Where is the Monkey King's native place?

Who is the Monkey King, the Great Sage of Qitian? In the Journey to the West, the Monkey King claimed to be "a native of Shuilian Cave in Huaguoshan, a proud country in China". According to expert research, "Dongsheng Shenzhou" is today's Lianyungang, Jiangsu. However, not long ago, archaeologists discovered the tomb of the "Monkey King Brothers" in Shunchang County, Fujian Province, and pointed out that the Monkey King should be from Fujian.

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According to the reporter's understanding, there are at least three versions of the Monkey King's origin: Indian, Shanxi and Gansu. Faced with the dispute over the hometown of the Monkey King, experts said that it is not appropriate to find a specific place as the hometown of the Monkey King. He is the product of China culture, and China is his hometown.

On the coast of the East China Sea, in Shunchang, Fujian, there is a high mountain called Baoshan. Rocky mountains, surrounded by ten thousand acres of bamboo forests; There are all kinds of wild fruits in the mountains, such as kiwi, peach, persimmon, and sometimes a few mountain monkeys leap by. There are two tombstones on the top of the mountain. One says "Great Sage in Heaven" and the other says "Great Sage in Heaven". According to research, these two tombstones have stood for nearly a thousand years.

Recently, Wang Yimin, director of the Cultural Management Institute of Shunchang County, Fujian Province, declared: "The ancient tomb we found at the top of Baoshan is the burial tomb of the Monkey King and his brother, which well proves that the prototype of the Monkey King came from Shunchang County, Fujian Province!" Therefore, Wang Yimin specially led reporters to Baoshan to inspect the Monkey King's "hometown".

The grotesque rocks in the mountains constitute a biography of Wukong.

Baoshan, the highest mountain in ancient Shunchang County, is about 36 kilometers away from Shunchang County, with an altitude of 1304 meters. There was a heavy rain in Shunchang before climbing the mountain. When the reporter and his party arrived at the foot of Baoshan, the raindrops in the sky somehow turned into snowflakes. Looking up at the top of the mountain, I saw snow and fog, and I couldn't tell which was the top of the mountain and which was the sky.

Wang Yimin took the reporter and climbed into the mountain road in the dense forest. The mountain road is steep and rugged, covered with snow, and you may roll down if you are not careful. While climbing the mountain, Wang Yimin searched for the strange rocks in the mountain and told reporters the legends of these strange rocks.

In front of my eyes, there is a huge stone, one meter wide, with cracks on the stone surface, which looks like gossip and is named "Fairy Stone". According to local folklore, the Monkey King was born from this stone. There is an "Eight Immortals Cave" at the lower end of the cliff to the left of the "Immortal Stone", which is eight caves with different shades juxtaposed in a straight line. The mouth of the cave drips water all the year round, as if hanging a water curtain. Some locals who have climbed into the cave said that there are stone tables, stone benches, stone beds and other things in the cave, and there are holes in the cave that are intertwined. It looks like "water curtain cave" described in The Journey to the West.

There are two open spaces between Baoshan pine forests, one is called "training ground" and the other is called "pointing table". According to local legend, after the Monkey King became king in water curtain cave, he trained his generals here, picked fresh peach blossoms and waited for the "children" to offer delicious food. Later, the Monkey King's behavior angered God, so all the heavenly soldiers and generals came to arrest him, and Erlang God also came with the roaring dog. On the edge of a cliff in Baoshan, there is a huge stone that looks like a lying wild dog. According to local legend, it was the roaring dog who was investigating the whereabouts of the Monkey King. Mountain soldiers will not be able to clean up the Monkey King, and finally the Tathagata will come forward.

In the Journey to the West, it is described that the Monkey King was captured by the Tathagata and was crushed at the foot of Wuxing Mountain, waiting for the Tang Priest and his disciples to come and rescue him. Near the top of Baoshan Mountain, there is a huge stone protruding from one side of the peak. Although covered with snow, it still looks like a monkey's head, sharp mouth and monkey's cheek, as if looking into the distance. A huge stone pillar with a huge stone resembling a monkey's brain is called "Monkey King with Needle" by local people.

At the top of Baoshan stands the Monkey King.

According to Wang Yimin, although there are many local legends, it is not enough to show that the prototype of the Monkey King, the Great Sage of Qi Tian in The Journey to the West, is in Shunchang, and the double holy tombs at the top of Baoshan Mountain are important evidence that the prototype of the Great Sage of Qi Tian came from Shunchang.

It took about four hours, and Wang Yimin finally reached the top of Baoshan with the reporters. At the foot, the canyon is steep and bottomless; The clouds are rolling in front of me, just like a fairyland. There are two buildings here, the worse gate and the Shuang Sheng Temple. The two buildings are back to back, one large and one small, and one high and one low are distributed in parallel at the top of Baoshan Mountain.

The main building of the worse gate has already collapsed, and the broken walls on the ground stands in the weeds. Wang Yimin brushed away the weeds and revealed a stone pillar engraved with the year number: "Daming Jiajing was rebuilt on an auspicious day in June, the twenty-seventh year." .

Shuang Sheng Temple, about 2 meters away from the worse gate, is a stone hut, about 20 square meters. Before entering the stone house, the reporter saw a stone statue of the Monkey King standing in Shuang Sheng Temple from the outside. His eyes are very bright. When he looks closely, he finds that they are two glasses. This the Monkey King has a stick in his hand. The stones on the soles of his feet and the base seem to have been broken, and someone has glued them together with cement. Wang Yimin explained: "This stone statue has no archaeological value. It may be shaped by modern people. "

The reporter walked into the stone house and saw two tombstones standing inside. The face of the tombstone is mottled and blurred, but the handwriting and pattern on it can still be recognized. On one side of the tombstone, the word "Baofeng" is carved horizontally, in the middle, the four characters "Qitian Sheng Da" are carved vertically, and the word "God" is carved horizontally below; On the top and around the tombstone, patterns such as snail carving and wishful thinking are carved as the background. On the other side of the tombstone, only the words "Great Sage" and "Divine Position" are engraved, and there are also patterns, but compared with the tombstone of Monkey King, it seems a bit crude.