In the Journey to the West, Tang Priest experienced eighty-one difficulties. In fact, the setting of the 81 difficulty itself is not strict. Sometimes the author divides a dilemma into two and three, and it is difficult to make up the number. For example, the dilemma of "Huang Fengguai's Resistance" and "Asking Ji Ling" are actually two stages of a story.
Sometimes, it is not the Tang Priest himself who suffers directly, such as "demons suffer", but only the Monkey King, while some people, such as "becoming a monk", are even more difficult to learn.
From the specific description of "Eighty-one Difficulties", each has its own profound meaning, either referring to nature, symbolizing society, alluding to history, or pointing to people's hearts, indicating that a life always has to go through many hardships before it can grow continuously, and different lives have to go through different tests before it can succeed. His different angles and writing styles reflect various problems faced by China ancient society and even the whole mankind.
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The "Heavenly Palace" in the novel reflects the people's resistance in China feudal society through fairy tales. Of course, fantasy novel's reflection of reality has its own characteristics, which is different from ordinary literary works that directly reflect real life.
The rebels in the "Tiangong" erected the banner of "the Monkey King" and put forward the slogan "The emperors take turns to do it and come to my house next year". One hundred thousand heavenly soldiers will flee, and the rule of the Heavenly Palace is so shaky that the Jade Emperor has to ask for help. These fictional and fantasy plots are all based on the peasant uprising and peasant war in reality.
If there were not many large-scale peasant uprisings and peasant wars in history that violently impacted the feudal dynasty, the plot of "Make a scene in Heaven" could not be as bold as imagined, and the rebellious image of the Monkey King could not be so brilliant.