Ming And Qing Dynasties "journey To The West To Accept The Situation Analysis

"Journey to the West" is the representative of evil spirit novels. Since its publication in middle period of Ming Dynasty until now, it has attracted scholars'attention of each period by virtue of its outstanding characteristics in thought and art, thus it has handed down for generations but immortal. They have explained "Journey to the West" in different ways and each point of view has a distinct era characteristic. Therefore, we want to trace to its source, to investigate it from an era which is relatively close to its publication and has a relatively high research value, this era is the end of Ming Dynasty.Appraisal about "Journey to the West" mainly appeared sporadically on note, preface and postscript at the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, which is often the awareness criticism. Therefore, we choose another three sequels of"Journey to the West"in this period "Supplement to Journey to the West" "Journey to the West (sequel)" " Post Journey to the West " as breakthrough to analysis the state of acceptance of "Journey to the West" in this period. Through the analysis of the theme, plot design as well as the character image, etc. of the sequels, we assume that the Buddhism thought of the "Journey to the West" was accepted mainly by the three sequels at the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, it is not a book to explain religious justice, but to express the philosophy of life, the understanding of life. They accepted and strengthened the side of satirizing the reality , In comparison to the original work, its entertainment decreased while argumentation increased.