Famous comment on journey to the west

1. The Journey to the West is a work aiming at saving the fallen human heart and spirit; The Journey to the West is also a work about anti-corruption. -Liu Ge

"Journey to the West" is full of falsehood, but its vertical and horizontal changes, with apes as the god of the heart and pigs as the heart, its initial indulgence, heaven and earth, can not be banned, but attributed to a spell of tightening the hoop, can make the heart tame and subdue him to death, and cover also seeks relief, not waves. -Xie Zhaozhe

2. The Journey to the West is nothing more than a funny novel and a fairy tale with great interest. He doesn't mean anything subtle. At most, he is a little cynical. This cynicism is also very clear; He's not hiding, and we don't have to ask for it. "-Hu Shi?

3. Although the author is a Confucian scholar, this book is really a game, and it is not a language. Therefore, the book only occasionally talks about the five elements, especially the Buddhism. Therefore, at the end of the book, there are absurd and ridiculous classics, which have been popular for a long time. Therefore, his works are also Buddhism and the old gentleman, and the truth is mixed with the original gods, so that the followers of the three religions have to be attached as appropriate. "-Lu Xun

4, The Journey to the West's book, from beginning to end, all said that sincerity is the key to learning the new and the best, and there is no word involved in the fairy Buddha's lewdness. Or ask The Journey to the West what the book is? Yue is really a wonderful article and a wonderful article. -Zhang Shushen, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty

Extended information:

Mao Zedong had a great enthusiasm for The Journey to the West all his life, and collected various versions of The Journey to the West until his later years, which provided us with a clue to explain why a classical ghost novel was constantly popular in an era of class struggle and frequent political movements.

Mao Zedong often has a unique interpretation of the characters appearing in The Journey to the West. For example, he thinks that Tang Yan is a revisionist Bernstein, and Zhu Bajie is a liberal, etc., but among all the characters, the Monkey King is the one who has a soft spot for him.

Mao Zedong often mentioned the Monkey King in his speeches and works at different stages. Although some of them used the Monkey King's seventy-two changes to describe the negative comments of intellectuals (Criticizing Liang Shuming's reactionary thoughts), they were generally similar to appreciate each other, a "Monkey King" with romantic heroic temperament and rebellious spirit.

On May 12th, 1957, when Mao Zedong met with the Albanian parliamentary delegation in Fengzeyuan, Zhongnanhai, he pointed out that there was a most revolutionary monkey in China who opposed the autocracy of the Jade Emperor, and compared the people of China to the Monkey King, who caused havoc in heaven and overthrew the autocracy of Chiang Kai-shek and imperialism. As a revolutionary who devoted his whole life to "breaking an old world", Mao Zedong greatly appreciated the Monkey King's rebellious spirit of "the strong should let me be respected, and the heroes dare to compete first".

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