2. The Journey to the West is the first romantic novel in ancient China. There are hundreds of The Journey to the West published in Ming Dynasty, and there is no author's signature. Wu et al., a scholar in Qing Dynasty, first proposed that The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en in Ming Dynasty. The book mainly describes the story of the Monkey King who made a scene in the Heavenly Palace after his birth and met Tang Priest, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and Bai. He went west to learn from the scriptures, went through difficulties and obstacles, and turned the devil down. After eighty-one difficulties, he finally arrived in the Western Heaven to see the Tathagata, and finally the Five Saints died. Based on the historical event of "Tang Priest's Learning from the Scriptures", the novel deeply depicts the social reality of the Ming Dynasty through the author's artistic processing.
3. Wu Cheng'en (about 1500- 1582) was born in He Xia, Shanyang County, Huai 'an Prefecture, South Zhili, 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. In the 28th year of Jiajing (1549), he moved to Nanjing to make a living by selling documents. In the thirty-ninth year of Jiajing (1560), he served as a county official in Changxing, Zhejiang Province, and soon resigned and returned. Because of his difficult career, he never wanted to be an official in his later years, wrote a book behind closed doors and died at home.
Modern scholars generally believe that Wu Cheng'en is the last finisher of The Journey to the West, one of China's four classical masterpieces.