Question Three

What have you learned from Journey to the West?
Do you think Monkey King is a superhero?

Chinese myth novel Jorney to the West

Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. It is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. In English-speaking countries, the work is widely known as the Monkey King, the title of Arthur Waley's popular abridged translation.
The novel is an extended account of the legendary pilgrimage of the Tang dynasty Buddhist monk Xuanzang who traveled to the "Western Regions", that is, India, to obtain sacred texts (sūtras) and returned after many trials and much suffering. It retains the broad outline of Xuanzang's own account, Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, but the Ming dynasty novel adds elements from folk tales and the author's invention, that is, that the Buddha gave this task to the monk and provided him with three protectors who agree to help him as an atonement for their sins. These disciples are Sun Wukong, Zhu Wuneng and Sha Wujing, together with a dragon prince who acts as Xuanzang's steed, a white horse.
Journey to the West has strong roots in Chinese folk religion, Chinese mythology, Taoist and Buddhist philosophy, and the pantheon of Taoist immortals and Buddhist bodhisattvas are still reflective of some Chinese religious attitudes today. Enduringly popular, the tale is at onchttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Weste a comic adventure story, a spring of spiritual insight, and an extended allegory in which the group of pilgrims journeys towards enlightenment by the power and virtue of cooperation.

Question Two

Compare and contrast with American superhero like superman with Chinese superhero like Monkey King？

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Monkey King 2015 Hero is Back 西游记之大圣归来

The Hero is Back is a very famous Chinese movie in 2015. It main talks about the Monkey King to aggainst monsters to protect human.

Superhero and Chinese Education

American are very famous with superhero in their life. It is their icon and their culture. I think there are very familar with their story and spirt. All of students are like different kinds of superhero. I see a lot of Spiderman and Iron Man in the Halloween party. As a Chinese teacher that I want to use students familar people and things to teach Chinese novel and culture. Superhero like a popular culture. In addition, the Chinese myth novel Journey to the Weat is the academic content text. Using the diea of superhero to attract students' interest to learn a unfamilar conntect text. I think it will be esay understanding the academic text for American students.

Who is superhero Monkey King

The Monkey King is a superhero in Journey to the West that a very famous Chinese myth novel. In China, we call him Sun wokong. Almost every Chinese know him. We read the graphic novel book and watch animation when we were very young.  In the novel, he is a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers through Taoist practices. After rebelling against heaven and being imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha, he later accompanies the monk Xuanzang on a journey to retrieve Buddhist sutras from India. During the journey that he beat a lof of monsters to protect his master Xunzang. He is a superhero in China like Superman or Spiderman in Amercan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Wukong

Question One

Do you know Chinese superhero? Do you know how many Chinese superhero? What they are?