What else did Wu Cheng'en write on Journey to the West?

Wu Cheng'en (about 1504- 1582) was born in Sheyang Mountain. When he was young, his family was poor, but his great-grandfather and grandfather were both officials. By his father's generation, his family had fallen. It is said that Wu Cheng'en was smart and studious since he was a child, and he had some literary titles when he was young. When he grew up, he was a well-read man, writing poems and becoming a gifted scholar class.

However, he did not succeed in becoming an official in the imperial examination. He didn't pass many exams until after middle age. At the age of 40, I went to Beijing to choose an official, but I didn't get elected.

Wu Cheng'en works in calligraphy and is good at writing poems. His writing style is like water, beautiful and elegant. Besides Journey to the West, other works can be seen now, such as Sheyang Survival Draft (also known as Sheyang Collection), which was reorganized after the founding of New China and renamed as Poems of Wu Cheng'en. It is a collection of poems by Wu Cheng'en, with a wide range of contents. In addition to expressing feelings and chanting mountains and rivers, some of them also reflect social life. And his preface to the Spring and Autumn Annals. The main content is to tell some stories in the Spring and Autumn Period. In addition, he also wrote a strange novel "Yu", but unfortunately it has been lost.