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西游记酸梅汤
Zhou Fu Laoyu
The magical novel "Journey to the West" is full of rich and magnificent imaginations. These wild and unconstrained imaginations may seem strange and paradoxical at first glance, but upon closer inspection, they also have some internal logic. For example, in the seventy-two transformations, Sun Wukong can only change what he can see, that is, he must recognize the objects before changing into objects. Because a person's butt is covered by clothes and cannot be seen, so when he becomes a human, the monkey's butt cannot change... Such seventy-two transformations have the characteristics of realism, are full of fun, are close to the logic of life, and are not completely irrelevant. After using this reasoning method to analyze all the magic weapons, spells and instruments in the book, the author discovered an interesting phenomenon. Although the author's imagination of "Journey to the West" is much ahead of his contemporaries, there are still three categories of things that he has not imagined. The first category is power devices, such as steam engines and electric motors. The second category is complex machinery. Power devices and complex machinery were invented during the Industrial Revolution and gradually enriched and improved over time. "Journey to the West" was written more than 200 years before the Industrial Revolution. This may be the reason why the author's imagination is limited by the times. Similarly, the information revolution was more than 200 years later than the industrial revolution. Of course, the author did not imagine the third type of information equipment. Historically, the main contents of the Buddhist scriptures that Xuanzang retrieved were the quotations and life experiences of eminent Indian monks. The Tripitaka Sutra of Tathagata in "Journey to the West" does not contain these contents. The Tripitaka Sutra has the function of "talking about heaven and earth to save ghosts", and is a method of cultivation that can save the dead to ascend to heaven, escape from the sea of hell, solve hundreds of grievances, and eliminate unnecessary disasters. Such scriptures have become a product with high-tech functions...
The magical novel "Journey to the West" is full of rich and magnificent imaginations. These wild and unconstrained imaginations may seem strange and paradoxical at first glance, but upon closer inspection, they also have some internal logic. For example, in the seventy-two transformations, Sun Wukong can only change what he can see, that is, he must recognize the objects before changing into objects. Because a person's butt is covered by clothes and cannot be seen, so when he becomes a human, the monkey's butt cannot change... Such seventy-two transformations have the characteristics of realism, are full of fun, are close to the logic of life, and are not completely irrelevant. After using this reasoning method to analyze all the magic weapons, spells and instruments in the book, the author discovered an interesting phenomenon. Although the author's imagination of "Journey to the West" is much ahead of his contemporaries, there are still three categories of things that he has not imagined. The first category is power devices, such as steam engines and electric motors. The second category is complex machinery. Power devices and complex machinery were invented during the Industrial Revolution and gradually enriched and improved over time. "Journey to the West" was written more than 200 years before the Industrial Revolution. This may be the reason why the author's imagination is limited by the times. Similarly, the information revolution was more than 200 years later than the industrial revolution. Of course, the author did not imagine the third type of information equipment. Historically, the main contents of the Buddhist scriptures that Xuanzang retrieved were the quotations and life experiences of eminent Indian monks. The Tripitaka Sutra of Tathagata in "Journey to the West" does not contain these contents. The Tripitaka Sutra has the function of "talking about heaven and earth to save ghosts", and is a method of cultivation that can save the dead to ascend to heaven, escape from the sea of hell, solve hundreds of grievances, and eliminate unnecessary disasters. Such scriptures have become a product with high-tech functions...