Cheng'en's Book Xintianji Volume 164 External

"Cheng'en's Book" • Inside the 168th volume of the mythological masterpiece "Xintian Ji" (172 novel series edition), written by the outstanding contemporary Chinese novelist Yu Qianfeng. Wu Cheng'en, a talented man in the Ming Dynasty, had few literary names, but failed in many attempts. He had great ambitions, but was trapped in the examination room. Seeing the corruption in the officialdom and the suffering of the people, he was angry and came up with the idea of ​​writing a book. A "Journey to the West" contains half a lifetime of grief and anger. He used gods and demons as pens to write about the warmth and coldness of the world; he used the eyes of the Monkey King to see through the hypocrisy of the powerful. But before the book was completed, evil spirits disturbed it. Shen Gongbao of the Taoist sect was angry that he "suppressed the Tao and promoted the Buddha" and burned the manuscript at night; the three demons of Xuanyuan wanted to rectify their names and secretly changed the plot. What's even more difficult is the public opinion of the world - friends advised him to delete it to avoid disaster, and the government suspected that he was "deceiving the public with evil words". It was difficult to engrave the book and there was no way to pass it on to the world. But he kept writing, using his right hand when his left hand failed to write. He had an ironclad belief: there is no need to hide the truth, and good books will be passed on by themselves. This writing took thirty years. This journey is better than learning lessons.