From "Journey to the West". Original sentence: The fog comes proudly, the flowers and fruits are fragrant, and a stick can stop the tide of monsters in the sea. On the cliff of the East China Sea, in the water curtain, the sage Qitian can be higher than the immortal.
"Journey to the West" is the first romantic chapter-length novel about gods and demons in ancient China. None of the 100-chapter editions of "Journey to the West" published in the Ming Dynasty are signed by the author. Qing Dynasty scholar Wu Yuqi and others first proposed that the author of "Journey to the West" was Wu Cheng'en of the Ming Dynasty.
The whole book mainly describes that after Sun Wukong was born and caused havoc in the Heavenly Palace, he met Tang Monk, Zhu Bajie, Sha Monk and White Dragon Horse, and traveled westward to obtain Buddhist scriptures. After a difficult time, he finally reached the Western Heaven and saw Tathagata Buddha, and finally the Five Saints came true. The novel is based on the historical event of "Tang Monk's Pursuit of Buddhist Scriptures" and profoundly depicts the social reality of the Ming Dynasty through the author's artistic processing.
Evaluation of the work
"Journey to the West" is full of fantasy, and its vertical and horizontal changes, with the ape as the god of the heart, and the pig as the heart of the horse, the indulgence at the beginning, goes up to the world The earth cannot be restrained, but it can be tightly bound by a curse, which can tame the mental ape until death. It is also a metaphor for peace of mind, and it is not a waste of time. ——Xie Zhaozhe
"Journey to the West" is at most an interesting comic novel and a mythological novel; it has no subtle meaning, and at most it has a bit of cynicism that loves to curse. This point of cynicism is also very clear; it does not hide it, and we do not need to dig deep.
——Hu Shi