玄奘

玄奘 is the historical pilgrimage figure behind the取经 tradition discussed in 43.西游记：咄！你是什么妖精！. The episode separates the real travel background from the later novel-world team, using that gap to show how [[JourneyToTheWest|《西游记》]] grew through Accretive Text Formation rather than direct transcription of history.

The source connects 玄奘 to multiple character origins. [[SunWukong|孙悟空]] is partly related to stories around Shi Pantuo and travel assistance; [[ShaWujing|沙和尚]] is connected to the deep-sand deity and the motif of nine previous取经 lives; [[ZhuBajie|猪八戒]] appears later in the lineage and therefore shows how the team itself changed over time.

Connections

• [[JourneyToTheWest|《西游记》]] - later literary and mythic development of the pilgrimage tradition.
• [[SunWukong|孙悟空]], [[ZhuBajie|猪八戒]], and [[ShaWujing|沙和尚]] - novel companions whose source histories differ.
• Accretive Text Formation - concept for the distance between historical travel and literary classic.
• Mythic Source Layering - religious and folk layers added around the pilgrimage story.