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What ‘Journey to the West’ Can Teach Us About the Deceitfulness of the CCP
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There is a classic story from Journey to the West where on three separate occasions, a demon transformed into a girl, an old man, and then an old woman to deceive the Monk Tang Sanzang.
Tang was journeying to India to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures, and it was known that eating his flesh would provide everlasting life.
The demon, however, was thwarted by the resourceful and powerful Monkey King, who, on all three occasions, discovered and “killed” the girl, the man, and the woman.
Yet, these actions enraged Tang, who, with his mortal eyes, could not see what the demon was doing, and in turn, shocked by Monkey King’s actions, expelled him from the pilgrimage.
Rice paddies mark CPC s anniversary By Hu Dongmei in Yinchuan and Ye Zizhen | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-07-08 09:27 Share CLOSE Aerial view of rice paddies in Helan county, Ningxia Hui autunomous region. [Photo by Hai Kun/chinadaily.com.cn]
Rice paddies in Helan county, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, are being designed to celebrate the Communist Party of China s centennial.
Original green paddies are being transformed into the shape of Sun Wukong the Monkey King and Tang Sanzang, two characters from the Chinese novel
Journey to the West.
The paddies are also being reshaped into a boat with Chinese characters for Hongchuan Jingsheng, meaning the red boat spirit , a reference to the Party s fearlessness during its establishment. The field, which covers 1.7 square kilometers, is located in the Rice and Fish Ecological Tourism Zone of Helan county. Tourists can try out different farm activities and buy organic
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Journey to the West, one of the Four Great Novels of Chinese literature, has had many interpretations in the 400+ years of its existence. With more television, film, comic books, manga, and video game adaptations than I can even count, a new game based on this classic tale hardly seems novel. Heck, even Dragon Ball bears the markers of Journey to the West s influence!
But if you re not familiar with the story, I ll give you the shortest summary I possibly can.
Journey to the West recounts a monk s pilgrimage to obtain sacred Buddhist texts and achieve enlightenment along the way. Encountering many evils on his path and picking up a motley crew to join him on his quest,
According to the popular folk tale, the Jade Emperor was originally a mortal by the name of Zhang Denglai. He is said to have been a minor functionary or common soldier who lived around the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty . Zhang Denglai was one of the many people who died during the civil war that resulted in the toppling of the Shang Dynasty. As he fought for the Zhou Dynasty, Zhang Denglai was posthumously rewarded. These rewards were being distributed by Jiang Ziya, a noble who was instrumental in overthrowing the Shang Dynasty. One by one, the highest positions in the heavenly hierarchy were filled, until only the office of the Jade Emperor was left.