The Journey to the West is one of the four classical novels of China, which was written in the middle of Ming Dynasty in16th century. It mainly describes the story of Tang Priest, the Monkey King, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing who went to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures and went through eighty-one difficulties. Since its publication, The Journey to the West has been widely circulated in China and even around the world, and has been translated into many languages. Excellent original, accurate and detailed annotations and high editing and proofreading quality are the main features and outstanding advantages of The Journey to the West published by People's Literature Publishing House.
The image of the Monkey King, with its distinctive personality characteristics, has established an immortal artistic monument in the history of China literature. The Journey to the West is not only extremely rich in content, complete and rigorous in plot, but also vivid and full in characterization, colorful in imagination and easy to understand in language. He has reached an unprecedented height in ideological realm and artistic realm, which can be described as a master.
The Journey to the West's Artistic Features
The greatest feature of The Journey to the West's artistic expression is that he broke through the boundaries of time and space, life and death, gods, people and things with strange imagination and extreme exaggeration, and created a fantastic realm. Here, the environment is heaven and earth, the Dragon Palace, the underworld, the celestial world, dangerous mountains and bad water; Most of the characters in the book are grotesque, human-like and incredible; The story is about going deep underground, turning rivers into seas, killing monsters and offering treasures.
The author combines these strange people, wonders and wonders into one furnace to construct a unified and harmonious artistic whole, showing a fantastic beauty. This kind of beauty seems to be "whimsical", but it makes people feel "extremely real". Because those unpredictable and thrilling stories, some are like the shadow of reality, and some contain the truth of life, which is very reasonable.