Wan Shi Tong is the spirit of knowledge — an ancient and powerful being who knows more than any human walking the earth. In fact, his name is a phrase in Mandarin Chinese ("萬事通") that literally translates to "He Who Knows 10,000 Things." He never misses a chance to learn a new fact, or to brag about his vast intelligence. He built the great spirit library in the middle of the Si Wong Desert, bringing it to the mortal world. Although he left his great collection of knowledge available to the mortal world for many years, he is recently rather angry at humankind; he apparently sees knowledge as something good purely for its own sake, and in recent years he is known to have been visited by humans only twice — once by Admiral Zhao (who was then a young lieutenant serving under "General Shu") and once by Aang and his friends — in both cases because the visitors were hoping to find secrets to destroying their enemies (the Water Tribes, and Fire Nation, respectively). Although his regular shape is that of an immense black-and-white barn owl, an animal commonly associated with wisdom in Western thought [1], he can lengthen his body to that of a huge serpent-like creature when angered. In the beginning of "The Library" when Aang and his friends encounter Wan Shi Tong, he is walking and resembles Hayao Miyazaki's "No Face" from "Spirited Away". After Sokka breaks a vow made to Wan Shi Tong that no knowledge found in the library will be used for violence, Wan Shi Tong pulls the library back into the Spirit World before attacking Aang and the others.
Back to the story of Wan Shi Tong, actually, it is a suspicious spirit which dwells the ancient library and takes form of a large owl. This spirit originally also constructed the ancient library and maintained it. The spirit, apparently dislikes the fact that humans seek and use knowledge soley to obtain an advantage over other humans, going on to bring up the last human to have discovered his library and states his belief the group only wants to get information to help them defeat their enemies. The spirit is fill the ancient library with all form of knowledge, whatever it is, and in order to do so, the spirit has a fox servant which collect the knowledge around the world. The curiosity of the spirit toward knowledge is shown by it request to everyone who want to enter the library. As a sample, in the chapter which title is The Library, Sokka shakely manages to convince the spirit to let them in, however, and each find a bit of knowledge to contribute to the library (the professor's first edition book, Katara's waterwhip waterbending scroll, Aang's wanted poster, and Sokka's butterfly knot). The group is then allowed and proceed to go searching for information in the vast collection of ancient library.
So, I hope you can understand why I named this blog with something that you all weird to. And also I hope this blog will fulfill our thirst of knowledge. Please enjoy this blog. Temporarily, my blog is in making, so you all have to wait the blog finish. Thank You
1 comment:
hadoo !! avatar ??
Post a Comment