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| Topic | Can someone give me the "five year old" explanation of Monkey King? |
| PMarth2002 06/20/22 11:21:25 PM #6: | hypnox posted... I see it in a LOT of movies, shows, games etc. So can someone tell me why Monkey King(s) are so popular in Asian culture? Sun Wukong, the name of the character, is from Journey of the West. Its considered one of the seminal classics of chinese literature. Its basically an adventure anthology with buddhist themes. The character is basically an immortal trickster type in the original story. If you're not up for a wiki read, overly sarcastic productions summarizes it in several videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61nuXrvqNgI&list=PLDb22nlVXGgdg_NR_-GtTrMnbMVmtSSXa This is just the first part. You don't really need to watch all of it to get an idea of what its like. --- You load 16 tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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