2. "Heaven and earth produce mixed spirits, an old ape in Huaguoshan." Tell me about the monkey nature of the Great Sage in the text.

In the part of "Two Saints Inviting the Tathagata to Lingshan", the two Saints stated the Monkey King's "sin" to the Tathagata, saying: "A monkey was born in Guo Huashan, where you can make magical powers and gather monkeys to disturb the world. The Jade Emperor issued a peace edict and named it "Bi Marvin". He suspected that the official was small and rebellious. When Li Tianwang and Prince Nezha were sent, they failed to capture them, and they were called the Great Sage of Qi Tian, with officials but no reward.

When he was in charge of the flat peach garden, he stole peaches; Going to Yaochi again, stealing food and wine, disrupting the meeting; The wine sneaked into the pocket palace, stole the old man's elixir, and turned out of the Heavenly Palace. The jade emperor sent another hundred thousand heavenly soldiers, but he could not accept them. This passage is the most concise and wonderful summary of Wukong's monkey nature The image of a fearless and defiant the Monkey King is vividly presented to the readers.

This the Monkey King doesn't feel anything at all. She is spontaneous, natural and naive. I will oppose anyone and anything that doesn't suit me, no matter who he is. This is undoubtedly the most realistic embodiment of his monkey nature.

Understand:

Cognition 1: The failure of the Monkey King's "making havoc in heaven" is inevitable. Because under the huge theocracy headed by the Jade Emperor, the Monkey King, the ruled rebel, can't win, no matter how skilled he is or how limited his personal strength is.

Cognition 2: Everyone has his own desires. In the novel, the Monkey King's wish is freedom and equality. But of course, heaven can't satisfy all his wishes, especially when his desires threaten the hierarchy of heaven, his desires and pursuits have to be restricted.

There are only two final results of this contradiction and conflict: one is that the rebels are eliminated or suppressed, and the other is that the rebels are forced to compromise. The Monkey King belongs to the former. The Monkey King's struggle for freedom cannot be said to be meaningless, but it was doomed to failure from the beginning.