Why is The Story of Wukong so popular recently?
Feelings. At that time, a novel, The Story of Wukong, was undoubtedly very unconventional. It makes a bold interpretation of the traditional westward journey, subverts the previous story of blindly saving the Tang Priest from evil spirits, and endows the role with more connotations. In fact, many of them can be interpreted as the inner feelings of modern people. Monkeys who don't know who they are, old pigs who miss Gao Laozhuang and Zhuangzi, and sand monks who always think about glass lamps are actually the portrayal of people in the world of mortals. In the year when the net text was far from being popular, it was absolutely amazing. Even now, it's a classic. Books are written like this, but readers are different.