This book was written by a novelist in the Ming Dynasty, and published under the signature: Master of Huayang Cave. It is one of China's classical Four Great Classical Novels, the first romantic novel of ghosts and gods in ancient China, which profoundly depicts the social reality and is the pioneering work of magical realism. This paper mainly describes the story that the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand protected Tang Priest from going west to learn Buddhist scriptures. Tang Priest encountered eighty-one difficulties from reincarnation to returning from learning Buddhist scriptures, subduing demons all the way, saving the day, and finally reaching the Western Heaven and obtaining the true scriptures. Based on "The Three Monks of the Tang Dynasty Learn the Truth", folklore and Yuan Zaju. In the Song Dynasty, The Three Monks of the Tang Dynasty learned the truth (the real name is The Story of the Three Monks of the Tang Dynasty) is the earliest prototype of the story of Journey to the West in spoken words.

Since the advent of The Journey to the West, it has been widely circulated among the people, and various editions have emerged one after another. There are six editions in Ming Dynasty, seven editions and manuscripts in Qing Dynasty, and thirteen lost editions in ancient books. After the Opium War, a large number of China's classical literary works were translated into western languages, and gradually spread to Europe and America. There are already English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Spanish (Esperanto), Sri Lanka (Swahili), Russia, Czech, Romania, Poland, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. And published many research papers and monographs, and made a very high evaluation of this novel.

The main character

Tang Priest

Tang Priest, with a common surname of Chen and a nickname of Jiang Liuer, was given the surname of Tang by Emperor Taizong. Reincarnate elder Jin Chan, the second disciple of Tathagata Buddha. He is a posthumous child. Because of his parents' miserable and bizarre experiences, he became a monk and grew up in a temple, became a monk in Jinshan Temple, and finally moved to a famous temple in Beijing to settle down and practice. Tang Priest is diligent, eager to learn, and highly savvy, and stands out among the monks in the temple. Finally, he was selected by Emperor Taizong, became sworn to him and went to the Western Heaven to learn from the scriptures. On the way to get the scriptures, Tang Priest successively accepted three disciples: the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand, and named them Wukong (the bodhi ancestor took it, and Tang Priest gave it another name as a walker), Wuneng and Wujing. After that, with the help of three disciples and Bai Longma, he finally got back thirty-five true scriptures from the Buddhist Temple of Thunder and Sound. The merit is complete, and the promotion to a higher position is the right result, and it has been given the title of Buddha with an ancient sandalwood merit. Honest and kind-hearted, devoted to Buddhism, kind, timid, pedantic, poor identification ability.

the Monkey King

the Monkey King, also known as Monkey King and Monkey King, is known as the Great Sage of the Monkey King. Dongsheng Shenzhou proudly came to Huaguoshan Lingshi, and in order to seek immortality, he crossed the ocean alone. After eight or nine years, he learned how to speak and walk, waded through mountains and rivers, worshipped Bodhi's ancestor in Sanxing Cave, Fangcun Mountain, Lingtai, Hezhou, Xi Niu, and learned the skills of seventy-two changes of the earth demon and somersault cloud (also known as somersault cloud). The Monkey King, whose magical powers first came into being, caused havoc in the underworld and the Heavenly Palace, and was later embraced by the celestial world and named Bi Mawen. He returned to Huaguo Mountain because of his low position, claiming to be the Great Sage of Qitian and forcing heaven to recognize the title. Because of drunkenness, he disturbed the flat peach party of the Queen Mother, stole the elixir of the old gentleman from Taishang, and was refined into the body of King Kong. By mistake, he was refined in the furnace of the old gentleman from Taishang. After that, it caused havoc in the Heavenly Palace, and a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers could not defeat it. Later, they lost in the fight with the Tathagata Buddha and were crushed under the Five Elements Mountain for 5 years to repent and turn over a new leaf. Five hundred years later, the Tang Priest went to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures, passed by Wuxing Mountain, and removed the spell before he saved the Monkey King. The Monkey King was so grateful that he was enlightened by Guanyin Bodhisattva, worshipped Tang Priest as a teacher and went to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures. On the way to learn from the scriptures, the Monkey King exorcised demons and monsters, and repeatedly made great achievements. However, he was misunderstood and expelled by the master Tang Priest three times and two times. Finally, the four of them arrived at the Buddhist screamo temple and got the true scriptures. In the end, it was crowned as "Fighting over Buddha". It has become the embodiment of wit and courage in China folk culture, and China people regard it as a god. The Monkey King insists on justice, hates evil, is brave, aggressive, brave, resourceful, persistent and a little stubborn, but somewhat narcissistic and arrogant. It has become the embodiment of wit and courage in China folk culture, and China people regard it as a god.

Zhu Bajie

is also known as Zhu Gangzhu and Zhu Wuneng. Originally the "Tianpeng Marshal" in the Heavenly Palace, he was in charge of the Tianhe Shuifu. He was sent down to earth for molesting the Nishang Fairy (Chang 'e was not alone in Journey to the West), which angered the Jade Emperor. However, the wrong pig fetus was cast, and it became a wild boar. After cultivation, it became a pig-faced person. Gao Cuilan, Miss Gao Jiasan, was seized in Gaolaozhuang, and was subdued by the Monkey King, who followed Tang Priest to learn Buddhist scriptures in the West. In the end, it came to fruition, and the title was "net altar messenger". He is lazy, simple and honest, timid, greedy for petty advantages and lewd, but he is gentle and kind, and full of human touch. It killed the sow, killed the flock of pigs, and adopted the second sister of the egg (a dead egg born by the phoenix, turned into a demon because of her powerful aura) to the Yunzhan cave in Fuling Mountain. Unexpectedly, the second sister of the egg died a year later, leaving him only a abode of fairies. At this point, I lived in the cloud stack hole and claimed to be "a pig." The Tang Priest went west to learn Buddhist scriptures, passed by Gaolaozhuang, and fought the Monkey King in Yunzhan Cave. When he heard the name of Tang Priest, he went to visit him. After being accepted as a second apprentice by the Tang Priest, Tang Priest gave him a nickname "Bajie" in order to keep him from eating five meats and three dislikes. Bajie became the Monkey King's good helper from then on, and together they protected Tang Priest from going to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures

Sha Wujing

, also known as the sand monk. Originally the general of the shutter in the Heavenly Palace, he broke the glass lamp at the flat peach party, angered the Queen Mother, was banished to the world, and became a monster by the quicksand river, suffering from the pain of thousands of arrows piercing the heart. Later, he was subdued by Tang Priest and his disciples, who were responsible for leading horses. After achieving a positive result, he was named "Golden Lohan". Honest and honest, hard-working but have no opinion.