The dragon king in Journey to the West, why does he feel so weak?

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, the status of the dragon is very low, Tang Seng.

The mount is a small white dragon, after getting the scriptures, if you come to seal nothing, the dragon king has to rain all day long, etc., not only the Dapeng eagle eats the dragon, even the view of the Bodhisattva.

The roar of the golden retriever is also a dragon's....

To understand this question, we have to bring Buddhism in. Since the introduction of Buddhism to China, there has been a concept that wherever there is water, there is a dragon. The dragon has changed from the totem of a nation to a group of water gods, and in Journey to the West, there are even dragons in a well!

This culture from Buddhism.

The dragons that come out are the karmic dragons, and they are born with karma.

The dragon family in modern fantasy ** is described by the author so powerful, because it is a divine beast, a rui beast, in people's hearts the dragon is the yearning of the Chinese, the symbol of China! The ancient emperor called himself the true dragon son of heaven, the embodiment of the dragon. The dragon is an auspicious animal, a symbol of the emperor.

Therefore, since ancient times, we Chinese have been called the descendants of the dragon.

In Journey to the West, each ethnic group must be divided into high and low. The dragon liver and phoenix marrow eaten in the sky are not those noble dragons, mainly depending on cultivation. If the Tao is high, the status is high, and ordinary monkeys can't go to the sky, but Sun Wukong.

but can go up to heaven and into earth.

In the Chinese mythological system, although the dragon symbolizes various totems, they are divided intoBeastin this category. And the level of beasts does not mean that their abilities are low.

On the contrary, such as Lion's Camel Ridge.

Three brothers, Taishang Laojun.

The ability of the green cow is also very good, but as soon as their owner arrives, they will immediately show their original form and obediently obey the law.

Based on the above situation, the Jade Emperor and Heavenly Court have never been interested in the Dragon Clan, and they have not selected their representatives to serve as officials in Heavenly Court. In Journey to the West, they are just a tool for rainfall, and they have set a lot of rules, and once they violate them, they will be severely punished.

A dragon groaned in the wilderness.

A dragon out of the sea has really appeared on the East China Sea to announce the world, where the auspicious clouds alternate the vast king's breath scattered in the wilderness, and the rest of the dragon clan also showed the true body of the sea to shade the sun and close the sun, leading the flood and ten thousand beasts to rush to worship, the big ** movement, the name of the heavenly way, ten thousand beasts to the sky.

pretend, who told him that there are Hongjun, Jade Emperor, Sanqing, Rulai, Bodhi, Zhenyuan and the like, and he will accept a divine beast as a mount at every turn. It's better to admit it and call it a king in the water.

Although he is a dragon king, he is just a powerful and powerless dragon king, and being suppressed by the heavenly court makes him only keep a low profile and live in the deep sea dragon palace.

This is because the main highlight in Journey to the West is the 4 masters and apprentices, just to tell about the difficulties they encountered in the process of learning scriptures, so the ability of other characters will be relatively weak.

Readers who have passed "Journey to the West Dao" know that the lowest level of the Zhi Immortal in the book is the Dragon Clan, especially the Dragon King version has the lowest status in the book, especially the Jinghe Dragon King can only be called Xiaolong in front of Li Shimin.

In ancient times, the dragon clan was the first of the four divine beasts, why is the status of the dragon clan so low in the book? In fact, you can know after carefully reading the first episode of "Journey to the West". It was because the Jade Emperor killed the Candle Dragon, that is, he killed the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Dragons.

In the book, it is said that after the beginning of the opening of heaven and earth, there is still a state of chaos between heaven and earth, which makes the order of heaven and earth chaotic, why is this? In fact, it's because the candle dragon is doing tricks.

The candle dragon is a god of Zhongshan in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and it is also a divine beast with boundless power, it can cover the sky and the sun when it stands up, causing darkness in the Three Realms, and the world is even more devastated.

In this way, the candle dragon confusing the heavens and the earth for 129,600 years, which was also a catastrophe for the Jade Emperor. Later, the Jade Emperor practiced the Infinite Dao and slew the candle dragon into the dark abyss. When the candle dragon was killed, only then did heaven and earth merge and all things were born, and only then did the book say that "Zitian is ugly and inferior".

When the Candle Dragon of the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Dragons was killed, at that time, divine beasts such as phoenixes and unicorns appeared, and the dragon clan was demoted to the mortal world by the Jade Emperor and became immortals at the level of earth immortals.

It is said that the candle dragon may be Pangu, and some readers believe that the candle dragon is the sun god. But the most powerful immortal in "Journey to the West" is still the Jade Emperor, and the Jade Emperor is the earliest immortal to appear in heaven and earth.

But in Journey to the West, the status of the dragon is very low, basically at the same level as the city god and the land. When the Dragon King first appeared, it was when Sun Wukong went to the Dragon Palace to ask for a treasure. At that time, Sun Wukong was just an unknown scattered immortal on Huaguo Mountain.

But the dragon king still didn't dare to offend, one by one, with a few treasures, before sending Sun Wukong out of the Dragon Palace, and finally wrote a fold and reported the loss to the heavenly court.

Of course, we can say that this is the Dragon King's ability is not as good as Sun Wukong. But when he arrived on the West Heaven Road, Sun Wukong basically called the Dragon King back and forth, and gave him affectionate nicknames - earthworm with horns, and loach with scales.

As for the Dragon King of Jinghe, he was also the Dragon King in charge of the waters of one side, and just because the point of rain was wrong, he was directly taken to Nantianmen to chop his head.

In Journey to the West, the status of the Dragon King will give people a low feeling, in fact, there are two reasons.

In the Chinese mythological system, although the dragon symbolizes various totems, they are classified into the category of beasts. And the level of beasts does not mean that their abilities are low.

On the contrary, for example, the three brothers of Lion Camel Ridge, Taishang Laojun's green cow, etc., are also very good, but as soon as their owners arrive, they will immediately show their original form and obediently obey the law.

This kind of mythological setting is not unique to Journey to the West. In ancient Chinese mythology, dragons were used as beings to call the wind and rain when the Yellow Emperor conquered Chiyou, but they were to obey the orders of the Yellow Emperor.

And in another god and demon ** "Romance of the Gods", the exposition of the teachings represented by Yuan Shi Tianzun, when he complained about the disciples of the Tongtian Sect Master, he scolded them for being turned into beasts.

Moreover, the dragon's ability is also average in front of other beasts, such as the Dapeng bird, which uses dragons as food. And in Journey to the West, one of the origins of the dragon is also written: the dragon horse urine of the white dragon horse.

The second reason: Zhu Yuanzhang.

Soon after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he issued a regulation: "After the founding of the People's Republic of China, all the city gods in the country must be included in the system, divided into four ranks: king, prince, hou, and uncle." (From "The History of Closing Answers.") Rites. III).

And in the second year, it was ordered again that all places must build a city god temple, and it must be built according to the level of the government office at the same level. (From the "Continuation of the General Examination of Literature").

In this way, not only in the present insight, but even in mythology, the rank of the official has naturally become a key factor in determining the level of status. And the dragon king, as a ** who is only in charge of the rain, has a low status, which is normal.

In "Journey to the West", why is the status of the Dragon King not high? The dragon in "Journey to the West" is no longer a native Chinese dragon, but a product of mixing with Buddhist concepts. If you have read "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Huainanzi", you can know that the status of some dragons is still quite high, and there are even several big dragon gods such as Ying Long and Candle Dragon.

But with the introduction of Buddhism, the dragon king in the Buddhist scriptures began to spread in China. This dragon king, in fact, is called Naga, one of the eight tribes of the heavenly dragon, in India, Naga is a poisonous existence with many heads, cobra-like poison, and there is no great divine power of the native Chinese dragon, it is the product of snake worship, and in the Buddhist scriptures it is the food of the Dapeng bird (the golden-winged Dapeng eats 500 small dragons every day, and if you eat too much, you will be poisoned), which belongs to the animal way. It's such a creature that was treated as a dragon after entering China.

In the subsequent development of dragon culture, the image of the two was also integrated (in the past, the Chinese dragon was not completely a snake body, there were many animal bodies, or at least the limbs and tails were roughly subdivided, rather than the current snake body plus limbs), and then there was no dragon king in China, there were many well dragon kings and pond dragon kings, the largest is only the river dragon king sea dragon king, think about the mountains and seas in the dragon should be the tail of the land can open a big river, now the merged dragon is afraid to manage the small pond, the next rain is not right to be cut by other gods, which is probably the result of Naga culture. In addition, with the introduction of Naga, there are also many dragon girls and dragon sons in classical Chinese works, the former are basically used to marry people in the story, and the latter is generally cut down for evil, which is basically the influence of the story in India. "Journey to the West" is basically Buddhist-oriented, and it is relatively normal for the dragon to have a very low status.