Journey to the West briefly introduces the main contents.

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.

The Journey to the West's hundred chapters are divided into two parts: the first to the twelfth chapters are the introduction of the book, in which the first seven chapters tell the story of the Monkey King and his troubles in the Heavenly Palace, providing background materials for his outstanding achievements and later learning from the Tang Priest; Chapters 8 to 12 introduce Tang Yan, another hero of the novel, and explain the reasons for learning from the scriptures.

The thirteenth to the hundredth time is the main body of the story. It is written that the Monkey King converted to Buddhism, and together with Pig Bajie and Friar Sand, he protected Tang Priest from going to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures. He experienced 81 difficulties all the way, defeated all kinds of monsters, and finally got the truth, and they themselves became "positive results."

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As one of the four classical novels in China, The Journey to the West is different from the other three. The biggest difference is that the overall story background of Journey to the West is based on myth. The Journey to the West systematically summarized the absurd concepts of human, heaven, Buddha and God, and formed a complete and reasonable world outlook.

At the same time, Journey to the West does not restrict readers like the other three films, and it is also one of its characteristics that it is suitable for all ages. A foreign critic once said that The Journey to the West is a literary masterpiece that can adapt itself to readers. The specific explanation is that children can experience fairy-tale adventures, young people can feel the excitement of life inspiration, and middle-aged people can experience the hardships of work.

1986, the TV series The Journey to the West was broadcast, and China people saw the Monkey King, Tang Sanzang, Pig and Friar Sand on TV for the first time. With the passage of time, that kind of shock has become a deep-rooted "westward journey complex" in the growing years of a generation.

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Baidu encyclopedia-journey to the west