This is the first romance novel 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.

Step 2 Find God

It is a collection of novels that records the magical and weird stories in ancient folklore. The writer is Gan Bao, a historian in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. This book was originally scattered and compiled by later generations, with a total of 20 volumes and 454 stories.

The protagonists are ghosts, monsters, immortals, and mixed with Buddhism and Taoism. Most of them are strange things of immortals, and some of them belong to folklore. Most of them are short in length, simple in plot, fantastic in imagination and full of romanticism, which has a far-reaching influence on later generations. ?

Among them, Han Ping and his wife, Wu Wang's little daughter, etc. It exposes the cruelty of the ruling class and praises the struggle of the rebels, which is often quoted by later generations.

3. Shan Hai Jing

It is an ancient book of China, written by Chu people or Bashu people from the middle and late Warring States Period to the early Han Dynasty. It is also a fantastic book.

The author of this book is unknown. The ancients thought that this book was "the work of the curious people in the Warring States period, Zhuang Zaji, Biography, Lisao, Zhou Shu and Jincheng". Modern scholars also believe that writing a book is not an instant, and the author is not a person.

4. Romance of the gods

A hundred times, the book is about the story of the king of Wu cutting Zhou. The first 30 chapters focus on Zhou Wang's tyranny, Jiang Ziya's seclusion, his trip to Xi 'an and Jiang Ziya's assistance. The prince of Wu completed the great crusade against Zhou Wang.

The last 70 chapters are dominated by Shang and Zhou wars, mixed with religious struggles. They explain how to teach and help Zhou, stop teaching and help Shang, show their own teachings and kill each other. As a result, the interception failed, Zhou Wang set himself on fire, King Wu seized the world, enfeoffed other countries, and Jiang Ziya returned to China to offer sacrifices to the gods, so that the people and ghosts who made meritorious service to the country returned to their homes.

5. Taiping guangji

This is the first collection of China ancient classic documentary novels. A masterpiece written by Song people. There are 500 volumes in the book, and the catalogue is 10. It belongs to the category of books, based on documentary stories from Han Dynasty to early Song Dynasty, as well as miscellaneous works such as Taoism and Buddhism.

Liu Yun, Hu Meng, Li Mu, Xu Xuan, Zhao Neiji, Wang Kezhen, Bai Song, Lu Wenzhong and other 65,438+04 people were enrolled by Song Taizong. It started in the second year of Taiping Xingguo (977) and was completed in the following year (978). Because the book was written in Song Taiping's period of rejuvenating the country, it was compiled at the same time as Taiping Yu Lan, so it was called Taiping Guang Ji.

Expand the artistic features of The Journey to the West.

It can be summed up in two words, one is fantasy and the other is fun; It's not ordinary fantasy, it's fantasy, it's not ordinary fun, it's strange fun. Through bold and rich artistic imagination and fascinating stories, the novel creates a magical and gorgeous mythical world. The Journey to the West's artistic imagination is peculiar, rich and bold, which is rare in ancient and modern novels.

The Monkey King's world is close to the fairyland of fairy tales, which is very interesting, and in this world, there are all kinds of strange and interesting monsters, which are really strange and colorful. Romantic fantasy originated from real life reflects the world and human feelings in the description of fantasy. The characters, plots, scenes, even magic weapons and weapons of Journey to the West are full of imagination, but they are all condensed with real life experiences, which can reveal the breath of life in fantasy and reflect human feelings for readers to understand and accept.

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Baidu encyclopedia-journey to the west