Is Pig Bajie's nail palladium more expensive than the Monkey King's golden hoop?

I believe everyone likes listening to stories very much, so today we will share a short story about Journey to the West.

There are many kinds of stories, including children's stories, fairy tales, historical stories and fairy tales. There are also different carriers of stories, such as books, audio and movies that are very popular now, but the ancients were not so lucky, because there were not so many high-tech in ancient times, so the stories could only be told by mouth.

But the stories told on TV are still different from the stories we usually tell, because a story may be told in several versions. For example, Xiaobian will tell this story this time: There is a view that is very popular today, that is, the nail palladium of Pig Bajie is more expensive than the Monkey King's golden hoop.

In fact, the popularity of this view is also a reflection of rebellious psychology. the Monkey King is the protagonist, so I took it for granted that the golden hoop is the most powerful; Suddenly, a celebrity said that the nine-toothed nail palladium was stronger than the golden hoop. Because of its novelty, this statement slowly spread.

However, in The Journey to the West's original works, it is not explicitly mentioned who is more valuable, namely, the nine-tooth nail palladium or the golden hoop. All the judgments about who is stronger and who is weaker are just personal opinions. However, Xiao Bian believes that the online view that palladium with nine teeth is better than gold hoop is biased.

The first argument on the Internet that the nine-tooth nail palladium is better than the golden hoop stick is that the nine-tooth nail palladium is a weapon created by many immortals, and the golden hoop stick is just a tool created for Dayu by the old gentleman of Taishang.

actually, this statement is untenable.

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In fact, Pig Bajie is a wild boar with green face and fangs. Zhang Jizhong version of The Journey to the West's original shape is in line with the original, but it is a pity that it was finally changed into a white and tender pig head.

yes, there is this paragraph. However, this description is that Pig Bajie brags about fighting with the Monkey King before he became a master, and it contains elements of scaring and boasting. For example, the sentence "Why are you afraid that you are all made of steel and palladium is exhausted?" After hearing this, the Monkey King directly asked Pig Bajie to give him a few blows on the head. What happened? Look at the original text:

The monster really raised palladium and worked hard to build the future. With a jump, he drilled the flames of palladium, and even did not build some scalp. Scared his hands and feet, he said, "Good head, good head!"

You see, you get hit in the face immediately after bragging. How credible is the previous words? And in the battle on the westbound road, Zhu Bajie's nail palladium didn't play much role, and the goblins were generally afraid of the Monkey King's stick.

On the other hand, even if what Zhu Bajie said is true, it's nothing, because the origin of the Monkey King's golden hoop is even more complicated. The gold-banded cudgel was personally built by the old gentleman in the Eight Diagrams Furnace, and it was borrowed by Dayu and put in Donghai Town.

It should be noted that in The Journey to the West's original works, the "immortals" of Taishang Laojun, who have no official position, are the most powerful group, and they are not systematic with the "gods" of Jade Emperor, who have official positions. A "fairy" without an official position is far stronger than a "god" with an official position. Of course, there is some irony in this setting, but it has nothing to do with our theme, so I won't say much.

The leader of the "immortal" is the Taishang Laojun (the Taoist ancestor), and even the Buddha was "enlightened" by the Laojun and became a positive result (see the sixth chapter of the original work). What was forged by the Taishang Laojun himself, will it be bad?

It's like a weapon forged by a top blacksmith all the time. It's hard to decide which weapon is better or worse when a top blacksmith participates in designing a weapon forged by everyone.

There is another argument, that is, after stealing the weapons of the three of them, Huang Shijing held a banquet to hold a "palladium nailing meeting" instead of a "stick meeting". Some people say that Huang Shijing should be knowledgeable, so palladium nailing should be better than a stick.

here, everyone ignores an important thing: weight.

Pig's palladium nail and Friar Sand's demon-killing staff are both 5,48 Jin, while the golden hoop is 13,5 Jin. When borrowing treasures from the Dragon Palace, the Dragon King once took out 7,5 Jin of square-painted halberds, saying that it was already the heaviest weapon in the Dragon Palace. It can be seen that the average fairy can only play with five thousand kilograms of weapons, and not everyone can play with a guy with more than ten thousand kilograms. From a practical point of view, it is reasonable that Huang Shijing intends to use palladium nailing as his main weapon and hold a banquet to nail palladium.

Besides, as a monster, Huang Shijing didn't even know the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand until he was reminded by Jiu Ling Yuan Sheng. How can such an ignorant monster know the goods?

The nine spirits and the sage of Yuan are the most powerful monsters that have appeared in the original works. Unfortunately, many versions of film and television dramas have not shown this.

In addition, the golden cudgel recognizes the Lord and can listen to the Monkey King's orders, and it seems that it only follows the Monkey King's idea. Before the Monkey King went to the Dragon Palace, the golden hoop was already "glowing and full of spirit", and then he was able to listen to the Monkey King's orders and become bigger and smaller at will.

For Huang Shijing, the golden cudgel can't be changed in size at will, so it's just a heavy iron bar for him.

Although Pig Bajie's nail palladium denies the Lord, it can be enlarged and reduced, but it can only be as big as Friar Sand's short stick, which can be pinned around his waist or put in his arms, but not as big as an embroidered needle like a golden hoop stick.

Finally, it is the shape of this nail palladium. In many TV dramas and operas, Zhu Bajie's nail palladium is an improved version of a rake for ploughing, but it should be wrong.

Those who have read the original work don't know if they have noticed that in the book, Pig Bajie uses "nail palladium" instead of "nail rake". Please pay attention to this radical, which is obviously different. Although people often joke that Pig Bajie's nail palladium is a tool for hoeing fields, the nine-toothed nail palladium is made by a group of immortals and given to "Marshal Tianpeng" by the Jade Emperor Qin, which obviously cannot be just a farm tool.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a weapon called boring palladium, and its shape was a three-pronged fork. Pig Bajie's "nailing palladium" should have something to do with boring palladium.

First of all, Pig Bajie's teeth for nailing palladium must be downward, otherwise he wouldn't be laughed at as a hoe, but it can't be exactly the same as a rake for farming. After all, it's a weapon, not a farm tool.

In addition, there was a weapon of boring palladium in the Ming Dynasty, so the shape of Zhu Bajie's nail palladium should be similar to that of boring palladium, but it has nine teeth and the nail head is downward.

Moreover, when the nail palladium appeared for the first time in the book, it was said that Pig Bajie was "holding the nail palladium dragon to explore its claws", and later it was mentioned that "huge teeth were cast like dragon claws" and "palladium went like a dragon's claws". The nine teeth of the nine-tooth nail palladium should be similar to the distribution of dragon claws, and the teeth have a certain curvature, rather than being arranged horizontally.

In ancient Japan, a picture book Journey to the West was published. The nine-tooth nail palladium in the illustration of this book is very interesting. The central axis in the middle is bent into a tooth at the front end, and the other eight teeth are arranged on both sides, four on one side, and each tooth is bent. The whole shape is particularly like a big iron claw, perhaps this is closer to the true colors of the nine-tooth nail palladium.