He is the master who teaches the Monkey King, the Monkey King, martial arts. He lives in Sanxing Cave, Fangcun Mountain, Lingshan, and is proficient in three religions and nine streams, the art of immortality, seventy-two changes, traveling around the world and so on. The Monkey King had just defected to the bodhi patriarch's door, and the bodhi patriarch saw his wise nature and named him Wukong. Then he taught the Monkey King the immortal spell, seventy-two changes, and then he taught the somersault cloud.

After ten years' careful teaching, the Monkey King has changed from a stubborn mortal to an enlightened monkey, with 84,000 hairs on his body, and the roots can be changed at will, which has laid a profound martial arts foundation for Wukong's spirit in heaven and the protection of Tang Priest.

2. The Jade Emperor:

Also known as the Jade Emperor, he is the supreme ruler in charge of heaven, earth and human beings, and is also regarded as the noblest god by Buddhism and Taoism.

The Jade Emperor lives in the Lingxiao Hall of the Golden Queyun Palace, which consists of thirty-three heavenly palaces and seventy-two halls. His ten generations of hades are in charge of life and death. The Four Seas Dragon King is in charge of weather changes; Nine obsidian stars, five generals, twenty-eight nights, four heavenly kings and other brave people cover the land; Taibai Venus, Jiro Zhenjun, Wufang Wuxaoxian all have boundless magic power; And there is a secret protection from the Buddha in the West.

3. The Virgin Mary:

She lives in Yaochi, so she is also called the Queen of Yaochi. She held a flat peach celebration in Yaochi, where she hosted a banquet for immortals from all walks of life, only to be disturbed by the Monkey King, the Great Sage of Qitian.

The flat peach she planted is the most magical. Small peach trees have been cooked for 3 thousand years, and those who eat them are light in fitness and immortal. Ordinary peach trees are only cooked once in 6000 years. When people eat them, they soar in the daytime and live forever. The best food is cooked in 9000. People eat it with heaven and earth, with the sun and the moon. She is the most respected goddess in the Heavenly Palace. She is responsible for banquets for immortals in heaven and for marriage and childbirth on earth.

4. Tathagata:

The magic is boundless, and his eight donkey kong, eighteen arhats and bodhisattvas of all walks are ever-changing. The Monkey King is very brave and somersaults, but he can't turn over the palm of the Tathagata.

Tathagata originally meant to come in the form of true Tathagata, that is to say, truly, he was the founder of Buddhism. His family name is Sakyamuni, which means sage. Together, they are called Sakyamuni saints. He was originally a prince of northern ancient India. Because he was dissatisfied with Brahmanism at that time, he became a monk and founded Buddhism.

5. Buddha from the East:

Also known as Maitreya Buddha, he has big ears, a full stomach and a fat body. He always smiles, also known as the laughing monk. Also known as the Buddha of the future. Your Highness knocked on Huangmei's child, stole the bag the day after tomorrow, and fought with the Monkey King and other immortals. Finally, thanks to the help of the Buddha from the East, the Monkey King was able to surrender to Huangmei.

6. Too old gentleman:

Li Minger, whose real name is Chang Geng, is the founder of Taoism, so he is called the old gentleman on the throne.

He lives in a pocket palace and practices elixir of life. He often rides a green cow. He has a magic weapon called Jin Gangzhuo, which is very powerful. He made great contributions to the capture of the Monkey King, who caused havoc in Heaven, but was stolen by his green cow and found in Jin? The Monkey King, King Tota, Eighteen Arhats and many other immortals were defeated in the cave. Finally, the old man made a fan, took away the diamond cutter and handed over the green ox essence. He is a good man who makes peace and will not fight with others easily.

7. Antarctic birthday girl:

He is a lovely old fairy with a big meat bag on his head, a dragon cane in his hand and a white deer behind him for him to ride. Unexpectedly, this white deer will not die. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Antarctic birthday boy playing chess with Donghua Emperor, he went to the monk's world through thousands of years of cultivation and colluded with the fox.

Turn the fox into a beautiful woman as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade and give it to the king, claiming to be the ruler of the country, and giving a child's heart to the elixir of life, which has harmed the people. As a result, the Monkey King, caught in the eye of fire, was doomed and surrendered by Wukong. Wukong was about to kill the original essence of White Deer when the Antarctic fairy arrived and ordered the monster to show his true colors and return to fairy mountain on a camel.

8. Taibai Venus:?

Li, a famous star in the sky, is strong and kind. The Monkey King rushed into the underworld and got into trouble with the Dragon Palace. The Jade Emperor is about to send troops to crusade. Taibai Venus interceded for Wukong and suggested that Wukong be appointed as a riding officer.

When the Monkey King rebelled against the Heavenly Palace for the second time, it was Venus who made Wukong a Monkey King and managed the Flat Peach Garden. Later, on the way to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures, Chang Gengxing secretly helped four people defeat Huang Fengguai and swept the lion camel cave many times. He is a kind old man.

9. Zhenyuan Daxian:

He is the ancestor of the immortals, a famous Taoist town, and a cow who lives in Wuzhuangguan, Hezhou. His Taoism is so profound that even Guanyin Bodhisattva gave him three points. The ginseng fruit he planted ripens only once in 9000 years, and he can live to 360 years old by smelling the magical ginseng fruit. You can live for 47,000 years by eating one.

Daxian is really capable. However, Daxian is enlightened and outstanding. The Monkey King invited the Bodhisattva to save the ginseng fruit tree, forgot the past, became sworn brothers with the Monkey King, generously held a ginseng fruit party, and entertained immortals and Tang Priests with precious ginseng fruit, which was quite a big fairy.

10. Tota Li Tianwang:

Li Jing is the garrison commander of the Heavenly Palace. Of the three sons born, Jin Shu, the eldest son, served the Tathagata, Mu Shu, the second son, was a great disciple of Guanyin Bodhisattva in Nanhai, and Nezha, the third son, worked under his own account. In his early years, he turned against his third son, Nezha, and the Tathagata gave him a golden stupa to settle the feud between father and son, so he was called Tota Li Tianwang.

Li and his son have high martial arts and great power. They are loyal to the Jade Emperor and enjoy a lofty position in the spirit of heaven. Every major event, the jade emperor must first hand-pick Li Tianwang to take command. He put down the rebellion in the Monkey King twice and was appointed as a demon handsome. His giant spirit god, General Fish Belly, Prince Nezha and other 100,000 gods are all heavenly soldiers, and they are all good soldiers under the King of Heaven. They helped the four Tang Priests through many disasters on their way to learn the scriptures.

1 1. Three princes of Nezha:

The third son of King Li Tian of Tota, and one of the disciples of Tathagata, served as the great god of Santanhaihui in the Heavenly Palace. Nezha was born with the word "Na" in his left palm and "Yi" in his right palm, so he was named Nezha. When I was three years old, I went into the sea and made a big disaster. I walked down the Crystal Palace and caught the dragon cramping and scraping scales.

King Tota was afraid that he would get into big trouble when he grew up, and wanted to kill Nezha to avoid future trouble. Who knows that Nezha was furious, with a knife in his hand, cut the meat and gave it back to his mother, and cut out the bone and gave it back to his father. A wisp of soul went to the Western Heaven to tell the Buddha that the Tathagata took the lotus root as the bone and the lotus leaf as the tendon, bringing Nezha back to life.

Later, Nezha wanted to kill the heavenly king and avenge gouging out his heart. Fortunately, Tathagata told the truth, gave the Heavenly King Pagoda, and made Nezha take Buddha as his father, so that the enmity between father and son could be resolved.

Although Nezha is young, he is well-connected. He has three heads and six arms, a hot wheels pedal, a golden gun in his hand, a ring of Gankun on his head, and six magic weapons, such as demon-cutting sword, demon-cutting knife, demon-binding rope, demon-reducing pestle and hydrangea, are changeable. Whenever King Tota went to war, Nezha was bound to go, sometimes as a pioneer, sometimes as a general, and surrendered to the 96 demons. He was recognized as a young hero in the world.

12 Mu Cha:

Bai Mu, also known as Bai Mu, is the second son of King Tota, the second brother of Nezha, whose legal name is Hui 'an, and a great disciple of Guanyin Bodhisattva in Nanhai. The weapon used by Mu Cha is a muddy iron bar, which is very brave and changeable. He often travels with Guanyin Bodhisattva, secretly helping Tang Priest and his disciples to subdue demons, and making contributions to Tang Priest's Buddhist scriptures.

13. Jiro Zhenjun:

Yang Jian. The nephew of the Jade Emperor, who lives in Guanjiangkou, uses a three-pointed and two-edged gun, has seventy-three changes, is good at walking, and has a brave roaring dog. His six Meishan brothers are also very good.

In the war with the Monkey King, who caused havoc in Heaven, he finally caught the Monkey King, who had extraordinary martial arts. He is outstanding in martial arts and occupies a very prominent position in the Heavenly Palace. On the way to the Western Heaven, Erlang God helped the Monkey King defeat Hydra, thus eliminating the plight of Tang Priest.

14. Four Seas Dragon King:

He is the four immortals who manage the ocean under the orders of the Jade Emperor. Ao Guang is the largest of the four sea dragon kings in the Middle East, followed by Aoqin, Aoshun and Aorun. The duty of the Four Seas Dragon King is to manage the living things in the ocean, take charge of the wind and rain on earth, and command countless soldiers and crabs.

Tang Priest went to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures. The Dragon King of the Four Seas helped many times, or made trouble or led troops to help. His nephew Xiaolong violated the holy monk and they were arrested without mercy.

15. Prince Meng:

Aomo Ang is the prince of Aorun, the dragon king of the West Sea. He is brave and selfless. Armed with a triangular mace, he is superb in martial arts. Ao Mouang's aunt Xiao Jilong caught the Tang Priest in Heishui River and invited his uncle, the West Sea Dragon King, to eat the Tang Priest's meat. When the West Sea Dragon King learned of it, he immediately sent Moang to lead the troops to catch the dragon and had a scuffle with his cousin in Heishui River. How can Xiao Jilong rival his cousin Moang's superb martial arts?

After three or five rounds, Moang arrested Jilong and rescued Tang Priest and Bajie. Later, when the Monkey King and Jupiter, the four birds, chased three demons in Xuan Ying Cave, Prince Meng led troops to help Wukong catch three rhinoceros spirits, which made great contributions.

16. Pleiadian officials:

He is an immortal in the Palace of Light in the sky, a full-time rooster in Chen Si, and his mother is a compassionate and compassionate Pilan Bodhisattva. The disciple of Tang Priest was trapped in the Pipa Cave of Poisonous Enemy Mountain by scorpion essence on the way to fetch Buddhist scriptures in the Western Heaven. The Monkey King and Pig Bajie can't win a protracted war. Due to the guidance of Guanyin Bodhisattva, the Pleiadian star officer generously promised to go to the lower world to catch demons.

The monkey king lured the scorpion essence out of the hole to fight, and the star official showed his true colors and became a cock six or seven feet tall. When he shouted for a long time, the monster showed his true colors and shouted again. The scorpion was tender and died in front of him.

17. underworld:

He is one of the ten halls of hades, the son of heaven in the underworld. He controls five senses. Fresh officials are forbidden to kill, water officials are forbidden to steal, iron officials are forbidden to prostitute, local officials are forbidden to talk, and heavenly officials are forbidden to drink. He is in charge of life and death in heaven, and his black impermanence, white impermanence and death-urging judges all do things that hook people's lives. When the arrogant the Monkey King raised his golden cudgel, Yama right repeatedly begged for mercy and deleted Wukong's name from the book of life and death.

18. Chang 'e:

It turned out to be the wife of the God of Hou Yi. Hou Yi shot down nine suns, offended the Emperor of Heaven and was banished to the world. When the couple couldn't return to heaven, Hou Yi went to ask for the elixir of life. The Queen Mother of the West gave Hou Yi an elixir. This medicine can be taken by two people separately, and one person can ascend to heaven and become immortal.

Chang 'e stole the elixir and ascended to heaven. Afraid of being laughed at, she flew to the deserted Moon Palace, surrounded by only a jade rabbit, a toad and a osmanthus tree. Tian Peng, marshal of Tianhe, was dismissed as the later Pig Eight Rings because he was drunk and molested Chang 'e and threw a pig fetus in the wrong place. Chang 'e's jade rabbit turned into a demon for revenge, and was later brought back to the Moon Palace by the lunar star, which relieved the difficulties of Tang Priest and his disciples on their way to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures.

19. Giant Spirit God:

He is a soldier under King Tota. The weapon he used was a flowering axe. He danced with a heavy axe, like a phoenix piercing flowers, and was extremely dexterous. When King Tota led 100,000 heavenly soldiers to quell the rebellious the Monkey King, the giant spirit god was a pioneer general, which shows that his martial arts and mana are different.

Extended data:

Academic circles generally believe that The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en, while Hu Shi and Lu Xun demonstrated that The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en, a native of Huai 'an. Wu Cheng'en (about 1500- 1582) was born in Sheyang Mountain. A native of Shanyang County, Huai 'an Prefecture (now Huai 'an District, Huai 'an City, Jiangsu Province). My ancestral home was in Gaodian, Tongcheng, Anhui Province, and my ancestors lived in Gaodian, Tongcheng, so I called it Gaodian Wu.

China was a novelist in Ming Dynasty. Since childhood, Minhui has read widely and especially likes fairy tales. After repeated setbacks in the imperial examination, he made up the examination and gave tribute to students in Jiajing. In the forty-five years of Jiajing (1566), he was appointed as the director of Changxing County, Zhejiang Province. Due to the difficult official career, I never wanted to be an official in my later years and wrote behind closed doors.

There are 100 editions of The Journey to the West published in Ming Dynasty, without the author's signature. The earliest edition is Jinling Shidetang Edition (20 years of Ming Wanli 1592), which is the "Huayang Teachers' College" prefaced by Chen Zuoxu, leaving room for The Journey to the West authors. Tao at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty attributed The Journey to the West's author to Qiu Chuji in The Record of Falling Fields and Renchu.

In the early Qing Dynasty, when the Taoist King carved The Journey to the West, he also attributed the author of The Journey to the West to Qiu Chuji. Later, many scholars in the Qing Dynasty held this view, such as The Journey to the West's true explanation, Zhang Shushen's New Theory of Journey to the West, Liu's original theory of The Journey to the West, and Zhang's theory of The Journey to the West Zheng's purpose. The Journey to the West was written by Qiu Chuji, which became the mainstream view in Qing Dynasty. This statement was questioned in the Qing Dynasty.

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