The Outline of The Journey to the West's Twenty-third Story

The twenty-third journey to the west: Sanzang never forgets his roots, and the four saints try Zen.

The Tang Priest and his disciples arrived in Niuhe State and stayed at Jia's house. This woman is a widow with three beautiful daughters. Mrs. Jia hopes that Tang Priest can be a parent, but she doesn't know that Tang Priest never forgets his roots and only wants to learn from the scriptures. Pig Bajie had an idea, so it was inconvenient to say it, but he booed at the bottom and was reprimanded by the Tang Priest. On the grounds of releasing the horse, she slipped away to be a son-in-law, and the Monkey King became a dragonfly and followed. When I saw Pig Bajie, I became indifferent. I went back and told Master. When Bajie came back, the Tang Priest left him at Lady Jia's house.

Pig was greedy and wanted to monopolize Mrs. Jia's three daughters, but Mrs. Jia refused. He first put a handkerchief on his head and told him which one to marry. As a result, I don't know why, the pig can't catch it. Then the lady took out three brocade dresses and told him which one to marry. As a result, Pig was greedy and took it at once. But the brocade turned into a rope and hung the pig. The lady and her three daughters are all gone.

When I got up the next day, Tang Priest found that Mrs. Jia's house was completely gone, and only found a post. After reading it, I realized that everything last night was set up by Guanyin, Bodhisattva Samantabhadra and Mother Lishan in Nanhai to enlighten the Zen mind of the master and disciples. It is said in the post that Bajie needs to clean up his mortal heart. Looking for Bajie again, I found him hanging from a tree. And that pig Bajie, of course, vowed never to be a mortal again, and this was saved.

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Introduction of the main characters in the Twenty-third Journey to the West

Pig Bajie was originally Marshal Tian Peng under the Heaven Emperor who was in charge of Tianhe. Later, because of drunkenness, he molested the Nishang Fairy and made a scene, which attracted the picket of Lingguan. Later, he bowed down to the bullfighting palace with his mouth, ate Ganoderma lucidum and Cao Xian, and was hammered more than 2,000 times by the Jade Emperor before being sent to earth. When he was reborn on the earth, he mistakenly threw a pig fetus with a face similar to that of a wild boar. He once took Zhan Yundong in Fuling as a demon.

It killed the sow, the pigs, and adopted the second sister of the egg. She went to Zhanyun Cave in Fuling Mountain. Unexpectedly, a year later, the second sister of Egg died, leaving him with only one abode of fairies and immortals. At this time, I live in Yunzhan Cave and call myself "a pig." The Tang Priest, seeking Buddhist scriptures in the West, passed by Gao Laozhuang and had a fight with the Monkey King in Zhanyun Cave. Hearing the name of Tang Priest, he went to visit. After being accepted as a second apprentice by Tang Priest, Tang Priest nicknamed him "Bajie" to prevent him from eating five meats and three evils. Bajie became the Monkey King's good helper from then on, and together they protected Tang Priest from going to the Western Heaven for Buddhist scriptures.

In the novel, Tang priest and his disciples are often in trouble because of their laziness, gluttony and lust. After retrieving the scriptures, Zhu Bajie was named the altar messenger because of his "stubborn heart and persistent color". It can change into thirty-six, fly clouds and fog, and the weapon used is nine-tooth nail palladium, also known as Baoqin Gold Palladium. In The Journey to the West, Pig Bajie is also known as Mu Mu or Mulong (Pig Bajie belongs to true yin and five elements belong to wood), which often appears in books or poems.

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