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the-monkey-ruler · 11 months

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Legends of the Monkey King (1999) 西游记

Director: Fang Runnan / Pan Jiyao / Zhou Fengying

Screenwriter: Ling Shu / Zhang Songlin

Starring: Shen Xiaoqian / Zhang Hanyu / Qiao Zhen / Cheng Yuzhu / Liu Feng / more...

Genre: Animation / Fantasy / Costume

Country/Region of Production: Mainland China

Language: Mandarin Chinese

Date: 1999-07-23 (Mainland China)

Episodes: 52

Single episode length: 25 minutes

Also known as: Monkey King / Journey to the West: Legends of the Monkey King

IMDb: tt10838050

Type: Retelling

Summary:

The 52 episodes of large-scale domestic cartoons in this part are adapted and produced from the classic "Journey to the West". Tang Seng led his apprentices Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing and Bailongma, and a group of five went to the west to learn scriptures. Encountered ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties on the road, and finally obtained the true scriptures and achieved positive results. The cartoons have added many contemporary elements to the familiar prototypes, and compared with the previous versions, they have more characteristics of the times. It not only retains the essence of the classic classics, but also creates a well-known animated version of the master-student image. "Journey to the West" was jointly invested and produced by the Animation Department of CCTV and the Torch Animation Branch of China International Television Corporation. It took a huge investment and took 6 years to complete. At present, the animated version of "Journey to the West" has been translated into English, French, Spanish and other foreign language versions.

Source: http://chinesemov.com/tv/1999/Legends-of-the-Monkey-King.html

Link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO1lSxRuEvxO8fsH2YP7phre7WaSmo3Op https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzX3GuY8oecpvovFprjpoxRAK2HyxHtpU https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1VW411B7fW/ https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ah411v7AA?spm_id_from=333.337.search-card.all.click&vd_source=0d8ddc7cd247546aeb785739e27a0958

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lotus-duckies · 1 year

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color picked trans nezha flags for your pleasure

#nezha #li nezha #havoc in heaven 1964 #journey to the west: legends of the monkey king #journey to the west #jttw #xiyouji #xyj

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ultrabrite-dl · 2 years

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There's only 4 ways to represent Sun Wukong:

1) "Huh, yeah, that's a monkey alright"

2) Cute Gremlin

3) Furry Bait

4) "Wait a minute! That's not a monkey! That's a hot dude!"

We should make a diagram about it

Sources (in order):

-Journey to the West, Legends of the Monkey King (1999)

-Le Roi Singe, Chaiko (comics) (2019-2020)

-Lego Monkie Kid (2020- )

-Legends Summarized: The Journey to the West (Part VIII), by Red/Overly Sarcastic Productions on youtube.

-Monkey King: Hero Is Back (2015)

-Monkey King: Reborn (2021)

-The New Legends of Monkey (2018)

-A Korean Odyssey (2017)

#journey to the west #kinda funny #monkey king #jttw #sun wukong #jttw sun wukong #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #le roi singe #a korean odyssey #tv #movie #animated movie #monkey king: a hero is back #the new legends of monkey #I am right aren't I?#overly sarcastic productions #osp

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sunny-days-and-warm-mournings · 5 months

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An Emperor and his General, who escorts him, take a walk.

#xiyouji #jttw #jttw fanart #jttw au #journey to the west #journey to the west fanart #journey to the west au #jttw sun wukong #sun wukong #sun wukong fanart #general ba #the monkey king #monkey king hero is back #monkey king: hero is back(2015)#the monkey king fanart #art #great sage #Legends Of Liberation

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antidotefortheawkward-art · 1 year

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A little late but happy Trans Day of Visibility!!!

[ID: A monochrome chibi drawing of various figures from Chinese folklore with pride flags painted onto their faces. From left to right are Taibai Jinxing, Sun Wukong, Taishang Laojun, Guanshiyin Pusa, Lan Caihe, Bai Suzhen, and Qing She. Guanyin has nonbinary flags and Lan Caihe has genderfluid flags, but everyone else has trans flags. Above them is written "Happy TDOV 2023!" End ID]

#my art #tdov #tdov23 #chinese mythology #journey to the west #jttw #xiyouji #sun wukong #monkey king #legend of the white snake #bai suzhen #qing she #xiao qing #wanna make it very clear that i am referring to folkloric deity taishang laojun not historical figure laozi. bc thatd be insane gfhdjkfdh #anyways no nezha this year bc i decided to go with only historic and/or reasonably textually supported characters ^-^#will add details in a reblog

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nerves-nebula · 2 years

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yes, yesss, my collection grows! MORE! MOREEEE!!

#nnstuff #nnart #jttw #journey to the west #overly sarcastic productions #lmk #lego monkie kid #journey to the west legends of the monkey king #monkey king hero is back #monkey king reborn #monkey king #sun wukong

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rorsry · 11 months

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1999 wukong fans rise up !!!!

@cookiescackles your comment on my other 99wukong art inspired me to finally finish this piece^__^!!

2022 sketch under cut

#my art #muffmuff draws #jttw #journey to the west #jttw 1999 #journey to the west 1999 #legend of the monkey king #sun wukong #the monkey king

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dorothygale123 · 6 months

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For today's mythology sh*tposting, I'd like to give some inspiration to the fanfic writers out there by giving you an antagonist that has a beef with a certain monkey.

Way back when, there was a goddess called the Old Mother of the Waters/Shui-mu Niang-niang who was notorious for causing floods. The other gods kept trying to catch her, but she always slithered out and kept being a problem. What was heaven to do?

Call their OTHER recurring problem and have HIM deal with her! So good old Sun Wukong went down to deal with the Old Mother, but even though catching up to her was no problem (this is Sun Wukong we're talking about) he couldn’t stop her from slipping away again. Naturally this got him very frustrated, so he went to HIS go to solution:

Guanyin!

So he motors over to her palace in the Southern Seas and they hatch a plan.

Now, the Old Mother was getting pretty hungry. This running from the law business takes it out of you at that age, you know? So she decides to take a little break at a food stall and get something to eat.

JUST AS PLANNED!

For you see, the owner of that stall was Guanyin herself and the food the Old Mother just ate were actually really heavy iron chains that very painfully revert to their true form! Unfortunately for the Old Mother, she was already halfway done with her meal by the time this happened, so she was stuck with iron in her gut and chains coming out of her mouth (honestly I'd just be thankful they weren't coming out the other end...).

So with the flood lady all tied up Sun Wukong drags her to a well at the foot of a mountain in Hsu-i Hsien and locked her up tight, where I'm sure she'll NEVER cause anyone problems EVER AGAIN. There's no way this ancient and powerful goddess of primordial oceans is sitting there, steaming while she waits for escape and dreams of monkey leather boots. Nope, she'll stay there forever, just like the Demon Bull King!

..... oh. OH NO.

Sh*tpost Masterlist

#lego monkie kid #lmk #sun wukong #journey to the west #chinese mythology #chinese myths and legends #old mother of the waters #jttw inspo character ideas #chinese myth character inspo #fanfic ideas #possible future villain #lmk guanyin #guanyin #mythology sh*tposting #the monkey king netflix #monkey king hero is back #monkey king reborn #mythology #mythology and folklore

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sketching-shark · 11 months

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I guess he did.

#jttw #xiyouji #journey to the west #jttw meme #sun wukong #six-eared macaque #haha man I saw this for the legend of zelda evil doppelganger #and it seemed fitting for the true and false monkey king arc too #blood

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axel-haha-funny · 2 years

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mmm... monkey... In honor of my previous version getting 2000 notes, here's a new one with even more Wukongs.

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quitealotofsodapop · 7 months

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The wukongs having mac as there mate/friend is definetly a canon event

Also what would nezha react to his own counterparts? Would he even meet them?

haha Canon Event goth mate/bestie XD

Nezha already has anough headaches dealing with multiple Sun Wukongs, now there's more of himself??

Nezha at the very least gets along well with his younger and girl counterparts from the different cartoon series. He's a little confused why the 2000s cartoon!Nezha/Nata is female, but he's not looking into it. They all bond over their respective Monkey King stories and fear of disappointing their bio dad. LMK!Nezha quickly finds himself being the babysitter to a lot of them.

But the gremlin from the Ne Zha (2019) film? LMK!Nezha is close to pulling his hair out. 2019!Nezha is like Red Boy 2.0 without Red's quiet moments; demonic, moody, on fire, and will def kick his older self in the groin when annoyed. Eventually LMK and 2019 Nezhas end up bonding after a rough fight over their respective feelings of being treated as weapons rather than kids. 2019!Nezha begrudingly admits that LMK!Nezha is kinda cool, for a celestial that is. LMK!Nezha later has a mental blue screen when he learns that 2019!Nezha and Ao Bing are both only three years old??? Is the dragon using a gotdang glamour?

Also apparently a version of Nezha appears in the Hero is Back video game. They sassy af towards Sun Wukong for kicking their butt at Flower Fruit Mountain, and has been trying for a rematch since - but HeroIsBack!SWK thinks Nezha's just a kid playing a game.

Heck might be the same gremlin Nezha we know from the 2019 film with a glamour on. Not sure about the canon of this one since 2019!Nezha and HeroIsBack!SWK have interacted in crossover adverts before.

HeroIsBack!SWK/"Dasheng", looking at 2019!Nezha: "Hey squirt, when did you get shrunk?" 2019!Nezha: >:( *starts biting*

Yunxiang is a different ballpark of emotions all together; cus he's already got beef with his previous incarnation for killing Ao Bing and making sh*t harder for him, and now all these versions of his past life are just hanging around? And most of them are kids??? And why is there so many monkeys!? He needs to lie down for a moment or he's gonna have to fight someone.

So yeah, the multi-dimensional Nezha gang aren't having a lot of fun, but luckily LMK!Nezha is a responsible teenager (?) who's used to handling toddlers on fire.

#wukongverse #lego monkie kid #nezha #lmk nezha #nezha 2019 #new gods nezha reborn #journey to the west: legends of the monkey king #legends of nezha #nezha conquers the dragon king #crossovers #li yunxiang

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the-monkey-ruler · 5 months

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I understand the rules for gods and their hierarchy, but do we know how the hierarchy and rules for demons work? I understand that there are demon kings, and could we say that they have their own territories and subjects? Do demons always walk alone? They have clans or groups? How do female demons differ from male demons? Or do you know articles or people who know more about it? I understand that Wukong was like on a political mission to talk to the demon kings and have a good relationship with them, right?

I would like to know more about how their "society" (their politics?) works in JTTW and other legends and stories.

but do we know how the hierarchy and rules for demons work?

It's hard to pinpoint ranks in Yaoguai society per se, but from what we can tell they follow a similar structure to heaven based on their military ranks. They have Kings, Generals, rear generals, soldiers, servants, and carriers. This is most likely to reflect how the military was structured in the same time period as well.

Royalty or Yaoguai with Princess, Queen, or King in their name are often the heads of their armies, with both soldiers and servants under their command. We see this often in Xiyouji where Demon Kings are in charge of their forces and depending on the demons directly interact with servants or soldiers. It should be noted that for Women Demon Queen/Princess they only had other women servants as that was considered proper in human society as well at the time and it reflected in yaoguai standards of what is 'proper'.

I understand that there are demon kings, and could we say that they have their own territories and subjects?

Each Demon King has their own Cave. As you would notice that many caves owned by Demon King have titles to their names, Wukong for example has the Water Curtain Cave. And with a Cave often as their own Moutain. I can't say if EVERY Demon King has a Mountain, perhaps they have a valley or plains, but every Demon King certainly has a Cave and the surrounding area would be their territory.

Do demons always walk alone?

Are you asking if demons travel in herds? No more than humans do. Demons often group together under a King for both security under their king and said power. But demons can be by themselves, making them more vulnerable to attack but this could be for training purposes, undercover work, or they are trying to integrate into human society. In most cases Demons are alone, they are trying to either cultivate or trying to trick humans, so the fewer people, the better. But in most stories, we see demons either being a King and thus having subjects that follow their command or demons are the subjects of a King. It's similar to why humans form villages or nations, security in number, and organization under a military leader. In stories where a demon is alone they are often trying to tick/attack humans and this can be considered part of them trying to cultivate, perhaps trying to get stronger without being limited by being a subject to a king.

They have clans or groups?

I cannot say if they have clans as most demons cultivate to become what they are. FEW demons are biological families as we see a reoccurring pattern that Sworn Brothers are far more common. We only see two examples of demons having children in Xiyouji, that being DBK and Iron Fac having Red Boy and Yellow Brows Demon taking on a human as a wife. It is far more common for demons to steal both male and female partners to be their wife/husband rather than demons marrying each other. For whatever reason I can assume it is often that demons find humans irresistible whether for a human's life force or beauty (or even that they were in love in a past life, revenge on the human's spouse, power, maybe actually true love, etc.) but we don't see a lot of demon with other demons romantically. And fewer pure demon-born children such as Red Boy. White Snake and her husband are an example of having a half-demon child for example. This makes it harder for 'clans' to form.

A good example of a demon 'family' is that the Nine-Headed Lion Spirit adopted around 8 lion grandsons to be under his protection. Rather than having them as subjects he calls them family. Similar is that Wukong did the same with his entire mountain, adopting 47,000 monkeys and naming them after himself as the Sun Clan. I have never seen another demon do such a thing and would not call it the norm, rather Wukong being the exception to the rule. Wukong has been depicted as more eccentric than most demons with his power and charisma.

It could be that demons have a harder time creating children with one another, and perhaps it is easier to create children with humans or have more human (therefore more life force) in the child. It is VERY hard for demons to reach the form where they have a humanoid state, despite how MANY demons we see in Xiyouji, demons finally reaching the human statue takes thousands and thousands of years, so it could just be hard for demons to both reach that state AND then cultivate a child within their bodies if they do not have enough power to spare to keep their human form. This could be another reason demons are more inclined to have human spouses as they would be given their demon spouse the needed qi naturally rather than having to create so much qi themselves.

A rare example of this is like with Jade Face Princess, she is the daughter of another fox king who was 10,000 years old or so but we never see in the novel. It is hard to say that if she is his bio daughter (most likely) and that is how she inherited her wealth but that she could and would still end up so weak in battle. She shows that her true form is a fox, so it is unlikely she is half-human but also hard to say if he was a born demon as well. We so see an example of adoption in the same like as White-Face Fox was adopted by the White Deer Spirit as his direct daughter, despite them being two different pieces. This is just another thing to consider when it comes to how these demons create bond with one another, their godfather/godmother to their god-son/god-daughter being stronger than alliances.

How do female demons differ from male demons?

Females and male demons are pretty easy to differentiate in that the demon will CHOOSE how their physical form will look like. As a reminder demons are animals, plants, and objects that have gained cultivation and thus their physical forms are illusions. They are allowed to choose how the world sees them and thus once they gain a humanoid form (which takes a very long time) they can choose how to look and thus how they with the world to address them as. Green Snake is a good example of this as she was a male snake in her animal form and was able to choose to present as a woman so that she could stay close to White Snake when they cultivated into humans.

Or do you know articles or people who know more about it?

I can recommend a few books if you wish to read but I cannot say if there are articles about this subject.

A CHINESE BESTIARY Strange Creatures from the GUIDEWAYS THROUGH MOUNTAINS AND SEAS

Fantastic creatures of the mountains and seas : a Chinese classic

Chinese Mythology: An Introduction

Handbook of Chinese Mythology

I understand that Wukong was like on a political mission to talk to the demon kings and have a good relationship with them, right?

Wukong was less taking a 'political mission' and rather Demon Kings came to HIM. When Wukong showed off the power of the staff.

Wukong explored many areas in his time and found a lot of friends but that was for his own sake of having fun, rather than trying to make political connections. Rather Demon Kings understood that Wukong was far more powerful than any of them and all 72 made sure to come and pay respect to him to get on his good side else they would be killed like the Demon King of Havoc. This is why you see in some media Wukong be The King of the Demons, as in he isn't just a Demon King but THE King of all Yaoguai. Out of the 72 demon kings, 6 were able to impress him enough to be his sworn brothers. I personally feel that the demon kings were the ones to refer to Wukong rather than Wukong trying to make alliances himself.

I would like to know more about how their "society" (their politics?) works in JTTW and other legends and stories.

From what we can see it is to be expected that Yaoguai society works similarly to human society. Heaven is to be a reflection of human society with ranks, servants, and duties and Yaoguai appears to be the same. But Heaven is supposed to be the prime of example of a perfect society, and rather Yaoguai rather have the "might is right” methods. to show the flaws of society. Demons that are particularly powerful, such as demons with humanoid forms, are the ones in power. The stronger a demon is, the more powerful and influence they will have. Kings are not born, but rather made when a demon has cultivated enough and gained a large following, and thus they are able to claim a Cave and Mountain of their own and their subjects. From there demons are either terrorizing humans or even being able to form diplomaice relationships with humans. We see this with the Nine-Headed Lion Spirit trading with humans are a regular basis (until his grandsons stole the pilgrims' weapons and ruined their relationship with their neighboring kingdom). Powerful Demons turn into Kings and thus have subjects, so it is fair to think that when demons are on their own and interacting with humans so much they are more likely trying to cultivate to gain more power. Weaker demons are either under a Demon King or interacting with humans to eat them to gain enough power to be a Demon King perhaps.

I don’t see a lot of demons interacting with each other if they are not sworn, I would imagine that there is a lot of postering and a lot of double-edged sword dealings. Demons are always run by their own desires, similar to humans but to the extreme, they don’t consider consequences or express empathy more often than not (there are exceptions to this rule just this is the norm I have seen). Demons can form relations and close bonds but as we have seen with DBK and Wukong these relationships are not concrete, as when Wukong was no longer a warlord and was no longer in a position of power over DBK, DBK saw no reason to help Wukong in his plight. Nor do we see Wukong's other sworn brothers after he loses his warlord status. This can be assumed that these relationships are only as strong as long as individuals are useful, but if any of them lose power or status then the relationship will dissolve when it is no longer profitable to keep them. There can be goodwill and we have seen more genuine care between demons such as White Snake and Green Snake but that seems more of a familial relationship over a political alliance.

#anon ask #anonymous #anon #ask #jttw #journey to the west #sun wukong #xiyouji #monkey king #Bull demon king #jade face princess #green snake #legends of the white snake #white snake

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