About the author: Wu Cheng'en and China are outstanding novelists in Ming Dynasty. He was born in poverty, from a scholar to a businessman. Wu Cheng'en was brilliant since childhood, and Huai 'an County Records recorded that he was "sensitive, wise and knowledgeable, which made him a writer."

However, his scientific examination was unfavorable, and he didn't make up for the "year-old tribute student" until middle age, and then he lived in Nanjing for a long time and subsidized his family by selling literature. In his later years, due to his poor family, he became a county magistrate in Changxing. Because he didn't like the darkness of officialdom, he quickly resigned angrily and died of poverty.

Yan Xi Journey to the West is based on the folklore stories of Tang Priest's scriptures, related scripts and zaju (written by Yang Ne at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty).

The first seven chapters of Journey to the West described the story of the Monkey King's birth, such as making a scene in heaven. After that, he wrote the story of the Monkey King following the Tang Priest to learn Buddhist scriptures and exorcising demons and overcoming difficulties along the way.

The images of Tang Priest, the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand in the book are vivid, large in scale and complete in structure. The Journey to the West is full of Buddhist colors, with far-reaching implications and different opinions. It can be appreciated from the perspectives of Buddhism, Taoism and vulgarity, and it is a great romantic literary work in Chinese classical novels.

The artistic features of Journey to the West can be summarized in two words: one is illusory, the other is interesting; It's not ordinary fantasy, it's fantasy, it's not ordinary fun, it's strange fun. Through bold and rich artistic imagination and fascinating stories, the novel creates a magical and gorgeous mythical world.

The Journey to the West's artistic imagination is peculiar, rich and bold, which is rare in ancient and modern novels. The Monkey King's world is close to the fairyland of fairy tales, which is very interesting, and in this world, there are all kinds of strange and interesting monsters, which are really strange and colorful. Romantic fantasy originated from real life reflects the world and human feelings in the description of fantasy.

The characters, plots, scenes, even magic weapons and weapons of Journey to the West are full of imagination, but they are all condensed with real life experiences, which can reveal the breath of life in fantasy and reflect human feelings for readers to understand and accept. ?

The Journey to the West's artistic charm depends not only on his fantastic imagination, but also on his interest. Among China's classical novels, The Journey to the West is arguably the most interesting and entertaining work. Although the journey to learn from the scriptures is full of dangerous mountains and waters, monsters and ghosts emerge in endlessly, and the Monkey King's victory is hard-won, the reader's reading experience is always relaxed and full of pleasure, without any sense of tension and heaviness.

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