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Hello everyone

I am very happy to come to Yixi Youth

to talk to you about "Journey to the West"

I think as a Chinese

I must have been exposed to various "Journey to the West" stories since childhood

I think everyone here may have at least 4 "Journey to the West" in their minds

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The first "Journey to the West"

That is the "Journey to the West" that I saw in children's books

in cartoons

and in TV series

so let's not talk about it for now

until we go to school

Then we will be exposed to "Journey to the West" in Chinese class

because this is one of the four famous works

and has a high literary status

Then we also know that it is a work

No matter what it is.

Once it enters the Chinese class

it has an explanation system

There is a set of answering skills

right

So it will probably look like what is on the card now

When you see this

you may think that

this is different from the story you were exposed to when you were a child

But we all know

In front of the test scores

What is your own experience?

Right

So even if you don’t agree with some judgments in the Chinese language book

you must write according to its answers

Then some places will require so-called reading of the whole book

and let you read "Journey to the West"

I don't know how many friends here have actually read the original work of "Journey to the West"

If you have read it

You just need to open it

What you see is this thing

What you see is this text

You may think what is this

Of course, of course

After you look past these strange words

you will find out later

It is still the familiar story of Sun Wukong, Tang Monk, and Zhu Bajie

Anyway, as far as I know many friends read the original work of "Journey to the West"

It feels different from the stories I read when I was a kid

It also feels different from the Chinese language books

Some parts seem more interesting than the stories I read when I was a kid

But there are also many places that are weird

I can’t read

Many people have this feeling

Then I have to look for explanations

Look for explanations

There are of course many various explanations about "Journey to the West" on the Internet now

People will keep telling you

I want to tell you a real "Journey to the West"

And then say oh

You must not be deceived by the TV series

The TV series is a children's drama, family fun

The real "Journey to the West" is very dark

Then some people will tell you that the author of "Journey to the West" is not Wu Cheng'en

Of course this is a very common saying.

The author of "Journey to the West" is actually a certain high-ranking official

He has really seen it

Therefore, the book "Journey to the West" contains top-level tactics

Contains the most remarkable officialdom wisdom

What should the real theme of "Journey to the West" be like

There are many such explanations on the Internet

In fact, which explanation is correct

This question, which explanation is correct?

This question may be the wrong one.

Is it possible?

There is no reasonable and correct explanation for "Journey to the West" at all.

Here I will tell you a concept

called accumulation of generations. These stories have been circulated for a long time

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Then you change a little

He changes a little

Today the author adds a little

Tomorrow the author adds a little and deletes a little

And finally it accumulates

and becomes what we see today

Since this work was not originally written by a single author

so this work comes naturally

It is full of all kinds of self-contradictions

"Journey to the West" has become what we are today

There are probably three groups of authors who are particularly important

More than three groups

It's just about our time relationship

Let's focus on these three groups

Before talking about the first group of authors

Let's first pay attention to the image of Tang Monk in "Journey to the West"

I'll just read the original work to everyone

I won't make any use of it

We know that there is such a plot in "Journey to the West"

Not long after Tang Monk accepted Sun Wukong as his apprentice

He met someone

Little White Dragon, right

Then Little White Dragon appeared and did something

Eat Tang Monk's horse

What was Tang Monk's reaction after knowing that his horse was eaten by the little white dragon

Let me read the original work to everyone

Since he ate it

How can I move forward

Poor people, how can they walk

As he spoke, tears fell like rain

Hey

Be anxious when the horse is lost

It’s normal to be anxious, right

Is it too much to shed tears like rain

A little too much

Then Sun Wukong saw Tang Monk crying

He said don’t worry

Right, you sit here

I’ll go find the dragon

Let him give me back the horse

How did Tang Monk react

But Sanzang stopped and said

Disciple

Where are you looking for him

I'm afraid he will come out secretly

But he won't even hurt me

At that time, both men and horses died

How can it be a good thing

So no wonder Sun Wukong couldn't help scolding

Master, don't want such a pustule shape

It's no wonder that soon after Sun Wukong met Guanyin Bodhisattva

he was about to give up his career

This leader could not follow

Tang Seng's uselessness is basically throughout the whole book

In addition, we will also see that in the original work

Tang Seng's moral level often seems a bit questionable

In "Journey to the West"

Sun Wukong left Tang Seng three times

The reasons for leaving Tang Seng are basically the same

They are all because Sun Wukong killed someone

Or Tang Seng thought Sun Wukong killed someone

Then let’s take a look

When Tang Seng drove Sun Wukong away

What did he say

Chapter 14

This is the first time to drive away Sun Wukong

What did Tang Seng say to Sun Wukong

There is no one to check in the mountains

If you come to the city

If someone bumps into you

You also commit murder

Use that stick to beat and hurt people

I can be a white guest

How can I escape

Then Chapter 27

Three Strikes of Bone Demons

Tang Monk said to Sun Wukong that you are in the wilderness

Killed three people in a row

Still no one reported

No opponent

If you go to the city

A crowded place

You took the mourning stick

I didn't know what to do for a while

Beat people randomly

Get into big trouble

How can I get away

Just go back

Please note that Tang Monk drove away Sun Wukong twice

What was he most worried about

Of course he would also say some humanitarian principles

But the final destination

was always the fear that Sun Wukong would harm himself

The third time he drove away Sun Wukong

This time was the time when he met the six-eared macaque

Before he met the six-eared macaque

Tang Monk was hanged up by several bandits first

At this time, Sun Wukong had also been with Tang Monk for a long time

So he acted more appropriately at the beginning

A group of bandits

Sun Wukong killed two bandit leaders

but let the other bandits go

What does this mean

If Sun Wukong wanted to kill all the bandits

Can these bandits escape?

Definitely can't run away

So Sun Wukong kept his hands

It was self-defense at this time

There is no problem

But what was Tang Monk's reaction

Tang Monk looked at the corpses of the two bandit leaders and said

Then I have to pray

So he started to pray to the hero

Reasons for listening to the prayer

He crackled a lot

Let's take a look at his last few sentences

How about you go to His Highness Sen Luo to come up with words

Or you can go to Lord Yama to complain

Falling down the tree to find the roots

His surname is Sun and my surname is Chen

Each has a different surname

Every injustice has its own owner

Don't accuse me of monks who collect scriptures

Just sue Sun Wukong

Don't get me involved

Just like this

Even Zhu Bajie next to him felt a little bit unbearable

Zhu Bajie said Master

You pushed him clean

Junior Brother Sha and I were not around when Brother Monkey fought

So Tang Monk really rubbed the dirt again

A good man complains

He only complains to those who practice

He doesn’t do anything like Bajie or Sha Seng

When he wrote this paragraph, did the author

realize that he wrote Tang Seng in a very vulgar way?

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So we will also see that in "Journey to the West"

Tang Seng's cultural level is not as good as Sun Wukong

In "Journey to the West"

There is also such a routine

That is to go to a dangerous place

Tang Seng said oh

Disciples, we must be careful

It may be dangerous

Then this time

Sun Wukong came out to comfort Tang Seng

Sun Wukong’s words to comfort Tang Seng were very interesting

Think about it carefully

Master, monks should not speak at home

What is this sentence

Teacher, please pay attention to your image

Right, you are a monk

This is not like what ordinary students would remind the teacher.

Right

Then Sun Wukong continued to remind Tang Monk

Do you remember the "Heart Sutra" written by Monk Wuchao? Sun Wukong is teaching Buddhism to Tang Monk

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Right, Monk Tang, you are a mortal

You are not good at facing monsters

This is understandable, right

But even Buddhism requires a monkey who has become a monk to teach you

Isn’t this a bit too much

Sun Wukong didn’t speak until the end

If there are any problems, I will solve them

A lot of clichés before

Sun Wukong talks to Monk Tang in the tone of his mentor

Of course, Monk Tang in "Journey to the West" has no cultural level

That's fine

In addition, when we talk about "Journey to the West"

many people feel that it is a novel that promotes Buddhism

But it involves Buddhist knowledge

and will make many common sense mistakes

For example

Guanyin Bodhisattva received the Tathagata's decree

and came to Chang'an City to look for people to collect Buddhist scriptures

At that time, he saw Tang Monk

Tang Monk was preaching Buddhist scriptures on the high platform

Then Guanyin Bodhisattva transformed into an old monk

and said to Tang Monk

What you are teaching is Hinayana teaching

Can you teach Mahayana teaching

Tang Monk had a very good attitude when he heard this

said oops

I really don’t know Mahayana

Because what we in the Eastern Tang Dynasty teach are all Hinayana Buddhism

I don’t know Mahayana

But as long as you have a little knowledge about the history of Chinese Buddhism

you can know

Chinese Buddhism was Mahayana as the mainstay from the beginning

Hinayana Buddhism has always been very marginalized in China

Therefore, this statement is completely inconsistent with the basic situation of Chinese Buddhism

Another example is the Tathagata Buddha

When arranging this matter of collecting scriptures,

he wanted to publicize it

He wanted people from the Eastern Tang Dynasty to come to collect scriptures

My Buddhist scriptures are very good

He talked about

what my Buddhist scriptures are like

I have a Tibetan collection of "Dharma" and talk about the sky

"The Treatise" has one treasure, speaking of the earth

"The Sutra" has one treasure to save ghosts

This is called the Tripitaka

But we also know

What the so-called Tripitaka in Buddhism actually refers to

The Buddhist scriptures are divided into three categories

The three categories are all treasures

It is called the Tripitaka

It is called the Tripitaka

What are these three categories

One is the "Sutra"

which is what the Buddha taught

the other is "The Vinaya"

which is the precepts established by the Buddha

and the other is "The Treatise"

which is a work by the Buddha's disciples explaining the sutras and laws

This is called Tripitaka

You will find

what the Tathagata said in "Journey to the West"

and Zhen is what most people call common sense about Buddhism

Completely inconsistent

So

Many scholars who studied "Journey to the West" in the past said

The author of "Journey to the West" did not understand Buddhism at all

However, in recent years, academic research

has still made a lot of new progress

It was found that the author of "Journey to the West"

It is not that he did not understand Buddhism

He understood underlying Buddhism

And it is precisely those

highly educated intellectuals in the past

who did not understand underlying Buddhism

Therefore, the Buddhist knowledge mastered by the author of "Journey to the West"

is completely different from the Buddhist knowledge mastered by scholars

They are two systems

The key answer to the mystery

is also in the sentence "The Authentic Tradition of Yoga"

It is the Ming Dynasty

There is a special Buddhist sect

called Yogi Monk

It also memorizes phonetic characters

It has many different ways of writing

It can be called Yogi Monk

or Yingfu Seng Yingfo Monk

What about these monks

What do they do

Their main job is to deal with the common people

Do Buddhist services and hold water and land conferences

Transcend the Dead

The earliest authors of "Journey to the West"

The earliest authors of "Journey to the West"

are probably yogi monks

or people who have a close relationship with yogi monks

So now when we read "Journey to the West"

we often overlook a question

That is why Monk Tang went to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures

Speaking of which, this seems to be the theme of "Journey to the West", right

But many of us

completely ignore this point when reading "Journey to the West"

What is the theme of "Journey to the West"

Why did Tang Monk go to the West to learn scriptures

In fact, this is really

something that is emphasized repeatedly in the novel

What Tang Seng wanted to do was to hold a high-level water and land conference

to save the souls of the dead

Tang Seng was talking about this before setting off

Xitian Road

Tang Monk also kept talking about this matter

Finally arrived in the West

Retrieved the Buddhist scriptures

Returned the Buddhist scriptures to the Eastern Land of the Tang Dynasty

What are you doing next

Really building the Land and Water Conference

This is the original theme of "Journey to the West"

But most of us who read "Journey to the West" today

may simply ignore this theme

But it doesn't matter.

This just tells us a very profound truth

A very good work

A very good-looking novel

It may not matter what its theme is at all

Don’t accept middle school Chinese education

Primary school Chinese education is limited

When looking at something, you must first find the theme

In fact, there are many works that attract you

It doesn’t matter what its theme is

You can even give it a theme yourself

Of course

There is also a problem here

It is said that the first authors of "Journey to the West" were probably yogi monks

But everyone has also felt what I just said.

The Tang Monk in the image of a yogi monk

is often very funny in "Journey to the West"

is an object of ridicule

Why is this

So we will talk about the second group of authors of "Journey to the West"

Before talking about the second group of authors

I will also digress now

Let's talk about a question that should be of interest to many people

Which one is more powerful, Tathagata Buddha or Taishang Laojun

Many people think this is needless to say

Of course Tathagata Buddha is powerful, right

Taishang Laojun threw Sun Wukong into the Bagua furnace

After practicing for seventy-seven and forty-nine days

No harm was done to him

Sun Wukong came out

He even pushed Taishang Laojun to a somersault

Tathagata Buddha really suppressed Sun Wukong for five hundred years

Hey, there are plots about this in the novel

But there are other plots in the novel

It also appeared as if Taishang Laojun was higher than Tathagata Buddha

For example

When Sun Wukong was making a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace

Sun Wukong and Erlang Shen were fighting

At that time, the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother

Taishang Laojun and Guanyin Bodhisattva were all watching the battle, right

Then Guanyin Bodhisattva said

Look at this

This Erlang God has trapped Sun Wukong

There is still one last blow

Look at me throwing objects from high altitude now

I will take down the monkey head

Then what to throw

Guanyin Bodhisattva said

I will throw my jade pure bottle

Then the Supreme Laojun will say

Don't throw that

I have a circle here

This circle is called King Kong Zhuo

It is made of Kun Steel

and I made it into a Huan Dan

Let’s remember this concept first

Huan Dan

I will explain it later

Taishang Laojun said

My King Kong Zhuo made from Huan Dan is particularly powerful

How powerful is it

When I passed Hanguan, I transformed a tiger into a Buddha

It was a great debt to him

What was he talking about when I transformed a tiger into a Buddha?

This is a very old legend

It was when Buddhism was first introduced to China

The Chinese people don't know much about Buddhism

I just looked at it and thought

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The thoughts of Buddhism seem to be quite similar to the thoughts of Lao Tzu in China

Lao Tzu likes to talk about nothingness

Buddhism likes to talk about emptiness

Right, many concepts are similar

They all say, oh, the world is not worth it

We don’t want us to be bound by the material world

Our souls have to find another empty place

to rest

These principles are all taught

So a saying was born

What's the saying?

It's Lao Tzu

According to Taoism,

I'm the Supreme Lord.

It's when I left Hangu Pass and went to the west.

I don't know where I went in the end.

In fact, I went to India.

In India, I accepted the Buddha as a disciple.

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But obviously this is a derogatory statement about Buddhism

But "Journey to the West" quoted this statement

And it was Taishang Laojun who said this in front of Guanyin Bodhisattva

I guess the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother were nervous after hearing this

Laojun, stop, you have passed it

Don't mention this matter

That is to say, "Journey to the West" recognizes Laozi's statement

Taishang Laojun transformed Hu into a Buddha.

In addition, from some plots in the following text,

will also feel that

It seems that Tathagata Buddha is sometimes a little vain in front of Taishang Laojun.

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The lower realm is a monster

He just stole the King Kong Zhuo too

Then how many people did Sun Wukong invite

How many magic weapons did he use?

In the end, they were all taken away by the green bull spirit's circle

He took them away

Then Sun Wukong went to move reinforcements

No matter how many reinforcements he moved, it was useless

Finally, he went directly to Tathagata Buddha

Tathagata Buddha said this at the time

He said that the monster you met

I know its origin

But I can't tell you

Because you are a monkey who likes to spread the word

Once he knows that I told you the answer to the riddle

he will not fight with you

but will definitely go to Lingshan

and blame me

You can tell from this

This Tathagata is quite wary of the green bull spirit

Isn't he quite wary

Then the Tathagata gave instructions again

Let the Eighteen Arhats take eighteen grains of golden cinnabar

Tell you to try to fight with that monster

If the golden cinnabar is taken away by that monster again

Just tell Sun Wukong

Go to Taishang Laojun to ask him for help

Then this time Sun Wukong went to see Taishang Laojun

Taishang Laojun told him again about turning a tiger into a Buddha

That is to say, the matter of Taishang Laojun transforming Hu into a Buddha

"Journey to the West" has been emphasized many times

And this Tathagata Buddha's golden sand

went to challenge Taishang Laojun's diamond carving

As a result, we also know who lost in the end

This question involves a bit of Taoist theory

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First of all, let's talk about what this elixir is

In fact, the reason why it is called elixir

In fact, it is called Dan

because it is red

The so-called cinnabar

refers to the thing on the card now

Its chemical composition is mercury sulfide

We know what happens when mercury sulfide is heated

Separates into mercury and sulfur

That's all this knowledge

It is the knowledge of our junior high school chemistry

We may think this is ordinary today

But the ancient Taoist priests thought this was very magical

Especially what they noticed

That is to say, you heat the mercury sulfide

and then the mercury is decomposed

Then you add realgar to it

Hey, it can be made into cinnabar

This is so magical

Why do you go back after practicing

What is it called when we go back?

Return, so we call it the Return Pill

Because this process can be repeated

For example, nine times

Then it is called the Nine Turns Great Return Pill

And of course, this kind of story

This function

always gets more and more amazing

Then when we talk about it, what does it become?

It is the Nine Turns Great Return Pill

If you eat it, you will be able to rejuvenate your youth

And use this nine-turn great rejuvenation elixir

You put it on your money

Today you go shopping

Spend the money

Tomorrow when you open the wallet

the money will fly back

So call it back

and it will come back

Of course, today's mobile payment

Let this trick not work

This is technology defeating magic

Right

All in all

In fact, we can see that it is such a setting

The golden elixir used by Tathagata Buddha

This is the formless golden elixir

Taishang Laojun's Vajra Diamond is made of the formed elixir

So the final result is self-evident

The final result is self-evident

Of course, Taishang Laojun won that contest

There are actually many similar plots in "Journey to the West"

There is also a particularly interesting place

That is when Tathagata Buddha lectures

"Journey to the West" talks about Tathagata Buddha's lectures many times

Long story

Many scholars have studied the content of Tathagata Buddha's lectures

What was discovered

The contents of Tathagata Buddha's lectures

A large number of them were copied from the classics of the Quanzhen Sect

They are talking about the content of Taoism

So there was a saying in the past

That the author of "Journey to the West" was a Changchun man named Qiu Chuji from the Quanzhen Sect

This statement was once very popular

But now of course everyone can be sure that it is wrong

Because Qiu Chuji is related to another "Journey to the West"

It is a book about geography

But no matter how you say it

"Journey to the West" has a deep connection with Quanzhen Sect

This can have a lot of strong evidence

In other words,

is the batch we just talked about

Yogi is the first group of authors of "Journey to the West"

Later, this group of Quanzhen Sect people joined in

They were there to modify "Journey to the West"

This is the second group of authors

But the voices of the second group of authors

did not completely cover up the voices of the first group of authors

So I often feel like this when reading "Journey to the West"

It's like several groups of authors are fighting

Give me the pen and I will write

That is, "Journey to the West" itself contains a lot of self-contradictory content

Of course, "Journey to the West" became what we are familiar with today

The third group of authors is also very important

The third group of authors

Mr. Lu Xun had a comment about him

I won't read this comment in full

Let's just read two words so that you can see clearly

Game

That is to say, this author

For him

He wrote this novel

His biggest passion is games

He is a very playful person

So

He did not delete the content where the previous two groups of authors attacked each other

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Hey, attacking each other always looks good

In addition

He himself is also very good at swearing

In Hu Shi's words,

This author has a bit of cynicism that loves to curse

And there is another thing we need to know

The ancient "Journey to the West" was written

Does he know that I wrote one of the Four Great Classics

Does he know that the book I wrote is more important than Li Bai and Du Fu

It may be more important to primary and secondary school students

What he doesn't know

What is his purpose in writing this book

One is for fun

And I want to sell it for money

This is a business book

The Four Wonderful Books

It is very important to create it

One purpose is linked to business

All of them take into account economic issues

So sometimes I say

I will publish this book quickly

It is more coherent than I compiled this book

There is no contradiction at all

This is more important

So today we read "Journey to the West"

We must remember

That is to say, this is not a work

The work of one author

It is a work created by many hands

Therefore, it is full of self-contradictions

But it is not good if you have self-contradictions

In fact, it is not necessarily

Sometimes it is just because it is self-contradictory

It can reflect the situation in all aspects of ancient society

Then one thing to note

Although "Journey to the West" has many authors

but the cultural level of these authors is actually not high

Time relationship

I can't go into too much detail

Let's give an example from one angle

There are many poems in "Journey to the West"

For example, there is this one on my card

What do you think of this poem?

This is a very interesting jingle.

Ancient poets who were trained in modern poetry would think that

this is a poem that pleases uneducated people.

So they can’t help but comment.

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Most of the level is not high

Why are more and more researchers today thinking that

Wu Chengen will not be the author of "Journey to the West"

An important reason is that

Wu Chengen's collection of poems and essays is preserved to this day

Compared with the original work of "Journey to the West"

Wu Chengen's poems are too good

So he cannot be the author of "Journey to the West"

But the problem is that we look at it from another angle

What's so great about writing better poems than "Journey to the West"

Those high-level intellectuals in the Ming Dynasty

had a higher cultural level than the author of "Journey to the West"

They advocated

that literature must be from the Qin and Han Dynasties

poetry must be prosperous from the Tang Dynasty

This proposition cannot be said to be unreasonable

But when you write poetry

Try every possible means to imitate Li Bai and Du Fu

No matter how much you learn like Li Bai and Du Fu

you are not Li Bai and Du Fu

when you write an article

You imitate Sima Qian Ban Gu

No matter how much you learn like Sima Qian Ban Gu

you are not Sima Qian Ban Gu

Then you live in this era yourself

There are many unprecedented things in your era

There are also many fresh and lively languages in your era

It is not elegant classical Chinese

but it is truly relevant to this society

It has strong vitality

You don’t write about subjects that have never been written by predecessors

You don’t use languages that have never been used by predecessors

Aren’t you living up to the era you live in

And this is precisely the value of works such as "Journey to the West" and "Water Margin"

By traditional standards

their writing may not be advanced

But they have written something unprecedented

You write it meticulously under traditional standards

That is an internal volume

You write something unprecedented

That is pioneering

When the 1986 version of CCTV's "Journey to the West" was released

I was still in elementary school

I particularly liked the Monkey King played by Liu Xiaolingtong

But there is one sentence of Liu Xiaolingtong that I particularly disagree with

That is, adaptation is not random editing

Playing is not nonsense

What kind of adaptation is random making up

What kind of play is nonsense

There is no way to define it accurately

If you look at it from the perspective of the real Master Xuanzang in history

The original work of "Journey to the West" is just fabricated nonsense

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Master Xuanzang's generation of eminent monks

What kind of ruin did "Journey to the West" suffer

If you look at it from the perspective of the original work of "Journey to the West"

The 1986 version of the TV series actually also contains a lot of nonsense

It deleted a lot of things

It actually added a lot of things

For example, friends who have watched it all know

When Tang Monk lived in the Daughter Kingdom,

was he tempted by the daughter king?

He was tempted

So at that time, Mr. Qian Zhongshu

did not use his original name

He used the pen name of Center

He wrote an article

about what TV series made Tang Monk fall in love with the king of his daughter's kingdom

Fan Xin has been moved

Just by this one point

He is only slightly better than Zhu Bajie

By this difference in thought

His qualifications to lead the pilgrimage to the West is in question

In other words

This adaptation is extremely unfaithful to the original work

But we also know

How many people this adaptation has moved

For a classic

Sometimes

loyalty to the original work is really not the most important criterion

Loyalty to the original work

is equivalent to putting money in the bank to earn interest

We know how much interest is left now

And adaptation is an investment

Of course, investment will have successes and failures

But to bring greater profits

you must invest

rather than earn interest

So what kind of adaptation is nonsense

What kind of drama is nonsense

Who should decide this

Let the market screen

In fact, if there are not a large number of inferior nonsense and drama

Excellent adaptation

Excellent drama will lose its soil

Looking back

As a person born in the 1970s

I think back on my growing up experience

Our generation has come over

How many adaptations of "Journey to the West" have we read

When we were young

We read Mr. Tong Enzheng's "Journey to the West"

Talking about Sun Wukong, Pig Bajie, Sha Monk, and how he went to college in the United States

I read this book in the 1980s

At that time, China was still relatively isolated

It was a book like this

that gave us an initial impression of the United States

Then in the 1990s, we watched Stephen Chow's "Westward Journey"

Stephen Chow's "Westward Journey"

To be honest, looking back now

I feel a certain energy from it

What is this energy

It’s the young people in college who have just entered the society

I really want to shout

I don’t know what to shout

But I just want to shout

Then there is a lot of loss and desolation in my heart

I have not played "Black Myth Wukong"

But I believe it is a good work

Ma Boyong's "Taibai Venus is A Little Annoying"

It is the most exciting novel I have read in the past two years

Why

Because we feel the tremendous changes of the times

The spirit of the times

From the shouts at the sea to the moans on the shore

At this time

I read a novel that has the chill of a middle school boy

but also the passion of an officialdom veteran

exciting

That is to say

A book, a work

As long as it is classic enough

it will be constantly interpreted

constantly adapted

constantly recreated

And because it is constantly being interpreted

constantly adapted

constantly recreated

it will become even more classic

because it is constantly changing

There are so many authors

Only then did the novel "Journey to the West" we saw today

What I look forward to is that more of us will join in

Let there be a more brilliant Journey to the West legend in the future

OK, I will talk about this

[Chinese]

大家好啊

非常高兴来到一席少年

和大家聊一聊这个《西游记》

我想作为一个中国人

肯定是从小就会接触到各式各样的《西游记》的故事

我想在座的各位可能心目当中

都至少会有4个《西游记》了

第一个《西游记》

那就是小时候在童书

在动画片

在电视剧里边看到的《西游记》

所以我们先不说这个

等到上了学之后

然后在语文课上是要接触到《西游记》的

因为这个是四大名著

有很高的文学地位

然后我们也知道就是一部作品

就是不管它本来是什么样的

一旦它进入了语文课

它就有一个解释系统

有一套答题技巧

对吧

所以大概就会变成现在卡片上这个样子

你看到这个

你可能会觉得

这个和小时候自己接触到的那个故事不太一样

但是我们都知道

在考试的分数面前

自己的体验算什么呢

对吧

所以即使你并不认同语文书上的一些判断

你也肯定是要照着它的答案写的

然后有些地方会要求所谓整本书阅读

让你去读《西游记》

我不知道在座有多少朋友真的读过《西游记》的原著

如果你看过的话

你只要一打开

你看到的是这个东西

你看到的是这样的文字

你可能会觉得这是什么啊

当然当然

把前面这些奇奇怪怪的话看过去之后

后面会发现哦

还是大家熟悉的孙悟空、唐僧、猪八戒的故事

反正据我所知很多朋友读《西游记》原著的时候

会觉得跟小时候看的故事不太一样

跟语文书上讲的那感觉也不太一样

有些地方好像比小时候看的故事还有意思

但是又有不少地方怪怪的

读不下去

很多人都有这样的感受

然后呢就要去寻找解释

寻找解释

现在网上关于《西游记》各种各样的解释当然也很多

会不停的有人要告诉你

我要告诉你一个真实的《西游记》

然后说哎呦

你千万不要被电视剧骗了啊

电视剧是儿童剧，合家欢

真实的《西游记》可暗黑了

然后还会有人跟你说《西游记》的作者不是吴承恩

当然这个是一个很常见的说法了啊

就《西游记》的作者其实是某一个高官

他是真的吃过见过的

所以《西游记》这个书里面包含着顶级的权谋

包含着最了不起的官场智慧

《西游记》真正的主题应该是什么样什么样是什么样的

这样的解释呢网上也很多

其实到底哪个解释才对

这个问题，到底哪个解释才对

这个问题也许本身就问错了

有没有可能

《西游记》根本就不存在一个合理的正确的解释

这里呢就要跟大家说一个概念

叫世代累积

就是《三国演义》也好

《水浒传》也好

《西游记》也好

这些故事都是长期的流传

然后呢你改一点

他改一点

今天这个作者加一点

明天那个作者呢加一点又删一点

然后最后累积下来

变成了我们今天看到的这个样子

由于这个作品本来就不是出自某个单一的作者之手

所以这个作品自然而然的

就充斥着各式各样的自相矛盾

《西游记》变成我们今天这个样子

大概呢有三拨作者都特别重要

不止三拨啊

只不过就是说我们时间关系

重点讲这个三拨

说第一拨作者之前呢

我们先关注一下《西游记》里的唐僧形象

我就给大家念一念原著啊

我不做任何的发挥

我们知道《西游记》里有这么一个情节

唐僧刚刚收孙悟空做徒弟后不久

就遇到谁了

小白龙对吧

然后小白龙出现干了个什么事

把唐僧的马吃了

唐僧知道自己的马被小白龙吃了之后是什么反应

我给大家念原著啊

既是他吃了

我如何前进

可怜啊这万水千山怎生走得

说着话泪如雨落

哎

马丢了这个时候着急一点

焦虑一点很正常对吧

泪如雨落是不是

过分了一点

然后孙悟空看见唐僧哭起来了

就说你就不要着急嘛

对吧你在这坐着

我去找那个龙

让他还我马匹便了

唐僧什么反应

三藏却才扯住道

徒弟啊

你哪里寻他

只怕他暗地里窜将出来

却不又连我都害了

那时节人马两亡

怎生是好啊

所以难怪孙悟空忍不住要骂

师傅你莫要这等脓包形

也难怪不久后孙悟空见到了观音菩萨

就要撂挑子不干了

这个领导没法跟

唐僧的没用基本上是贯穿全书的

另外呢我们还会看到原著当中

唐僧的道德水平经常也显得有点可疑

在《西游记》当中

孙悟空曾经三次离开唐僧

离开唐僧的原因基本上是一样的

都是因为孙悟空杀了人

或者唐僧认为孙悟空杀了人

然后我们看一下

唐僧赶孙悟空走的时候

他的话是怎么说的

第14回

这是第一次赶走孙悟空

这个唐僧对孙悟空说的是

早还是山野中无人查考

若到城市

倘有人一时冲撞了你

你也行凶

拿着那棒子乱打伤人

我可做得白客

怎能脱身

然后第27回

三打白骨精

唐僧又对孙悟空说你在这荒郊野外

一连打死三人

还是无人检举

没有对头

倘到城市之中

人烟凑集之所

你拿了那哭丧棒

一时不知好歹

乱打起人来

闯出大祸

叫我怎得脱身

你回去罢

你注意唐僧两次赶走孙悟空

他最担心的是什么

他当然也会说一些人道主义的大道理

但是最终的落脚点

总归是落在害怕孙悟空连累自己

第三次赶走孙悟空

这次是遇到六耳猕猴那次

在遇到六耳猕猴之前

唐僧呢先被几个强盗吊起来了

这个时候孙悟空也跟唐僧很久了

所以一开始做事比较有分寸

一伙强盗

孙悟空打死了两个强盗头子

但是让其他强盗他都放走了

这说明什么

孙悟空如果想把强盗全部打死

这些强盗跑得了吗

肯定跑不了的吧

所以说孙悟空是留着手的

这个时候正当防卫

妥妥的没有问题

可是唐僧的反应是什么

唐僧看着两个强盗头子的尸体说

那我得祷告一下

于是呢就开始念拜惟好汉

听祷原因

他噼里啪啦说了一大堆

我们就看下他最后几句

你到森罗殿下兴词

就是你到阎王爷跟前去告状那怎么样

倒树寻根

他姓孙我姓陈

各具异姓

冤有头债有主

切莫告我取经僧人

告孙悟空就行了啊

千万不要连累我

就这个样子

连旁边猪八戒看着都觉得有点看不下去了

猪八戒说师傅

你倒推了个干净啊

猴哥打的时候也没有我和沙师弟

于是唐僧真的就又搓了一把土

好汉告状

只告行者

也不干八戒、沙僧之事

作者在写这段的时候

有没有意识他把唐僧写的很猥琐

应该是有意识

应该是有意识

就是说他从心里边

就没有把那个唐僧当一个高僧看待

所以我们还会看到在《西游记》里边

唐僧经常表现的文化水平还不如孙悟空

在《西游记》里边呢

还有这么一个套路

就是到了一个环境险恶的地方

唐僧就说哎呦

徒弟们我们要小心啊

可能有危险

然后这个时候呢

孙悟空就出来安慰唐僧

孙悟空安慰唐僧的话都特别有意思

仔细琢磨一下啊

师傅，出家人莫说在家话

这句话是个什么话

老师你注意形象啊

对吧你是出家人

这个就不像一般的学生提醒老师的话

对吧

然后孙悟空又继续提醒唐僧

你记得那乌巢和尚的《心经》吗

《心经》云心无挂碍

无挂碍，方无恐怖

远离颠倒梦想之言

但只是扫除心上垢

洗净耳边尘

不受苦中苦

难为人上人

孙悟空在给唐僧讲佛法

对吧唐僧你是凡人

面对妖怪你水平不行

这个是可以谅解的，对吧

但是连佛法也需要一只半路出家的猴子来给你讲

这是不是过分了一点

到最后孙悟空才讲

有问题我摆平

前面一大套话

孙悟空全部是以导师的口吻在跟唐僧说话

当然《西游记》里边唐僧没什么文化水平

那也就罢了

另外呢《西游记》我们说起来

很多人感觉它好像是一部弘扬佛教的小说

可是里边它涉及到佛教的知识

会犯很多常识错误

比如说

观音菩萨领了如来法旨

到长安城来物色取经人

当时呢就见到唐僧了

唐僧呢正在高台上讲佛经

然后观音菩萨就化身成一个老和尚

就跟唐僧说哎

你讲的是小乘教法

你会讲大乘教法吗

唐僧一听呢就态度很好

说哎呀

我还真的是不会大乘

因为我们东土大唐讲的都是小乘佛法

不知道大乘

可是只要稍微有一点点中国佛教史常识的话

就可以知道

中国的佛教一开始就是大乘为主

小乘佛教在中国一直是很边缘化的

所以这个说法完全不符合中国佛教的基本状况

再比如说如来佛呢

安排这个取经事宜的时候

他要宣传啊

要让东土大唐的人来取经

我的佛经很好啊

他就讲到

说我的佛经是什么样的

我有《法》一藏，谈天

《论》一藏，说地

《经》一藏，度鬼

这叫三藏

可是我们也知道

佛教里所谓三藏其实是指什么

这佛教的典籍分三大类

三大类都是宝藏

称为三藏

称为三藏

这个三大类分别是什么呢

一个是《经》

这是佛陀所教导的东西

一个是《律》

这个是佛陀制定的戒律

还有一个是《论》

是佛的弟子们阐释经律的著作

这个叫三藏

你会发现

《西游记》里边如来说的

和真的就是一般人所谓的佛教常识

完全不一致

所以啊

过去的很多研究《西游记》的学者都说

《西游记》的作者是根本不懂佛教的

但是这些年其实学术界的研究

还是有很多的新进展

发现呢《西游记》的作者呢

不是不懂佛教

他懂的是底层佛教

而恰恰是过去那些

受过高等教育的知识分子

他不懂底层佛教

所以就是《西游记》的作者掌握的佛教知识

和学者们掌握的佛教知识完全不挨着

是两个系统

这个关键的谜底

也就在这个“瑜伽之正宗”这句话里

就是明代啊

有一个特别的佛教宗派

叫瑜伽僧

它这个也是听音记字啊

它有很多不同的写法

可以叫瑜伽僧

也可以叫应赴僧应佛僧

这些僧人呢

他是干嘛的呢

他们主要的工作就是和老百姓打交道

做佛事，办水陆大会

超度亡魂

《西游记》的最早的一批作者

《西游记》的最早的一批作者

很可能就是瑜伽僧

或者和瑜伽僧有很密切的关系的人

所以现在我们读《西游记》

经常会忽视一个问题

就是唐僧为什么要去西天取经

说起来这好像应该是《西游记》的主题是吧

但是我们很多人读《西游记》的时候

是根本疏忽这一点的

《西游记》的主题是什么

唐僧为什么要去西天取经

其实这还真是小说里边

反反复复强调的一件事

唐僧想的就是要办一个高规格的水陆大会

好超度亡魂

唐僧出发之前就在讲这个事

西天路上

唐僧也不停地在念叨这个事

最后到了西天

取回了佛经

把佛经送回东土大唐

然后在干嘛

真的修建水陆大会

这是《西游记》最初的主题

可是我们今天大多数读《西游记》的人

可能会根本就把这个主题给忽视掉了

但是没有关系啊

这恰恰告诉了我们一个很深刻的道理

一部很优秀的作品

一部很好看的小说

它的主题是啥可能根本不重要

不要受中学语文教育

小学语文教育局限了

看看什么东西先就要找主题

其实很多吸引你的作品

它的主题是啥是无所谓的

甚至于你完全可以自己给它一个主题

当然

这里也有个问题啊

说《西游记》的第一批作者很可能是瑜伽僧

但是刚刚我讲的东西大家也感受到了

那个瑜伽僧形象的唐僧

在《西游记》里边很多时候是很搞笑的

是一个被嘲讽的对象

这又是为啥

于是就要说到《西游记》的第二拨作者

在讲第二拨作者之前

我现在也要岔开

说一个应该很多人都感兴趣的问题

如来佛和太上老君哪个厉害

很多人觉得这还用说吗

当然是如来佛厉害了对吧

太上老君把孙悟空丢到八卦炉里边

炼了七七四十九天

也没把人怎么样

孙悟空出来了

还把太上老君直接推一跟头

如来佛可真的是把孙悟空镇压了五百年啊

哎小说里是有这方面的情节

但是小说里还有另外一些情节

又流露出来好像太上老君是高于如来佛的

比如说啊

就在孙悟空大闹天宫的时候

孙悟空和二郎神正在打呢

当时天上玉皇大帝、王母娘娘

太上老君、观音菩萨都在观战嘛对吧

然后观音菩萨就说

这个你看

这个二郎神已经把孙悟空困住了

还差最后一击

你现在看我高空抛物

我就把这个猴头给拿下了

那抛什么呢

就观音菩萨说

我抛我那玉净瓶

然后这会太上老君就说

你不要抛那个

我这有个圈子

这个圈子呢叫金刚琢

它是锟钢抟炼的

又被我将还丹点成

我们先记一下这个概念啊

还丹

等会我再解释

太上老君说

我这个还丹点成的金刚琢特别厉害

厉害到什么地步呢

当年我过函关，化胡为佛

甚是亏他

化胡为佛是在说什么事

这是一个很古老的传说

就是佛教刚刚传入中国的时候

中国人呢

也不太了解佛教是个怎么回事

就是看着觉得

佛教的思想好像跟咱们中国的老子的思想是挺像的

老子喜欢讲无

佛教喜欢讲空

对吧很多观念都差不多嘛

都是讲，哎呀人间不值得

物质世界不要我们被它羁绊住了

我们的灵魂要另外寻找一个空虚之处

才好安放

都讲的这些道理

于是就产生了一个说法

什么说法呢

就是老子

按照道教的说法

老子就是太上老君啊

就是老子当年出函谷关往西边去

最后不知道去哪了

其实就是去了印度

在印度老子收佛陀为弟子

这个就是所谓的化胡为佛

这个说法当然是编造的

但明显这是一个对佛教的贬低的说法

可是《西游记》引用了这个说法

而且是太上老君当着观音菩萨的面在这么说

估计旁边玉皇大帝和王母娘娘听了都紧张

老君停停，过了过了啊

这个事别提

就是说《西游记》是认可老子

太上老君化胡为佛这个说法

另外呢从后文的有一些情节看

也会感觉呢

好像如来佛有时候在太上老君面前有点虚

比如说

朋友们应该对这个故事有印象啊

就太上老君的那个坐骑青牛精

下界为妖了

他就把那个金刚琢也偷下去了嘛

然后孙悟空请了多少人

用了多少法宝

结果都被这个青牛精的这个圈子

歘的一下就收走了

然后孙悟空就去搬救兵啊

搬了多少救兵都没用

最后就直接去找如来佛了

如来佛当时说了这么一番话

他说你碰到的那个妖怪啊

什么来历我知道

但是呢我不能跟你说

因为你这个猴子喜欢传话

一旦他知道了是我把谜底告诉了你

他就不与你斗

定要嚷上灵山

反遗祸于我也

你从这话看

这个如来佛对于青牛精还挺警惕的

是吧还挺警惕的

然后呢如来佛又吩咐

让十八罗汉取了十八粒金丹砂

说你们试一下和那个妖怪斗一斗

如果金丹砂又被那个妖怪收走了

你们就告诉孙悟空

去太上老君那去请他帮忙啊

然后这次孙悟空去见太上老君

太上老君就把那个化胡为佛的事又说了一遍

就是说太上老君化胡为佛这事

《西游记》还是多次强调的

而这个如来佛的金丹砂

去挑战太上老君的这个金刚琢

结果我们也知道最后是谁输了

这个问题啊

涉及到一点道教的理论

首先我们说这个丹是个什么东西

其实之所以叫丹

其实之所以叫丹

因为它是红色的

所谓丹砂

指的就是现在卡片上这个东西

它的化学成分呢是硫化汞

硫化汞加热我们知道会怎么样

分离为汞和硫

就这个知识呢

是我们这个初中化学的知识

我们今天会觉得这平平无奇

但是古代的道士觉得这个很神奇

尤其是他们注意到就是什么呢

就是说你把这个硫化汞加热

然后这个汞给分解出来了

然后你再往里边加入雄黄

哎又能练成丹砂

这个好神奇啊

怎么练着练着又回去了

回去这叫什么

还，所以叫还丹

因为这个过程可以反复进行

比方说折腾九次

那就叫九转大还丹

然后呢当然这种故事

这种功能

总是越讲越神的了

然后就讲到后来就变成了什么呢

就是九转大还丹

吃了就可以返老还童

还有把这个九转大还丹啊

你把它涂在你的钱上

今天你去买东西

把这个钱花出去了

明天呢你把皮夹子一打开

这个钱就又飞回来了

所以叫还

就又回来了

当然了现在的移动支付

让这招行不通了

这个就是科技打败魔法

对吧

总而言之

其实我们就可以看出是这样一个设定

如来佛用的金丹砂

这个是不成形的金丹

太上老君的金刚琢是成形的还丹点成的

所以最终结果不言而喻

最终结果不言而喻

当然那次较量还是太上老君赢了

《西游记》里边类似的情节其实还有不少

另外还有一个尤其有趣的地方在哪里呢

就是如来佛讲课的时候

《西游记》里边多次讲到如来佛讲课

长篇大论

有很多学者对如来佛讲课的内容进行了研究

结果发现了什么

如来佛讲课的内容

大量的是从全真教的典籍里边抄来的

就是讲的是道教的内容啊

所以过去曾经有一个说法啊

说《西游记》的作者是这个全真教的长春真人叫丘处机

这个说法曾经很流行

但现在当然大家可以肯定它是不对了

因为和丘处机有关的是另外一部《西游记》

那是一部讲地理的书

但是不管怎么说啊

《西游记》和全真教有很深的关联

这是可以有非常多的强有力的证据

也就是说

就是我们刚刚前面讲的那批

瑜伽僧是《西游记》的第一拨作者

后来呢这批全真教的人加入进来

他们在那改动《西游记》

这个是第二拨作者

但是第二拨作者的声音

并没有把第一拨作者的声音完全盖掉

所以读《西游记》经常有这个感觉

就是几拨作者在打架

笔给我，我来写

就是《西游记》本身就是有大量的自相矛盾的内容

当然，《西游记》变成我们今天熟悉的这个样子

还有第三拨作者也很重要

第三拨作者

鲁迅先生对他有一个评论

这个评论我不给大家完整的念了

我们就看两个字，能看清吧

游戏

就是说这个作者

对于他来说

他写这部小说

他最大的热情就是游戏

这是一个特别爱玩的人

所以

对于前面两拨作者互相攻击的内容

他也没删掉

哎互相攻击总是好看的嘛

另外呢

他自己也很善于骂人

用胡适的说法就是

这个作者是有一点爱骂人的玩世主义

而且还有一个我们要知道

古代《西游记》这部书写出来

他知不知道我写的是四大名著

知不知道我写的这部书比李白杜甫

可能对于中小学生来还要重要

他不知道的

他写这个书的目的是什么

一个是好玩

还有我要卖钱呐

这是一部商业著作呀

四大奇书

它这个创作出来很重要

一个目的都是和商业挂钩的

都是考虑到经济问题的

所以有的时候就是说

我把这个书赶紧推出来

比我把这个书整理的前后贯通

一点自相矛盾的都没有啊

这个要来的更重要

所以我们今天读《西游记》

一定要记住

就是说这不是一个作品

一个作者的作品

它是一个成于众手

因此充斥着自相矛盾的作品

但是你是不是有自相矛盾就不好

其实也不一定

有的时候正因为它自相矛盾

它可以反映古代社会方方面面的这个情况

然后还要注意一点

《西游记》虽然有很多波作者

但是这些作者文化水平其实都不高

时间关系

我没有办法展开说的太详细了

我们就从一个角度举例子

《西游记》里边有很多的诗

比如说我卡片上有这么一首

你们觉得这首诗写的怎么样

这是一首很有趣的顺口溜

古代的受过近体诗训练的诗人们都会认为

这是一首讨好没文化的人的诗

所以他们会忍不住评论

你这个书里边凑个十九八七六五四三二一

数字可厌

《西游记》里的诗写得很差

大多数水平都不高

为什么今天有越来越多的研究者觉得

吴承恩不会是《西游记》的作者

一个重要理由就是

吴承恩的诗文集是留到今天的

相比《西游记》原著

吴承恩的诗写得太好了

所以他不会是《西游记》的作者

但是问题是我们再换一个角度看

诗写得比《西游记》好又有什么了不起

明代的那些高级的知识分子

文化水平比《西游记》的作者要高

他们在那里主张

这个文必秦汉

诗必盛唐

这个主张不能说一点没有道理

但是你在写诗的时候

千方百计地模拟李白杜甫

你学的再像李白杜甫

你也不是李白杜甫

你在写文章的时候

你模仿司马迁班固

你学得再像司马迁班固

你也不是司马迁班固

然后你自己生活在这个时代

你这个时代有很多前所未有的东西

你这个时代也有很多新鲜活泼的语言

它不是典雅的文言文

但是真正和这个社会相关联

有旺盛的生命力

你不去写前人从来没有写过的题材

你不去使用前人从来没有使用过的语言

你不是辜负自己生活的时代吗

而这也恰恰是《西游记》《水浒传》这样的作品的价值所在

它们以传统标准而言

可能写的东西不高级

可是他们写了前所未有的东西

你在传统的标准下精雕细琢的去写

那是内卷

你写前所未有的东西

那才是开拓

86版央视《西游记》上映的时候

我呢还在上小学

我特别喜欢六小龄童演的孙悟空

但是六小龄童有一句话我特别不赞同

就是改编不是乱编

戏说不是胡说

什么样的改编是乱编

什么样的戏说是胡说

是没有办法精确定义的

你如果站在历史上

真实的玄奘法师的角度看

《西游记》原著就是乱编胡说

玄奘法师一代高僧

给《西游记》毁成啥样了

你如果站在《西游记》原著的角度说

86版电视剧其实也有很多胡编乱说

它删掉了很多东西不说了

它其实也加了很多的东西

比如说看过的朋友都知道

唐僧过女儿国的时候

对女儿国王有没有动心

动心了的

所以当时钱钟书先生

他没有用他的原名

他用了中枢这个笔名

他写了篇文章

就说什么电视剧让唐僧对女儿国国王动心了

凡心已动

只凭这一条

他就只比猪八戒略胜一筹

凭此一念之差

他领导去西天取经的资格就成问题了

也就是说

这个改编是极其不忠于原著的

可是我们也知道

这个改编打动了多少人

对于一部经典来说啊

有的时候

忠于原著真的不是最重要的标准

忠于原著

相当于把钱存在银行里面吃利息

我们知道现在利息还剩多少

而改编呢是投资

投资当然就有成功有失败

但是要带来更大的收益

那必须要投资

而不是吃利息

所以什么样的改编是胡编

什么样的戏说是乱说

这个应该由谁来定

由市场来筛选

事实上如果没有大量的劣质的胡编和戏说的话

优秀的改编

优秀的戏说也就失去了土壤

回想起来

我作为一个七十年代出生的人

我回想我的成长的经历

我们这一代人走过来

看了多少《西游记》的改编

小时候

我们看那个童恩正先生的《西游新记》

讲孙悟空猪八戒沙僧怎么样在美国念大学

八十年代我读了这本书

那个时候中国还相对闭塞

是它是这样的一部书

让我们初步的有了一个对美国的印象

然后到了九十年代看周星驰的《大话西游》

周星驰的《大话西游》

说实话现在回头看来

会从当中感到一股子气

这股子气是什么

就是大学里的年轻人刚刚走向社会

特别想要呐喊一声

不知道要喊什么

但就是想喊一嗓子

然后内心又有很多的失落与凄凉

《黑神话·悟空》我没有玩过

但是我相信它是一部好作品

马伯庸的《太白金星有点烦》

是我这两年读的最激动的小说

为什么呢

因为我们感受到时代的巨大的变化

当时代的精神

从下海的呐喊到上岸的呻吟

这个时候

读到一部固然有中二少年的寒心

但是也有官场老油条的热血的小说

激动人心

也就是说

一部书一部作品

只要它足够经典

它就会不断地被人解释

不断地被改编

不断地被再创作

而因为它不断地被解释

不断地被改编

不断地被再创作

它也就更加经典了

是因为在不停的变化

有了那么多拨作者

才有了我们今天看到的小说《西游记》

我期待的是我们更多的人加入进来

让未来有更璀璨的西游传奇

好我就要讲这个

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
novel /ˈnɒv.əl/ B2	noun - a long written story about imaginary people and events
author /ˈɔː.θər/ A2	noun - a person who writes books or articles
interpretation /ɪnˌtɜː.prəˈteɪ.ʃən/ B2	noun - an explanation of the meaning of something
theme /θiːm/ B1	noun - the main subject of a talk, book, film, etc.
adaptation /ˌæd.əpˈteɪ.ʃən/ B2	noun - a film, book, play, etc. that has been made from another book, film, play, etc.
contradiction /ˌkɒn.trəˈdɪk.ʃən/ C1	noun - a situation in which statements, ideas, or actions are opposed to each other
scholar /ˈskɒl.ər/ B2	noun - a person who studies a subject in great detail, especially at a university
manuscript /ˈmæn.ju.skrɪpt/ C1	noun - a handwritten or typed document, especially one to be published
wisdom /ˈwɪz.dəm/ B1	noun - the ability to use knowledge and experience to make good decisions
legend /ˈledʒ.ənd/ B1	noun - an old story that is widely believed but cannot be proved true
critical /ˈkrɪt.ɪ.kəl/ B2	adjective - expressing disapproval or judgment adjective - extremely important
audience /ˈɔː.di.əns/ A2	noun - the people who watch or listen to a show, concert, or speech
satire /ˈsæ.taɪər/ C1	noun - a way of criticizing people or ideas in a humorous way
intention /ɪnˈten.ʃən/ B2	noun - something you plan to do or achieve
reputation /ˌrep.jəˈteɪ.ʃən/ B2	noun - the opinion people have about someone or something
debate /dɪˈbeɪt/ B2	noun - a discussion in which people express different opinions about something