Tang Priest, also known as Tang Sanzang, is a character in The Journey to the West, one of China's four classical novels. His previous life was Jin, the second disciple of the Tathagata, and his prototype was Xuanzang, a monk in the Tang Dynasty.

Xuanzang was born in Luoyang, Henan Province today. His common name is Chen Yi, and his legal name is Xuanzang. He was honored as "Master Sanzang" and later called "Tang Priest".

On the way to get the scriptures, the Tang Priest accepted three apprentices, the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand, who were named Wukong (the founder of Bodhi, and Tang Priest gave him another name as a walker), Wuneng and Wukong respectively.

Later, with the help of three disciples and Bai, I finally got back 35 true scriptures from the Buddhist Leiyin Temple. Merit is complete, promotion and wealth are the positive results, and an ancient sandalwood merit was named Buddha.

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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.

There is a fairy stone on the top of the mountain in Guo Hua. After absorbing the essence of the innocent and beautiful sun and moon for a long time, one day a stone monkey jumped out of it. He discovered water curtain cave in Guo Hua and was honored as king by all monkeys, hence the name "Monkey King".

He was accepted as a disciple by Bodhi, learned high-strength skills, and rushed to the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea to snatch the "Ruyi Golden Hoop" as a weapon. After holding a golden hoop, he claimed to be "the Great Sage of the Monkey", made a scene in the Heavenly Palace and beat 100,000 heavenly soldiers out of the water.

The Jade Emperor invited the Tathagata Buddha to rescue him, and the Tathagata cast a spell to put Wukong at the foot of Wuxing Mountain. Five hundred years later, Avalokitesvara converted Wukong to Buddhism, and asked Tang Sanzang, a monk of the Tang Dynasty, to go to the Western Heaven to believe in the Buddha and rescue him. Wukong has since become a great disciple of Tang Priest.

Along the way, he and his younger brothers, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand, took care of the master and conquered all kinds of monsters, such as Bai, Spider Essence, and Niu, and defeated the eighty-one difficulty. Finally, he succeeded in getting the true sutra and making it a positive result. He himself was named "Fighting Buddha" by the Tathagata.

3. Pig Bajie

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 in Yaochi, the Queen Mother, I broke into 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. Gao Cuilan, a young lady from Gaojiasan, was captured in Gaolaozhuang and later surrendered by the Monkey King, who followed Tang Priest to learn Buddhist scriptures in the West.

In the end, it came naturally, and the title was "net altar messenger".

4. Friar Sand

Also known as 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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Introduction of other characters in The Journey to the West:

1, white

Bai, also known as "Bai Gujing" and "Corpse Demon", is a monster in China's classical fairy tale The Journey to the West. She was originally a female corpse turned into a white bone on Baihuling. She was accidentally adopted by the aura of heaven and earth, transformed into a human form by the essence of the sun and the moon, and learned the resin solution.

2. Little White Dragon

Also known as Yulong (Little Dragon King). Bai, who was originally the third prince of the West Sea Dragon King, will be beheaded for setting fire to pearls given by the Jade Emperor, violating the dogma. Later, due to the appearance of Guanyin Bodhisattva in the South China Sea, she was exempted from the death penalty and was banished to Snake Mountain and other Tang Priests for Buddhist scriptures.

Later, after eating the white horse that Tang Priest rode by mistake, he was enlightened by the Bodhisattva, turned white, converted to Buddhism, took Tang Priest to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures, and finally became a positive result, and was promoted to the Bodhisattva of Eight Tianlong Guangli. After that, he recovered his body in the Hualong Pool and coiled it around the huge observation post of Radeyin Temple.

3.spider essence

Spider spirit appeared in the seventy-second edition of Journey to the West, "Silk Cave with Seven Feelings, Fountain with Eight Rings". It turns out that the seven spiders cultivated into essence, lived in the silk cave, took the fountain where the seven fairies bathed and took a bath every day. Tang Priest Hua Zhai slipped and fell into the silk hole, and they caught him. Later, Wukong wiped them out.

4. Huang Paoguai

From 28th to 3rd1. Huang Paoguai lives in Boyue Cave in Wanzishan. It turns out that he is a celestial Kuimu Wolf with boundless magic and high martial arts. Because I fell in love with the jade girl wearing incense in the temple and thought it was strange to occupy the mountain in the lower bound, I was taken in as a princess of Baoxiangguo and spent 13 years with her.

Tang Priest and his disciples went to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures. When they passed Wanzi Mountain, Huang Paoguai caught them. Bajie and Friar Sand lost to Huang Paoguai, but at the critical moment, Baihua was ashamed to let them go. Later, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand, entrusted by King Bao Xiang, fought Huang Paoguai again to save the princess, but was defeated.

He came to Baoxiangguo with a grudge and pretended to be Xu, turning Tang Priest into a tiger and falsely calling Tang Priest a monster. Bai disguised himself as a maid-in-waiting and stabbed him to death. He begged Pig to find the Monkey King and beat him away.

The Monkey King couldn't find him, so he went to heaven for help. The Jade Emperor ordered four heavenly teachers to investigate and found that Kuixing had descended to earth, so he ordered 27 Pleiadians to take him to the upper bound and punish him for lighting a fire for the old man.

Later, on the way to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures, the official Kuimu Wolf was reinstated, reconciled with the Monkey King, attacked the small screamo temple, and arrested the rhinoceros monster.

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