What does it mean to "love my hometown rather than my hometown for half a penny"?

It means: you would rather covet the soil of your hometown than the gold and silver treasures of other countries.

The author of the poem: Wu Cheng'en.

Wu Cheng'en (about 1500-1583), male, whose real name is Ruzhong, is from Sheyang. Han nationality, from Shanyang County, Huai 'an area. Ancestral home in Anhui, ancestral home in Zongyang Gaodian, so it is called Gaodian Wu.

China was an outstanding novelist in Ming Dynasty and the author of The Journey to the West. Since childhood, Minhui has read widely and especially likes fairy tales. After repeated setbacks in the imperial examination, he made up the examination and gave tribute to students in Jiajing. In the forty-five years of Jiajing (1566), he was appointed as the director of Changxing County, Zhejiang Province. Because of his difficult career, he never planned to be an official in his later years and wrote behind closed doors.

Major achievements:

Journey to the West, Ding Yuji, Sheyang Ji, four volumes, four volumes, Preface to the Spring and Autumn Annals.

Wu Cheng'en's poems were scattered, and later generations compiled four volumes of Sheyang Survival Draft.

The Birth of the Monkey King, which appeared for the first time in The Journey to the West, Wu Cheng'en, was selected as Lesson 21 of the next semester in Grade Five of Chinese in People's Education Press.

"Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon" was selected into the eighth class of Grade 6 of Jiangsu Education Press.

The Monkey King in Huaguoshan was selected in Class 3 1 of Grade 6 of Chinese in Shanghai Education Publishing House.

"the Monkey King Da Bai" was also selected into Class 32 of Grade 6 Chinese in Shanghai Education Publishing House.

The Monkey King was born, the fifth-grade People's Education Edition, Volume II, Lesson 265438 +0.

Selected Works of Education Edition, Volume I, Grade Seven, Lesson 26.

"Monkey King vs Erlang God" was selected as Lesson 30, Grade 5, Edition S of People's Education Press.

In 2004, the government of Chuzhou District, Huai 'an City, Jiangsu Province decided to build a memorial hall for Wu Cheng'en in the teahouse on the mountain and a stone statue at the entrance of the mountain to commemorate him.