The novel mainly tells the story of Sun Wukong who was born and studied with Patriarch Bodhi and made trouble in the Heavenly Palace. He met Tang Monk, Zhu Bajie, Sha Monk and White Dragon Horse. He traveled to the west to obtain Buddhist scriptures, experienced hardships and dangers along the way, defeated demons and eliminated demons. After going through eighty-one hardships, he finally reached the Western Heaven and met the Tathagata Buddha, and finally the Five Saints became true. The novel is based on the historical event of "Xuan Zang's Pursuit of Buddhist Scriptures", and through the author's artistic processing, it profoundly depicts the social life conditions of the people in the Ming Dynasty.
