I just entered junior high school, and I am particularly addicted. I moved a small bench early every night and sat in front of the TV and waited to watch.
In the play, the Monkey King is miraculous, making a somersault of 108,000 Li, making a scene in the Heavenly Palace, protecting the Buddhist scriptures of Tang Priest, and exorcising demons all the way, which is fascinating.
Recently, Fan Deng read and released The Journey to the West, an audio drama by Dr. Peking University Li Mengyun. After listening to Dr. Li's wonderful explanation, I gained different gains and feelings.
First of all, the introduction reveals a brief history of human development.
After being born, the stone monkey "eats plants, drinks spring water, picks flowers and looks for trees and fruits" in the mountains. This symbolizes the first stage of human history: prehistoric humans. Therefore, the book says "keep company with wolves and insects, tigers and leopards as a group, roe as a friend and apes as relatives".
Humans in this period are still one of the animals and have no concept of time. There is a saying in the novel that "there are no children in the mountains, and the cold is unknown."
Water curtain cave's discovery marks the second stage of human history and the beginning of civilization. There are stone tables, chairs, bowls, basins and stoves in the cave, and people began to use tools consciously.
Faced with the harsh natural environment, people began to have the possibility of self-protection after mastering tools. This also means that people wake up from the state of nature and begin the great course of resisting and conquering nature.
After the stone monkey first entered water curtain cave, many monkeys worshipped him as king and became a "nest family" in Guo Hua.
With a king, it means high and low. This plot also symbolizes the third stage of human historical development: the beginning of class society.
One day, the Monkey King burst into tears at the wedding reception. The other monkeys asked, "Why is the king unhappy?" The Monkey King said, "Although I am happy, I have a little foresight. Because, people are dying. The monkey is dying too. "
This kind of "foresight" is the representative of human awakening from nature, and human beings begin to think about the meaning of life.
This also symbolizes the fourth stage of the development of human history: the beginning of the ideological era.
When reading Journey to the West, we are not reading the history of monkeys, but the history of people. What does the past, present and future mean to us?
Second, the Monkey King's loneliness and anger.
Wukong's early experience was risky. He was the first to set foot in water curtain cave, Guo Hua, and became the "Monkey King" among monkeys. Then he crossed the ocean, learned from Bodhi's ancestor, and cultivated a magical skill. Later, he grabbed the anchor needle and shook the earth, and was named "Monkey King".
In this process, the Monkey King's desire was expanding, which led to the turmoil of the Flat Peach Party, stealing fairy wine and elixir, and finally making a scene in heaven, shouting the slogan "The strong will make me honored" and trying to seize the jade emperor's seat.
But the world needs values and order. Only by forming the same values can order be established and the weak be protected. So the Tathagata stepped in and suppressed the Monkey King.
In this process, Wukong felt the rejection and contempt of the "system" of heaven, resulting in loneliness and inner anger.
For hundreds of years, the broad masses of people's love for the story of disturbing Heaven stems from people's experience of being suppressed and excluded in their daily lives. Through the substitution of the scene of "the Monkey King causing havoc in Heaven", these emotions have been fully vented.
Third, why is Pig Bajie likable?
In the combination of learning from the scriptures, Tang Yan represents ideals and values; Wukong represents self and will; Bajie represents instinct and desire.
The Warring States thinker told his son, "Eating and drinking are also sexual." Food and color are the basis of human development and life extension.
Therefore, from the religious totem, people appeared, gradually formed and improved the social order, established the etiquette system, and standardized people's daily behavior.
Pig Bajie is just the opposite of etiquette: he can never restrain his instinctive impulse. Eat when you are hungry, rest when you are tired, can't walk when you meet beautiful women, and divide your luggage when you encounter difficulties.
This makes most of us have a sense of superiority in front of pigs: I am better than him, because at least I have the power of self-restraint.
On the other hand, Bajie realized those dreams that we wanted to do, but couldn't, and released his instinct freely.
In Journey to the West, Bajie has a unique name: idiot. Stupidity is actually innocence. Both Zhu Bajie and Jia Baoyu in A Dream of Red Mansions have maintained a childlike innocence in adult society, which is not regulated by etiquette.
Literature and art are only a means of human self-healing. Through reading and watching, I put myself in an imaginary scene, so I got the opportunity to release my desire and anxiety again and again, which also triggered people's thinking and promoted the continuous progress of society.