玉皇大帝天庭靈霄殿 · 9
Leaf 9 of the pilgrimage · 大天尊 Great Celestial Worthy
Jade Emperor 玉皇大帝
In Journey to the West 西遊記 (c. 1592) · a heaven-sent power who ends the fight · nicknamed 大天尊 “Great Celestial Worthy”
The administrator of everything, whose authority in the novel rests on having suffered more patiently than anyone else.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 4
The Horse-Stable Patent
招安He grants the monkey the horse-stable post and then the empty title, which is the whole rebellion in two appointments.
- ch. 7
Sending for the Buddha
蓋天聞難When the rebellion reaches the hall he is behind the tables until Wang Lingguan holds the door, and his first act is to send for the Buddha.
- ch. 31
Counting the Twenty-Eight Stars
查奎木狼He counts the stars of the twenty-eight mansions and finds one missing thirteen years, which is how a demon turns out to be a department.
- ch. 87
The Rice Mountain and Oil Lock
米山油鎖He withholds rain from Fengxian behind a mountain of rice and a lock of oil, on the grounds that a prefect once knocked over his offering table.
結局 The ending
He outlasts all of it. The rice mountain is pecked away by one phoenix and the oil lock burned through by one rat, and when the pilgrims finally come, it rains in Fengxian the same week.
The book itself: why the monkey was pinned, which translation — The 500 years · The translations · The 81 trials