Journey to the West is the first Romantic chapter novel about gods and demons in ancient China.
There are 100 copies of Journey to the West published in the Ming Dynasty without the author's signature.
Wu Yuxuan, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, first proposed that the author of Journey to the West was Wu Chengen of the Ming Dynasty.
This novel is based on the historical event of "Tang monk's learning classics".Through the author's artistic processing.
it profoundly depicts the social reality at that time. After describing Sun Wukong's birth and havoc of the heavenly palace.
the whole book met three people, Tang Seng, Zhu Ba Jie and Sha Seng.Westbound Buddhist sutras, all the way down demons and demons.
experienced the ninety-eighty-one difficulties, and finally arrived in the west to see Buddha Tathagata, and finally the story of the five saints come true.
Journey to the West is a classic novel of Chinese gods and demons, reaching the peak of ancient Romantic novels.
It is also known as the four classical works of China with Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin and Dream of Red Mansions.
In the first year of Emperor Taizong's Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty (627), a 25-year-old monk, Xuanzang Tianzhu (India).
traveled on foot. After departing from Chang'an, he traveled through Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, through all difficulties and obstacles, and finally arrived in India.
He studied there for more than two years and was praised as a lecturer at a large Buddhist Confucianism Debate.
In the nineteenth year of Zhenguan (645), Xuanzang returned to Chang'an and brought back 657 Buddhist sutras, which caused a great sensation.
Later, Xuanzang dictated what he had seen and heard about the westward journey and was compiled by disciple Bian Ji into Twelve Volumes of Records of the Western Regions of the Great Tang Dynasty.
But this book mainly tells the history, geography and transportation of the countries we see on the road. There are no stories.
As for his disciples Huili and Yan Cong's Biography of the Three Tibetan Masters at Dacien Temple in the Tang Dynasty.
it added a lot of mythological color to Xuanzang's experience. From then on, the story of the Tang monk's taking scriptures began to spread widely among the Chinese people.