In the novel Journey to the West, after Tang Seng and others left the country of Zhuzi, they went to a nunnery. At this time, Tang Seng suddenly changed his character. He no longer complained about being hungry and urged the monkey to go to Huazhai to eat. Instead, he got off his horse and insisted on going to the nunnery to Huazhai in person. What does the word nunnery mean? It should be a cluster of buildings where female Buddhist believers live. You can imagine that there are more women here.
The title of this chapter is "The Seven Emotions in Pansi Cave and the Eight Precepts in Zhuogu Spring". Tang Monk had never transformed the temple by himself before, but before he arrived at the nunnery, he insisted on going by himself. His disciples kept trying to persuade him and tried to stop him. Can't help but this has some hidden meanings. The book "The Seven Emotions and Six Desires" even shows that Tang Monk was obsessed with the seven emotions and six desires, and his Buddha's heart was a little unstable. Maybe it was not lust, but curiosity and visits to lesbians. Desire, this is also the normal mentality of a mortal. Anyone who is tired from walking wants to relax for a while, enjoy the beautiful scenery, and visit the female Bodhisattva. This kind of little thought is cute.
Tang Monk secretly caught a glimpse of four women doing women's knitting in front of the window of the nunnery. After entering the hut, he saw three women playing football in the courtyard. Tang Monk stopped here to admire it for a long time, thinking that he would be laughed at by his disciples if he couldn't make enough food for fasting or he would be late when he returned home, so he had no choice but to call the female Bodhisattva to give him fasting.
When the seven women served a banquet of human flesh and human brains, Tang Monk smelled the fishy smell and refused to use his chopsticks, fearing that he would be unable to obtain the scriptures if he broke the precepts. The women also refused to bring vegetarian dishes to the table, so Tang Monk could only beg the women to let him out. It's a pity that people won't let go when the fat meat comes to their lips, so Tang Monk was tied up with silk ropes and hung on the beam by the women, waiting for him to finish bathing before eating.
At this time, the monkey shouted on the peach tree: "No, no! Master has met a monster!" This is very intriguing. Why didn't the monkey check the nunnery with sharp eyes to see if there were monsters at the beginning? Angry, why did you wait until Tang Monk was tied up before making an afterthought? 1. Maybe it’s because the monkey discovered that the master was a little moved. He was not an uninterested person and would not deliberately disturb the master’s affair. Every time Tang Seng encountered a beautiful woman chasing him, the monkey would first encourage the master to accept the beauty. He waited until the master firmly expressed his refusal before helping the master get rid of the entanglement of the beautiful woman. 2. Maybe the spider spirit restrained the evil spirit in advance on purpose. The monkey was indeed a little careless and didn't notice it at first, just like the monkey went to the Centipede Spirit's Huanghua Temple and didn't realize that the person was the centipede spirit. No matter what kind of thoughts the monkey has, they are all cute and naughty.
The monkey quickly called Tu Tu out to ask about the origin of the goblin. Tu Tu said that this is Pansi Ridge, and there is a Pansi Cave under the ridge, with seven female fairies in the cave. Three miles away there is a Zhuogu Spring, which was originally the bathing pool of the Seven Immortals above. Ten years ago, the goblins came here to occupy the hot spring, and the fairies gave the hot spring to the goblins. They had to bathe three times a day.
The monkey hurried to Zhuogu Spring and saw seven women taking a bath. The monkey thought that a good man would not fight with the women and refused to fight at this time. He just stole all their clothes and went back to trick Bajie to deal with the banshee. . This corresponds to the story of the seven fairies. The seven fairies came down to earth to take a bath in the hot spring. The Cowherd saw them and secretly took away their clothes. The fairies were in a hurry. The Cowherd returned the clothes to them in time. The youngest among them, the Weaver Girl, liked it. After falling in love with the Cowherd, the two secretly married without telling the heaven. But when it comes to the monkey, the story takes a turn. The fairy will not fall in love with the gangster just because he peeks at the gangster's behavior of bathing and stealing clothes. It has made a spicy adaptation of the folklore of wisdom, which is in line with the author's usual witty writing style. wind.
Soon Bajie ran to bathe with the spider spirits and played tricks on them. The banshee released spider silk from her belly button to subdue Bajie. She returned to Pansi Cave and put on her old clothes, leaving her seven godsons to hold off the enemy. , he ran away and ran to his senior brother to avoid the limelight. The monkey came to Pansi Cave and saw seven little demons. They immediately announced their identities: "I am the son of Qixiangu. You have insulted my mother, and you dare to knock on my door because you are ignorant! Don't leave! Be careful!". There is a saying called Tongyanwuji. Children's words are the most true. They directly said that the seven spider spirits are the Seven Fairies.
So in the story about Zhuogu Spring mentioned in the previous land, Qixiangu's hot spring was occupied by spider spirits. It should be that Qixiangu changed her face and identity and continued to live here.
Why do you say that?
The first point is that the time and motivation are right. The Spider Spirit has been in Pansi Cave for ten years, that is, as soon as Tang Monk and others started to go on the road to learn Buddhist scriptures, the seven fairies immediately changed their identities and appearances in the mortal world and waited on the Xitian Road. When Tang Monk came to Pansi Cave, they were already waiting. Ten years. The Seven Fairies once picked peaches for the Queen Mother, but they only picked small, green peaches. The big ripe ones were all eaten by monkeys. Therefore, they were likely to be blamed and punished, resented the monkeys, and came down to earth to cause disaster. This kind of novel about gods and demons pays the most attention to cause and effect, just like Kui Mulang descending to earth and consummating their marriage with Baihua Xian. The Jade Rabbit was slapped by the fairy from Guanghan Palace and held a grudge, so they went to the mortal world together to avenge the fairy who went down to earth and endured calamities.
The second point is that the special expertise is also right. Although the Seven Fairies appeared in the Peach Garden to pick peaches, they were better at spinning and weaving. They were in charge of the Heavenly Weaving Bureau and weaved colorful robes for the Queen Mother, so they wore red, plain, green, soap and purple. , yellow, green, and seven-color clothes are all woven with hard work by myself. The spider spirit is also good at spinning silk and weaving cocoons. She does needlework while sitting in her yard. When she goes to her senior brother centipede spirit's backyard, she also weaves and tailors clothes. When fighting against enemies, her weapons and moves are nothing more than spinning silk to entangle the enemy and wrap them around them. He was tied into a cocoon and had no other special skills.
The third point is that the godson calls Spider Spirit the Seven Fairies. One is because children speak more truthfully and unabashedly, and the other is because children are single and timid, and bully the weak and fear the strong. When they meet an opponent, they will indeed adopt a powerful identity in order to bluff and drive away the enemy. The old pig said that our mother is the Seventh Immortal Girl, which is a bit like Li saying "my father is Li Gang". The backstage of the Seventh Fairy Girl is the Queen Mother. After all, she has an established identity. Normal people will be afraid of it. It's very weird for little monsters to say this. normal. The Seven Immortals themselves didn’t say that, of course because they had known the monkey for a long time. The monkey didn’t even look down on the Queen Mother. Saying this would have no effect at all and would be counterproductive. But how could the poor children know the whole story? , so everyone was killed by the monkeys.
Someone said that if the spider spirits had a backstage, they would not be killed by monkeys. This is indeed true. The spider spirit has no backstage. In the novel, the Queen Mother is the same as the Jade Emperor. They are basically the people with the highest political status. They will not stand up for the monsters in their palace. Once something goes wrong, they can only admit defeat. . Just like the emperors in ancient times would blame the shit on their cronies in order to divert the anger of the common people and divert class conflicts: "Look, all the wrong things I did were instigated by the traitorous ministers around me. Now I have killed him. You unscrupulous people should just calm down." Other big guys will stand up for their cronies, but the royal family’s starting point for doing things is to consolidate their rule. The so-called most ruthless imperial family. In the Ming Dynasty, the use of this imperial technique reached its peak. A very typical example is Jiajing always pushed the elders under him out of the way when encountering class conflicts. If one fell, he would promote a new elder to come to power.
In fact, the demon is an identity when he descends to the earth. He temporarily leaves the establishment and goes to a certain place to become a mountain king incognito. In the name of revenge, renewal of relationship, or completion of cause and effect, he rationally plunders private resources. In the whole novel, which immortal descends to earth and is not a demon, such as Kuimu Lang, Jade Rabbit Spirit, Green Bull Spirit, Golden and Silver Horn King, etc. However, the story in Journey to the West is described in its entirety, making the story not a folklore. That is all monotonous and one-sided praise, but there are good and bad, positive and negative, which makes it more full and real.