The Monkey King becomes Liu Er's macaque joke.

Viewpoint 1: Tathagata and Tang Priest want to replace the Monkey King because the Monkey King was disobedient on the way to learn the scriptures. So Tathagata replaced the Monkey King with his spare tire Liu Er macaque, and the Liu Er macaque that Tathagata transformed with a bowl was the Monkey King. So after the true and false Monkey King incident, the Monkey King became much better than before.

Viewpoint 2: Liu Er Macaque is the result of the Monkey King's second heart, and the Monkey King's second heart becomes Liu Er Macaque. Finally, the Buddha used a alms bowl to make the Monkey King's second heart show the original shape of Liu Er's macaque, and the Monkey King killed his second heart. Because there is no second thoughts, after the true and false Monkey King incident, the Monkey King is much more obedient.

Viewpoint 3: Liu Er's macaque does not exist at all. They were invented by the Monkey King to express his anger. With the mediation of the Buddha and the end of the true and false Monkey King incident, this matter has turned over. After the the Monkey King incident, the Monkey King completely broke off his second thoughts and became much better than before.

Most of The Journey to the West's interpretations are inseparable from the above three identical viewpoints. I think all three viewpoints are reasonable, but I always feel that something is wrong. Finally, I found an unconventional but very reasonable point of view on the Internet.

The views are as follows. Liu Er, a macaque, is the fifth brother of the Monkey King. He became sworn in front of heaven and is the Monkey King. On the way to learn Buddhist scriptures, the contradiction between the Monkey King and Tang Priest and Tathagata finally became hot after the scorpion essence was eliminated in the daughter country. Liu Er's macaque wanted to take the place of the Monkey King to learn from the Buddhist scriptures and achieve his own status, so as to get the establishment of heaven. In the end, the Buddha did not stand on the side of Liu Er's macaque, but stood on the side of the Monkey King to let the Monkey King continue to learn from the scriptures, while the Monkey King killed Liu Er's macaque regardless of the friendship hundreds of years ago.

To be honest, this view is really refreshing, which makes people feel more like the straightforward plot expressed in film and television dramas and the original language.

However, after reading the original work carefully, I still beg to differ. Today, the author finds the most reasonable evidence from the original work to refute the above four theories.

First of all, I don't agree that if the Monkey King is Liu Er's macaque, even if they fall out, the Monkey King talks with him to show mutual understanding. The Monkey King also specifically mentioned his brothers when he signed up for Hong Haier, which shows that the Monkey King knew the Monkey King. Moreover, the Monkey King was ranked according to his height when he took the oath of the Seven Saints, and the Monkey King was the youngest. Niu Wangmo has the largest figure. In other words, the Monkey King ranked fifth is at least two equivalents bigger than the Monkey King. Liu Er's macaque can't be the Monkey King.

Next, I don't think the Buddha asked Liu Er to replace the Monkey King. Do you know how much effort and financial resources it takes to cultivate a the Monkey King? The Monkey King has been working hard on the way to learn from the scriptures. The Monkey King has been urging everyone to hurry up, and the Monkey King has been keeping the whole movement. The Monkey King's only shortcoming is that he has a cruel mouth. He is always lecturing, yelling and laughing at Tang Priest. All these Tang Taoists put up with it. The only thing that Tang Taoists can't stand is that the Monkey King killed mortals. Because the Monkey King killed a mortal, Tang Priest turned his resentment into a spell, and the Monkey King rolled on the ground.

According to the Monkey King's temper when he made a scene in the Heavenly Palace, if the head curse hurts, Tang Priest will always be caught off guard. Can he be killed with a stick when he is unprepared? The Monkey King's fierce temper has been compromised before the pursuit of Buddhist scriptures.

In addition, people often say that the Monkey King has second thoughts. Liu Er's macaque is probably a variant of the Monkey King's half-hearted, or the Monkey King's half-hearted, deliberately fabricated a the Monkey King incident that he wrote, directed and performed.

But I want to say that the most important evidence in the original works shows that the Monkey King has no second thoughts at all. Journey to the West Chapter 58 The end of the true and false Monkey King incident. However, although the title of the fifty-ninth chapter is "Tang Sanzang blocked the flaming mountain, and Monkey turned the banana fan", it is said at the beginning that Sanzang listened to the teachings of the Bodhisattva, took Monkey, broke his heart with Friar Sand, locked the monkey and horse, and made concerted efforts to drive him to the West.

That is to say, in the true and false Monkey King incident, it was not the Monkey King who had second thoughts at all, but Tang Priest, Bajie and Friar Sand who had second thoughts, while Xiao Bailong and Monkey King had no second thoughts at all. Although Xiao Bailong has no second thoughts, he can't have his own attitude. He just eats grass silently.

So what are the second thoughts of Tang Priest, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand? They don't want to be bossed around by the Monkey King anymore. And what is the teaching purpose of Guanyin. "Tang's monk, hit you the day before yesterday, but it was a fake monkey sent by Liu Er. Thanks to Tathagata's kindness in meeting him, he was killed by Wukong. You want to bring Wukong in today, and the evil forces have not disappeared all the way. Before you go to Lingshan, you need him to protect you, see Buddhism, and then don't blame him. "

Look, Guanyin said to stop lightly chastising to warn Tang Priest, so what else can Tang Priest say? Besides, Guanyin has another meaning, that is, you listen carefully to the Monkey King, saying that the Monkey King won't kill people casually, and he can kill them if he wants to.

So, what we see is the way the Monkey King learned from the scriptures afterwards. Why didn't the Monkey King yell at Tang Priest? Why does he play tricks on pigs? Because they are much more obedient than before. Moreover, in addition to killing mortals, the Monkey King was bound by the Tang Priest, and it was also because he could not bear to go to the old gentleman of Taishang to ask for the elixir to save the infinite king. the Monkey King read the binding curse. Later, the Monkey King clearly knew that the white rat killed the monk in the temple for three days and ate the monk for three days, but he didn't stop him. The Tang Priest didn't recite the spell, but hung there hand in hand with the white mouse essence. Because the Tang Priest is wise, the monks in Zhenhai Temple have not broken their roots, so it is better not to save them.

I think the author said that there was another reason for the conflict between Tang Priest and the Monkey King, because the Monkey King took Tang Priest for more than 65,438+8,000 miles. Think about 14 years, 5040 days, walking 20 miles a day, walking 10 km in Baimalong every day, 10000 meters. It seems too comfortable to study classics. At that time, Emperor Taizong sent Tang Priest to fetch scriptures and asked when Tang Priest would come back. Including the Tang Priest and his return trip, it will take about three years. Tang Priest has the final say, 200 Li a day, which is now 100 km. This is a very correct calculation for a good horse in the Tang Dynasty.

However, the Monkey King took the Tang Priest all the way through various difficult roads. After talking for ten years, I can't go back to the Tang Dynasty. Tang Priest is angry. In addition, the girl country incident and the scorpion essence incident were all set by monkeys, and the previous four saints tried Zen. All kinds of unhappiness welled up in my heart, and Tang Priest had second thoughts. Fortunately, Guanyin told the Tang Priest directly this time, and the length of Buddhist scriptures was decided by the Monkey King.

But the Monkey King felt that the Tang Priest's spell was wrong this time, and it was used for a long time. Obviously it was revenge, so he switched to the Monkey King and directed the true and false Monkey King incident.

Moreover, the true and false Monkey King incident was instigated by Guanyin the Monkey King, and the gods in the sky directly drove away the two Monkey Kings. Hell heard the Buddha say that he was Liu Er's macaque. The word Liu Er is also used to tell the Monkey King that he is the founder of Bodhi.