What is the origin of Marshal Tian Peng's Pig Bajie in The Journey to the West?

At first, the Tian Di's marshal Tian Peng was in charge of Tianhe. Later, because he was drunk and flirted with the fairy, he was banished to the world by the jade emperor and reincarnated to the world, but he mistakenly cast a pig fetus with a face similar to that of a pig. She once occupied Zhanyun Cave in Fuling Mountain as a demon. It killed the sow and the pigs, and adopted the daughter-in-law to the second sister's egg (a dead egg laid by the phoenix, which became a demon because of its powerful gas field) in Zhanyundong, Fuling Mountain. Unexpectedly, a year later, the second sister's egg died, leaving him with only one abode of fairies and immortals. At this time, I live in Yunzhan Cave and call myself "a pig." The Tang Priest, seeking Buddhist scriptures in the West, passed by Gao Laozhuang and had a fight with the Monkey King in Zhanyun Cave. When he heard the name of Tang Priest, he went to visit him. After being accepted as a second apprentice by Tang Priest, Tang Priest nicknamed him "Bajie" to prevent him from eating five meats and three evils. Bajie became the Monkey King's good helper from then on, and together they protected Tang Priest from going to the Western Heaven for Buddhist scriptures. In the novel, Tang priest and his disciples are often in trouble because of their laziness, gluttony and lust. After retrieving the scriptures, Zhu Bajie was named the altar messenger because of his "stubborn heart and persistent color". His highest day can change 36 times, and he can walk on clouds. The weapon used is a nine-toothed rake.

2. Name source

The middle-aged pig in Journey to the West has just been banned by the Bodhisattva, and the five meats and three evils have been broken. So the Tang Priest gave him a personal nickname, called "Bajie". Five meats and three evils are religious commandments, and believers are not allowed to eat them. Five meats are five spices, which refer to five spicy vegetables. Including garlic, shallots, leeks and canals (shaped like radish and tasted like garlic). Third, Taoism regards geese, dogs and turtles as three kinds of inedible animals and lists them as teachings. It is believed that "the goose has the feeling of husband and wife, and the dog has the friendship of master;" Turtles have the loyalty and respect of the monarch and ministers, so they can't bear to eat "("Chong Zhuang Sketch "). Tired, here means reluctant to eat. But this five-meat and three-disgust is a mixture of Buddhism and Taoism, and the Buddhist "eight quit" actually means something else. Bajie's full name is "Bajie", which is the eight commandments formulated by Buddhism for monks and nuns. Including no killing, no stealing, no lust, no lying, no drinking, no sitting in a gorgeous bed, no dressing up for singing and dancing, and no eating after noon. There are many Buddhist precepts. Although Zhu was called "Eight Rings", he always "quit" incompletely and reluctantly. The name given to Bajie by the Tang Priest has a certain meaning.

According to legend, there was a tramp named Zhu Ba in Huai 'an, Jiangsu, Wu Cheng'en's hometown. He was lazy, greedy and secretive. Wu Cheng'en thinks that people like Pig Bajie can only become good people after being honed. The world should take Pig Bajie as a warning and not learn from Pig Bajie. This is the combination of the story of wild boar essence and the name of Pig Bajie.

3. Personality characteristics

Pig Bajie has a simple and honest personality and great strength, but he is lazy and timid, loves to take advantage of petty advantages and covets the beauty of women. He is often confused by the beauty of monsters and can't tell the enemy from me. Pig eight quit to eat and sleep, selfish, easy to gossip. He often wants to play tricks on people, but he either shoots himself in the foot or ties himself up. Why even such a person finally achieved a positive result and was named as the "net altar messenger" by the Tathagata. This is related to Zhu Bajie's correct mistake and his ability to listen to other people's opinions (in fact, this has a lot to do with Wukong's' urging'). He pulled back from the edge of the cliff and even turned the prodigal son back. In the process of studying Buddhist scriptures, he listened to his brother and was loyal to Master. In the end, he made great contributions to the Buddhist scriptures in the west, and only then did he achieve good results as an altar messenger. The Journey to the West is a masterpiece of a novel with strong symbolic meaning, and Zhu Bajie is a comedy model created by author Wu Cheng'en in this work. In his body, there are not only the industrious, honest and straightforward qualities and greedy and selfish nature, but also the ability of God and the physical characteristics of pigs, which fully embodies the perfect combination of the author's humanity, divinity and pig nature.

4. Role prototype

Lu Xun believes that the image of Pig Bajie evolved from ancient myths and legends in China, such as the story of "Golden Bell Pig Arm" in Gan Bao's Search for Ji Shen, and Kuang Yuan's Gossip about Pig Bajie supplemented Lu Xun's argument. He thinks that the sow sperm in Search of Ji Shen and The Scholar of Anyang Pavilion is closer to Pig Bajie. The original basis for Gong to identify Zhu Bajie in The Origin of the Artistic Image of Zhu Bajie is Hebo Fengyi. Lu of Wu once mentioned that it was originally the immortal gate of Taoism. Chen Yinque's essay The Evolution of the Story of Xuanzang's Disciple's Journey to the West comes from Tang Yijing's translation of "Everything is Fundamental and Peneyer's Miscellaneous Work", Volume 3, "Buddhism should not be long". Chen Yinque added: "The story of China people didn't make up the story of pigs marrying Bajie in Gaojiazhuang, and there was no such thing as pigs marrying in India ... This story was later said to have crossed the country because of homophones and became the height of Gaojiazhuang. Surprised the ladies-in-waiting, because things were similar, they got married. "