On October 8, 2005 (September 6, 2005 in the lunar calendar), the memorial hall of Wu Chengen was opened. Chuzhou is the hometown of Wu Chengen, the author of "Journey to the West". In 2004, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Wu Chengen's birth, the government of Chuzhou District, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province decided to build a new memorial hall in Wu Chengen's former residence, which includes literary research, celebrity commemoration, traditional education and cultural expo. It was completed on October 8, 2005. At the same time, the launching ceremony of the 40-episode TV series "Wu Chengen" was also held on the opening day of the memorial hall. This TV series, prepared by the Film and Television Center of the China Artists Association, will recreate Wu Chengen's rough and great life and the writing process of "Journey to the West". Wu Chengen (about 1506-1582), the character Ru Zhong, named Sheyang Shanren, Huaian, Huaian, Jiangsu Province, was an outstanding novelist in the Ming Dynasty, and the author of the famous mythological novel "Journey to the West". Wu Chengen was talented and intelligent from a young age, with a wide range of interests and talents. He was skilled in painting, good at calligraphy, liked to fill in lyrics and music, was also very proficient in Go, and liked to collect books and paintings of celebrities. When he was a teenager, he was famous in his hometown for his outstanding literary skills, and was appreciated by people, who thought that he passed the imperial examinations and was "like picking up a mustard". But the truth is quite the opposite. He was extremely unsuccessful in the imperial examinations. How many times did he fail to pass the exams, and he was not admitted to a one-year-old Gongsheng until he was 45 years old. Due to his frustration, poor circumstances and poverty, he was once scolded and laughed at by snobs. This experience deepened his understanding of the feudal officialdom, the corruption of the officialdom, and the cool world in society, and planted the seeds of unrest and rebellion in his soul. Wu Chengen was different from the customs and straightforward throughout his life. The reason why he was so high and tried so many times may have something to do with his unwillingness to make disobedient theories to please Shangguan. He hated corrupt officialdom, did not want to go against his original heart, and took a negative attitude towards the dark reality. He wrote in the poem "Erlang Searching Mountain Tu Ge": "The disaster turned out from the clothes, not the ape crane but the sandworm. Sitting and watching the Song Dynasty use five ghosts, I did not see Yu Ting kill the four evils. The wild man is so grateful, and he sighs three times in the wind. His chest is worn with the knife to cut evil, and he is powerless to hate peace. Saving the moon has an arrow to save the bow of the sun, how can there be no heroes in the world? Who can give me Lin Feng and keep Qing Ning Gong for a long time. "He believes that the formation of" civil disasters "and the ugliness of social reality lie in the fact that the rulers use people poorly and let bad people like" five ghosts "and" four evils "rule. He wants to" give Lin Feng ", practice" kingly ", and turn the world around, but his talents are not met, and his ambitions have not been rewarded. He can only be generous and sigh in the wind. Although the stills of the TV series" Journey to the West "and" Journey to the West "were written by Wu Chengen in his later years, he made lifelong preparations. As a child, Wu Chengen often followed his father around the ancient temples and jungles in the suburbs of Huai'an, listening to many beautiful and magical mythological stories. He had a habit of listening to strange stories since he was a child. When he was in a private school, he often read "The History of Wild Words" secretly without his father and teacher. As he got older, this hobby continued unabated. After the age of 30, the strange stories he searched for were "full of chest", and he had plans to create. Around the age of 50, he wrote the first dozen times of "Journey to the West", but then he was interrupted for many years for some reason. It was not until he resigned from office and returned to his hometown in his later years that he was able to finally complete the creation of "Journey to the West". Wu Chengen, like Wu Chengen, once wrote a novel "Yuding Zhi". In the preface to this book, he said that although his novels and mythological novels are written by gods and ghosts, they are actually aimed at "the human world", in order to place his political ideals, whip evil forces, and make readers "creepy and easy to worry". He did not do nothing, or search for wonders and differences to talk about and laugh about. The same is the purpose of his creation of "Journey to the West". In the forty-five chapters of "Journey to the West", it is written that when Sun Wukong arranged the clouds, thunder, and rain of the god of nature, he specially ordered Deng Tianjun of Lei to say: "Old Deng carefully watch for me that official who is greedy for dirty and bad laws, disobeyed the unfilial son, and beat a few more people to death!" What Sun Wukong hated the most was "the official who was greedy for dirty and bad laws", which is completely consistent with Wu Chengen's special hatred of corrupt officials in many poems. In the mythological world of "Journey to the West", there are shadows of the human world everywhere: the surface of the sacred palace is extraordinary, but the supreme Jade Emperor is wise and foolish, very stupid, very stupid, and the heavenly court is similar to the dynasty on earth; the underworld is strict, the officials protect each other, greedy and dirty, and the innocent people have injustice, which is no different from the yamen on the ground; the devil is eager to kill and eat people, greedy for money and lustful, relying on magic spells to dominate one side, and does nothing. It is simply the embodiment of the bully and bureaucracy in the world. " Journey to the West also writes about some human countries, where most of the rulers are "not virtuous in writing, bad in martial arts, and the monarch is not moral", which is also a portrayal of the crimes of the Ming Dynasty court monarchs and ministers who brought disaster to the country and the people. The Monkey King portrayed by Wu Chengen is jealous of evil and has great powers. Under its golden hoop, all the monsters and ghosts who are called fierce and crazy have lost their former prestige, or died, or were captured, which reflects Wu Chengen's strong desire to sweep away the ugly and evil forces in society, and is also the democratic essence of Journey to the West. Wu Chengen's literary talent is multi-faceted. In addition to "Journey to the West" and the aforementioned "Yuding Zhi", he also wrote many poems with a clear and elegant style, which are collected in "Mr. Sheyang's Inventory". Wu Chengen's former residence Huai'an Wu Chengen Memorial Hall Wu Chengen's Tomb Wu Chengen's Tomb is located in Erbao Village, Madian Township, southeast of Huai'an City, east of the South Main Canal east of the east embankment of the Grand Canal. Wu Chengen's cemetery is square in shape, surrounded by small ditches and separated from the outside world, covering an area of about 2,000 square meters. The diameter of the tomb foundation sealing soil is 5 meters and the height is 1.5 meters. In front of the tomb, there is a 1.5-meter-high stone tablet, engraved with the words "Jingfu Ji Shan Wu Chengen's Tomb" in yin. 10 meters south of the tomb, there is an archway with 4 columns and 3 doors and ridges. The column is 8 meters high, and the Hengfang book has the words "Wu Chengen's Tomb" in regular script. There is an ancient pavilion in the west of the tomb, with four corners flying upturned, allowing visitors to the garden to rest. The north of the pavilion is a corridor, and the north end of the corridor is the gate to enter and exit the cemetery. Three meters northeast of Wu Chengen's tomb is the tomb of his father Wu Rui. The cemetery is planted with Shu pine and dozens of weeping willows. In September 1987, together with his former residence, it was announced as a cultural relics protection unit by the Huaiyin Municipal People's Government. Since it was opened to the outside world for more than 10 years, people at home and abroad and primary and secondary school students have often gone to pay tribute, pay tribute, and sweep. In December 1974, the tombs of Wu Chengen and his father Wu Rui were Since the investigators only saw the "Epitaph of Xianfu Bin" at that time, but not Wu Chengen's coffin, they did not know that Wu Chengen's tomb had been excavated. In August 1981, the Huai'an Municipal People's Government organized a special person to visit Wu Chengen's cemetery and found the front stall of Wu Chengen's coffin in Madian Township (engraved with Wu's official title "Jingfu Ji Shan"), so they found Wu Chengen's cemetery. The tomb was immediately cleaned up, and a three-mu plot of land centered on Wu's tomb was requisitioned, and small channels were dug around it to build Wu Chengen's cemetery.