Journey to the West (Chinese opera) explained

Journey to the West
Place:	China
Orig Lang:	Chinese
Genre:	zaju

Journey to the West (西游记) is a Chinese Yuan dynasty zaju (opera) play. It was one of the longest opera works of the Yuan dynasty. The author is generally believed to be the playwright Yang Jingxian who was active during the late Yuan dynasty. The oldest known version of the play was discovered in the Japanese Cabinet Library in 1927. The play consist of twenty-four acts and is one of the sources for Wu Cheng'en's Ming dynasty novel Journey to the West.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Li Zhanpeng. "The Discovery, Collation and Research of the Miscellaneous Opera of Journey to the West". Journal of Neijiang Normal University, 2013, 28(9):50-54.
2. Book: Zhuo . Xinping . Religious Faith of the Chinese . 26 December 2017 . Springer . 978-981-10-6379-4 . en.
3. Book: Xu . Shuofang . Sun . Qiuke . A History of Literature in the Ming Dynasty . 22 January 2022 . Springer Nature . 978-981-16-2490-2 . en.