Introduction to Journey to the West

There is a flower and fruit mountain on the seashore of Aolai country in Dongsheng Shenzhou. There is a stone on the top of the mountain. Influenced by the essence of the sun and the moon, it gave birth to a stone monkey. Shi Monkey bravely explored the waterfall and the flying spring, and found the Water Curtain Cave, which was regarded as the "Monkey King" by monkeys. The Monkey King led a group of monkeys in the mountains for hundreds of years. He occasionally heard that the immortals, Buddhas, and saints could escape reincarnation and live as long as the mountains and rivers of heaven and earth. So he went across the sea alone on a raft, supported Buzhou in the south, arrived at Xiniu Hezhou, and finally stayed in the Xiyue Sanxing Cave on the Fangcun Mountain of Lingtai, where he was accepted by the founder Subhuti and named Sun Wukong. Wukong comprehended the wonderful principles of Che Bodhi in the Three Star Cave, learned seventy-two changes and the technique of wrestling with clouds, and returned to Huaguo Mountain to kill the devil devil in one fell swoop. The seventy-two hole demon kings of Huaguo Mountain, such as wolves, insects, tigers and leopards, came to honor him.

The Monkey King is the king of the mountain. Suffering from lack of weapons, he went to the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea to ask for them. The Dragon King and his brothers gave him a Ruyi gold hoop stick and a robe. He also became brothers with the Demon King Niu, the Demon King Jiao, the Demon King Peng, the King Lion Camel, the King Macaque, and the King Yu Marmoset. He talked about literature and martial arts day by day and danced happily. One day, he was picked up by the hell, so he made a big trouble in the nether world, and took all the names of monkeys from life and death. The Dragon King and the King of Earth Tibet went to heaven to complain, and Taibai Jinxing suggested that Sun Wukong should be recruited, and the Jade Emperor would give permission.

The Jade Emperor appointed Sun Wukong as the "Bi Ma Wen", who took care of the horses. When Sun Wukong learned that the official position was low, he became furious and broke out of the South Heaven Gate and went back to Huaguo Mountain. He called himself the "Great Sage of Heaven". Other brothers also claimed to be the Great Sage of Heaven, the Great Sage of Sea Covering, the Great Sage of Heaven Mixing, the Great Sage of Mountain Moving, the Great Sage of Ventilation, and the Great Sage of God Repelling.

Li Jing, the king of the tower, and the third prince Nezha gave an order to set up a master to capture Monkey King. He was defeated by Monkey King and went back to heaven to answer the order. Taibai Jinxing asked the Jade Emperor to send a decree to make Sun Wukong the Great Sage of Heaven, but did not give him any business or salary. The Jade Emperor gave permission to play. The Monkey King was invited by Taibai Venus to enter the Heavenly Palace again. The Jade Emperor named him the Great Sage of Qitian and granted him the Great Sage Mansion of Qitian. Sun Wukong had nothing to do in heaven. He made friends every day, no matter how noble or inferior. The Jade Emperor, fearing that he might cause trouble in his spare time, asked him to take care of the Peach Garden. The Queen Mother held a peach party. The Monkey King blamed the Queen Mother for not inviting her to the party, but she rushed to the meeting to eat the delicious food and the golden pills; After disturbing the Peach Blossom Meeting, he fled back to the back of the Flower and Fruit Mountain. The Jade Emperor sent 100000 Heavenly Soldiers to capture him, but failed.

Guanyin Bodhisattva recommended Erlang God to help. Wukong and Erlang showed their respective magic powers: they changed in many ways and could not win or lose; Lao Jun threw a golden steel chisel to defeat Wukong. The Roaring Dog bit Wukong and was captured. The Jade Emperor ordered the gods to put him to death. He cut the bayonet with a knife, struck the fire with lightning, but the Monkey King was undamaged. The Supreme Lord shut him in the Eight Diagrams Furnace. Sun Wukong not only survived, but also cultivated a pair of fiery eyes. Forty nine days later, Wukong overthrew the Eight Diagrams stove, danced the golden cudgel and disordered the Heavenly Palace. The Jade Emperor had to invite the Buddha of the Western Heaven. The Buddha has boundless power. Wukong cannot jump out of his palm. He is pressed under the Five Elements Mountain, drinking iron pills and copper juice.

Five hundred years later, the Tathagata killed many people and fought many battles because of the immorality and joy of those who supported the southern part of the country. He ordered Guanyin Bodhisattva to go to the east to find one person and come to the west to learn scriptures, so as to help all living beings and give three hoops to subdue demons. Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Wooden Fork Walker went to the east to find the scripture seekers. On the way, they subdued two demons: a rolling curtain general who was once the servant of Lingxiao's Highness Luanyu, was demoted by the Jade Emperor to suffer in the Liusha River because he accidentally broke the glass cup; One Marshal Tianpeng, who was originally in Tianhe, was killed and reincarnated in the shape of a pig because he played with Chang'e with wine, and became a demon in Yunzhan Cave of Fuling Mountain. Guanyin named them Shawujing and Zhuwuneng, and told them to wait for the pilgrims to come and protect them from going west. Guanyin asked the Jade Emperor to forgive the son of the lawbreaking Dragon King of the West Sea and send him to the deep stream, waiting for the pilgrims to come and help him.

When he reached the Five Elements Mountain, Sun Wukong, who was pressed down at the foot of the mountain, expressed his willingness to repent. Guanyin also ordered him to wait for the scholars of the Tang State to come, "You can become an apprentice with him, teach Jiachi, enter our Buddhism, and then correct the results.".

Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty started his career as a scholar, and Chen Guangrui, a young man, was the top scholar in high school and married Miss Yin, the minister's residence. Later, the officials paid homage to the governor of Jiangzhou. Chen Guangrui and his wife went to office. On the way, they were murdered by Liu Hong, a thief, and their wife was occupied. Chen's wife, Yin Shi, gave birth to a son and threw him into the river. He was rescued by the monks of Jinshan Temple. This son received the precepts 18 years later, and was named Xuanzang. Xuanzang finally met his mother and sought revenge on his grandfather.

A fisher and a woodcutter near the Chang'anjing River said that there was a divine divination in the city. They caught fish according to the divination, and there were hundreds of fish. They were heard by the patrolling Yecha and reported to the Dragon King. The Dragon King changed into a Xiushi and asked about the rain. The diviner's answer coincided with the jade edict. The Dragon King, in order to win the bet, went wrong in the rain and should be killed. The Dragon King's diviner asked the Dragon King to enter the palace to help the Tang King. In his dream, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty accepted the request of the Dragon King. The next day, after leaving the court, he left Wei Zheng to play chess in order to delay the third quarter of the afternoon. Unexpectedly, Wei Zheng fell asleep at noon and dreamed of killing Jinghe Dragon. The Dragon King accuses the Tang King in the underworld, and the Pluto King detains the Tang King and the three Cao. Entrusted by Wei Zheng, the magistrate changed the life and death book privately. Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty returned to the sun and sent Liu Quan to the local government. Because he saw countless enemies in the local government, he decided to build a land and water road field and choose a virtuous monk to preside over the dharma assembly. Chen Xuanzang, the monk of Hongfu Temple, was selected by the officials. Xuanzang's predecessor was a disciple of the Buddha, Jin Chan. He was demoted to the secular world because he didn't want to listen. He experienced all kinds of hardships when he was young. When Guanyin arrived in Chang'an, he and the wooden fork turned into a crazy monk, and offered cassocks and tin sticks to the king of Tang, so that the king of Tang would give them to Xuanzang. He also appeared at the dharma meeting and instructed the Western Heaven to have "Mahayana Buddha Dharma Tripitaka", which can help people to escape death and suffering, and eliminate disasters. Xuanzang asked the king of the Tang Dynasty to go to the Western Heaven for Buddhist scriptures. The king of the Tang Dynasty and Xuanzang worshipped each other as brothers, and ordered them to refer to scriptures and take the title of "Sanzang", and sent them to the west together with all the civil and military officials.

Sanzang rode a white horse given by the emperor and went out of the western boundary of the Tang Dynasty with two servants. The "Yin General" who was turned into by tiger spirits ate up the two servants at Shuangcha Ridge. Sanzang escaped alone. This was the first difficulty for Sanzang to learn scriptures in Chang'an. The hunter Liu Boqin saved him when he met a fierce tiger and a long snake. Boqin sent Sanzang to Liangjie Mountain and heard someone shouting "My master is coming!" It turns out that this mountain is the renamed Five Elements Mountain. At the foot of the mountain is the Monkey King, who made a big noise in the Heavenly Palace 500 years ago. Sanzang uncovers the golden inscription of the Tathagata on the top of the mountain, and Wukong jumps out of the mountain. He worships Sanzang as his teacher and is named Sunwalker.

On the way, Monkey King killed six robbers. He was so angry that he went down to the Dragon Palace. Tang Monk received two things presented by Guanyin to clamp the Monkey King - a golden flower hat and a hoop mantra. Wukong followed the advice of the Dragon King and returned to Tang Monk. In this interval, Guanyin presented Sanzang, a leader, a headdress and taught him a "tight hoop mantra". Sanzang coaxed Wukong to put on his flowered hat. As soon as he recited the hoop mantra, Wukong rolled in pain. It turned out that the flowered hat was a hoop given by the Tathagata. Wukong had to go west to serve Tang Monk.

The two men went to Eagle Worry Stream, and Tang Monk's white horse was swallowed by the Jade Dragon in the stream. Guanyin turns the Jade Dragon into a white horse for the three Tibetans to ride.

In Guanyin Hall, Wukong shows off Tang Monk's brocade cassock. The head of Guanyin, Elder Jinchi, is greedy and wants to burn Tang Monk's apprentices, but Wukong's trick burns the temple. But the cassock was stolen by Black Wind Monster, the friend of Elder Jinchi. Sun Wukong asked for help from Guanyin. He designed Guanyin to become a demon friend of the Black Wind Monster, and he turned himself into an elixir to lure the Black Wind Monster to swallow. The Black Wind Monster was subdued.

Tang Monk and his disciples continued to travel westward. When they learned that the villa master's daughter was forcibly occupied by a monster, Wukong captured the monster and chased it to the Cloud Stack Cave. Zhiguai was once Marshal Tianpeng of the heaven. He was demoted to the lower bound for molesting Chang'e and was cast into a pig fetus by mistake, so he looked like a pig. After Guanyin subdued him, he gave him the name Zhuwuneng, and waited here for the sutra seeker. Sun Wukong led him to visit Tang Monk, who accepted him as an apprentice. Tang Monk called him "Eight Commandments" because he claimed to have broken "five meat and three aversions".After passing the Futu Mountain, Zen Master Wuchao taught Tang Monk the Multi Mind Sutra.

Passing through Huangfeng Mountain for 800 miles, Tang Monk was taken into Huangfeng Cave by Huangfeng Monster. Wukong went to Xiaoxumi Mountain to invite Lingji Bodhisattva to take over the Yellow Wind Monster. It turned out that this monster was a yellow haired marten at the foot of Lingji Mountain.

In Liushahe, Tang Monk accepted Sha Wujing, who was enlightened by Guanyin, as the third disciple and was named Monk Sha. The four masters and disciples traveled across mountains and rivers to the west for scriptures.

The four masters and disciples crossed the river westward and met Guanyin, Samantabhadra, Manjusri Bodhisattva and Lishan Old Mother. They became one mother and three women to try Zen. The eight precepts are tied to a tree before they retreat.

After passing the Wuzhuang Temple of Wanshou Mountain, Wukong stole the "Ginseng Fruit" from the Immortal Zhenyuanzi, and then pushed down the Ginseng Fruit Tree, which was trapped by the Immortal. Wukong asked for help from the three islands. Finally, he invited Guanyin to the South China Sea and saved the ginseng fruit tree with the nectar in the bottle.

To the White Tiger Ridge, the corpse demon wanted to harm Sanzang. He became a girl for the first time, an old woman for the second time, and a father-in-law for the third time. All of them were destroyed by the practitioner's knowledge. Due to the encouragement of the Eight Commandments, the strange Sanzang practitioners committed crimes, chanted the Tight Hoop Mantra and chased the walkers. The traveler returns to the Flower and Fruit Mountain as a demon. Sanzang was caught by the Yellow robed monster. The wife of Huangpao monster is the Princess of Baoxiang State, who saved her. It was said that the king sent Bajie and Shaseng to subdue the demons, but they were defeated by the Yellow robed monster. The Yellow robed monster entered the palace and framed Sanzang as a white tiger spirit. Bai Long's horse failed to save his master. He asked Bajie to invite him. The walker was defeated by the yellow robed monster, which was originally Kusuu. Wukong saves Shifu. Shifu and his disciples make up.

After crossing the Pingding Mountain, the three Tibetans ordered the eight commandments to patrol the road. At the beginning of Bajie, he slept lazily, and then lied to the teacher. All of them were discovered by the walkers. There are two demons in the mountain, golden horn and silver horn. The passer-by fights to catch them, but the demons are two furnace watchers of the old gentleman. Guanyin borrows them to transform the demons to test the Sanzang disciples.

During the night stay in Baolin Temple, Sanzang complained of the ghost of the Wuji King. The walker saved the king of Wuji and defeated the demon who killed the king and occupied the throne. The latter was originally the mount of Manjusri Bodhisattva, who took revenge according to the Buddha's order.

Arriving at Haoshan Mountain, he met Red Boy, the baby king. Sanzang was killed. Walker, Bajie and other rescuers were repeatedly defeated by demons. Red Boy was the son of his brother Niu Demon King in his early years. He changed into Niu Demon King and saved Sanzang without success. Red Boy was defeated by Samadhi Zhenhuo. Finally, Guanyin helped to rescue him. Avalokitesvara enslaves the red child as a child of good fortune.

If you cross the Heihe River, you will encounter a small alligator dragon. Sanzang is trapped underwater. The traveler invited the Dragon King to capture him.

Arriving at Chechi Country, we met three demons: tiger force, deer force and sheep force. Travelers, Bajie and Monk Sha make a scene in Sanqing Temple at night; Play a joke on the three demons. Later, he fought with the three demons in the palace. He gambled on praying for rain and guessing money. He also gambled on beheading, laparotomy, and boiling oil pots. All of them won, except the three demons.

After passing through the Tianhe River, I met a goldfish that became a demon in the lotus pond in front of the Goddess of Mercy. The goldfish method took Tang Monk into the Water Mansion. Guanyin came to collect the goldfish. Sanzang got Laoyuan to help him cross the river. Lao Yuan begged Sanzang Dai to ask the Buddha when he could get his life.

After crossing Jindou Mountain, he met the Unicorn King, and Sanzang was captured. After several fierce battles, the traveler invited all the divine soldiers to help him, and all of them failed. Later, the Tathagata pointed out that I would like you to capture me. It turned out that the goblin was riding a green ox for the old gentleman.

In the women's country of Xiliang, Sanzang and Bajie became pregnant after drinking the Zimu River. The traveler took the spring water from the womb to rescue them. The queen wanted to burden the Three Zang, and the traveler designed to get away from it. But Sanzang was also captured by the scorpion spirit in the Pipa Cave on the poisonous enemy's mountain. The voyager invited the Pleiades to destroy it. Once again, he encountered a thief on the way, and he killed it. Sanzang Strangers kill people and chase them away. The traveler had no choice but to appeal to Guanyin. When Sanzang was attacked by a faker, he took the baggage. The disciples thought that it was the voyager who did it. They sent Monk Sha to Huaguo Mountain to ask for it, but failed. Then they went to Guanyin in the South China Sea. Suddenly, they saw the voyager there again. Monk Sha was very angry. After the explanation of Guanyin, they stopped. The traveler goes to Huaguo Mountain to fight with the faker. The two travelers fight to the Buddha. The Tathagata explained that the faker was a six eared macaque and was killed.

The path of master and apprentice blocks the front of Flaming Mountain. The traveler heard that there was a plantain fan that could be overcome, but the fan was at Luosha, the mother of Red Boy and the wife of the Bull Demon King. The traveler rushes to the Luosha. First he borrows the ritual, then he extorts it. Luo Cha only lent the fake fan because the strange walker harmed Red Boy. The traveler went to the concubine of the cattle demon king to borrow the cow, but the cow refused; The traveler steals the mount of an ox, turns it into an ox, and gets a banana fan at the Luosha. But halfway, he was caught up by the Demon King Niu and changed into a Bajie look. Later, with the help of divine soldiers, he fought fiercely with the Bull Demon King and was defeated. He claimed fans to extinguish the flames.

To sacrifice to the Sai Kingdom, the traveler killed the king of the stolen treasure, the Dragon King of All Saints, and the nine sons in law.

After crossing the Thorn Ridge, Bajie waved palladium to open the road. At night, we meet bamboo spirits and tree demons. Sanzang is photographed and talks about poetry with goblins. Later, he was nailed by Bajie to build a demon tree.

In the small western sky, I met the king of yellow eyebrows. The goblins are good at making people. The walker invited all kinds of magic soldiers, but they were defeated. Later, he was subdued with the help of Maitreya Buddha. It turned out that the spirit was the child of the Buddha's former head.

After the Tuoluo Villa, the travelers and Bajie killed snake spirits and saved a village old and young.

After sparse persimmons, Bajie becomes a big pig and opens a dirt road all over the mountain.

In the State of Zhu Zi, the traveler treated the king and saved the Queen's Golden Palace, which was robbed by the demon Sai Taisui three years ago. Sai Taisui is a Guanyin who rides a golden lion to help the king.

After crossing Pansi Ridge, Sanzang encounters a spider spirit and suffers. The latter instigates the multi eyed centipede spirit to oppose Sanzang's master and disciples. The walker killed the spider spirit, and invited Pilanpo to catch the multi eyed monster.

To the Lion Camel Ridge, we met the three devils of green lion, white elephant and roc, and Sanzang suffered disaster; It is hard for a traveler to win through hard struggle. He goes to the West to ask Buddha. The Tathagata preached Manjusri and the universal sages subdued the demons. It turned out that lions and elephants were the mounts of two Bodhisattvas, and the Tathagata forced Dapeng to convert.

The king of bhikkhu was confused by the national abbot who was turned into a white deer by the birthday star. He wanted to use 1111 children's hearts as a drug guide. Wukong saved the baby and beat back the monster. The birthday star came to take away the white deer monster.

Sanzang saved a woman in the pine forest, but she was a demon. The master and apprentice stayed at Zhenhai Temple at night, and the walkers subdued the demons. The goblins took Sanzang to the bottomless cave in the empty mountain. The walker invited Nezha to help him. It turned out that this demon was the righteous daughter of King Li.

When France was destroyed, the king wanted to kill ten thousand monks, four less. At night, the traveler shaved all the hair of officials in the inner court of the imperial palace, five provinces and six ministries. He forced the king to convert to Bingshan and changed the country's name to Qinfa.

The leopard King of Jingnan Mountain, who wanted to eat Tang Monk's meat, fell asleep with a sleepy insect by Wukong, and Bajie killed him.

After Fengxian County, Sun Xinger saw that it had not rained for three years and that the disaster was serious. Because the princess had overthrown the vegetarian offerings of Zhaitian in the same year, he persuaded the county to return to charity. The whole county chanted Buddha and moved heaven to rain.

When they arrived in Yuhua Prefecture, the three brothers of Xingshi took three princes as apprentices; Imitate weapons such as gold hoop stick. As a result, the weapon was stolen by the yellow lion spirit of Baotou Mountain. The yellow lion spirit turned to its ancestor Jiuling Yuansheng for help. The traveler knows that the latter is the mount of Taiyi to save Ku Naivete, so he asks Naivete to subdue it.

When we passed Jinping Mansion, it happened to be the Lantern Festival. The Three Tibet Lantern Festival was captured by the Green Dragon Song Demon Spirit, the King of Pi Han, the King of Pi Shu, and the King of Pi Chen. The traveler invited four wooden birds to kill them and behead the monster in public.

The Jade Rabbit in the Moon Palace turns into a princess of the Kingdom of India and throws an embroidered ball to Tang Monk to recruit him as his son-in-law. Wukong meets with Taibai Xingjun to capture the Jade Rabbit and save the Princess.

Passing through the Diling County of Tongtai Prefecture, the bandits stayed outside their home and were well received. Hou Kou's family was stolen, and Kou Yuan was killed. Sanzang master and disciple were framed. The voyager uses the method to distinguish and save the bandit.

Sanzang disciples finally arrived at Lingshan Mountain, took a bottomless boat to cross Lingyun Fairy Ferry, and saw the Buddha begging for sutras. The Tathagata ordered A Nuo and Jia Ye to examine the scriptures and pass them on; A Nuo and Jia Ye asked Sanzang for permission, so they passed the Wuzi Sutra to Sanzang. The ancient Buddha Randeng ordered Master Bai to go halfway to seize the sutras. The four people knew the truth and returned to tell the Tathagata. The Tathagata said, "The scriptures must not be passed on lightly.". Sanzang sent the purple and gold bowl to Ah Nuo, and then sent out 5048 volumes of the Sutra. The Tathagata ordered the eight Vajra to escort the master and his disciples back to Dongtu. Guanyin looked at the book of difficulties experienced by the Tripitaka and found that there were 80 difficulties in total. He ordered to uncover the truth and catch up with Vajra. It was difficult to regenerate. At that time, Sanzang and others were falling to the Tongtian River, and an old turtle came to carry them across the river. Laoyuan blamed Sanzang for not asking about the return of the Buddha for him, so he quenched the water and the sutra was damaged. Finally, I completed the number of ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties. King Kong sent his disciples to Chang'an.

The Buddhist scriptures were sent back to Chang'an. After 14 times of cold and hot weather, Taizong was pleased to receive Tang Monk's apprentices. He made the Holy Preamble to show Tang Monk's merit. Tang Monk was chanting sutras on the stage of Yanta Temple. Guided by Vajra, the four disciples and their white horses turned back to Lingshan Mountain. The four returned to the Holy Mountain to listen to the seal: Sanzang was granted Zhantan Merit Buddha; Wukong defeats Buddha for fighting; Bajie is the messenger of the Pure Altar; Monk Sha is a golden Luohan; The white dragon horses are eight heavenly dragons, each of which belongs to its own standard. Sun Wukong also disappeared by himself.