<p class="ql-block"> Journey to the West was written </p><p class="ql-block">by the Chinese writer Wu Cheng'en in</p><p class="ql-block"> the 16th century.(Ming dynasty) It is </p><p class="ql-block">mainly about a Buddhist monk </p><p class="ql-block">travelling to today's India with his </p><p class="ql-block">companions to bring Buddhist </p><p class="ql-block">scriptures back to China.It is based on</p><p class="ql-block">a true story of a monk back in the 7th</p><p class="ql-block">century，though his three companions</p><p class="ql-block">who were in shapes of a monkey，a </p><p class="ql-block">pig and a monster，using lots of </p><p class="ql-block">magic to defeat demons，were </p><p class="ql-block">fictional.This novel has a strong root in</p><p class="ql-block">Buddhism,Taoism and Chinese </p><p class="ql-block">mythology. It is more than a story</p><p class="ql-block"> book because it also shows us the</p><p class="ql-block">society/social life /politics/economy…</p><p class="ql-block">at that time from a different </p><p class="ql-block">perspective.There are different opera </p><p class="ql-block">drama ，film and Tv adaptations of </p><p class="ql-block">this book.It is among the four great </p><p class="ql-block">classic novels of Chinese literature，</p><p class="ql-block">people are so familiar with it.The main</p><p class="ql-block">characters such as the Monkey King</p><p class="ql-block">and the pig are loved by lots of people</p><p class="ql-block">particularly by children.</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p>