Fan Casting Journey to the West

The Legend of the Monkey King

by Wu Cheng'en

Story added by ricardor2000 on July 14, 2019

Story Plot

Journey to the West' is an epic tale of the journey of the monk Xuanzang and is one of the most influential works in Chinese literature. It is a large, complicated text that incorporates various elements of Chinese folklore and storytelling which tells the story of Sun Wukong, a monkey who is born from a stone and learns the way of the Tao, a philosophy at the heart of Chinese religion, as well as mastering combat and learning the secret of immortality. The story ends with the Buddha, the central figure of the Buddhist religion, trapping Sun Wukong under a stone for five hundred years.

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