Is the prototype of the Monkey King in Shan Hai Jing an Indian monkey or a water monster?

Both are possible, but personally, the latter is more likely, because the author is Han nationality in Wu Cheng'en, an outstanding novelist in China in the Ming Dynasty, and the author of The Journey to the West. Since childhood, Minhui has read widely and especially likes fairy tales. After repeated setbacks in the imperial examination, he made up the examination and gave tribute to students in Jiajing. In the forty-five years of Jiajing (1566), he served as the county magistrate of Zhejiang-coastal areas. Because of his difficult career, he never planned to be an official in his later years and wrote behind closed doors.

1. Indian monkeys are from Hu Shi. At the beginning of his research in The Journey to the West, he put forward that the Monkey King's prototype came from Indian "foreign theory". He said that India has a very long epic called Ramayana. There is a monkey named Haruman in the story. It is upright and powerful, and there are a large group of "children" whistling in the wind. He is the prototype of the Monkey King. The enlightenment is that it is impossible for ancient the Monkey King to have direct contact with Indian monkeys, but can it have indirect contact through western cultures? Experts have found that there are indeed many cultural phenomena related to monkeys on the ancient Silk Road in the Western Regions, which may have been gradually attracted by the story of Tang Priest's Buddhist scriptures and eventually became the Monkey King's.

2. Water monsters. Lu Xun said that the Monkey King was influenced by the traditional culture of China, especially the Taoist culture, citing Wu, the water god of Huai River, as an example. The story of Wu Zhiqi took place in the Tang Dynasty. When Dayu was in charge of water conservancy, he locked up the troubled water gods and suppressed them at the foot of Guishan Mountain. In the Tang Dynasty, people inadvertently dragged Wu Zhiqi out from under the Guishan Mountain, only to find that the famous water god was a big monkey with sparkling eyes. Lu Xun thinks this monkey is the prototype of the Monkey King. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, when Yang Jingxian adapted the story of Tang Priest's Buddhist scriptures into a zaju, he merged the Monkey King, the monkey in the original Buddhist scriptures, with the Monkey King, a folk monkey, to create a the Monkey King that combines Buddhism and Taoism. ? The stone statue of the Monkey King found in Fujian proves that the people did have the Monkey King family for a long time, and it also proves that the Monkey King was really influenced by Taoist culture.