The bookmaking process of

1, "The Great Tang Dynasty", geographical history, Xuanxuan, the defense machine wrote. This book is Written by Xuanxuan at the behest of Tang Taizong, the book gives a summary of the experience of the Xuanxuan West line from the new year to the 19 years of the chastity view. Describing the 138 countries and regions and city-states that Xuanxuan personally experienced and hearsay, the book is rich in content, with descriptions of geographical situation, land and water transportation, climate, property, nationality, language, history, politics, economic life, religion, culture, customs and customs. In particular, the situation of religious monasteries and Buddhist stories and legends are well documented. It is also an important document to study the history, geography, religion, culture and Chinese and Western transportation of Central and South Asian countries in ancient times.

2, "The Great Tang Tzu-en Temple three Tibetan Mage Biography" also known as "Da Tzu-en Temple Three Tibetan Mage Biography", "Three Tibetan Masters Biography", Hui Li original, Yan Yan wrote. Remember the life story of Xuanxuan. Because Xuanxuan long-term residence of the Great Tzu En Temple, when the people respected the Temple of Tzu-en three Tibetan Mage. The first 5 volumes of Xuanxuan out of the home and to India to seek the law through, roughly according to the "Great Tang West"; The last 5 volumes are recorded after the return of the translation of the situation, the narrative by Taizong, Gaozong courtesy and social respect, especially the above table for the most. The cultural and religious situation of Chang'an as the center of the ancient Western Region, India and early Tang Dynasty is an extremely valuable historical material. But the life of Xuanxuan in the book, did not clearly mark, for its shortcomings. There is a translation of the ancient Hui, the existing manuscript, unearthed in 1930 in Xinjiang. Since modern times, there have been French, English and Japanese translations and other worlds.

3, "Da Tang Three Tibetans Take Poetry", also known as "Da Tang Three Tibetan Masters Take the Book." Speak the bible. The author is unknown. The world thought of the Song Dynasty, Lu Xun thought the author or yuan people. Three volumes, 17 paragraphs. Narrative Tang Xuanxuan take the story, in which the monkey walker as the main character (originally described as the Tang monk take the story is the Tang monk as the main public, and in this book changed to the monkey walker - Sun Wukong's prototype) he is to help the three Tibetan wizards to show great god. But the plot is relatively simple, no pig eight ring image, there is the description of the deep sand god (perhaps a prototype of the sand monk) slightly the Ming Dynasty novel "West Travel" in the prototype.

4, Tang San-Tibet West tour of the release of the old

One of the Ming and Qing novels, one of the short books of "The Journey to the West", is named after "The Journey to the West" (Yang Ben/Yang Ben). The title of the book "Sheep City to huai Zhu Dingchen editor book Linliantai Liu Shumao embroidery", so called "Zhu Ben", for the Ming magazine, a total of ten volumes. The order of this book and "West Travel" (Wu Ben) and "West Travel" is still unknown. But Zhu Ben text rough, before dredging after dense, it seems that wu Ben Zuben.

5, "West Travel Biography", "Four Travels" book, four volumes 40 times, the title "Zi Yun Yangzhi and editing, Tian Shui Zhao Yuzhen School." Write Sun Wukong Road, Bao Tang monk west tour, pig eight ring, sand monk down demons, experienced 81 difficulties, finally Daxi soil through the east back story. The researchers of "The Journey to the West" call it "Yang Ben". Dream far press: This book should be an abbreviation of "West Travel", generally record the story outline, not the so-called abridged. The aim is to accommodate less educated readers, but also to reduce costs in order to sell cheaply, of course, this also facilitates folk handwritten copy. Many folk readers have a rough understanding of the text, the literary and text accuracy requirements are not high, only concerned about the story (too many lines and poems, but feel that the flow of water, no patience to see). And in the countryside, this kind of reader is not only for self-pleasure, but also for entertainment. This abbreviation becomes the origin of their ancient (storytelling), as long as they remember the rough storyline, the specific details of the dialect slang free play.

6, Yang Jingxian's "West Travel" drama to write Tang monks take the story, counting six books 24 fold, the structure is grand and more complete, for the meta-drama in the grand system. In the late Yuan Dynasty, Yang Jingxian's "The Journey to the West" is an important work of epoch-inging significance. It first popular Tang monks to the west of the day to take the story into six twenty-four large-scale series of dramas, around the process of taking the bible to shape a group of characters represented by Sun Wukong as a typical character full of magic colors and distinctive personality characteristics, greatly enriched the theater stage and classical literary figures gallery, showing the aesthetic creation ability of the yuan-ending people with a tendency to become civic, for the magic novel "West Travel" has laid a solid foundation for the emergence.

The Tang monk's passage is a real thing in history. About 1,300 years ago, that is, Tang Taizong Zhenguan New Year (627), a 25-year-old young monk and Shang Xuanxuan led a disciple to leave the capital Chang'an, only to Tianyu (India) to study. After leaving Chang'an, he passed through Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan. When the people of The State of Guchang were very highly respected in Buddhism, the king saw that they were monks from the Great Tang Dynasty, very happy, willing to seal them as the protector of the country, plus gold hundred two, horses a thousand. The disciples wavered, and finally stayed in Gaochang, while Xuanxuan snuck out and fled westward. Unexpectedly stopped by Gao Changguo soldiers. Didn't expect them to come to escort Xuanxi to get the Passage. The soldier gave Xuanxuan a white horse and some paperwork, Xuanxuan grateful, he paid a few worships in the direction of the palace, and rode west.

Xuanxuan went through all the hard and difficult conditions and finally arrived in India. He studied there for more than two years and was praised for his lecture at a large Buddhist economics debate. Chastity 19 years (645) Xuanxuan returned to Chang'an, bringing back 657 Buddhist scriptures. He took the Western Day, before and after nineteen years, travel tens of thousands of miles, is a legendary long march, a sensation. Later, Xuanxuan dictated the West Line, by the disciples of the defense machine recorded into the "Great Tang West" 12 volumes. But the book is mainly about the history, geography and traffic of the countries seen on the road, and there is no story. And to his disciples Hui Li, Yan Yan wrote the "Great Tang Da Tzu-en Temple of the Three Tibetan Masters", for Xuanxuan's experience added a lot of mythological color, from then on, the story of the Tang monk's passage began to spread widely in the folk. Southern Song Dynasty has "Da Tang Three Tibetans Take The Poems", the Jin Dynasty Academy has "Tang San Tibetan", "Peach Society" and so on, yuan dramas have Wu Changling's "Tang San Tibetan West Day Take the Bible", the nameless "Two Lang God Lock Qi Dasan", Yang Jingxian's "West Travels" and so on, these have laid the foundation for the creation of "West Travel."

Wu Cheng-en is also in folklore and words, opera on the basis of the hard re-creation, completed this makes the Chinese nation proud of the great literary masterpiece.