What an animal tang monk was
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As soon as this remark came out, there must have been an uproar. In the entire Journey to the West, except for being framed by the youkai twice, no one had ever wondered what kind of essence this Yushu Linfeng Saint Monk would be. Although the seeds of several disciples were impure, it seemed that Tang Monk himself should not have any anthropological problems.
Xuanzang negative diagram
The "Tang monk" in real history refers to xuanzang, a senior monk of the Tang Dynasty. This person's origin is very clear, his real name is Chen Yi, from the Yingchuan Chen clan. This family is very prominent in Chinese history, and the friends who were in contact with those years were All Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong. His distant ancestor Chen Yu was known for his character, and the famous "Gentleman on the Beam" section was left behind by this old man when he joked with his jianghu friends. Chen Qun, the grandson of Chen Yi, was the initiator and implementer of the "Nine Pins Zhongzheng System" during the Cao Wei period. Until Xuanzang was born, his father was still a famous scholar for a time, serving as the commander of Jiangling County in the Sui Dynasty.
Such a family should not have something like marrying a snake spirit. In the "Journey to the West", the tang monk's life was upgraded a bit, making him the son of Chen Guangrui, and his grandfather was The Elder Yin Kaishan, that is, Yin Zhao in Li Shimin's "Twenty-Four Heroes of Ling Yan Pavilion".
Pedigree is written to this extent, although the author Wu Cheng'en is a dark man (let a thick-faced pig eat people, but also eat fat, do you say he is dark?). However, if you want to let Elder Tang embark on the path of demonism, there seems to be no way out, the so-called characters have been written "dead", no matter how exaggerated, it will not go too far.
So, why did we mention in today's article the title of what animal the Tang monk is?
It can be noted that there are some mysteries in the description of the life of Tang Monk in "Journey to the West", and if he was an animal in his previous life, it is easy to explain.
How did he come from in his past life? In the twenty-third "Wanshou Mountain Great Immortal Left His Old Friend, Wuzhuang Guan Xing xing steals ginseng", Zhen Yuanzi Daxian once said: "That monk is the reincarnation of the golden cicada, the second disciple of the Western Saint Lao Rulai Buddha." Five hundred years ago, I met him at the Lambon Meeting. ”
This explains the previous life of the Tang monk, who turned out to be the second disciple of the Buddha, named Golden Cicada. However, looking at the ten great disciples of the Buddha, there were no golden cicadas, but one of Shakya's sons and two cousins. Is there any mystery about the origin of this guy Tang Monk? Why can't his identity be made public?
It was just a doubt, let me start to associate the origin of Tang Monk to the animal world, it was that day on the street heard two people arguing, one of them was really annoyed by each other's nagging, drinking: "You Tang monk? So wordy! ”
At that moment, there was a flash of inspiration -- but no, normal people really rarely have such a wordy as Tang Monk. This is almost where the Tang monk live-action version and the comic version seem to be consistent. It is difficult for us to explain why Gyalmuni Buddha accepted such a disciple, afraid of being flustered.
People rarely talk so wordy, so who would be so wordy?
The tang monk's past life was called "Golden Cicada", and according to our Chinese habits, the "son" was an honorific title (yes, we are not Japanese, how can the elders use names such as Sakai Noriko and Cai caizi?). His real title should be "Golden Cicada".
Notice that it is the cicada next to the bug, not the "Zen" of Zen Buddhism.
What is a golden cicada? That's what we often say. Nowadays, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and if you go out and make noise in your ears all day, this is the thing.
It turns out that the predecessor of the Tang monk is a knowledge of India, no wonder it is such a rap - tell you a little secret, only the male cicada will shout, the female cicada has no organs, so the Tang monk's rap and its gender as a cicada are consistent. The fact that Tang Monk was formerly a cicada could also explain another question — why Tang Monk had no interest in meat food. It should be known that buddhists at that time did not strictly stipulate that they were not allowed to eat vegetarian food, but the Tang monk not only adhered to the precepts but was also very self-conscious, and it felt that he never showed an interest in meat. If the tang monk's predecessor was a cicada, then the problem is easy to explain - cicadas suck the sap of plant roots in the larval stage, and adults suck the sap of branches for a living, which is an animal with no interest in meat.
By the way, the rap of the cicada is physiologically difficult for other animals to match - it can chirp at the same time when eating, without hindering eating at all, and we humans can't do it anyway.
So, are there cicadas in India?
The conclusion is that there are not only some, but also some peculiar varieties, such as this Indian rounded horned cicada, which is not well related to the Tang monks
Not only that, in India cicadas are still a food, quite a few Indians are vegetarian, but there are also some people who are brave, they will fry cicadas to eat, and have different flavors. The most classic way is to sauté cicadas with onions and tomatoes, plus several spices, which not only taste good, but also have a variety of nutrients, which is a good food to supplement protein.
Could it be that this is the source of the legend that eating the meat of Tang monks can lead to immortality?
The Buddha recognized a cicada as a disciple, is this possible? From the point of view of Buddhist stories, it is not necessarily impossible. The Buddha once recognized the peacock as the mother of the Buddha, and once cut meat and fed the eagle.
The next day when my friends gathered, I shared this discovery that "Elder Tang turned out to be an insect reincarnation" as a joke. Unexpectedly, there were two competing scholars at the table, who may have found this topic interesting, and talked about their views.
Lao Jia is more involved in Buddhism, and he said that your view on this issue is not comprehensive. The metaphor behind the so-called golden cicada is that the golden cicada has shed its shell, which means that learning Buddhism can be reborn. The cicada will live as a larva in the ground for many years, and once mature, it will climb to the tree, shed its old shell and become an adult flying. The ancients did not understand the ecology of insects and would think that this was a process similar to the rebirth of phoenix nirvana. In the twenty-third time of the Journey to the West, the Tang monk mentioned the disadvantages of not entering the Buddhist gate, there is a sentence "the old man falls into the stinky skin bag", this golden cicada is just an example of people seeing the old skin bag lost to get a new life.
The golden cicada is dehulled
"So, would the Buddha take a golden cicada from the arthropod gate as a disciple?" I asked.
"Why not? It is precisely to embody the equality of all sentient beings, and all sentient beings can become Buddhas. A replied.
"Not necessarily." Another scholar, B, interjected and said, "There may be a bit of a conspiracy lurking in it." ”
"What? conspiracy? A sentence attracted half a table of people, and it seemed that people's hearts had gossip burning.
This one did not hesitate to say his point. He believes that the crux of the matter is that the Buddha recognized the Golden Cicada, that is, the Tang monk, as his second disciple on the one hand, and on the other hand, he could not find him among the ten disciples who were open. What's going on? You must know that whether it is a regime or an organization, there will be some departments that do not see the light, such as those engaged in espionage, or may also be engaged in defense work, just like The Dai Kasa around Chiang Kai-shek, they are often not of high rank, or even not included in the official establishment, but the status is very high and very important. This is exactly in line with the characteristics of the Tang monk-golden cicada.
"So, is he a spy, or is he a defender?" Someone listened interestingly and asked.
"No, you see Tang Monk's guts, that skill, can he do this?" Lao Yi said, "I guess he spied on the bodhisattvas and arhats for the Buddha. ”
"Where did this come from?" I couldn't resist asking.
"Cicada, who grew up underground, is a natural underground worker, no matter where you are, will you know that someone underground is eavesdropping on you and talking to your friends?" Lao Yi said, "But the golden cicada can do it, so that the Buddha can secretly accept him as a second disciple, and he can grasp the first-hand ideological dynamics of these disciples and fellow practitioners." ”
"If this is the case, how could he be punished for reincarnation in the human world, and still experience eighty-one difficult lessons?" Is it because you don't listen to the lecture seriously as the book says? "I'm going to root out the problem.
"It's a complicated question." Lao Yi said, "One of the possibilities is that this cicada can only play a monitoring role underground, it is possible that it is a Tang monk, that is, the golden cicada has been working for a long time, and he feels that he has no merit and hard work, and he must climb out and become a real golden cicada, want status, and treatment, so he was picked up by the Buddha." Perhaps second, this golden cicada monitoring system was discovered, which caused dissatisfaction in the Buddhist world, so they had to throw the Tang monk out as a scapegoat, and originally planned to let him take a punishment that was canceled, but the various bodhisattva gods and immortals who were offended by him did not do it, so they sent their own mounts, children, etc. out to block the way, which made him suffer a lot. Three possibilities... How did this tea go away? ”
I quickly continued and said, "You go on." ”
Mysterious and terrible Tang Sanzang
"Is this possible third, that is, this guy is good to make a small report, but it is too wordy, the Buddha was tortured by him to the point of nervous breakdown, had to find a reason to send him far away to the human world to become a monk, did not expect that he took the opportunity to return to the Western Heavens, those goblins or whatever, were sent by the Buddha to block him, ah, as a result, he was killed back ..."
Those who have aspirations, things can be done, well, it is the body of a cicada, and we can also see the light of truth.
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