The idea of textual research is to start with the word "Jiao" in Huayang Teachers College at the beginning of A Journey to the West in Shidetang, compare the changes and development of the stories of adding, deleting and modifying the Biography of Explaining Hubei by Yang Zhi, The Journey to the West and Zhu, demonstrate the writing process of the novel, straighten out the publishing order of these three versions, and combine the thoughts of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism embodied in them.
Wu Cheng'en wrote a poem "To the Foothills of Sok Li", and the stone in the foothills is Li Chunfang's name. Li, a native of Xinghua, Jiangsu Province, was the number one scholar in Jiajing period. He was promoted to Zaifu because of his excellent writing of Qing Ci. When I was a child, I studied in Huayang Cave, Jiangsu, so I was nicknamed "Master Huayang Cave". He was appointed as the Yongle ceremony of the general school. There is a poem by The Journey to the West in the ninety-fifth chapter: "Colorful fragrance, a barren mountain suddenly smells fragrant;" The rainbow flows through the Qinghai River and the Sea for thousands of years, and electricity travels around Changchun and the Tang Dynasty. Flowers and trees are elegant, and wild flowers are moist and fragrant. Ancient elders left behind relics, and now I am glad that Mingjun lost the Jubao Hall. Mr. Shen found that the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh sentences of this poem implied "the old friend stayed behind", and the frontispiece "Huayang Dong Tian Teachers College" meant "making up a journey to the west".
Hu Shi and Lu Xun claimed that Wu Cheng'en was the author of The Journey to the West on the basis of The Records of Huai 'an Prefecture, which will be published tomorrow. The record records that Wu Cheng'en is The Journey to the West, but it doesn't explain why such a book was published. Xianfeng reprinted Huai 'an County Records in Qing Dynasty, and deleted this article.
At the end of 1983, Mr. Zhang pointed out in the article "Is Journey to the West Written by Wu Cheng'en?" During the more than 300 years from the advent of The Journey to the West to the 1920s, all kinds of publications were either edited by Zhu, or edited by Huayang Cave without the author's name, or written by Qiu Chuji, and none of them recognized Wu Cheng'en's copyright. Hu Shi also said in the preface of The Journey to the West in 192 1 that this work was "written by an unknown novelist after the middle of Ming Dynasty". Later, Mr. Lu Xun argued that Wu Cheng'en said that Hu Shi got the materials copied by Lu Xun, and Textual Research on Journey to the West also held this opinion. But a closer look at their textual research is based on two indirect materials and only one direct material.
Indirect materials 1: Wu Yumou (1698- 1773) Yang Shan Shi Lu Volume 4:
The Old Records of the Apocalypse (referring to the Records of the Apocalypse in Huai 'an), and Mr. Lie (referring to Wu Cheng'en) is the person in charge of the Garden of Modern Literature. It is said that "the nature is sensitive and wise, and there are many writings, and there are poems and essays, and several kinds of miscellaneous notes are famous for a while." I didn't know why I was waiting for a book, but I read Huai Xian Wen Mu written by Mr. The Journey to the West. Textual research on The Journey to the West's old name "Certificate" shows that it conforms to the purpose at that time, and Yuan Yu Taoist Garden is orderly, and that this book was written by a real person in Qiu Changchun at the beginning of other countries. And the county ambition refers to the hand of a gentleman. When the apocalypse comes, Mr. Wang is not far away, and his words will be true. Written at the beginning of Changchun, Italy, Mr. Zhi is a popular romance, such as The Three Kingdoms, written by Chen Shou, and the romance is called Luo Guanzhong. There are many dialects in my hometown in the book, and there is no doubt that many people go out to Huai. Or cloud: There is After Journey to the West, written by Mr. Sheyang.
The Journey to the West has been published for nearly 200 years, and the only basis for judging is the publication of official records in Huai 'an tomorrow. His right to speak is actually similar to ours.
Indirect material 2: Ruan Kuisheng (1727- 1789) Tea Guest Talk Volume 21:
According to old books, Sheyang is said to be sensitive, wise, poetic and playful, and has written several miscellaneous notes. I'm sorry I didn't notice the title of Miscellaneous Notes, but the book Huaixian Wenmu contains Sheyang's Popular Romance of Journey to the West. It is the beginning of the popularity of this book next season, and people in the alley are happy to talk about it, but this is unheard of. ..... Ming county annals, written by Sheyang, cultivated his ambition not far away. How can he make a name for himself with the novels of secular yuan people? Or Changchun has this record at the beginning, and Sheyang is therefore romantic, extremely illusory and changeable; For example, the left ones include National Records and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Look at dialect slang again. They are all spoken in the street with rural accent in Huaishang. Women and children in the street understand it, and some don't read it at all, so it is undoubtedly from the hands of people in Huaishang.
The only basis for judgment here is still the records of Huai 'an Prefecture in the Apocalypse. According to Mr. Lu Xun's analysis, Ruan Kuisheng was actually written according to Volume 4 of Wu Yu's Yang Shanzhi, because it followed the saying that the book mistook "Xing Shan" for "Xing Shan" in Huai 'an Prefecture. Both Wu and Ruan mentioned Huaishang dialect in their books, but both affirmed that Wu Cheng'en's works were circumstantial evidence after The Journey to the West's novels. However, there has been a great debate in academic circles about dialects in novels. Huang Taihong's Postscript to the Journey to the West in the early Qing Dynasty proves that there are many Jinling dialects in the book. In Qing Dynasty, Wu Cheng'en was also listed as the author by Ding Yan's Preface to the Stone Pavilion and Jiao Xun Drama. However, they are either based on the records of Huai 'an Prefecture or the Tea Party, which means that there is only one basis for granting copyright to Wu Cheng'en.
Direct materials: Records of Huai 'an Prefecture, Volume 19, Records of Arts and Literature, and Records of Huai 'an County;
Wu Cheng'en: Sheyang Collection, four volumes; Preface to Chunqiu Zhuan; Journey to the west.
According to this material, Mr. Zhang demonstrated from both positive and negative aspects.
Front:
The Records of Huai 'an Prefecture did not explain the number of volumes or revolutions of Wu Cheng'en and The Journey to the West, nor did it explain the nature of the article. There are often two works with the same name in history. For example, in the early Qing Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, there was a collection of Dongjiang banknotes, and in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was a novel called "The Legend of Ruyi Jun" ... An Guo, who was about 20 years older than Wu Cheng'en, also wrote The Journey to the West, but it was just a travel note. So it can't be concluded that The Journey to the West in Wu Cheng'en is Journey to the West.
Tail:
Huang Yuji, a famous bibliophile in the early Qing Dynasty, recorded the following geographical categories in Volume 8 of Qian Qingtang Bibliography:
Tang Hezheng's Journey to the South has three volumes, Wu Cheng'en and The Journey to the West have one volume, and Shen's Travel Notes of Siming Mountain.
At that time, it was more than half a century since the first edition of The Journey to the West Wanli 20th year (1592). It is a well-known book, but in Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West, Hwang Yuxi clearly classified The Journey to the West as a geographical category, indicating that the book is just a general travel note, just like the travel notes written by Wu Cheng'en's contemporaries, such as Journey to the East and Journey to the South.
Experts believe that there are always different opinions about the author of The Journey to the West, and most of them deny that it was written by Wu Cheng'en. Others think that The Journey to the West's author was suggested to be Li Chunfang in the past. It is not convincing enough to imply Li Chunfang by a poem in The Journey to the West. This can only be a family opinion. To truly solve the historical mystery of The Journey to the West's author, we need to further explore more first-hand information.
Wu Cheng'en is good at painting and calligraphy. However, the imperial examination was unfavorable, and it was not until middle age that he entered the tribute. At the age of 60, he became Changxing County Cheng, but left home because of disagreement with the chief executive. Later, he hired Jing Wang Fu Ji Shan.