From The Journey to the West to Wu Cheng'en in the Ming Dynasty.
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Face powder, cold rouge; Hair is oily and fluffy. Nu lips, clenched silver teeth; Wrinkle the moth's eyebrows and drown the stars with tears. My heart only remembers everything about Zhu Zijun; At that time, I hated tight encirclement. It's true: since ancient times, beauty has been unlucky, and Dongfeng has nothing to say!
Chapter 70 content overview
Wukong beat back the pioneer sent by Sai Tai-sui, killed a little demon who turned Zhuzi into Zhu Xi the next afternoon, and returned to China with his body. The king gave Wukong the gold thread worn by the queen as a token. Wukong turned into a murdered demon and went into the mountains to do a job. He gave the treasure string to the queen to trick the monster into three golden bells that could emit smoke, sand and fire. Just as he was about to steal, he alarmed the monster and had to drop the golden bell and turn into a fly to hide.
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Creation background
In the first year of Zhenguan of Emperor Taizong (627), Xuanzang Tianzhu, a 25-year-old monk, went hiking in India. After starting from Chang 'an, he passed through Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and finally arrived in India. He studied there for more than two years and gave a speech at a large-scale debate on Buddhist classics, which was well received.
In the 19th year of Zhenguan (645), Xuanzang returned to Chang 'an and brought back 657 Buddhist scriptures, which was a sensation. Later, Xuanzang dictated his The Journey to the West, which was compiled by his disciples into a 12-volume Record of the Western Regions of Datang. But this book is mainly about the history, geography and transportation of countries seen on the road, and there is no story.
As for "Datang The biography of Master Sanzang" written by his disciples Huihe and Yan Cong, it adds a lot of myths to Xuanzang's experience. Since then, the story of Tang Priest's Buddhist scriptures has been widely circulated among the people in China.
There were poems by three monks in the Tang Dynasty in the Southern Song Dynasty, Tang Sanzang and Pan in the Jin Dynasty, Tang Sanzang's "Learning from the Western Heaven" in Wu Changling, and "Great Sage" in the Fifth Ming Dynasty, all of which laid the foundation for The Journey to the West's creation. It is on the basis of Chinese folk literature, scripts and operas that Wu Cheng'en completed this great literary masterpiece through hard re-creation.
The Journey to the West author Wu Cheng'en (controversial) lived in the middle and late Ming Dynasty and experienced five periods: Hongzhi in Xiaozong, Jiajing in Sejong in Wuzong, Qin Long in Mu Zong and Wanli in Zongshen.
The social situation in the middle and late Ming dynasty was very different from that in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Political class contradictions, ethnic contradictions and contradictions within the ruling class have intensified and become increasingly acute. The ideological and cultural enlightenment rose, the trend of human liberation rose, civic literature became increasingly prosperous, novel and drama creation entered a period of all-round prosperity, and capitalism sprouted economically.
The Journey to the West is the first romantic novel with chapters and sections in ancient China. This novel is based on the historical event of "Tang priest learning from the scriptures" and deeply depicts the social reality at that time through the author's artistic processing.
The book mainly describes the story that the Monkey King was born, met Tang Priest, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and Bai Hou, went west to learn Buddhist scriptures, and after 81 difficulties, he finally arrived in the Western Heaven to visit the Tathagata, and finally the five saints realized their dreams.
The Journey to the West is a classic of China's ghost novels, reaching the peak of ancient romance novels, and is called the four classical novels of China together with The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin and A Dream of Red Mansions.
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