1, Waterfall Cave exterior
As the Monkey King's hometown, the Waterfall Cave in the "Journey to the West" appeared many times at the beginning of the play, I remember the play there is a time when the Monkey King and his master, the Tang Monk, a turn of the head, but also flew back to their Waterfall Cave hometown as a king.
In the TV series, the Monkey King also often introduced himself this way: "I'm the Great Sage Sun Wukong of the Water Curtain Cave on Mount Huaguo!" People with sharp eyes back then would have recognized the location as the famous scenic spot - Huangguoshu Falls in Guizhou.
2, three white bone spirit outside
It is many people are quite familiar with the episode, the play Sun Wukong several times to recognize the true face of the white bone spirit, the Tang Monk masters but do not listen to the words of the disciple, really let a person anxious. In the TV series, the white bone spirit's home is hidden in the mountains, cloudy and foggy, looks "demonic", here in reality is the Hunan Zhangjiajie.
Today, Zhangjiajie is a well-known tourist destination, and in addition to being the setting for "Journey to the West," it was the inspiration for the scenes in "Avatar.
3, the Flaming Mountain exterior
"Three borrowed banana fan" in the "Journey to the West" story, the Monkey King made a fuss in the Palace of Heaven, knocked over the alchemy furnace of the Lord Taishang Laojun, which alchemy furnace fell into the mortal world will become 800 miles of the Flaming Mountain.
Then the Tang Monk and his disciples passed through here on their way to fetch the scriptures, and were scorched by the Flame Mountain, so they could only borrow a banana fan from Princess Iron Fan to "put out the fire" for the Flame Mountain.
In fact, the Flaming Mountain is real. Located in Xinjiang Turpan Basin, when the summer, the red sun in the sky, the russet mountain in the hot sun,
sandstone burning flash, hot air flow tumbling up, like a blazing fire, very hot. Summer highs here are said to be as high as 47.8 degrees Celsius, with maximum surface temperatures upwards of 70 degrees Celsius, and eggs can be baked in the sand!
4, "Wuji Kingdom" outside
Drama: "Demon removal Wuji Kingdom" in the temple Remember the scene where the Tang Monk and his disciples enter the royal temple of Wuji Kingdom, "Bao Lin Temple"? The scene was set in Yangzhou's Daming Temple, where a stone plaque originally read "Daming Temple",
Then, in order to facilitate the crew's filming, a plaque was put up again, which was specially invited to the Yangzhou Academy of Painting's famous painter, Li Shenghe, to inscribe on it.
It is said that at that time the costumes of the crew were not yet in place, the abbot of the Daming Temple, Master Nengqin, also lent his own clothes to the crew, and during the shooting of the scene where the Tang Monk enters the temple, the monks in the temple volunteered to be the actors.
5, Sun Wukong worship teacher outside
Qingcheng Mountain, Sichuan Province, "Journey to the West" in a mysterious figure, we have mentioned many times in the previous article, that is, Sun Wukong's teacher master Bodhi, but Bodhi ancestor foreknew that the Sun Wukong will be a problem, and therefore asked the Sun Wukong secrecy, never mention the status of the teacher.
The 86 version of "Journey to the West", in which Master Bodhi's Taoist temple, "Lingtai Fangcun Mountain and the Three Star Cave of the Slanting Moon", is set in Qingcheng Mountain, a mountain with an ancient Taoist culture in Sichuan Province, is an ancient name for the mountain. Mount Qingcheng, known as Mount Joe, is a branch of the Qionglai Mountain Range, a sacred place of the global Taoist Quanzhen Tao.
Qingcheng Mountain relies on the snowy ridge of Minshan Mountain and faces the plains of western Sichuan. The highest peak Laojunge 1260 meters above sea level, Qingcheng Mountain peaks surrounding the undulating, lush green and verdant forests, enjoying the "Qingcheng World Pylons" reputation. The whole mountain is green and verdant in all seasons, and the peaks are surrounded by a city-like silhouette, so it is called Mount Qingcheng.
People's Daily Online - Sichuan Channel - "Journey to the West" set up collective nostalgia