What falls when it meets gold, withers when it meets wood, melts when it meets water, burns when it meets fire, and advances when it meets soil?

The spirit in the journey to the west: ginseng fruit.

The original text is as follows: "Fruit falls when it meets gold, withers when it meets wood, melts when it meets water, burns when it meets fire, and enters when it meets soil. You must use gold when you knock. Come down, but the plate is padded with silk; If you receive some wood, it will wither. If you eat it, you won't prolong your life. To eat him, you must use porcelain, melt it with clear water, and it will burn in case of fire, which is useless. The Great Sage just landed in the ground and immediately went into the ground. "

Journey to the West: Five Villages in Wanshou Mountain. There is a spirit root named Cao Huandan, also known as ginseng fruit. This tree blooms every three thousand years and bears fruit every three thousand years. It took thousands of years to mature. If people are destined, they can live to be 360 years old. Eating one can live for 47 thousand years.

The Journey to the West's 24th Session: The Great Immortal of Wanshou Mountain left his old friend Wuzhuang to watch Monkey steal ginseng.

Main contents:

Tang Priest and his party came to Wuzhuang Temple, Taoist Taiyi was absent, and Taoist children in the temple presented ginseng fruit. Tang priest doesn't like ginseng fruit because it looks like a person. Later, the three brothers Wukong ate ginseng fruit secretly, and a ginseng fruit fell into the ground and disappeared. When the Taoist boy in the pass knew about it, he framed the Tang Priest for hypocrisy, refused to eat it to his face and stole it behind his back. Wukong was furious and smashed the ginseng fruit tree and ran away. When Taiyi came back and found out, she was also furious. He caught up with the four disciples, arrested four Tang Taoist priests by the immortal method of "doing Kun in the sleeve", and tied them to a post and whipped them. Thanks to the merciful Guanyin Bodhisattva, who came from Lei Yin Island in the west and saved the ginseng fruit tree and four disciples with the spirit water in the jade bottle.

The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en, a novelist in the Ming Dynasty. According to the records of the Western Regions in Tang Dynasty, folklore and Yuan Zaju. The Song Dynasty's Poem of Sanzang's Learning from the Scriptures (whose real name is Sanzang's Learning from the Scriptures) is the earliest prototype of The Journey to the West, and the Tang Priest took Master Xuanzang as the prototype. As the first romantic novel in ancient China, this book profoundly depicts the social reality at that time, and it is the pioneering work of magical realism. First, I wrote that the Monkey King was born, and then I met Tang Priest, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand, but I mainly described that the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand protected Tang Priest from Buddhist scriptures. From reincarnation to learning Buddhism, Tang Priest went through eighty-one difficulties, all the way down to the devil, and finally arrived in the Western Heaven to meet the Tathagata Buddha, and finally the five saints died. Since the advent of The Journey to the West, it has been widely circulated among the people, and various versions have emerged one after another. There were six editions in Ming Dynasty, seven editions and manuscripts in Qing Dynasty, and thirteen lost editions of ancient books. After the Opium War, a large number of China classical literary works were translated into western languages and gradually spread to Europe and America. There are already English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, sign language, cosmopolitanism, Russian, Czech, Romanian, Polish, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. He also published many research papers and monographs, and made a very high evaluation of this novel. Known as one of the classical Four Great Classical Novels in China.