Explanation of Taoist Secret Law: What is the Thirty-six Changes?

In real life, many children will imitate, because they watch the characters in TV series with "seventy-two changes, thirty-six changes" and so on. The seventy-two changes and thirty-six changes in TV dramas are all magical things. Then let's take a look at religious culture and see what the 36 changes of Taoist spells mean.

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Seventy-two changes (Taoist spell name)

The "change" in the seventy-two changes does not mean changing into something else, but the nature of yin and yang and five elements. The Monkey King's skill in Journey to the West is seventy-two changes, and turning into something else only belongs to the "one change" in the seventy-two changes. Bodhi introduced to him in the book that magic is divided into thirty-six changes according to the number of plows and seventy-two changes according to the number of magic. The Monkey King chose the latter, that is, seventy-two changes.

Ways to avoid three major disasters

Although the Monkey King in the Journey to the West learned the art of immortality from the founder of Xu Bodhi, only by avoiding the "three disasters" can he live forever! "Three disasters" are lightning, dark fire and wind blowing. Under Wukong's pleading, Bodhi finally handed down the escape curse. Bodhi introduced to him in the book that demons are divided into thirty-six changes according to the number of highest days and seventy-two changes according to the number of goblins, and the Monkey King chose the latter, that is, seventy-two changes. The main purpose of the seventy-two changes is to avoid the damage caused by lightning, fire and wind, so as to realize the wish of eternal life.

Class 36

"Thirty-six Changes" was recorded in The Journey to the West in Wu Cheng'en, and the representative who mastered this technique was Zhu Bajie. There are two kinds of bodhi ancestors: one is that there are thirty-six changes according to the number of plows; First, there are 72 changes according to the number of "devils".

Among them, thirty-six techniques include: neutralizing nature, reversing yin and yang, changing stars to fight, returning heaven to the sun, calling for the wind and rain, shaking mountains and the earth, riding clouds in fog, rowing rivers into the ground, vertical golden light, turning rivers into the sea, turning the earth into steel, the five elements of escape, six great feats, knowing the future in reverse, whipping mountains and moving stones, coming back to life, soaring and supporting traces, convincing with nine breath, and drawing yuan out.