The life of Wu Cheng'en, the author of Journey to the West?

Wu Cheng'en (150 1 year-1582) was born in Sheyang Mountain. Han nationality, a native of Shanyang County, Huai 'an Prefecture (now Chuzhou District, Huai 'an City, Jiangsu Province). The Journey to the West, an outstanding novelist in China in Ming Dynasty, is one of the four classical novels of China. Wu Cheng'en was born in a family where a small official was reduced to a small businessman. Father Wu Rui, whose name is Tingqi, sells "Wen Jie Cai Lu". He is a "kind-hearted, good at Tan Zhengshi, but somewhat unfair, and needs to caress a few angry sighs and feel depressed". Wu Cheng'en was smart since he was a child, and he liked to read wild stories and strange novels. "He loves the biographies written by Niu Zhang Qi, Duan Kegu and other Tang people. He is good at writing things and wants to write a book about them." "When I was young, I was famous in Huai Shang", which was quite appreciated by officials, celebrities and squires. In the eighth year of Jiajing (1529), Wu Cheng'en went to Longxi Academy founded by Ge Mu, the magistrate of Huai 'an, and was appreciated by Ge Mu. Zhu thought he could "read all the books in the world" and "share half of the painting history with his family". In the twenty-ninth year of Jiajing (1550), he was given a one-year-old tribute student at the age of 40, and went to Beijing to wait for the official, but he was not elected. Six years later, due to the poverty of his mother's hometown, he went to work in other places as Cheng of Changxing County, Zhejiang Province, and often drank with his friend Zhu and delivered food. Finally, because of being falsely accused, she left home two years later. In his later years, he made a living by selling articles. He went to Hangzhou at the age of 67 and lived for about 82 years. The scenery in the evening is very bleak. "The Apocalypse of Huai 'an" commented that he was "sensitive, wise, widely read, wrote for poetry, elegant and beautiful, and had the style of Qin Shaoyou." After good banter, there are several miscellaneous notes, which are famous for a while. "But that was after his death. He created a lot of works in his life, but most of his works were lost because of his poor family and childless. According to records, The Tales of a Lonely Studio Ding Yu Ji has been lost. At present, there are only four volumes of Sheyang survival draft left. It is generally believed that he is the ultimate author of China The Journey to the West, but there are also views that he is not. At present, there is controversy in academic circles (the old legend is Qiu Chuji, a Taoist priest of Quanzhen Sect in Yuan Dynasty).