The Coming of Pig

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The MONKEY SERIES are picture books based on the ancient Chinese fantasy novel Journey to the West, a story rich in tales about demons and monsters who try to stop the Tapg Priest Xuanzang from reaching the Thunder Monastery in India to fetch Buddhist scriptures. The real hero of this novfl, loved for four hundred years by Chinese readers, is the resourceful, brave and humorous Monkey.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS BEIJING CHINA
The Coming of Pig
This is the fifth in a 34-part series of books telling the story of Monkey from the ancient Chinese fantasy novel Journey to the West. In the previous volume. Monkey made trouble on Black Wind Mountain in order to get back the Tang Priest's cassock that had been stolen by the Black Bear Spirit.
The Coming of Pig, illustrated by 54 coloured pictures, tells how Monkey uses his magic powers to win over a monster who has married and imprisoned Squire Gao's third daughter in Old Gao Village. The Tang Priest then 'takes the monster, who turns out... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The MONKEY SERIES are picture books based on the ancient Chinese fantasy novel Journey to the West, a story rich in tales about demons and monsters who try to stop the Tapg Priest Xuanzang from reaching the Thunder Monastery in India to fetch Buddhist scriptures. The real hero of this novfl, loved for four hundred years by Chinese readers, is the resourceful, brave and humorous Monkey.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS BEIJING CHINA
The Coming of Pig
This is the fifth in a 34-part series of books telling the story of Monkey from the ancient Chinese fantasy novel Journey to the West. In the previous volume. Monkey made trouble on Black Wind Mountain in order to get back the Tang Priest's cassock that had been stolen by the Black Bear Spirit.
The Coming of Pig, illustrated by 54 coloured pictures, tells how Monkey uses his magic powers to win over a monster who has married and imprisoned Squire Gao's third daughter in Old Gao Village. The Tang Priest then 'takes the monster, who turns out to be Zhu Bajie, or Pig, as his second disciple. Together Monkey, Pig, and the Tang Priest continue the journey to the West to obtain the Buddhist scriptures.
The next book in the series:
The next volume in the series, Friar Sand Joins the Pilgrims, tells what happens when the Tang Priest Xuan-zang and his two disciples reach the Flowing Sands River, which an ogre prevents them from crossing. Pig battles with the ogre, and when it becomes clear he is in trouble. Monkey appeals to the Bodhisattva Guan-yin for help. She sends her disciple Moksa to subdue the ogre, whom Xuanzang then takes on as his third disciple, renaming him Friar Sand. Vissza