In the Shangshu Zhou Shu Bi Ming, there is such a record of "protection": "Separate the people's dwellings, different from their good and evil; the suburbs of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty will be protected." "Whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, people will always subconsciously take care of and protect people and things that are important to them from harm. If parents protect their children, soldiers defend the country, or for love, or for ideals, there are always some good things that we are willing to give everything for.
Mention "Journey to the West", I think everyone will not feel strange, this novel tells the story of three apprentices to protect the master to go to the Western Heavens to seek the true scriptures. For the plot sections and monsters in the book, everyone is basically familiar with it.
▲ 86 version of the Journey to the West stills
It took 9981 difficulties to obtain the True Scriptures. If successful, everyone in the team can achieve positive results. As an object of protection. Anyone who has read the original "Journey to the West" well knows that the nine skulls hanging from the sand monk's neck are the past lives of the Tang monks.
▲ 86 version of the Journey to the West Sand Monk stills
This sand monk was originally also a god, a roller blind general in the Heavenly Palace, who was demoted to the mortal world because he accidentally broke the glass cup, and became a monster in the Quicksand River. The difference between this quicksand river is that it has no buoyancy, and the poem in the book says" Eight hundred quicksand boundaries, three thousand weak water depths." The goose feathers cannot be raised, and the reeds are fixed and sink." The heads of the people who were thrown into the river naturally sank to the bottom of the river, but only the 9 sutra takers he had eaten could not sink, and all of them floated on the surface.
We have the white bone essence, the golden horn king, the silver horn king, the red child, etc. who want to eat the meat of the Tang monk; there are the daughter king of the country and the jade rabbit of the Moon Palace who want to become related to the Tang monk; there are bear children and mounts who secretly make demons with deep backgrounds, such as the goldfish of Guanyin, the green bull of Lao Jun, the white deer of the Antarctic Immortal, and the nine-headed lion of Taiyi saving the suffering Tianzun.
▲ "Wu Cheng'en and journey to the West" Tang Monk was captured stills
Not only are all kinds of demons and ghosts blocking, these few apprentices in the team are not so carefree, not only do they have eight precepts to think of returning to Gao Laozhuang to become relatives, but Goku, who can rely on him the most, has also made a scene of true and false Monkey King. This has to mention the Pilu hat worn by the Tang monks, and in the author's opinion, the answer is actually hidden in this hat.
▲ Tang monk wearing a Pilu hat and the king of his daughter country (stills)
In the twelfth "Tang Dynasty Bingcheng Cultivation Assembly Guanyin Manifestation of the Golden Cicada", this Pilu hat is described in detail. Tang Monk, who was full of treasures all over his body, naturally did not have a mortal hat. The Tang monks were received by Emperor Taizong of Tang and Li Shimin, and along the way, they met the kings of various countries, and they all solemnly put on the Pilu hat. But more importantly, .
After all, he had already failed nine times before, so how could Rulai only let three people protect Tang Monk? Sun Wukong, the Eight Precepts of the Pig, and the Sand Monk were placed in the bright place. In this way, the protection of the dark place is indispensable.
▲ The National Museum of China collects Tang pottery liuding liujia gods
The apologetic Garan recorded in the Journey to the West book consists of eighteen people, named Guangmu, Miaoyan, Meiyin, Sanskrit, Tiangu, Sigh, Sigh, Listen, See, See, Momiao, Lei yin, Shizi, Miaosi, Brahman, Renyin, Buddha, and Songde. They are found everywhere in the Yellow Wind Monster and the Bull Demon King.
In the book, the protector Garan describes himself: "I am a god sent by Guanyin Bodhisattva, a secret keeper of the scriptures..... Each of them takes turns on duty to wait. Goku also made it clear: "Leaving the Six Ding Gods will protect my master with the Sun Gong Cao and the public." It can be seen that when Goku and others are not around,
▲ Eagle Sorrowful Stream accepts the stills of the little white dragon
Whether it is to explore the way, report the letter, move the rescue soldiers, or assist in the recovery of the monster, the Tang monks and apprentices can finally successfully obtain the True Scriptures, and the Eighteen Garan Gods are also indispensable, so it can be seen that this protector Garan is the killer skill that Rulai gave to the Tang monks. In the process of debriefing, he clearly stated that he had been secretly protecting Tang Monk all the way, and had been with Tang Monk all the time, without relaxing for a moment, longer than the time that Wukong had spent with Tang Monk.
In the Buddhist work "Mahayana Yizhang: The Three Distinctions of Ten Merits and Righteousness", merit is defined as follows: "Merit is a function, it can break through life and death, it can attain nirvana, and it can enlighten sentient beings. This merit is his good deed, so the cloud merit. The Tang monk traveled 18,000 miles west for pudu sentient beings, and after 9981 difficulties to obtain the true scriptures, it is said that the merit is complete. His prototype, Master Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty, also traveled 50,000 miles west to explore the differences in the teachings of various schools of Buddhism, and it took seventeen years to return to China, not only translating 75 sutras with his disciples, but also compiling what he saw and heard along the way into the Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty. So it seems, .
Resources Shangshu Zhoushu Bifeng Journey to the West "Mahayana Righteous Chapters: The Three Doors of Ten Merits and Righteousness" "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty"