Sun Wu Kong is one who recognizes the emptiness .... still something of a monk, you will say you c is not far! Son Goku in Japanese ... it speaks to you most? Dragon Ball, this pretty little face with a monkey tail. yes .... Sun Wu Kong is a monkey that can talk and wears yellow clothes. more famous than Bruce Lee, the great Mr. and many other: the Monkey King, as it is indeed him, is a figure mythical, legendary and oh living in China and in the hearts of Chinese. It comes straight from a novel of the 16th century entitled "Journey To The West". At the time it was the West India, and it is a sort of initiatory journey for three friends: a monk, a pig and a monkey in search of sacred Buddhist texts. Through all kinds of adventures and encounters more extraordinary than the other, a little sauce of our novels of chivalry, Don Quixote or a Chinese, the characters learn about themselves, repent and grow. In this case the Monkey King, is to repent of a proud past where he gained much power and defied the gods. Finally, he was buried by the Buddha himself for 500 years. This is the Goddess of Mercy (Guanyin Buddha) which frees it accompanies and assists the monk's Journey to the West in its quest.
The Monkey King has inspired and still inspires artistic production in China, be it literature, painting, film or television. Many young Chinese have the panoply of the monkey king in their wardrobe: the magic rod that extends at will (I see you coming with your references), and the bandage on his forehead.
A television series was released in 1980 and recounted all the adventures of the monkey with synthetic bristles, pig cheeks with cardboard and the monk in the face cutthroat is an extreme kitsch ... rehabilitation is not better, I leave you discover it all.
the beautiful (in my humble opinion) cartoon.
The list of products is long, you guessed it .... recently a commercial for laundry where the true actor in the series of Monkey King appears.
to complete the Organizers of the 2008 Olympics have hesitated over the choice of mascots, among the favorites eliminated last round was the Monkey King. A question for our dear readers: do you, who dethroned: The fish, antelope, a swallow, the flame or the panda?