罗懋登著《三宝太监西洋记通俗演义》,简称《西洋记》,是晚明的一部著名小说,历来颇受研究者重视。该书虽以明永乐、宣德年间郑和出使三十余国的经历为框架,但故事主体乃是神魔之争和种种奇闻异事,所以人们都将之归入神魔小说,而不把它看作历史演义。与此相应,该书虽以郑和命名,但实际上最重要的人物是金碧峰(碧峰长老),他相当于《西游记》中的孙悟空,而郑和则近似于唐僧。根据鲁迅《中国小说史略》的概括,《西洋记》“第一至第七回为碧峰长老下生、出家及降魔之事,第八至十四回为碧峰与张天师斗法之事,第十五回以下则郑和挂印、招兵西征、天师及碧峰助之、斩除妖孽、诸国入贡、郑和建祠之事也。”这种格局也与《西游记》前七回为孙悟空出世及大闹天宫、第八至十二回写取经缘起、第十三回以下才是唐僧师徒四人西天取经的结构机杼相同。在征服西洋各种妖魔鬼怪过程 Luo Mao, “Sambo eunuchs of the Western minds popular romance”, referred to as “Western mind”, is a famous novel in the late Ming, has always been quite popular researchers. Although the book is based on the experience of Ming Yongle and Zheng He’s ambassador to do more than thirty countries during the Ming Dynasty, the main body of the story is the dispute between demons and gods and magical things, Think of it as a historical romance. Correspondingly, though the book is named after Zheng He, the most important person in fact is Jin Bifeng (elder Bifeng), who is equivalent to Monkey King in Journey to the West, while Zheng He is similar to Tang Seng. According to Lu Xun’s “A Brief History of Chinese Fiction”, “Western Records” “The first to the seventh back to Bifeng elders, monks and monsters, the eighth to fourteenth back to Bifeng and Zhang Tianshi fighting things , The fifteenth back Zheng Zheng and the following print, recruit Western expedition, Heavenly Master and Bifeng help cut the evildoer, all countries tribute, Zheng He Jian Temple thing also. ”This pattern also with the“ Journey to the West ” The first seven back to the Monkey King was born and Havoc in Heaven, the eighth to the twelfth back to write about the origin, the thirteenth back is the Tang monks mentoring four Western learning structure of the same machine. In the process of conquering a variety of demons in the West