Ma Jin was not very aware of the troubles outside. Since he came back from Qingyun Temple that day, he has been busy copying "Journey to the West".

During this period, because of the old Taoist's eternal transformation, Ma Jin stopped for a few days. Then, after cooking the old Taoist's funeral, he continued to be busy again.

"Journey to the West" is sometimes called "Journey to the West to the Demons", and this name is taken from the opening poem of the first chapter of "Journey to the West": "If you want to know that the creation will bring about the original merit, you must read "Journey to the West to the Demons to the Demons".

It is the first romantic novel in ancient China, a long novel of gods and demons. Of course, in this time and space, the name of "the first novel of gods and demons" has been snatched by "The Investiture of the Gods".

In the 100-fold version of "Journey to the West" published by the Ming Dynasty that was preserved in later generations, there was no author's signature at first. It was not until the Qing Dynasty scholar Wu Yuli and others that the author of "Journey to the West" was first proposed that the author of "Journey to the West" was Liu... Cough cough... Wu Chengen, this statement, after being inconvenient to discuss in the literary world, was gradually recognized by later generations.

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In fact, this situation is very common. The authors have doubts and controversies about the authors. Luo Guanzhong's "Three Kingdoms" will not be discussed. I have mentioned before that the original version of the Luo version has been deleted and added a lot, from 240 to 120 chapters, which is almost the same as the original version.

As for "The Red Mansion" is a matter of the Qing Dynasty, it is not too long. Cao Xueqin's author is undoubtedly an author, but there are also Gao E who continued to write forty chapters. The Redologists quarreled for half a century over these forty chapters.

As for "Water Margin", let alone, there have been speculations and arguments written by Shi Nai'an's disciple Luo Guanzhong, or jointly written by Luo and Shi.

Compared with the other three books, there are much less debates about whether Journey to the West is Wu Chengen, especially a Mr. Liu who keeps running for Wu. I guess if anyone dares to "fire randomly", Mr. Liu will have to apologize to the people of the whole country...

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Aside from the author, in fact, among the four great classics, Ma Jin loves "Three Kingdoms" the most, followed by "Journey to the West".

Or because of the CCTV 86 version of Journey to the West, young people from nearly two generations of China, regardless of gender, rarely do not like "Journey to the West" or the monkey named Sun.

Moreover, as a well-known Chinese IP, there are countless film, television, literature and animation works adapted from "Journey to the West", Ma Jin also participated in many of the projects as an industry screenwriter.

It can even be said that among the four great classics, Ma Jin participated the most in the "Journey to the West". Therefore, Ma Jin was very familiar with "Journey to the West", which provided great help to his "copying" work.

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As mentioned in the previous article, Ma Jin’s “copying” was not a copy of the original text, nor did he say that he had his own ideas, and had to do something about his own things, but that he had no memory.

Classical novels are concise in words and have broad meanings. They can write a battle directly in one chapter and spend two years of time recording. This requires online writers to write it. If they don’t have enough words, they will make their colleagues laugh at them.

Therefore, it is extremely difficult for such books to remember all the specific articles. After Ma Jin was reborn, he had a far superior memory than ordinary people. He dared not say that he could copy them all, but he could only say that he could roughly remember some plots.

Nowadays, the various novels in the Ma version mostly focus on the general plots recorded in Ma Jin's mind. Then he describes them in detail and polishes them to try to restore the original face of the original work.

Of course, as mentioned before, the original works of books such as "Sui and Tang Dynasties" and "Shuo Yue" have some various problems due to the possible limitations of the times that the author has. Ma Jin also sorted and adapted them to a certain extent for quality reasons.

However, Ma Jin dared to make rectifications in books such as "Sui and Tang Dynasties" because it did have very obvious flaws, but Ma Jin did not move easily in famous works such as "Three Kingdoms" and "Journey to the West".

It’s not that these classic works have no flaws, but that with Ma Jin’s level, if you modify them manually, it may not be better than the original works. In this way, instead of working hard, Ma Jin might as well copy them according to the text.

Otherwise, if Mingzhu is covered in dust in his hands, he would not be able to protect his Wen Zhuan Gong's face.

Therefore, when Ma Jin copied these classic works, in addition to writing more detailed writing details, the plot was almost unchanged, and he still followed the original works.

This is what he did in "Three Kingdoms", and Ma Jin was also prepared for this in "Journey to the West".

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Since we talk about copying the original work of "Journey to the West", we have to say a few more words here.

In fact, many people in later generations know that the original work of "Journey to the West" is very different from the well-known 86 version of Journey to the West TV series. For some reasons, the image and personality of the four-person group of Journey to the West have been beautified to a certain extent.

For example, in later film and television works, Sun Wukong's image is not like a demon king, but is closer to humans and monkeys, heroic and handsome, and even a little cute. How does the original text of Journey to the West describe Sun Wukong's appearance?

【Seven highs and eight lows are lonely and crooked, two yellow eyes, one bows the forehead, and fangs grow outward, just like crabs, meat inside and bone outside】

He is truly an ugly and fierce, and a very lively lady-eating king who can stop crying.

In addition to the image, there is also the character of Sun Wukong. Most works only praise Sun Wukong's positive character, while ignoring his violent and bloodthirsty side. Even if it is slightly expressed, it will be more beautified into hatred of evil.

Similarly, Zhu Bajie is also the most honest and cute person in the TV series and occasionally cunning. Zhu Bajie in the original work is just the opposite, and his mind is full of cunning and laziness.

And there are actually many cute ones, mainly to see if it can hit your cuteness. When Ma Jin was reading a book, he would leave every time and argue with Tang Monk every day, and let the monkey bully him. It was quite fun.

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In addition to the four masters and apprentices, the fairy's side was also very beautified. In the original work, except for a few good monsters like the yellow lion spirit, the rest were more cruel than the other.

Of course, this is understandable, such as the original book, which describes it like this.

【But Sun Dasheng entered the entrance of the cave and watched on both sides. I saw: "The skeleton is like a ridge, the bones are like forests, the hair is like a felt piece, and the skin and flesh are rotten into mud and dust. The tendons are wrapped around the trees, and the dryness is as bright as silver. It is really a sea of ​​corpses and blood. It is indeed a fishy and smelly smell. The little demon in the east took the living person and slashed the flesh; it went west to splash the demon, and boiled the human flesh freshly]

Just when this scene was shot, the world's most terrifying banned films could not be compared. Of course, it had to be beautified when adapted from film and television, otherwise no one would dare to watch it.

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However, this is exactly the charm of the original work of "Journey to the West". If these "moving" descriptions are really gone, it will lose its charm.

When Ma Jin recreated "Journey to the West", he was unwilling to give up this charm, so the Horse version of "Journey to the West" is the same as the original text.
Chapter completed!