From the Monkey King, he is brave and resourceful, selfless and fearless, persevering and optimistic, but he is also arrogant, competitive, impulsive and likes to play tricks on people. He has all kinds of human characteristics, and even believes in "being a teacher for life" and abides by the rule that "men don't fight with women".
From these characteristics, we can easily see that the author is alluding to the prototype figures in real life at that time with the help of the image of Sun Monkey. Wukong's predicament actually exposed the unhealthy trend of the ruling class's lack of self-discipline and protection of its subordinates. It reflects the sense of powerlessness and helplessness after the dark political environment at that time.
All the goblins with background were saved, and all the goblins without background were killed; Those with no background and ability were taken back by Daxian as security guards, while those without background and ability were killed.
People are afraid of bullying, bullying people who have no ability and no background, and fearing that they have the ability and background; Leaders always want names, and they like men mainly (Tang Priest always prefers Bajie because he has a sweet mouth); You can't please everything with your efforts, but you must obey the arrangement of the leader (Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon).
Introduction to Extended Data Content:
The Journey to the West begins the whole book with seven stories about the birth of the Monkey King and the havoc in Heaven. At the beginning of the novel, it is written that there is a flower and fruit mountain in Dongsheng Shenzhou, and there is a stone on the top. Borrow the essence of the sun and the moon to give birth to a stone monkey. Later, because he successfully broke into water curtain cave, he was worshipped as the "Monkey King" by the monkeys in Huaguoshan.
In order to live forever, the Monkey King asked for advice from all over the world. He got the guidance of Niu, the founder of Bodhi in Hezhou, and was named the Great Sage of Qitian. He learned to change the number of earthworms by seventy-two, and the somersault cloud is feasible. Return to defeat the devil incarnate and recover the 72-hole devil.
The Six Demons of Jieyi went to the Dragon Palace to borrow weapons, and got Dayu Dinghai Shenzhen (the original book "Shenzhen"), which turned into a wishful gold hoop, but it weighed 13,500 Jin, big or small. He went to the underworld again and erased the monkey's name from the book of life and death.
The Dragon King and King Qin Guang complained to heaven that the Jade Emperor would send troops to capture them. Taibai Venus gave an idea to call the Monkey King into the upper bound and named him Marvin Bi, the royal horse supervisor. At first, the Monkey King didn't know the size of his position. Later, when he learned the truth, he beat the heaven and returned to Huaguoshan, calling himself "the Great Sage of Qitian".
The Jade Emperor sent Li Tianwang to lead the heavenly soldiers to capture the Monkey King. The Monkey King defeated the giant spirit god and two generals, Nezha, and seven brothers became sworn brothers. Taibai Venus came to Guo Hua for the second time, and asked the Monkey King to be the great sage in the sky and manage the flat peach garden. The Monkey King ate flat peaches secretly, stirred the flat peach banquet of the Empress Dowager, stole the elixir of Grandfather Lao Zi, and fled the Heavenly Palace.
The Jade Emperor sent Li Tianwang to lead the heavenly soldiers to capture them, but both sides could not hold on. Guanyin Bodhisattva recommended Erlang National Football Team as an assistant. The Monkey King's gambling against Erlang God is a tie. Grandpa Laojun threw the diamond ring out of the worse gate and hit Wukong. The Monkey King was caught. The Jade Emperor ordered the heavenly soldiers to take knives and chop axes, and the southern bucket star king burned, and the thunder department was struck by lightning, so that Wukong could not be harmed.
Writing background:
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 et al., 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 that the Monkey King was born, met Tang Priest, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and Bai Hou, went west to learn Buddhist scriptures, and after 81 difficulties, he finally arrived in the Western Heaven to visit the Tathagata, and finally the five saints realized their dreams.
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.