Monks tell the Tang Priest's fortune _ The story of monks telling the Tang Priest's fortune

How did Journey to the West distribute the five elements to Tang Priests?

Gold is the Monkey King, wood is Pig, earth is Friar Sand, fire is Tang Priest, and water is white. This relationship has been pointed out in several places in The Journey to the West, for example, in the 47th time, "The holy monk stopped the water at night, and Jin Mu was merciful to save his son."

Gold, wood refers to the Monkey King pig eight quit into boys and girls to catch monsters; For example, back to the eighty-ninth "Huang Shijing Fake Palladium Banquet", Jin Mu Tuji made Baotou Mountain.

"Gold, wood and earth are the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand who went to Baozitou Mountain to get weapons.

There are two things that clearly explain the relationship between Tang Priest's mentoring and the Five Elements. First, after the Monkey King accepted Pig Bajie, there was a poem: "Strong in gold, weak in mind." .

Gold is smooth, but wooden people always play. There is no space for one master and one guest, and there is a mystery in three exchanges and three combinations. Temperament also likes to gather in the town, and it is true to prove the west. The second is a poem written by Mu Cha in the 22nd episode when he was ordered by Guanyin Bodhisattva to accept Friar Sand. The poem says: "The five elements are naive, you know your former Lord.

Practice has become a wonderful use, it can identify the causes of evil and see justice. Gold belongs to the same kind, and wood goes to plead for a total recovery. Both lands are lonely, and the fire and water are in harmony. Therefore, gold is the Monkey King, wood is Pig and Pig, soil is Friar Sand, fire is Tang Priest, and water is white.

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The Journey to the West is the first romantic novel with chapters and sections in ancient China. There are hundreds of The Journey to the West published in Ming Dynasty, and there is no author's signature. Wu et al., a scholar in Qing Dynasty, first proposed that The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en in Ming Dynasty.

This novel is based on the historical event of "Tang priest learning from the scriptures" and deeply depicts the social reality at that time through the author's artistic processing.

The book mainly describes the story that the Monkey King was born, met Tang Priest, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and Bai Hou, went west to learn Buddhist scriptures, and after 81 difficulties, he finally arrived in the Western Heaven to visit the Tathagata, and finally the five saints realized their dreams.

Since its publication, The Journey to the West has been widely circulated among the people, and various versions have emerged one after another. There are six editions in Ming Dynasty, seven editions and manuscripts in Qing Dynasty, and thirteen lost editions have been recorded in ancient books.

After the Opium War, a large number of China's classical literary works were translated into western languages, and The Journey to the West gradually spread to Europe and America, and was translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, sign language, Swahili, Russian, Czech, Romanian, Polish, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. Chinese and foreign scholars have published many research papers and monographs, which have given high evaluation to this novel.

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.

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