Main character: Sun Wukong.

Characteristics: Highly skilled, freedom-loving, abhorring evil, and daring to fight.

The main content of the first chapter: There is Huaguo Mountain in the sea of ??Dongsheng Shenzhou, and a fairy stone on the mountain gave birth to a stone monkey. The stone monkey found a stone cave called Shuilian Cave at the source of the stream where he lived, and was hailed as king by the monkeys.

Another three to five hundred years later, the stone monkey suddenly cried sadly because life was unpredictable and he would not live long. According to the instructions of an old monkey, the stone monkey passed through Nanshanxunzhou to Xiniuhezhou, went up Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, and entered At the Sanxing Cave in the setting moon, he met the Patriarch Subhuti and was accepted as his disciple, named Sun Wukong. Extended information

The novel "Journey to the West" is based on the historical event of "Tang Monk's Pursuit". Through the author's artistic processing, it profoundly depicts the social reality at that time. The whole book mainly describes that after Sun Wukong was born and caused havoc in the Heavenly Palace, he met Tang Monk, Zhu Bajie and Sha Monk, traveled to the west to obtain scriptures, and conquered demons along the way. After experiencing ninety-nine and eighty-one hardships, he finally reached the Western Heaven and met the Tathagata Buddha. The story of the saint’s coming true.

The content of "Journey to the West" is the most complex among Chinese classical novels. It combines the thoughts and content of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. It not only allows the immortals of Buddhism and Taoism to perform at the same time, but also injects the human emotions of real society into the world of gods and Buddhas. Sometimes it also inserts a few Confucian sentences. The wise sayings make it seem both solemn and humorous, and the wit and wit make the book win the favor of readers of all cultural levels.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Journey to the West