Bull Demon King

He is what Sun Wukong would have been without the pilgrimage: the same power, the same self-awarded title one word different, the same brotherhood of demon-kings — and no master, no journey and no restraint. The Flaming Mountains episode, where the party must borrow his estranged wife's fan to pass, is the longest single sequence in the novel and turns entirely on the fact that the monkey and the bull were once sworn brothers.

Children

• Red Boy

Domains

• demons

Relations

• spouse: Princess Iron FanThe treatments consulted describe him as her husband in one place and her ex-husband in another, which reflects the novel: he has left her for another demon by the time the pilgrims arrive.Reference treatment of Princess Iron Fan as the wife of the Bull Demon King. (secondary)
• father of: Red BoyReference treatment of Red Boy as the son of the Bull Demon King and Princess Iron Fan. (secondary)

Sources

• The Bull Demon King is the principal antagonist of the Journey to the West, Sun Wukong's sworn brother, husband of Princess Iron Fan and father of Red Boy.: Reference treatments of the Bull Demon King and of the Journey to the West. (secondary)