The Tao is one foot high, and the devil is one foot high.

The sea is wide enough for fish to leap, and the sky is high enough for birds to fly.

High mountains have their own travel routes, and deep waters have their own ferrymen.

A leaf of duckweed returns to the sea, and we meet each other everywhere in life.

People feel refreshed during happy events, but they often fall asleep due to boredom.

It is difficult to achieve anything without positioning God.

Just walk and don’t worry.

Look at the Buddha’s face without looking at the monk’s face.

Worrying is not as good as having good intentions, but striving for success is not as good as being patient.

When a person has a thought, everyone in the world knows it. If there is no reward for good and evil, there will be selfishness in everything.

To know the way down the mountain, you must ask people who have come and gone.

If you don’t believe in straightness, you need to guard against being unkind.

If you are destined to wash away worries and hypochondriasis, you will be free from selfish thoughts and feel at peace.

How dare you not bow your head when you are under the eaves?

Educate yourself and save others, and be conscious of others. There are no Jiazi in the mountains, and it is so cold that I don’t know the year.

"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 perfected by the Ming Dynasty novelist Wu Cheng'en. It mainly describes the story of Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Seng protecting Monk Tang on his journey to the west to obtain scriptures. They encountered eighty-one difficulties along the way. It is based on "The Tripitaka of the Tang Dynasty" and Han folklore.

Tang Monk’s study of Buddhist scriptures is a real thing in history. About 1,300 years ago, in the first year of Zhenguan (627) of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Xuanzang, a young monk who was only 25 years old, led a disciple to leave Xi'an, the capital, and went to Tianzhu (India) to study alone. After setting off from Chang'an, he passed through Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. When we passed through Gaochang Kingdom, the residents there highly praised Buddhism. The king was very happy to see that they were monks from the Tang Dynasty. He was willing to make them the protectors of the country, plus a hundred taels of gold and a thousand horses. The disciples were shaken and finally stayed in Gaochang State, while Xuanzang sneaked out and fled westward. Unexpectedly, he was intercepted by Gaochangguo soldiers. Unexpectedly, they came to escort Xuanzang to the west to obtain Buddhist scriptures. The soldier gave Xuanzang a white horse and some documents, and Xuanzang was extremely grateful. He bowed a few times in the direction of the palace and then rode west. Xuanzang went through many hardships and dangers and finally reached India. He studied there for more than two years and was a keynote speaker at a large-scale debate on Buddhist scriptures, where he received praise. In the 19th year of Zhenguan (645), Xuanzang returned to Chang'an and brought back 657 Buddhist scriptures. In order to prevent the scriptures from being stolen, Xuanzang built the Big Wild Goose Pagoda with the help of the Tang Dynasty king to preserve the scriptures. His journey to the West for Buddhist scriptures lasted for nineteen years and covered tens of thousands of miles. It was a legendary Long March that 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 not until his disciples Huili and Yancong wrote the "Biography of Master Tripitaka of Daci'en Temple in the Tang Dynasty" that it added a lot of mythological color to Xuanzang's experience. From then on, the story of Tang Monk’s Buddhist scriptures began to be widely circulated among the people. The Southern Song Dynasty has "The Tripitaka of the Tang Dynasty Searching for Buddhist Scriptures", the Jin Dynasty version has "The Tripitaka of the Tang Dynasty", "Peach Club", etc., and the Yuan Dynasty dramas include Wu Changling's "The Tripitaka of the Tang Dynasty Searching for Buddhist Scriptures from the West", and the unknown person's "The Great Sage Erlang Suo Qi", etc., all of which are The creation of "Journey to the West" laid the foundation. It was on the basis of folk legends, scripts and operas that Wu Cheng'en went through painstaking re-creation and completed this great literary masterpiece that the Chinese nation is proud of.

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