Who is the true identity of the six-eared macaque? This question has always been talked about, but there are also many opinions.
Many people think that the six-eared macaque is the second heart of Sun Wukong, or a "blackened version of Wukong" derived from Sun Wukong's evil thoughts.
This view is very interesting, simply from the logical point of view of the business problem, if the six-eared macaque is Sun Wukong's two hearts, then why he and Sun Wukong look exactly the same, the skills are exactly the same, there is a logical explanation. However, it does not conform to the original for three reasons:
First, if the six-eared macaque is Sun Wukong's two-heart illusion, then, when Sun Wukong defeats the evil thoughts, the six-eared macaque will suddenly disappear like a mirage, but this is not the case in the original work, and he is beaten back to his original form by Rulai. How can a character derived from evil thoughts have a prototype?
Second, if the six-eared macaque is a two-heart illusion, Sun Wukong killed the six-eared macaque, that is, to eliminate evil thoughts, such as naturally happy for him, but the original is not so, when Sun Wukong killed the six-eared macaque, if you can't bear it, even say good. What is there to sympathize with in a heretical thought?
Third, the original true and false Goku went to the Spirit Mountain to distinguish between true and false, rulai has been explained clearly, the fake Goku is a six-eared macaque, by no means the so-called two hearts. The reason why he looks exactly like Sun Wukong, his skills are exactly the same as Sun Wukong, and he even knows Sun Wukong's past well, because he is "good at listening to sounds and can know things thousands of miles away", and may have been monitoring Sun Wukong for a long time.
Since the six-eared macaque is not two-hearted, many readers suspect that when Lingshan distinguishes between true and false, it is not the six-eared macaque that is killed by a stick, but Sun Wukong. Is this true?
This seems to be a difficult problem, after all, the six-eared macaque is exactly the same as Sun Wukong, and the understanding of Sun Wukong is almost the same as sun wukong's understanding of himself, if it is really Sun Wukong who was killed, and then the six-eared macaque pretends to be Sun Wukong to escort Tang Monk to learn the scriptures, as long as he does not deliberately expose flaws, it is almost impossible for outsiders to find out.
However, from the author's point of view, Sun Wukong is the well-deserved male protagonist of "Journey to the West", which author will carry out such a dog-blood creation: write the male protagonist to death halfway through, and then create a character exactly like the male protagonist to complete the next story?
In fact, if we carefully read the original work, it is not difficult to find that according to the original setting, it is absolutely impossible to be killed by a stick. We can see this from the words of The Taishang Laojun.
When Sun Wukong made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace and defeated 100,000 Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals, Guanyin Bodhisattva recommended the Erlang God to suppress it, and the Erlang God lived up to the expectations of the people, leading the gods of Guanjiangkou to surround Sun Wukong, and then with the help of Taishang Laojun's sacrifice of Vajrapani, sun Wukong was finally captured.
Sun Wukong was escorted to the Heavenly Court, and the Jade Emperor ordered a great punishment to serve him, but no matter how much torture was used in the Heavenly Court, Sun Wukong could not be hurt in the slightest. When Taishang Laojun saw this, he suddenly realized that he was busy saying to the Jade Emperor, "That monkey stole the elixir, and my five pots of dan, both raw and ripe, were eaten in his stomach by him." Using samadhi fire, calcined into a piece, so it is made of gold and steel, and it cannot be hurt urgently. ”
Sun Wukong had cultivated the incorruptible body of King Kong because he had secretly eaten a large amount of elixirs, and even the torture in the Heavenly Court could not hurt him in the slightest, it could be said that he was immortal in a thousand disasters, and I would like to ask, how could a single stick kill him? Therefore, when the Spirit Mountain is true or false, the only person who is killed by a stick may be a six-eared macaque. What do you think?