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Fox spirits and celestial magic fill a world where order and chaos meet in open revolt.
The Three Sui Quash the Demons' Revolt brings you into a classic Chinese epic of supernatural conflict. At its heart is a battle between order and chaos, with fox spirits and celestial magic giving that struggle a vivid, otherworldly shape.
This work by Luo Guanzhong and Feng Menglong offers an adventure built around a demons' revolt. Its appeal lies in the meeting of epic conflict and the supernatural: a world where the struggle for order shares the stage with spirits and magic.
What you’ll discover
- A world of spirits Enter a Chinese epic whose supernatural world includes fox spirits and celestial magic.
- Order against chaos Follow the central struggle that gives this adventure its stakes and scope.
- Celestial magic at work Discover an epic where magic belongs at the heart of the conflict.
- A demons' revolt Explore the supernatural rebellion named in the title of this classic Chinese adventure.
- An epic encounter Meet the work of Luo Guanzhong and Feng Menglong through spirits, magic, and conflict.
Who will love it
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.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A white ape steals heaven's secret book
- Foxes, a hunter's arrow and a famous doctor
- A lovesick Taoist and a dream of an empress
- A false living Buddha and a child born from an egg
- Three tries at White Cloud Cave
- Pupils of the heavenly book
- Meier, the Hu family and a merchant's clever daughter
- What the story is really about
- How the book is told
Who’s who
- Yuan GongThe white ape and keeper of heaven's secret books, who opens a sealed case out of curiosity and carves its magic on a cave wall.
- Holy AuntAn ancient white vixen who wants her children safe and powerful, and who plays a living Buddha to win money and shelter.
- Hu MeierThe vixen's beautiful daughter, drawn into palaces and prophecies, with a fate tied to a future queen.
- Zuo ChuHoly Aunt's son, lame from a hunter's arrow, who loves food and drink and grows into a sharp-tongued master of magic.
- The Egg MonkA monk hatched from an egg, hungry for a world-shaking art, who makes three dangerous trips to steal the book from the cave.
- Zhang LuanA towering Taoist adept with fierce powers, who forged a heavenly book once and now shelters a fox maiden.
- Hu Yong'erA merchant's clever daughter who receives a book of magic from a kind old woman and uses it to rebuild her family's fortune.
- Inspector Yang ChunA rich, devout official who longs for a living Buddha and pays dearly for his faith.
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The Three Sui Quash the Demons' Revolt
by Luo Guanzhong; Feng Menglong
An ape god steals heaven's secret book, and a fox, a monk and a lame fox son set out to learn its seventy-two arts.
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The Three Sui Quash the Demons' Revolt is a Chinese novel about fox spirits, stolen magic and a revolt that magic makes possible. Luo Guanzhong is credited with an early form of the work, and Feng Menglong, who died in 1646, enlarged it into the forty chapters we read today.
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A white ape steals heaven's secret book
The story starts small. In the Kaiyuan era of the Tang, an official named Liu Zhiqing has a wife who is sick. A lamp flower comes alive and becomes a three-foot old woman who offers a cure. She then bullies the whole household until a deity shows her to be a macaque. The tale sets the rule of the book: an animal that practices long enough can pass for a person.
Then the book goes back to the age of Wu and Yue. A maiden from South Mountain is called down to train the soldiers of King Goujian. On the road an old man named Lord Yuan tests her swordsmanship with a bamboo cane, then leaps into a tree and flees as a white ape. She is the Goddess of the Ninth Heaven, sent by the Jade Emperor to help Yue defeat its wicked enemy.
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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.
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