Wu Cheng'en (about 1506- 1582) Ruzhong, a native of Sheyang Mountain, was an outstanding novelist in Ming Dynasty and the author of the famous mythical novel The Journey to the West. Wu Cheng'en was gifted at an early age, with a wide range of hobbies and brilliant talents. He is good at painting, calligraphy, lyrics and Go, and he also likes to collect Fa Tie's famous paintings. As a teenager, he was famous in his hometown for his outstanding literary talent and was appreciated by people. He thought he was "as good as picking up a mustard tuber" in the imperial examination. On the contrary, however, he was extremely frustrated in the imperial examination. How many times did he take the exam, but he didn't even get in for Juren. It was not until he was 45 years old that he was admitted to Gong Sheng, who was one year old. Because of his frustration, bad situation and poor life, he was once laughed at by snobs. These experiences have deepened his understanding of feudal officialdom, corruption in imperial examination rooms, and the bleak social situation, and planted the seeds of injustice and resistance in his heart. Wu Cheng'en lived a different life, upright and upright. The reason why he is so talented and tried and tested is probably related to his unwillingness to please Shangguan against his will. He hates corrupt officialdom, doesn't want to go against his heart, and holds a negative attitude towards the dark reality. He wrote in the poem "Jiro's Song of Seeking Mountains": "The disaster of human beings is not for apes and cranes, but for insects. Sitting in the song room with the five ghosts, I didn't see the four murderers in court. Ye Fu was very grateful, but he felt sorry for his kindness. Wear an evil knife on your chest. You can't hate it. Save the moon has a goal to save the Japanese bow. Are there no heroes in the world? Who can make some contribution to Lin Feng for me and make it last for ten thousand years? " It is believed that the reason for the "civil disaster" and the ugliness of social reality is that the rulers are not good at employing people and let the bad guys like "Five Ghosts" and "Four Fierces" take power. He wanted to "make a fortune" and "be king" to turn Gan Kun around, but he was short of talents and ambitious, so he could only sigh generously when the wind came. Although The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en in his later years, he made lifelong preparations. When I was a child, Wu Cheng'en often followed his father around the ancient temple jungle in the suburbs of Huai 'an, and heard many beautiful and magical fairy tales. He has the habit of listening to anecdotes since he was a child. When he was studying in a private school, he often secretly read Wild Tales without telling his father and teachers. With the growth of age, this hobby is more and more. After the age of 30, the anecdotes he searched have been "hidden in his chest" and he has a creative plan. At the age of 50, he wrote the first dozen of The Journey to the West's novels, but for some reason he was interrupted for many years. It was not until he resigned in his later years and returned to his hometown that The Journey to the West's creation was finally completed. Wu Cheng'en once wrote a strange novel Yu Zhi Ding. In the preface of this book, he said that although his novels and fairy tales are written about immortals and ghosts, they are actually centered on "human beings", in order to pin his political ideals on evil forces and make readers "afraid", either doing nothing or making fun of strange things. He wrote about The Journey to the West for the same purpose. The Journey to the West wrote in forty-five times that when the Monkey King arranged clouds, thunder and rain for the god of nature, he specially ordered Lei Tianjun to say, "Old Deng carefully looked after that corrupt official, disobedient and unfilial son and killed several more people for public display!" What the Monkey King hates most is "corrupt officials", which is completely consistent with Wu Cheng'en's special hatred of corrupt officials in many poems. In the mythical world of Journey to the West, there are human shadows everywhere: the sacred heavenly palace is resplendent on the surface, but the supreme jade emperor is ignorant and very fatuous, and the heaven is like a dynasty on earth; The underworld is strict, officials protect each other, take bribes and bend the law, and innocent people have grievances, just like the yamen on the ground; Demons and ghosts kill and eat people, love money and lust, dominate one side with spells, and do evil, which is simply the embodiment of human bully bureaucrats. The Journey to the West also wrote about some secular countries, where the rulers were mostly "poor in civil and military skills, and the monarchs didn't follow the rules", which is also a portrayal of the crimes of the Ming court. Wu Cheng'en's Monkey King is full of hatred and magical power, which pushes all monsters who call themselves fierce and crazy under its golden hoop, loses their former prestige, or dies or gives in easily, which embodies Wu Cheng'en's strong desire to sweep away social ugliness and ugly forces, and is also the essence of democracy in Journey to the West. Wu Cheng'en's literary talent is manifold. Besides The Journey to the West and Yu mentioned above, he also wrote many elegant poems, which were included in Sheyang Survival Draft.