Who is the Monkey King's mother in Journey to the West?

The Monkey King is one of the famous mythological figures in China, which comes from the four classical novels The Journey to the West. Born in Dongsheng, China, he was born from the immortal stone. He led a group of 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 learned the superb spells of the earth demon, such as seventy-two changes, somersault cloud and immortality.

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, stole the elixir of the old gentleman, and became an indestructible body. By mistake, she was turned into an alchemy 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 crushed by the Five Elements Mountain (renamed Liangjie Mountain in the Tang Dynasty) abandoned by the Tathagata, and repented for more than 500 years.

After being enlightened by Guanyin, he was rescued by Tang Priest. Known as a monk, he protected the Tang Priest from learning Buddhist scriptures in the West, exorcised demons all the way, did not fear difficulties and hardships, and finally got the true scriptures after 81 difficulties, and was named anti-Buddha.

The Monkey King is smart, lively, loyal and hateful, and represents wit and courage in folk culture. The legend of westward journey began to appear in the Tang Dynasty and continued until the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the Ming Dynasty, The Journey to the West, the representative of these legends, appeared. In these folk myths of past dynasties, the Monkey King was regarded as a god by China people.

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. This novel is based on the historical event of "Tang priest 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 of the Monkey King's encounter with Tang Priest, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand after his birth, and his disturbance to the Heaven Palace. He went west to learn from the scriptures, demonized all the way, and after eighty-one difficulties, he finally arrived in the Western Heaven to meet the Tathagata Buddha, and finally the Five Saints died.

Since its publication, The Journey to the West has been widely circulated among the people, and various versions have emerged one after another. There are six editions in Ming Dynasty, seven editions and manuscripts in Qing Dynasty, and thirteen lost editions have been recorded in ancient books. After the Opium War, a large number of China's classical literary works were translated into western languages, and The Journey to the West gradually spread to Europe and America, and was translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, sign language, Swahili, Russian, Czech, Romanian, Polish, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. Chinese and foreign scholars have published many research papers and monographs, which have given high evaluation to this novel.

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.