"Journey to the West" is a well-known classic in China, the book records the adventures of the four Tang monks and apprentices in the Western Heavens, and encountered countless large and small monsters on the way, but can you tell the most terrifying place in the original "Journey to the West"?
Regarding the most terrifying place in "Journey to the West", there are many opinions.
Some say lion camel ridge, because here "skeletons are like mountains, skeletons are like forests." Human hair is made of felt, and human skin and flesh are rotten into mud. Human tendons were wrapped around the trees, and the dry scorch was as bright as silver. It was really a corpse mountain and a sea of blood, and it really smelled bad. The little demon in the east took the living man and took the meat; the west threw the devil and cooked the human flesh fresh."
Some people say that it is a daughter country, because men are called "human races" here, and in the eyes of women in the daughter country, men are a breeding machine, and they have no mercy for this machine and use it as much as they want. This horror of contemplation is difficult to describe in words.
However, these are not the most terrifying places in Journey to the West. Low-end horror is nothing more than making you afraid, while real high-end horror is to make you immersive and become the executor of terror.
Therefore, the most terrifying part of "Journey to the West" is the episode that we liked to watch the most when we were children - Wuzhuangguan and Ginseng Fruit.
Readers will say when they see this, the ginseng fruit is such a lovely fruit, there are no demons and ghosts in the Wuzhuang Temple, how can it become the most terrifying place in "Journey to the West"?
Don't worry, let's see how ginseng fruit is described in the original book.
First look at the appearance of the fruit: "The appearance of the fruit is similar to that of a child under the age of the Three Dynasties, with complete limbs and salty features." ”
In other words, ginseng fruit is very similar to real children.
After Tang Monk saw the ginseng fruit, his first reaction was: The elder saw it, trembled, and walked away from three feet: "Shanza! Good riddance! This year is also a good year, how can this view be a waste of cannibalism? This is a child under the age of three dynasties, how to quench my thirst? ”
In the eyes of Tang Monk, the ginseng fruit in front of him was really a child who was born less than three days ago.
Look at the ginseng fruit that Sun Wukong saw when he ran to the orchard: "The walker leaned under the tree and looked up... It turned out that there was a ti on the tail, watching him ding in the branches, his hands and feet moving wildly, nodding his head, and there seemed to be a sound in the wind. ”
Where there is any fruit that "moves hands and feet, nods and pretends to be brains", this child-like "fruit" is clearly a living thing.
Man is the spirit of heaven and earth, a newborn child, and an unpolluted holy relic in heaven and earth. Goku, the Eight Precepts, and the Sand Monk were all monsters before, and eating people was not a rare thing, so when they saw such a fairy-like human spirit, they would "move their index fingers" and eat with their mouths open.
According to Zhen Yuan Daxian, this "ginseng fruit" has the effect of prolonging life.
Can eating children live longer? This is really confirmed in "Journey to the West".
In fact, there are many places in "Journey to the West" that describe the habit of gods and immortals eating people. Not to mention the dragon's liver and phoenix marrow at the peach feast, remember the white deer essence in the bhikkhu kingdom that collected the hearts and livers of ten thousand children? He is actually the mount of the old man of the birthday star. Is there any connection between the white deer essence collecting children's hearts and livers and the longevity of the longevity of the old star? Isn't it a little scary?
"Journey to the West" such a cryptic description of "ginseng fruit" is also an allusion to the corruption of the imperial court at that time, and the dignitaries and dignitaries "eat people without spitting bones", and even the newborn children are not spared.
Now think about it, the heroic and invincible Goku, the eight precepts of eating and lazy cooking, the hard-working sand monk, are actually man-eating demons who covet children, and the image of heroes is destroyed in our hearts.