The top half of the cover is printed with three big white characters, Journey to the West. There are a few small black characters on it, four classical novels of China. The following small white characters tell readers that the author is Wu Cheng'en. The lower part of the cover is a picture of four people who hate Tang and his disciples on the way to learn from the scriptures.
Based on the historical event of Tang Priest's learning from the scriptures, The Journey to the West profoundly portrayed the social reality at that time through the author's artistic processing.