Journey to the west begins:
Chaos distinguishes between heaven and earth, and no one sees it.
Since Pangu broke the HarmonyOS system, it has opened up a clear distinction from here.
Covering the crowd and respecting benevolence, I found that everything was getting better.
If you want to know the power of nature, you must watch the westward journey.
There is a poem at the end:
The holy monk studied hard to learn from the scriptures and lived in the western regions for fourteen years.
No pains are too sweet to come, no mountains and rivers are too bitter.
After 89 is completed, add 9 more, ok, 3100.
Dajue Miao Wen returned to China and has been handed down in the East forever.
There is a poem:
I would like to take this merit to solemnly worship the pure land of Buddha.
Reward four kinds of kindness and help three kinds of ways.
Learn bodhicitta with knowledge.
Live in the same bliss country and report it all.
The opening of "The Love of the Gods":
At the beginning of chaos, Pangu was the first, and Tai Chi's two instruments and four elephants hung.
People are ugly in the sky, so as to avoid animals suffering from nest sages.
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Putting your horse to Huashan is a demonstration of martial arts, which has been open to my Zhou family for 800 years.
The Taibai flag hangs alone, and the souls of the dead soldiers dive.
Heaven stands tall, virtuous and loving father, and seals the altar with stationery.
Big and small, the romance of Shang and Zhou dynasties has been from ancient times to the present.
There is a poem at the end:
The ethereal fragrance is full of colorful clouds and songs praising peace;
The auspicious light cage in the North Pole faces the ground, and the purple gas in the south surrounds Jincheng.
The immortals proved the fruit on this day, and the prison of the Ming Dynasty returned to reality.
That eternal song has been calling for a long time, so let Guo Yong clarify it from now on.
The Journey to the West tells the story of four Tang monks and their disciples who went to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures and spread them to the East. Tang's monk is a compassionate and upright holy monk, determined to worship Buddha and seek truth from the economic world, with firm will and perseverance. The Monkey King's loyal teacher, from beginning to end; Eliminate evil and promote good, save lives. Tang Priest's firm belief in Buddhism inspired future generations. Although I went through eighty-one difficulties, I finally got the true scriptures, achieved positive results, and gained enlightenment, making people realize that only doing good is the right way in life.
The Journey to the West is a book of spiritual consciousness, which shows the transcendence process and final destination of life. In fact, the four masters and apprentices in the Tang Dynasty not only seek truth for all beings in the world, but also seek truth for themselves. Through eighty-one difficult experiences, you can completely accommodate your own soul, and finally you can get rid of worldly customs and stand out, and then you can go to Purdue to reincarnate and educate all beings from suffering.
The Romance of Gods tells the stories of Laozi, Yuanshi, Zhunti, Jieyin and Jiang Ziya. In the immortal world. Through the opening, the appalling evil of Shang Zhouwang, the opponent, was exposed to the readers, and it was declared that there was no help in Shang Dynasty, but many in Western Zhou Dynasty. Then, a regime change war of "changing the flag of the city head to be king" was launched, which was not high in style and pattern. The whole book seems to be a word praising the Western Zhou Dynasty and Western Qi, and there is no other description at all.
Romance of the Gods is full of fatalism, as if the God above had slaughtered everything between heaven and earth, and the world had to bow to God respectfully and do whatever it wanted. Although the whole book also contains the truth of persuading people to be good and justice to win, and has the moral pursuit of stirring up turbidity and promoting purity, it gives people a sense of "Shanliang Wang is almost false".
After The Journey to the West wrote The Romance of Gods, there were obvious traces of plagiarism and imitation from the beginning. The contrast between the two is very disappointing.
So I think The Journey to the West deserves to be one of the four classical novels, which is a first-class classic, while The Romance of the Gods can only be a second-rate plagiarism and imitation.