《西游记》作者是明代人的新证据

New Evidence of the Author of Journey to the West Living in Ming Dynasty

从百回本《西游记》文本表现出来的大量明代信息来看,《西游记》作者应该是明代人。《西游记》中的许多职务名称都是明代所始置,《西游记》中的许多宫殿名和城门名都是明代所始有,《西游记》中的许多办事机构都是明代所始设,《西游记》还化用了朱元璋的一首诗,并大量引用了明代《增广贤文》中的许多名句。作品中表现出来的这些丰富的明代信息,都足以证明《西游记》作者应该是明代人,吴承恩仍然是《西游记》最可能的作者。

Judged by the massive information about Ming dynasty presented by the novel,the author should have been in Ming dynasty,for the titles of many job headships and offices were originally as-signed,and the names of many palaces and gates of small cities firstly appeared from Ming dynasty.A po-em of Zhu Yuanzhang and many famous sentences in Masuhiro Xian have been partially or wholly quoted in this novel.All these information about Ming dynasty can be the best evidence to prove that the author be-longs to Ming dynasty,and Wu Cheng’en is still the most probable author of the novel.