Résumé
Résumé de Les Trois Sui écrasent la révolte des démons
À qui s’adresse-t-il ?
Readers who love shapeshifting foxes, magic duels, wandering monks and Taoists, and stories that mix heaven, history and comedy. It also suits anyone curious about Song dynasty China and its officials.
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A white ape in heaven opens a sealed case and steals a book of magic. That one act of curiosity sets off a whole novel of fox spirits, trickster monks and a revolt that magic makes possible. Luo Guanzhong is credited with an early form, and Feng Menglong enlarged it into forty chapters. Expect wonders, jokes and sharp comment on how officials and rulers behave.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A white ape steals heaven's secret bookFree
- 2Foxes, a hunter's arrow and a famous doctor
- 3A lovesick Taoist and a dream of an empress
- 4A living Buddha and an egg-born child
- 5Three tries at White Cloud Cave
- 6Pupils of the heavenly book
- 7Meier, the Hu family and a merchant's clever daughter
- 8What the story is really about
- 9How the book is told
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A white ape steals heaven's secret book
In the age of Wu and Yue, a maiden from South Mountain is called down to train the soldiers of King Goujian. An old man named Lord Yuan tests her with a bamboo cane, then flees up a tree as a white ape. She is the Goddess of the Ninth Heaven.
The ape becomes her pupil, and the Jade Emperor names him Lord of White Cloud Cave, keeper of heaven's secret books. One small jade case in his care is wrapped in layer upon layer of seals. While the gods feast at the Queen Mother's peach banquet, the ape grows bored and curious.
He tears off a seal, prays to his master, and the case opens. Inside is the Book of Ruyi, with 108 transformations. He carves the whole text into the cave walls. At his trial he argues that a secret carved in stone is hardly a secret, and he is spared and made guardian of the cave. Yet the words stay on the wall, and a thief will come.
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Questions about Les Trois Sui écrasent la révolte des démons
What is The Three Sui Quash the Demons' Revolt about?
It follows how a stolen book of magic from heaven passes to a fox family and a foundling monk. Together they use its seventy-two arts to trick officials and, in the final chapters, back a rebellion.
Who are the three Sui in the title?
The three Sui are three men whose names contain that character. A deity's riddle says that when they appear, the demons retreat. The book shows how each plays a part in the fight against the sorcerers.
Is The Three Sui Quash the Demons' Revolt a true story?
No, it is a fantasy novel of the late Ming period, set in the Song dynasty. It mixes real emperors and officials, such as Emperor Zhenzong and Bao Zheng, with fox spirits and gods.
Why are foxes so important in this book?
In Chinese belief an old fox can take human form and cheat people. The book follows a fox family seeking the Way, and shows them as clever, vain, affectionate and sometimes pitiable.
Is The Three Sui Quash the Demons' Revolt easy to read?
It is told in a lively storyteller's voice, with short scenes, chapter-ending questions and many jokes and poems. Each tale can be enjoyed alone, so you can follow the plot without knowing Chinese history.