The nineteenth episode of Journey to the West is about Wukong collecting the Eight Precepts in Cloud Stack Cave, and Xuanzang receiving the Heart Sutra on Mount Fuling.
Sun Wukong in Gao Lao Zhuang subdued the demon, the demon fled back to the lair of the cloud stack cave in Fuling Mountain, into the cave to take out the nine-toothed nail rake and the Wukong battle, but not Wukong's rival, asked the Wukong why meddle in the matter, the Wukong reported to their own in the protection of the Tang Priest to obtain the scriptures, the monster is busy dropping the nail rake, go with the Wukong to meet with the Tang Priest.
Originally, this monster was originally on the hole for the demon, and then was the Goddess of Mercy, named Piggy Wuneng, to wait for him here, to protect the Tang Monk in the West to get the scriptures. The Tang monk was delighted, gave him the name pig eight ring, collected him as a second disciple. The master and disciples left Gao Lao Zhuang and passed through Mount Faodu, where they were instructed by Bajie to meet a Zen Master Wu Chao, who passed on a copy of the Many Hearts Sutra to the Tang Monk to recite in times of danger, so that he could protect his body.
Expanded Information
I. Journey to the West is the first Romantic chapter-length novel of gods and demons in ancient China. The novel is based on the historical event of "the Tang Monk fetching scriptures", and through the author's artistic processing, it profoundly depicts the social reality of the time. The book mainly depicts the Monkey King's birth and after making a fuss in the Palace of Heaven, he met the Tang Monk, Piggy, and Sha Monk, and traveled to the west to fetch the scriptures, subduing demons and subduing devils along the way, and went through nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties, and finally arrived at the Western Heaven to meet Buddha Ru Lai, and finally the five saints became true.
Second, pig eight ring, also known as pig just hyena, French name wu neng (kuanyin take), muddy name eight ring (tang monk take), is the tang monk's second disciple, the weapon for the supreme lord made, the jade emperor gave on the treasure qin jin palladium (commonly known as the nine-toothed nail rake). In his previous life, Piggy was the marshal of the Heavenly Puffy, who was in charge of the 80,000-strong water army of the Heavenly River, and he has always been in love with the Nishang Fairy, who is a woman of great beauty.
The "Journey to the West" of the gods and goddesses basically borrowed from the orthodox Taoist book of gods and goddesses, by the Gaolaozhuang episode of Piggy's mention of the past life of Piggy's Tianpeng Marshal, that is, the god of water, the Tianhe River Xianjie. After molesting the Nishang Fairy and getting into trouble with the spiritual officer, he was sent down to the mortal world, but was mistakenly cast into a pig's fetus, and was then transformed by the Goddess of Mercy to become a disciple of the Tang Monk, who was protected by the Monkey King as he traveled to the West to obtain the scriptures, and was finally appointed as a purifying emissary.
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