Journey to the West Creation Background

Creative background: Wu Cheng'en lived in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and went through five dynasties: Hongzhi in Xiaozong, Zhengde in Wuzong, Jiajing in Sejong, Qin Long in Mu Zong and Wanli in Zongshen. The social situation in the middle and late Ming dynasty was very different from that in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Political class contradictions, ethnic contradictions and contradictions within the ruling class have intensified and become increasingly acute. With the rise of the ideological and cultural enlightenment, the trend of human liberation is rising, citizen literature is becoming increasingly prosperous, and the creation of novels and operas has entered a period of all-round prosperity. Capitalism has sprouted economically.

Introduction: The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en, a novelist in Ming Dynasty, and published in the name of Huayang Cave. It is one of the four classical novels in China, the first romantic novel in ancient China that deeply depicts social reality, and the pioneering work of magical realism. It mainly describes the story of the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand protecting Tang Priest's Buddhist scriptures. Tang priest went through reincarnation to learn Buddhist scriptures at the age of eighty-one, and finally went to the Western Heaven to visit the Tathagata. According to the records of the Western Regions in Tang Dynasty, folklore and Yuan Zaju. The Song Dynasty's Poem of Sanzang Learning from the Scriptures (whose real name is Sanzang Learning from the Scriptures) is the earliest colloquial prototype of The Journey to the West's story.