Why is there no love in China's marriage?

In The Journey to the West, the fairy is Miss Duan's shadow to Tang Priest, and Miss Duan is the eternal pain in Tang Priest's heart. It is this unforgettable love and pain that makes Tang Priest turn his little love for himself into a great love for saving the world. Miss Duan will always be Tang Priest's initial heart, just like the Supreme Treasure has feelings for fairies in a Chinese Odyssey: I once had a sincere love in front of me, and I didn't cherish it until I lost it. The most painful thing in the world is this. If God can give me another chance, I will say three words to that girl: "I love you!" " "If you have to add a deadline before this love, I hope it is ten thousand years.

A Chinese Odyssey

When we are moved by the regret of love in Stephen Chow's movies, we will have questions: Why can't Tang Priest accept Miss Duan's love? Why did the Supreme Treasure put down all the love desires in the world after she was enchanted?

The answer is: Chinese immortals cannot have love and marriage!

Why can't Tang Priest have earthly love? We can find the answer from the original Journey to the West.

A word from the mouse spirit revealed that Tang Priest was still a child, and he didn't give up any Yuanyang, so he wanted to cooperate with him and become a A Jin fairy.

Yutujing learned a shocking secret: if she got the Tang Priest and Yuanyang, she would be able to become the Jin Xian of Taiyi in one step.

Taiyi Jin Xian is a Buddha-level immortal with miraculous powers, who can coexist with heaven and earth. Anyone who wants to get the Tang Priest's first time can immediately improve his practice greatly. So scorpions, mice and rabbits are all fairies from the celestial world. Knowing the inside story of this heaven, they naturally want to have sex with Tang Priest. The female goblins in the lower world, such as Bai and Spider Essence, have no knowledge of heaven and can only know that eating meat will live forever.

But for Tang Priest, you must never have sex with goblins! In the bottomless pit, the Tang Priest told the truth: "This demon caught me and wanted my spouse. If I lose Zhenyang, I will fall into reincarnation and hit the back of that dark mountain, and I will never turn over! " . When caught by the scorpion essence, the female monster said, "Jade Emperor, do you still remember Ning Jiao's blooming flowers?" The Tang Priest said, "My true yang is the most precious. How can I treat you lightly? " If the Tang Priest and Yuanyang are broken, they will fall into endless reincarnation, be pressed behind the Yinshan Mountain, and never want to turn over again. Therefore, the main reason why Tang Priest is not moved is that he can't be moved, otherwise he will never turn over. Even if you eat him, it's better than this. After all, the golden cicada can be reincarnated next time.

Even other immortals can't violate this ban. If you violate it, you violate the so-called dogma.

On the sixth journey to the West, Erlang God went to the Monkey King, and he reported that "I am the nephew of the Jade Emperor". Wukong said, "I remember that the jade emperor's sister wanted to go to the lower world and cooperated with Yang Jun to have a baby. Was it you who used to split Taoshan with an axe? " From this question and answer, we can know that the jade emperor's sister thought of the lower bound and gave birth to Erlang God. As a result, she broke the dogma and was trapped under Taoshan Mountain. When Erlang God grew up, she used her divine power to split Taoshan and saved her mother.

Huang Paoguai, who was originally one of the twenty-eight lodging houses, fell in love with the jade girl wearing incense in the temple and had to find another way out. As he said to the Jade Emperor, "She was originally a jade girl, who wore incense tables to burn incense. Because she wanted to have sex with my officials, I was afraid that I would pollute the Heavenly Palace, so she thought of going down first. Tuosheng gave birth to the palace courtyard. It was a minister who failed to live up to expectations, became a demon, occupied the famous mountain, took him to the abode of fairies and immortals, and married him 13 years. I took a drink and licked it. Didn't I set it before? " The most pitiful thing is their children. Pig and Friar Sand led the two children to Baoxiang and put them in front of the white jade steps. "。 The poor man made a meat pie, and the blood burst and the bones broke! ”！

So immortals can't have love, even if they have children, they can't be recognized.

In the whole journey to the west, the only one who had children was King Tota, and that was not born after he became an immortal. We can know from the passage of time that it is the father and son who cultivate immortality together. In the book, the Jade Emperor is the only one who has a wife-the Empress Dowager (folk saying), whose role is to help the Jade Emperor maintain the order of heaven. There has never been any connection and dialogue between the two in the book. Taoism believes that the two have nothing to do. In short, immortals cannot have traces of family life.

There is a spirit of "sacrificing one's life for righteousness" in China's mythology.

Pangu tried his best to create the world, and he did not hesitate to exchange his life for a vibrant spirit of heaven and earth; The goddess mended the sky and saved all people from the mire; Kuafu's pursuit of the sun also shows that he is willing to sacrifice himself for the happiness of the people. Stephen Chow's film The Journey to the West also shows this point: Tang Priest and Wukong also brought benefits to the people by learning from the scriptures. On the way to learn from the scriptures, the Tang Priest can be described as "doing his best, dying, not afraid of sacrifice", which can be said to be giving his life to learn from the scriptures. The supreme treasure let go of her feelings, and the Tang Priest was unmoved by the pursuit of Miss Duan. This is the "great righteousness" in their hearts. The theme of the film is to give up "emotion" and take "classic"

Network mapping

Throughout history, there are "three aims and four emperors" in China mythology, namely, Jade Qing Yuan Buddha, Qing Qing Lingbao Buddha and Tai Qing De Buddha. These four emperors are the four emperors of the Lord: the supreme jade emperor Haotian Jinque, the emperor of Wei Zi Zhongtian Arctic Tai Huang, the emperor of Gouchen Shanggong Antarctic, and the emperor Chengtian who imitated Houde Guangda. The evolution of these ancestors came from people who made outstanding contributions in this tribe, which played a huge role in the development and growth of this nation, so they were deified. This also determines the responsibility and obligation of the Great God, which is the embodiment of the moral norms and sacrifice spirit worshipped by our ancestors. For example, which of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors does not occupy an important position in the system of the Gods' League is a sage who has been sung by the people for a long time. Especially since the Western Zhou Dynasty, due to the needs of history and politics, a hundred schools of thought contend to consciously transform mythical figures and add heroic virtues of human ideals to them. As a result of this phenomenon, the remaining wildness of ancient mythical characters completely disappeared, and some were only hypocrisy and exaggeration. Therefore, they can't have the same hedonic thoughts as ordinary people.

Sanqingtu

The myth of China has distinct oriental cultural characteristics, especially the spirit of Suntech.

China people have always believed in the spirit of Suntech, and profound ethical concepts are the code of conduct that supports the survival and life of China people. The "humanity" left by the great gods has also disappeared, leaving only an idealized image far from society, far from human beings, high above and illusory.

On the Journey to the West, both the Jade Emperor and Guanyin Bodhisattva, from a personal point of view, their conduct is also in line with social norms, and there is absolutely no flaw in their style. There are few descriptions of bad conduct in the book, especially on the way to learn from the scriptures. On the contrary, they are the patrons who help the Monkey King to exorcise evil spirits and maintain social order. Even if a mistake is made, it is also a problem of subordinates' mounts or servants.

And the Monkey King started to make a scene in heaven, not because he had been enemies with some immortals, but because he was dissatisfied with the ruling order of the whole heaven for his own benefit. Finally, instead, the Monkey King learned from the scriptures and became a member of the immortal pedigree. Wukong's artistic image is also the result of our cultural remolding and selection: the wildness of individuals slowly gathers and returns to the whole value system of Suntech.

This is why immortals in China can't have love and marriage.