What is the main content of Journey to the West 93?

The ninety-third time? Ask what happened to the king of Tianzhu in Gu Yuan.

The four of them went to Bujin Temple. This is the garden where the Buddha invited lonely old people to give lectures. At night, the temple owner said that the daughter of a windy place called Princess Tianzhu had entered the temple since last year and asked Tang Priest to inquire in middle school. The next day, when the master and the apprentice entered the city, a princess turned into a demon and was throwing an embroidered ball to pick a promise and hit the Tang Priest.

The Journey to the West, one of the classical Four Great Classical Novels in China, is the first romance novel written by Wu Cheng'en in China in ancient Ming Dynasty.

This paper mainly tells the story of the Monkey King, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and Bai protecting Tang Priest's Buddhist scriptures during the reign of Emperor Taizong. They went through all the hardships along the way, subduing the devil and saving the day, and finally arrived in the Western Heaven to learn from the scriptures. According to Tang Sanzang's classic poems and folklore.

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Creation background

In the first year of Emperor Taizong, Xuanzang Tianzhu, a 25-year-old monk, went to school on foot. After leaving Chang 'an, he passed through Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan. He went through difficulties and obstacles and finally arrived in India. He studied there for more than two years and was praised as the keynote speaker in an important Buddhist debate.

In the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, Xuanzang returned to Chang 'an and brought back 657 Buddhist scriptures, which was a sensation. Later, Xuanzang dictated his The Journey to the West, which was compiled by his disciples into a 12-volume Record of the Western Regions of Datang. But this book is mainly about the history, geography and transportation of countries seen on the road, and there is no story. At that time, it was the middle and late Ming Dynasty, which experienced five periods: Hongzhi in Xiaozong, Zhengde in Wuzong, Jiajing in Sejong, Qin Long in Mu Zong and Wanli in Zongshen.

The social situation in the middle and late Ming dynasty was very different from that in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Political class contradictions, ethnic contradictions and contradictions within the ruling class have intensified and become increasingly acute. The ideological and cultural enlightenment rose, the trend of human liberation rose, civic literature became increasingly prosperous, novel and drama creation entered a period of all-round prosperity, and capitalism sprouted economically.

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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