In the Journey to the West, several cow spirits appeared, successively there were special soldiers, cow devil kings, green cow essences, and three rhino essences, and the previous few cow essences also hindered the process of learning the scriptures, but none of them were sentenced to death, and only three rhino spirits were in a different place and died a miserable death.
The reason why they could not escape death was because they pretended to be buddhas to steal crisp sesame oil, and as a result, they mistakenly caught Tang Monk at the scene and angered Sun Wukong.
What is that crisp sesame oil, and why do they dare to deceive for a thousand years under the eyes of the Buddha?
It turned out that this crispy sesame oil was an exotic treasure, which was mainly produced in Iran, Turkey, India and other countries at that time, and was one of the earliest known incense in Chinese.
This sesame oil smells much like tuk tuk, which is a precious medicinal herb that can be applied to the body or eaten, and the taste is very wonderful.
After these three rhinoceros essences had eaten this sesame oil since they were young in cultivation, they were deeply fascinated by his taste, which was similar to the reason for taking drugs now, so after they became sperm, in order to enjoy this sesame oil, they came to Jinping Province to pretend to be buddhas and cheat, because the people in Jinping Province believed in Buddha.
The process of deception goes like this:
Jinping Province holds a lantern festival on the fifteenth day of the first month every year, and there are a total of 240 large lamp oil households in Mintian County, each of which has to pay tribute to The Buddha every year worth more than 200 silver and fragrant oil, equivalent to three large cylinders, 500 catties per cylinder, and a total of 1,500 catties in three cylinders, just enough for them to eat for a year.
Every year on the night of the Lantern Festival, they change the appearance of the Buddha to collect oil, and if the oil is dry, the grain is abundant, and if the oil is not dry, the wind and rain are not adjusted, and it is either desolate or dry. Therefore, although the family's flesh hurts, they dare not deny it.
How expensive is this crisp sesame oil, the original text says that this oil is worth two silver two for two.
In ancient times, one or two pieces of silver were worth much, and it is said that the salary of a ming dynasty miscellaneous servant for one year was also 20 silver taels, and it was close to two or two per month, according to the current minimum wage, how could one or two pieces of silver be about eight hundred yuan.
When Grandma Liu in the Dream of the Red Chamber entered the Grand View Garden, it was also Wang Xifeng who rewarded her with twenty-two pieces of silver, and how much was these twenty-two pieces of silver worth, And Grandma Liu herself said:
"Even if we don't work, this money is enough for the croppers to eat for a year."
That is to say, twenty-two silver is enough for a rural family of five to spend a year, and the purchasing power of two or two silver is also very strong.
And every two silver halves of crispy sesame oil is also more than 1,600 yuan, which is much more valuable than gold.
When Sun Wukong went to the Heavenly Court to move the rescue soldiers, he told Taibai Venus that he also said this:
"There are three golden lamps, the lamp is lit with crisp sesame oil, the price is more than 50,000 taels of platinum, and every year there are Buddhas who descend to use it."
Sun Wukong also said that this lighting of the incense oil is much more expensive than silver and gold, too luxurious, too wasteful.
Coincidentally, there is really a monster in the Journey to the West who also knows the preciousness of this sesame oil, so he stole this sesame oil that the Buddha used to light the lamp.
This monster was the Yellow Wind Monster, who was originally a enlightened rat spirit at the foot of the Lingshan Mountain, but because he could not stand the temptation of that fragrance, he stole the clear oil in the glass cup, and was imprisoned here, which was what Lingji Bodhisattva told Sun Wukong.
It can be seen that the crisp sesame oil is indeed a good thing, and the Buddha also used it to light a lamp, but called it clear oil, and it was held in a glass cup.
Combined with the fact that the sand monk was almost killed because he broke the glass cup by mistake, many people said that it was because the things contained in the glass cup were more important than the glass cup, and it was likely that it was also crisp sesame oil.
The taste of crisp sesame oil is fragrant, the taste is light and spicy, the heart, spleen meridian, Suhe sesame oil mainly contains terpenes and volatile oils, so it can open up the tricks and dispel impurities, open up phlegm and relieve pain. It has excellent therapeutic effect on stroke phlegm, epilepsy, chest and abdomen cold pain, angina, scabies, frostbite, and has been recorded in many medical texts.
"Materia Medica Preparation": Walking around, opening up the tricks, and dispelling all unhealthy tendencies.
"This Sutra Fengyuan": Su Hexiang, made of the breath of all incense, can penetrate all the dirty tricks and dispel all unhealthy qi.
It is true that because of this unique curative effect, it became more and more precious in that era when science was not yet developed, especially for cultivators, because it could help cultivators to meditate and reduce the probability of falling into the fire.
It is precisely because the crisp sesame oil is particularly precious and important that the three rhinoceros spirits dare to pretend to be buddhas at the foot of the Spirit Mountain to deceive for a thousand years, which is in line with the truth that "people die for money, birds die for food".