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Hanuman : The God of All Superheroes and Monkey King : Sun Wukong - One legend ,two Manifestations

We all know about the great God Hanuman omnipresent in most of the Indian Mythologies, great warrior, friend, saviour, superhero, devotee of lord Rama, destroyer of all evils, symbol of courage and strength but in china there is similar mythological legend called Sun Wukong/Monkey king having similar qualities like lord Hanuman immensely powerful, fast like lightning, immortal, spiritual, defender of spiritual and human realm and got power from Tao. Are they both symbol of same legend having different interpretations in different culture ?  Indian civilisation and Chinese civilisation! Two of the most ancient civilisations of the world still flourishing and surviving. India and china have strong cultural relations since the beginning of 2nd century and just like many Chinese travellers came to India in search of buddhist texts and knowledge, many Indian travellers also went to china to propagate buddhism. This cultural exchange continued for two millenniums and resulted in many sim...