Many people believe that the Queen Mother held a peach banquet and did not invite Sun Wukong to the banquet because she discriminated against him as a monkey and thought that a monkey was not worthy of gathering with all the immortals in the heavenly court.
In the fifth chapter of the original work, after Sun Wukong took office as the administrator of Pan Tao Garden, it happened that the Queen Mother held a peach banquet and sent seven fairies to pick peaches in Pan Tao Garden. Sun Wukong learned of the situation, so he asked the Seven Fairies: "The Queen Mother held a peach banquet, which distinguished guests were invited?" ”
The Seven Fairies said truthfully: "Please the Buddha of the West Heaven, the Bodhisattva, the Arhat, the South Antarctic Guanyin, the Eastern Chong'en Holy Emperor, the Ten Continents and the Three Islands Immortal, the North Pole Xuanling, the Central Yellow Pole and the Yellow Horn Immortal, this is the Five Elders of the Five Directions." There are also the Five Dou Xingjun, the Three Qings, the Four Emperors, the Taiyi Heavenly Immortals and other people in the Eight Caves, the Jade Emperor, the Nine Bases, and the Haiyue Immortals in the Eight Caves, and the Lower Eight Caves Netherworld Sect Masters, and the Immortals of the World. All palaces and halls respect the gods, and they all go to the Pan Tao Jiahui together. ”
Sun Wukong saw that he didn't have his own name, and hurriedly asked: "Have you invited my grandson?" ”
The Seven Fairies replied, "I have not heard of it." ”
As soon as he heard this, Sun Wukong was immediately embarrassed and embarrassed, and said: "I am the Monkey King, so why not invite my grandson to be a honored seat!" ”
Obviously, Sun Wukong also thinks that the Queen Mother did not invite him because she discriminated against him as a monkey.
But in fact, this is not the real reason why the Queen Mother did not invite him. Later, he smashed the peach banquet, Guanyin Bodhisattva went to the heavenly court to inquire about the situation, the Jade Emperor talked about this matter, said: "When it comes to setting up a meeting, he is a member of Wulu, and he has never invited him, so he designed to make money and coax the barefoot immortal, but he changed his appearance to join the meeting, and stole all the immortal food and wine, and stole the elixir of Laojun, and stole a number of imperial wine, and went to enjoy with the monkeys in this mountain." ”
The Jade Emperor mentioned that Sun Wukong was a member of Wulu, so the Queen Mother did not invite him to the banquet. The so-called Wulu personnel refer to the fact that although Sun Wukong was named the Great Sage of Monkey King, he had officials and no money, but he was just a temporary worker, and his status was too low to reach the threshold of the Pan Tao Banquet.
Sun Wukong was too low to participate in the peach banquet, it is worth mentioning that there is a great god in the Journey to the West whose status is comparable to that of Sanqing, but he was not invited to the banquet by the Queen Mother.
This great god is the famous Emperor of Donghua. Emperor Donghua's dojo is in the abbot Xianshan, Wuzhuang Guan, Sun Wukong also came to Fangcun Xianshan to ask Emperor Donghua to save the ginseng fruit tree. Sun Wukong, who has always been arrogant, immediately saluted respectfully when he saw Emperor Donghua, which also shows the high status of Emperor Donghua.
Speaking of which, everyone must be very curious, since the status of the Emperor of Donghua is comparable to that of the Sanqing Dynasty, why didn't the Queen Mother invite him to the banquet?
This may be related to another identity of Emperor Donghua. Emperor Donghua, also known as the prince of the East, is the son of the great god of Pangu and the Virgin of Taiyuan, as early as the beginning of Hongmeng, he has cultivated into a heavenly sage, and founded the Tianting Group together with Sanqing, becoming the first head of the Tianting Group. Later, the Jade Emperor went through 1,500 eons of hardship and cultivated the Infinite Dao, and the Emperor of Donghua retreated to the second line and let the Jade Emperor become the head of the Heavenly Court, so the Emperor of Donghua was regarded as the predecessor of the Jade Emperor.
As the saying goes, the two lords are not in the same dynasty, because a court can only have one supreme position, if the two lords are in the same dynasty, no matter which monarch sits on the supreme position, it will make the other monarch embarrassed.
Since Emperor Donghua is the former Lord of Heavenly Court, and the Jade Emperor is obviously the second master, the two of them must not be able to get together easily. If Emperor Donghua participates in the peach banquet, should the supreme position on the peach banquet be the emperor of Donghua or the Jade Emperor? According to the principle of respecting the old leader, the Emperor of Donghua must be allowed to sit, but the Jade Emperor is the current Lord of the Three Realms after all? Emperor Donghua sat on the supreme position, what should the Jade Emperor do? Is it possible to let him sit in the position of a minister? It is precisely because of this that the Queen Mother did not invite the Emperor of Donghua to the banquet. What do you think?