Journey to the West is the only novel that condenses rich imagination among the four famous novels in the mainland, Wu Chengen was creating, on the basis of Xuanzang's scriptures, the whole story was mythologized and dimensionally improved, and the human race became the lowest level of existence, there are gods in the heavenly palace, ghosts in the underworld, and countless monsters along the way.
They have increased the difficulty of Tang Seng to learn scriptures, in order to solve the troubles along the way, there are three more apprentices in the scripture learning team, among which Sun Wukong is the most powerful, but along the way there have been many difficult problems to solve, and there have been many times to ask for help, the most typical of which is in the red child this difficulty, Sun Wukong was burned by the fire to faint, and finally with the help of Guanyin Bodhisattva to get through this difficulty.
Judging from the original Journey to the West, there seem to be many puzzling things about Red Boy, such as the Bull Demon King and Princess Tieshan have existed for so long, why has Red Boy as a child not grown up, and why do these three people live in different places, is it because Princess Iron Fan doesn't breastfeed? Or is it because the Bull Demon King doesn't come home all year round?
The Holy Child King in the Cave of Fire Clouds
The humanoid monsters in Journey to the West are all resourceful and know how to catch Tang Seng with half the effort, for example, in the chapter of Three Dozen White Bone Spirits, just a divisive plan to split Tang Seng and his apprentices, and the same is true for Red Boy, he used Tang Seng's naked eyes and compassion to overflow, and easily arrested Tang Seng.
Even Sun Wukong was calculated by him, Sun Wukong called out all the mountain god land here in a hurry, and at the same time also learned about the background of the red child, he is known as the "Holy Child King" in this mountain, not only can occupy the mountain as the king, but also give orders to the mountain god land, let them come to the cave to listen to it.
From here, it can be seen that the red boy is actually still very majestic, but his title of "Holy Child King" is also worth studying, similar to Wu Chengen, such a creative person, when the title is more suitable for the person, the so-called "saint" is a word that ordinary immortals can't afford, such as the Jiuling Yuan Sage in Yuhua Prefecture, which is the mount of Taiyi Tianzun.
and Sun Wukong, who was canonized by Heavenly Court, are all unprovoked existences, so it can be seen from the title of Red Boy that he is not a simple small character.
In addition, the word "baby" is also very knowledgeable, and today, this word is mostly used to describe those newborn babies, but in the original book, the author added it to the title of red child.
This can be understood as another layer of implication from the author, the red child has not grown up, so it is replaced by a baby, this externalized performance has actually hinted at the troubled story of the Bull Demon King's family very clearly, and there are even some ulterior secrets that are about to surface.
But Sun Wukong, who was very vigilant in the past, immediately decided to go to Huoyun Cave to climb relatives to save people after learning that the other party was the son of the Bull Demon King.
Because Sun Wukong and the Bull Demon King became brothers five hundred years ago, the skills of the two sides have understood each other, that is to say, Sun Wukong believes that if he is the child of the Bull Demon King, his skills should not exceed that of the Bull Demon King, even if he can't rescue Tang Seng through kinship, he can easily handle it, but this time, Sun Wukong obviously made a mistake.
When he went to Huoyun Cave with Zhu Bajie, Red Boy didn't recognize him as his uncle at all, and then the two sides fought, unexpectedly, Red Boy's skills were very strong, and he could even spit out Samadhi True Fire, which made Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie seriously burned under surprise and returned home. This is also what makes many readers wonder.
Strange family
In this family, the red boy lives in the Huoyun Cave all the year round, and every time there is something, he has to send someone to invite the Bull Demon King, which inevitably makes people suspicious, obviously he is a "baby" but is still separated from his father, which is really unreasonable, in addition, the Bull Demon King and the Iron Fan Princess do not seem to be so harmonious.
When the four masters and apprentices passed by the Flame Mountain, this relationship was completely revealed, when Sun Wukong came to the Banana Cave in order to borrow the banana fan, but learned that only the Iron Fan Princess lived here, but the Mighty Bull Demon King lived with the jade-faced fox, which fully showed that there was a contradiction in this family.
Judging from Princess Iron Fan's reaction at the time, she knew that the Bull Demon King had not returned to be with the jade-faced fox all year round, but she was just angry and complaining, that is, she had accepted the fact that this meant that the relationship between the two did not seem to be so deep, so it was reasonable for the red boy's negligence to manage.
In addition, the Bull Demon King's title of the Iron Fan Princess is "Mountain Wife", and the title of the jade-faced fox is "Love Concubine", which also reflects the relationship between the three of them, and can even put forward a more daring guess, the combination of the Bull Demon King and the Iron Fan Princess is not in the case of both parties' willingness, this wild speculation directly caused readers to interpret and study extensively.
What's more, combined with the characteristics of the red boy himself, a bolder guess was put forward that the red child was not born to the Bull Demon King and the Iron Mountain Princess, and there are deeper secrets in it.
Bold speculation
The first possibility is that Red Boy's father is the Bull Demon King, but his mother is not the Iron Fan Princess. In the original work, there was also a relative, that is, when the four masters and apprentices passed through the daughter country, because Tang Seng and Zhu Bajie mistakenly drank the water in the Zimu River and became fetal gas, Sun Wukong needed to go to Jieyang Mountain to obtain the fetal spring.
Here I met another person blocking the way, this person claimed to be the brother of the Bull Demon King, and called the Holy Child King Red Boy his nephew, that is to say, this person in front of him is also the family of the Bull Demon King, but the two live so far away, indicating that there may be contradictions or misunderstandings between the two, and the specific things are closely related to the water of the Zimu River that makes people get pregnant after drinking.
Legend has it that a long time ago, there were not only women in the daughter country, but there were still men, one day, a woman was pregnant and gave birth, but all the men in the city were indifferent, did not come forward to help, and finally on the occasion of death, the woman made a poisonous oath, saying that after reincarnation, she would eat all the children in the country, and because the grudge was too deep, this cruel vow was finally fulfilled.
This is the rumor about the ghost son and mother of the Zimu River, and later this ghost son and mother were surrendered by the Buddha of the West and entered the Shamen.
The daughter country can only continue the family by drinking the water in the Zimu River, because of the resentment of the ghost son and mother back then, the children born from their drinking water are difficult to grow up, which means that the residual anger of the ghost son and mother has not disappeared.
As for the "lack of breast milk" that Red Boy said to Sun Wukong, it may be that Princess Iron Fan deliberately deceived Red Boy at that time, and did not want him to know about this sad past, which also happened to prove what the book said "raised in the Rakshasa Woman".
Because after the devil and mother take refuge in Buddhism, they are not allowed to have seven emotions and six desires, so as not to ruin the reputation of Buddhism, so they will choose to foster their sons elsewhere, this speculation is obviously reasonable, but there is also one-sidedness, because it has no way to explain the ability of the red child, so there is another speculation.
The main basis is the red boy's samadhi true fire, this unique skill is not possessed by anyone in his family, first of all, the Bull Demon King, who has never used the samadhi true fire in many battles with Sun Wukong.
The Iron Fan Princess is even more so, from the Basho Fan's restraint on the Flame Mountain, we know that what she cultivates is the wind attribute, not only has nothing to do with fire, but even has a certain amount of restraint in it, so it is even more impossible to pass on the kung fu of the Red Boy Samadhi True Fire, and as for the existence of the Devil Zimu who relies on resentment to become a spirit, it is impossible to have such an ability.
Moreover, the Samadhi True Fire is not an ordinary ability, this is the existence that the Monkey King and the Siyu Great Dragon God can only dodge, so they can only speculate in the direction of higher status, and finally we can find a sentence "Let me use the Samadhi True Fire to refine him", this sentence is from the mouth of Taishang Laojun, and it is said to Sun Wukong.
When the two fought hard, Taishang Laojun used King Kong to successfully attack and successfully capture Sun Wukong, after the wind and rain and lightning had no effect, he was put into the alchemy furnace by Taishang Laojun, and then used the Samadhi True Fire for refining.
So this second guess is that Red Boy is actually the child of Princess Iron Fan and Taishang Laojun, so he will be Samadhi True Fire, of course, relying only on the condition of Samadhi True Fire is untenable, and Red Boy's status at that time can also prove this from the side.
At that time, many mountain gods on the mountain, although the position was low, but it was also the establishment of the heavenly court, and there was a certain background, if the red boy was really the child of the iron fan princess and the bull demon king, or the child of the devil's mother, it was impossible to yell at the mountain god, but so many grass-headed gods were obedient to a child, which can only show that he has an unusual background.
This further confirms the relationship between the red boy and Taishang Laojun, as one of the three Qings of Taoism, in terms of status, Taishang Laojun is even much higher than the Jade Emperor, plus the elixirs and various spiritual treasures he refined, his status in the heavenly palace is even higher, looking at the entire Lingxiao Treasure Palace, even the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother have to let Taishang Laojun score three points.
These little hairy gods who are arranged in the mortal world are extremely difficult to even meet, let alone offend him, so the fear of the red boy is not only because of the fear of the true fire of Samadhi, but also because of the fear of the forces behind it.
summary
No matter which aspect of the analysis, the red boy is not like the child of the Bull Demon King and the Iron Fan Princess, the reason why she doesn't grow up is related to her own experience, although she is a monster, but she has a positive result, and has become the good wealth boy of Guanyin Bodhisattva, which may also be a strong evidence of the relationship with Taishang Laojun.
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