由于大量民间因素的留传,后人读到《西游记》某处会不由产生似曾相识之感。由本事、诗话、平话、杂剧到最终定型为一部完整的神魔小说,很重要的原因就是民间因素的渗入和积累,量变最终引起质的变化。这里所说的民间因素,主要指的是民间文学作品中常见的母题,以及本来就属于民间的神话和传说。本文旨在浅析《西游记》所隐含的几个民间母题。 As a result of a large number of folk elements of stay, future generations read “Journey to the West,” somewhere will not produce a sense of deja vu. From the ability, poetry, ping dialect, drama to the final shape for a complete story of the gods and demons, a very important reason is the infiltration and accumulation of folk factors, quantitative change eventually lead to qualitative changes. The folk factors mentioned here mainly refer to the common motifs in folk literature as well as the myths and legends that have always belonged to the folk. The purpose of this article is to analyze several folk motifs implied in Journey to the West.