In journey to the West, the four masters and apprentices are all animals, what is the sand monk body? Is it a human or an animal?
Some people think that Sha Wujing should be an ordinary person.
Because in the original journey to the West, it was said that Sha Wujing was originally an ordinary man and did not want to enter the six reincarnations, so he cultivated into a god and came to the heavenly court to become a roller blind general, and then was demoted to a human body.
However, some people have given a different opinion, they believe that Sha Wujing is not a human body after being degraded, but an animal essence.
Reason one, strange appearance.
In the original work, Sha Wujing's appearance was mentioned many times, saying that his face was iron blue, his eyes resembled bright lights, his hair was red, his voice was like thunder, his teeth were uneven like hacksaws, his mouth was unusually long and not like a person but like a fish, he walked like a rolling wind, and his legs opened their bows left and right.
Reason 2: The situation is similar.
Sha Wu's situation of being demoted to Mortal Was the same as that of the Eight Precepts of the Pig, all of which were transgressions that angered the Jade Emperor and had to be demoted to mortality.
The Eight Precepts of the Pig just flirted with Chang'e and became a pig fetus by the "black box operation", but what about Sha Wujing? It was to break the Jade Emperor's beloved glass cup.
This is not just a drinking cup, but the most precious treasure left by the three pleases, plus Sha Wujing's position is only a roller blind general, that is, a petty official in charge of eating and living, so his fate can only be worse than the Eight Precepts of the Pig.
That is to say, the Eight Precepts of the Pig became a pig, and Sha Wujing could only become an animal that was uglier and more inferior than a pig, and would not be a human.
Reason three: The convention in the book.
In the Journey to the West, counting the White Dragon Horse, the five masters and apprentices who went to the Western Heavens to learn the scriptures were all animals except Sha Wujing, was this arrangement reasonable?
The answer is obviously no, even the Tang monks are incarnated by golden cicadas.
If Sha Wujing were a simple human being, he might not be qualified to walk with them, so his essence must be a powerful aquatic animal, so that he could conform to the conventions in the book and complete the arrangement of learning the Scriptures from the Western Heavens.
Having said that, what kind of animal is Sha Wujing's essence?
First of all, according to his appearance and habits, it is speculated that living in the water, carnivorous, and without back armor can be roughly locked into carnivorous fish, hippos, crocodiles, crabs.
And then one by one ruled out, the possibility of fish is not high, after all, the fish demon has some scale features, Sha Wujing does not; Hippos are also unlikely because their habitat is not Chinese.
In the end, only crabs and crocodiles are left.
Personally, I still prefer crabs, because if you look closely, you can see that the end of Sha Wujing's Zen staff resembles the crab claws of a crab, and the face of Livid is also like the color of a crab.
However, a description in the original Journey to the West negates this statement, when the master and apprentice passed through the Blackwater River, they once encountered a monster whose body was a small dragon.
His appearance is the same as Sha Wujing, and this little dragon is the name of the ancient Chinese Yangzi crocodile, so combined with Sha Wujing's physical characteristics, he is most likely a crocodile into a sperm.
