Fantasy: Fantasy is fantasy, and the novel creates a magical and gorgeous mythical world through bold and rich artistic imagination and fascinating storyline. The Journey to the West's artistic imagination is peculiar, rich and bold, which is rare in ancient and modern novels. The Monkey King's world is close to the fairyland of fairy tales, which is very interesting, and in this world, there are all kinds of strange and interesting monsters, which are really strange and colorful.
Fun: fun. Among China's classical novels, The Journey to the West is arguably the most interesting and entertaining work. Although the journey to learn from the scriptures is full of dangerous mountains and waters, monsters and ghosts emerge in endlessly, and the Monkey King's victory is hard-won, the reader's reading experience is always relaxed and full of pleasure, without any sense of tension and heaviness.
Introduction to Journey to the West:
The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en, a novelist in the Ming Dynasty. According to the records of the Western Regions in Tang Dynasty, folklore and Yuan Zaju. The Song Dynasty's Poem of Sanzang's Learning from the Scriptures (whose real name is Sanzang's Learning from the Scriptures) is the earliest prototype of The Journey to the West, and the Tang Priest took Master Xuanzang as the prototype.
As the first romantic novel in ancient China, this book profoundly depicts the social reality at that time, and it is the pioneering work of magical realism.
Famous evaluation:
The Journey to the West is nothing more than an interesting novel and an interesting fairy tale. He didn't mean anything subtle. At best, he is a bit cynical. This cynicism is also obvious; He's not hiding, and we don't have to ask for it. -Hu Shi
Although the author is a Confucian scholar, this book is really a game, not a language. Therefore, the book only occasionally talks about the five elements, especially not learning Buddhism. So it has been popular for a long time since the end of the term. Therefore, its works are also a mixture of Buddhism and the old gentleman, truth and the original god, so that believers of the three religions have to attach themselves to it as appropriate. -Lu Xun