A few days later, the Tang Priest and his wife passed by Gao Laozhuang and learned about the unfortunate experience of Gao Taigong. Wukong wants to meet this monster. This monster wants to monopolize Taigong's daughter. As a result, Wukong became the daughter of Taigong, puzzled the monster and finally revealed his true colors. The monster knows Wukong, but he is no match for him. Turned into a gust of wind and fled, followed by Wukong.

The novel The Journey to the West takes the historical event of "Tang Priest's Learning from the Buddhist Scriptures" as the background, 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.

The Journey to the West's content is the most complicated in China's classical novels. It combines the thoughts and contents of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, which not only allows the immortals of Buddhism and Taoism to perform at the same time, but also injects the human feelings of the real society into the world of Buddhism and Taoism, and sometimes inserts a few words of Confucian wisdom, which is harmonious and interesting, making the book win the interest of readers at all levels of culture.

The appearance of The Journey to the West opened up a new category of ghost novels. The ingenious combination of well-meaning satire, bitter satire and serious criticism in the book directly affects the development of satirical novels. So The Journey to the West is the pinnacle of ancient romance novels. In the history of world literature, it is also a masterpiece of romanticism and a pioneer of magical realism.

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Baidu encyclopedia-journey to the west