Brief introduction of Wu Cheng'en
The author of Journey to the West is a famous novelist of Ming Dynasty in China and a native of Huai 'an, Jiangsu.
Wu Cheng'en (1506- 1582) was born in Shanyang County (now Huai 'an City), whose real name is Ruzhong, and the name is Sheyang lay man.
Born in a family that has fallen from a scholarly family to a businessman. Its predecessor was Lianshui people, as early as
Before the fifth ancestor, he moved to Huai 'an. High-impedance Wu Ding, named Bai; Gao Zu Wu Ming, a scholar,
Worked as a student guide in Yuyao County, Zhejiang Province; Grandfather Zhen Wu was born in Renhe (now Hangzhou), Zhejiang Province.
State) county learning guidance; Father, due to the decline of his family, married the Xu family, the daughter of a merchant next door.
Attack the Xu family's business and become a shopkeeper. He read extensively in Minhui since childhood, but he was repeatedly frustrated in the imperial examinations.
It was not until the 29th year of Jiajing (1550) that he passed the annual review (1566) when he was nearly half a century old.
With the help of Li Chunfang, a good friend and assistant minister of does, he was demoted to Changxing County at the age of sixty-one, but later he was right.
Dissatisfied with the officialdom, he resigned angrily and returned to his hometown. At the age of seventy-one, I began to write Journey to the West.