Journey to the West is a novel with a very deep satire on reality, behind the fantasy story, there is a lot of satire on the society at that time, and the seemingly illusory Tiangong is actually deeply rooted in reality.
The difficulty of the Bull Demon King family was even more completely mocked by the overthrow of a family, and the various phenomena of the society at that time were completely ridiculed, but they were only cloaked in mythology.
When I was a child, I read that those mountain god lands were all dressed in rags to see Sun Wukong, and some did not even have a complete pair of pants, which was very funny at the time.
When I grew up, I understood that this was clearly irony, and what a cruel point the exploitation of the government at that time had reached, and the clothes on my body were gone, which showed the tragic situation of society at that time.
The Bull Devil King's family belongs to a large family with stable local resources and rich income, the red child occupies the Horn Mountain, his uncle occupies the Falling Tire Spring, the Iron Fan Princess has a banana fan, which can make the Flame Mountain wind and rain smooth, all of which are proper five books, and the Bull Devil King has spread branches and leaves, and has made a small family.
This kind of costless business seems to be very good, but once the resources are lost, it will become nothing, because lying down to make money is really easy to be red-eyed, and the Bull Demon King has no background, neither belongs to the Buddha, nor does it belong to the heavenly court, but only by chance, there are resources to make money lying down.
But without the background, it certainly can't last, and the combination of resources and background makes sense, otherwise it will be taken away sooner or later, and there are many such stories in ancient times.
At the end of this story, there is a small episode, which is even more intriguing, that is, the land of the Flame Mountain, and his final choice also exposes many problems.
Flame Mountain is Sun Wukong 500 years ago, kicked down the Bagua furnace, fell down a brick to form, hot, but did not expect to involve the heavenly children, was punished to the human world to do the land here.
From the comfortable Tushi Palace to this hot flame mountain, this fairy boy was really unlucky enough to have this difficulty for no reason, but what was unexpected was that in the end, this land actually refused to return to the heavenly court.
This was actually a kind of status quo in the official field at that time, although the Beijing officials had large official positions and good reputations, no local officials had money, and no local officials were comfortable.
One side of the land, on behalf of the Heavenly Court to manage there, this seems to be the most detailed sesame petty official, but he is facing all the flat-headed people, so it is full of official authority, and the sesame official can live out the feeling of the earth emperor.
Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, the general Beijing officials, all hope to be released, in addition to being able to achieve top positions, the ming Dynasty's official system, really can not see who is big and small, mainly to see if you can get money.
The land of the Flame Mountain, this is finally a living understanding, squeezed the head, what can be done in the Heavenly Garden, where no one cares about him as a little Daoist boy, let alone him, all that can be seen is his ass.
But below, all that I saw were smiling faces, the people of the Flame Mountain, when they saw the land, they saw the gods, and they all prostrated themselves and bowed down, and this feeling was even more comfortable than being a great saint of Qi Tian.
Moreover, in the heavenly court, the companion is like a companion tiger, just look at the sand monk, maybe one day for no reason and be punished, so it is better to honestly stay in this flame mountain, live your own small life, do not make a false name as long as the real profit, this is to see the open, live a thorough life.