Who is Yuan Shoucheng in The Journey to the West?

In history, Yuan Shoucheng's identity is not simple. He is the uncle of Yuan Tiangang, a famous metaphysicist in the early Tang Dynasty. Everyone has heard of Yuan Tiangang. He is a calculating man. Together with his disciple Chunfeng Li, he wrote a book called Tibet, which predicted that two thousand years later. Yuan Shoucheng and the Dragon King My first divination bet was divination. Jingjiang Dragon King disguised himself as a mortal and sneaked into the fortune teller.

be what you wanna be Jing and Wang asked. ? Shall I ask about the weather? Yuan Shoucheng squeezed his hand and said? Clouds are low and foggy, and it rains every day. ? . Then he asked? When and how much does it rain? Yuan Shikai replied. It will rain at noon tomorrow, with a total rainfall of 48 inches. ? Both Jing and Wang lung laughed. This is not nonsense! ? ! If it rains this time tomorrow, I'll give you fifty taels of gold, but if anything goes wrong, I'll come back and smash your stable and drive you out of Chang 'an, and the Dragon King won't listen. Jingjiang Dragon King ignored Yuan Shoucheng's fortune telling.

How can a mortal guess the jade emperor's wishes? When he returned to his cave, he found that it really rained. When it rains tomorrow, the rain and Yuan Shoucheng will be very accurate. This made Jingjiang Dragon King very angry. He didn't know this little wizard was so powerful. But the dragon king didn't want to give up. On the contrary, he wants to? I work in rainy days. If I make a change, he is wrong? In order to win the bet, Jinghe Wang Gai changed the time and rainfall. After practicing these kungfu, the Dragon King also swaggered to the stable in Yuan Shoucheng. He took a stand and told Yuan to leave Chang 'an.

I just lost a booth. Yuan said with a smile. ? I don't know if anyone has committed a capital crime. I recognized you long ago. You are not a person at all, but the Jingjiang Dragon King who is in charge of the rain! You changed the time and amount of rain, which violated heaven. You can't escape tomorrow's beheading sword! ? Wei Zhi, dragon slayer. King Jingjiang was so afraid that he had to beg Yuan Shoucheng to give him a chance to live. Yuan Shoucheng revealed the secret of Wei Zhi Dragon King to Jingjiang Dragon King, and pointed out that only to find Emperor Taizong would there be a chance. Then something happened: King Jinghe went to ask Emperor Taizong, and Emperor Taizong agreed. The next day, he secretly summoned Wei Zhi to the palace to play chess to prevent Wei Zhi from leaving. Wei Zhi killed the Dragon King in his sleep.

Unwilling to be scared, the Dragon King ran to the house of Emperor Taizong to frighten him, which scared the daylights out of Emperor Taizong. Emperor Taizong was in the underworld because the sun didn't come back from the dead. It was not until later that Emperor Taizong believed in the role of Buddhism in saving the dead. His love for Buddhism also promoted the development of Buddhist scriptures. Judging from a single plot, Yuan Shikai is only a powerful wizard, but judging from the whole book, Yuan Shoucheng is an important link to promote Emperor Taizong's belief in Buddhism. He made a bet with King Jinghe first, and then proposed to King Taizong. He not only knows when it will rain, but also knows that the Jade Emperor sent Wei Zhi to kill the Dragon King. He must have a close connection with heaven.

From this perspective, Yuan Shoucheng is not only a wizard, but also like a heaven and man. He advocated that Emperor Taizong attached importance to Buddhism to ensure the smooth development of the great cause of learning from western classics. What is the fortune teller Yuan Shoucheng in The Journey to the West? The Jade Emperor is not an ordinary person. This is Yuan Shoucheng. How could he possibly know what kind of letters the Jade Emperor would issue? So there is a saying that Yuan Shoucheng is actually the incarnation of the Jade Emperor.

But it doesn't make sense. Why did the Jade Emperor kill King Jinghe? It didn't do him any good, so another way of saying it is that Yuan Shoucheng is the incarnation of Buddha or Guanyin, and they did it because everything was arranged. Buddhism intends to kill King Jinghe, then make Emperor Taizong suffer a little, and then lead to Xuanzang, so that Xuanzang and Emperor Taizong can become brothers, and let Xuanzang use the power of the Tang Dynasty to make a little trouble on the Western Heaven. After all, the Tang Dynasty was a family.