Since its publication, The Journey to the West has been widely circulated among the people, and various versions have emerged one after another. There are six editions in Ming Dynasty, seven editions and manuscripts in Qing Dynasty, and thirteen lost editions have been recorded in ancient books.
The play tells the story of the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand who assisted Xuanzang, a monk of the Tang Dynasty, to go to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures, and the four of them took risks all the way to subdue the demon. After eighty-one difficulties, I got back the true scriptures and finally made a positive result.
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1, Journey to the West is the most successful and popular novel among classical fairy tales. However, this work is not completely unsupported. It has a historical shadow, that is, Xuanzang's journey to learn from the Western Regions during Tang Zhenguan's reign.
2. The author of Journey to the West is Wu Cheng'en, whose real name is Ruzhong, whose real name is Sheyang Mountain, who was born in the Ming Dynasty.
3. The Journey to the West described a wonderful mythical world with romanticism. The couplets at the entrance of water curtain cave in Huaguoshan are the blessed land of Huaguoshan and the cave of water curtain cave.
4. The book * * * is divided into three parts: 1-7, which describes the process of the Monkey King's ascension to heaven, shows the tragedy of the Monkey King's infinite pursuit of freedom and the ultimate failure of his struggle, and reflects the contradictory situation between the free nature of human nature and the constraints of real life.
5. The four continents in the world written by The Journey to the West are: Dongsheng Shenzhou, Xiniuhe Prefecture, Nanzhouzhou and Beiju Luzhou.