(Journey to the West) How many times is the book? How many parts can it be divided into?

Journey to the West has 100 chapters and is divided into three parts.

Part 1: Part 1 goes back to Part 7. Explain the origin of the Monkey King, the way to learn art, and make a scene in heaven.

Part two: eight times to twelve. He wrote about the origin of the Tang Priest, Wei Zhi killed the snake, Emperor Taizong entered the underworld, and Guanyin Bodhisattva found the right person to learn from the scriptures, and explained the reasons for learning from the scriptures.

Part III: From 13 to the end. Tang Priest and his disciples went to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures, surrendered to Bai, Zhu Bajie and Friar Sand, and finally reached Lingshan after 81 difficulties (actually only 77 difficulties). When they saw the Tathagata, they took the scriptures, brought them back to the Eastern Tang Dynasty, and brought them back to heaven to make a positive result.

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Content introduction:

Wu Cheng'en and The Journey to the West complete works * * * 100 times. In order to make teenagers have a more complete and comprehensive understanding of this classic literature while they can understand it, this book tries to keep its original appearance and never regress once when it is adapted.

The story of this book takes the kind and tolerant Tang priest as one of the protagonists. Under the protection of miraculous, brave and optimistic the Monkey King, a simple and lovely, lazy but full of strength pig Bajie, and upright and loyal Sha Wujing, he successfully completed the emperor's life and retrieved the true scriptures after 81 difficulties. ?

About the author:

Author: (Ming) Wu Cheng'en Wu Cheng'en (1506-1582), whose real name is Ruzhong, was a famous writer in Ming Dynasty, calling himself "a lay man in Sheyang" and "a native of Sheyang Mountain". Born in Lianshui, Jiangsu Province, he moved to Yang Shan, Huai 'an with his parents. Since childhood, Wu Cheng'en likes to listen to his father's stories about history and folk ghosts and gods. I also like to read ancient myths and folklore, such as History of Wild Words, Water God of Huaihe River and The Great Sage of Sangha. Moreover, he is diligent and studious, and has the ability to read quickly and never forget anything.

He is also good at painting and calligraphy, likes composing music and writing lyrics, and is also very proficient in Go. He was famous for his outstanding literary talent in his early years. However, in his youth, he was still keen on collecting strange novels such as Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio and Miscellaneous Stories of Youyang, and his wild and unruly personality made his social status low. When Wu Cheng'en was twenty years old, she married a girl named Ye in her hometown, and they lived in harmony after marriage. ?

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