The Journey to the West is the first romantic novel by Wu Cheng'en, an ancient Ming novelist in China. A romantic novel about ghosts and gods.
This paper mainly describes the story of the Monkey King, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and Bai who protected Tang Priest to learn Buddhist scriptures in the West during the Zhenguan period of Emperor Taizong. They went through hardships all the way (plus the hardships before Tang Priest was born to learn Buddhist scriptures), turned evil spirits all the way, saved the day, and finally arrived in the West to learn Buddhist scriptures. (Records of the Western Regions of Datang and Biography of the Sages of Datang have detailed records on this matter).
According to Tang Sanzang's classic poems and folklore. The story of Journey to the West is wonderful and fascinating, and it is worth reading.
Brief introduction of other classic Four Great Classical Novels in China:
1, A Dream of Red Mansions
Formerly known as "The Story of the Stone", it is an ancient chapter-and-back novel by China, the first of classical Four Great Classical Novels in China. A Dream of Red Mansions is a human novel with world influence, an encyclopedia of feudal society in China and a master of traditional culture. Since the 20th century, A Dream of Red Mansions has produced a special knowledge-A Dream of Red Mansions with its rich and profound ideological background and outstanding artistic achievements.
2. Romance of the Three Kingdoms
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a re-creation by Luo Guanzhong on the basis of scripts, dramas and anecdotes about the story of the Three Kingdoms in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, according to the Records of the Three Kingdoms written by Chen Shou in the Jin Dynasty and the Notes on the Records of the Three Kingdoms written by Pei Songzhi in the Southern Song Dynasty.
3. Water Margin
After the publication of Water Margin, it had a great impact on the society and became a model of China's novel creation in later generations. The Water Margin is one of the earliest Zhang Hui vernacular novels in the history of China, which is widely circulated and well known. At the same time, it is also one of the epic works in China's language and literature, which has a far-reaching influence on narrative literature in China and even East Asia.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Journey to the West