The Journey to the West is one of the four classical novels of China. It is an excellent fairy tale novel, which is a combination of mass creation and literati creation.

The novel begins with seven stories about "making havoc in Heaven", and puts the image of the Monkey King at the top of the book. From the eighth to the twelfth, I wrote the stories of Tathagata, Guanyin becoming a monk, Kevin·Z descending dragons and the birth of Tang Priest, explaining the origin of the scriptures. From 13th to the end of this book, it tells the story that the monkey born of the immortal stone fell at Bodhi Gate and was named the Monkey King. He practiced hard to become a curse, but he was crushed under the Five Elements Mountain because of drunkenness. Five hundred years later, Guanyin told the Monkey King the way to save himself: He would follow Tang Sanzang's Buddhist scriptures and become his apprentice, and he would be saved when he achieved the right result. The Monkey King followed Tang Sanzang on the road and met a monster on the way. Together with Bajie and Friar Sand, they embarked on a arduous journey to learn from western classics.

The writing time was in the middle of Ming Dynasty, when the social economy was prosperous, but the politics was deteriorating and people's lives were difficult. The author criticizes this unreasonable phenomenon through stories. * * * One hundred times, more than 600,000 words. Divided into titles, each title is presented in a neat double way.

The story tells the story of Tang Sanzang and his disciples the Monkey King, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and Bai who went to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures after 81 difficulties.

The content is divided into three parts:

The first part (one to seven times) introduces the Monkey King's miraculous work, causing havoc in heaven;

The second part (eight to twelve times) tells the reason why Sanzang learned the scriptures;

The third part (chapters 13 to 100) is the main body of the whole story, and it is written that Wukong and others finally arrived in the Western Heaven to retrieve the scriptures.