The purpose of the study is using the perspective of "ethical reading" to examine how the author of "The Journey to the West" expands multiple thinking about human relations as well as putting a nation and family in order through the structure of a "family". At the development of stories in "The Journey to the West", the religious facts of Xuanzang going to the Western regions and bringing scriptures back, the facts have been added with increasingly rich ethical connotations until the version in late Ming Dynasty. Consequently, the paper first focuses on "Huaguo Mountain" and "the team that obtained scriptures", the two important parts of the novel, to probe into how the author gave ethical significance through the perspective of a "family". Secondly, the paper focuses on chapters 27 to 31, the story about Wukong being banished by the monk Tang to analyze the subject of "banishment and return" to conclude the reasons for the occurrence of conflicts. In "The Journey to the West", the "monk" taking heaven and earth, as well as the passerby as his family, reflects the author's imagination of the settlement of his life in peace.