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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Making a monkey the guardian of hoses seems absurd to modern thinking but in ancient China, before the influx of large, trained guard dogs from the West, many ranchers actually did employ monkeys as guard animals to deter predators from preying on horses.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Making a monkey the guardian Guardian of hoses Horses seems absurd to modern thinking but in ancient China, before the influx of large, trained guard dogs from the West, many ranchers actually did employ monkeys as guard animals to deter predators from preying on attacking their horses.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Making a monkey the guardian of hoses seems absurd to modern thinking but in ancient China, before the influx of large, trained guard dogs from the West, many ranchers actually did employ monkeys as guard animals to deter predators from preying on horses.
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* AccidentalAesop: A double example from both sides. When applying for a job, be prepared to start from the bottom no matter how talented and powerful you are outside the company. For employers, make sure the job given matches your applicant's qualifications. When Sun Wukong asked to be an immortal deity from Heaven, he was angry that he was given the job of a mere stableman and later on, the watcher of immortal peaches, both which failed to placate him and caused his rampage which was only stopped by Laozi and the Buddha. Wukong had to learn that actual job experience is still a thing even among the divine, which for him came in the form of the titular journey. While it worked out in the end for everyone, the whole mess could've been avoided if Heaven actually tested his capabilities seriously and gave him a job that suits his caliber while Wukong refused to think of working/earning his way up the hierarchy.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: The White Bone Demon appears to be this; despite being a demon with a rather ordinary skill set (shapeshifting) and pretty much zero fighting ability, the arc featuring her is one of the most well-known in all of China, and the subject of numerous operas and television specials.They even sometimes change the story and delete the demon that comes later.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: The White Bone Demon appears to be this; despite being a demon with a rather ordinary skill set (shapeshifting) and pretty much zero fighting ability, the arc featuring her is one of the most well-known in all of China, and the subject of numerous operas and television specials. They even sometimes change the story and delete the demon that comes later.
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** As mentioned under DisproportionateRetribution on the main page, Shā Wùjìng receives 800 lashes, is exiled from Heaven, is transformed into a demon, and has to spend the rest of his life hiding in a river to avoid a magic sword that will stab him daily in the chest, all for the heinous crime of... breaking a cup or a vase. A little extreme but not unreasonable in the time-period for when it's set (porcelain, crystal and jade being ''very'' difficult to work with, so literally more precious than gold), but horrifying to a modern age audience.
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** As mentioned under DisproportionateRetribution on the main page, Shā Wùjìng receives 800 lashes, is exiled from Heaven, is transformed into a demon, and has to spend the rest of his life hiding in a river to avoid a magic sword that will stab him daily in the chest, all for the heinous crime of... breaking a cup or a vase. A little extreme but not unreasonable in the time-period for when it's set (porcelain, crystal and jade being ''very'' difficult to work with, so it is literally more precious than gold), but horrifying to a modern age audience.audience. Some adaptations state that said vase belonged to an very powerful immortal like the Queen Mother of the West to semi-justify the punishment.
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* EpilepticTrees: A running theory in China has it that the Six-Eared Macaque ''didn't'' die at the end of his confrontation with Wukong, but instead replaced him for the rest of the journey while [[KillAndReplace the real Sun Wukong was killed instead]]. Justifications for the theory include the fact that Wukong's less powerful and bloodthirsty in following chapters, that nobody but the Buddha knew who the real Sun Wukong was since the disguise was too convincing, and that the heavens and Buddha had grounds to kill the real Wukong because they felt that he was becoming (or already was) too unstable.
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** A running theory in China has it that the Six-Eared Macaque ''didn't'' die at the end of his confrontation with Wukong, but instead replaced him for the rest of the journey while [[KillAndReplace the real Sun Wukong was killed instead]]. Justifications for the theory include the fact that Wukong's less powerful and bloodthirsty in following chapters, that nobody but the Buddha knew who the real Sun Wukong was since the disguise was too convincing, and that the heavens and Buddha had grounds to kill the real Wukong because they felt that he was becoming (or already was) toounstable.unstable.
** Additionally, though ultimately explained as an act of spite, it's entirely possible that the intention of giving Trip blank scriptures was for him to become a source of authority in his own right, but Trip was too stuck on the idea of getting already existent texts.
** A running theory in China has it that the Six-Eared Macaque ''didn't'' die at the end of his confrontation with Wukong, but instead replaced him for the rest of the journey while [[KillAndReplace the real Sun Wukong was killed instead]]. Justifications for the theory include the fact that Wukong's less powerful and bloodthirsty in following chapters, that nobody but the Buddha knew who the real Sun Wukong was since the disguise was too convincing, and that the heavens and Buddha had grounds to kill the real Wukong because they felt that he was becoming (or already was) too
** Additionally, though ultimately explained as an act of spite, it's entirely possible that the intention of giving Trip blank scriptures was for him to become a source of authority in his own right, but Trip was too stuck on the idea of getting already existent texts.
