华北水利水电大学学报（社会科学版）

《西游记》是中国古代长篇小说浪漫主义的高峰,其影响力为中国古典小说四大名著之首。在世界文学史上,它也是浪漫主义的杰作。从十九世纪开始,它被翻译成日、英、法、德、俄等十几种文字流行于世。在近五百年的时间里,《西游记》长盛不衰,影响了一代又一代的中国人,也影响到全世界。《西游记》中除了包含丰富的人生哲理和智慧之外,还是中国古代人民智慧的集大成之作,包含了几千年来中华民族对科学的渴望和追求。《西游记》中许多科学幻想已被现代科学所证实,吴承恩是那个时代的科学和艺术巨人。

Pilgrimage to the West is the top of the romanticism in china ancient long novel. It's on the first rank in China four famous classic novels. In the history of world literature,it is also a masterwork of romanticism. From 19th,it has already been translated into more than ten languages,such as Japanese,English,French,German,Russian. It is popular from it appears,and it influences one after anther China generation,also expands to the whole world. The novel include abundant life philosophy and wisdom,also include the intelligence of ancient Chinese. It includes the science desire and pursuit of the Chinese nation for thousand years. In the < Pilgrimage to the West >,we can see many fantasy that has been realized through modern scientific. Wu chengen is the counterpart of Leonardo da Vinci in the same era. They were all giant in the science and art field.