Pig Bajie: simple and honest, hard-working, never giving in to monsters, lacking firm belief in career, hesitant when encountering difficulties, lazy, greedy for money and lustful, and afraid of death.
Friar Sand: Simple and honest, right ... Tang Priest: Sincere to Buddhism, stubborn and persistent, elegant in manners, kind in temperament, and highly accomplished in Buddhist scriptures. He hates evil, is fearless, persevering and fearless, but sometimes he is too stubborn, undisciplined and goes his own way.
The advantage of Tang Priest is that he has a firm will to learn from the scriptures. No matter how many difficulties he meets on the road, he always goes forward and never flinches. He used this spirit to influence his disciples and help them get the true scriptures together. However, Tang Priest also has shortcomings. He doesn't distinguish between true and false, and is easy to believe what others say. As a result, he is always cheated.
The Journey to the West is the first romantic novel with chapters and sections 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 the Qing Dynasty, first proposed that The Journey to the West wrote it for Wu Cheng'en in the Ming Dynasty [1]. 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.
References:
Journey to the west _ Baidu encyclopedia