How does heaven accept the image of the Monkey King?

Find the Tathagata and keep him under Wuzhishan for 500 years.

The Monkey King is one of the famous mythological figures in China, which comes from the four classical novels The Journey to the West. His ancestral home is Dongsheng Shenzhou, and he was born from the immortal stone that created the world. He led the monkeys into water curtain cave and became the Monkey King, who was honored as the "Monkey King".

After worshipping Bodhi as a teacher, Qian Shan was named the Monkey King, and he learned superb spells such as Daxian tactic, seventy-two changes of the earth demon, and somersault cloud.

The Monkey King, whose magical powers are just emerging, first made a scene in the Dragon Palace to get the golden hoop, and then made a scene in the underworld to check the life and death books. Later, he was favored by heaven and was named Bi Marvin. After learning of his low status, he angrily returned to Huaguoshan, defeated the crusade of King Tota and the three princes, and forced the Jade Emperor to make him the Great Sage of Qitian, and built the Great Sage of Qitian in heaven to manage the Flat Peach Garden.

Because of drunkenness, I disturbed the flat peach banquet of the queen mother, ate the elixir of the old gentleman, and became a body of gold and steel. I mistakenly thought that she was tempered in the gossip furnace of Taishang Laojun.

Later, it caused chaos in the heavenly palace. Hundreds of thousands of heavenly soldiers, heavenly generals, four heavenly kings and twenty-eight stars can't beat them. Later, he lost a bet with the Tathagata, and was pinned on Wuxing Mountain (renamed Liang Jie in Tang Dynasty), where Tathagata repented with his five fingers and turned over a new leaf for more than 500 years.

The Journey to the West is the first romantic novel with chapters and sections in ancient China. There are hundreds of The Journey to the West published in Ming Dynasty, and there is no author's signature. Wu et al., a scholar in Qing Dynasty, first proposed that The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en in Ming Dynasty.

The book mainly describes the story of the Monkey King who made a scene in the Heavenly Palace after his birth and met Tang Priest, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and Bai. He went west to learn from the scriptures, went through difficulties and obstacles, and turned the devil down. After eighty-one difficulties, he finally arrived in the Western Heaven to see the Tathagata, and finally the Five Saints died.

Based on the historical event of "Tang Priest's Learning from the Scriptures", the novel deeply depicts the social reality of the Ming Dynasty through the author's artistic processing.

The Journey to the West is a classic of China's ghost novels, reaching the peak of ancient romance novels, and is called the four classical novels of China together with The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin and A Dream of Red Mansions.