But they were finally stopped and thrown back to their original home by Emperor Huang Di. It was also believed that creatures from the past had attacked the population in a thirst to replace them. Eventually, when they were ready, they would emerge from the mirror and take our place in the real world. The mirror legend says that these creatures would mimic us to learn our behaviors. They thought that the reflection in the mirror was not a reflection at all, but a species from another planet. When you look in a mirror, what do you see? Yourself, right? But this is not what the Chinese believed in ancient times. He later became a companion to the monk Xuanzang and accompanied him on his adventurous journeys. Sun could not manage to get even halfway out of his hands and was imprisoned for 500 years under a magical mountain formed by Gautama Buddha’s palms. But Sun was eventually defeated by Buddha who asked him to somersault out of his palm. It was said that he was able to do so using a rod which he stole from the Dragon King of the East Sea.
The story tells of how Sun was a very mischievous monkey known to have created havoc in heaven with his eagerness to conquer the world. He is one of the most famous and loved characters in Chinese mythology and the protagonist of the classic 16th-century tale, The Journey to the West. Of all the species of monkey to be found, China’s most famous one is Sun Wukong, or the Monkey King.
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