Introduction:
Back to Kannonji in 16th, monks searched for treasure, and black wind mountain stole cassock.
The Tang Priest and his party went to Kannonji to have a rest. The Monkey King was so competitive that he had to show off Tang Priest's cassock. The old abbot is greedy and wants to take them away. He said he would borrow them during the day and return them the next day.
In fact, at night, I sent my disciples to kill the Tang Priest (the Monkey King taught them a good lesson, of course), so I played in my room, and I didn't want the cassock to break the night sky, which attracted the black wind monster (a black bear essence), and the cassock was stolen.
The seventeenth time, the Monkey King made a scene, and black wind mountain Guanyin took the bear monster.
Seeing that a black man was discussing with a Taoist priest and a Untitled Scholar about holding a Buddhist service meeting, Wukong killed the Untitled Scholar basilisk and fought with the black man Xiong Jing. Wukong killed a demon outside the cave and was invited to attend the meeting as an old abbot.
See through, so we have to ask Guanyin. Guanyin became a monk and persuaded the bear monster to take the elixir replaced by Wukong. Wukong made Xiong feel unbearable stomach pain. I had to return the cassock and convert to Buddhism.
Extended data:
First of all, some people:
1, black bear monster:
Black bear monster, also known as bear monster and black bear essence, comes from classic The Journey to the West. It's a monster who cultivates the essence on the Black Peak. He fought with the Monkey King for the robes of Tang Priest. Later, with the help of Guanyin Bodhisattva, the Monkey King calmed it.
The black bear monster converted to Buddhism, was ordained at the top of the Buddha's body, and became a mountain guard behind the Bodhisattva's Luojiashan.
2. Old Golden Pool:
Elder Jinchi is a figure in The Journey to the West, the old abbot of Kannonji, aged 270. He was so greedy that he wanted to burn the Tang Priest, embezzled the cassock, and then burned the temple on his own initiative, and died because he was ashamed to see people hit the wall.
The old man in Jinchi wears a square hat and the opal top shines; Phnom Penh, wearing a collar shirt and emerald green hair, shines. A pair of monk shoes holds eight treasures, and a cane is embedded in a cloud star. Wrinkled face, like Lishan's old mother; A pair of hazy eyes, but like the East China Sea Dragon King. It doesn't matter if your mouth is closed, because your teeth have fallen out and your hunchback has been bent into tendon contracture.
Second, the plot introduction-records of black bear essence:
In order to subdue the black bear essence, Guanyin Bodhisattva became a "surging wave"-the spiritual Xu Zi. Sun smiled and said, "Wonderful, wonderful! Still a demon bodhisattva or a bodhisattva demon? " The bodhisattva smiled, too. "Wukong, a bodhisattva, is always thinking about it." If it's original, it's nothing. "Suddenly enlighted, turned into an elixir, restored his original" face ".
Thus, the difference between bodhisattva and goblin is "the difference of one thought". In front of Luojiashan, because of this good heart, the heart is "good" and the goblin is a bodhisattva; Behind Luojiashan, the Bodhisattva is still greedy, the heart is "greedy", and the Bodhisattva is a demon.
Why did Guanyin Bodhisattva lock "greed" in the back hill?
Master Miao Xiang put it well: all the evil deeds I have done in the past are greed and ignorance from scratch. "Greed and ignorance" is the main reason why everyone falls into the sea of suffering. "Greed" ranks first.
Greed, anger and delusion are three brothers, named "three poisonous hearts". From this perspective, the three monsters, Black Bear Essence, Canglang and Agkistrodon, are good friends. Do they also represent the "three poisonous hearts"? Greed is greed, and desire is too strong; Anger is anger, easy to get angry; Ignorance is ignorance, and the blind touch the elephant.
In addition to "greed and stupidity", some people combine "slowness" and "doubt" and call them "five poisons". A dull mind is arrogance, and doubt is to doubt everything. These are the biggest enemies of practicing Buddhism.
In fact, "greed and ignorance" is a bad expression of human heart and the main cause of life pain.
All sentient beings, "greed for ignorance" stems from "ignorance". Ignorance is not illiteracy, literacy can also be ignorance. Ignorance means that people lack the wisdom to know the world. Persistence comes from ignorance, worry comes from persistence, bad karma comes from worry, and bitter fruit comes from bad karma.
"Greed and ignorance" ends up with "bitter fruit", and all evil is caused by greed. If greed is not controlled to a certain extent, good people will become evil people.
Guanyin Bodhisattva sealed the black bear as a mountain-watching god, guarding the back of Luojia Mountain, that is, locking up "greed" and preventing it from endangering society!
Three. Introduction to the work:
The Journey to the West is the first romantic novel with chapters and sections in ancient China. There are hundreds of The Journey to the West published in Ming Dynasty, and there is no author's signature. Wu et al., a scholar in Qing Dynasty, first proposed that The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en in Ming Dynasty.
Journey to the West is the first ten times that Wu Cheng'en wrote Journey to the West when he was about 50 years old, which is about 1550. Later, it was interrupted for many years, and it was not until he resigned and returned to his hometown in his later years that The Journey to the West's entire creation was finally completed. ?
Therefore, it can be inferred that The Journey to the West was created during the 32 years from 1550 to 1582.
This novel is based on the historical event of "Tang priest learning from the scriptures" and deeply depicts the social reality at that time through the author's artistic processing.
The book mainly describes the story that the Monkey King was born, met Tang Priest, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and Bai Hou, went west to learn Buddhist scriptures, and after 81 difficulties, he finally arrived in the Western Heaven to visit the Tathagata, and finally the five saints realized their dreams.
Since its publication, The Journey to the West has been widely circulated among the people, and various versions have emerged one after another. There are six editions in Ming Dynasty, seven editions and manuscripts in Qing Dynasty, and thirteen lost editions have been recorded in ancient books.
After the Opium War, a large number of China's classical literary works were translated into western languages, and The Journey to the West gradually spread to Europe and America, and was translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, sign language, Swahili, Russian, Czech, Romanian, Polish, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. Chinese and foreign scholars have published many research papers and monographs, which have given high evaluation to this novel.
The Journey to the West is a classic of China's ghost novels, reaching the peak of ancient romance novels, and is called the four classical novels of China together with The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin and A Dream of Red Mansions.
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