The Story of Zhu Bajie (1974) 猪八戒外传
Director: Li Jishan
Screenwriter: Li Jishan
Starring: Fan Ling / Ge Xiaobao / Jiang Qing / Wang Fan
Genre: Fantasy
Country/Region of Manufacture: Taiwan, China
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Also known as: Monkey King vs. Pig Bajie
Adaptation: Retelling
Summary:
Characters in Journey to the West. It was originally the Tianpeng Marshal under the Jade Emperor in Heaven, in charge of the heavenly river. Because he was drunk and molested Chang'e, he was expelled from the heaven by the Jade Emperor, and he was reincarnated in the human world, but he was cast into a pig fetus by mistake, with a face and face similar to a pig. He bites and kills the sow, kills the pigs, and recruits to the house of the second sister Egg in the Yunzhan Cave in Fuling Mountain. Unexpectedly, the second sister Egg died a year later, leaving only a cave for him. So far, he lives in Yunzhan Cave and calls himself “Zhu Ganglie”.
Guanyin Bodhisattva bestowed the Dharma name Wu Neng, when the Tang Monk goes west to learn scriptures and passed by Gao Lao Village, Zhu Bajie was subdued by Sun Wukong, and after being accepted as a second apprentice by the Tang Monk in order to let him continue to abstain from five meat and three disgusting things, Tang Monk named him “Bajie”. From then on, Bajie became Sun Wukong’s good helper, and together protected Tang Monk to go to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures. He knows the 36 transformation techniques, can ride the clouds and ride the fog, and the weapon he uses is a nine-toothed rake.
Bajie has a gentle personality, honest and simple, strong and sweet mouth. But he eats too much and is lazy, loves to take advantage of small things, covets women, and is often fascinated by the beauty of monsters, making it difficult to distinguish friends from the enemy. Zhu Bajie is greedy for food and sleep, selfish and prone to slander. He often wants to make fun of others, but he either lifts a rock to shoot himself in the foot or binds himself in a cocoon.
Why did even such a person achieve the right result in the end, and was named “Purifying Altar Envoy” by the Tathagata Buddha? This has an important connection with Zhu Bajie’s ability to correct mistakes when he knows them, and to listen to the opinions of leaders and colleagues (in fact, this has a lot to do with Wukong’s “supervision”). He reined in from the precipice, and even turned his prodigal son back. In the business of learning Buddhist scriptures, he is quite obedient to his brother’s words, and he is loyal to his master. Finally, he has made great contributions to learning Buddhist scriptures in the Western Paradise, which is why Zhu Bajie has a good result.
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