Emperor Taizong returned to Yang's world and promised to send pumpkins to Yan in order to thank him. It happened that Liu Quan's wife Li hanged herself, leaving a pair of young children. Liu Quan had no choice but to hang himself, so Taizong let him take poison and die on the pumpkin on his head. Liu Quan went to Hades' palace (Senluobao Hall) and gave the pumpkin to Hades.

Journey to the West: The Tenth Hall of Hades agreed to release Taizong to Yang. Taizong was very grateful and said that I had nothing to thank for returning Yang, only fruit. Wang Xi said: "There are quite a lot of east melons and watermelons here, but only pumpkins."

Taizong said, I'll send it as soon as I get back. So, Liu Quan was called in and asked for "a pair of pumpkins on his head, yellow money on his sleeve and medicine in his mouth" and gave them to Yan in the underworld. Yan was very happy and accepted the pumpkin.

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With the historical event of "Tang Priest's Learning from the Scriptures" as the background, The Journey to the West profoundly described 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's classical literary works were translated into western languages, and The Journey to the West gradually spread to Europe and America, and was translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, sign language, Swahili, Russian, Czech, Romanian, Polish, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. 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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