Please choose a story from The Journey to the West and tell us what dangers and temptations they encountered, and how they overcame the temptation and avoided the danger.

Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon

Bai is a man who washes his dirty linen in public. She heard that eating the Tang Priest's flesh can make you live forever, but she was afraid of the Monkey King, a powerful man, so she lied to Tang Priest.

Three transformations

First, she turned into a beautiful woman, coaxed the Tang Priest with clever words, was seen through by the Monkey King at a glance, and was killed with a stick. The demon used the method of "dismembering the body" to escape ahead of time, leaving the fake body under the mountain road. The second time, she turned into an old woman and was recognized by the Monkey King. She raised the stick and hit her on the head. The monster reappeared as a fairy, took off his real body and left his fake body on the mountain road. Finally, she became an old man again, and the Monkey King caught her. This time, the Monkey King read a spell, telling the local land and local mountain gods to take care of them in the cloud. Finally, he really killed the changeable monster and saved the Tang Priest.

Admonish everything to know the truth

This story is very philosophical, warning people to be good at seeing through camouflage and recognizing the truth. Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon, on the other hand, was accused and even punished by Tang Priest, who could not tell the truth from the false. The Monkey King knew that he was not allowed to kill people (referring to the Tang Priest forbidding him to kill people), which showed his loyalty and determination to put an end to all evils.

The savior of the infinite country

The king died in vain.

King Wuji and a Taoist priest became brothers, but the Taoist priest was a monster. When he was in the garden, he took the king by surprise and pushed him into the well. He turned himself into a king, usurped the throne, seized power and occupied the queen.

The Monkey King's passion for saving the world.

When the Tang Priest and his disciples passed through the infinite country, the ghost of the king called Tang Priest in a dream and asked him to send the Monkey King to kill the demon for him and distinguish between right and wrong. When the Monkey King knew this, he readily agreed and confidently said to the king, "This stick jumped in my ear, and it must have succeeded now. Responsible for killing demons and evil spirits. This mountain will be yours soon. He first becomes a villain named "Li Di Goods", telling the truth to the prince and asking him to cooperate with the action. He also ordered Pig Bajie to go down the well and carry out the king's body, and saved him with the elixir of Taishang Laojun. Finally, the monster's behavior was exposed in public, and when he was about to kill, Manjusri Bodhisattva came to dissuade him and explained the cause and effect. It turns out that this monster turned out to be a green-haired lion under Manjusri Bodhisattva. Because the infinite king had offended Manjusri Bodhisattva, he was ordered by the Tathagata to send a green lion down to punish the king.

This story clearly shows the Monkey King's enthusiasm for saving the world, and also shows that he is indeed the right-hand minister and assistant that kings of past dynasties hoped for.

Xiliang country keeps marriage.

Tough guys tease gentle girls.

On the way to learn the scriptures, Tang Priest and his disciples not only suffered a lot, but also encountered many temptations. There is an old saying in China that "a hero is sad about beauty", so the temptation of femininity has become a challenge in Buddhist scriptures for many times. The marriage in Xiliang is one of them.

Stay married in the daughter country

Xiliang is a girl country, middle school is pure yin and no yang, all women. The queen admires Tang Priest's demeanor and intends to take him as her husband and give up the throne. Pig Bajie is very envious, and Tang Priest is unmoved, which shows his firm will. Under the Monkey King's ingenious arrangement, the queen had to give her a gift.

Happy story flavor

It seems that the story is unremarkable. However, before entering the girl country, the author ingeniously described that Pig Bajie and Tang Priest drank their mother's river by mistake and had to have an abortion in the spring when they were pregnant, which was full of happy plots. When they were about to leave their daughter country, suddenly another banshee jumped out and married Tang Priest, which suddenly made the original plain and relaxed plot strange and tense.

Three-tone banana fan

Long-term discord

The Tang Priest and his disciples had to use a banana fan to extinguish the 800-mile flame on the flaming mountain before they could pass. This fan is in the hand of the cow's wife, Princess Tiefan. Prior to this, the Monkey King beat Hong Haier, the son of Niu Wangmo, and asked Guanyin to surrender; Another battle with Niu's younger brother increased the hatred between the two sides.

Art carving

Sure enough, when the Monkey King went to borrow a fan, Princess Iron Fan refused and fanned him 50,000 miles away. The Monkey King got Ding Fengdan from Bodhisattva Ji Ling, then turned into a bug, got into the belly of Princess Iron Fan, and forced her to hand over the fan. This is a piece of music. But what I got from a piece of music was a fake banana fan, which fanned the fire a hundred times more.

Erdiao

This time, the Monkey King became Niu Wangmo and cheated Bao Fan from Princess Iron Fan. He got carried away and was careless for a while, but he was recaptured by Pig Bajie, who was replaced by Niu Wangmo. This is the second piece of music.

Three tones

The third note is more tense. The Monkey King and Niu have their own magical powers, so they changed their gambling methods, and they are neck and neck. Finally, with the help of the four donkey kong, the father and son of King Tota, and the Flame Mountain sent by the Buddha and the Jade Emperor, the Monkey King surrendered to Niu Wangmo, got the banana fan, and put out the fire of the Flame Mountain forever.

Three-tone banana fan is one of the most wonderful stories in The Journey to the West.

It's hard to destroy France

Kill ten thousand monks.

When the four Buddhist scriptures were preached and destroyed, the king vowed to kill 10,000 monks, and 9,996 of them had been killed, including four disciples of the Tang Priest, totaling 10,000. Therefore, the situation was grim from the beginning.

The plot is humorous and relaxed

In order to avoid the robbery, they disguised themselves as horse dealers and slept in a big cupboard in the inn. Unexpectedly, this cabinet was stolen, taken away by officers and men and carried to the yamen. The Monkey King pulled out a finger on his head and turned him into a sleepy head. He scattered it around the palaces of the five courtyards and six houses, which made all the officials with professional positions fall asleep. He also shaved off their hair by the method of two places at once and became a monk.

The next morning, the king, queen and officials all found themselves bald, and suddenly woke up and never dared to kill monks again. Destroying the law into Qin law, a fatal disaster magically saved the day.

This story is very representative in The Journey to the West. It shows a cruel religious persecution in a humorous and relaxed style. This kind of religious persecution based on the premise of destroying Buddha is common in history.

Tongtianhe fell into the water.

For the story of four disciples crossing the Tongtian River, see chapters 47 to 49. There is a monster in Tongtian River that eats virgins. The Monkey King promised Chen Guzhuang people to exorcise demons for them.

Buddhist Divine Guanyin Belief

The Monkey King and Pig Bajie became virgins together, and suddenly attacked when monsters came to eat people. The monster escaped into the river and froze it. When Tang Priest and his disciples crossed the river on the ice, the monster burst and froze, causing Tang Priest to fall into the water and be captured. The Monkey King had no choice but to go to the South China Sea to invite Guanyin, who came to the rescue with a bamboo basket and fished out a goldfish from the water with it. It turns out that this monster is a goldfish in Guanyin Lianchi.

In the legend of Guanyin, there are many folk sayings of fish basket Guanyin, which are also expressed in novels and operas. For example, in the famous "Ma Lang Fu Story", Guanyin turned into a beautiful woman selling fish with a basket, and suddenly died suddenly, and her body was eroded, so as to warn the world not to be greedy. However, The Journey to the West did not highlight the moral of exhortation, but focused on the merits of Guanyin to ward off evil spirits. In this process, the author touched her with her kind and touching personality. So The Journey to the West's description is very original.

The image of Zhu Bajie is outstanding.

In this story, the image of Pig Bajie is very prominent. The author describes his rich common sense of life and labor experience. For example, wrapping a horse with straw is enough to prevent ice from slipping, which is an advantage that Pig Bajie usually doesn't know.

Echo from beginning to end

At the end of this story, the author also describes an old man who volunteered to carry Tang Yan and his disciples across the river and asked Tang Yan to invite him to his birthday after he went to the Western Heaven. But after reading the Buddhist scriptures, the Tang Priest forgot to ask about it. The old man was furious and sank the Tang priest back into the water, thus making up for the eighty-one difficulty. Because the author has laid the groundwork before, followed by care, set off each other, and the structure is complete.

Save the babies in the bhikkhu kingdom.

Introduction of children's heart and liver as drugs

When the Tang Priest and his disciples passed by the monk country, they saw a goose cage in front of every house, which contained a little boy. It was very strange. As soon as I inquired, I found out that the king here was insatiable about the beautiful woman presented by a Taoist priest, and was weak. He listened to the Taoist priest's words and wanted to take the heart and heart of the child of 1,11as a medicine guide.

Hand over the monster

The Monkey King knew that Taoist priests were monsters, so he asked the gods such as land and social order to hide the children first. The Taoist priest told the king that the Tang Priest's heart was better than that of a lost child. The Monkey King became the Tang Priest again, cut open his chest and abdomen, and rolled out a pile of red hearts, but there was no "black heart" as the Taoist priest said. Subsequently, the Monkey King showed his true colors, and fought against the diabolical way for more than twenty rounds. Demon Road was lost to the East in a cold light, but it was covered by the birthday girl in the air, showing the true colors of the birthday girl on the White Deer Plain. The Monkey King killed the fox who became a beautiful woman, and returned to the city to give the fairy back to the children.

The allusions of Ming Shizong

Although this story is quite bizarre, researchers point out that it is probably a hint to Ming Shizong. Because Ming Shizong's lewdness and lewdness, worshiping Taoism and destroying Buddhism, are almost the same as the monk king. According to Wanli Ye Bian, Sejong also selected more than 400 girls to refine medicine. In these times, the "Jinyiguan" mentioned was the official system of the Ming Dynasty, and the "Golden Temple" was also the palace of the Ming Dynasty, which also showed that the fantasy of Journey to the West was not fiction.