There is a Guo Hua in the Ole Sea in Dongsheng Shenzhou, where the fairy stone gives birth to the stone monkey. The stone monkey found a cave named water curtain cave at the source of Jianshui where he lived, and was honored as the king by many monkeys. After another 3500 years, the stone monkey suddenly lamented that life was impermanent and he would not live long. At the suggestion of an old monkey, the stone monkey went to Mr. Niu Hezhou in Xi via Zhou Xun in Nanshan, went to the square-inch mountain in Lingtai, entered the cave of Xieyue's three surnames and met the Bodhi ancestor. Take him as a disciple and name him the Monkey King.
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There is a land overseas called Olego. This country is close to the sea, and there is a famous mountain in the sea called Guo Huashan. There is a fairy stone on the top of that mountain. Its stones are three feet six feet five inches high and two feet four feet round. There are no trees to shade all around, and there are orchids around. Since Gai was opened, every time it was naive, more and more refined, and I felt well-informed for a long time. Fairy cells are bred in it and burst in one day, producing a stone egg the size of a ball. Have it both ways, turned into a stone monkey. Monkeys are in the mountains, but they can walk and jump, eat vegetation, drink streams and springs, pick mountain flowers and find trees and fruits; Keep company with wolves and insects, with tigers and leopards as a group, with deer and deer as friends, and with apes as relatives; Spend the night under the cliff, in the cave at the top of the mountain.
Once it was hot, I spent a summer with monkeys. They all played in the shade of pine trees. A group of monkeys played for a while, but went to the mountain stream to take a bath. Seeing the rushing torrent of water, it's like knowing all about it and splashing. There is an old saying: "Birds have bird words, and beasts have animal words." All the monkeys said, "I don't know where this water comes from." We have nothing to do today, so we secretly climbed the ravine to see where it came from and have some fun! " Shout, drag men and women, call brother call brother, run together, climb the mountain along the stream, until the source, but a waterfall spring. The monkey clapped his hands and said, "Good water! Good water! It turned out to be a wave far from the foot of the mountain and directly to the sea. " He added, "whoever has the ability to go in and find a source and come out without hurting his health, we will worship him as king." After three cries, I suddenly saw a stone monkey jump out of the crowd and shouted, "I'll go in!" " I'm going in! "He squatted down with his eyes closed, jumped and jumped into the waterfall spring. Suddenly, he opened his eyes and looked up, but there was no water or waves, and there was a clear bridge. He paused, calmed down and looked at it carefully again. It turned out to be an iron bridge. The water under the bridge ran between the caves and flowed upside down, drowning the bridge door. However, I owe myself a bridge. Let me look again. It seems that I have a home. What a nice place. After watching it for a long time, the stone monkey jumped from the middle of the bridge and looked around, only to see a stone tablet in the middle. There is a line of regular script characters on the tablet, which reads "Huaguo Mountain is a blessed land, and water curtain cave is a cave".
In heaven, the stone monkey suddenly pulled himself away and went outside. He squatted with his eyes closed, jumped out of the water and said, "Good luck! What luck! " The monkey surrounded him and asked, "What's it like inside? How deep is the water? " The stone monkey said, "There is no water! No water! It turned out to be an iron bridge. On the other side of the bridge is home in heaven. " The monkeys asked, "How can I see a family?" The stone monkey laughed and said, "The water rushed out of the cave under the bridge and hung upside down to cover the door. There are flowers and trees by the bridge, which is a stone house. There are stone pots, stoves, bowls, basins, beds and benches in the room. A stone tablet in the middle reads' Land of Flowers and Fruits, Land of water curtain cave'. The whole place is where we live. And it's wide enough to hold thousands of people. We all go in and live without being angry with God. "
Hearing this, all the monkeys are very happy. Du Dao said, "Go ahead, take us in, go in!" The stone monkey squatted with his eyes closed, jumped in and shouted, "Come in with me! Come in! " Those monkeys were bold and jumped in; Timid, stretching their heads and shrinking their necks, scratching their ears and cheeks, shouting and pestering for a while, they all went in. Jumping over the bridge, grabbing pots and bowls one by one, occupying the kitchen for beds, moving around has the stubbornness of monkeys, there is no so-called peaceful time, only moving around is exhausted. The stone monkey sat on it and said, "Gentlemen,' If people don't believe it, they don't know what they can do. "You just said, dare to go in and out, just worship him as king, don't hurt the body. Now I come in and go out, I go out and come in, I find this cave, sleep with you and enjoy the happiness of getting married. Why not worship me as king? " The monkey heard that the memorial archway had fallen, and there was no violation. One by one, teeth in a row, worship upward. They are all called "Chitose King". Since then, the stone monkey has ascended the throne, hiding the word "stone", so it is called the monkey king.
The Journey to the West, one of the classical Four Great Classical Novels in China, is the first romance novel written by Wu Cheng'en in China in ancient Ming Dynasty. This article mainly tells the story of the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand protecting the Tang Priest's Buddhist scriptures. From the reincarnation of the scriptures to his return home, the Tang Priest turned evil and saved the day. After eighty-one difficulties, he finally reached the Western Heaven and obtained the true scriptures. Based on Tang Sanzang's Buddhist scriptures, folk customs and Yuan Zaju.
Since the advent of The Journey to the West, it has been widely circulated among the people, and various versions have emerged one after another. There were six editions in Ming Dynasty, seven editions and manuscripts in Qing Dynasty, and thirteen editions of ancient books have been lost. After the Opium War, a large number of China classical literary works were translated into western languages and gradually spread to Europe and America. There are already English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Spanish (Esperanto), Sri Lankan (Swahili), Russia, Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam. He also published many research papers and monographs, and made a very high evaluation of this novel.