In Journey to the West , why do you deliberately set up eighty one difficulties?

This kind of problem is very difficult, just like building a house to lay a foundation, writing ** to create twists and turns, people will have stumbles in life, they are all necessary and there is no accurate answer to the question. Rypi's statement can be said to be ""."Journey to the West".You have to set up some twists and turns to make the reader happy, otherwiseTang SengAfter leaving Chang'an, walking all the way to the west, how to write "Journey to the West"? ”

Of course, it is also possible that this question is asking "Why is there eighty-one in the tribulation?" This is actually very easy to understand, in our ancient or until modern culture, always pay attention to the so-called "Ninety-Five", "Seventy-Seven Forty-Nine", "Ninety-Nine Eighty-One" These nodes, it seems that these nodes have special significance.

In fact, these "nodes" actually have no meaning, its meaning is that for a long time, China's literati, religion, legends and other cultures have been using them, so they have become a kind of unruly rules, which can also be said to be some rules recognized by everyone.

After all, if you go to write ** now, saying that you are the emperor, it is "Erqi."

Then the reader will immediately close the book and leave you, because people do not agree with this statement and do not understand it.

According to the traditional saying, the focus of "eighty-one" is "ninety-nine", and "nine" has always represented the "limit" in China's culture, so "ninety-nine-eighty-one difficulty" represents the biggest difficulty in the world, and represents the four Tang monks who experienced unimaginable difficulties for ordinary people to become Buddhas and obtain the true scriptures.

Some people may think that the process of obtaining the true scriptures by everyone in "Journey to the West" is a bit of a child's play, it seems that the true scriptures are obtained by playing and making trouble, and it seems that a random person can succeed. In fact, this is an idea misled by information, and those who have this kind of thinking basically only watched the film and television drama "Journey to the West" and did not read the original book.

On the whole, the eighty-one tribulations in "Journey to the West" actually do not represent the "eighty-one calamities", but represent that learning scriptures from the west is the most difficult thing in the world.

The reason why the ninety-nine-eighty-one difficulties are deliberately set up in Journey to the West is mainly to test whether Tang Seng and his party of four are sincere in obtaining the true scriptures, and only after experiencing hardships can the true scriptures obtained be true.

Because in the Buddhist scriptures, the number nine is more believed, and it is also called the avenue of ninety-nine to one, so it adds up to 81 difficulties to be able to truly become a Buddha.

The eighty-one difficulties are as follows:

The first difficulty of the golden cicada is degraded, the second difficulty of killing the fetus, the third difficulty of throwing the river in the full moon, the fourth difficulty of finding relatives and revenge, the fifth difficulty of going out of the city and meeting the tiger, the sixth difficulty of falling into the pit and breaking from the pit, the seventh difficulty on the double fork ridge, the eighth difficulty of the mountain head of the two realms, the ninth difficulty of changing horses in a steep stream, the tenth difficulty of being burned at night, the eleventh difficulty of losing the robe, the twelve difficulties of surrendering the eight precepts, the thirteen difficulties of the Yellow Wind Monster, the fourteen difficulties of requesting Lingji, the fifteen difficulties of crossing the quicksand, the sixteen difficulties of receiving the sand monk, the seventeen difficulties of the manifestation of the four saints, the eighteen difficulties of the Wuzhuang Guanzhong, the nineteen difficulties of living ginseng, the twenty difficulties of degrading the heart ape, The black pine forest is lost twenty-one times.

Extended. In "Journey to the West", Tang Seng has experienced ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties in learning scriptures. In fact, the setting of the eighty-one difficulties itself is not strict. Sometimes, the author divides a difficult one.

The second and third are difficult to count, such as "the yellow wind is strange and obstructive", and the "request for Lingji" dilemma is actually two stages of a story. Sometimes, it is not Tang Seng himself who suffers directly, such as "the heart ape is harmed", it is only Sun Wukong who suffers, and some such as "dispelling the Tao and rejuvenating the monk" are not even more difficult to learn from the scriptures.

Judging from the specific description of the 81 difficulties, each has its own meaning, or takes the nature, or symbolizes the society, or alludes to history, or points directly to the hearts of the people, indicating that a person will always go through many hardships in order to continue to grow, and different lives must go through different tests to succeed. It has different angles and different ways of writing, and it reflects in a variety of ways the problems faced by ancient Chinese society and even the whole of mankind.