Liu Li Dian was just an ordinary glass, Sha Monk Gui was a roller blind general, why was he demoted to the mortal world by the Jade Emperor just because he broke the Glass Cup by mistake?
There is a view that although the glass cup is not precious, the things contained in the glass glass are very precious, and it is the peach juice.
The so-called peach juice is the juice of the peach that grows in the peach orchard of the Queen Mother's mother. However, why did the Queen Mother want to squeeze the peach into juice, and did the immortals also like to drink juice?
Of course not, but there are too many immortals participating in the peach feast, and the peach production of the peach orchard is limited, it is difficult to ensure that the immortals have a peach, in order to let the immortals enjoy the peach, they have to squeeze the juice to share.
Some people must say that the Heavenly Garden has all kinds of delicacies, and the peach supply is insufficient, so why not squeeze the juice in one fell swoop?
It turned out that the gods and immortals in the Journey to the West world also had a lifespan, but they lived longer than mortals, but once the life span arrived, they also had to fall into reincarnation.
Are the immortals willing to fall into reincarnation? Of course not. And the peach has the effect of prolonging life, according to the peach orchard land master:
There are 3,600 peach trees in the peach orchard, the first 1,200 trees, 3,000 years ripe, people eat the immortal Tao; the middle 1,200 plants, 6,000 years a ripe, people eat immortality; the back 1,200 plants, 9,000 years a ripe, people eat and live together with heaven and earth.
Therefore, the gods must eat peaches. Even if you can't eat the whole peach, drinking peach juice is not bad, at least you can extend your life for hundreds of thousands of years, until the next peach feast.
We know that there is more than one way to prolong life in the Journey to the West, and the cultivation of immortality can also prolong life, Sun Wukong mastered this technique, many mortal masters also master this technique, and the gods and immortals naturally master it.
So the question is, since the immortals can all have immortality, why should they eat peaches?
The reason is actually very simple, we can see the clues from the words of Bodhi Guru.
In the second time of the original work, Bodhi Grandmaster taught Sun Wukong the art of immortality, saying: "All come to the spirit of the spirit, and we are sure to keep the leaks." Hugh leaked, the body was hidden, and Ru was taught by me to spread the word from Chang. How beneficial it is to memorize the recipe, and to cool off evil desires. ”
Originally, the cultivation of immortality must abandon evil thoughts, maintain a pure mind, and make the body contain a fresh and pure qi, can the immortals do this?
It is not difficult to abandon evil thoughts, but it is not easy to maintain a pure mind and no desire, because the gods and immortals in the Journey to the West world are also composed of seven emotions and six desires, and only a very small number of top gods who have perfected the realm of transformation have reached the realm of no desire and no desire.
Therefore, although the immortals can immortalize, the so-called "will" only stays at the level of "mastering the recipe", and has not been successful in cultivation, if you want to be immortal, you still need to eat peach.
In fact, even if the immortals have practiced the art of immortality, they will be more inclined to prolong their lives by eating peaches.
Because if you want to achieve immortality through the art of immortality, you must always maintain the fresh and pure qi in your body, which means that you must always maintain a pure mind and a lack of desire, otherwise you will break the practice.
After Sun Wukong learned the art of immortality, why was he still ghosted by ghosts? It is precisely because after returning to Huaguo Mountain, he ate, drank, and played with the monkeys and monkey grandchildren all day, did not maintain a pure and widowed mentality, and broke the practice of immortality.