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Chinese name: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en
Alias: Journey to the West Category: Fairy Fiction
Price: 20 yuan words: 700,000.
Language: Chinese ISBN: 9787806859537
Publishing House: Shanghai Jinxiu Articles Publishing House, p. 486
Format: 16 Release date:10,2008+0,65438.
Binding: Paperback Others: One of China's Four Classical Masterpieces
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1 overview
2 historical background
3 author
Four main roles
5 creative background
5. 1 Xuanzang Buddhist Scriptures
5.2 Book writing process
5.3 Zhu Yuanzhang's Religious Policy
5.4 Business situation in Ming Dynasty
5.5 Journey to the West and the New Wild Monkey Show
5.6 Eighty-one difficulties
Version 6 history
7 book catalogue
8 literary characteristics
9 social review
10 indicates the impact.
1 1 Introduction
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Journey to the West [China's Classical Novels]-Overview
The Journey to the West is a classical novel of China and one of the "Four Classical Novels" of China. The book tells the story of Xuanzang, a master of the Tang Dynasty, learning from the West, and shows the ancient theme of punishing evil and promoting good. The Journey to the West's book was written in the middle of the Ming Dynasty in the16th century. Since its publication, it has been widely circulated in China and around the world, and has been translated into many languages. The Journey to the West is a household name in China and even parts of Asia, among which the Monkey King, Tang Priest, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and other characters and stories such as "Nayong Tiangong", "Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon" and "The Flame Mountain" are particularly familiar.
Journey to the West has been adapted into various local operas, movies, TV series, comics, comics and so on, with various versions. In Japan and other Asian countries, literary and artistic works with the theme of the Monkey King and Hong Haier have also appeared, with many styles and an amazing number. The Journey to the West is not only rich in content and more complete and rigorous in story, but also vivid and full in characterization, more colorful in imagination and easy to understand in language. More importantly, the novel The Journey to the West has reached an unprecedented height in ideological realm and artistic realm. Can be described as a master.
Journey to the West [China's Classical Novels]-Historical Background
The Journey to the West and The Journey to the West mainly describe the story of Tang Priest, the Monkey King, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing, who went through eighty-one difficulties in learning Buddhist scriptures in the West. It is a true story in history that Tang Priest learned the scriptures. About 1300 years ago, in the first year of Zhenguan of Emperor Taizong (627), Xuanzang, a 25-year-old young monk, left the capital Chang 'an and went to Tianzhu (India) to study alone. After starting from Chang 'an, he passed through Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and finally arrived in India. He studied there for more than two years and gave a speech at a large-scale debate on Buddhist classics, which was well received. In the 19th year of Zhenguan (645), Xuanzang returned to Chang 'an and brought back 657 Buddhist scriptures. He traveled to Wan Li in 19 before and after this Buddhist pilgrimage, which was a legendary Long March and made a sensation.
Journey to the West [China's Classical Novels]-Author
All the published editions of The Journey to the West are signed by Wu Cheng'en, but since the advent of The Journey to the West, there has been controversy about its author. The Journey to the West, which was circulated in the Ming Dynasty, has no signature in various versions. In The Journey to the West, the king of Qing Dynasty suggested that The Journey to the West was written by Qiu Chuji in Southern Song Dynasty. After this view was put forward, most scholars in Qing Dynasty agreed with it. Ji Yun and others in the Qing Dynasty began to doubt this theory, thinking that The Journey to the West described the customs and habits of the Ming Dynasty in many places, and Qiu Chuji was the last person in the Southern Song Dynasty (a dynasty before the Ming Dynasty); In addition, Huai 'an dialect is used in many places in The Journey to the West, while Qiu Chuji has lived in North China all his life and never lived in Huai 'an. There are also Taoist priests and literati in Ming and Qing Dynasties who think that The Journey to the West is the book of Taoist alchemy. Since dawn, many people think that Wu Cheng'en is the author of the novel The Journey to the West.
After 1980, the research on the author of Journey to the West has gradually become a hot spot. Some scholars still question Wu Cheng'en's authorship. The reason is that writing Journey to the West has never been mentioned in Wu Cheng'en's poems or friends' words. Secondly, Wu Cheng'en wrote down the fact of The Journey to the West in the Records of Huai 'an Prefecture, which did not indicate that it was romance or official history, but in general, romance and official history were not recorded in local chronicles; Thirdly, The Journey to the West in Wu Cheng'en was classified as a geographical category in the Bibliography of Qianqingtang written by Huang Yuji, a bibliophile in Qing Dynasty. So some people suggest that The Journey to the West was written by Qiu Chuji, or by his disciples. There are also a few scholars who believe that The Journey to the West was written by Li Chunfang, the "Prime Minister of Qing Ci" in the Ming Dynasty. However, due to the scarcity and far-fetched arguments, most scholars do not agree with this statement. On the other hand, the argument that Wu Cheng'en is the author of The Journey to the West seems to be more and more convincing. Mainly: First, Wu Cheng'en's personal situation fully conforms to the characteristics of the creators of Journey to the West. Second, it gives a more reasonable and practical explanation to all kinds of questions. Thirdly, the most convincing is the dialect study in The Journey to the West's text. After 1980, there was a breakthrough in this field, which almost irrefutably proved that Wu Cheng'en was the author of The Journey to the West.