"If you want to know the power of nature, you must look at A Chinese Odyssey." What do you mean?

If you want to know the law of the change of heaven and earth and the mystery of the growth of all things, you must read this The Journey to the West.

Nature is a blessing as well. The Journey to the West, whose full name is Journey to the West.

Hui and Yuan are both time units, with one yuan equal to 129600 and one moment equal to 10800. Compared with the life span of ordinary people 100 years, Huiheyuan is an astronomical figure, so Huiheyuan symbolizes long-term and eternal life.

These two sentences are from the first opening poem of Wu Cheng'en and The Journey to the West in Ming Dynasty.

Original text:

Chaos distinguishes between heaven and earth, and no one sees it. Since Pangu broke the HarmonyOS system, it has opened up a clear distinction from here.

Covering the crowd and respecting benevolence, I found that everything was getting better. If you want to know the power of nature, you must watch the westward journey.

Translation:

No one can see clearly when the land is not divided and the world is in chaos. Since the beginning of the world, Pangu has separated the clear from the turbid and the heaven from the earth. Everything in the world depends on the overwhelming grace of the supreme benevolent, and everything has great merits. If you want to know the law of the change of heaven and earth and the mystery of the growth of all things, you must read this The Journey to the West.

Extended data

The Journey to the West is the first romantic novel with chapters and sections in ancient China. Taking the historical event of "Tang Priest's Learning from the Scriptures" as the background, the social reality at that time was deeply portrayed through the author's artistic processing.

The book mainly describes the story of the Monkey King's encounter with Tang Priest, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand after his birth, and his disturbance to the Heaven Palace. He went west to learn from the scriptures, demonized all the way, and after eighty-one difficulties, he finally arrived in the Western Heaven to meet the Tathagata Buddha, and finally the Five Saints died.

The Journey to the West is a classic of China's ghost novels, reaching the peak of ancient romance novels, and is called the four classical novels of China together with The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin and A Dream of Red Mansions.

Creation background

In the first year of Zhenguan of Emperor Taizong (627), Xuanzang Tianzhu, a 25-year-old monk, went hiking in India. After starting from Chang 'an, he passed through Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and finally arrived in India. He studied there for more than two years and gave a speech at a large-scale debate on Buddhist classics, which was well received.

In the 19th year of Zhenguan (645), Xuanzang returned to Chang 'an and brought back 657 Buddhist scriptures, which was a sensation. Later, Xuanzang dictated his The Journey to the West, which was compiled by his disciples into a 12-volume Record of the Western Regions of Datang. But this book is mainly about the history, geography and transportation of countries seen on the road, and there is no story.

As for "Datang The biography of Master Sanzang" written by his disciples Huihe and Yan Cong, it adds a lot of myths to Xuanzang's experience. Since then, the story of Tang Priest's Buddhist scriptures has been widely circulated among the people in China.

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