sun wukong monkey

In the Dragon Ball, the Golden Ape was a form of Sun Wukong. When Babe's appearance put Goku in a difficult situation, King God helped him pull out his tail and transformed into a golden ape. This form surpassed the limits of the Saiyan to deal with challenges. It was very strong, but it required two Super 4 to be able to defeat the 1 Star Dragon in its energy state.

In the setting of the Ming Dynasty novel Journey to the West, Sun Wukong was originally a stone ape born from an immortal stone. Later, he learned the art of immortality and worshipped the ancestor Bodhi as his teacher. He was named "Sun Wukong". After he returned from his studies, the demons worshiped him as their leader. However, he was also recruited by the Heavenly Court as an official and finally cultivated to the status of "Fighting Buddha". From his experience of being born from the immortal stone and eventually becoming a Buddha, Sun Wukong had the attributes of an immortal. However, he was associated with the demon group in his early years, and his behavior also had the wildness and unruly nature of the demon. His identity was complicated. He could be said to be an immortal monkey, but he also had the characteristics of a demon monkey. However, as the story developed, he walked more on the path of immortals and Buddhas, and he was more inclined to be regarded as an immortal monkey.

The Real Monkey King was a classic chapter in Journey to the West. The plot was roughly that Sun Wukong was chased back to Huaguo Mountain by Tang Sanzang after killing the bandits. Six-Eared Macaque took the opportunity to impersonate Sun Wukong, injured Tang Sanzang and stole his luggage. Friar Sand found Wukong from Guanyin, and then the real and fake Monkey Kings started a big battle. Guanyin, Jade Emperor, Tang Sanzang, King of Hell, and the others could not distinguish between the two. In the end, Tathagata Buddha saw through the Six-Eared Macaque, and Wukong killed him. Master and disciple were reunited. This story was also made into a movie, a TV series, and a computer game. From another point of view, the real Monkey King could be seen as the process of Sun Wukong's cultivation. It symbolized the good and evil sides of a person. The two Wukongs represented Sun Wukong's divinity and demonic nature, so it was difficult for the immortals and Buddhas to break through. There was also a view that this plot was used by the author to reflect the historical event of the Battle of Jingnan in the Ming Dynasty, presenting the internal struggle between Zhu Di and Zhu Yunwen as two Wukongs fighting for the world.

The reason why Sun Wukong was set as a monkey was as follows: 1. ** From the author's perspective of expressing the character's growth **: Monkeys have many similarities with humans. The author can use the image of Sun Wukong to reflect a person's growth process. Sun Wukong went from an innocent little monkey to an arrogant young man, and then to a mature uncle who had experienced the secular world. This process of personality change was like a person's growth process. The other members of the Journey to the West team had their own backgrounds and origins. Sun Wukong had no parents and was born from a rock. He did not have a " resume " that could be consulted. Such a unique background was more conducive to showing the purity of his growth. 2. ** From the perspective of literary creation archetype theory **: Some scholars believe that the image of Sun Wukong has a historical archetype. When Master Xuanzang was preaching in Guazhou, there was a barbarian named Shi Pantuo who volunteered to be his guide to the west. He became a monk after Xuanzang shaved his head. The pronunciation of the monk was similar to that of Sun Wukong, who was commonly known as monkey. Moreover, Sun Wukong was the first disciple of Tang Sanzang in Journey to the West and played the role of a pathfinder. This was consistent with Shi Pantuo's identity, so Sun Wukong's monkey image might have come from this. 3. From the perspective of Buddhist culture, monkeys were also called apes. They had the same pronunciation as the word "fate", which implied the basic Buddhist doctrine of "all laws are born by karma". The story of Journey to the West could be said to be due to the birth of the monkey, Sun Wukong.

There were many theories about which type of monkey Sun Wukong belonged to. Some people believed that his prototype was a macaque, while others suggested that his prototype was the ape-like water monster Wu Zhiqi in mythology, as well as the divine monkey Hanuman in Indian mythology. However, from the perspective of the traditional China myth, Journey to the West, it was not clear which type of monkey Sun Wukong belonged to in reality.