Journey to the West | The Continued Story of Sun Wukong

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Story on Sun Wukong is a story of an extremely outstanding person shifting from fighting against a corrupt system to eventually learning to take advantage of a corrupt system. Most of the monsters they faced along the way of journey to the west are relatives of the gods in heaven. Like a son, a daughter, a nephew, or even just a heavenly coi fish. For all of these monsters with connections Sun Wukong was really holding back. And these monsters were always eventually spared by the heavenly gods at the end. But for the few monsters that didn't have a heavenly background like the skeleton monster, Sun executed them. Sun learned that by rebelling against a corrupt system you gain nothing in the end, but by playing by their rules you get everything in the end. This is the true moral of the story, a sarcasm on the Chinese society at the time. Lots of Chinese people know about this theme.

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This is what Akira Toriyama based "Dragon Ball" off of. Goku, the protaganist from Dragon Ball with his monkey tail & flying nimbus cloud who would turn into a giant Oozaru, or giant ape at full moon, was based off the Monkey King from Journey to the West.

By far my favorite story in Chinese mythology and what got me into it in the first place

I think it was important to add that once the entire group is assembled, all the adventures throughout their journey to the west are not linear, but are more like isolated episodes that almost never connect one with another. This is because most of these adventures were a compilation of fantastic stories told by buddhist monks in China passed through oral tradition. What the author did, was to compile most of those stories and assemble them into a lineal story (similar to what happened with One Thousand and One Nights, which is actually a compilation of stories, not a linear story). This is also why some stories are even very similar one to another and sometimes fight very similar monsters or happen in very similar environments (villages, mountains, forests, caves, rivers, etc.), sometimes one story is a variation of another, this also explains why there is no such thing as a climatic battle (the closest one being vs the Bull Demon King which happens around 3/4 of the main story), or why when they are in the last village before buddha they don't even mention anything about it.

Actually, Tripitaka didn't put the circlet on Wukong's head, on Guanyin's instructions, he tricks Wukong to place it on his-own head-himself, inadvertently giving it power over him--likewise this is how the Buddha had gotten one over on Wukong 500-years-earlier, Wukong agreeing to their bet, inadvertently giving-himself into the Buddha's power. The moral of this story: ALWAYS read the fine-print before you sign-up for something.

This is the most excited I have been about a YouTube show in a long time.

Sun Wukong is my favorite character in Mythology. My second favorite is King Gilgamesh.

I watched Monkey as a child in the 70s and I loved the stories. I never realised that they were so closely linked to the actual story. I now understand the significance of Pigsy and Sandy.

Monkey Magic is a gem to all storytelling in television and a blessing from the epic tale Journey to The West

Sun Wukong is my favorite Chinese mythology monkey god.He is arguably one of the well known mythology characters in Eastern Asia cultures At the end of his journey he obtained nirvana state Buddha hood make him nigh Omnipotent if not an Omnipotent being.I hope Mythology Unleashed would do a video about the characters Sun Wukong beings influenced by non other than Hanuman the monkey from Hindu mythology or others monkey deities Sarugami,Howler Monkey Gods,Ciudad Blanca.

Thank you so much for this one. The Journey West, The Monkey King and the others, is one of my favorite stories!!

Thank you for this!!! Man I love this legend, but the voice-over and the narration, the images, this was perfect!!

This was amazing. I hope that you can cover more of this journey in future videos as this was truly wonderful to watch and learn about. <3

Another excellent video. I look forward to some of your individual episodes of the challenges they encountered.

I am so looking forward to this! Absolutely love this channel and the narration is par excellence!

Thanks! This was the first time I'd heard this story! Many many thanks!

I’m so happy I came across this channel. I will definitely be showing it to my daughter (5 years old), because these stories are simply delightful. Thank you so much for them, I hope you keep on doing them for years to come 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼.

Yes! I was so excited for this!!