Journey with the Stupendous Monkey
Leung Shek Chee College , Ching , Mina Lam Yuen - 13
O ne wonderful sun filled day , Wukong was having a nice outing with his lovely friends Xuanzang , Bajie and also Shawujing . His mood was first-rate . They had decided they would all go to a stupendously hot desert . Why ? They had to go through the hot desert or they could not get the Scripture from the West .
The desert was as hot as standing in front of a fire and that ’ s why it was called the Firegion . Now , in the center of this desert stood a single , tall mountain . The friends all chimed together , ‘ We must set out to find out the reason for why this mountain is just so hot before we continue our search for the Scripture !’ But , on the way there all of the friends became very hot and thirsty ; their water was almost gone and they soon began to feel extremely tired .
Wukong suggested , ’ Give me some time . I will go upstairs to Heaven and ask the gods for help ! I won ’ t let you all die ! Wait for me and I will be back very soon !’ As Wukong finished speaking , everybody nodded in agreement .
Wukong , now flying as fast as a rocket , quickly flew through the cloud and wind . Wukong saw the gods sitting on the cloud and he sighed with relief . He requested help and one the gods answered , ’ A long long time ago , there was another monkey like you and he also journeyed to this mountain . He did the same thing as you-he tried to ask me for the answer to this mystery . I told him that there was a large magic palm-leaf fan owned by the Palm-leaf princess . When the Palm-leaf princess fans the land a powerful wind wind is produced , putting the fires out . Therefore , the other monkey went to the Palm-leaf princess ’ castle and borrowed the fan from the princess . He fanned the mountain and ‘ POOF !’ the fires on the mountain were all put out ! Isn ’ t that amazing ? However , there is a problem . That all happened such a long , long time ago and therefore I don ’ t know where the fan is now . I think we should think of other method of putting out the fire . Wukong , do you know why there are so many fires ?’ Wukong said he didn ’ t but that he would ask the god who controlled time to help him figure it out .
Wukong looked through the god of time ’ s magic telescope at what had happened in the past . Wukong found that the mountain is so hot because of the increasing of greenhouse gases ! He was surprised , but he realized that protecting the environment must be really important . Wukong decided that he was going to plant trees everywhere to improve the environment of the desert , so it wouldn ’ t be so hot . He also asked the god who controlled the weather to allow a great rainfall over that Firegion .
And , as the desert was changed into a beautiful , lush rainforest , people from many different cities showed their surprised at the happy go lucky Wukong being the first one who insisted on protecting and improving the dangerously warming environment . They all praised him for being environmentally friendly . His story is now famous many people know Wukong as the Green King .
And the friends ? Since Firegion was then no longer dry and had become a beautiful rainforest , Wukong , Xuanzang , Bajie and also Shawujing lived and continued their journey to Scripture from the West . But that is another story .