The author has been dead for hundreds of years, where is the official website?

For novels, official statement = the author's own statement.

Even if the official media comes out and says it, it cannot represent the author’s intention.

For example, when we were in school, we kept discussing whether the Chinese textbooks published by the People's Education Press over-interpreted Lu Xun's works.

I often ask Lu Xun what is the central idea of ??this article? Then the Internet joked that Lu Xun said: I didn’t think so.

The same goes for Journey to the West. The various interpretations on the Internet are just opinions of one family. However, it makes no sense to simply say whether his point of view is right or wrong.

To borrow a famous saying: A thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets.

So how you understand it has a lot to do with your experience, thinking, and cultural level. It does not represent the author's meaning, and it cannot be wrong.

Of course, some obviously wrong analysis can be distinguished.

For example, in the story of the real and fake Monkey King you mentioned, it is said that the real Wukong was killed, and the one who learned the lesson was Liu Er.

This kind of nonsense can be easily refuted by people who have read the original work. Those who follow the trend and like it are people who have not read the original work.

As written in the original work, after the six-eared monkey (in the shape of Wukong) was beaten, he revealed his true form and was a six-eared macaque.

Assuming that Sun Wukong was beaten, where did he reveal his true nature? Isn't he still himself?

Speaking of Po Tian, ??he should also turn into stone, right?

So, this kind of illogical analysis of nonsense is over-interpretation and nonsense.

But you have to say that you think Tang Seng likes the king of the daughter country, but he still wants to learn the scriptures due to pressure.

I think it is an understandable interpretation. Because people are not saints, how can they remain indifferent?

Of course you can refute me. But these are all reasonable interpretations and analyses.