The origin of Pig Eight Jie
Zhu Bajie this role, in the folk circulation of the Tang monk scripture story earlier, not even a shadow. When Wu Chengen wrote "Journey to the West", he did not think of the old pig at the beginning, it was added later, why did he write pig Bajie? There are a few interesting theories, let me tell you.
The first statement: someone forced him to write, Wu Chengen has a cousin, living in the countryside of Huai 'an, good at growing watermelon, everyone called him "watermelon champion."
One day, his cousin burst into Wu Chengen's house like a red-faced Guan Gong and said angrily, "Uncle, help me write!" Wu Chengen was surprised: You have the audacity to ask me to help you write, write what? Asked the reason, the cousin said a gas, scold a gas, even said with scold talked about the boss for a while, Wu Chengen just know the details.
It turned out that this was the case: the cousin of the watermelon, a big, sweet, small, red flesh, in the four towns of eight famous, everyone wants to buy, only to offend a person. Which one? This man, surnamed Zhu Mingba, is a lazy and greedy second class. Zhu eight see "watermelon champion" melon good, want to eat, but there is no money in the waist, steal a today, steal a tomorrow, every day to steal. Once was "watermelon champion" caught, "watermelon champion" on the spot training Zhu eight a meal. How know, not two days, Zhu eight again committed the old habit, a sneak half pocket. "Watermelon champion" caught him, angry but, according to his buttocks hard kick. Oh, that's a good kick! I do not know how Zhu eight tampered with, while the dozen pigs rushed to the "watermelon champion" melon field. Can a pig still be honest with a watermelon? "Quack, quack", even eat and arch, the two acres of good watermelon to spoil more than half. "Watermelon champion" is sleeping in the melon shed, hear the sound out a look, almost did not die of anger! He hurriedly asked people to look at melon, ran to find cousin to help him write paper, Zhu eight.
Wu Chengen said to his cousin: "I can help you write, but the lawsuit is not a joke, I can not just listen to one side of the story, I have to check and verify it." "Watermelon champion" know Wu Chengen has been gourd-picking seeds, do not do mysterious things, also did not say anything else, just ask uncle early verification, write quickly.
That afternoon, Wu Chengen went out of Huai 'an City to his cousin's watermelon field, and he saw that the melon seedlings were in a mess, and the ground was full of watermelon rind, watermelon flesh and pig foot marks. Wu Chengen nodded without saying a word, walked out of the melon field and looked around the ridge. He suddenly found something, picked it up and looked at it, it was a mole cricket, mole cricket body wrapped with a lot of fine twine, the twine untied, five feet long, one tied to the mole cricket waist. Wu Chengen felt strange and asked his cousin: "Do you see what this is?" "Watermelon champion" looked at the death of the mole cricket, said: "This is the chicken thief in the mole cricket belly poke an iron nail, throw to the chicken, chicken swallow, swallow, line a mix, a drag, the nail stuck in the chicken throat can not come out, the chicken thief will not know, stealthily stole the chicken to hand."
Wu Chengen nodded and said nothing. He left the watermelon field and walked toward the village to Zhu Ba's residence. When I entered the door, I saw a lot of people crowded in the courtyard, surrounded by a black-faced man, pointing and scolding. Some scold: "You Zhu eight is too immoral, drive our pig out, spoil the other people's 'watermelon champion' good watermelon!" Some scold: "You Zhu eight too timid, my home a few old hen laying eggs, let you steal!" All the scolding is Zhu eight lazy, sneaking ugly things. There are a few women from Zhu eight's house to hold out a few chickens, chicken mouth have a fine twine.
Wu Chengen nodded, still did not say a word. Before he left, he found several witnesses, made a total in a piece of paper, and without much trouble wrote it down.
The next morning, "watermelon champion" to find Wu Chengen, got the paper, very happy, went straight to the county government, to Sue Zhu eight. How do you know that one breakfast time, Zhu Ba suddenly rushed to Wu Chengen's house and said fiercely: "Mr. Wu, I heard that you helped to write a paper against me?" Wu Chengen said, "Yes." Zhu Ba's eyes stared: "Surnamed Wu, I have no injustice with you in the past, and no hatred recently, why mess with my eggs!" Do it as you see fit, think 'literary' or 'military'?" "What do you mean 'Wen Wen'?" "Tear up the paper and go our separate ways." "What do you mean 'Wu Wu'?" "White in, red out!" Wu Chengen smiled and said: "Brother Zhu, in my opinion, this matter does not need to be written, and does not use military force, it is very easy to do." Zhu Ba busy asked "how to do?" Wu Chengen put his finger to "eight characters." "What eight words?" "Give yourself up and turn yourself around!"
Hearing this, Zhu Bayi pulled out a dagger, approached Wu Chengen like a wild cat, and said: "Take out the paper!" Wu Chengen said: "ridiculous!" "Then tear off the paper!" Wu Chengen said: "Shame!" "Then stubborn, want your old life" Wu Chengen said: "hateful!" Zhu eight anxious, raised the dagger, split the chest. Only listen to "clank", "clang", Wu Chengen grain silk did not move, Zhu eight down was locked up by tolerance. Zhu Ba jumped up and wanted to run, tolerance shook the chain, and shouted: "Go!" Took him to the county office.
For this matter, Wu Chengen considered for several days, Zhu eight this person is always in his heart. Think about it, feel Zhu eight only to stop lazy stop greedy stop stealing, after some exercise to become a good person. He also felt that the world should take Zhu eight as a warning and not do ugly things. Twenty-five together, very excited, in the Journey to the West to write a "pig" to!
That's the first statement.
Second theory: someone teased him to write. When Wu Chengen wrote a book on Yuntai Mountain, he often went to the east Mountain to look around and take a rest. Then he got tired of looking at the east hill and turned to the west hill.
One day, as I was turning, an old man who was hunting came along. Seeing Wu Cheng 'en, the old hunter said, "Sir, where's the view up the mountain?" Wu replied: "Exactly, exactly." The old hunter laughed and said, "I don't know how to look. It's full of mountains. I want to see the scenery and find someone to lead me." Hearing this, Wu Chengen was busy making a low bow and asking the old hunter to lead the way. The old hunter did not refuse, but led Wu Chengen, not to the east, not to the west, not to the south, not to the north, and slipped into the valley below. Wu Chengen thought: The hills are full of stones, ponds, what scenery to see ah? Just then, the old hunter suddenly said, "Here we are." Wu Chengen quickly stopped, the old hunter said: "Sir, turn around, follow the direction of my finger, look up carefully!"
According to the old man's instructions, Wu Chengen turned around and saw a wonderful scene: on the top of a mountain that was not too high or too low, there was a very large stone, which looked like a big pig's head, with its mouth pout, eyes narrowed, and big ears drooping, as if it were sleeping. The old hunter told Wu Chengen that the big stone has a name, called "pig's head stone", only standing here to look at it, it looks like a pig's head.
Wu Chengen exclaimed: "A wonderful sight! A wonderful sight!" The old hunter laughed again and said, "Just watching without listening is equal to running in vain." Hearing this, Wu Chengen hurriedly bowed again and asked the old hunter to tell the legend of the pig's head stone, but the old hunter did not refuse, cleared his throat, and immediately began to talk.
According to legend, there are seventy-two holes on this mountain, holes have goblins, inside a hole, is a boar essence, ugly, lazy and greedy, the hole goblins all look down on it, inevitably bullied. After ten or eight times, the boar spirit could not stand it. Ear a fan, mouth a clack, had an idea: practice, beat them! I mean, it really got a kick out of it. Boar fine chop chop chop chop chop chop own hands to make a nine-tooth spike rake, jump to a quiet place, practice, practice, practice! After 884 days of practice, I felt that I could do it, and I went to curse. A curse, the hole goblin to gas, all jumped out, surrounded the boar essence, to catch him and eat. Boar essence is not vague, dancing spike harrow and demons fight, I saw him left a rake, right a rake, before a rake, after a rake, killed several small demons, but ultimately outnumbered, beat, boar essence feel soft body, skeleton scattered, and then it is too late to fight to live, this only to kill a blood road, escape down the hill. All the demons followed closely behind and shouted together: "Catch the boar essence!" Catch the boar spirit!"
Wild boar essence can not run away, is in a critical moment. It happened that a stone monkey spirit returned to the mountain from the opposite side, heard the shouts, looked up, and saw many goblins chasing a black silly big one, thinking: This is not clearly bullying people! He jumped up and hit with his stick. Without much effort, the stone monkey spirit beat the goblins to death, death, death, and a few left to flee for their lives. After the boar essence was saved, he was so grateful that he worshipped his brother with the stone monkey essence and called him "Sun Wukong".
Ever since the stone monkey is in town, the mountain is very safe. Which knows a long day, boar essence and lazy and greedy old problem, sleep and eat, eat and sleep, eat enough to sleep, went to a Tianchi to take a bath. This Tianchi, this is the fairy bathing place, wild boar essence used to stand also dare not stand, look also dare not look, afraid of violating the rules of heaven to be punished. This will rely on the strong ability of Sun Wukong support, he was bold, want to wash to wash, want to play to play, angry all the fairies have run to the Queen Mother to complain. When the Queen Mother was angry, she sent the third prince of the East China Sea Dragon King to arrest the boar essence. The third prince of the Dragon King stood on his cloud head and looked down over Tianchi. He saw a wild hunter with a big belly lying in Tianchi snoring. The third prince, no longer angry, jumped down from the cloud and shouted: "Ugly, hit!" "Snap" is a whip, right on the belly of the boar. Wild boar essence scared, woke up, see is the dragon king three prince hit him, also came to the fire, "shout" a sound jumped out of Tianchi, grabbed the nine-toothed harrow and dragon king three prince fight up. This battle lasted from noon to evening, and the boar spirit was exhausted and feverish, so he ran to the top of the ridge to sleep in the cool. Don't want to go to sleep, never wake up, and then become a "pig stone"!
The story told by the old hunter, Wu Chengen felt very interesting, and when he was happy, he wrote the wild boar essence changes and modifications and wrote it in Journey to the West.
There's another saying: You have to write. "Journey to the West" wrote the seventeenth: "Sun Walker made a big noise in the black wind Mountain, Guanyin took bear bear monster", Wu Chengen suddenly felt unable to write. The reason? Wu Chengsi thought about it, his head hurt, and he didn't find a way out.
That night, Wu Chengen put "little Wolf" in a pen hat, cover the inkstone box, determined to turn off the light to sleep, and think about it another day. Do you not know that "something in the heart is difficult to dream", two or three hours, it is not easy to fall asleep.
Just fell asleep, suddenly heard someone outside the door shouted: "Wu old man!" Wu Chengen was stunned and thought: everyone called me "Mr. Wu", who was so rushed and called me "old Man Wu"? Then I thought it was better to call it like this, but it did not appear to be outside, and quickly got up to open the door. The door just opened, and, poof, a monkey jumped in from the door. Wu Chengen a look, ah, the original is Sun Wukong! Busy asked: "Master, what do you want me for?" Sun Wukong said: "You let me make heaven, I made, you sent me to protect the Tang monk, I protect, but you should also understand my difficulties!" Wu Chengen said quickly, "What's your problem, Master?" Sun Wukong said, "According to you, my master will encounter ninety-eight and one difficulties on his way back to the West to collect Scriptures." Even if my old son has three heads and six arms, he can't protect Master! That's all you have to do!" With that, one somersault out the door.
Not long after Sun Wukong left, someone outside the door called, "Donor Wu Gong!" A flash of the figure, people came in. Wu Chengen saw that it was Tang Monk and asked, "Holy monk, what do you want from me?" Tang Monk did not answer, closed his eyes and muttered: "There are fewer apprentices, one is not good; Fewer apprentices, one is not good..." Over and over again. After reading, he turned and left.
Master and apprentice you come to me, Wu Cheng 'en heard the way: Oh, no wonder I can't write down, the original is a master and a disciple can't turn the pen, if you add a role, this is better than Sun Wukong pack fight pack fight pack is not much better to write! Thought of this, full of joy. So what's the new character? Wu Chengen was not aware of his difficulty.
At this moment, suddenly heard someone outside with a SOB voice crying: "Mr. Wu! Mr. Wu!" Wu Chengen quickly went to the door and saw that it was a big pig. Strange to say, when the pig saw Wu Chengen, he "plumped" to his knees, made a low bow and kowtow, and said: "Sir, help me, I want to become a monk!" Wu Chengen heard the laugh, then asked: "Pig, what is called a monk, do you understand?" "To become a monk is to become a monk, you are a pig, how can you become a monk?" The pig cocked his head and said, "If a monkey can do it, so can I."
'Yo! Wu Chengen thought: This pig is not stupid, even I wrote "Journey to the West" it also knew, said: "Pig, other monkeys have the ability, can guarantee the Tang monk to go to the sutras, you?" "I have skills too!" The pig said, "shout" to stand up, shoulder, carry down a virga long pine, mouth arch, arch over a lying tiger stone, immediately in front of Wu Chengen exposed his hands, the pig was proud, suddenly lit up the hillside lantern torches, many mountain people with sticks, carrying ropes, a run a shout: "Wild boar here, catch it! Catch it "the pig heard Shouting," and with a swish "suddenly, a rush into Wu Chengen study, Wu Chengen cry:" not good!" A fright, wake up, the original is a dream.
When Wu Chengen woke up, he thought about the situation in his dream. It turned out that the wild boar wanted to become a monk in order to escape the pursuit of the mountain people, so he said: "There is a door!" Hurriedly picked up a pen to write the eighteenth: "Guanyin Tang monk out of difficulty, high old Zhuang great holy demon." There's a pig ring in the book. Both lively, but also interesting, write up handy, do not feel pen hair astringent.
Some people here say that "eight rings come in a dream", referring to the above statement.