Who Is Wind-Following Ear (Shunfeng Er)?
Heaven's far-hearing guardian
Shunfeng'er (Wind-Following Ear)
Wind-Following Ear is a god who can hear sounds from far away. In Journey to the West he is one of two officers serving the Jade Emperor, appearing as a pair with Thousand-Mile Eye.
When the stone monkey is born and its golden light reaches all the way to Heaven, he and Thousand-Mile Eye survey the world below from the Southern Gate of Heaven and report the stone monkey to the Jade Emperor.
Like Thousand-Mile Eye, he is also worshipped as a guardian attendant of Mazu, the sea goddess. "Shunfeng" means "following the wind," referring to sounds carried to him on the wind.
Episodes featuring this character2
NEWEpisode 1
The Monkey Born of Stone Learns to CryBirth of Sun Wukong (Water Curtain Cave)
A monkey born from a magic stone on Flower-Fruit Mountain finds the Water-Curtain Cave hidden behind a waterfall and becomes the Handsome Monkey King. Five hundred years later, at a feast, the king sees that his childhood friend has grown old. Afraid of the death that comes for everyone, he weeps. Then, refusing to let the end take his friends, he sets out alone across the sea on a small raft.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 3
There's Just One Way to Never DieThe Ruyi Jingu Bang and the Book of Life and Death
Wukong wants a weapon that can protect his friends, so he storms the Dragon Palace beneath the Eastern Sea. There, an iron pillar on the seabed becomes the Ruyi Staff, which grows and shrinks at his command. That same night, after drinking with his new sworn brothers, his soul is dragged to the Underworld, and he wipes his own name and his friends' names from the Ledger of Death.
19 pages