Origin: The Journey to the West of Wu Cheng'en, a novelist in Ming Dynasty.
The Journey to the West, one of the classical Four Great Classical Novels in China, is the first romantic novel written by China in ancient times. This article mainly tells the story of the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand protecting the Tang Priest's Buddhist scriptures. From the reincarnation of the scriptures to his return home, the Tang Priest turned evil and saved the day. After eighty-one difficulties, he finally reached the Western Heaven and obtained the true scriptures. Based on Tang Sanzang's Buddhist scriptures, folk customs and Yuan Zaju.
Wu Cheng'en (about 1500- 1582) was born in He Xia, Shanyang County, Huai 'an Prefecture, Nanzhili, and his ancestral home was Anton. Ming dynasty writers. Since childhood, Wu Cheng'en has been reading extensively in Minhui, especially fond of fairy tales. Good at painting and calligraphy, versatile. He was repeatedly defeated in the imperial examination, and was promoted to a tribute student during Jiajing period. As a representative of Wu Cheng'en, he is the author of the novel The Journey to the West, A New Collection of Flowers and a Collection of Short Stories Yu. His poetry collections include The Peach Blossom Song of Haihe, Zuo, Chang Xing Zuo, Qiu Xing, Pastoral Poetry, Taoyuan Map and On the Dyke. His ci works include Huanxisha, Like a Dream, Xijiangyue, Manjianghong and so on.