The original lead actors of the 1986 television series Journey to the West starred in Wu Cheng'en and Journey to the West and reprised their roles: Liu Xiao Ling Tong as Sun Wukong, Chi Chongrui as Tang Sanzang and Ma Dehua as Zhu Bajie.
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The story itself however is originally based on Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, where two characters of the same name; Monkey and Tripitaka must travel across a landscape with Monkey also at command, the novel being used more as a basis on the plot rather than a straight adaptation.