A Textual Research On "Eighty - One Difficulties" In Journey To The West

"Journey to the west", as one of the four major writing in ancient China, has the extremely important status in the history of Chinese literature. With the romance of The Three Kingdoms "journey to the west", such as zhanghui novel similar, their writing process have undergone a historical, the script for story telling, Pinghua, opera stage, after a long spread, finally by a writer as a masterpiece. As main content of "journey to the west", "eighty-one ordeals" has also undergone a process of gradually evolved.This paper tries to learn from the Chinese story source of study of the basic process of the evolution of development, with an eye to have close relationship with "eighty-one ordeals" the story of the related literature, the "eighty-one ordeals" story in history, culture, literature, etc.Comprehensive cultural ecological environment research, analytical and national cultural psychology of religious belief. Under the action of tension, "eighty-one ordeals" story development and evolution of the rules, explore the comprehensive cultural connotation of the journey to the west.Therefore, in this paper, according to the historical development of combing the historical evolution of "eighty-one ordeals", and on the basis of literature review, discusses the "eighty-one ordeals" the story of religious, cultural, political, and social characteristics. The main contents include:First, "eighty-one ordeals", produced in the Tang Dynasty historical records. During this period, learn from the story mainly recorded by history, involving "Datang Western mind" and "Tripitaka master biography" two books. The "ordeals" to describe the natural "ordeals" and people "ordeals" mainly. Among them, "Datang Western mind" is the originator of the "eighty-one ordeals" story.Second, the "eighty-one ordeals" in song and yuan dynasties records. During this period,learn from the "ordeals" gradually increase the deification of the composition. The main characters learn by XuanZang master to become master XuanZang and the monkey king’s two people, and has become the main west walker.Third, the "eighty-one ordeals" in the Song Dynasty and recorded in the drama. The period in "eighty-one ordeals" difficult to learn team has basically formed, reduce the natural environment of the "ordeals" description, the mythical battle of wits "ordeals" description gradually increased, artistic characteristics than before with a great progress.Fourth,the "eighty-one ordeals" in Yuan and Ming, Pinghua and Baojuan in the records.Pinghua and Baojuan, although simple, but in character and content is extremely rich, has beengradually approaching the "journey to the West." Fifth, "eighty-one ordeals" story evolution law and cause of formation. Buddhism, Taoism,Confucianism and other various factors carved inlay in various stages of "eighty-one ordeals" story, factors between each game, checks and balances and communion in the story of "eighty-one ordeals"; "strange" cultural psychology of the Chinese nation, promote the "eighty-one ordeals", character and environment such as magic color evolution, under the joint action of religious and ethnic traditional culture psychology, "eighty-one ordeals" story combines a multi religious, cultural, political and social characteristics.