This story obviously expresses the idea that if you want to realize a beautiful ideal and complete a great cause, you will encounter many difficulties, and you must overcome these difficulties. The Journey to the West itself also includes forty-one short stories. Most of them contained goblins causing trouble. Although these fairies have different origins,

they have one common characteristic, that is, they hinder the progress of Buddhist scriptures. Many of them are actually phantoms of natural disasters, but when they transform into monsters and appear as an evil force in battles, they themselves gain social significance.

What Wu Chengen focuses on describing is each specific battle on the Xitian Road, and how Sun Wukong won in the fight against the evil forces that obstructed the pursuit of Buddhist scriptures.

To sum up, through the fantasy plot, the story of seeking Buddhist scriptures in the West reflects to a large extent the Chinese people’s spirit of overcoming difficulties and bravely moving forward, and reflects the Chinese people’s efforts to destroy all evil forces in society and The desire and confidence to conquer nature.

Extended information:

"Journey to the West" is one of the most outstanding novels about gods and demons full of fantasy in the history of Chinese literature. The author Wu Cheng'en uses romantic techniques to soar with the wings of extremely rich imagination, depicts a colorful, magical and magnificent fantasy world, creates a series of interesting and fascinating mythological stories, and successfully creates the idealized Sun Wukong, an extraordinary and holy figure. Heroic image.

In the fantasy world, it twists and turns reflect the human condition and worldly feelings, expresses fresh human wisdom, has full flesh and blood of reality and a rich flavor of life. "Journey to the West", with its unique thoughts and artistic charm, brings readers into the beautiful palace of art and feels its artistic charm.

The artistic charm of "Journey to the West", in addition to its bizarre imagination, lies in its fun. Among Chinese classical novels, "Journey to the West" can be said to be the most interesting and entertaining work.

Although the journey to seek the scriptures is full of dangerous mountains and rivers, with monsters and demons emerging in endlessly, full of swords and swords, and Sun Wukong’s victory is hard-won, the reader’s reading experience is always relaxed, full of pleasure and without any sense of tension and tension. Feeling of heaviness.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Journey to the West