The New Saying "Law" in famous works
The 5,000 years of Chinese civilization have bred brilliant masterpieces and written a large number of historical and humanistic allusions, including many legal wisdom. What are the four characteristics of the underworld organization? There are standard answers in Water Margin. The same is to eat Tang monk meat, why are some monsters "sentenced to death" and some are "acquitted"? Why is there a situation of "different judgments in the same case"? Is this "the doctor who can't be punished"? What are the new "laws" in the classical masterpieces, we may wish to take a look at them together.
Following the last analysis of the legal documents around the form of the Jizo King Bodhisattva accusing Sun Wukong of making a big fuss in the "Journey to the West", today the book is picked up to see what is the legal nature of Sun Wukong's act of breaking into the Dragon Palace and taking away the Needle of the Sea God.
The third time in "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong went to the crystal palace of the neighboring East Sea Dragon King in order to find a weapon in his hand, saying that he "sued" but "got the magic power, threw away the solution, and turned around the crystal palace", and took the hard gold hoop from the Dragon King, and this stick "was a stator in the shallow depth of the Dingjiang River and sea when Dayu ruled the water, and it was a piece of divine iron", which showed that the value was not cheap. "That piece of iron, hold some and die, bump some will die, skin is broken, rub tendons and wounds", Sun Wukong said, "Really no, just try this iron with you!" "Threatened, and from the other Three Seas Dragon King, he obtained a double lotus silk walking cloud, a golden armor of locks, and a purple golden crown of phoenix wings."
Sun Wukong broke into the Dragon Palace and took the needle of the sea god, and walked in the East Sea to "return with a full load", which can really be described as "full of spring breeze and high throne", as everyone knows, his behavior has been suspected of picking quarrels and provoking troubles.
Link to the law on the crime of picking quarrels and provoking troubles
Article 293 of the Criminal Law Whoever commits any of the following acts of picking quarrels and provoking troubles and disrupting social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or public surveillance:
(1) Beating others at will, where the circumstances are heinous;
(2) Chasing, intercepting, insulting, or intimidating others, where the circumstances are heinous;
(3) Forcibly taking or arbitrarily destroying or occupying public or private property, where the circumstances are serious;
(4) Causing disturbances in public places, causing serious disorder in public places.
Whoever gathers others to repeatedly carry out the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph and seriously disrupts social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years, and may also be fined.
Because Sun Wukong learned the skills of seventy-two changes, "returned to his hometown with honor", and "suppressed the Demon King of the Mixed World", "all kinds of demon kings, a total of seventy-two caves, all came to worship the Monkey King as his honor", it was the spring breeze that was proud, and the world gave up his life to go to the Crystal Palace of the East Sea in order to find weapons. Sun Wukong subjectively has both the intention of asking for money and the intention of being aggressive and competitive. There is no doubt that the Crystal Palace is a public place, Sun Wukong is causing trouble in a public place, first showing off his skills, making the other party realize that he is not good, and then forcibly taking one piece of public and private property of great value from the four Dragon Kings, and his behavior has been suspected of picking quarrels and provoking troubles.
So, is Sun Wukong's trip a crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble or a violent and coercive robbery crime? Let's leave a suspense and listen to the next breakdown.