The Journey to the West has no cultural value

As one of the four great classical Chinese novels, Journey to the West is not only grand in length and bizarre in plot, but also rich in cultural information contained in its stories. If we look at the literary point of view of reading Journey to the West, different people will have various opinions if they look at Journey to the West from different angles, just as Mr. Wu Sheng-liang said: "It is certainly not bad to be inspired by the perspective of the class struggle, but it can be said that we can't get enough of the revelation from the perspective of the daily human situation. " If we look at the Journey to the West from a management standpoint without a literary perspective, we can also derive different benefits from it. For example, the Tang Monk and his disciples are regarded as a team, and the journey to the West is regarded as a project goal. It should be said that this goal is very difficult, and the four members of this team have very different personalities. But they finally realized the goal and achieved success. The successful journey of the Longevity Monk and his disciples to fetch the scriptures is still inspirational to our team building and the "team spirit" embodied in the book. Summarizing the whole book, what is the successful experience of the Tang Monk and his disciples in fetching scriptures? How did they overcome the difficulties? In this paper, we refer to the literature on the study and review of the Journey to the West, and do a proper literature review on the study, evaluation and team spirit of the Journey to the West.

II. Basic Contents

The Journey to the West is a classical novel y embedded in the essence of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism culture. Through the description of the process of scripture-taking and the portrayal of Sun Wukong, the book embodies the pursuit of human freedom and human dignity, and honors the spiritual culture of struggle and desire for wisdom and power, so that the work, while marking the characteristics of the era on which it is based, reflects a certain kind of **** the same life ideas and desires of the Chinese nation and even the whole of mankind, and it has the artistic characteristics and permanent life of a spiritual culture textbook. Wu Jinmei in "& lt; Journey to the West & gt; the wisdom of life" wrote: "Journey to the West" can be said to recount an example of the persistent pursuit of their own cause; as a mythological novel, "Journey to the West" from the side of the side to show us human beings on the real life is difficult to achieve all kinds of good wishes of hope and longing.

But Yao Heng, in "Journey to the West" is a tragic novel, commented that: Li Zhi of the Ming Dynasty only thought that "Journey to the West" was a game in which the secret meaning was transmitted. Critics in the Qing Dynasty thought it was only a strange book of "Zen and Taoism". Even the great scholar Hu Shi also thinks: "Journey to the West" is at most a funny and comical novel, mythological fiction, and not very interesting. Lu Xun in "the history of the Chinese novel" and "the history of the Chinese novel changes" has also discussed, such as: Lu Xun "the history of the Chinese novel changes" cloud: Cheng En Ben is good at comical, he spoke of the demon's joy, anger, sadness, joy, are close to humane, so people like to see! ...... Because the Journey to the West is all about demons, we read it, but we find it funny. Agree with this as well.

So does Journey to the West have its cultural value, ideology or relevance?

Li Anzang mentioned in "Seven Discoveries about Journey to the West--Speech at the 2002 Academic Symposium on Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West in Huai'an" that "Journey to the West" is not a novel of gods and demons, fairy tale, myth, satire, or burlesque, as said by Lu Xun, Hu Shi and others, but is the only oriental novel in the history of the world's literature that has a cultural value and practical significance. In the history of literature, it is the only self-conscious carrier of traditional oriental culture, a cultural novel. Li Anzang's point of view is different from what Lu Xun, Hu Shih and others said about it being a novel of gods and devils, fairy tale novel, mythological novel, satirical novel or comical novel, and he elevated it to the level of "a conscious carrier of culture", which is not a "work of culture". This is a great affirmation of the cultural value of Journey to the West by Li Anzang.

All spiritual products in history, no matter whether they are paintings or sculptures, dramas or novels, and no matter whether they belong to the West or the East, are the carriers of the cultural information hunger of the countries and the times. For example, the Homeric Hymns reflect the ancient Greek concept of the mingling of man and god, and novels such as The Gadfly, Notre Dame de Paris, and The Red and the Black graphically reflect the devotional beliefs of the European national populace in Christianity since modern times. In ancient China, a poem or a fugue, or a legend or a long novel, are all loaded with rich historical and cultural information. For example, Bai Juyi's satirical oracle poem shows the Confucian ideology of benevolence and government, the "Records of Yueyang Tower" shows the Confucian consciousness of worry before happiness, and the "Red Cliff Fugue" reflects the Taoist outlook on life, etc.; in the novels, the orthodox thought of "Three Over the Edicts", the loyalty and righteousness thought of "Water Margin", and the thought of "Dream of the Red Chamber" are very distinctive. All have their existence of cultural value.

In fact, it is not difficult to see that Journey to the West has its own cultural value. Mr. Huang Huo mentioned in his "On the Cultural Connotation of Journey to the West" that "Journey to the West", as a novel of literati creation of gods and demons, compared with ancient Chinese deification and foreign deification, its mythological thought is wordy, not hazy; it is systematic, not fragmentary; it is literary, not mythological; therefore, through the mythological veneer of the novel, to excavate the cultural significance of its connotation. Mr. Huang Huo also interpreted its cultural significance through three dimensions, including: self-help of the soul and cultivation of the personality; the spirit of freedom of unruly individuality and the spirit of pursuit and exploration for the purpose of benefiting mankind without any fear of difficulties and dangers; and the integration and reshaping of the personality.

In addition to its distinctive cultural value, Journey to the West also has its unique ideological value, Zhao Meiying said in her article "Re-conceptualization of the Ideology of Journey to the West": Ideology is the soul of literature, which tends to take a certain genre as a carrier, and expresses itself through the image and character of the task as well as the complex plot. The ideology of the work is full of the author's knowledge and understanding of time, nature, society, and life, and is a concrete embodiment of the author's view of time and life. The author Wu Cheng'en is good at expressing ideas through story depiction tasks. He has the keen eyes of a philosopher, stands at a higher angle, and uses extraordinary thinking to observe nature to view society. His Journey to the West is different from previous literary works, firstly he does not overplay the class and political nature. He generally judges man and nature only by good and evil. Secondly, the ideas he reflects are not confined to those of one country, one class, one age or one religion. The object of his study includes the whole human race and the natural world, and then he judges the good and evil, beauty and ugliness of man and nature. The third does not hand the limitation of time. The scope of space (from the heavenly palace, to the earthly countries, to the netherworld, and even the sea dragon palace) and the concept of time depicted in Journey to the West are not time and space in the general sense, such as the Monkey King's one somersault of 108,000 miles, and the five hundred years under the five rows of the mountain, etc. He utilizes the special genre of mythological novels. He used the special genre of mythological novels, give full play to his imagination, old reflecting his unique knowledge and understanding of nature, society and even the whole history of human development, it can be said that the "Journey to the West" of this monumental is the author's embassy, the outlook on life, is a rare sociological masterpiece.

How do foreign countries look at the Journey to the West? Let's take a simple example, they are so understanding of "Journey to the West", in Liu Wenjing, "they explain" Journey to the West "when described in this way: Switzerland, a township high school, a teacher is on the foreign literature, a student asked the teacher to introduce the Chinese "Journey to the West", the teacher explained: the story is about a Chinese monk traveled to the West experience. He rode a white horse and took with him a servant named Monk Sha. To pass the loneliness of the journey, he also took a pet monkey and a pet pig on the road. Along the way, the monk passed through many high mountains, crossed a crater called the Flame Mountain, and met a land of daughters where there were only girls. It is said that the monkey he brought with him was very powerful and cleared many obstacles for him along the way, but in fact it was only a scorpion, two centipedes, five weasels, seven spiders, etc., and the big animals yo a cow, two lions and three wolves. Monkey also has some puzzling behavior, such as a fire to burn things, along the way burned a few holes, a tree, and a few beautiful palace, but also around a pile of hundred bones to fight many times before stopping. Monk with a pet pig look up nothing useful, just as a journey of boredom tools, it is said to have eaten four watermelons, the monk, the servants, monkeys, a share of all eaten, but also said that it molested seven spiders, spiders were a vicious bite. The servant, however, was of little use, carrying a pair of broken baggage all day long, at his mercy. It took the monk thirteen years to get to India, to find some Indian Buddhist scriptures, and to return home in triumph as if he had won a treasure. The students were very surprised to hear this: firstly, they could not imagine that the Chinese were so keen on adventure; secondly, they could not imagine that the Chinese were fond of pet pigs a thousand years ago. We can take this as a funny story, or just a joke, or we can think of it in a different way.

But from today's perspective, there are some strong flavors to be tasted. From a management point of view, the team in Journey to the West is perfect, and they overcome difficulties and demons under unfavorable conditions, reflecting the "team spirit" everywhere. The so-called team spirit is simply the concentration of the sense of the big picture, the spirit of cooperation and the spirit of service. Team spirit is based on respect for individual interests and achievements. The core is cooperation, the highest state is the centripetal force of all members, cohesion, reflecting the unity of individual interests and overall interests, and thus ensure the efficient operation of the organization. The formation of team spirit does not require team members to sacrifice themselves, on the contrary, the brandishing of individuality, performance strengths to ensure that the members *** with the completion of the task objectives, and a clear willingness to collaborate and collaborative approach to produce a real inner motivation. Li Huibo said in "Team Spirit": "A person survives and develops by a spiritual force. The same is true for an enterprise, the individual spirit of countless people will be fused into a **** the same team spirit: this is the beginning of a prosperous enterprise." This is a philosophy, a corporate philosophy. Starting to study the Journey to the West from a management perspective is a relatively new and popular direction. The success of the Tang Monk and his disciples in their quest for the scriptures was permeated by the "team spirit". Here, I refer to the historical views on this issue, combined with some of my own thinking, the "Journey to the West" embodied in the team spirit of some sort of collation and generalization:

(a) a clear goal, the spirit of never say die.

The success of the team must have a clear and attractive goal, the Journey to the West team has a clear goal - to go to the Western Paradise to get the real scriptures, but to go through nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties. At the same time, the Tang Monk to the West to get the scriptures of the strategic decision-making is 50 years unchanged, 100 years do not waver. ("Western management with", the official tour of the book)

(ii) people-oriented, with people's strengths, effective team formation.

There is a goal, the reality of the goal to have the ability to implement. So the key to the success of the team but also the participation of people, people-oriented. Shang Shui Li in the "team spirit: feel the power of team spirit = synergy" mentioned: the root cause of the strong competitiveness of enterprises not only lies in the excellence of the individual ability of its employees, but also lies in the overall "group synergy" of its employees, but also lies in the kind of ubiquitous pervasive in the enterprise "team spirit! "

Why?

Why these four people, less one can not? I'm afraid not, less any one person, whether to complete the great mission to go to the West to fetch the scriptures have to be a question mark. The four same type of people can not? No. From the perspective of their personalities, the ubiquitous "team spirit" pervades.

The Tang Monk: the most respected and central figure in the team. He is extremely career-minded, extremely firm in his beliefs, and exceptionally persistent. The Longevity Monk has only one goal: to overcome all the difficulties and reach the Western Paradise, to meet the Buddha, and to get the real scriptures. No matter what difficulties and obstacles encountered demons and monsters, confidence will never waver. He is actually the role of the regional manager we are talking about. As a party in charge of the "big official", absolutely should have this kind of spirit of defying difficulties, and its mental outlook affects the morale of the whole team. Difficulties are only temporary, and the future is bright!

Sun Wukong: definitely the backbone of the team. The road to the scriptures to subdue the demons are basically handed over to him, as long as he went out, nothing can be difficult to take him. He is a strong and powerful man, with a wide range of abilities. At the same time, he is a big interpersonal, extensive channels, rich resources. However, there are individual cases of impatience and disobedience.

Piggy: lazy, uninspired, get by, not much ability, but the daily work done is not bad, such as the demon-subduing, picking burdens, regulating the team atmosphere. It can also be said to be a living treasure in the team.

Shasan: a very loyal member. Work hard, willing to dedicate, regardless of personal gains and losses, just bury their heads in the sand.

(3) Positive communication and effective conflict resolution.

Liu Renmin said on "Focus on Team Spirit" that communication is the glue of team spirit. The conflict in Journey to the West mainly centered on the Tang Monk and his great disciple Sun Wukong, but with effective and positive communication, the four masters and disciples made up, worked together, and rushed to the Western Paradise.

(4) The management of the emotions is emphasized by the combination of grace and authority.

The aspect of this embodiment of the Tang Monk on the management of the Monkey King, on the one hand, he was on the Sun Wukong grace, on the other hand, and to put pressure on him, so that the grace of the Wukong and the use of the Wukong to realize the effective management of the Sun Wukong. Shi Shaohua in the "Journey to the West" in the way of employing people, said: although the Tang Monk has no power, but can mobilize the three temperament, temperament of different disciples, thorny, all the way to the Western Paradise, of course, not only rely on the "tightrope curse". Care for each disciple, so that they show their strengths, each in its own way, with the "master-disciple love" cohesion is also a "winning formula".

(E) Think of danger in times of peace and perfect the team.

One step of success does not mean eternal success. Even if you go through eighty difficulties, you can't get the real scriptures without going through eighty-one difficulties. And it is through a series of difficulties, the Tang Monk teacher and disciples through all kinds of trials and tribulations. Constantly overcoming difficulties, in the victory over suffering, perfect team. A perfect team can better reflect the "team spirit", more powerful fighting force.

A team needs to be screwed together to produce 1+1>2 effect, and through the nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties, the Tang Monk teachers and disciples form a team with superb fighting strength, and their combination has finally produced 1+1>2 chemical effect. The Tang Sanzang and others returned the scriptures to Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and his real body returned to the Spirit Mountain. Sanzang was named Chandan Meritorious Buddha, Wukong was named Battle Victorious Buddha, the Eight Precepts were named Pure Altar Bearers, Monk Sha was named Golden Buddha, and the White Dragon Horse was elevated to the Eight Heavenly Dragons, each returning to his original position to ****enjoy the supreme bliss.

Three, conclusion and summary

Once again, to borrow the words of Mr. Wu Shengxuan: "people from the perspective of the class struggle to be extended to obtain inspiration is certainly not bad, if from the perspective of the daily life of the world to draw from the revelation of the world, it can be said to take the exhaustion." Explore reading "Journey to the West" whether from a literary point of view or from a management point of view, different people look at "Journey to the West" from different perspectives, there will be a variety of points of view, and it has a wealth of literary value, cultural value, ideological and practical significance is unquestionable, it is the treasure of the Chinese culture of the acacia.