Okay, here is the translation following your instructions: By the way, Wu Cheng'en（《Journey to the West》author question revealed)

Author: Shen Chengqing
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Publishing Date: 2000-07-01
Features: Since the publication of Journey to the West during the Wanli era of the Ming Dynasty, its author has remained a mystery. The author of this article has consulted a vast amount of literature for reference, utilizing their expertise in various fields of study. By integrating knowledge from folklore, poetry, calligraphy, geography, and other common areas, and spending nearly five years in gradual research and deduction, they have concluded that Journey to the West has no connection with Wu Cheng'en, revealing its true author. This has overturned the long-standing erroneous conclusion in the literary world that "Wu wrote Journey to the West" for over seventy years, adding a significant stroke to the history of research on Chinese classical literary masterpieces. Journey to the West remains shrouded in an authorship mystery. There are three versions of Journey to the West: Yang Zhihe's Journey to the West, Zhu Dingchen's Legend of Deliverance from Calamities, and the Newly Printed Large Character Edition of Journey to the West from the Shide Hall. If one delves into the relationship between these three versions and pays attention to the inscription "Corrected by the Master of Huayang Cave" at the beginning of the Shide Hall edition, this mystery should not be difficult to solve. However, the scholars Hu Shi, Lu Xun, and Zheng Zhenduo mistakenly reversed the publication order of the three versions, compounded by numerous historical reasons, leaving this mystery unresolved. The author of this book starts with the character "corrected" in "Corrected by the Master of Huayang Cave" and conducts in-depth research, comparing the changes and developments in the storylines of the three Journey to the West versions—only additions, deletions, and revisions—thereby arguing for the process of the novel's composition and clarifying the publication order of the three versions. Furthermore, by analyzing the historical context in which the novel was published and combining the ideological threads of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism it embodies, the author traces back to prove the experience and identity of the author of Journey to the West. This book employs knowledge from various fields such as bibliography, textual criticism, history, local chronicles, rhetoric, logic, literature, and philosophy, integrating common knowledge from folklore, poetry, calligraphy, and geography for extensive references. After nearly five years of gradual research and deduction, the author concludes that Journey to the West has no connection with Wu Cheng'en, revealing its true author as Li Chunfang, known as the "Poet Laureate of the Jiajing era" of the Ming Dynasty. Who is the true author of Journey to the West? For four hundred years since its composition, the debate has raged. Based on a wealth of historical materials, Mr. Shen Chengqing, the author of this book, starts with a head-reading poem in Journey to the West, boldly hypothesizes, and meticulously examines, pointing out that Lu Xun and Hu Shi's claim that Wu Cheng'en is the author of Journey to the West is flawed due to inadequate references. By comparing and analyzing the three "Journey to the West" books (Yang Zhihe's edition, Zhu Dingchen's edition, and the Shide Hall edition), the author confirms that the Shide Hall edition was the latest to be compiled, thereby refuting the assertion that "the author of Journey to the West is Wu Cheng'en" and deciphering the mysterious "Master of Huayang Cave." Who is the true author of Journey to the West? The answer lies within the book.