Journey to the West was a long novel written by the Ming Dynasty novelist Wu Chengen. It mainly told the story of Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Monk Sand, and Tang Sanzang (also known as the "Journey to the West") who went to India to retrieve Buddhist scriptures after 81 difficulties. This novel was hailed as a classic in the history of Chinese literature and an important work in the history of world literature. Wu Chengen was a novelist of the Ming Dynasty. His creative activities took place from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 17th century. His works were usually based on historical legends and added his own imagination and fiction to form a unique literary style. Journey to the West was his most famous work and an important milestone in the history of Chinese novels. Wu Chengen's Journey to the West became a classic in Chinese literature with its unique literary style and rich imagination, which described the adventure stories of the four main characters. Wu Chengen became an important and most famous novelist in the history of Chinese literature.