Which dynasty is The Journey to the West from?

The Journey to the West is an ancient, long novel of gods and demons written by Wu Cheng'en during the Ming Dynasty.

The dynasty in which The Journey to the West is set is the Tang Dynasty. Among them, the Tang Monk, commonly known by his surname Chen, his birth name Jiang Liu'er, his legal name Xuanzang, and his number Sanzang, was given the surname Tang by Li Shimin, and was reborn as the Golden Cicada, the second disciple of Buddha Rulai. He is a posthumous son, because of his parents miserable, bizarre experience, from childhood in the monastery in the recluse, growing up. The Tang Monk was a diligent and sensitive learner, with a high degree of comprehension, and excelled among the monks in the monastery. On the way to get the scriptures, the Tang Monk in turn took in 3 disciples: Sun Wukong, Piggy, Sha Monk.

Main Content

The Journey to the West is mainly about the story of the Tang Monk and his four disciples who went to the West to fetch scriptures, and went through 981 difficulties to fetch the scriptures, and finally accomplished the right result.

The story is divided into three main parts, the first part tells . The first part of the story is about the birth of the Monkey King to the story of the Palace of Heaven, the second part of the story is about the reason why to go to the West to fetch scriptures, the third part of the story is to fetch scriptures on the way of the master and the disciples encountered all kinds of difficulties such as monsters and demons, and finally overcame these difficulties to fetch the real scriptures, and they have achieved the right result.

However, a close reading of the book allows us to recognize the expansion of Buddhism in India, the indulgence of Buddhist and Taoist leaders in their subordinates, and the invasion of traditional Chinese Taoism by the emerging Buddhist religion, as well as the invasion of traditional Chinese culture by Western culture, which has led to a crisis of faith in China, which the Chinese are unaware of.