The Monkey King, also known as the Monkey King and Wukong, was honored as the Monkey King by all demons in Huaguoshan, and was named "Monkey King" by the Jade Emperor. Born in Lingshi, Huaguoshan, Oleguo, Shenzhou, Dongsheng, he traveled across the ocean alone in search of immortality. After 1989, he learned to talk and walk, wading through mountains and rivers, worshiping Bodhi's ancestor in Sanxing Cave, Fangcun Mountain, Niulingtai, and learned the skills of the earth demon's seventy-two changes and the somersault cloud.
Tang Priest, common name Chen, posthumous title Jiang Liuer, Tang Taizong gave his surname Tang. Reincarnated as the second disciple of Buddha, Jin Chan. He is a posthumous child. Because of his parents' tragic and bizarre experiences, he grew up in a temple after becoming a monk, became a monk in Jinshan Temple, and finally moved to a famous temple in Beijing to practice. Tang Priest is studious and highly savvy, and stands out among the monks in the temple. Finally, he was selected by Emperor Taizong, became sworn with him and went to the Western Heaven to learn from the scriptures.
Pig Bajie (Jiang Mumu) is also called Pig Zhu Gang and Pig Wuneng. Formerly the "Marshal Tian Peng" of the Heavenly Palace, he was in charge of the Tianhe Water Army. Because I was drunk at the flat peach banquet of the Queen Mother Yaochi, I broke into the Guanghan Palace in an attempt to flirt with the Nishang Fairy. Nishang refused to accept it again and again, hiding in Tibet and being depressed. He was summoned by the Lingguan to play the Jade Emperor, which angered the Jade Emperor and was banished to the world. However, I cast a pig fetus by mistake, turned into a wild boar, refined into a pig-faced man, with memories before reincarnation and weapons given by the Jade Emperor.
Friar Sand is also called Sha Wujing and Friar Sand. Originally a confined general in the Heavenly Palace, he broke the glass lamp at the flat peach party, angered the Jade Emperor, was banished to the world, was turned into a monster by the Liusha River, and suffered the pain of thousands of arrows piercing the heart. Later, he was surrendered by Tang Priest and his disciples, and was mainly responsible for leading horses all the way. After it was completed, it was named "Golden Lohan". Honest and hardworking.
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The Journey to the West is the first romantic novel with chapters and sections in ancient China. There are hundreds of The Journey to the West published in Ming Dynasty, and there is no author's signature. Wu Yuju, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, first proposed that The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en in Ming Dynasty. . This novel is based on the historical event of "Tang priest learning from the scriptures" and deeply depicts the social reality at that time through the author's artistic processing.
The book mainly describes the story of the Monkey King's encounter with Tang Priest, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand after his birth, and his disturbance to the Heaven Palace. He went west to learn from the scriptures, demonized all the way, and after eighty-one difficulties, he finally arrived in the Western Heaven to meet the Tathagata Buddha, and finally the Five Saints died.
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. After the Opium War, a large number of China classical literary works were translated into western languages.
The Journey to the West was gradually introduced to Europe and America and translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, sign language, Esperanto (Esperanto), Sri Lankan (Swahili), Russia, Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Japan, North Korea and Vietnam. Chinese and foreign scholars have published many research papers and monographs, which have given high evaluation to this novel.
The Journey to the West is a classic of China's ghost novels, reaching the peak of ancient romance novels, and is called the four classical novels of China together with The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin and A Dream of Red Mansions.
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Journey to the West (Complete Edition) _ Baidu Encyclopedia?