英语推理小故事

The Mystery of the Palm-leaf Fan （神秘的芭蕉扇）

How many palm-leaf fans were there in the book "Journey to the West"? This has been a mystery. I personally think there were two, one held by the Supreme Lord Laozi and the other one by the Iron Fan Princess.

Reasons are as following:

1. See Chapter 59 – Tang Sanzang Is Stopped by the Flaming Mountain, Sun Wukong tries to borrow the Palm-Leaf Fan

Lingji smiled: “That woman is called Luosha, also named the Iron Fan Princess. Her Palm-leaf fan was a treasure from the beginning of time, born from Heaven and Earth on the heights of Mt Kunlun. It contains the essence of the sun, so it can extinguish fire. However if a human is fanned, he would be blown away for eighty-four thousand li’s, unable to stop. There are only fifty thousand li’s from my mountain to the Flaming Mountain. It is fortunate you have the ability to stall clouds. An ordinary person would not have been able to stop.”