The Moon Palace is a place of pure yin, why is there a male immortal Wu Gang? What mistake did he make when he kept cutting down laurel trees?
In the myth of Journey to the West, the story of the Moon Palace has appeared in public twice.
For the first time, when the Eight Precepts of the Pig, who was the marshal of the canopy at the time, attended the peach banquet organized by the Queen Mother's mother, he drank too much, came to the Heavenly Court Moon Palace, flirted with chang'e immortals, and violated the rules of heaven.
"Only because the Queen Mother will peach and open a feast yaochi to invite guests." At that time, he was drunk and drowsy, and he was thrown from side to side. Yu Xiong crashed into the Guanghan Palace, and the wind fairy came to meet him. Seeing his appearance and holding people's souls, it was difficult for all the hearts of the old days to be destroyed. There was no loss of dignity and inferiority, and Chang'e was pulled to accompany her. ”
500 years later, when the Eight Precepts of the Pig were degraded, when he was in the high old village of Fuling Mountain, he said the above words in the face of Sun Wukong, the Great Saint of QiTian, who came to surrender him.
It is also in the 19th chapter of the original book of the four famous works "Journey to the West", "Yunzhan Cave Wukong Receives the Eight Precepts, floating Tushan Xuanzang Received the Heart Sutra", when describing the unethical affairs of the Eight Precepts in that year, as the Grand Marshal of the Three Realms Heavenly River, it is indeed a bit unusual.
In the original plot, it is said that in the Guanghan Palace, Chang'e Fairy faced the drunken Pig Eight Commandments and hid in Tibet unhappily. However, Marshal Pig was somewhat unscrupulous, roaring like thunder in the Guanghan Palace, and was discovered by the Inspector of the Three Realms, so he arrested the Eight Precepts of the Pig and accepted the punishment of the Heavenly Court.
This incident caused a very bad impact in the Heavenly Court, according to the laws of the Heavenly Court, it was reasonable to ask for a beheading, although Taibai Venus personally came forward to intercede, the Eight Precepts of the Pig were still severely reprimanded by two thousand copper hammers, and after suffering from a lot of flesh and skin, they were degraded to the mortal world.
The chinese character for "cold" means frozen, indicating that the weather is very cold. In the "Explanation of Words", it is said that cold, frozen also. Cold is the beginning of cold, and cold is the extreme of cold.
The sage Confucius once said in the "Zhou Yi -Lineage Dictionary": "Cold to the summer, summer to the cold, cold to the cold, cold and hot to push each other into the years." ”
In the traditional Chinese "Zhou Yi" Five Elements culture, the cold is the northern (sub-position) land, which belongs to the yin; the summer heat is the southern (noon) land, which belongs to the yang.
According to legend, there are 33 heavenly palaces in the Heavenly Garden, and there are 72 treasure halls, both the Sun Palace and the Taiyin Palace.
If the sun is called the god of pure yang (old yang), then the Guanghan Palace in the moon is the place of pure yin (old yin).
In the 94th chapter of the original "Journey to the West", "Four Monks Feasting on the Royal Garden, A Strange Empty Passion for Pleasure", a detail is discussed: when the Tang monks and apprentices approached the Western Heavens, they encountered a jade rabbit female goblin in the Tianzhu Kingdom, bent on venting the True Yang Qi of the Tang Monk's child, in order to live forever.
"One came here because of the true scriptures, and the other came to live for the love of strange flowers." The strange Tang Saint Monk asked to cooperate with the Yuan Semen. In the old years, the real princess was taken away, and she became a person who admired and cherished, and now the great saint confessed the atmosphere of the demon, and rescued the living to divide the reality. ”
In order to save the master, Sun Wukong defeated the Jade Rabbit Spirit and was about to end her life when several goddess fairies floated down from the Heavenly Palace.
Sun Dasheng was very respectful and courteous to the Taiyin Xingjun, who was the leader, and called her: "Old Taiyin! "The rest of the fairy girls also have the fairy of Chang (Chang'e).
From literary works and folk myths and legends, we know that the Guanghan Palace on the moon, in addition to the Taiyin Xingjun and Chang'e Immortals, also has the moon god, the moonlight lady (bodhisattva), Wu Gang, the jade rabbit and the young girl.
In the Network, some careful readers have noticed that Guanghan Palace is a place of extreme yin (old yin), and most of them are female fairies, but there is one person's gender, that is, Wu Gang.
In folk culture, there is a story of "Wu Gang Fa Gui". That is to say, Wu Gang kept cutting down osmanthus trees in the extremely cold Moon Palace.
So, why did Wu Gang appear in the Moon Palace, and why did he keep cutting down the osmanthus tree with an axe?
In the ancient mythological masterpiece, the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Classic of Hai Nei, there is such a passage: Bo Ling, the grandson of Emperor Yan, was married to Wu Quan (Gang), who was three years pregnant, and was born with a drum, a yan, and a martyr. The beginning is Hou, the drum and the extension are the beginning of the bell, for the music style.
According to legend, the reason why Wu Gang cut down osmanthus trees in the Moon Palace was related to the Yan Emperor of the Three Emperors.
One theory is that Wu Gang's wife had an affair with Emperor Yan's grandson Boling, and Wu Gang, in a fit of rage, killed Boling. He was demoted to the Moon Palace by Emperor Yan and punished him for cutting down the osmanthus tree in the Moon Palace.
The second theory is that Wu Gang did not concentrate on cultivation, and angered the Heavenly Emperor, so he ordered him to stay in the Moon Palace and order him to cut down the laurel tree (moon tree) in order to obtain the Immortal Book.
However, this laurel tree in the Moon Palace is not an extraordinary tree, but a laurel tree that is 500 meters high.
The ancients said: Jinneng Kemu. But this laurel tree is not afraid of Wu Gang's axe chopping, Wu Gang every axe, the laurel tree can quickly heal itself, in order to be able to cultivate the positive fruit early, Wu Gang will be day after day, endlessly cutting down the laurel tree.
Asking Wu Ganghe everything, Wu Gang held out osmanthus wine. Lonely Chang'e Shu wide sleeves, long miles in the sky and dance for loyal souls. ”
In fact, in the land of pure yin in the Moon Palace, why there are male fairies is actually related to the natural law of "lonely yin is not born, and the single yang is not long" in the culture of "Zhou Yi".
The yin and yang culture of "Zhou Yi" believes that "in the heavens is qi, in the earth it is formed, the form of qi senses and incarnates all things", "the heavens and the earth are chaotic, the yin and yang are intertwined, the biochemistry, the product is salty", etc.; in Chinese medicine culture, it is also believed that if there is no yang, there is no yin and no life, and if there is no yin, there is no yang.
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