Reading Wang Mo's past life in The Journey to the West, we find that his past life was actually a cowherd's cow.

Once upon a time, I had never heard of Michael Cat, and I didn't know that he was also a master of fairy tales.

I didn't want to see this traditional electronic version of Absurd Myth, because the traditional Chinese characters are too eye-catching. After reading a few lines, I was deeply attracted and spent some time reading the whole book.

At first, people speculated that it was an adaptation of China's myth "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", but later it was discovered that it was about the past life of cattle.

Who is Niu Wangmo? Cattle is of course a household name in The Journey to the West. Unexpectedly, it still has its own legendary life.

Let's start with the title "absurd myth". I think it's the author Michael Cat's self-mockery. Cowboy and Niu Wangmo are the characters in China's traditional stories. It is interesting to pinch them together. So here, we use a self-deprecating interpretation, saying that it is not credible, but putting out all kinds of "evidence" to make you believe this story, which is somewhat interesting.

The book shows honest people, and compares the honesty of Niu Lang and Niu Daxian, so that people can see their other side.

This book is a mirror. There is no shortage of honest people in life, but people who are good at reflection.

When reading this book, I have the following three questions:

1.？ Should honest people sympathize?

2.？ Are you an honest person in life?

3.？ Perhaps because of your honesty, did you go the same way?

The book explains that Niu Wangmo is what happened to Niu Daxian and Cowherd.

We have all heard the story of Cowherd. This cowherd is actually similar to a cowherd. His parents died when he was a child, and he and his brother lived together. But his brother is a son-in-law and has to listen to his sister-in-law. He lives with her. He was naturally angry, but his brother couldn't bear to see Cowherd scolded by his sister-in-law, so he made up a lie to trick him into leaving. Before he left, he gave Cowherd nine cows and asked him to take back ten.

Cowherd's nature is honesty!

Don't forget that he is an honest man, and it is this "honest man" that leads to the story of Niu Daxian behind him.

The shepherd boy believed it and thought it was said by his sister-in-law. Where did he get ten cows back? He just sat on a stone and cried. The crying alarmed the fairy. At the suggestion of the fairy's family, he saved a cow with a broken leg.

The rescued cow is not a cowherd who died of old age, but a cow fairy who was descended by the jade emperor in heaven.

The cow is here, just as the cowherd cured his leg injury through the advice of the fairy family and took him out of the valley to go home.

Since then, the fate of these two people has been linked.

Because my brother lied, Cowherd's sister-in-law couldn't hold her breath, so she drove Cowherd away, and the sick cow also drove out before leaving.

Under the guidance of Daxian, the Cowherd met the Peach Blossom Fairy and fell in love with her. Since then, she has lived a superior and prosperous life. Niu Daxian told him to be diligent, but once she got rid of poverty, she became lazy. The Queen Mother recalled the Peach Blossom Fairy, and the Cowherd returned to its original appearance.

Is it a little sad?

The experience of cowboys is very similar to that of some people in our real life. Everything you get by luck will eventually lose everything by luck!

There is nothing wrong with honesty. Once you cover up the essence of life with honesty, you will become ignorant.

After talking about Cowherd's honesty, let's talk about Niu Daxian's honesty!

Niu Daxian's ancestral home is Niu Wangmo. After eating ganoderma lucidum for thousands of years, it became a cow fairy. He is diligent and conscientious, which is the same characteristic of an honest man!

However, because he is so honest, when he lives in heaven, he always does bad things with good intentions. When he met the old gentleman in the world, he mistakenly thought that he was lazy and endlessly persuaded him, which made the old gentleman angry and finally delayed the opportunity of alchemy.

The old man couldn't swallow this tone and complained to the jade emperor. The Jade Emperor wants to treat them to dinner. Who knows that Niu Daxian didn't appreciate it, or his eyesight was not enough, which provoked the Jade Emperor to be furious and demoted him to the world in a rage.

Did Niu Daxian reflect?

Don't!

After hanging out with Cowherd, in order to repay Du Jie's kindness in helping him, he went to heaven to chase the Peach Blossom Fairy, only to be thrown away for various reasons, such as being unsociable and unable to speak.

This is his past life.

He brought the personality of honest people into full play, and also brought the stupidity of honest people into full play.

Is an honest man worthy of sympathy?

The so-called honesty is nothing more than putting on a high-sounding hat to tell others, look, I am kind-hearted, look, how honest I am.

In fact, I don't know how to reflect, right or wrong, ignorance, ignorance!

The book Absurd Myth actually has a subtitle, which explains everything the author wants to express: the other side of history.

Why is it called the other side of history?

I think the story of Niu Lang and Niu Daxian is not involved, but they are honest people in life, so the author twisted them together and told a series of causes and effects, which made the duty and loyalty of honest people very transparent. But behind these stories, we should reflect. Have we ever been honest people in life?