Bodhi, the founder of The Journey to the West, took the Monkey King as an apprentice and taught him seventy-two changes and somersaults, but Bodhi asked the Monkey King not to mention his legacy after his debut. Bodhi, the founder of Taoism, dressed in the temperament and thoughts of Confucianism, is an outstanding figure who is proficient in Taoism, Buddhism and a hundred schools of thought.

Master Xu Bodhi is proficient in a hundred schools of thought and three religions, but he only hides his disciples in caves in the mountains. The name he gave the Monkey King was a Buddhist habit, corresponding to later Wuneng and Jason Wu. The prototype of the founder of Xu Bodhi is Xu Bodhi, one of the ten disciples of the Buddha, and he is known as the "first person to solve the problem".

When Wukong was studying art, Bodhi said that he was proficient in a hundred schools and asked Wukong to choose at will. The low-level courses he asked the Monkey King to take were 360 side doors, including the door of art, inviting immortals to help Luan, seeking good fortune and avoiding evil, the door of flowing water, chanting scriptures and Buddha, worshiping the truth and descending the saints, the door of meditation and fasting with quiet words, the door of moving words, nourishing yin and nourishing yang, climbing a bow and stepping on a crossbow, etc. , very complicated. Bodhi lecture avenue can "talk for a while, talk for a while, and the three companies will cooperate as they are."

In just three years, he taught Wukong seventy-two changes, somersaults and so on. It can be said that this magical power compatible with various religions is unmatched by other immortals in The Journey to the West.

Character introduction:

The Monkey King is one of the famous mythological figures in China, which comes from the four classical novels The Journey to the West.

The Monkey King, whose ancestral home is Dongsheng, China, was born out of the immortal stone. Because he led a group of monkeys into water curtain cave and became the Monkey King, he was honored as the "Monkey King". After worshipping Bodhi as a teacher, Qian Shan was named the Monkey King, and learned the superb spells of the earth demon, such as seventy-two changes, somersault cloud and immortality.

The Monkey King, whose magical powers are just emerging, first made a scene in the Dragon Palace to get the golden hoop, and then made a scene in the underworld to check the life and death books. Later, he was blessed by heaven and was named Bi Marvin. After learning of his low status, he angrily returned to Huaguoshan, defeated the crusade of King Tota and the three princes, and forced the Jade Emperor to make him the Great Sage of Qitian, and built the Great Sage of Qitian in heaven to manage the Flat Peach Garden. Because of drunkenness, I disturbed the flat peach banquet of the queen mother, stole the elixir of the old gentleman, and became an indestructible body. By mistake, she was turned into an alchemy furnace of Taishang Laojun.

Later, it caused chaos in the heavenly palace. Hundreds of thousands of heavenly soldiers, heavenly generals, four heavenly kings and twenty-eight stars can't beat them. Later, he lost a bet with the Tathagata, and was crushed by the Five Elements Mountain (renamed Liangjie Mountain in the Tang Dynasty) abandoned by the Tathagata, and repented for more than 500 years. After being enlightened by Guanyin, he was rescued by Tang Priest. Known as a monk, he protected the Tang Priest from learning Buddhist scriptures in the West, exorcised demons all the way, did not fear difficulties and hardships, and finally got the true scriptures after 81 difficulties, and was named anti-Buddha.

The Monkey King is smart, lively, loyal and hateful, and represents wit and courage in folk culture. The legend of westward journey began to appear in the Tang Dynasty and continued until the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the Ming Dynasty, The Journey to the West, the representative of these legends, appeared. In these folk myths of past dynasties, the Monkey King was regarded as a god by China people.