"journey To The West" Weapons, Magic And Spells

Journey to the West is China's ancient "Four Masterpieces", "Four Great Classical Novels," a great Cauldron Fiction. It has an unusually strong importance in the history of Chinese fiction. Zhang Shushen,a great scholar of the Qing Dynasty, said :" it is actually a wonderful fiction."Attenboroug,a French Contemporary Comparison of Writers,once said: "Once who did not read Journey to the West,just like who did not read Tolstoy or Dostoevsky's novels. "From the day it was born, 400 years,numerous writers and scholars have carried on a lot of meticulous and detailed analysis in the aspect of its author,its version,its ideological significance,its artistic characteristics,its customs and so on. Since the 20th century, the research of Journey to the West is numerous.But unfortunately, the works of Journey to the West mainly focused on the following areas: author's mystery, the ancient Version of Journey to the West in the existence, Wu, Zhu or yang copies who is the order, the studies of major figures, cultural studies, as well as Confucianism and Buddhism, the origin of sunwukong,and so on.The studies of weapons, flubber and magic of Journey to the West are very little.It is really a pity.For this reason, this article studies the weapons, flubber and magic of Journey to the West, so as to provide a new interpretation of the text ,to a more lively, interesting and full of Modernity means to explore the deeper meaning of work.This article follows a scientific way in order to do input the fresh blood and fresh vitality into the research of Journey to the West.This overall design mainly includes three aspects, namely, introduction, body, conclusion:Introduction Part I: mainly includes three aspects, namely, thesis research purposes and significance; the research of the history and current situation of Journey to the West; the overall design of this article, the main content and research methods.The body of the main contents is summarized as follows:ChapterⅠ: the weapons of Journey to the WestThis part includes the types,features and functions of weapons, and take the monkey king bar for the typical analysis, in terms of the theme,the ancient iron worship and Buddhism related to the content. ChapterⅡ: the flubbers of Journey to the WestThis part includes the diversity, uniformity and value of flubbers,involving bottle shaped magic weapon, rings shaped magic and panacea, and take Jade Goddess of Mercy water jar for ablutions and Magic mirror for the typical analysis, in terms of many contents.ChapterⅢ: the magic of Journey to the WestThis part select the change magic and incantations magic as the main content ,take Monkey King's 72 changes for example and select the two typical changes in battles .And take the function of the magic,this article study the connotation meaning of "Heart Sutra" and other aspects.Conclusion section: a systematic summary of the full textAll in all, the weapons, flubbers and magic of Journey to the West represent the art of fantasy fiction features, unrestrained imagination, bizarre world of Sin amazing magic, so that his whole book presents a unique artistic style. These depicts inherited the ancient Chinese literature and set an example for offsprings.