The fifth chapter of "Journey to the West" is the central part of "Sun Wukong makes trouble in the Heavenly Palace". This part of the content prominently reflects the characteristics of Sun Wukong, the core character of "Journey to the West", that is, "the spirit of resistance and rebellious character" ". 1. About the fifth chapter of "Journey to the West" and the characters it reflects
The fifth chapter of "Journey to the West" is titled "The Great Sage Stealing the Pill? Against the Gods of the Heavenly Palace to Catchase Monsters", Its content is the central content of the well-known "Sun Wukong Havoc in Heaven". The first four chapters are about the birth of Wukong, seeking immortals and learning Taoism, and being granted the official title of Bi Ma Wen. He immediately rebelled against the Heavenly Palace and established himself as the Monkey King. The Heavenly Palace recruited him for the second time and made him the Monkey King with no title. .
The fifth chapter is about Sun Wukong starting to manage the Peach Garden after he won the title of "Monkey King". He learned from the Fairy in Seven Clothes that the Queen Mother was going to hold a peach feast and invited all kinds of gods but not himself, so he went to Yaochi to find out what was going on. He first tricked the Barefoot Immortal into diverting to the Tongming Palace, then transformed into an Immortal and secretly drank the fine wine at the Peach Fair, and then used the power of alcohol to consume all the golden elixirs of the Supreme Lord. He disturbed Pantaotai and caused great trouble, and then ran away, escaping from the Heavenly Palace and returned to Huaguo Mountain. These plots vividly reflect the character of Sun Wukong who is not afraid of royal power, opposes restraint, and pursues equality. 2. About "Journey to the West"
This is a mythical novel that describes the four masters and disciples of Monk Tang who went through many difficulties and dangers to learn Buddhist scriptures in the West. It is also one of the four major classical literary novels in China.
The novel is based on the true story of Xuanzang, a monk in the Tang Dynasty who went to Tianzhu (India) to obtain Buddhist scriptures. It was written by Wu Chengen on the basis of folklore and relevant scripts and dramas such as "Comments on Journey to the West" and "Journey to the West Zaju". , which has been reimagined and rewritten. The 100-chapter version of "Journey to the West" consists of three parts: Chapters 1 to 7 are the first part, which mainly tells the story of Sun Wukong's birth, learning Taoism and causing trouble in the Heavenly Palace; Chapters 8 to 13 are the second part It mainly writes about the birth and experience of Tang Monk and the origin of his journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures; the fourteenth chapter ends in the third part, which is the main body of the book. Strange, the ups and downs of finally obtaining the true scriptures and attaining enlightenment. 3. About Sun Wukong
The core character throughout the book is Sun Wukong. The book creates the image of Sun Wukong as a powerful, brave and fearless person. Its characteristics are as follows: first, he loves freedom by nature, is unrestrained, has a flamboyant personality, despises authority, hates evil as much as possible, and is full of a sense of justice and rebellious spirit; second, he is loyal, fights monsters along the way, and strives to protect his master on his way to the west; third, he is resourceful and flexible. , good at change, humorous, optimistic and understanding; the fourth is competitive, unconventional, and even likes to be clever and tease others.
At the same time, "Journey to the West" has also created many beloved characters such as Tang Monk who is kind and lovely but persistent and pedantic, Zhu Bajie who is funny and optimistic but stupid and selfish, and Monk Sha who is honest and hard-working but relatively timid and incompetent. Literary image.
Summary of the story about Sun Wukong:
A stone in Huaguo Mountain gathered the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and a stone monkey grew out of the crack. The stone monkey broke into the water curtain cave and was respected as the Monkey King by the little monkeys.
The stone monkey wants to learn great skills, cross the sea, and worship the Bodhi Patriarch as his teacher. Patriarch Bodhi named him Sun Wukong, taught him seventy-two transformations, and gave him a somersault cloud that could fly hundreds of thousands of miles. But because he showed off his skills, he was kicked out of the disciples by Patriarch Bodhi.
With the ability, Sun Wukong went to the bottom of the sea, made a fuss in the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea, and obtained the Dinghai Divine Needle as a golden hoop. The other three dragon kings saw that he was not easy to mess with, so they gave him purple gold crowns with phoenix wings, golden armor with chain locks, and lotus root silk walking shoes.
Then, Sun Wukong ran underground again, made a big fuss in the underworld, and crossed out his name from the book of life and death.
The Dragon King and the King of Hell went to heaven to complain, and heaven sent Taibai Jinxing down to earth to trick Sun Wukong into heaven and manage horses. Sun Wukong disliked his junior position and returned home. The Heavenly Court was worried that he would cause trouble again, so he was granted the title of Monkey King, the Monkey King, to manage the Pantaoyuan.
As a result, Sun Wukong not only stole the peaches and Taishang Laojun’s elixir, but also turned the heaven upside down. This is "Havoc in Heaven".
The Heavenly Court had no choice but to invite Tathagata Buddha and pinned Sun Wukong under the Five Elements Mountain. Five hundred years later, he was rescued by Tang Monk and escorted him to the West to obtain scriptures. He finally achieved enlightenment and was named the "Victory Buddha".
4. About the author Wu Chengen
The author of "Journey to the West" is Wu Chengen.
Wu Chengen, courtesy name Ruzhong, also known as Sheyangshanren, was a native of Shanyang (now Huai'an, Jiangsu Province) and was an outstanding novelist in the Ming Dynasty. He has been extremely smart since he was a child, diligent and studious, good at painting, good at calligraphy, loves to compose lyrics and music, and is also very proficient in Go. However, he suffered repeated setbacks in the imperial examination. He was only able to make up for one year's tribute student when he was nearly 40 years old. Wu Chengen was particularly fond of searching for strange things and hunting monsters, and he loved reading books about gods, ghosts, lemurs, and monkey spirits. This had a major influence on his creation of "Journey to the West". In his later years, he wrote "Journey to the West", and other works such as "Mr. Sheyang's Manuscript" and "Yu Ding Zhi".