First, what does the flat peach tree look like? Looking at the full text, I only described it as "burning and burning, and every plant is growing." This really doesn't mean anything, and I didn't say how tall the tree was or how wide the branches were. Ok, let's just understand that the flat peach actually looks like an ordinary peach tree, not particularly tall. This is advantageous, so we can estimate the output according to the ordinary output. A tree with 180 peaches can be considered productive. At most, the trees of the Queen Mother's house grow better and have really more fruits. Count it as 1000. But this thousand is not a peach. Life must have flowers and fruits, and it must be mature. "It's cooked for a thousand years, no summer, no winter, a thousand years later." This is in line with the original text. When the Seven Fairys came to pick peaches, she came out of the basket at the top and came back with it. She always picks "two baskets of steamed buns and three baskets of peaches". It seems that we have to pick two baskets of big peaches in the future.
With the above data, let's estimate how many peaches there are at the so-called flat peach party.
Count Momo first,1200×1000 plants/plant ÷3000 =400 plants/year, which means Momo can mature 400 plants every year, not counting pests and diseases. Peaches will rot if they are ripe. There is really a rotten persimmon mountain in the journey to the west, and you can't even walk. Bajie became a big pig road (the 67th time). Flat peaches are so precious that you can't wait until they are rotten. The fairy will pack 400 buns in two baskets. If the same calculation is made, the middle peach is 200/ year, and the big peach 133/ year. As an authentic farmer, based on his respect for thousands of years of farming civilization in China, Hong Shao knows a rule that the bigger the fruit, the less the yield. If Momo can plant 1 0,000, it is impossible for medium peach and big peach to reach this yield.
We might as well change an algorithm and infer according to the length of maturity, because there is no other basis to use. The ripening time of China peach is twice that of Momo. Let's halve the yield. 1200× 500 plants/plant ÷6000 = 100 plants/year. In the same way, 44 big peaches count/year. Gee, I see, there are always forty big peaches. The Monkey King is always stealing peaches. In the long run, he says he stole them all. Even the heavenly queen hid a few, so it seems that he didn't do much wrong.
One last question. How big are the fairies' baskets? Are they different sizes? There is no explanation in the original work that the default basket size is uniform. Besides, the seven-clothed fairy was so beautifully dressed that it didn't look good when she saw someone carrying a basket and someone carrying a basket on the road. Then, a basket will never hold 400 DOG or 50 medium peaches or 40 big peaches; But it can hold 200 DOG or 30 medium-sized peaches or 20 large peaches. It is estimated that the proportion of peaches is between 40:5:4 and 20:3:2. The conclusion is that seven or eight DOG may not be as big as a middle peach, and ten DOG may not be inferior to a big peach. From this point of view, Momo is really small, and the gap between middle peach and big peach is not that big. Why do you want to calculate so clearly? Because Hong Shao also wants to infer the effect after eating them.
At this point, one of the great mysteries in The Journey to the West, the flat peach, has been largely ignored by Hong, and no one should be able to count it out. To put it bluntly, the extremely grand Flat Peach Conference is: 400 DOG, 100 middle peaches and more than 40 big peaches. The next step is to "divide the spoils". Who are these peaches for?
I have to add that the Monkey King was not the only one who stole the flat peach in Journey to the West. Dong Fangshuo also "touched it three times", so Wukong called him a thief. What kind of peaches did Dong Fangshuo steal? A big peach will be with heaven and earth. Why did he steal it three times? Many people think that he stole peaches because he is in the sky. It's no use stealing another stranger. It's the most likely to win a peach. Then who is Momo for? The fairy who participates in the Flat Peach Club can fly, which is the ability of immortals and immortals, and it is by no means rushing to eat DOG. So Momo is a welfare, distributed and taken home, arranged for those disciples, relatives and friends to eat, and even sent a gift to the guests. In this way, after each flat peach party, 400 steamed buns will flow out to the world, that is to say, 400 people will become immortals immediately after eating them. It can be inferred that the basic life span of immortals is 300 to 500 years old, because many people can't escape natural disasters even if they live to 500 years old.
Next, the peach in the middle. Seven or eight DOG equals a peach. If the volume plays a proportional role, then eating a peach can live for about three or four thousand years. This is the legendary immortality? Some of them are not worthy of the name. That can only say that the volume of this thing can't be taken seriously. The ginseng fruit of Wuzhuangguan shows that you can live for 47 thousand years after eating it. You know, if heaven and earth are robbed for 120 thousand years, one fruit will fight against one third, and three fruits will be born together. Is that really the case? Throughout the whole Journey to the West, there is no clear explanation that the immortal Cao Ling of the same kind can be eaten and accumulated continuously, which is what most people who analyze the Journey to the West often say. At least Hong Shao didn't find it in the original work. Maybe I didn't study hard enough? There is also a theory that eating flat peaches can delay the arrival of natural disasters. When did heaven and earth become so "reasonable"? Do you have to wait until you die? This is sheer nonsense. It was released publicly, but no one refuted it.
When you admit "accumulation", you admit "division" in disguise. It has been speculated that the "glass lamp" broken by Friar Sand contained mashed flat peach juice, which was intended to "prolong life" for many immortals. As a result, Friar Sand killed them all, so he was punished so severely. Hong Shao has to admit that this is a brain hole, but don't talk with flat peach juice. It is more convincing to change something else. Among The Journey to the West, the Tang Priest is the most "divided" one, because the demon got the rumor that "Tang Sanzang is a good man of practice for the tenth time, but he needs to eat a piece of his meat to prolong his life". Eat one piece and live forever. Will you live with heaven and earth if you eat it all? Obviously, there is no such thing in the demon world. In this case, if we catch the Tang Priest, cut off an arm or a leg, and then let him go, it won't delay him from going to the Western Heaven for Buddhist scriptures. Anyway, the Buddha didn't say that the lame couldn't come. Isn't this a satisfactory solution? It can not only save the Tang Priest's life, but also fulfill the demon's pursuit. If the Tang Priest is really a monk and a great virtue, he should learn from the sages' "giving up his life in a tiger" and "cutting his flesh in an eagle" and carry forward the fearless spirit of sacrifice. But is there? Don't! Explain that this is probably a false proposition!
Can't Tang monk meat live forever? This Hong Shao can't find any relevant evidence in the original work (the following article will talk about the mystery of Tang monk meat in detail). This article is mainly to explain the immortality in the Westward Journey, that is, the marking effect in the Zhi Tao Manual of Flat Peach. This involves a substantive issue. The flat peach club invites Sanqing and the four royal families every year. Their Shou Yuan has long been with heaven and earth. Do they want peaches, too? Isn't that a waste of resources? Or can they "accumulate" their life span to the length of countless robberies like the Jade Emperor, and really live for more than 200 million years? Unfortunately, this question cannot be answered in the original text.
But Hong Shao still wants to give you a new explanation-the time and space in Westward Journey is distorted! Sorry, Hong Shao slipped away again. What I want to say is that in the world of westward journey, apart from the inseparable things of time and space, there is another thing that is unevenly distributed. That is the gas field between heaven and earth, also known as spirituality, gas field, spiritual root, spiritual pulse and so on. There are many names in the original work, in short, the word "spirit". The essence of cultivation is related to this spirit. From the previous analysis, it is concluded that cultivation is against the sky, so the existence of flat peaches and ginseng fruits must also be against the sky. They can exist because they are the spiritual source of heaven and earth. When people eat them, they gain some abilities related to spirit, such as immortality. Everything in the world is different. Besides immortality, there are other magical things, which obviously cannot be explained by the concept of accumulation. This is definitely a whole concept and the best counterattack against separatism. If the Tang monk meat really has the function of immortality, then the dead body under Lingyun Du Jie, whether fish or shrimp, will not live forever.
So the ultimate question of this paper, can the gas field be accumulated? Is it because the Jade Emperor ate more than N flat peaches that he lived so long? The answer is no, cultivation is not a matter of appetite, it is a matter of ability, and it is the control of something between heaven and earth, such as this "spirit". Even for the Jade Emperor, it is enough for a flat peach to eat a big peach. The big peach is born with heaven and earth. If you get this ability, you will still be with heaven and earth if you continue to eat. If we admit the existence of "accumulation", then the Jade Emperor will destroy everything in the world at the beginning of every robbery, so it would be better to absorb aura by himself. Similarly, the flat peach garden is there, and he will be invincible if he eats it alone. A better example is the Monkey King itself. Pig eight quit to get a big Dan soared to immortality, the Monkey King ate five gourd Dan, should be more than N times the top pig eight quit, should be seconds to destroy him. Actually, it goes without saying. Finally, why did Dong Fangshuo steal peaches three times? Because there are only three kinds of flat peaches, and they are from thieves to big ones. The human heart is insufficient, the snake swallows the elephant, and the fairy is also.