"Journey to the West" is broad and profound, many details in it are worth recalling, this article we discuss a problem, why does the white bone essence eat Tang monks. Seeing this problem, it is estimated that 80% of netizens have laughed, does this question still need to be considered? Of course, it is for immortality, but after reading the original work many times in a pot of porridge, I found that things are not so simple.
White bone essence
Indeed, immortality is the common wish of all living beings, after Sun Wukong was born, he also frowned about this problem, so he decided to find immortals to help learn the art of immortality, and immortality is not easy, even if the immortals like Shou Xinggong also need to "cultivate essence, refine qi, save gods, reconcile dragons and tigers, catch obstacles and fill in the gaps, I don't know how much work it takes." It can be seen that immortality is not easy, and eating a piece of meat of Tang Monk can be immortal, which is of course extremely tempting.
However, the gods and demons are different after all, they can take shortcuts, because the peaches in the peach orchard can easily extend their life, according to the peach orchard land said, "the front twelve hundred plants, the flowers and fruits are small, three thousand years a ripe, people eat into immortals, the body fitness is light." In the middle, 1,200 plants, layers of flowers are sweet, 6,000 years of ripeness, people eat Xiaju soaring, immortality. The next twelve hundred plants, purple veined cores, nine thousand years of ripe, people eat with the heavens and the earth, the sun and the moon with geng." As long as the immortals are in the invitation list of the Peach Society, they don't have to panic and go to the banquet step by step.
But the goblins are different, they are also classified, the first is the grassroots demon king, the Jade Emperor will not send them an invitation to the peach club, if they want to live forever, they can only rely on their own cultivation, through their own cultivation to master the method of immortality, such as the Bull Demon King's old man Long Live the Fox King, he will live to nearly 10,000 years old on his own, if there is no human intervention, he may be able to live forever. The second is that goblins achieve immortality by attaching themselves to the big guys. For example, the nine-headed lion relies on Taiyi to save the suffering Tianzun to achieve immortality, the golden haired calf, the black bear essence, etc. can also live forever with the Guanyin Bodhisattva, and the Green Cow Essence and so on, they are not worried about the exhaustion of shouyuan, because the resources in the hands of these big guys are enough to make them live with the heavens.
So the question is, which category does the white bone essence belong to? Many friends think that she belongs to the grassroots, cultivates herself into a jing, and with her low strength cannot master the method of immortality, so she has to wait for The Tang monks on the way to learn the scriptures, and achieve immortality by eating the meat of the Tang monks, but is this really the case? She actually belongs to the second kind, dependent on others for eternal life, the so-called three times and two times to eat Tang monks is just a play, the following to analyze.
Some details in the book show that the origin of the white bone essence is not simple, and the family of one of the white bone essences is not simple, the reason why she knows that eating Tang monks can live forever is from her family, and we know that the person who leaked this secret is actually the top level of the Buddhist sect, the purpose is to attract the goblins from West NiuheZhou, and use the hands of the sutra takers to get rid of them. Therefore, the white bone essence has a background.
Second, life is important or immortality is important, the situation at that time was that Sun Wukong completely saw through the white bone essence, and the force value was also stronger than her, and there were monkeys in the white bone essence who had no chance to catch Tang Monk, but she still beat Tang Monk again and again. Immortality is important, but the reality is that she can't get Tang Monk anyway, and if she continues, she won't even have a life, but Bai BoneJing still wants to catch Tang Monk, and even her life is gone, is there any meaning in immortality?
Third, after the death of the White Bone Spirit, four big characters were sacrificed on the back: Lady white bone. In the era of Mr. Wu Cheng'en, not all women were qualified to be called madame, and it is recorded that the daughter-in-law of a first- or second-class officer was qualified to be called a lady, which shows that the backstage of the white bone essence is quite strong. She didn't need to achieve immortality by eating Tang monks at all.
Finally, almost all the disasters on the way to the sutra were sought by the Buddhist sect using various resources, and the white bone essence was no exception, she repeatedly arrested the Tang monk, in fact, in order to complete the task given to her by the Buddha sect, it is very likely that the Buddha sect and her family or relatives said hello, after this sadness, through the six reincarnations to give the white bone essence a good home, so the white bone essence would rather not die, but also cooperate with the sutra team to perform this big drama.
Therefore, bai bone essence repeatedly arrested Tang monks for the purpose of immortality at all, but only to complete the tasks given by the Buddhist sect.