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A Study on the Influence of Chiyou on Sun Wukong’s Image

XIAODAPING 1

1건양대학교

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ABSTRACT

Up to this date, the study on the cultural factors which is amalgamated in the prototype of Sun Wukong’s image is not satisfactory. Chiyou is one of the factors amalgamated in the prototype of Sun Wukong’s image, while people paid not enough attenion to the influence on the creation of Sun Wukong’s image. In My opinion, in the writter’s reation of Sun Wukong, Chiyou’s mythical image and stories affected the reation of Sun Wukong’s image. In this paper, this opinion is based on three evidences. The first one is the external feature, which is called “铜头铁额(copper head and iron forehead)”, the second one is the similarity between Chiyou and Sun Wukong’s achievement (from resisting, being stifled to obtain the designation of Mars), the third is the similarity between Sun Wukong’s taking a fancy to the weapon and Chiyou’s invention of original weapon in Chinese history, and the ability of contorlling the wind, the rain, the cloud and the thunder.

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