Subject: Re: wunen etymology
Here it is:
Following is the Wunen story:
Wunen was a marshal in the Heaven (Chinese One). Because of stealing
God's food and harassing fairies, He was punished to the Earth as a pig.
He lived in a tiny village and forced a village girl to married him (he was
still very powerful compare with human). The story started from one
daywhen a monk named Tang went to the West (India) to get the Buddhism
bark to China, He had to pass the village where the pig occupied.
Villagers cameout to tell the monk how bad and strong the pig was and
hoped the monkcould do some thing about it. It happened the monk had
student ( he is a monkey monk) named Wukong ( notice the 'Wu') who was a
very clever, trickyand powerful monkey (all the Chinese kids love him).
He fought with the pig using all his tricks and power and finally the pig
surrendered. The pig agreed to go with the monk Tang and become a monk.
monk Tong thus gave him a Buddhist name Wunen. This is his first name,
his family name is Zhu (complicated, isn't is ?). One way to the West,
Wunen supposed to behave himself otherwise he would be punished by the
monkey. However, once he had a chance, he always disappeared to somewhere
to steal food and chasing girls. Most of the time, he was falling into
traps setting by those beautiful girl-look-like devils (I don't what is
the English word for these creatures) and had to be rescued by the monkey.
N. Zhang