ourney to the West is the first Romantic chapter novel about gods and demons in ancient China.
There are 100 copies of Journey to the West published in the Ming Dynasty without the author's signature.
Wu Yuxuan, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, first proposed that the author of Journey to the West was Wu Chengen of the Ming Dynasty.
This novel is based on the historical event of "Tang monk's taking sutras" and deeply depicts the social reality at that time through the author's artistic processing.
The book mainly describes Sun Wukong's birth and the havoc of the heavenly palace. He met Tang Seng, Zhu Ba Jie and Sha Seng three people.
He traveled to the West for a long time. He passed the 99 and eighty-one difficulties.
Finally, he arrived at the western sky to see Buddha, and finally the story of five saints came true.
