Journey to the West: The Monkey King · chapter 1 of 25
The Stone Monkey
石猴
A stone on Flower Fruit Mountain splits open, and its stone egg becomes a monkey with blazing golden eyes. Heaven shrugs. Then the monkeys find a waterfall nobody dares to enter.
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- Narrator 很久很久以前，东海边的花果山上，有一块大石头。它天天看着太阳和月亮。
Hěn jiǔ hěn jiǔ yǐqián, Dōng Hǎi biān de Huāguǒ Shān shang, yǒu yí kuài dà shítou. Tā tiāntiān kànzhe tàiyáng hé yuèliang.
Long, long ago, on Flower Fruit Mountain by the Eastern Sea, there sat a great stone. Day after day, it gazed at the sun and the moon.
- Narrator 有一天，石头开了，一个石头蛋掉了出来。风一吹，石头蛋变成了一只猴子。
Yǒu yì tiān, shítou kāi le, yí gè shítou dàn diào le chūlai. Fēng yì chuī, shítou dàn biànchéng le yì zhī hóuzi.
Then one day the stone split open, and out rolled a stone egg. The wind blew on it, and the egg became a monkey.
- Sun Wukong 风好舒服！我会动了！我会走了！
Fēng hǎo shūfu! Wǒ huì dòng le! Wǒ huì zǒu le!
The wind feels so good! I can move! I can walk!
- Sun Wukong 东边，西边，南边，北边……大家好！我来了！
Dōngbian, xībian, nánbian, běibian… dàjiā hǎo! Wǒ lái le!
East, west, south, north… hello, everybody! Here I am!
- Sun Wukong 啊？我的眼睛里有金光！好亮啊！
Á? Wǒ de yǎnjing li yǒu jīnguāng! Hǎo liàng a!
Huh? There's golden light in my eyes! It's so bright!
- the Jade Emperor 哪里来的金光？天宫都亮了！千里眼，顺风耳，快去南天门看看！
Nǎli lái de jīnguāng? Tiāngōng dōu liàng le! Qiānlǐyǎn, Shùnfēng'ěr, kuài qù Nántiān Mén kànkan!
Where is this golden light coming from? The whole Heavenly Palace is shining! Thousand-Li Eye, Wind-Following Ear, hurry to the Southern Gate of Heaven and look!
- the Jade Emperor 什么？花果山上，石头里出来了一只猴子？
Shénme? Huāguǒ Shān shang, shítou li chūlai le yì zhī hóuzi?
What? A monkey came out of a stone on Flower Fruit Mountain?
- the Jade Emperor 哈哈，天地生的东西，没什么奇怪的。他吃了东西，喝了水，金光就没了。
Hāhā, tiāndì shēng de dōngxi, méi shénme qíguài de. Tā chī le dōngxi, hē le shuǐ, jīnguāng jiù méi le.
Ha ha! Things born of heaven and earth are nothing strange. Once he has eaten and drunk, the light will go out.
- Little Monkey 爷爷，你看！那边有一只新来的猴子！
Yéye, nǐ kàn! Nàbian yǒu yì zhī xīn lái de hóuzi!
Grandpa, look! There's a new monkey over there!
- Old Monkey 孩子，你从哪儿来？你的爸爸妈妈呢？
Háizi, nǐ cóng nǎr lái? Nǐ de bàba māma ne?
Child, where did you come from? Where are your mother and father?
- Sun Wukong 爸爸妈妈？我没有。我是从石头里跳出来的！
Bàba māma? Wǒ méiyǒu. Wǒ shì cóng shítou li tiào chūlai de!
A mother and father? I don't have any. I jumped out of a stone!
- Little Monkey 从石头里跳出来的？哈哈！石头也会生猴子吗？
Cóng shítou li tiào chūlai de? Hāhā! Shítou yě huì shēng hóuzi ma?
Out of a stone? Ha ha! Can stones have baby monkeys too?
- Sun Wukong 会啊！所以我叫石猴。我可以跟你们一起玩儿吗？
Huì a! Suǒyǐ wǒ jiào Shí Hóu. Wǒ kěyǐ gēn nǐmen yìqǐ wánr ma?
They sure can! So my name is Stone Monkey. Can I play with you?
- Old Monkey 可以，可以！从今天起，花果山也是你的家了。
Kěyǐ, kěyǐ! Cóng jīntiān qǐ, Huāguǒ Shān yě shì nǐ de jiā le.
Of course you can! From today on, Flower Fruit Mountain is your home too.
- Little Monkey 石猴，给你果子！……啊，你眼睛里的金光没有了！
Shí Hóu, gěi nǐ guǒzi! … À, nǐ yǎnjing li de jīnguāng méiyǒu le!
Here, Stone Monkey, have some fruit! …Oh! The golden light in your eyes is gone!
- Narrator 从那天起，石猴天天跟猴子们一起吃果子、喝河水，在山上跑来跑去。
Cóng nà tiān qǐ, Shí Hóu tiāntiān gēn hóuzimen yìqǐ chī guǒzi, hē héshuǐ, zài shān shang pǎo lái pǎo qù.
From that day on, Stone Monkey spent every day with the monkeys, eating fruit, drinking from the streams and racing all over the mountain.
- Little Monkey 今天太热了！我们去河里洗澡吧！
Jīntiān tài rè le! Wǒmen qù hé li xǐzǎo ba!
It's way too hot today! Let's go bathe in the river!
- Sun Wukong 好啊！看谁跳得最远！一，二，三……跳！
Hǎo a! Kàn shéi tiào de zuì yuǎn! Yī, èr, sān… tiào!
Sure! Let's see who can jump the farthest! One, two, three… jump!
- Little Monkey 天哪！石猴一下就跳到了河中间！
Tiān na! Shí Hóu yíxià jiù tiào dào le hé zhōngjiān!
Wow! Stone Monkey landed in the middle of the river in one jump!
- Sun Wukong 哈哈，河水真凉快！可是……这水是从哪儿来的？
Hāhā, héshuǐ zhēn liángkuai! Kěshì… zhè shuǐ shì cóng nǎr lái de?
Ha ha, the water's so cool! But… where does all this water come from?
- Old Monkey 不知道。我这么老了，也没去看过。
Bù zhīdào. Wǒ zhème lǎo le, yě méi qù kàn guo.
I don't know. Old as I am, I've never gone to look.
- Sun Wukong 那我们去看看！走！
Nà wǒmen qù kànkan! Zǒu!
Then let's go and see! Come on!
- Little Monkey 好大的瀑布！水声好大！后边有什么？
Hǎo dà de pùbù! Shuǐ shēng hǎo dà! Hòubian yǒu shénme?
What a huge waterfall! It's so loud! What's behind it?
- Old Monkey 大家听着！谁能进去看看，再出来，一点儿事也没有，我们就叫他大王！
Dàjiā tīngzhe! Shéi néng jìnqu kànkan, zài chūlai, yìdiǎnr shì yě méiyǒu, wǒmen jiù jiào tā dàwáng!
Listen, everyone! Whoever can go in, take a look and come back out without a scratch, we'll make him our king!
- Little Monkey 大王？我也想做大王……可是，我不敢！
Dàwáng? Wǒ yě xiǎng zuò dàwáng… kěshì, wǒ bù gǎn!
King? I'd love to be king too… but I don't dare!
- Old Monkey 谁敢去？谁敢去？谁敢去？
Shéi gǎn qù? Shéi gǎn qù? Shéi gǎn qù?
Who dares to go? Who dares? Who dares?
- Narrator 水声很大，可是没有一只猴子说话。
Shuǐ shēng hěn dà, kěshì méiyǒu yì zhī hóuzi shuōhuà.
The water roared, but not one monkey said a word.
- Sun Wukong 我去！我进去！
Wǒ qù! Wǒ jìnqu!
I'll go! I'll go in!
What changed in the story?
- What came out when the stone on Flower Fruit Mountain split open?
“一个石头蛋掉了出来……石头蛋变成了一只猴子”
- What does the Jade Emperor think of the golden light?
“没什么奇怪的……金光就没了”
- What does the new monkey say about his mother and father?
“我没有。我是从石头里跳出来的！”
- Why do the monkeys go to the river?
“今天太热了！我们去河里洗澡吧！”
- What does Old Monkey promise whoever goes behind the waterfall and comes back unhurt?
“我们就叫他大王”