Who is the author of the Great Immortal in The Journey to the West?

Personal data:

Zhenyuan is the ancestor of the fairy, and the Taoist name is Zhenyuanzi. He lives in Wuzhuangguan, Niuhe Prefecture, and his Daoism is profound and profound. Even Guanyin Bodhisattva gave him three points. The ginseng fruit he planted ripens only once in 9000 years, and he can live to 360 years old by smelling the magical ginseng fruit. You can live for 47,000 years by eating one. Zhenyuan Daxian has a beautiful beard, looks like a child's face, and has no weapons in his hand, only a jade dust owl.

Introduction to the work:

The Journey to the West, one of the classical Four Great Classical Novels in China, is the first romance novel written by Wu Cheng'en in China in ancient Ming Dynasty. This paper mainly tells the story of four disciples, the Monkey King, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and Bai, who protected the Tang Priest to learn Buddhist scriptures in the West. They went through eighty-one difficulties along the way, subdued demons, saved the day, and finally arrived in the West to learn Buddhist scriptures. According to Tang Sanzang's Buddhist scriptures and Han folklore.

Since The Journey to the West came out, it has been widely circulated among the people, and various versions have emerged one after another. There are six versions in Ming Dynasty, seven versions and manuscripts in Qing Dynasty, and thirteen translations recorded in ancient books. After the Opium War, a large number of China classical literary works were translated into western languages and gradually spread to Europe and America. There are already English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Spanish (Esperanto), Sri Lankan (Swahili), Russia, Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam. Many research papers and monographs published at home and abroad show that many people speak highly of this novel.