Zhu Bajie original held the title of General Tianpeng and commander-in-chief of 80,000 Heavenly Navy Soldiers. However, he was later banished for misbehavior. At a party organized for all the significant Met in heaven, Bajie saw the Goddess of the Moon (Chang'e 嫦娥)for the first time and was captivated by her beauty. Following a drunken attempt to sexually harass her, she reported this to the Jade Emperor and thus he was banished to Earth. In popular retellings, Zhu Bajie was sentenced to a thousand places where each life would end in a love tragedy. In some retellings of the story, his banishment is linked to Sun Wukong's downfall. In any case, he was exiled from Heaven and sent to be reincarnated on Earth , Where by mishap he fell into a pig well and was reborn as a man-eating pig-monster known as Zhu ganglie(strong-maned pig)

 

In the versions legacy of Journey to the West, Wukong and Xuanzang come to Gao village and find that a daughter of the village elder had kidnapped and the abductor left a note crowy. In some versions of the story Bajie has been convinced the elder to Allow him to marry the daughter based on his ability to do large amounts of hard work due to his prodigious strength. The elder recants when he discovers that although Zhu Bajie management to to quite a lot in work in the fields he prevented to eat so much That the farm is losing money anyway. After any investigation, Wukong found out that Bajie was the "villain" behind this. He fought with Wukong, but ended the fight when he learned that Wukong was a disciple of Xuanzang, and that he had also Was recruited by Guanyin to join their pilgrimage and make atonements for his past sins.

 

At the end, most of Bajie's fellow pilgrims achieve enlightenment and become Arhats, but he does not; although much improved, he is still too much a creature of his base desires. He is instead reward for for his part in the pilgrimage's success With a work as "Cleanser of the Altars"  and all the leftovers he can eat.