Wu Cheng'en is good at painting and calligraphy. Its main achievement lies in the final completion of The Journey to the West. As soon as this book came out, it was hailed as one of the four wonderful books and became a treasure of the world literary world. The Journey to the West's popularity in China can be said to be a household name, and many excerpts have been compiled into primary and secondary school textbooks.
Version system
Ming dynasty edition
Comments on Journey to the West: In the early Ming Dynasty, this comment included: Tathagata wanted to spread the scriptures to the east, Guanyin learned from the Tang Dynasty, Tang Yan's life, the Monkey King's Sun Walker, Qi Tian's Great Sage who was killed by a mountain, Tang Yan's rescue, Friar Sand, Pig Bajie, Chechiguo, Shituoguo, Black Bear Essence, Hong Haier, White Mouse Essence, Spider Essence and Centipede Essence.
Journey to the West: This is the most important version in existence. Because of the word "Jinling school", the academic community is referred to as "Shiben". The title of this book is "Jinling Rongshoutang Zixing" and "Re-edited by Lin Shu Xiong Yunbin", so this book is actually a mixture of two or three versions. ?
The newly engraved hologram Journey to the West: Innocent Hall Yang Minzhai Zixing is called Innocent Hall Edition or Yang Minzhai Edition for short in academic circles because of its title.
Tang Priest's Learning from the Western Heaven: The academic circles refer to Tang Priest's Book for short. There are two volumes in this edition: one is the woodcut of Cai Shulin's Engraving Edition, referred to as Cai Ben for short. Secondly, there is the word "Zhu Jiyuan Lin Shu Zixing", referred to as "Zhu Jiyuan Book".