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As one of the four classic Chinese classics, "Journey to the West" has been widely circulated among the people since its publication. Various versions have emerged one after another, and its interpretations from various perspectives are also common. "Journey to the West Monster Chronicles" has 30 chapters in total, focusing on "the perspective of animals in "Journey to the West". According to the order of appearance of the "animal monsters" in the original work of "Journey to the West", it carefully examines the life experiences and evolution of various Bodhisattvas, members of the Buddhist scripture collection team, and various monsters that created eighty-one difficulties on the Buddhist scriptures, as well as their real-life animal prototypes. Full of interesting blends of perspectives and cultural mashups. In the book, humans, gods and demons, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, folk culture, animal science... The two worlds of "virtual" and "real" are interspersed and corroborated with each other; transplanting flowers and trees, borrowing corpses to resurrect souls, layering and nesting, shoveling earth to reshape... Compare historical versions such as Yuan Zaju, analyze the evolution of story transfer, grafting, character reshaping, etc., And get a glimpse of the formation process of Wu Chengen's "Journey to the West". The author's literary thoughts are active and his writing style is unconventional. He reads Journey to the West from an alternative perspective, bringing a hearty reading experience.