulai, the monks of West NiuheZhou ate and worshipped the Buddhist prayers all their lives, but their purpose was to expect that in the next life, they would be born in the rich land of China in the Southern Ganbu Continent, dressed in style and crowns, and so cloudy.
But even so, when the Tang monks arrived at the Great Lei Yin Monastery and met the Buddha of Rulai, Rulai said to Sanzang: "Your eastern soil is the southern Ganbu Continent, only because the heavens are thick, the things are thick, the greed is more, the more lascivious, the more deceitful, the more deceitful; not obeying Buddhism, not seeking good karma, not respecting the three rays, not valuing the five grains; not being loyal and filial, not being righteous and unkind, hiding one's heart, fighting big and small scales, and killing animals." He who has created boundless sins, full of sins and evil, and the calamity of hell, has fallen into the underworld forever, suffered from the many mashing and grinding, and changed the beasts. There are many who are clothed in the shape of hairy horns, who will pay off their debts and feed their flesh to people. He who never falls into the nose and is not allowed to rise above is also the case. Although kong set up the religion of benevolence, righteousness, and wisdom under him, the emperors successively ruled the punishment of hanging in vain, such as ignorance and ignorance, and indulgence and unscrupulous people He Ye! ......”
This is a routine compared with what the "Menglan Bon Society" said, and it also adds many words of iniquity, sin, and evil: "More greed and more killing, more adultery and more slander, more deception and more deception, unfaithfulness and filial piety, unrighteousness and unkindness,......."
As a member of the Tang Dynasty of the Southern Ganbu Continent, the tang monks naturally heard and witnessed the words and words of the people and monks of the prefectures and provinces of the West Niuhe Continent, and their hearts were even more clear about their yearning for the rich land of China
If you come to sit down Dapeng and eat a country of people. Do you say that people in this country believe in Buddhism or do they not believe in Buddhism?
The king of Wuji Kingdom just didn't respect the Buddha, threw Manjushri Bodhisattva into the river for three days, and was killed by a monster, and only came back after three years, do you guess that he dared to be disrespectful to the Buddha after he became emperor? The king of a country is still like this, living near the Spirit Mountain and not believing in the Buddha will end up, the lion camel country or is the best proof.
After believing in the teachings, they asked for the scriptures, tang monks were rulai's disciples, and there were people like Sun Wukong who made trouble, and they still had to pay the handling fee, how much did other people have to pay when they came to ask the Buddha to preach the scriptures?
Even so, Tang Monk actually believed that the scriptures he had taken could save the Eastern Tang Dynasty? At least 70 of the 81 difficulties he experienced occurred in West NiuheZhou.
Now put yourself in the shoes of a white deer, for example, if you are a white deer of a birthday star, if you want to eat a virgin boy and a virgin, or if you are a Che Chi Guo Sanjing, you want to get greater rights. Intuitively speaking, if you go to a bigger country and fool a bigger king, it will be better if it costs less.
Why don't these monsters pit Li Shimin, but the kings of these small countries?
This just proves that Li Shimin is a Ming Jun, he rules the country Fang Hai Yan Heqing, and the demons know that there is no way to do it.
If you think about it again: the king of a country in the Treasure Elephant Kingdom can't even save a hundred flowers and shy princesses, but Wei Zheng can dream of slaying the Dragon King of jinghe.
The king of Wuji Kingdom tied Manjushri to the river for three days and three nights, and Li Shimin treated Guanyin as a courtesy. The king of Zhu Ziguo could not even find a qualified doctor, and the king of the sacrificial kingdom angered all the monks of the temple because of a relic.
The Tang Dynasty was full of talents, and foreign talents were withering.
How can Rulai mean to say: "West Niu he zhou, not greedy, not killing, nourishing qi and subliminal spirits"?
No country in West Niuhe Zhou is more prosperous and powerful than the Tang Dynasty in the Southern Zhanbu Continent that is "greedy and happy, more killing and more fighting".
For example, the Buddha preached the right results, the three-fold mysterious scripture, the five aggregates are strict, the heavens and dragons are circling together, the flowers and rain are colorful, the Zen heart shines on a thousand rivers and moons, and the true disposition encompasses the heavens. Among them, how many of them have been given to all sentient beings in West Niuhe Zhou and even the whole world?
The Tang monks in journey to the west himself had experienced so many countries and were unwilling to believe the prosperity that Li Shimin had seen with his own eyes, but he felt that this foreigner's paper scripture could save the country, which was itself a kind of absurdity, and there was no shortage of such things in the ironic reality.
The characters involved here, such as "Rulai" and "Tang Monk", are all fictional characters, and have nothing to do with historical figures.