In the part where he studied in The Monkey King as a disciple of Bodhi, his master named the Monkey King, hoping that the Monkey King was empty. By cultivating the mind, you can realize that you can achieve the state of wanting nothing, so the name given to Wukong is exquisite:
Wukong comes from the famous saying in Prajna Heart Sutra: "Color is emptiness, and emptiness is color."
Wukong means enlightenment, emptiness means Tao, and Tao means emptiness.
The Monkey King's prototype interpretation of Wukong Jingzhao Yunyang people are very educated and smart since childhood. At first, Shi Wukong was a man of official career. After he became attached to Buddhism, he worshipped Buddhism. Give yourself a dharma name "Dharma World", then put aside all trivial matters and concentrate on practicing, travel around the world, visit Buddha statues in temples all over the world, study Buddhism and so on.
The prototype of Zhu Bajie is a figure in Zhu Shixing in Cao Wei period. Because the novel The Journey to the West was written in the Ming Dynasty, he had to avoid the royal surname Zhu, and later he had a brainwave to homophonic "pig". Pig Bajie's image is lazy, which can kill two birds with one stone by being humorous and avoiding Zhu's surname. The novel is not fabricated out of thin air, but what the author sees, hears, feels and understands in his daily life.
In ancient times, no real person like the Monkey King and Zhu Bajie could write such excellent works. That is, based on the author himself or people around him.