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Chinese Culture & Civilization

The movie, monkey king, starts with an apocalyptic war between the demons and the

deities. Both sides are less interested in a victory against each other but simply in smashing

celestial architecture. Reconstruction task is left to goddess Nuwa who gives her body to fill

cracks in the firmament. Her remains fall to earth and enable the genesis of a primate embryo

who becomes the monkey king. Taoist master is sent to teach the monkey magic by the

goddess of mercy. After learning magical powers, Sun Wukong journeys to the east sea

palace where he takes a powerful weapon from the Dragon King. He acquires great powers

enough to challenge the Jade Emperor and his army. Because of his rebellion, Sun Wukong is

imprisoned by the Buddha in a five-peaked mountain.

Nuwa is the goddess who created the universe according to the creation story of the

Taoist. When she gave her body to repair the heavens, she left a blessed celestial rock which

is naturally intelligent. This stone when exposed to forces and energy it became the stone

monkey. The elements of Daoism where in their history they lived in a mountain hermitage is

brought in the story of the monkey king where the stone monkey and his other monkeys lived

in the mountain of flowers and fruit (Zhu, Gang, p.108). The monkey king named this place

after they discovered it on their way to search for the bottomless water source. The stone

monkey is crowned as the monkey king. Monkey king leaves the others on the mountain of

flowers and fruit to learn the Toasted magic. Toaist was sent by the goddess of mercy (Kelly

Chen) in the movie to train the monkey king the ways of magic. The monkey king learns

magic and supernatural skill. He can ride the clouds, jump 54000 Kms and transform into

different creatures. The master banishes the monkey king after he finds him boasting with his

magical powers.

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The idea of the Taoism about the Patriarch Bodhi and his disciples to become

immortals by developing conscious spirit body to avoid death is depicted in the monkey king.

After gaining the weapon and the armour, sun Wukong decided to become immortal. To

attain this, he storms hell and erased his name and those of his monkeys from the book of hell

which made them immortal (Jian-ying, 805). When the Jade Emperor found out, he

summoned Sun Wukong to punish him but was advised by the other Heavenly beings to give

him a non-existing post in heaven. The position as the keeper of the heavenly horses also

called the Bimawen did not impress him, so he decided to challenge the Jade Emperor.

However, his powers were fast, and the divine beings could not subdue him.

The idea of Buddha comes across when the Emperor is aided by the Sakyamuni Buddha to

subdue and imprison the wukong who had been named the great sage by the earthly

immortals. After imprisonment, he begged the goddess mercy (Kuan Yin) to release him.

Additionally, in this story, the idea of Buddhism is brought out in the case where The Great

Sage Equal to Heaven in defeated by Buddha. Buddha thrust the monkey out the west gate of

heaven through the earth and pinned his there ender a five-peaked mountain formed by

Buddha’s hand. Besides, the western heaven is known to be a place where the good Buddhist

is taken after death where they progressively develop to become Buddha’s themselves.

The stone monkey and with other monkeys they were searching for the bottomless

source of water when they came across the mighty waterfall. The idea of bottomlessness can

only exist in a supernatural realm. The monkeys also believed that behind the curtain of water

there lies the actual power to their future. Additionally, the Sun Wukong came back after

being banished by the master he finds out that a monster had attacked his fellow monkeys.

Besides the magical golden hooped weapon has supernatural power to transform. Chinese

methodology about dragons is benevolent, and their magnificent palaces and treasure hordes

are legendary. In quest of power, sun wukong goes to the dragon king to find a weapon

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Surname 1 Chinese Culture & Civilization The movie, monkey king, starts with an apocalyptic war between the demons and the deities. Both sides are less interested in a victory against each other but simply in smashing celestial architecture. Reconstruction task is left to goddess Nuwa who gives her body to fill cracks in the firmament. Her remains fall to earth and enable the genesis of a primate embryo who becomes the monkey king. Taoist master is sent to teach the monkey magic by the goddess of mercy. After learning magical powers, Sun Wukong journeys to the east sea palace where he takes a powerful weapon from the Dragon King. He acquires great powers enough to challenge the Jade Emperor and his army. Because of his rebellion, Sun Wukong is imprisoned by the Buddha in a five-peaked mountain. Nuwa is the goddess who created the universe according to the creation story of the Taoist. W ...
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