What is the character image of Pig Bajie in The Journey to the West?

Pig Bajie has a simple and honest personality and great strength, but he is lazy and timid, loves to take advantage of petty advantages and covets the beauty of women. He is often confused by the beauty of monsters and can't tell the enemy from me. Pig eight quit to eat and sleep, so that he can gossip. He often wants to play tricks on people, but he either shoots himself in the foot or ties himself up. Why even such a person finally achieved a positive result and was named as the "net altar messenger" by the Tathagata.

This is related to Zhu Bajie's correct mistake and his ability to listen to other people's opinions (in fact, this has a lot to do with Wukong's' urging'). He pulled back from the edge of the cliff and even turned the prodigal son back. In the process of studying Buddhist scriptures, he listened to his brother and was loyal to Master. In the end, he made great contributions to the Buddhist scriptures in the west, and only then did he achieve good results as an altar messenger.

The Journey to the West is a masterpiece of the supernatural-evil novel with strong symbolic significance, and Zhu Bajie is a comedy model created by author Wu Cheng'en in this work.

In his body, there are not only the industrious, honest and straightforward qualities and greedy and selfish nature, but also the ability of God and the physical characteristics of pigs, which fully embodies the perfect combination of the author's humanity, divinity and pig nature.

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Lu Xun believes that the image of Pig Bajie evolved from ancient myths and legends in China, such as the story of "Golden Bell Pig Arm" in Gan Bao's Search for Ji Shen, and Kuang Yuan's Gossip about Pig Bajie supplemented Lu Xun's argument. He thinks that the sow sperm in Search of Ji Shen and The Scholar of Anyang Pavilion is closer to Pig Bajie. Lu of Wu once mentioned that it was originally the immortal gate of Taoism.

Chen Yinque's essay The Evolution of the Story of Xuanzang's Disciple's Journey to the West comes from Tang Yijing's translation of "Everything is Fundamental and Peneyer's Miscellaneous Work", Volume 3, "Buddhism should not be long".

Chen Yinque added: "The story of China people didn't make up the story of pigs marrying Bajie in Gaojiazhuang, and there was no such thing as pigs marrying in India ... This story was later said to have crossed the country because of homophones and became the height of Gaojiazhuang. Surprised the ladies-in-waiting, because things were similar, they got married. "

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Pig Bajie