The first part (one to seven times) introduces the Monkey King's miraculous work, causing havoc in Heaven.

The second part (eight to twelve chapters) tells the reason why Sanzang learned the scriptures.

The third part (chapters 13 to 100) is the main body of the whole story, and it is written that Wukong and others finally arrived in the Western Heaven to retrieve the scriptures.

The Journey to the West is a romantic novel in ancient China, which mainly describes the story that Tang Priest, the Monkey King, Zhu Bajie, Zhu and Friar Sand Sha Wujing went to the West to learn from the scriptures, and finally got the scriptures after 81 difficulties.

The Journey to the West's ideological content:

The "Heavenly Palace" in the novel reflects the people's resistance in China feudal society through fairy tales. Of course, fantasy novel's reflection of reality has its own characteristics, which is different from ordinary literary works that directly reflect real life.

The rebels in the "Tiangong" erected the banner of "the Monkey King" and put forward the slogan "The emperors take turns to do it and come to my house next year". One hundred thousand heavenly soldiers will flee, and the rule of the Heavenly Palace is so shaky that the Jade Emperor has to ask for help. These fictional and fantasy plots are all based on the peasant uprising and peasant war in reality.

If there were not too many large-scale peasant uprisings and peasant wars in history, the plot of "Make a scene in Heaven" could not be as bold as imagined, and the image of the Monkey King, a rebel, could not be so brilliant.

"Making Heaven" ended in the Monkey King's failure, which was related to the author's influence on feudal orthodoxy to some extent. At the same time, it must be pointed out that the Monkey King's subjugation at the foot of Wuxing Mountain and his subsequent conversion to Buddhism are also inevitable requirements for the development of the plot.

Obviously, the Monkey King on Huaguoshan will never give up his life as a king for no reason to help Tang Priest learn from the West. Without this arrangement, he will not be able to transition to the following Buddhist story. Moreover, the basic outline of The Journey to the West was formed long before Wu Cheng'en, so it is difficult for the author to make fundamental changes in this key place.