(CFP)

The new TV version of Journey to the West directed by China's renowed director and producer Zhang Jizhong started on January 5.

The TV series is based on the classic Chinese novel with the same name, one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature. Before the TV series was aired, stills of the series were posted on the Internet, resulting in disputes and hot debates among netizens for their distance from people's imagination about the roles in the novel.