Jade Monkey King The Monkey King is a main character in the classical Chinese epic novel Journey to

Jade Monkey King

The Monkey King is a main character in the classical Chinese epic novel Journey to the West. 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.

(purchased Foshan, Guangdong, China)

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Pu'er, Yunnan, China

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