Is The Journey to the West the earliest monster novel in China?

That's not true. The Book of Searching for the Gods in the Eastern Jin Dynasty was much earlier, and there were Huai Nan Zi and Shan Hai Jing before it.

The Search for Gods in the Eastern Jin Dynasty is a collection of novels that records the magical and weird stories in ancient folklore. The writer is Gan Bao, a historian in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Most of these stories reflect the thoughts and feelings of ancient people to some extent. It is a masterpiece of China's ancient myths and legends, collecting more than 4 10 ancient miraculous stories, and creating a precedent for China's ancient mythological novels.

At the same time, The Journey to the West also appeared Romance of the Gods and Travels in the East.

The Romance of the Gods was originally a folk entertainment literature in China, which was written by Xu in Ming Dynasty in. The original works can be traced back to the Southern Song Dynasty's Wang Wufa Bai Hua, the Romance of Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and the Travel Notes of the Eight Immortals in Kunlun. They are based on ancient magical fairy tales and refer to ancient books and folklore.

[Ming] Wu Yuantai (living around 1666) is unknown. His name is Lan Jiang, and his date of birth and death is unknown. He lived from Sejong in Ming Dynasty to Jiajing in Qing Dynasty. It is a popular novel, with two volumes of Journey to the West, Biography of Eight Immortals in the Cave (a bibliography of popular novels in China) and four travel notes of The Journey to the West by Yang and Yu Xiangdou.

Others are:

Postscript of looking for God

Notes of Yuewei Caotang

Romance in ancient mythology

Fairy legend

Taoist gods in China

China Folk Fairy Tales

History created by God

The law of thunder at night

Fairy mirrors of past dynasties

A complete collection of the origins of the three religions

Romance in ancient mythology

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Taiping guangji

Seven strokes of the cloud

"natural history"

Hao an ba gua

Sacred classics

Xuanyuanchuan

Back to Tibet? Open bite

Lingnan foreign body record