"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, such as why not let the golden cicada go directly to the scriptures, but let him reincarnate until he becomes a Tang monk before officially opening the plan to learn the scriptures?
Golden cicada
Before understanding this problem, let's first take a look at what kind of benefits the sutra can bring to Rulai, there is no doubt that taking the sutra is far more beneficial than harmful to Rulai, you can make the faith of the Buddhist sect spread throughout the Southern Zhanbu Continent, the more faith there is undoubtedly more offerings, so that the money will continue to be sent to the Western Heaven Great Lei Yin Temple, and in the Journey to the West, money is very useful, such as in order to let Lao Jun level the Qingniu Essence, such as the cost of the eighteen golden mountains, the Tang monks have to obediently hand over the purple gold bowl, if the stall is too big, the expenditure is too much, There are also many places to use money, and learning from the scriptures can solve this problem for him. So the sooner you learn the scriptures, the better.
Since this was the case, Jin Cicada was rulai's second disciple, and his mana was strong, so wouldn't it be better for him to start taking the scriptures directly from the Tang Dynasty, so that he could speed up the progress of taking the scriptures and let Rulai enjoy the offerings of the Southern Zhanbu Continent as soon as possible.
Such as the Buddha
Of course, Rulai wanted to succeed in learning the experience as soon as possible, so he did send the golden cicada down early, but the ideal was very full, but the reality was very bone. The first nine attempts by the Golden Cicada to learn the scriptures failed without exception. And all planted near the Quicksand River, it is reasonable to say that the golden cicada is so strong, how can it be defeated by the sand monk? There are two possibilities for a pot of porridge analysis, one is that the golden cicada does not dare to move to the sand monk, because the sand monk used to be a red person around the Jade Emperor, he was too weird this time, breaking a cup was degraded to the mortal world, but also every seven days by the torture of ten thousand swords piercing the chest, it is inevitable to make a big fuss, the only possibility is that the Jade Emperor is dissatisfied with Rulai's plan to take the scriptures, thinking that he is so hasty to send the golden cicadas to take the scriptures, without experiencing any hardships, too much drama, so that other forces are very dissatisfied, so the Jade Emperor borrowed the sand monks to punish the golden cicadas.
The second possibility is that the sand monk and the forces behind him dealt a fatal blow to the golden cicada, in the previous article analysis, the sand monk is not a person in the quicksand river, at least there are executioners, and even other immortals, this wave of people and golden cicada hard steel, golden cicadas can not get benefits, the strength of the heavenly court is not comparable to the Buddhist sect, otherwise why do you serve the Jade Emperor so much? Therefore, the golden cicada is really planted in the hands of sand monks and others.
So Rulai had to let the golden cicada reincarnate as a Tang monk, and then let the Guanyin Bodhisattva set up nine nine eighty-one difficulties, and also specially organized a team to collect the scriptures, and stuffed Sun Wukong, Sand Monk, Pig Eight Precepts, White Dragon Horse and others into the team. These people represented different forces, so the Jade Emperor had no words, including the sand monks in the team, who would dare to kill the Tang monks again?
Tang
Another detail is also very important, that is, the Golden Cicada is more certain to reincarnate into a Tang monk, because 500 years ago, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the power of the Han Dynasty was not enough to shock the world, followed by the Three Kingdoms (Wei, Shu, Wu), Jin (Western Jin, Eastern Jin), Five Hu sixteen kingdoms, the Southern and Northern Dynasties [Southern Dynasty (Liu Song, Xiao Qi, Xiao Liang, Southern Chen), the Northern Dynasty (Northern Wei, Eastern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou)], Sui and other dynasties, almost all of which were chaotic dynasties of hegemony. No dynasty has as much influence in the world as the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, it is most beneficial for the golden cicada to be a Tang monk. Because Datang is the world's weather vane, if it takes the initiative to learn Buddhism, to Japan, Korea and even other countries will compete to follow suit, then the Buddhist school of worship will be more and more. Therefore, the golden cicada chose to be a Tang monk in the best interest of Rulai.
Therefore, the Golden Cicada was reincarnated as a Tang monk and could only succeed by taking the scriptures, otherwise he would probably not be able to reach the Spirit Mountain.