Speaking of "Journey to the West", it evokes the childhood memories of countless people, eager to become a human hero like Sun Wukong, seventy-two changes, and defeat all kinds of monsters, but "Journey to the West" can be called one of the "four masterpieces", not only because "Journey to the West" is not only a fascinating storyline, but also because "Journey to the West" vaguely depicts the social situation of the Ming Dynasty and reveals many esoteric philosophical ideas.
The twenty-fifth time in the "Journey to the West" talks about the four masters and apprentices passing through Wanshou Mountain and visiting the Wuzhuang Temple of Zhenyuan Daxian, who ordered his disciple Qingfeng Mingyue to pick ginseng fruits for the four masters and apprentices to eat, and after Sun Wukong angrily pulled up the ginseng fruit tree, Guanyin used manna to revive the tree. In the original work of "Journey to the West", the description of ginseng fruit is quite fantastic, and it has also aroused great curiosity among countless readers, and the book is even more blunt that ginseng fruit can make people live longer, but what is buried under its tree is creepy.
The shape of the ginseng fruit
In the "Journey to the West", it has been mentioned that there are three things that can make people immortal, one is peach, the other is golden cicada meat, that is, Tang monk meat, and the third is ginseng fruit, also known as "grass return Dan". Among them, only the ginseng fruit is the most mysterious, and only wuzhuangguan in the world has a ginseng fruit tree.
The book writes about ginseng fruit trees, "Three thousand years a flower, three thousand years a fruit, three thousand years to ripen, short ten thousand years to eat." It is as if in ten thousand years only thirty fruits have been produced. "It can be seen that the preciousness of ginseng fruit, such a rare fruit has the effect of longevity does not seem very strange."
This ginseng fruit is also translated as the fruit of the human body, and the fruit is like a child, just like a child under the age of three dynasties, with complete limbs and five features. This shape is a bit puzzling. Tang Monk also saw the appearance of the fruit, so he did not dare to eat it, and was also discussed by Qingfeng and Mingyue.
The childlike appearance of the ginseng fruit is frightening and far away, but Sun Wukong and the Eight Precepts of the Pig did not mind this, and even went to beat the ginseng fruit to eat, but the ginseng fruit disappeared into the ground and disappeared without a trace. From this point of view, not only the ginseng fruit is mysterious, but even the land where ginseng fruit trees are planted is elusive.
The mystery of the land of ginseng fruit trees
It was strange that the ginseng fruit fell and fled into the land, so Sun Wukong summoned the local land master for consultation, only to learn that the steel and stone of this land were still hard and unusual, and even Sun Wukong's golden hoop stick could not shake half a point. People can live forever after eating, but the answer of the land seems to be somewhat unsolicited, and the land has an extraordinary connection with the longevity of ginseng fruit.
The book says that eating a ginseng fruit can last for 47,000 years, but coincidentally, the land where ginseng fruit is grown is also 47,000 years old, which can't help but cause people to think deeply. This land has the same lifespan as ginseng fruit, which also shows in disguise that this land is nourishing ginseng fruit trees, or more accurately, nourishing ginseng fruit.
The longevity secret of the ginseng fruit seems to be about to come out, but it is difficult to explain, the mysteries are puzzling, which is even more mysterious to the ginseng fruit, and the longevity secret in the Wuzhuang Temple is even more strange, which can be glimpsed only from the youngest disciples Qingfeng and Mingyue.
The mystery of the longevity of the breeze and the bright moon
Zhen Yuan Daxian deliberately left two youngest disciples in the temple, Qingfeng and Mingyue, to entertain the Tang monks and disciples, but Qingfeng and Mingyue were already more than 1,300 years old and 1,200 years old respectively, which was even older than Sun Wukong, which was a bit puzzling, and their immortal secret must also be closely related to ginseng fruit.
In "Journey to the West", there is a basic setting that both monsters and immortals will experience a natural disaster once every five hundred years, how did Qingfeng and Mingyue, two children with low mana, escape natural disasters? Obviously, it is related to ginseng fruit. Because it ruled out the possibility that they had eaten the golden cicada meat, it was impossible to have the opportunity to eat the peach, because even Qingfeng and Mingyue's master Zhenyuan Daxian was not eligible to participate in the peach conference, nor did they have the opportunity to eat the peach, let alone Qingfeng and Mingyue.
But here comes a new question, the ginseng fruit ripens once every ten thousand years, and now it has just matured, and the last ripening time was ten thousand years ago, and the book writes, "The fruit is also strange, and it cannot be put for a long time, if it is put for a long time, it is stiff, and it is not eaten." "And Qingfeng and Mingyue are only over a thousand years old, and it is reasonable to say that they have no chance to eat ginseng fruit, which is related to their master Zhen Yuan Daxian."
Zhen Yuan Daxian seems to be solving the puzzle
Zhen Yuan Daxian must have cracked the longevity secret of ginseng fruit, no longer need to be contained by the ginseng fruit tree, and can use this secret to help Qingfeng and Mingyue continue to live. Such an approach seems to be contrary to human morality, because the mystery of the growth of ginseng fruit is not glorious, he is not like a peach, it can be planted and multiplied, the ginseng fruit tree is only this one, but it can always bear fruit, the origin of this fruit is amazing, they are closely related to the creatures in the land.
The ginseng fruit tree is more like a transit station, absorbing "nutrients" through the spiritual roots of the ginseng fruit tree to feed the ginseng fruit on the tree. Then the source of these "nutrients" is self-evident, they are all creatures in the land.
Although the ginseng fruit on the tree is still only the shape of the fruit, they are also constantly cultivating, which explains that the ginseng fruit has the same life span as this land, they seem to have a parasitic relationship, and the creatures buried deep underground are innocently implicated.
In this way, ginseng fruit is not a simple fruit, they are more like goblins, just cultivating on the tree, but their cultivation is based on countless beings in the land to provide, the growth of a ginseng fruit, is the disappearance of countless lives, before seeing the world, it has been buried under the bone tree.
In this way, it is reasonable that Tang Monk did not eat ginseng fruit because of its appearance. In "Journey to the West", Tang Monk is a Buddha, can not kill, ginseng fruit is a fruit offered by living beings, is tantamount to killing, so No matter from which point of view, Tang Monk can not eat ginseng fruit.
The growing ginseng fruit can make people live a long life, but the ginseng fruit will also have a ripe day, and each ginseng fruit is a small goblin, they suck living creatures, which is like killing people, which is strangling people. Ginseng fruit with the lives of countless creatures in exchange for longevity, how much people are confused, ginseng fruit tree is no longer the land, but also buried the corpses of countless living beings, the truth, such longevity is difficult to make people feel at ease.
epilogue
In "Journey to the West", there are countless metaphors for a single ginseng fruit, and some people interpret the ginseng fruit as a method used by the author Wu Cheng'en to attack the social status quo of the Ming Dynasty. But from the words between the lines, we can feel that the origin of ginseng fruit is unknown, and the truth behind the growth is lamentable and even difficult to accept. Burying bones under trees to nourish ginseng fruits, obtain longevity, and base one's desires on the lives of countless beings is a terrible secret of longevity.
Since ancient times, there have also been countless emperors who have indulged in Taoism and practiced Dan all day in order to obtain longevity. No one in history can truly immortality, even if science and technology and medical treatment are so big today, immortality is still an unsolved mystery, people are still exploring scientifically. People's life expectancy is a natural law, it is difficult to change at will, all we can do is to live every day, live up to time, and live up to Shaohua.
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