"Journey to the West" is broad and profound, many details in it are worth recalling, there is a question that I don't know if everyone has considered, the Jade Emperor descended to let Rulai come and subdue the demon monkey, and if he came not long after he came, he used the Five Elements Mountain to suppress Sun Wukong, at this time Rulai only needs to put a tight hoop on Sun Wukong, why do you want to detain him for 500 before being released?
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Let's first analyze the feasibility of this operation, after Sun Wukong was suppressed by the Five Elements Mountain, his freedom was restricted, and the original record:
That mountain is rooted and sewn, and you can use the breath of breath, and your hands can climb out, and you can shake and shake.
Obviously, at this time, there is no problem in putting a tight hoop on Sun Wukong, the monkey has no resistance, and the power of the tight hoop spell is also clear to us, Sun Wukong will never dare to be reckless again. However, Rulai did not do this, but instead instructed the mountain gods of the Five Elements Mountain to watch over Sun Wukong, and let the monkeys eat iron pills and drink copper juice. Obviously, this is time-consuming, laborious and draining, so why arrange it like this? A pot of porridge believes that this move has great significance.
First, Sun Wukong's mission is to escort the Tang monk Xitian to learn the scriptures, and the Western Heavens to learn the scriptures is not flat, if the will is not firm, it is possible to fail, and if You come to imprison Sun Wukong under the Five Elements Mountain, it is conducive to tempering Sun Wukong's character. Otherwise, if they encounter some difficulties, they will pick a son, who can protect the Tang monks from obtaining the True Scriptures?
The fact is also that even if Sun Wukong encounters great difficulties, his determination to learn the scriptures has never wavered, which shows that it is effective to detain him for such a long time.
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Second, paving the way for the Tang monks There is a saying: Life is precious, love is more expensive, if it is for freedom, both can be thrown away, it can be seen that a person's desire for freedom is incomparable, and Sun Wukong was crushed by the Five Elements Mountain is to lose freedom, and up to 500 years, more serious is that eating and drinking are not good.
And Tang Monk saved the monkey in this state, it is conceivable that Sun Wukong will be more grateful to him, not to mention that Sun Wukong is a monkey who knows how to be grateful, can he not give up his life to repay Tang Monk? And Tang Monk's wish is to obtain the True Scriptures, can Sun Wukong not help him realize it? If you do this, you will lay a good foundation for Tang Monk in advance.
Third, to protect Tang Monk, in fact, friends who have read the original work understand that most of the so-called disasters on the road to taking the scriptures are actually invited by the Buddhist sect using various relationships, and there is no fatal threat to the Tang monks, and because of this, when the Tang monks successfully took the scriptures, he did not even lose a hair, in other words, the demon king on the way to take the scriptures did not have a fatal threat to the Tang monks.
Where is the real threat of Tang Monk? In fact, in the other members of the sutra team, take the sand monk, he ate the golden cicada before the 9th, the pig eight precepts under the mortal eating people for a living, especially the fatal is Sun Wukong, the monkey temper is violent, dipped in fire, otherwise he can not make a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, he even the Jade Emperor dares to pull down the horse, in case the Tang monk does not speak well, offends the monkey, the monkey rises, do not beat the Tang monk with the golden hoop stick?
Some friends may say, don't Tang monks chant the tightening mantra? A chant of the mantra monkey will obey ah, but if you look carefully at the original work will find that Sun Wukong is not afraid of the tight hoop spell, to give a small example, when beating the white bone essence, Tang Monk repeated the mantra, but the white bone spirit still let the monkey die. It can be seen that the tight hoop spell cannot control the monkey.
Then the problem is serious, if Tang Monk says that he annoys the monkey with a word, won't the monkey wield the golden hoop stick directly let Tang Monk go to the Western Heavens? Therefore, if you let the five parties reveal the truth and jointly watch Sun Wukong under the Five Elements Mountain, get along day and night for five hundred years, the monkey's every move, even a small look, the five parties can know what the monkey wants to do next. Therefore, as long as the monkey kills, the five parties will inevitably be able to intercept in time, don't you remember, Guanyin Bodhisattva let the golden head reveal the truth 7 * 24 hours a day around the Tang monk, the purpose is not only to prevent monsters, but more importantly, to prevent monkeys, in case the monkeys get up in the middle of the night to fight Tang monks, he is good to intercept.
Finally, it takes time to prepare for the sutra, the tenth reincarnation of the golden cicada can become a Tang monk, the eight precepts of the pig must be subordinated to become the second master brother, the sand monk, the white dragon horse is also, and the same is why those demons and ghosts can only become a threat to the sutra after 500 years, which all need time to prepare. Therefore, Sun Wukong must stay for 500 years to get out of trouble, not early or late.