Some people say that the best in The Journey to the West is the woodcutter who shows the Monkey King the way. Is it true?/You don't say.

The woodcutter gave directions to the Monkey King in Huaguoshan (there was no legal name of Wukong at that time). This happened at the beginning of Journey to the West, so it can be seen that the woodcutter is one of the early characters in the whole story. However, this does not mean that the importance of woodcutter is similar to our life. People and things that can usually affect our lives will not appear at the earliest.

Because the woodcutter showed the way to the Monkey King, the Monkey King was able to meet Bodhi's father and learn a skill. So many people think that this is the most powerful mortal in Journey to the West, but it is not. The woodcutter plays in his true colors, which means he plays in his true colors. His symbolic meaning refers to a person who has no chance to become an immortal.

According to the original Journey to the West, the Monkey King crossed the ocean by bamboo raft from Guo Hua. First, I wandered around the South Station for seven or eight years. During this period, the Monkey King learned how to dress and human language, but she didn't find a fairy in Nanbuzhou. So he paddled the raft to Hezhou, Niu, and finally found the immortal.

On the way to find immortality, the Monkey King heard the woodcutter sing a song: "Watching chess is bad, logging is colored, and the valley is climbed by clouds." Selling wine to earn wages, laughing hysterically from Tao Qing ... "So he shouted" Fairy! Fairy! "Go ahead at once and want to learn from the teacher. The woodcutter said with a smile that he is not a fairy, but a neighbor of the fairy, and told him that he learned Taoist songs from the fairy.

The Monkey King, who came through a lot of hardships, did not worry about asking where the immortal was, but asked the woodcutter first: "Since we are adjacent to the immortal, why not practice with him?" The order of this question and answer deserves our attention. The woodcutter replied that he didn't know about personnel until he was eight or nine years old. When he became an adult, he lost his father and needed to serve his mother. When the crops in the field were finished, he went up the mountain to cut firewood to supplement his family.

The Monkey King's fruitless experience of seeking immortality in Buzhou, South Railway Station and his conversation with a woodcutter are two types of people revealed to us by Journey to the West that he has no chance to become an immortal. As mentioned above, the woodcutter is one of them. The reason why I miss the immortal is that although the woodcutter learned the Taoist songs from the immortal (the content was written according to the identity of the woodcutter), he was, after all, a bad man who lacked food and clothing and was busy making a living all day. How could he cultivate immortality? And I didn't know the personnel until I was eight or nine years old, which shows that I am stupid. To put it bluntly, such people lack food.

The other kind of people are from Buzhou, South Station. The Monkey King couldn't find an immortal in Nanzhan Buzhou. The purpose of learning from the scriptures was to spread the true scriptures to Nanzhan Buzhou, which showed that people in Nanzhan Buzhou couldn't see through fame and fortune and had nothing to do with transcendence. However, this is not the focus of this question and answer, and we have touched on it.