"Walker" is a book written by Liu Xiaolingtong about his life journey of walking. In the book, he looks back on his 57-year artistic life, which is really "sour, sweet, bitter, spicy" and "a mixture of five flavors (Chen)". This may be like the image he created in Journey to the West - Sun Wukong, who went to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures and walk in life. In the long desert, after ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties, I finally found the true scripture of life and art.

Liu Xiaolingtong said in the book that the Monkey King family of the Zhang family regards shaping the image of Sun Wukong as their family ideal, and has performed the story of the Monkey King from generation to generation. Four generations, including his great-grandfather, grandfather, uncle, father, second brother, cousin and himself, performed the Monkey King together. For a century, the story of "Journey to the West" and the Monkey King were performed from the water town stage of Shaoxing Opera Club to Times Square in New York, USA.

In the beginning of this book, you can read about the deep longing of a six-year-old boy for his second brother Zhang Jinxing. He said that his second brother was his father's favorite successor. He (the second brother) was once praised as "China's most famous little opera prodigy" by the "Dictionary of Chinese Opera Artists". However, leukemia kept his life in the prime of life at the age of 17 forever. When the second brother knew that he was about to leave this world, he once said to the six-year-old boy: "The day you play the role of Sun Wukong in the Monkey King, you will be able to meet me." This sentence guided his future life. The direction - focus on playing the Monkey King well. Later, in order to realize his wish as soon as possible, Liu Xiaolingtong learned from a teacher at an early age, practiced hard, and was admitted to the Zhejiang Kun Opera Troupe. Later, "Journey to the West" director Yang Jie found Liu Xiaolingtong and asked him to audition for the role of Sun Wukong, which completely changed the fate of Liu Xiaolingtong and the Monkey King family.

The second part mainly writes about the filming of "Journey to the West" and the various hardships and dangers encountered in it. From the beginning of filming "Journey to the West" in 1982 to the subsequent sequels, the filming of this drama lasted 17 years. Under the shooting conditions at that time, it had to go through many difficulties. When filming "The Battle of Red Boy", there was a scene where Red Boy spit out Samadhi True Fire to Sun Wukong. In order to achieve a more realistic shooting effect, a lot of gasoline was applied to Sun Wukong's body, so that the six-year-old boy could really taste the "being" "Before burning to death" feeling. While filming "The Great Sage", he experienced a "canine escape" and was bitten off a corner of his armor by a police dog who was still on the set. If there was no armor to protect his body, he might have bitten off the flesh. Another even more thrilling experience was filming "The First Coming of the Monkey King" at Huangguoshu Waterfall in Guizhou. At that time, the director asked for climbing and jumping on mossy cliffs and rocks. Unexpectedly, he accidentally fell down. Fortunately, a piece of ivy wrapped his right foot and prevented him from falling off the cliff.

Xuan Zang has a famous saying that he left behind when he went to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures: "It is better to go west and die than to return east and live halfway." When we do something, if If you can have such a firm determination, what is there that you can't do?

Achieving one thing in your life (determining your goal and keeping walking, walking, walking) is a walker.