黄风怪黃風嶺黃風洞 · 24
Leaf 24 of the pilgrimage · 黄风大王 Yellow Wind Demon King
Yellow Wind Monster 黄风怪
In Journey to the West 西遊記 (c. 1592) · a demon on the road west · nicknamed 黄风大王 “Yellow Wind Demon King”
A marten that got too close to the Buddha's sermons, and the only creature on the road who hurts Wukong by blowing at him.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 20
The Tiger Vanguard
虎先鋒His tiger-spirit vanguard came out of the rock with a sword, and while the monkey was busy with him the monk was lifted off his horse and into the ridge.
- ch. 20
One Breath of Samadhi Wind
三昧神風The demon came out himself and blew one breath of samadhi wind; the 火眼金睛 closed, watered and could not find the path down, which is exactly what Laojun's furnace had left him with.
- ch. 21
The Ointment for Blinded Eyes
三花九子膏An old man's parting gift was an ointment for wind-blacked eyes; the monkey slept, woke seeing, and went back up the ridge alone to be refused at the door.
- ch. 21
Baffled by the Wind-Fixing Pill
定風丹Lingji Pusa put the Buddha's wind-fixing pill in the monkey's mouth. The demon blew till his own mouth was dry and the hair on Wukong's neck did not move.
- ch. 21
The Staff Turns into a Dragon
杖化金龍Then he let the flying-dragon staff go: it came down a great dragon, took the rodent by the crown, and pinned him so he could not reach his hole under the ridge.
- ch. 21
The Marten Under the Wind
貂鼠現形Stripped of the wind he gave up his shape: a yellow-furred marten that had once stood in the assembly at Vulture Peak and slipped out of it.
結局 The ending
He is not killed on the ridge. Lingji Pusa bundles the marten off to Vulture Peak to answer before the Buddha for the road he blocked, and the bodhisattva makes a complaint while doing it: he had been posted at Little Sumeru to keep an eye on this one creature, and the ridge was not his patch. The wind dropped, and the pass opened the same morning.
The book itself: why the monkey was pinned, which translation — The 500 years · The translations · The 81 trials