Why do some people say that the Daughter Kingdom in "Journey to the West" is more terrifying than Shituoling?

In "Journey to the West", the most miserable and terrifying place is Shituoling. The most thought-provoking thing is the daughter country. Therefore, the editor once said a jingle: If you are beaten to death, you will not be able to enter the Shituoling Mountains, but you will be able to live in the Daughter's Kingdom with a lot of money.

Of course this is just a joke. However, it also reflects people's general attitude towards the two places depicted in the fantasy in "Journey to the West".

But is it really so? In "Journey to the West", there is a description of the tragic situation at Shituoling. The original text is as follows: It is said that Sun Dasheng entered the cave entrance and watched from both sides. I saw only skeletons like mountains and bones like forests. People's hair became like felt pieces, and their skin and flesh rotted into mud. People's tendons are wrapped around the trees, and their branches are burnt and shiny like silver. It’s really a mountain of corpses and a sea of ??blood, and it really smells terrible?

Don’t post too much, this paragraph alone makes people’s hair stand on end.

What about the Kingdom of Women? It is immediately pleasing to the eye and imaginative. Let’s just talk about the delicate and beautiful king. The original text is as follows: eyebrows are like green feathers, and muscles are like mutton fat. The face is lined with peach petals, and the servant girl is piled with golden phoenix silk. The autumn waves are enchanting and the spring bamboo shoots are slender and enchanting. The oblique red gauze is colorful, and the high hairpin and pearls are shining brightly. Zhaojun's beauty is said to be better than that of Xishi... When the fool saw the advantage, he couldn't help but salivate, and his heart was pounding. For a moment, his bones were weak and his muscles were numb, and he was like a snow lion turning towards the fire. Unconsciously, Transform away.

Focus on Zhu Bajie. After all, among the four masters and disciples, Zhu Bajie is the most "human". The other three are too far away from us mortals. Therefore, seeing Zhu Bajie's appearance, it goes without saying that the beauty of the King of the Daughter Kingdom is there.

At this point, many people will probably agree: If you can’t get into Shituoling even if you are beaten to death, you can live in your daughter’s country with a lot of money? This is a jingle. But wait! Is this daughter's country really so desirable?

In fact, the real Daughter's Kingdom is no less terrifying and eerie than the Shituoling. We were all blinded by the Queen's beauty. The evidence is that after Tang Seng and Zhu Bajie became pregnant after drinking water from the Children's River, they came to an old woman's in-laws' house.

When the old woman saw the four masters and disciples of Tang Seng, she actually showed no fear at all. You must know that among these four, except Tang Seng, the other three scared many "children" along the way. But not only was the old woman from the daughter country not afraid, she actually teased Tang Seng with a smile, and then called people to watch Tang Seng.

Until Sun Wukong went to Jieyang Mountain and failed to find the Fountain of Rebirth, he came back and invited Sha Monk to go with him. When Tang Monk was worried that no one would take care of her after she became pregnant, the old woman told Tang Monk this time. The original text of these words is as follows:

The old lady said beside her: When you arrived in the morning, we really felt compassion for you, but we saw this Bodhisattva (Sun Wukong) coming and going in the mist. I know you are Arhat Bodhisattva. My family will never dare to harm you again. ?

The traveler said in a loud voice: "You women, you and others, dare to hurt that one?" ?

The old woman smiled and said: ?Grandpa, are you lucky enough to come to my house? (I) have a family of four or five, all of whom are a few years old, and have put all their romantic affairs to rest. , so I don’t want to hurt you. If you go to the second house, the old and the small are the big ones, and the young and the young are willing to let you go! I'm going to have sex with you. If you don't obey, you will be killed and all your flesh will be cut off to make sachets. ?

Did you see the last sentence? Sachets, also called purses, were deeply loved by young men and women in ancient times. They were often used as personal belongings or as gifts or tokens to each other. Nowadays, women made of dry water in the Daughter Kingdom actually use men's meat to make sachets. This method of playing is almost the same as in Shituoling. However, Shituoling writes about the process, while Nuerguo downplays the process and directly writes about the results.

This is why it is said that the Daughter's Kingdom is more terrifying than the Shituoling.