User blog comment:B214/Volume 23 discussion blog/@comment-178.235.147.3-20170515201248/@comment-114.4.78.172-20170521172106

Just because The Journey to the west was written in 16th century does not mean the story happened at that time, the story actuallyl was around the Tang Dynasty which is around 6th century. It means that Sun wokong is at least more than 1000 years old. That's without counting the time when he was sealed before the beginning of Journey to the west. He could easily reach 2000 years