Return to the East and Wash the Lanterns

"Return to the East to Wash the Lamp" is not a traditional Journey to the West fan, but a cultural self-examination of "borrowing the hands of Wukong to wash the lamp of the Eastern Land". If I could only recommend one chapter, it should be the first chapter, "The Lingshan Lamp is Exhausted". The Huaguo Mountain stone lantern has been burning for a thousand years with Nuwa's stubborn stone, Dongtu camellia oil and turpentine. The warm yellow flame illuminates the four characters of "Monkey King", which is the anchor point of blood and original intention. As soon as the foreign "magic fat" seeps in, the light turns blue, and the taste becomes sweet and fishy - the lamp is not extinguished, but the soul has changed. The most poignant thing is the small words seeped into the stone marrow of the lamp base: "People from the Eastern Land change their own lamps." The target points directly at people's hearts: those who are greedy for the new and dislike the old, and pass on fake products from generation to generation are never external monsters, but their own family. When Wukong smashed the lamp, he smashed the source that had been tampered with; when looking for Tang Monk, he was looking for the answer to "why he lit this lamp in the first place." The last three chapters are all variations on this chapter, but the first chapter has the "ancestral lamp" as its root, so that the whole chapter can stand on the backbone of "Eastern Spiritual Self-examination". The writing style is good at describing smells: the sweetness of fruit trees and the spiciness of sulfur, all of which complement the unchanging sweetness. The lamp is a thermometer of faith, and the golden hoop shatters the illusion that "we still believe in the old things." This chapter describes "How to Lose Your Own Light" in a way that is more frightening than a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers. Go and taste it slowly.