1. Chapter 1: Dongsheng Shenzhou proudly came to the country and there was Huaguo Mountain in the sea. A fairy stone on the mountain gave birth to a stone monkey. The stone monkey found a stone cave called "Water Curtain Cave" at the source of the stream where he lived, and was hailed as the king by the monkeys.
2. Chapter 2: Wukong learned the way to immortality, the seventy-two transformations and the "somersault cloud" from his ancestor. One day, Wukong was instigated by others and turned into a pine tree, which made the ancestor unhappy and was expelled from the cave. Return to Huaguo Mountain, fight with the demons of Zhanshan Mountain and win, and bring back the captive monkeys and items.
3. Chapter 3: In order to train the monkeys, Wukong used magic to take the weapons of the Aolai Kingdom to the Huaguo Mountain. All the monsters and beasts in the mountain worshiped at Wukong's feet. Later, Wukong went to the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea to borrow treasures and obtained the Dinghai Divine Needle as a weapon, a Ruyi Golden Cudgel weighing 13,500 kilograms. Soon, he made a big fuss in the underworld and erased the names of all the monkeys in the book of life and death. The Dragon King of the East China Sea and the King of Hell summoned the Jade Emperor to subjugate the monster monkey.
4. Chapter 4: The Jade Emperor adopted Taibai Jinxing’s suggestion and summoned Sun Wukong to the Heavenly Palace to become Bi Mawen, who was responsible for raising horses. At that time, the Monkey King took office happily. Afterwards, Wukong found out that this was a low-ranking official position. Knowing that he had been fooled, he angrily returned to the Water Curtain Cave in Huaguo Mountain and set up the banner of "Monkey King".
5. Chapter 5: Wukong manages the peach garden and eats all the big peaches in the garden. Then he went to Yaochi, drank all the immortal wine, and ate all the golden elixirs in Taishang Laojun's gourd. Escape back to Huaguo Mountain. The Jade Emperor ordered King Tota to lead his heavenly soldiers to capture Wukong. Wukong fought off the gods.
6. Chapter 6: Nanhai Guanyin’s disciple Mu Cha helped the King of Heaven but was defeated. Guanyin also recommended Erlang Shen. Erlangshen fought with Wukong. Taishang Laojun was watching the battle in the sky, dropped the diamond sleeve and hit Wukong.
7. Chapter 7: Taishang Laojun put Wukong into the alchemy furnace to refine it. Forty-nine days later, Wukong came out and caused havoc in the heavenly palace. The Jade Emperor invited Tathagata Buddha. Sun Wukong somersaulted all the way and couldn't jump out of the Buddha's palm. Tathagata turned his five fingers into mountains to suppress Wukong.
Extended information:
The creative background of "Journey to the West":
In the first year of Zhenguan (627 years) of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the 25-year-old monk Xuanzang from Tianzhu ( India) walking tour.
After setting off from Chang'an, he passed through Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, going through many hardships and obstacles, and finally arrived in India.
Study there for more than two years, and served as the keynote speaker at a large-scale debate on Buddhist scriptures, and received praise.
In the 19th year of Zhenguan (645), Xuanzang returned to Chang'an and brought back 657 Buddhist scriptures, which caused a sensation.
Later, Xuanzang’s oral account of what he saw during his journey to the West was compiled by his disciple Bianji into the twelve volumes of Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty.
But this book mainly tells the history, geography and transportation of the countries seen on the road, without any stories.
It was not until his disciples Huili and Yancong wrote the "Biography of Master Tripitaka of Da Ci'en Temple in the Tang Dynasty" that it added a lot of mythological color to Xuanzang's experience. From then on, the story of Tang Monk's Buddhist scriptures began to It is widely spread among Chinese people.
The Southern Song Dynasty has "The Tripitaka of the Tang Dynasty's Searching for Buddhist Scriptures", the Jin Dynasty version has "The Tripitaka of the Tang Dynasty", "Peach Club", etc., and the Yuan Dynasty dramas include Wu Changling's "The Tripitaka of the Tang Dynasty's Searching for Buddhist Scriptures from the West", and the unknown person's "Erlang Shensuo" "The Great Sage Qi" and so on, all of which laid the foundation for the creation of "Journey to the West".
Wu Chengen also completed this great literary masterpiece after painstaking re-creation on the basis of Chinese folklore, scripts and operas.
Wu Chengen lived in the middle and late Ming Dynasty and went through five periods: Xiaozong Hongzhi, Wuzong Zhengde, Shizong Jiajing, Mu Zonglongqing, and Shenzong Wanli.
The social situation in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was very different from that at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Politically, class contradictions, ethnic contradictions, and contradictions within the ruling class were intensifying and becoming increasingly acute; ideologically and culturally, the Enlightenment thought was rising. , the idea of ????liberating human nature was rising, citizen literature was developing increasingly vigorously, the creation of novels and dramas entered a period of comprehensive prosperity, and the sprouts of capitalism emerged economically.
Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia-Journey to the West (one of the four classic Chinese classics)