Journey to the West was one of the Four Great Classics of China. The author was Wu Chengen, and the book portrayed Tang Sanzang, Sun Wukong, and others…

The author of Journey to the West was the Ming Dynasty novelist Wu Chengen.

The author of Journey to the West was the Ming Dynasty novelist Wu Chengen. The novel was written between the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century. It was a classic in the history of Chinese literature.

The author of Journey to the West was not Wu Chengen. Although this novel had become a classic in the history of Chinese literature, it was originally written in the Ming Dynasty, not the Qing Dynasty. According to research, the author of Journey to the West might be the Ming Dynasty novelist Luo Guanzhong.

The Four Great Classics were not written by the Ming Dynasty novelist Wu Chengen, including Journey to the West, Water Margins, Dream of the Red Chamber, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Wu Chengen and Journey to the West were both authors of the Ming Dynasty novelist, Wu Chengen. Journey to the West was a famous ancient Chinese novel about the adventures of Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Monk Sand, and Tang Sanzang. Wu Chengen was one of the authors of Journey to the West. He created many famous plots and characters in the book, and made a profound reflection and analysis of ancient Chinese culture and social customs.

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The author of Journey to the West was the Ming Dynasty novelist Wu Chengen. He created this mythical novel and published it as the complete Journey to the West. However, there were also some people who thought that Journey to the West might not be Wu Chengen's work because there were some magical elements in Journey to the West that were similar to ancient Chinese legends and myths. Therefore, some scholars believed that it might be the work of other authors, such as the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai, the late Yuan and early Ming novelist Shi Naian, etc. However, these views were not widely accepted.

Journey to the West was a long novel written by Wu Chengen, a novelist of the Ming Dynasty. It was regarded as a classic in the history of Chinese literature. The novel tells the story of Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Monk Sand, and Tang Sanzang, who went to the Western Heaven to obtain the scriptures after going through 81 difficulties. The novel used a mythical story as the background and integrated Indian Buddhist stories and ancient Chinese myths and legends to tell a fantastic story. The plot of the novel is full of ups and downs, and the characters are full. It has a high literary value and artistic value, and it is an important part of Chinese culture.

There was a debate about whether Wu Chengen was a novelist. The traditional view was that Wu Chengen was a novelist. Since the 20th century, Lu Xun, Hu Shi, and other scholars had determined that Wu Chengen was the author of Journey to the West based on the historical records of Huai 'an Fu Zhi, Huai Xian Wen Mu (which recorded the four volumes of Wu Chengen's Sheyang Collection, the Preface to the Spring and Autumn Biography, and Journey to the West), as well as the Huai' an dialect in the novel. And Journey to the West was a famous novel, which made Wu Chengen considered a novelist. However, there were also opinions that Wu Chengen was not the author of Journey to the West, thus questioning his identity as a novelist. On the one hand, Huai 'an Fu Zhi only mentioned the author and the title of the book. It did not specify the nature of the recorded Journey to the West, so it did not rule out the possibility of a different book with the same name. Moreover, according to the Biography of Wu Chengen, Wu Chengen wrote several kinds of miscellaneous notes, which were famous for a time. The style of miscellaneous notes usually did not include novels, and at that time, novels were generally not included in local chronicles. There was evidence that Wu Chengen's Journey to the West recorded in Qianqingtang Bibliography might be a travel note. On the other hand, there was a lack of evidence to support the claim that Huai 'an dialect was used in the novel. In fact, the Northern Jiangsu dialect and Wu dialect coexisted in the book, and there was no clear geographical direction. Moreover, the comparison between the relevant chapters of Journey to the West in the Yongle Grand Ceremony and the 100-chapter Journey to the West showed that the novel was not written by one person at a time, but had experienced the process of accumulation for generations. In addition, from the fact that the level of poetry in Journey to the West was not symmetrical to Wu Chengen's level of poetry (for example, there were poems with obvious signs of piecing together), and the word "Chengen" was used casually in the chapter, there was also reason to suspect that Wu Chengen was not the author of Journey to the West. If he was not the author of Journey to the West, it was not enough to identify him as a novelist based on his other works such as Sao, Fu, Lun, Biao, Zan, and Epitaph. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>

The Four Great Classics of our country are 'Dream of the Red Chamber',' Journey to the West','Water Margins' and 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms'. The authors are Cao Xueqin, Shi Naian, Luo Guanzhong and Wu Chengen respectively.