Sun Wukong
Tang Seng
Zhu Bajie
Sandy
Buddha
the Goddess of Mercy
Emperor Taizong
The Jade Emperor
too white venus
Most Exalted Lord Lao ［title for Laozi老子conferred on him by Daoists/Taoists］
East China Sea Dragon King
King of Hell
name of a god in Chinese mythology
Mubai
King Tota
Xihai Longwang
Small White Dragon
Bodhi patriarch
Horse monkey
White-haired monkey
clairvoyance
clairaudient
Old shopkeeper
waiter
Xieyue Sanxingdong Daotong
Taoist priest of Sanxingdong Cave in Xieyue
Woodcutter in Fangcunshan, Lingtai
Wu Quxing Jun.
fiend in human shape
One-horned ghost king
Niu Mowang
Giant spirit god
Imperial horse supervisor cheng
Deputy supervisor of imperial horse room
Barefoot immortal
Queen Mother of the Western Heavens
Erlang Shen
Taiyi saves the suffering Buddha.
Hook someone to death
bodhisattva lingji
Manjusri bodhisattva
lucky star
Lu Xing
god of longevity
Pantaoyuan land
Seven fairies
white crane
Guanjiangkou ghost sentence
King of growth
Hear more about the heavenly king
virapaksa
Chen Guangrui
Yin wenjiao
Liu hong
Gao Taigong
Gaolaotai
Gao Cuilan
Gaocai
constable at village or ward level
Gaojia servant girl
Lishan laomu
Huang Fengguai
Zhenyuan daxian
Wuzhuangguan land
White Bone Demon
Pingdingshan old Taoist priest
King of Wuji kingdom
Queen of Wuji
Prince Wuji
boy
Monk official of Baolin Temple
Jinglongwang
Daoist witch
Eunuch of Wuji country
Red boy
Princess Iron Fan
Jade fox
Huoyanshan land
Wansheng Lao Longwang
Sacrifice the king of Saiguo
Old monk in Jinguangsi
Old abbot of Jinguangsi
Second little monk
priestling
murky
journey to the west
King of Tianzhu kingdom
Queen Tianzhu
Old monk of Bujin Temple
A Nuo
Jia Ye
Jinding daxian
Boatman
Arhat with long eyebrows
Dapeng zunzhe
Tongtianhe Laonian
Creative background:
In the first year of Zhenguan of Emperor Taizong (627), Xuanzang Tianzhu (India), a 25-year-old monk, traveled on foot. After he set out from Chang 'an, he passed through Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and finally arrived in India. He studied there for more than two years, and gave a lecture at a large-scale debate on Buddhist classics, which was praised.
In the 19th year of Zhenguan (645), Xuanzang returned to Chang 'an and brought back 657 Buddhist scriptures, which was a sensation. Later, Xuanzang dictated what he had learned about his journey to the west, which was compiled into 12 volumes of "Records of the Western Regions of Datang" by his disciples. But this book mainly tells the history, geography and transportation of countries seen on the road, and there is no story.
As for "Datang The biography of Master Sanzang" written by his disciples Hui Li and Yan Cong, it added a lot of myths to Xuanzang's experience. Since then, the story of Tang Priest's Buddhist scriptures has been widely circulated among the people in China.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, there were Poems on the Buddhist Scriptures of the Tang Dynasty, while in the Jin Dynasty, there were Tang Sanzang, Pan Taohui, etc. In the Yuan Dynasty, there were Wu Changling's Buddhist Scriptures of Tang Sanzang's Western Heaven, and Wu Ming's The Great Sage of Jitian, etc., all of which laid the foundation for The Journey to the West's creation. It is on the basis of China folklore, scripts and operas that Wu Cheng'en completed The Journey to the West's creation through hard re-creation.