What are the character traits of the Monkey King

1. Responsible and courageous: the Monkey King willingly endured the pain of being recited a spell by the Tang Monk, and suffered the pain over and over again, but did not brush his sleeve away.

2. Cynicism, not afraid of power: when he saw the people suffering, the Monkey King would put himself in the people's shoes to save them from the hot and watery situation. He even went so far as to offend the Jade Emperor and even Buddha.

3. Good and evil are clearly distinguished, and things are done cautiously: when encountering all kinds of monsters, no matter how they hide from the sea, but can't fool the Monkey King, every time he meets a special person, the Monkey King will be carefully observed, so he seldom will fall into the trap of monsters.

4. Enduring humiliation: On his journey to the west, the Monkey King was "once angry and twice banished" by his master.

5. Courage to sacrifice: as the "holy monk" of the senior disciples, every encounter with demons and monsters, or by the plotting and scheming, he has taken the initiative to help, in the front, and the forces of evil, fighting in the forefront, where the most dangerous, where there is the Monkey King's figure.

6. strong-willed, dare to suffer: when the Monkey King was put into the Supreme Lord's gossip furnace, we see, almost burned to death by the three flavors of real fire, fortunately, Taixing Laojun intentionally put in the inside of the Golden Dan, otherwise, the Monkey King on this one life. The Monkey King has the Golden Eyes of Fire, which he got after experiencing hardship and suffering.

Expanded Information

The Monkey King is one of China's most famous mythological characters, from the Four Great Masterpieces of the Journey to the West. Ancestral home of Dongsheng Shenzhou, by the opening of the sky since the birth of the immortal stone, for leading the group of monkeys into the Water Curtain Cave and become the king of the monkeys, honored as the "Monkey King". Afterwards, he went through thousands of mountains to worship Master Su Bodhi as a teacher to learn the art, and got the name of Sun Wukong, and learned the earthly number of seventy-two changes, somersault clouds, immortality, and other superb spells.

Sun Wukong first made a fuss in the Dragon Palace to get the Golden Hoop Cudgel, and then made a fuss in the hell to hook the book of life and death, and then was recruited by the heavenly realm, and was appointed as the Butterfly Horse Warmer. After learning of his lowly position, he returned to the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits in anger, and overcame the crusade of Tota Heavenly King and the Third Prince, forcing the Jade Emperor to appoint him as the Great Sage of Qi Tian, and built the Great Sage of Qi Tian's Mansion in the Heavenly Court, where he was ordered to manage the Garden of Peaches.

Because of drunkenness, he messed up the Queen Mother's Peach Festival, stole the golden elixir of the Supreme Lord and refined it into an invincible body, and by mistake, he refined his fiery eyes in the alchemy furnace of the Supreme Lord. After that, he made a fuss in the Heavenly Palace, 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals, the four heavenly kings and the 28 starry hosts couldn't defeat him, and then he lost in the betting fight with Rulai, and was pressed in the Five Elements Mountain (renamed the Two Boundaries Mountain during the Tang Dynasty) which was transformed into the Five Elements Mountain (renamed the Two Boundaries Mountain during the Tang Dynasty) under the Rulai shedding a hand for more than five hundred years to repent for repentance.

After the enlightenment of the Goddess of Mercy, he was rescued by the Tang Monk, with the name of Walker, and protected the Tang Monk to get the scriptures in the West, fighting demons and devils all the way, braving hardships and suffering, and undergoing nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties, and finally obtaining the true scriptures to achieve the right results, and was named as the Buddha of the victory of the fighting spirit.

The Monkey King is smart, lively, loyal and cynical by nature, and represents wit and bravery in folk culture. Legends of the Journey to the West have appeared since the Tang Dynasty and continued through the Ming and Qing Dynasties, when a collection of these legends, Journey to the West, appeared in the Ming Dynasty. The Monkey King has been worshipped as a god by the Chinese in these folk myths through the ages.

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Sun Wukong (protagonist of the Chinese classic Journey to the West) - Baidu Encyclopedia