Introduction to Journey to the West:
The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en, a novelist in the Ming Dynasty. According to the records of the Western Regions in Tang Dynasty, folklore and Yuan Zaju. The Song Dynasty's Poem of Sanzang's Learning from the Scriptures (whose real name is Sanzang's Learning from the Scriptures) is the earliest prototype of The Journey to the West, and the Tang Priest took Master Xuanzang as the prototype.
As the first romantic novel in ancient China, it is a pioneering work of magical realism. First, I wrote that the Monkey King was born, and then I met Tang Priest, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand. Tang Priest went through eighty-one difficulties from reincarnation to Buddhist scriptures, went all the way south, and finally arrived in the Western Heaven to meet the Tathagata Buddha, and finally the Five Saints passed away.
Since The Journey to the West came out, it has been translated into western languages and spread to Europe and America. There are already English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, sign language, World (Esperanto), Russia, Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam. He published many research papers and monographs, and gave a high evaluation of this novel, which is known as one of the classical Four Great Classical Novels in China.