The true identity of Yuan Shoucheng in The Journey to the West?

Mr. Zheng Tai, the supervisor of Qin Tian, is Yuan Tiangang's uncle.

In the 13th year of Tang Zhenguan, there was a divination teacher named Yuan Shoucheng in Chang 'an, who was a fortune teller. It is said that he knows Yin and Yang and can tell the difference between life and death. This man's background is not simple. He was the uncle of Yuan Tiangang, the imperial supervisor of Qin Dynasty, and Yuan Tiangang, a famous astrologer in Tang Dynasty, invented the fortune-telling method that has been passed down to this day.

Brief introduction of The Journey to the West

The Journey to the West is the first romantic parallel prose novel in ancient China. There are hundreds of The Journey to the West published in the Ming Dynasty, all of which have 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. This novel is based on the historical event of Tang priest's learning from the scriptures, and deeply depicts the social reality at that time through the author's artistic processing.

The book mainly describes the story that the Monkey King made a scene in the Heavenly Palace after he was born. He met Tang Priest, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and Bai Hou, went west to learn Buddhist scriptures, and after 81 difficulties, he finally arrived in the Western Heaven to visit the Tathagata, and finally the five saints realized their dreams.

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