Material preparation: paper, pens, colored pens and erasers.
Operating steps:
1. Draw the Tang Priest and his apprentice at the bottom left.
2. Perfect the clothes details and morphological characteristics of men and women, draw the Monkey King's golden hoop, or add other people's weapons according to your own ideas.
Write three characters of Journey to the West in the upper right corner to illustrate the theme of this painting.
4. According to the color of clothes in the Journey to the West, use four people to paint, and use weapons to paint.
5. Draw a border and write the contents related to Journey to the West in the border. This simple Journey to the West handwritten newspaper is completed.
The Journey to the West is the first romantic novel with chapters and sections in ancient China. The Journey to the West's earliest edition today is "A New Carved Big Seal, Like an Official Plate, Journey to the West" written by Jinling Shidetang in the 20th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty, with no author's name. Lu Xun, Dong Zuobin and others finally determined Wu Cheng'en's original work according to the records of Huai 'an Fu Zhi and Wu Cheng'en Journey to the West.
The novel mainly tells the story of the Monkey King's birth, following Bodhi's father to become a monk and make trouble in Heaven, meeting Tang Priest, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and White Horse Dragon, going west to learn Buddhist scriptures, going through difficulties and obstacles, exorcising demons, going through eighty-one difficulties, finally arriving in the Western Heaven to see the Buddha, and finally realizing the dream of the five saints.
The Journey to the West is a classic of China's ghost novels, reaching the peak of ancient romance novels, and is called the four classical novels of China together with The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin and A Dream of Red Mansions. Since The Journey to the West came out, it has been widely circulated among the people, and various versions have emerged one after another. There were six editions in Ming Dynasty, seven editions and manuscripts in Qing Dynasty, and thirteen lost articles recorded in ancient books.