Whose Dojo is Guo Huashan? Why did the Tathagata and the Jade Emperor dare not go?
He stopped and looked carefully ... but it looked like a house. It's a good place ... there are trees and flowers by the bridge, but it's a stone house. There are stone pots, stoves, bowls, basins, beds and benches in the room.
Look at the decorations in water curtain cave. The objects are complete, the layout is reasonable, the environment is beautiful, and there is no trace of damage. In addition, there are eight inscriptions in the cave, "Huaguoshan is a blessed land, and water curtain cave is a cave". If it's natural, I don't believe it. Let's take a look at Guo Hua. There are rugged rocks, rich products, beautiful scenery, dragons, phoenixes, deer, foxes, unicorns, cranes and many other auspicious things. Needless to say, it should be a Dojo for senior immortals. So who is this fairy? Next, we will analyze it according to the clues in the book.
First of all, let's take a look at the description of Huaguoshan in the book. At the beginning of the novel, the author introduced the basic situation of Huaguoshan to us for the first time, and one of them wrote:
This country is close to the sea, and there is a famous mountain in the sea called Guo Huashan. This mountain is the ancestor of ten continents and the origin of three islands. It was formed after HarmonyOS's systematic trial ... It is the Optimus Prime, and the root of the earth will never waver.
Let's first analyze the sentence "the ancestor of the ten continents, the origin and development of the three islands". In the Journey to the West, Shizhou and Mishima are places where immortals live. They are inaccessible and far from the world. Fairy grass and ganoderma lucidum are everywhere, which is an ideal place for Taoist practice. The immortals Zong Fu, Lu and Shou Sanxing all live here. Both ancestral veins and veins have the meaning of origin. Huaguoshan is the source of Shizhou and Mishima, indicating that the level of Huaguoshan is much higher than Shizhou and Mishima.
The next two sentences, "The HarmonyOS system was the judge from beginning to end", show the formation time of Guo Huashan, which belongs to the earliest mountain range among the four continents when Pangu created the world. The last two sentences, "Rivers must be in Optimus Prime, and the roots of the earth are unmoved by all difficulties", reflect the important role of Huaguoshan-heaven and earth. In a word, Guo Huashan is particularly bullish, and it is a treasure trove of geomantic omen, which is not possessed by ordinary immortals. Only immortals of "ancestor" level can deserve it. In the Journey to the West, there are only a handful of immortals known as "ancestors", only Tathagata Buddha, Taoist grandfather Laojun, Bodhi ancestor, immortal Xuanzi Zhenyuan, and nine-day wandering demon ancestor. Among them, Zhen, the ancestor of the immortal, is the most suspected.
Huaguoshan is the ancestor of ten continents and three islands. There is no doubt that ten continents and three islands are distributed on the ground, which is the "ancestor of the fairy", and Zhenyuanzi is the ancestor of the fairy. Their positions are highly consistent. Even we can boldly guess that the title of "the ancestor of immortals" probably originated from Huaguoshan. Next, let's look at the connection between water curtain cave and Zhenyuan Daxian. In addition to those stone bridges, stone houses, stone benches, stone beds and other facilities, the most striking thing in water curtain cave is the eight stone inscriptions. The book says:
After watching it for a long time, I jumped from the middle of the bridge and looked around. I see a stone tablet in the middle. There is a line of regular script characters on the monument, which reads "Huaguoshan is a blessed land and water curtain cave is a cave."
Coincidentally, there is also a similar stone tablet at the entrance of Wanshou Mountain where Zhenyuan Daxian lives:
Sanzang dismounted. I saw a monument on the left side of the mountain gate, with ten big characters on it, which read "Blessed Land of Wanshou Mountain, View Wuzhuang Cave."
The sentence patterns of the two are highly consistent, but the place names have been changed, which makes people have to associate. You know, in the Journey to the West, there have never been similar inscriptions in other places except these two places. Such a consistent layout arrangement is difficult to be summarized by coincidence. A reliable inference is that due to various reasons, Zhenyuan Daxian probably gave the original Dojo Guo Huashan to the Monkey King at the request of the Tathagata to help the Tathagata learn from the West. In exchange, the Tathagata found the treasure of Wanshou Mountain for him and allowed him to take away one of Guo Hua's treasures, namely the Ginseng Fruit Tree.
Seeing this, many people will think that my brain is wide open, but it is not. Isn't it strange that the name of Huaguoshan is Huaguoshan, but there is no fairy fruit? Let's take a look at the description of the Monkey King by the immortal stone:
On the top of that mountain, there is a fairy stone, which is 30 feet 6 feet 5 inches high and 20 feet 4 feet wide ... there are no trees to shade it on all sides, but orchids on the left and right.
There are dense trees everywhere in Guo Huashan. Why is there no tree to shade the immortal stone that raised the Monkey King alone? Stranger still, there are ganoderma lucidum and bluegrass without trees. You know, Ganoderma lucidum and bluegrass are shade-loving plants, and it is impossible to be directly exposed to the sun. So we infer that there should have been trees around this fairy stone, and it should still be an uncommon tree, because ordinary trees are not easy to breed Ganoderma lucidum and grass.
Words are divided into two ends. Let's go and see the ginseng fruit growing in Wuzhuangguan. 24 wrote back:
It is said that the name of this mountain is Wanshou Mountain, and there is a scene in the mountain called Wuzhuangguan ... In this view, it is a common treasure, born at the beginning of chaos and HarmonyOS system trial, before the world opened.
Are you familiar with the phrase "the first division of chaos, the first trial of HarmonyOS system"? Yes, the author used these two words when describing Huaguoshan, which shows that they appeared at the same time. More noteworthy is the word "spiritual root". In addition to ginseng fruit trees, there is also a place where "spiritual roots" appear in the novel. The novel of Journey to the West begins for the first time-spiritual root is the source of pregnancy, and spiritual practice leads to life. Linggen, which appeared in Huimu, actually refers to the Monkey King. The Monkey King and ginseng fruit trees seem to have different general relations. According to my personal understanding, after the root of the ginseng fruit tree was uprooted, the Monkey King replaced it with another root there, so that Huaguoshan could continue to prosper.
The Monkey King has an indissoluble bond with the ginseng fruit tree: he knocked down the fruit tree with his own hands, and finally he had to find someone to treat him. It's also a metaphor that the Monkey King can't survive without ginseng and fruit trees, and the two spiritual roots complement each other. During the Zhenyuan period, Daxian and the Monkey King became brothers, which became the link between their spiritual roots. As for the attitude of the Jade Emperor and the Tathagata towards Huaguoshan, we can understand it this way: Zhenyuan Daxian is the ancestor of Dixian, and its status is quite high. According to the children, "Sanqing is his friend, Sihuang is his old friend, Jiuyao is his junior, and Chen Yuan is the next guest". The Jade Emperor is one of the Four Emperors, and the Tathagata ranks among the five parties and five elders. Although they are all equal to Zhenyuan Daxian, they dare not make moves easily. After all, the immortals called "ancestors" are not easy to mess with.