What is the main content of Chapter 93 of Journey to the West?

Chapter 93? Asking about the past in Guyuan and talking about the present. The king of Tianzhu met by chance

The four masters and disciples went to the "Bujin Temple". The monk said: This is the garden where the lonely elder was invited to give sermons to the Buddha, and the ground was covered with gold bricks. At night, the master of the temple said that a woman named Princess of Tianzhu had entered the temple last year, and asked Tang Monk to go to the middle school to find out. The next day, when the master and apprentice entered the city, the princess turned into a demon was throwing an hydrangea ball to choose the prince-in-law, and hit Tang Monk.

"Journey to the West" is one of the four classic Chinese classics. It is the first romantic novel about gods and demons in ancient China written by the Ming Dynasty novelist Wu Cheng'en.

It mainly describes the four people Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Monk, and Bai Longma who protected Tang Monk on his journey to the west to obtain scriptures during the Zhenguan period of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. They went through many hardships along the way, subjugated demons along the way, turned dangers into safety, and finally reached the West and obtained the true scriptures. story. It is based on "The Poems of Tripitaka of the Tang Dynasty" and folklore.

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Creative background

In the first year of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the 25-year-old monk Xuanzang studied on foot in Tianzhu. After leaving Chang'an, he passed through Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan. He went through hardships and obstacles and finally reached India. He studied there for more than two years and was praised as a keynote speaker at an important Buddhist debate.

In the 19th year of Zhenguan, Xuanzang returned to Chang'an and brought back 657 Buddhist scriptures, which caused a sensation. Later, Xuanzang's oral account of his journey to the West was compiled into twelve volumes of "The Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" by his disciple Bianji. But this book mainly tells the history, geography and transportation of the countries seen on the road, without any stories. It was in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and it went through five periods: Xiaozong Hongzhi, Wuzong Zhengde, Shizong Jiajing, Mu Zonglongqing, and Shenzong Wanli.

The social situation in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was very different from that at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Politically, class contradictions, ethnic contradictions, and contradictions within the ruling class were intensifying and becoming increasingly acute; ideologically and culturally, the Enlightenment thought was rising. , the idea of ????liberating human nature was rising, citizen literature was developing increasingly vigorously, the creation of novels and dramas entered a period of comprehensive prosperity, and the sprouts of capitalism emerged economically.

The emergence of "Journey to the West" opened up a new category of long chapter novels about gods and demons. The book's clever combination of good-natured ridicule, bitter satire and serious criticism directly affected the development of satirical novels. Therefore, "Journey to the West" is the peak of ancient romantic novels. In the history of world literature, it is also a masterpiece of romanticism and the pioneer of magical realism.

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