The Monkey King's golden hoop is extremely special. What is the symbolic significance?

What exactly is the Monkey King's golden hoop? Maybe this question will make people feel unreasonable. Many people think that since the golden hoop is called the golden hoop, it is of course a stick. But why did the fabricators in The Journey to the West arrange a stick for the Monkey King as a weapon instead of a broadsword or a halberd? Therefore, it is necessary to study the question of what a golden hoop is.

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The characters in The Journey to the West are not mentioned casually, but all have the traditional philosophical significance of China.

1) Weight of the golden hoop:13,500 pieces of "Preface to the Four Hundred Words of the Golden elixir", in which "the eldest is pregnant for 13,500 days, and the youngest travels for 84,000 miles at 12 o'clock." It is also recorded in Difficult Classics that people breathe 13500 times every day and night. 13500 refers to the number of times the practitioner exercises in a day, which is the temperature of practice. The weight of the golden hoop shows that the Monkey King, a "heart ape", needs constant exercise.

2) Time to learn Buddhist scriptures:14,5048 days. The weight of the nine-toothed rake and the demon-reducing staff: 5048 Jin is the number of Tibetan scriptures learned by Tang Priest and his disciples. Therefore, this setting connects Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and Buddhist scriptures.

3) 108,000 Li: a symbol of spiritual practice. The sixty-second time, lead an honest and clean life, turn over a new leaf, but sweep the tower and bind the demon to cultivate one's morality. "Twelve o'clock is not counted, and all the work can be done in one hour." Five years and 108 thousand weeks, don't teach immortals to die, don't set fire to worry. The harmony between fire and water does not damage, and the five elements are linked. Yin and Yang meet the cloud tower, take a ride to the purple mansion and cross the crane to Yingzhou. "Among them, five years and 108,000 weeks is the time required for practice, the distance to learn from the scriptures, and the distance of the somersault cloud. Therefore, learning from the scriptures symbolizes practice, and the road to learning from the scriptures is the road to practice.

4) Forty-seven thousand. A ginseng fruit can live for 47000 years; Guo Hua has 47,000 monkeys; Lion camel has 47,000 goblins. The figure of 47,000 is taken from Penglai Mountain, Fusang Mountain, Abbot Mountain and Canglang Mountain. Among them, the abbot mountain in the sea is 47000 feet high. Therefore, several places related to 47 thousand (ginseng fruit, monkey king, Dapeng of bluestone and white elephant) are very Taoist or Buddhist. The Journey to the West is a great work, in which many characters, monsters, numbers and languages are full of philosophy.

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Some people think that the magic stick is actually a kind of magic stick, but in the story of Journey to the West, the people killed by the magic stick are really demons. In this regard, the stick alone has the attributes of a stick. People think that the golden hoop is actually a needle. For example, in The Journey to the West, before the Monkey King got the golden hoop, the name of the golden hoop was Dinghai Shenzhen, and the creator of Journey to the West designed Dinghai Shenzhen, which is actually a metaphor.

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