Coquettish Rebirth

Jia Hongjian and the others have made such an outline of the story, so it is really drastic to make various deletions and revisions, and in the end, it can even be said that the theme comes first-in order to finally make Tang Seng a monk who is not qualified with six unclean roots , so the selection of each story is based on various precepts!On the surface of the first layer of stories, it is the story of Tang Seng taking three apprentices on an adventure all the way, but, in the second layer of stories, each of these is that the Buddhist precepts have been broken by Tang Seng!

For example, such a thing as ginseng fruit was "corrupted" by Jia Hongjian and the others.Originally, the ginseng fruit in the original book was a magical fruit that absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon, but in this adapted story, it became a cover for breaking the "abstinence from meat"!In other words, eating ginseng fruit on the surface is actually breaking the precepts and eating meat!You know, in Chinese classical Chinese Buddhism, the two characters for meat and meat are not separated to represent meat!

In the earliest Indian Buddhism, Sakyamuni taught everyone to eat, not to eat things that taste too pungent, such as all kinds of onions and garlic.Later, in the process of dissemination, because it involved the issue of killing—can’t it be said that monks eat meat, and then they don’t kill themselves and let others kill them to eat?So there is a so-called five-clean meat, that is, it is not killed by oneself or seen by oneself, nor is it killed twice for him. If a chicken dies but is not eaten, the chicken monk can eat it.But when it came to the Northern and Southern Dynasties.Buddhism in China began to strongly advocate vegetarianism because of the promotion of Emperor Wu of Liang, so in the end they didn't even eat meat.But at the same time Theravada Buddhism, that is, Theravada Buddhism spread in Southeast Asia, they can still eat meat!

Therefore, Jia Hongjian and the others devised such a story that the ginseng fruit does not necessarily represent meat, but can also be all kinds of onions, garlic and pungent tastes!Of course, the most important representative is meat.So when Tang Seng ate ginseng fruit, he actually ate meat.Then, the Tang monk went to the hut.A bunch of "body impurities" are discharged.And what does this plot actually represent?It is a long time vegetarian who suddenly eats meat, it is easy to have diarrhea!It's like Hui Hui who don't eat pork, suddenly they will have diarrhea when they eat pork or even lard!The gut can't adapt!

Apart from the fact that eating ginseng fruit means breaking the abstinence from meat, Jia Hongjian and the others have designed a lot of content.For example, the robbers I met at the beginning.That is breaking the killing ring!In fact, Tang Seng was alone in order to survive.Kill the robbers and whatnot!

Then, it seems that the story of the bottomless pit and the story of the daughter country were combined into one, and it was designed as a caravan encountered.Then everyone arrived at a tribe that resembled an oasis in the desert at night.Then there are many women in the tribe, and the leader among these women took a fancy to Tang Seng, and it turned out that the leader of this woman was actually a goblin!What is this about?Behind this superficial story of an adventure story, it is actually about Tang Seng breaking the lust ring!You can even break a drinking ring in it!

Then, there will be another story about the real and fake Monkey King.Legend has it that there is a six-eared macaque who is exactly the same as Monkey King. In the end, he finds a little goblin and turns into Tang Seng, Zhu Bajie and others, and goes to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures.In the end, Tang Seng and Sun Wukong, of course, defeated the goblins by themselves without the help of the so-called Mantian gods and Buddhas!On the surface, this story looks like a very exciting plot, but what does it actually represent?It's "jealousy"!This is one of the so-called "seven deadly sins" in Christianity and Catholicism!In Catholicism and Christianity, it is said that people are born with original sin.Then educate the common people to be less overeating, less greedy, less lazy and less proud, less lustful, and less angry and jealous!

Then, Jia Hongjian and the others wrote the plot of the true and false Monkey King very imaginatively, and wrote all kinds of wonderful fights, which required all kinds of amazing special effects to support.But what about the gory story beneath this first layer of story?That is, the core of this story is not about encountering a fake Monkey King and a fake Tang Seng or something.It's just that Tang Seng, who was on the road alone in the real situation, unexpectedly met another monk who also went to learn scriptures spontaneously!And isn't this monk about to compete with Tang Seng for business?Tang Seng walked so hard all the way, killing people and setting fire, is it easy for him?As a result, your sister came to India, and someone came to snatch the business!And this person is not actually going to India like Tang Seng, but the monk has already learned the scriptures and is going back!If you let the other party go, then turn around and wait for Tang Seng to go back, isn't there nothing left?All the benefits of fame are gone!

So Tang Seng became malicious!Just kill the monk, his students, servants and everything!However, the scriptures that the monk brought back are not the same as those in the original "Journey to the West" and can be understood by just holding them-the scriptures must be written in Sanskrit!Tang Seng doesn't know Sanskrit, how can he understand it?Why did you go back after grabbing the scriptures?And these scriptures are not very precious in India, so he simply buried these scriptures and went to India by himself.When I arrived in India, I learned all kinds of Sanskrit.More than ten years later, I recruited people again, and led the team back to Datang with a batch of scriptures!After returning to Datang, all these scriptures were returned, but no one could understand them, and only Tang Seng could translate them!So in the end, Tang Seng will definitely not be punished!Tang Seng's adventure in this real and false Monkey King is actually the story of Tang Seng's greed and jealousy, murder and robbery!

After Tang Seng returned to the Tang Dynasty, if this is really counted, in just a few short adventure stories, this Tang Seng has violated all the precepts that monks are not allowed to violate!If we talk about the pie in "Youth Pie", it still eats people and kills people all the way to survive. This can still be tolerated by the law and society-in fact, the laws of all countries basically have emergency avoidance clauses, that is, for their own sake. Inadvertently injuring the life of another person without taking care of it is not murder.As for those who can eat people, they eat corpses, and they have to do so to survive!But what about Tang Seng, Tang Seng is not simply for survival!If we say that when we encountered bandits at the beginning, it was a crime of killing to survive, then what Tang Seng did later on was actually less and less like the behavior of a good man who was forced, such as the story of the true and false Monkey King. , he just had an evil intention on his own!

It can be said that such a Tang Seng is really not a good person, and it is okay to say that he is a villain!After all, you can kill people for your own benefit!However, it is such a person who has made great contributions to taking the scriptures to Datang now!After the translation of this scripture, the ruling class can better manage the people, and can make the people believe in truth, goodness and beauty... Then such a "scumbag" full of evil was given the name of a mage, and after his beautified story As soon as it spread in the world, he himself changed from a villain and murderer to an image of an eminent monk who dislikes killing and even does not distinguish between good and evil... What an irony!What an anti-"anti-hero"!

What is an anti-anti-hero?Let’s talk about anti-heroes first. Anti-heroes mean that heroes are villains. For example, in American comics, superheroes are all kinds of truth, goodness and beauty, and all kinds of greatness and righteousness.But the only popular anti-hero is "The Punisher", and this Punisher is an ordinary person without any superpowers!And what they usually do is break the law and discipline - because the law can't control the bad guys, so he stood up and lynched, ran to the bad guy's house and killed them indiscriminately!There will even be incidents of accidentally killing an undercover policeman!Can such a person be considered a hero?It should be counted, but what he does is definitely not the kind that children can learn!But everyone has to nod and say that this person is doing a good job!It's doing justice for the heavens!

But what about Tang Xuanzang written by Jia Hongjian and the others?Where is the shadow of a hero?What this person did was killing people and taking goods, and even though he killed bad people at the beginning, in the end he killed good people and people without reason!It is not an exaggeration to say that such a person is a villain?But such a person finally became a great hero after being packaged by the government's propaganda!Isn't this ironic?Isn't this a complete reversal of the anti-hero routine?This Tang Seng doesn't do justice for the sky at all, and he should even be the kind of guy who is done for the sky!But his official reputation is so good!

Just one of us is full of irony, and not just irony, on the surface there is another one full of Hollywood visual effects, fighting and spells are so visually stunning, so it makes people feel that it is worth the fare!And at the end there is a magical ending like O'Henry, and there is such a real story full of irony!This is really the first layer of stories that can make money commercially, and the second layer of stories can win prizes, right?In the end, just looking at the outline of the story, Jia Hongjian himself felt that if we made this story, if we didn't get a box office of [-] billion US dollars and be nominated for an Oscar, then we would be considered a failure!

The plot designed by Jia Hongjian would absolutely blow up 2000% of the movies in the ten years from 2010 to 99! (To be continued..)