About Journey to the West
"Journey to the West" was written slightly earlier than "Romance of the Gods", so many people want to define Journey to the West with the immortal system of the gods, which is obviously inappropriate. For example, Nezha in the gods is Taiyi Zhenren who created the lotus root incarnation for him, but it is clearly written in the Journey to the West: The Buddha is preaching to the Bodhisattvas, and I only heard someone shouting on the cover of the banners: "Help!" The Buddha saw it and knew that it was the soul of Nezha, that is, the green lotus root was the bone, the lotus leaf was the clothes, and the mantra of resurrection was moved, and Nezha was killed.
And most readers have read a lot of novels about the flood famine, and they like to substitute one of the immortal systems that transmit the three friends and the two religions to expound and separate, but they will always find a lot of unreasonable places.
Writing about Journey to the West is still dominated by the Journey to the West system, using the gods and the flood as some supplements, and perhaps some small changes will be made for the sake of the rationality of Journey to the West. "Journey to the West" is a historical satirical novel, Wu Chengen greatly updates hundreds of words a day, which can be described as a pearl of words, and the deep meaning is also difficult to understand.
However, I also tried to interpret the Journey to the West in a simple way, and I hope that you will be able to find anything behind!