"Journey to the West" is the first romantic novel in ancient China with a chapter on the body and spirit. There are no author signatures in the 100 editions of The Journey to the West, which existed in the Ming Dynasty. Scholars from the Qing Dynasty Wu Yuzheng and others first proposed that the author of Journey to the West was Wu Chengen of the Ming Dynasty.
The book mainly describes the birth of Sun Wukong and the troubled Tiangong. After meeting Tang Monk, Zhu Bajie, Sand Monk, and White Dragon Horse, he went west to learn from the scriptures, descended demons and demons all the way, and went through Xi'an and Difficulties. Eventually the Five Saints come true. The novel is based on the historical event of "Tang Monk's Scriptures", and through the artist's artistic processing, it deeply depicts the social realities of the Ming Dynasty.
"Journey to the West" is a classic of Chinese demon novels, reaching the pinnacle of ancient long romantic novels. It is also known as the "Four Great Classics of China" with "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin" and "Dream of the Red Mansion". "Journey to the West" has been widely circulated among the people since its inception. There are a variety of versions. There are six Ming Dynasty journals, seven Qing Dynasty journals and manuscripts, and thirteen editions of the classics. After the Opium War, a large number of Chinese classical literary works were translated into Western languages. The Journey to the West gradually spread to Europe and the United States, and was translated into English, French, German, Italian, Western, Sign Language, World (Esperanto), and Swahili. Languages), Russian, Czech, Romanian, Polish, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese.
The book mainly describes the birth of Sun Wukong and the troubled Tiangong. After meeting Tang Monk, Zhu Bajie, Sand Monk, and White Dragon Horse, he went west to learn from the scriptures, descended demons and demons all the way, and went through Xi'an and Difficulties. Eventually the Five Saints come true. The novel is based on the historical event of "Tang Monk's Scriptures", and through the artist's artistic processing, it deeply depicts the social realities of the Ming Dynasty.
"Journey to the West" is a classic of Chinese demon novels, reaching the pinnacle of ancient long romantic novels. It is also known as the "Four Great Classics of China" with "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin" and "Dream of the Red Mansion". "Journey to the West" has been widely circulated among the people since its inception. There are a variety of versions. There are six Ming Dynasty journals, seven Qing Dynasty journals and manuscripts, and thirteen editions of the classics. After the Opium War, a large number of Chinese classical literary works were translated into Western languages. The Journey to the West gradually spread to Europe and the United States, and was translated into English, French, German, Italian, Western, Sign Language, World (Esperanto), and Swahili. Languages), Russian, Czech, Romanian, Polish, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese.
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