What is the story of Monkey King?

1. The Monkey King first appeared

There is a fairy stone on the top of Huaguo Mountain on the seashore of Aolaiguo in Dongsheng Shenzhou. One day, the fairy stone crashed and burst, and it was earth-shattering and turned into a stone monkey. This stone monkey is sensitive and intelligent. He makes friends with monkeys and finds a good place to settle down in water curtain cave. The monkeys respect the stone monkey as the Monkey King. The Monkey King sailed across the ocean alone to a fishing village in search of an immortal prescription.

He picked up his clothes, stole his shoes and hats, and went to restaurants to drink and eat noodles. He made many jokes and learned a bit about being human. After searching all the way, the Monkey King finally boarded the platform and met Bodhi's founder in Sanxing Cave in Xieyue. His father named him the Monkey King.

2. Great War in Hong Haier

In the withered pine stream in the deep mountain, there was a Hong Haier. He was the son of Niu Mowang and Princess Tiefan. He was skillful and playful, waiting for the Tang Priest and his disciples to pass by, and he wanted to honor his parents with Tang Priest's meat. Hong Haier cheated the Tang Priest's trust with risks, and took the opportunity to take Tang Priest into the cave of fire clouds. Wukong and Bajie went to look for the master, and Hong Haier led a group of goblins, who spouted fire at their mouths, so that Wukong and Bajie fled.

3. Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon

Four Tang Priests, Master and Apprentice, went to the front of Baihuling to get the true scriptures. In Baihuling, there lived a corpse demon Bai Gujing. In order to eat Tang monk's meat, he changed into a village girl and a woman, all of whom were caught by the Monkey King. Bai Gujing was afraid and turned into a gust of wind to escape. the Monkey King killed all the village girls and women's false bodies. However, Tang Priest didn't distinguish a shemale, instead, he accused the Monkey King of wanton murder, which even hurt the lives of mother and daughter and violated the precepts. The third time, Bai Gujing became a white-haired old man and was seen through by the Monkey King. Tang Priest wrote a derogatory book and drove the Monkey King back to Huaguoshan.

4. Counting Pig Eight Rings

A strange thing happened in Gaolaozhuang: Miss Gao was taken away by the government, and the old man and his wife cried all the way, which alarmed Pig Wuneng who was sleeping in the grass. The old pig rescued Miss Gao. Gao Laohan and his wife adopted Wu Neng as their son-in-law. At the banquet, Wuneng was drunk and showed his true face, scaring away the guests. Miss Gao also refused to go to different rooms. Wuneng could only lock Miss Gao in the back garden and forbid her to meet her parents and family.

Wukong and Master came to stay in the villa. Wukong used clever tricks to find out the origin of Zhu Wuneng. Zhu Wuneng used to be the Marshal of Tianpeng, but he was sent to the lower bound because of flirting with Chang 'e. He threw a pig fetus by mistake and was enlightened by Guanyin, waiting for the Buddhist scriptures. Tang Priest accepted him as an apprentice and named him Pig Bajie.

5. The Monkey King

On the way to get the scriptures, the Tang Priest accidentally broke into the abode of fairies and immortals in Huang Paoguai. Huang Paoguai's wife was originally a princess of Baoxiang, and was taken into Boyue Cavity thirteen years ago. She quietly let Tang Priest go and asked him to deliver a letter to her father. The three of them went to Baoxiang country. The king missed his daughter and begged Pig and Friar Sand to go up the mountain to subdue the demon.

They were no match for monsters. Friar Sand was captured and Pig fled back to the inn. Huang Paoguai turned into a handsome husband, went to visit his father-in-law in junior high school, and used magic to turn Tang Priest into a tiger in a cage. In order to save the master, Bai Longma turned into a maid-in-waiting, waiting for an opportunity to assassinate Huang Paoguai, but he couldn't win, and he was injured and dived into the water. Bajie came to Huaguo Mountain and dared him to return to the Monkey King. Extended information

The Journey to the West is the first romantic chapter-and-verse novel of the ancient China. The Journey to the West, a hundred copies of the existing Ming periodicals, has no author's signature. Scholars in Qing Dynasty, such as Wu Yuqian, first proposed that The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en in Ming Dynasty.

this novel is based on the historical event of "Tang Priest's Learning from the Scriptures", and through the artistic processing of the author, it profoundly depicts the social reality at that time. The book mainly describes the story that the Monkey King met Tang Priest, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand after he was born and caused havoc in the Heavenly Palace. He went west to learn Buddhist scriptures, conquered demons all the way, experienced eighty-one difficult, and finally arrived in the Western Heaven to meet the Tathagata Buddha, and finally the five saints came true.

The Journey to the West has been widely circulated among the people since it came out, with various versions emerging one after another. There are six editions in Ming Dynasty, seven editions and manuscripts in Qing Dynasty, and thirteen lost editions in ancient books.

after the opium war, a large number of China's classical literary works were translated into western languages, and The Journey to the West was gradually introduced to Europe and America, and was translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, sign language, Swahili, Russia, Czech, Romania, Poland, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Chinese and foreign scholars have published many research papers and monographs, which have made extremely high comments on this novel.

The Journey to the West is a classic of China's ghost novels, reaching the peak of ancient romantic novels, and is called China classical Four Great Classical Novels together with Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin and A Dream of Red Mansions.

Reference: Journey to the West-Baidu Encyclopedia