<h1>Mythical World 11: The Mysterious Roc Golden-winged Bird</h1>
Roc Bird in the "Journey to the West" TV series
If you want to choose the most powerful demon in "Journey to the West", I believe that many people will vote for the Roc Golden-winged Bird. Although many other demons can also choke Goku enough, they either have magic weapons or natural enemies, and as long as their master or nemesis arrives, they have no room to resist. But this is not the case with the Roc Bird, he is very powerful, Sun Wukong has no way to take him, he had to run to the Buddha of Rulai to cry, and finally the Buddha himself came out of the horse, which put him down. The book says:
The second bodhisattva received the green lion and the white elephant, but only the third demon did not bow down, opened his wings, lost the Fang Tianji, and went straight up, and the wheel of sharp claws wanted to catch the monkey king. It turned out that the Great Sage was hidden in the light, how could he dare to come closer? If you know this, that is, flash golden light, turn the magpie's nest through the head of the top, face the wind, and turn it into a bright red piece of flesh. The goblin wheel clawed at him, and the Buddha pointed his hand upwards, and the demon's wings were stiffened. Can't fly, only on the top of the Buddha, can't go far, now the true appearance, is a roc golden winged eagle... The Buddha did not dare to let go of Dapeng and only taught him to be a protector on the flame of light.
In "Journey to the West", Rulai personally went out on the horse only twice, one was to ambush Sun Wukong, and the other was to ambush this roc golden-winged bird. For Sun Wukong, the Buddha easily used the Five Elements Mountain to calm down, but this roc golden-winged bird, Rulai, "did not dare to let go", which shows that he is indeed miraculous, and even Rulai does not dare to take it lightly.
So what is the origin of this roc bird?
In fact, he is not inherent in our culture, but a foreign object. He drew on the golden-winged bird in the Buddhist scriptures, but did not completely copy the Buddhist scriptures, and the author of Journey to the West cleverly made many changes. If we compare the Buddhist scriptures, we can see the subtlety of the author's material and adaptation of "Journey to the West".
The golden-winged bird mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures is transliterated as Kalou luo, and it is also translated as the miao-winged bird. This bird is so large that the world of YanFuti can only accommodate one bird of its kind. Its two wings are three hundred and thirty-six thousand miles apart, and the golden light on its wings is shining, and it is also mixed with multicolored rainbow light, which is very gorgeous. However, its personality is also quite fierce, specializing in eating dragons in the sea. Its ability to catch the sea dragon is very clever, as long as the wings move, it can split the sea water in two, and the sea dragon lurking on the bottom of the sea has nothing to hide, it can only be grabbed by it and obediently become its food.
The Buddhist scriptures also say that in addition to eating dragons, this bird also likes to eat gold, silver and jade, and can digest them all. Only diamond it is indigestible. People who have read "Zhuangzi" will also equate it with the Roc mentioned in the opening chapter of "The Getaway".
Roc birds feed on sea dragons
However, the Buddhist scriptures do not say that it has any intersection with the Buddha, and what the Journey to the West says about it is of course all falsehood, but the writer made a joke about the Buddha.
There is a strange story called "The Three Tastes of the Buddha" that can be seen that it is indeed fierce and abnormal. This sutra says that the golden-winged bird eats one dragon king every day in the Southern Zhanbu Continent, plus five hundred small dragons. As the days passed, almost all the dragons of the four continents were eaten by it. After about eight thousand years, the goldfinch has also aged and its death is approaching. The remaining sea dragons, at this time, have also developed resistance, and can spit out toxins, making it impossible to swallow. It's hungry. Once, it used up its last strength, pounced on its wings, flew from the bottom of the sea to the wind wheel sky, and then flew into the bottom of the sea by the wind wheel sky, and so on seven times, and finally died of exhaustion. Because it eats too many dragons, once the accumulated poison in the body occurs, the whole body will rise up in flames, causing a fire and burning violently. At that time, there was a Nanda Dragon King on the Diamond Wheel Mountain, afraid that it would completely burn down the treasure mountain, and immediately cast a powerful mana, causing heavy rain to fall from the sky. It is said that each raindrop is the size of a wheel in the human world, and finally extinguished the fire, and the flesh and bones of the golden-winged bird are also destroyed by the heavy rain, leaving only a huge heart, showing the color of pure blue and glass. The Dragon King of Nanda took it as a jewel in the Dragon Palace, and later Emperor Shi used it to decorate it on top of the bun.
Such a monster of extraordinary origin will naturally not be spared by novelists. In addition to "Journey to the West", the Fengshen Yanyi also makes a big fuss about it, that is, the Penglai Bird Feather Immortal that appears in the Sixty-second Book. It does not belong to either the Sect of Illumination nor the Sect of Interception, it is a scattered immortal. The reason why he opposed Jiang Ziya was because he had won other rumors. The book describes it like this:
Out of the gate, the original image appeared, which was the Dapeng Golden Winged Eagle. Spread your wings and fly in the air, covering the sky with half of it, so good!
The winged immortal was able to incite the four seas and eat all the fish of the Dragon King, which showed that the source was still the bird in the Buddhist scriptures. It tried to incite the sea with its wings and flood Xiqi, but fortunately Jiang Ziya moved the water of the North Sea and covered the city, and Yuan Shi Tianzun used the Sanguang Divine Water of the YaoLiu bottle to cover the surface of the North Sea, so that the Golden-winged Bird could not succeed with all its strength. Later, the Lantern Daoist turned the silver rope into a snack and let it eat, which finally ambushed it. In this way, it also became a disciple of the Lamplighter. In the seventieth time, Kong Xuanbing blocked Jinjiling, and the Lantern Daoist called for Dapeng To come and fight Kong Xuan:
Kong Xuan saw the Dapeng eagle flying in, and hurriedly straightened the helmet on the top, and a red light shot straight into the bull and crossed the air. The Lantern Daoist carefully fixed his gaze, looked at it with his discerning eyes, did not see it, and only heard the sound of the sky collapsing in the air. For two hours, only a loud noise was heard, knocking the Dapeng eagle to dust.
Kong Xuan was a peacock spirit, and was later ambushed by the Quasi-Ti Dao people. Perhaps it was because of the premature appearance, this giant eagle could not even defeat the peacock, and the future would lose its might, and I was afraid that the Kalou Luo in the Buddhist scriptures would be greatly dissatisfied.
The Dapeng in "The Evolution of the Fengshen Gods" is not the opponent of Kong Xuan, who was transformed by the peacock
The Buddhist scriptures talk about reincarnation, and since the Buddhist scriptures were introduced to China, the Roc bird will inevitably be reborn on the land of China.
There is such an interesting story in the "Notes on Listening to Yuxuan" written by Qing Ren Qingliang Daoren.
Ye Meng Guan Zhang Fei vs Ma Chao, the two of them fought for three days and nights, regardless of victory or defeat. When Ma Chao saw that he could not capture Zhang Fei, he pulled out his horse and left, luring Zhang Fei to catch up. Zhang Fei didn't know what the plan was, so he chased after him. Ma Chao turned back suddenly and threw a flying grab straight at Zhang Fei! This is the Ma family's stunt, the old ancestor of the Ma family, the founding general of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ma Yuan, who assisted the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu in seizing the world, was skilled in this skill, and within a hundred steps, he took the enemy's first rank like probing for things.
Due to the suddenness of the incident, Zhang Fei was already too late to dodge, and with a loud cry, he raised the Zhangba Snake Spear and set it up. Ma Chao turned back only to see the black gas soaring into the sky, and a big bird flapped its wings and hit the flying grab to the ground! Ma Chao was shocked, knowing that he was not an opponent, and hurriedly returned to the battle, and after Li Hui's persuasion, he submitted to Liu Bei and became one of the five tiger generals under Liu Bei's account.
It turned out that Zhang Fei was actually the reincarnation of the Dapeng Golden-winged Bird, and at the critical moment, the Yuan God appeared and guarded Zhang Fei.
One of the reincarnations of the Dapeng Golden-winged Bird: Zhang Fei
After Zhang Fei's death, the bird was born into Yue Fei again. According to the first time in the "Biography of Yue Quan":
The Great Lei Yin Monastery of the Western Elysium, such as the Buddha, one day sat on the lotus platform and said to the public -
Just when the sky was falling and the treasure rain was colorful, there was a star official, but a lady bat, who occasionally listened to the lecture under the lotus platform, and for a moment could not help but throw out a stinky fart. My Buddha was originally the Lord of Great Compassion and Compassion and did not care at all. Annoyed by one of the protectors on the top of the Buddha, named Dapeng Golden-winged Ming Wang, his eyes shot golden light, his back was auspicious, and when he saw that the lady bat was unclean, he did not feel angry, spread his wings and fell, looked at the head of the lady bat, and this mouth was pecked to death.
Obviously borrowing from the "Journey to the West", the roc bird actually became the protector of the Buddha of Rulai, and he was still fierce, and he actually committed murder and pecked people to death. If you come, you have to reduce it to mortal dust and live in the world. The lady bat that was pecked to death by it was entrusted to Qin Juniper's wife Wang Shi, and later she conspired with Qin Juniper to kill Yue Fei, which was a revenge for this pecking.
The second reincarnation of the Dapeng golden-winged bird: Yue Fei
Such a reincarnation theory, everyone can just stick a smile. If this is the case, then is Yue Fei's death not without sympathy necessary? The sins of the Wang clan in the novel do not have to be condemned? It can be seen from this that the so-called rotation should be said to be self-contradictory in the end, unable to justify itself.