First, write landscape poems.
As an illusory story, there are bound to be many descriptions of illusory scenery. Because it is illusory, the poems in this book are less bound by reality than ordinary landscape poems. This is more convenient for the author to play.
Second, poems depicting characters.
As a novel, The Journey to the West's description of characters is very important. Wu Cheng'en not only created many vivid and profound characters through the plot of the story, but also used a lot of poems to describe it.
Of course, the main purpose of this is to prepare for the storyteller to show off verbally. But if we look closely today, we will find that his poems describing characters also have their own inestimable value.
Third, the Syrian war poetry
In this book, many descriptions of battle scenes are also expressed in poetry.
In other words, these poems are actually narrative poems, which only describe the war, so they are called Syrian war poems. A typical poem of the same kind should be Homer's epic.
The Syrian war poems in this book are exaggerated and bold, which are unmatched by poets in Tang and Song Dynasties.
Fourth, spread Buddhist poetry.
In the middle and late Song Dynasty, several poets and poets often participated in Buddhism and Taoism. After entering the Yuan Dynasty, due to political deception and poor fame, many people in the Han Dynasty had the idea of seclusion. All these can be seen in Yuan Zaju.