Whether Sun Wukong cannibalizes people or not, can we tell when he breaks up with the Bull Demon King?

In Chapter 3 of "Journey to the West", after Sun Wukong got the golden cudgel, he handed over the administrative affairs of Huaguo Mountain to the four old monkeys and went out to travel. During the trip, I made six good friends, namely the Bull Demon King, the Jiao Demon King, the Peng Demon King, the Lion and Camel King, the Macaque King and the Tamarin King. The original book said that Sun Wukong talked with them about literature and martial arts every day. In other words, Sun Wukong had competed with them.

One day, he ordered the four generals to arrange a banquet in this cave, and invited six kings to drink. They killed cattle and horses, offered sacrifices to heaven and earth, and danced and sang with the monsters. They all got drunk after eating. Wait, stop it, kill the cow? Kill a horse? Isn’t the Bull Demon King a cow? Wouldn't Sun Wukong irritate the Bull Demon King if he killed the same kind as the Bull Demon King? Perhaps, the rift between Sun Wukong and the Bull Demon King was planted from the very beginning.

However, although the rift between Sun Wukong and the Bull Demon King was sown at this moment, it was not because Sun Wukong killed the cow or the Bull Demon King's kind, but for another reason.

You know, in the original work of "Journey to the West", there are countless examples of like eating like. Let's take Chapter 56 of "Journey to the West" as the trigger for the real and fake Monkey King incident. Sun Wukong beat Tang Monk and took away his luggage. Tang Monk asked Sha Monk to go to Huaguo Mountain to get his luggage back. After Sha Monk arrived at Huaguo Mountain, Sun Wukong said that he would bring a team of Buddhist monks to fetch Buddhist scriptures. Sure enough, Tang Monk Bajie and the fake Sha Monk came out. , the real Sha Monk was furious and beat the fake Sha Monk to death. It turned out that the fake Sha Monk was transformed into a monkey spirit. Sha Monk was afraid that Sun Wukong would explode, so he ran away quickly. A dramatic scene occurred in the plot next. Sun Wukong did not chase Sha Seng. Regardless of whether this Sun Wukong was Sun Wukong or a six-eared macaque, he actually ate the dead monkey with all the monkeys.

In other words, in the world of Journey to the West, in the caves of various monsters, it is common for the same kind to eat the same kind. Moreover, even in the human world, it is not uncommon for people to eat people. In other words, the Bull Demon King will not be angry because Sun Wukong ate the cow or entertained him with beef. So how did the rift between the Bull Demon King and Sun Wukong begin?

In Chapter 42 of "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong transformed into the Bull Demon King and came to Red Boy's Fire Cloud Cave to save Tang Monk. However, this Bull Demon King's performance was full of loopholes. Red Boy was puzzled: "My father usually eats A person can live for more than a thousand years now." In other words, the Bull Demon King often eats people. When Sun Wukong defeated the White Bone Demon for the third time, he also said to Tang Monk: "When Old Sun was a demon in the Water Curtain Cave, if he wanted to eat human flesh, he would do this. It could turn into gold and silver, or turn into a table, or become intoxicating, or turn into a woman. . If someone is so infatuated and falls in love with me, I will lure him into the cave and eat it as he pleases. If I can’t eat it, I will dry it in the sun to prevent it from being cloudy.” It can be seen that Sun Wukong must have eaten it! human.

It is worth mentioning that in the world of Journey to the West, blatant cannibalism is not allowed in Heaven. No matter gods or monsters, or even animals, can eat people in the human world, but in the wilderness, the heavens may realize that it is not easy to become immortals, so they turn a blind eye to monsters and animals cannibalizing people.

It is true that Sun Wukong has eaten more than others, but he certainly does not eat it often. He lived for 342 years and must have eaten far more fruits than human flesh. Therefore, in Chapter 38 of "Journey to the West", when Sun Wukong rescued the Silky King, Tang Monk asked him to give artificial respiration to the Silky King because he had eaten too much fruit. , with a breath of fresh air in his mouth, which means that later in the "Chapter of Falling into the Sky", the white rat spirit pretended to kiss Sun Wukong, not because he wanted to hook up with him, but because he wanted to taste the fresh fruity taste.

Looking back at the martial arts lecture in Huaguo Mountain, what should Sun Wukong bring out when he entertains the six demon kings? Human flesh. Eating human flesh in Huaguo Mountain is not subject to Heaven’s control. But Sun Wukong didn't, and he killed the cow and the horse. Why kill cows and horses? In order to let several demon kings live like humans instead of being monsters. The Bull Demon King and others understood what Sun Wukong meant, and after eating and drinking with Sun Wukong, they left. They didn't come for quite some time.

That night, after Sun Wukong got drunk, complications occurred in the middle of the night, and he was seduced by the underworld. Then Sun Wukong made a big fuss in the underworld and was recruited by Heaven to become Bima Wen. Later, he went to Heaven in anger and defeated the Nezha giant spirit god who came to encircle and suppress him. At this time, these six demon kings came back to celebrate. At the celebration banquet, Sun Wukong suddenly wanted to form an alliance of the Seven Holy Saints. Everyone was in trouble. Fortunately, the Bull Demon King broke the ice. The Alliance of Seven Saints was once a legend in the demon world. But at the celebration banquet, the Bull Demon King and others also saw that Sun Wukong was determined not to eat humans, and he clearly wanted to stand on the side of humans and gods. He was not his own kind, and he deliberately drew a line in his heart. Later, Sun Wukong went to heaven to serve as an official again. Except for Sun Wukong who met the Bull Demon King on his way to learn Buddhist scriptures, Sun Wukong seemed to have never met the other five.