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Historical unsolved cases

This is a historical unsolved case for hundreds of years. In the 1920s, Hu Shi and Lu Xun demonstrated from scholars in Qing Dynasty that The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en, a tribute student in Jiajing period of Huai 'an. However, judging from the various versions of The Journey to the West that can be seen at present, none of them is written under the signature of Wu Cheng'en. Beijing Library Publishing House published a book "Talking about Wu Cheng'en —— Revealing the Author Problem of The Journey to the West" (by Shen Chengqing), suggesting that the author of The Journey to the West was not Wu Cheng'en, but Li Chunfang, the "Prime Minister of Qing Dynasty" during the Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. The idea of textual research is to start with the word "Jiao" in Huayang Teachers College at the beginning of The Journey to the West of Shidetang, compare the story changes and development of additions, deletions and corrections in Biographies of Explaining Hubei by Yang Zhi, The Journey to the West and Zhu, demonstrate The Journey to the West's creative process, straighten out the publishing order of the three versions, and combine the three doctrines of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism embodied in them. Wu Cheng'en wrote a poem, "To the Piedmont of Sok Li", and this piedmont is the name of Li Chunfang. Li, a native of Xinghua, Jiangsu Province, was the number one scholar in Jiajing period. He was promoted to Zaifu because of his excellent writing of Qing Ci. When I was young, I studied in Huayang Cave, Jiangsu Province, so I was nicknamed "Master Huayang Cave". He was appointed to attend the Yongle ceremony of the general school. There is a poem by The Journey to the West in the ninety-fifth chapter: "Colorful fragrance, a barren mountain suddenly smells fragrant;" Qinghehai Millennium Rainbow, Changchun Tangdian. Flowers and trees are elegant, and wild flowers are moist and fragrant. In ancient times, there were sacred relics left by elders, but today, there is a bright monarch who is happy to descend to the treasure hall. Shen Chengqing found that the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh sentences of this poem implied that "the old man in Li Chunfang stayed behind", and the frontispiece "Huayang Dong Tian Master School" meant "compiling the Journey to the West". There is a folk legend that Su Xun, one of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties, was lonely in his later years, and his son Su Shi wrote some strange novels to relieve boredom. He wrote some story fragments and the origin of the characters in The Journey to the West, but after all, for entertainment, his book was not completely finished, and was later circulated and supplemented by Wu Cheng'en. It can be said that there is a lot of religious knowledge in The Journey to the West. Su Shi is a Buddhist, and he also has a friend, the monk Fo Yin. Besides, Su Shi is a literary genius with rich cultural accomplishment, so it is not surprising that this book was written by this writer. Hu Shi and Lu Xun claimed that Wu Cheng'en was the author of The Journey to the West, based on The Records of Huai 'an Prefecture, which will be published tomorrow. These records recorded that Wu Cheng'en was The Journey to the West, but they didn't explain why they published such a book. Xianfeng reprinted Huai 'an Prefecture Records in Qing Dynasty, and deleted this article. At the end of 1983, Mr. Zhang pointed out in the article "Is Journey to the West Written by Wu Cheng'en?" During the 300-odd years from the advent of The Journey to the West to the 1920s, all kinds of publications were edited by Zhu, or only edited by Huayang without the author's name, or written by Qiu Chuji, and none of them recognized Wu Cheng'en's copyright. 192 1 Hu Shi's Preface to the Journey to the West also said that this work was "written by an unknown novelist after the middle of Ming Dynasty". Later, Mr. Lu Xun argued that Wu Cheng'en said that Hu Shi got the materials copied by Mr. Lu Xun, and he also held this opinion in the Textual Research on Journey to the West. However, a careful study of their textual research is based on two indirect materials and only one direct material.

One of indirect materials

Wu Yumou (1698- 1773) Yang Shanzhi Volume 4: The Apocalypse (referring to the Apocalypse of Huai 'an House) Mr. Lie (referring to Wu Cheng'en) is the pioneering work of modern literary gardens, and the cloud "Minhui, learning from others, is the foundation of poetry. I didn't know why I was waiting for a book, but I read Huai Xian Wen Mu written by Mr. The Journey to the West. Textual research on The Journey to the West's old name is Certificate, which means that it conforms to the purpose at that time, and the Taoist Garden in Yuan Yu is orderly. This book was written by a real person at the beginning of Qiu Changchun's stay in his country. And the county hope refers to the hand of a gentleman. After the apocalypse, Mr. Wang is not far away. What he said must be true. It was written at the beginning of Changchun, Italy. Mr. Zhi wrote popular romances, such as The History of the Three Kingdoms. The author was Chen Shou, and the name of the romance was Luo Guanzhong. There are many dialects in my hometown in the book, and there is no doubt that many people go out to Huai. Or cloud: there is a biography of Journey to the West, written by Mr. Sheyang. The Journey to the West has been published for nearly 200 years, and the only basis for judgment is the publication of Huai 'an Official Records tomorrow. His right to speak is actually similar to ours.

The second indirect material

Ruan Kuisheng (1727- 1789), Tea Guest Talk, Volume 21: According to old records, she is said to be sensitive and wise. Her poems and essays are full of good and interesting. I'm sorry I didn't notice the title of Miscellaneous Notes, but the book Huaixian Wenmu contains the popular Journey to the West in Sheyang. This is the beginning of the popularity of this book in the next season, and people in the hutongs are happy to talk about it, but this is unheard of before. ..... According to the ambition of Ming County, it was written by Sheyang, and the ambition of Sheyang is not far away. How can he make a name for himself with the novels of secular yuan people? Or Changchun has this record at the beginning, and Sheyang is so romantic that it is extremely illusory and changeable; For example, Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. When you look at dialect slang, it's all spoken in the street with a rural accent in Huaishang. Women and children in the street can understand it, but others can't understand it at all. It's undoubtedly from the hands of people in Huaishang. The only basis for judgment here is still the disclosure records of Huai 'an Prefecture. According to Lu Xun's analysis, Ruan Kuisheng was actually written according to the fourth volume of Wu Yu's Yang Shanzhi, because it followed the mistake of the book, that is, "reviving good humor" means "reviving good humor" in Huai 'an area. Both Wu and Ruan mentioned Huaishang dialect in their books, but they all affirmed that Wu Cheng'en's works were circumstantial evidence after The Journey to the West. However, there has been a great debate on the dialects in the novel in academic circles. Huang Taihong's Postscript to the Journey to the West in the early Qing Dynasty proves that there are many Jinling dialects in the book. In Qing Dynasty, Wu Cheng'en was also listed as the author by Ding Yan's Preface to the Stone Pavilion and Jiao Xun's Drama. However, they are either based on the records of Huai 'an government or the records of the Tea Party, which means that there is only one basis for granting copyright to Wu Cheng'en.

direct material

Records of the Apocalypse of Huai 'an Mansion, Volume 19, Records of Arts and Literature, and Huaixian Wenmu: Wu Cheng'en: Sheyang Collection, Volume 4; Preface to Chunqiu Zhuan; Journey to the west. According to this material, Mr. Zhang demonstrated it from both positive and negative aspects. Positive: The Records of Huai 'an Prefecture does not specify the number of volumes or times of Wu Cheng'en and The Journey to the West, nor the nature of this article. There are often two works of the same name in history. For example, in the early Qing Dynasty, and Tang each had a batch of banknotes in Dongjiang. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was a novel called "The Legend of Ruyi Jun" ... An Guo, who was about 20 years older than Wu Cheng'en, also wrote The Journey to the West, but it was a travel book. Therefore, it cannot be concluded that The Journey to the West in Wu Cheng'en is The Journey to the West. On the other hand, Huang Yuchuo, a well-known bibliophile in the early Qing Dynasty, recorded the following geographical categories in his Historical Eight Pieces: Journey to the South by Tang Hezheng, The Journey to the West in Wu Cheng'en, and Travel Notes of Siming Mountain by Chen Ming, which was first published in The Journey to the West in the 20th year of Wanli (1592) and lasted for more than half a century. It is already a famous book, but Huang Yuji published Wu Cheng'en. Experts believe that there have been different opinions about the authors of The Journey to the West, and most people deny that they were written by Wu Cheng'en. Others think that the author of The Journey to the West was considered as Li Chunfang in the past. It is not convincing to rely on a poem in The Journey to the West to imply Li Chunfang. This can only be a family opinion. To truly solve the historical mystery of The Journey to the West's author, we need to further explore more first-hand information.