The Monkey King is one of the famous mythological figures in China, which comes from the four classical novels The Journey to the West. Born in Dongsheng, China, he was born from the immortal stone. He led a group of monkeys into water curtain cave and became the Monkey King, who was honored as the "Monkey King".

After worshipping Bodhi as a teacher, Qian Shan was named the Monkey King, and learned the superb spells of the earth demon, such as seventy-two changes, somersault cloud and immortality. The Monkey King, whose magical powers have just begun to take shape, first made a scene in the Dragon Palace to get the golden cudgel, and then made a scene in the underworld to check the life and death books.

Later, it was embraced by heaven and named BiMarvin. After learning of his low status, he angrily returned to Huaguoshan, defeated the crusade of King Tota and the three princes, and forced the Jade Emperor to make him the Great Sage of Qitian, and built the Great Sage of Qitian in heaven to manage the Flat Peach Garden.

Because of drunkenness, I disturbed the flat peach banquet of the queen mother, stole the elixir of the old gentleman, and became an indestructible body. By mistake, she was turned into an alchemy furnace of Taishang Laojun.

Later, it caused chaos in the heavenly palace. Hundreds of thousands of heavenly soldiers, heavenly generals, four heavenly kings and twenty-eight stars can't beat them. Later, he lost a bet with the Tathagata, and was crushed by the Five Elements Mountain (renamed Liangjie Mountain in the Tang Dynasty) abandoned by the Tathagata, and repented for more than 500 years.

After being enlightened by Guanyin, he was rescued by Tang Priest. Known as a monk, he protected the Tang Priest from learning Buddhist scriptures in the Western Heaven, exorcised demons all the way, did not fear hardships and hardships, and finally got the true scriptures after 81 difficulties, and was named anti-Buddha.

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China people's love for the image of the Monkey King stems from their love for the works of Journey to the West. The description of words can naturally make a non-existent image leap from paper, but from drama to film, the audience still wants to see concrete mythical images.

The Monkey King, who walked out of the words, should have stepped onto the stage of Peking Opera at the earliest. Peking Opera actors have created the performance style of "Monkey Show", which is vivid and vivid, and laid the foundation for the image of the Monkey King in the past century. In the future, whether it is film or TV, the Monkey King's image has always been difficult to get rid of the roots of Peking Opera performances.

As a famous classic, The Journey to the West's influence is profound. In addition to Japan, the United States, South Korea, Vietnam and other countries also have many images of the Monkey King.

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