Why is Pig Bajie the most human figure in Journey to the West?

In Wu Cheng'en's The Journey to the West, the vivid image of Pig Bajie is well known to women and children. His civilian personality and simple and lovely image characteristics have narrowed the distance with readers and left a deep impression on people. However, people have different opinions on this image: his image will be criticized from the perspective of simplified and vulgar social criticism or from the standpoint of Taoism and Neo-Confucianism; If we re-evaluate the image of Pig Bajie from the perspective of public acceptance psychology and humanism, we can find that he is very cute, which is the richness of his personality. Pig Bajie once became the new favorite of contemporary screen, because in many TV series, his image was endowed with new modern connotation and showed his specific universality.

The reason why the image of Pig Bajie makes people "love and hate" is that it has multiple image characteristics: Pig Bajie not only uses the external outline outlined by thick and hearty strokes, but also uses the delicate and lyrical meticulous brushwork to describe the detailed expression; It not only has extensive appearances, but also has the inherent quality of truth; It not only has abrupt and unrestrained characters, but also contains profound and heavy cultural implications, thus forming the richness of the image of Zhu Bajie.

(1) The image of Pig Bajie is a perfect combination of beauty and ugliness. His ugliness is manifested in two aspects. On the one hand, his ugly appearance is particularly striking. Of course, his ugly appearance brought him serious consequences. In Gaolaozhuang, he "lost" his daughter-in-law. In his daughter's country, a surname refused to recommend himself and refused to be his matchmaker. The second aspect is the character shortcomings of Zhu Bajie. What is more striking is that Pig Bajie is not abstinence and self-cultivation like Tang Priest, the Monkey King and Friar Sand. He is a greedy man: he is greedy for food, money and sex. Secondly, Zhu Bajie has a boring and helpful personality, which is mainly manifested in his talkativeness and rap. Pig Bajie is eloquent and makes good use of the opportunity, which truly reproduces the ability of "not watching the excitement too much". Finally, the belief of Zhu Bajie. On the way to learn from the scriptures, it was his Zhu Bajie who showed great vacillation. When he saw the difficulty, he chickened out and loudly demanded to give up his luggage. If he is to be accused, his old pig should be: spreading rumors and shaking the morale of the army! However, although Zhu Bajie is an ugly person with such shortcomings, he has been recognized and loved by many contemporary readers. The reason why I went to inquire about him is because the beauty embodied in the image of Pig Bajie has two connotations: truth and goodness!

On the one hand, Zhu Bajie's temperament is real and vivid. His beauty is innocent and natural, without heavy makeup, and his personality is straightforward and natural. Pig Bajie is full of true colors. Greed is greed. Greed is greed. Greed is greed. You will never cheat, you will never decorate your heart, you will do whatever you want. This is Zhu Bajie, a real "person".

On the other hand, the beauty of Zhu Bajie lies in his kindness, which is of essential significance. First of all, the pig is a hero in the just cause of learning from the scriptures. It was brave and unusual for him to kill the enemy in the cold. He can help others, and has the courage to go with Huang Paoguai to rescue Yincui gorge in Baoxiang County. Secondly, Pig Bajie is simple in nature and personality. Clever as he is, he is harmless. His shortcomings will always be the shortcomings of a soldier.

In this way, Zhu Bajie's ugliness and beauty are perfectly combined.

(2) As a complete and rich figure, Pig Bajie has both a civilian side and a noble character of heroism. His civilian character expresses the common people's secular desire and life desire, and also shows the weakness of civilian character. He is less bound by moral concepts and more shows the survival instinct of human beings. Of course, there is also a glorious side in the character of Zhu Bajie's image, and that is his heroic side. On the battlefield of fighting demons, he often takes the initiative to attack without giving orders. After a long battle, he is still full of energy and perseverance. Heroic integrity can always be shown at critical moments. It is true that every time he encounters major difficulties, Pig Bajie shakes his faith in learning the scriptures and tells Friar Sand to go back to Liushahe and eat people as usual. He still goes back to Gaolaozhuang and Melting Furnace to be his son-in-law. However, this is just a language expression of thoughts and helplessness, but it has never been put into action. In fact, his will to learn from the Bible is quite firm. His frequent desire to break up is just a complaint when he can't see the prospect of learning from the scriptures, plus his simple and straightforward nature. Its firmness can be traced. In the thirty and thirty-one chapters, the author described his firm heroic integrity with strong pen and ink.