Journey the The West

Who doesn’t know about Sun Go Kong? The classical chinese character, the King of Monkey that has been cursed by the God because of his malice behaviour, and released by the Goddess with one condition : he has to take a part in a journey to the west looking for the holy book, along with a monk named Tong Sam Cong, and two other companion, Cu Pat Kai and Sha Wu Ching. This story of those quartet is famous as people really like the monkey character. Funny, silly, smart, helpful but also sometimes stubborn, careless, and act like mr know everything. Originally written in a book with the same tittle in the 16th century during Ming Dynasty, and is regarded as one of the greatest Classic Chinese Novel in the history. And countless movies about Sun Go Kong were made. This quartet was not a heroic one. Instead each character even the monk has flaws. But it mainly describe about human behaviour in dealing with problems, money, woman, and power. And in this Cap Go Meh festival, those 4 become the favorite character people queued for taking picture together with. They are the legend. #CapGoMeh #GuideBook #culturefreak