The Monkey King's prototype is Cheqin. ? He was a famous monk in the Tang Dynasty, and he was from Yunyang County, Jingzhao County (now Yunyang Town, Jingyang County, Shaanxi Province). Born in 73 1 year, she followed her mother, Che, and her mother was a descendant of Tuoba, a royal aristocrat of Xianbei in the Northern Wei Dynasty. ?

At the beginning of Journey to the West, the Monkey King's native place was explained. He was born in a woman's mistress world. He was born in China and proudly came to Huaguo Mountain in China. He was born of a fairy stone who sensed the aura of heaven and earth. However, the immortal stone is not without its origin. It is located on the ancestral vein of three islands on ten continents. Its high circumference is twenty-four qi, and its orifices correspond to nine palaces and eight diagrams. One day, the fairy stone burst and gave birth to a stone egg. When the wind blows, it becomes a stone monkey. After the stone monkey was born, two divine lights appeared in his eyes and shot at Dou Fu, which alarmed the Jade Emperor in the sky. Later, with the encouragement of all the monkeys, he successfully jumped into water curtain cave and was regarded as the "Monkey King" by all the monkeys.

The Monkey King enjoys "immortal fun" in Huaguoshan, but his life and death are in the hands of others, and he feels quite annoyed. In order to learn immortality, he trudged all the way to Fangcun Mountain in Niulingtai, and thanked Bodhi, the founder of Yue Sanxing Cave, as a teacher, and won the name of Monkey King, and learned the way of immortality, the change of the demon (that is, the seventy-two changes) and the somersault cloud. In the meantime, it took 20 years, and was later expelled from his alma mater by Bodhi's founder on the grounds of showing off his skills.