Summarize the main contents of The Journey to the West in about 1 words.
There is a flower and fruit mountain in Aolai, Dongsheng Shenzhou. A stone on the top of the mountain gave birth to a monkey. The stone monkey, named the Monkey King, learned 72 kinds of changes, and a somersault was feasible, calling himself the "Monkey King".
The Jade Emperor sent heavenly soldiers and generals to capture the Monkey King, and the Monkey King defeated the giant spirit god and two generals, Nezha. The Jade Emperor invited the Buddha Tathagata to put the Monkey King under the Five Elements Mountain.
The Tathagata sent Guanyin Bodhisattva to the East to find a Buddhist monk, and came to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures and persuade all sentient beings. Guanyin gave Sanzang the title, went west to Tang Sanzang, and rescued the Monkey King at Wuxing Mountain.
the Monkey King was taken to the west to observe the world, and the white dragon was collected in Yingchoujian, and the white dragon became the mount of Tang Priest. In Gaolaozhuang, Pig Wuneng Bajie was captured, and Pig Bajie became the second apprentice of Tang Priest, and Sha Wujing was captured in Liushahe, and Friar Sand became the third apprentice of Tang Priest. The four of them traveled across mountains and rivers to seek scriptures, and finally got the true scriptures after going through eighty-one difficult.
The Journey to the West is the first romantic chapter-and-verse novel of the ancient China. The Journey to the West, a hundred copies of the existing Ming periodicals, has no author's signature. Scholars in Qing Dynasty, such as Wu Yuqian, first proposed that The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en in Ming Dynasty. This novel is based on the historical event of "Tang priest learning from the scriptures" and deeply depicts the social reality at that time through the author's artistic processing.
The Journey to the West has been widely circulated among the people since it came out, with various versions emerging one after another. There are six editions in Ming Dynasty, seven editions and manuscripts in Qing Dynasty, and thirteen lost editions in ancient books.