Although when Pig Eight Commandments first arrived at Gao Laozhuang, there was a little bit of fraud. However, realistically speaking, at the beginning of the Eight Precepts of the Pig, in the Gao Taigong family, they were still hard-working and hard-working, and in fact, they also created considerable wealth for the Gao family. But why didn't the good times last? Later, Gao Taigong wanted to find someone to remove the demon?
If you want to clarify this question, you may wish to explore it from the perspective of "circumstantial evidence" and "parties".
Who is the so-called "circumstantial evidence"? It was a servant in Gao Lao's home, Gao Cai. When Tang Monk and his party had just entered Gao Laozhuang and were preparing to stay, they encountered a person head-on, that is, Gao Cai. What was Gao Cai going to do at that time? It is to go out on the orders of the elder to find capable people and strangers who can exorcise demons. When Sun Wukong saw that there was such a good "sale", could he let it go? So there is a passage of high talent. The original text is as follows:
This man had no choice but to tell the truth: "I am Gao Taigong's family, and my name is Gao Cai." My husband-in-law had a daughter, twenty years old, not to mention unworthy, who was possessed by a goblin three years ago. The demon had been the son-in-law for three years, and my wife was displeased, saying that her daughter had recruited a goblin, not a long law, one corrupted the family door, and the other had no relatives to come and go, and she always wanted to retire this goblin. The goblin was willing to retreat, and instead locked his daughter in his back house, for half a year, and would not be released to meet with the family. ..."(Journey to the West XVIII)
There is a "deal" to catch demons, and Sun Wukong is the most energetic
Gao Cai's "testimony" mentioned two more crucial points, believing that gao's son-in-law had two problems: first, he corrupted the family door; second, there was no family contact.
Let's first put aside the "testimony" that Gao Cai said, and then see how the "confession" of the "parties" elder Himself explains the same thing. See the original text:
Elder Gao said, "Since ancient times, we in this village have not known any sneaky rays or demons." It was just that the old clumsy was unfortunate, did not have children, and stopped giving birth to three daughters: the eldest named Xianglan, the second name Magnolia, and the third name Cuilan. Those two children from the small children are matched with the Honzhuang family, but there is a small one, to recruit a son-in-law, expecting him to live with me in the same family, to be a pension son-in-law, to support the door to the household, to do the work errands. Unexpectedly, three years ago, there was a man, who looked exquisite, he said that he was a family on Fuling Mountain, surnamed Pig, no parents on the top, no brothers on the bottom, and was willing to be a son-in-law with others. I saw that he was such an uninhibited person, so I recruited him. When I entered the door, I was also diligent: ploughing the field and harrowing the land, without cattle tools; harvesting the field, without knife and staff. Fainting to the point of view, in fact, it is good, just one piece, some will change their faces. The walker said, "How has it changed?" Elder Gao said, "When I first came, I was a black and fat man, but later I became a nerd with a long mouth and big ears, and there was a mane behind my head, my body was rough and afraid of people, and my head and face looked like a pig." But the intestines are very large: a meal requires three or five buckets of rice, and in the morning snack, it takes one hundred and ten burnt cakes. If you eat meat wine again, it is the old clumsy family farm property, and in the first half of the year, you will eat a net! Sanzang said, "Only because he did it, he ate it." Elder Gao said, "Eating is still a small matter, and now he can make the wind, the clouds come and go, and the stones fly sand, scaring my family and neighbors, and they can't live in peace." He also locked up the little girl in the back house, and he never saw her for half a year, let alone how to live or die. Therefore, knowing that he is a monster, I want to ask a mage to retreat with him, to retreat. (Journey to the West XVIII)
Image stills after the change of the Eight Commandments of the Pig
Stills after the Eight Commandments of the Pig revealed their original form
The original quotation in this passage is slightly longer, but borrowing from the mouth of the elderly, the matter is already clear, basically explaining the matter of the Eight Precepts of the Pig coming to Gao Laozhuang. Because the words of the elder mentioned the ability and intestines of the eight precepts of the pig when they first came, some netizens concluded that the root cause was an economic problem, because the eight precepts of the pig were too able to eat fast and eat the old man poorly. But the words of the elder gao actually answered this question, and he himself said: "Eating is still a small thing"!
Eating is a small thing, so what is a big thing? Elder Gao mentioned the following points: First, there is a "demon law" that will make the wind and clouds come and go; second, it scares his family and neighbors into not being able to live in peace; third, he locks up his daughter and does not know whether she is dead or alive.
Combining the words of gao cai and gao lao, it is not difficult to restore the truth of the matter. In fact, it is as follows: first, recruit a goblin, the family door is unfortunate; second, because the son-in-law is a goblin, cut off the contact between relatives and friends, according to the ancient saying, it is to break the "door wind"; the third is to become a parent, worried about the safety of the daughter.
In modern society, everyone lives their own small life behind closed doors, although it is not "old and dead", but it is common for neighbors not to know each other. However, in the ancient society, or back to the Ming Dynasty society where "Journey to the West" was born, the "family door" and "door style" were the foundation of a family's standing. The "door of the family" represents the status of a family, which is the façade of a family in a clan society. The "door style" represents the family's personal contacts and social interactions. The so-called "family door misfortune" is in essence because of the accident at home, resulting in the reduction of their family status, making relatives and friends look down on themselves, which is a very fatal thing. Breaking the "door wind", which was built in the ancient agricultural society, is equivalent to isolating oneself, is not this self-isolation from the "acquaintance society"? z
Pig Eight Commandments Back Daughter-in-law Stills
However, looking at the "marriage" problem of the Eight Precepts of the Pig and Gao Cuilan from today's point of view, this will trigger the ethical taboo of "cross-species reproduction". After all, "people are born of human TM, and demons are born of demons", this pig demon and Gao Cuilanwan have a child out of life, is it really a "shemale"? This problem, placed in today's world-shattering big problem, is placed in the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago, or the Tang Dynasty set by "Journey to the West", which is probably a more fatal problem.
Combining these factors, it is normal for the elderly to want to retire from marriage!
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