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While in the southern town of Lixiang, I came upon this creature in the evening. Maybe you know the legend of this... maybe it is better to make up your own legend than to have me tell you everything about it... or, perhaps one of you intrepid explorers in the community can tell us all what is going on here!
- Trey Ratcliff
Read the rest here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
A woodblock print New Year postcard from the 1930s depicting Son Gokuu (Monkey King). This postcard has a movable panel that allows you to change the expression of Son Gokuu. In one panel he is calm and in the other he is summoning forth the destructive power of the wind.
This was at a park where animals (mainly monkeys and peacocks) were available for tourists to take pictures with... for a fee of course. It was kinda sad because the monkeys were all chained, and they seemed to be hungry.
fyi: I fed this trio some slices of tangerine and they all fought for the fruit (I was told these 3 were unrelated). However, when I fed a family of monkeys (mommy, daddy and kid), they only took what was offered to them. I thought this was interesting.
the colours of the hard copy are very vibrant and is one of my fave pics from the trip.
This is my new keyring - the Monkey King voodoo doll. Apparently he's supposed to wake up my imagination and help me be creative. He'd better get cracking - I need some creative ideas!
Hanuman (หนุมาน), the magical god king of the apes in Rama’s Simian army, is the best known monkey character in Ramakien. He is featured in several episodes and has become a hero especially for Thai children who recognize him instantly in any artistic representation.
Ramakien (รามเกียรติ์) is Thailand's national epic, derived from the Hindu Indian Ramayana epic. A number of versions of the epic were lost in the destruction of Ayutthaya in 1767. Three versions currently exist, one of which was prepared in 1797 under the supervision of (and partly written by) King Rama I. His son, Rama II further adapted his father's edition of the Ramakien for the khon drama, a form of theater performed by Thai dancers with elaborate costumes and masks. This version differs slightly from the one compiled by Rama I, giving an expanded role to Hanuman.
Photograph © Guava 2011 all rights reserved
A vintage Japanese New Year card from the 1930s. Son Gokuu (Monkey King) is a character from the 16th Century novel “Journey to the West”, one of the four great novels of classical Chinese literature. Monkey King’s abilities include the power to summon forth a ‘cloud trapeze’ that allows him to travel 108,000 li (54,000 km) in a single leap and the ability to command strong winds and storms.
Sun Wukong (simplified Chinese: 孙悟空; traditional Chinese: 孫悟空; pinyin: Sūn Wùkōng), also known as the Monkey King is a main character in the classical Chinese epic novel Journey to the West (Chinese: 西遊記; pinyin: Xīyóujì). In the novel, he is a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers through Taoist practices. After rebelling against heaven and being imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha, he later accompanies the monk Xuanzang on a journey to retrieve Buddhist sutras from India.
Sun Wukong possesses an immense amount of strength; he is able to lift his 13,500 jīn (8,100 kg or 17,881 lbs) staff with ease. He is also superbly fast, able to travel 108,000 li (54,000 kilometers or 33,554 mi) in one somersault. Sun knows 72 transformations, which allows him to transform into various animals and objects; he has trouble, however, transforming into other people, because he is unable to complete the transformation of his tail. He is a skilled fighter, capable of holding his own against the best generals of heaven. Each of his hairs possesses magical properties, and is capable of transforming either into a clone of the Monkey King himself, or various weapons, animals, and other objects. He also knows spells that can command wind, part water, conjure protective circles against demons, and freeze humans, demons, and gods alike.
The origin of Sun Wukong is considered by some American, Chinese, and Indian scholars to be influenced by both the Hindu deity Hanuman from the Ramayana and elements of Chinese folklore.
This is a screen shot I made from an animated Chinese New Year card on the Jacquie Larson card site - www.jacquielawson.com/
When I lived in China and also in Bali I loved the small local street side performances by shadow puppets or stick puppets enacting well-loved tales from their culture. This is from a part of China's Monkey King stories.
I have some close friends in China, and I'm worried about them. My Tai Ji master wrote back to me saying that everyone in the island-city, Xiamen, where I lived is "practicing isolation." He said that officials are saying that 20 people on the island have the virus. I was in China during the outbreak of SARS and officials were not reporting the truth, but drastically reducing the numbers instead, during that time.
Here is a small thing I do online when my hoping and wishing for people is not enough. I click on Light a Candle. One of the options possible is to have a little version of your lit candle on your desktop. That's nice, I think.
gratefulness.org/light-a-candle/
For Our Daily Challenge topic - 'Theatre.'
The Magical Lantern Festival is visually spectacular, an artistic installation of beautifully sculpted life-size and giant lanterns designed in various forms from animals and birds to buildings and abstract lantern designs of all shapes and sizes.
To mark the Year of the Monkey 2016, a Mount Huaguo lantern with an illuminated waterfall will provide the fairytale setting for an intricate recreation of popular Chinese fable, The Monkey King.
Newest project. Still WIP status (sneak peek).
So basically for such a long time I had a vision stuck in my head, misfortunately - the unrealizable one. Maybe I wasn't ready for something more "advanced". I think enough time has passed that I can finally allow myself for something more. I mean stop limiting myself with only one theme and etc. and get out of my comfort zone (building Toa's, etc). I'm really happy with my latest creation - Shinras and his motorbike - I felt that I have managed to break away from my common builds. I'm satisfied with the final results. Nevertheless I believe I can do something different too.
So I have decided to build a famous deity - an awesome character - Sun Wukong from the old Chinese novel (Journey to the West).
I'm really not planning to stick to any real design, knowing the fact that there is numerous different ways, different designs I imagine of Wukong.
I feel like I shouldn't have written this whole story... but but I feel quite ambitious for this character.
So what do you guys think?
The Magical Lantern Festival is visually spectacular, an artistic installation of beautifully sculpted life-size and giant lanterns designed in various forms from animals and birds to buildings and abstract lantern designs of all shapes and sizes.
To mark the Year of the Monkey 2016, a Mount Huaguo lantern with an illuminated waterfall will provide the fairytale setting for an intricate recreation of popular Chinese fable, The Monkey King.
Facing a new day, and warmed by the setting sun, Hanuman the monkey king.
Vishnu Mandir, Richmond Hill, ON.
The Magical Lantern Festival is visually spectacular, an artistic installation of beautifully sculpted life-size and giant lanterns designed in various forms from animals and birds to buildings and abstract lantern designs of all shapes and sizes.
To mark the Year of the Monkey 2016, a Mount Huaguo lantern with an illuminated waterfall will provide the fairytale setting for an intricate recreation of popular Chinese fable, The Monkey King.
Behold the power of the Monkey King and behold one of the famous characters in Asian mythology. A really interesting character build - Wukong from the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West. This was the end result :)
This moc is a long time coming and now it is finally finished.
Short Bio
Sun Wukong is a main character in the classical Chinese epic novel Journey to the West. Sun Wukong was born from a mythical stone from the primal forces of chaos, located on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit. Early in life he joined a clan of monkeys and became their leader by finding the Water Curtain Cave. After the other monkeys honored him as their king he realized despite his power over the monkeys he was still only mortal. So determined to find immortality he traveled to civilized lands where he became a discipline of a Taoist immortal. There he learned all of the powers commonly associated to him in mythology. Sun Wukong is a famous character in Asian mythology and culture often being referenced in anime, manga and literature.
I like history, mythology and Wukong is one of my favourite mythology characters (there are others I like too).
There are really quite a good amount of interesting interpretations of the Monkey on internet and other sources, but I haven't taken any exact design, rather tried to make my own version of the character from my mind with the elements that randomly came in my head at the building process. And the thing is that, every moc that I have built before was just something from my imagination with absolutely no connection to anything, this time it was different, even thought that I was trying to come up with my own design, I still had to make sure that it has a primate-ish feel of a monkey king.
I must say this was a really interesting project, I must say I'm quite happy how the moc turned out in the end, but I think this character has much more potential, so in the future I will definitely build a companion monkey for the same reason - it has potential.
Fun fact
Sun is my first moc that has been built mainly with lego pieces, yes there are a few bionicle and technic pieces also (usually all my mocs contains bionicle and technic pieces) so this was a really great and new building experience for me.
That is it for now. Hope you like the creation. Please don´t hesitate with any comments, questions or criticisms, it means a lot to me :)
Behold the power of the Monkey King and behold one of the famous characters in Asian mythology. A really interesting character build - Wukong from the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West. This was the end result :)
This moc is a long time coming and now it is finally finished.
Short Bio
Sun Wukong is a main character in the classical Chinese epic novel Journey to the West. Sun Wukong was born from a mythical stone from the primal forces of chaos, located on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit. Early in life he joined a clan of monkeys and became their leader by finding the Water Curtain Cave. After the other monkeys honored him as their king he realized despite his power over the monkeys he was still only mortal. So determined to find immortality he traveled to civilized lands where he became a discipline of a Taoist immortal. There he learned all of the powers commonly associated to him in mythology. Sun Wukong is a famous character in Asian mythology and culture often being referenced in anime, manga and literature.
I like history, mythology and Wukong is one of my favourite mythology characters (there are others I like too).
There are really quite a good amount of interesting interpretations of the Monkey on internet and other sources, but I haven't taken any exact design, rather tried to make my own version of the character from my mind with the elements that randomly came in my head at the building process. And the thing is that, every moc that I have built before was just something from my imagination with absolutely no connection to anything, this time it was different, even thought that I was trying to come up with my own design, I still had to make sure that it has a primate-ish feel of a monkey king.
I must say this was a really interesting project, I'm quite happy how the moc turned out in the end, but I think this character has much more potential, so in the future I will definitely build a companion monkey for the same reason - it has potential.
Fun fact
Sun is my first moc that has been built mainly with lego pieces, yes there are a few bionicle and technic pieces also (usually all my mocs contains bionicle and technic pieces) so this was a really great and new building experience for me.
That is it for now. Hope you like the creation. Please don´t hesitate with any comments, questions or criticisms, it means a lot to me :)