Chinanews.com client, Beijing, January 20th (Reporter Shangguanyun) For young people, there is probably a shadow of "Journey to the West" in their memories.

Over the years, this super IP has spawned many well-known works such as "Havoc in Heaven".

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　　Generally speaking, there is no shortage of sequels or "family humanities" in popular works.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the literati Dong Shuo wrote a novel "Journey to the West", telling the story of Sun Xingzhe's "Inception of Dreams". The story is extremely tortuous.

　　Recently, "Journey to the West" edited by scholars Zhao Hongjuan and Zhu Ruida brought this "cold masterpiece" back to people's attention.

Sun Xingzhe starts a fantasy journey

　　Strictly speaking, the timeline of "Journey to the West" is after the "three-tone banana fan" of "Journey to the West".

Under the dominance of Dong's imagination that is "bursting", Monkey King, also known as Sun Xingzhe, experienced a series of fantasy stories in the book.

　　After the four masters and apprentices passed the Flame Mountain smoothly, Sun Xingzhe ran to Huazhai, but at this time, he was fascinated by the mackerel essence and traveled to a Tang Dynasty many years later. At that time, the emperor was the thirty-eighth son of Emperor Taizong. Grandchildren.

　　Sun Xingzhe was wondering what was in front of him when he suddenly saw a man named "Takong'er" digging through the sky, cutting the sky open a crack, and the Lingxiao Palace was rolling down from the crack.

Seeing this scene, he was shocked and horrified.

　　In order to find Qin Shihuang to drive the mountain duozi, and to find the whereabouts of the master Tang Seng, Sun Xingzhe ran back and forth, bumping into the "blue world" imagined by the monster Xiaoyue King.

　　There are thousands of mirrors in Wanjinglou.

However, Sun Xingzhe couldn't find himself in the mirror.

He had to become a small worm, wormed through a mirror and entered the ancient world.

　　In the ancient world, he turned into a poppy for a while, drinking and composing poems with beauties of different eras such as Xi Shi and Luzhu, and then provoked Xiang Yu to kill the real poppy, and acted like a coquettish in front of Xiang Yu, causing Xiang Yu to kneel and cry. .

Novel version of "Inception"

　　Traveling through the past and the present is not yet complete. The next experience of Sun Xingzhe is like "Inception of Dreams", traveling back and forth in the ancient world, the future world, and the green world.

Image source: Picture courtesy of Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House

　　Through Yumen, Sun Xingzhe came from the ancient world to the future world.

"Yumen" is a lot like the time-space converter in the movie "Creed".

In the future world, Sun Xingzhe will try the traitor Qin Hui on behalf of the sick Yama King, and also worship Yue Fei as the third master.

　　He was looking at the scenery, and he was suddenly pushed into the water. This scene was like a dream transition, and when he opened his eyes, he returned to the green world.

　　What's even more amazing is that he saw a play and acted his whole life, in which he married a wife and had children, and his five sons were very promising.

　　In a daze, Sun Xingzhe became the base-breaking vanguard under the command of the general, but the enemy general King Paramita whom he saw on the battlefield turned out to be his own son.

　　Sun Xingzhe, who had traveled a few times in different worlds, was completely stunned. Fortunately, Venerable Void awakened from his dream.

At this moment, he saw that the mackerel spirit became a little monk, and he was about to attack Tang Monk, so he shot him to death with one blow, and the whole story returned to the starting point of learning the scriptures.

　　Zhao Hongjuan has studied "Journey to the West" for many years. She uses "fantasy" to describe this novel, "It is sleepwalking + crossing + big talk + stream of consciousness + psychoanalysis. I think "Journey to the West" should be the first time no one can understand it. Wonderful book."

Author of "Dreams"

　　The reason why "Journey to the West" is "odd" is mainly related to the author.

Dong said that he was a legendary character who lived in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

　　According to the data, Dong Shuo was born in a wealthy family in Nanxun, Huzhou. He was talented and enlightened. He was eager to learn throughout his life. He wrote more than one hundred books, including history, astronomy, phonology, image and number, medicine... all involved, but he chose to settle down in his middle age. Sent home.

　　He also has many strange quirks: he likes to live in the boat, loves to listen to the rain, has a naming addiction, a book burning addiction, and invented the non-smoke method of cooking incense without burning incense.

In addition, Dong said that he is addicted to dreaming and sleeping, and he will consciously remember and hide dreams.

　　After experiencing the decline of the family, Dong Shuo, a man of temperament, combined the various realities he had seen, heard, and experienced, and put them into his poems.

　　At the age of 21, he wrote the novel "Journey to the West", in which Sun Xingzhe was also dreaming and experienced many things that were almost impossible. He finally woke up and returned to the "real world" in the book.

"Journey to the West".

[Ming] Dong said Zhao Hongjuan and Zhu Ruida proofreading.

Published by Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House

　　"Dong said that the spiritual world is different from others. The novel seems to be a fantasy, but there are also many details that satirize the social reality of the time, such as the imperial examination system and the corruption of the emperor." Zhao Hongjuan believes that "Journey to the West" is a film that can connect with the world. Literary works.

When you encounter a setback, jump out and take a look

　　"Journey to the West" is a strange book, but it is not just a fantasy novel with full imagination.

　　For example, the experience of "trapped" by the walker.

Scholar Zhao Baitian once analyzed that there are three layers of time and space in the story. The first is the ancient world, the second is the future world, and the second is the Qingqing world.

And this time when Sun Xingzhe was trapped was in Qingqing World.

　　Zhao Hongjuan further explained that the ancient world and the future world are actually included in the "green world", and the ancient world and the future world are also the world of "love".

　　The reason why the author designed this way is to allow Monkey King to travel through multiple time and space, experience various emotions, enter the "love", and finally get out of the "love", and after being awakened by Venerable Void, he restarted the path of learning from the west.

　　As an ordinary person, in different situations or stages of life, it is inevitable to be trapped by various things, such as wealth, fame, emotions, etc. Choosing different ways of "breaking free" means choosing a different life.

　　Zhao Hongjuan really likes the sentence in "Journey to the West", "World love is mostly cloud dreams." This also tells people that no matter what you do, when you encounter setbacks or difficulties, you should jump out and take a look.

This is probably the enlightenment it can give people.

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