The skill of The Journey to the West's seventy-two changes to the Monkey King is simply a change, which has nothing to do with the seventy-two changes of detective skills in fairy mirrors of past dynasties, but is set differently in different books.

The main purpose of the seventy-two changes is to avoid the damage caused by lightning, yin fire and auspicious wind, so as to realize the wish of eternal life.

Although the Monkey King in the Journey to the West learned the art of immortality from the founder of Xu Bodhi, only by avoiding the "three disasters" can he live forever! "Three disasters" are lightning, dark fire and wind blowing. Under Wukong's pleading, Bodhi finally handed down the escape curse.

Bodhi introduced to him in the book that demons are divided into thirty-six changes according to the number of highest days and seventy-two changes according to the number of goblins, and the Monkey King chose the latter, that is, seventy-two changes. The main purpose of the seventy-two changes is to avoid the damage caused by lightning, yin fire and auspicious wind, so as to realize the wish of eternal life.

Pig eight quit to 36 changes:

Thirty-six kinds of changes refer to the changes in the number of plows, not the specific changes in thirty-six things, also known as the thirty-six plow method.

The names of the spells are as follows: Harmony with Nature, Reversing Yin and Yang, Changing the Method of Star Fighting, Returning Heaven to Yang, Calling for Wind and Rain, Shaking Mountains and Earths, Riding Clouds, Paddling Rivers into the Ground, Turning the Sea into Gold, Stirring Rivers, Turning the Ground into Steel, Relieving the Five Elements, Creating Wonders by Six Tribes, Knowing the Future in Reverse Order, Whipping Mountains and Moving Stones, Returning to Life, Flying to Support Traces, and Surfing with Nine Breaths.

Export mandarin ducks, ride fog clouds, make up for the sun and bathe, push mountains and fill the sea, point stones into gold, stand without shadow, be easy to shape, have good size, bloom instantly, swim away from the wall, have an epiphany, return to the air and fire, master five thunder, shrink the ground and dive, fly sand and walk stones, seize mountains and cross the sea, scatter beans into soldiers, and nail the first seven arrows.

Although the 36-day plough method does not produce 36 kinds of things, it is 36 kinds of physical skills, so its strength is actually better than the fuzzy skills of 72 changes (also called 72-day magic method).

Immortals who have mastered the 36-day plough method: Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi, Bodhi.

And it's easy to accidentally throw the pig fetus into the mortal world, and lose some powerful skills, such as the Five Elements Escape, without a trace, and finally lead to the loss of practical skills to the Monkey King (this does not mean that 36 is weaker than 72).

Source:

Journey to the West, Wu Cheng'en

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Introduction to Journey to the West:

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.

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 of the Monkey King's encounter with Tang Priest, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand after his birth, and his disturbance to the Heaven Palace. He went west to learn from the scriptures, demonized all the way, and after eighty-one difficulties, he finally arrived in the Western Heaven to meet the Tathagata Buddha, and finally the Five Saints died.

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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