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Spirit monkey save the tiger, the tiger help spirit myth and legend of the monkey, monkey

As the saying goes, "in the mountainsThe tiger, the Monkey King said, "obviously, folk think old tiger first the king of beasts, and the monkey is on alert has a place.However, tiger and monkey does have the shallow friendship, it is said that the monkey when the animal sign, on king tiger zhou from turning to all success.

Legend of tiger in the back of the mountain of the town system beast fame as a bm.Beast was in the mountains to see immediately to avoid the tiger, the tiger, of course, is both proud and feel lonely.Monkeys at that time and the tiger are neighbors, the two brothers are very affectionate.Later, the monkey was almost the tiger's right-hand man, when the king tiger went out, the monkey was designated town of mountain.Not beasts king tiger down, also had to listen to the call of the monkey.This is "the mountains without the tiger, the Monkey King".

One day, the king tiger falls into a hunter's net, fought desperately also.Just a monkey, tiger, the king shouted for help.The monkey saw, hurriedly climb up the tree, solved a hunter's net twine, saved the king tiger.

After king tiger escape, although the mouth of kept for monkey bro, the in the mind is thinking: "I am the king of beasts, unexpectedly in a hunter's trap, also have a small monkeys to deliver, this monkey out, not put out my tiger Wang Weifeng, why not just eat the monkey."But another think, now already is a loner, again eat monkeys, the future is not even a friend."If more dangerous, who will help me?Besides, the monkey is afraid of me, never dare to leave today's work that out."

Then, the tiger told the monkey: today for saving his life, must repay in the future.The monkey in the future have what difficult thing, must be fully committed to helping himself.The monkey, of course, also to the king tiger of distress, to save the tiger to the king's face.After this, the relationship between two people is extraordinary.

Many years later, the jade emperor began to choose to mutually.As the king of beasts, the tiger, of course, when the animal sign.Monkey see, also want to when the animal sign, but choose to mutually principle, jade emperor that is active in humans.Monkeys to humans reactive, natural selection.So the Monkey King tiger, please plead to the jade emperor, let him when the animal sign.Because owe the Monkey King tiger, to our best to help the monkey to intercede, tell then god monkey smart, as beasts, and he said in his absence, monkeys also have mountain town of credit.As a result, the jade emperor the monkey, the monkey is also included in the animal sign.

When the animal sign monkey, also the Monkey King tiger.King tiger, of course, are not happy, it's not a skill monkeys with himself as human animal sign, cut off from the friendship.Today, natural beasts also is not afraid of the monkey, of course, "among the blind the one-eyed man is king, the Monkey King" the true, became the sarcasm.

Is "monkey", "wait" and "hou" too.

The original meaning of "waiting" to "bar, watch", is a sign of a smart monkey sex.The ancients said, monkey, hou also;See a person eat fu machine, looked around, with high and also good at waiting.That is to say, the ape was smart alert, good at identify hunter bait, found that the food is not easy to get, wait-and-see exploration is very long, feel really don't have buried battle before action.

"Hou", is the praise of the monkey, extended as a kind of beauty.On the book of songs "straight and hou sea", "han yu's poetry", explains: "hou, beauty, too."Quoted for ancient nobility of second class, the so-called "public, hou,", the son,

"Marquis," in men ".Referring to seal have the title of monarch, such as the spring and autumn period and the warring states period of the vassal kingdoms.Qin and han dynasties era, hou worship will be.Then seal hou make "monkey" added an auspicious symbol.

"Hou" surname, down from the historiographer changjie when the yellow emperor, is Hou Gang surname, after Hou Xing for short.Jin state Hou Shi recorded, in the spring and autumn.When the warring states period is the famous hermit hou wei win, who helped the letter secretly operator to save zhao ling king.The han dynasty have big SiTuHou bully.A prime minister in tang dynasty Hou Junji.A wit Hou Fangyu between Ming dynasty and early qing.Modern famous crosstalk master hou baolin.

"Ape", the "yuan", "yuan" the word is very much like apes form, draw the tail.So the cross white apes often claim to be "Yuan Gong"."Yu" this is a pictographs depicting the ape morphology.Lu xun's "new stories", said yu yu, is actually "Yu", also is changing from "big monkey"."Yu" and "", is about the monkey off into the room, was called" concepts ", then gradually into people's home."Yu" and "fool", suggesting that the monkey can get rid of ignorance evolution behavior.

The ape the common name "monkey", also called Hu Sun.So "hu" and "sun" surnamed also monkeys as."Hu" surname, mouth also from DaShun descent, sealing in hu zhou dynasty, because of the thought.Hu is small, destroyed by the chu.The song dynasty has a bachelor's interpretation of hu minister temple.In the Ming dynasty writer scholar hu.Modern famous scholar hu shi."Sun" surname, has three ancient legend.A from the name is "ji", in the spring and autumn when WeiGuoWu male descendants.A from chu, Sun Shu ao and future generations.Another from qi, Chen Tian's offspring.The spring and autumn period and the warring states period famous military strategist sun wu, sun bin.Have medical sun simiao in tang dynasty, calligraphers sun principles.Especially the sun wukong in the journey to the west "to" sun "surname gentleman.