The Original Text and Translation of The Birth of the Monkey King

Dongsheng Shenzhou has a piece of land overseas called Olego. Ole country is close to the sea, and there is a famous mountain in the sea called Guo Huashan. There is a fairy stone on the top of that mountain, which is pregnant with a fairy fetus. One day it suddenly burst and gave birth to a stone egg the size of a ball. Turn into a stone monkey when the wind blows. Complete facial features and sound limbs.

Stone monkeys walk and jump in the mountains, feed on vegetation, drink mountain spring water, pick mountain flowers, find trees and fruits, keep company with wolves and insects, tigers and leopards, roe deer as friends, and macaques and apes as relatives; Sleep under a cliff at night and wander in caves in the mountains in the morning. Life in the mountains has no concept of time. The slight cold and severe cold in the 24 solar terms have passed, and I don't know that the Spring Festival is coming soon.

On a hot day, a group of monkeys and I went to take a bath in the stream. Look at that fast-flowing water. It's inexhaustible. All the monkeys said, "I don't know where this water comes from." We have nothing to do with leisure today. Let's go to the ravine to find the source! " With a loud cry, all the monkeys came running together and climbed up the hill along the stream until the source was a waterfall and a flying spring.

The monkey clapped his hands and said, "Good water! Good water! Whoever has the ability to go in and find a source to come out, without hurting our health, we will worship him as king. " Taking three breaths, I suddenly saw a stone monkey jump out of the crowd and shouted, "I'll go in!" " I'm going in! "

I saw him squat down slowly with his eyes closed, jump straight into the waterfall spring, suddenly open his eyes and look up. There was no water wave, but it was an iron slab bridge.

The water under the bridge ran between the caves and flooded the bridge door from top to bottom. Look at the bridge again, but it seems to be a place where someone has lived. What a good welfare! The stone monkey looked at it for a long time, jumped from the middle of the bridge, looked around and saw a stone tablet inside.

The tablet reads "Huaguoshan is a blessed land, and water curtain cave is a land of enlightenment". The stone monkey was very happy, so he squatted down with his eyes closed and jumped out of the water and said, "Good luck! What luck! " The monkey came around and asked, "What's it like inside? How deep is the water? "

The stone monkey said, "No water, no water! This is an iron bridge. On the other side of the bridge is the property that fell from the sky. " The monkeys asked, "How can it be family property?"

The stone monkey said with a smile, "This water rushed out of the cave under the bridge and hung upside down to cover the portal. There are flowers and trees by the bridge, which is a stone house. There are stone pots, stoves, bowls and benches in the room. On a stone tablet in the middle, the words' Huaguoshan is a blessed land, and water curtain cave is a land of enlightenment' are engraved. The whole place is where we live. We all go in and live without being angry with God. "

All the monkeys are very happy to hear this. Du Dao said, "You go first and take us in." The stone monkey crouched down with his eyes closed and jumped in.

Then all the monkeys jumped in. Jump off the bridge, grab pots and pans, grab pots and pans to change beds, move over, move over, monkeys are stubborn by nature and can't rest for a moment, only to be exhausted.

As you all said just now, whoever has the ability to go in and out without harming his health will worship him as king. Now I've come in and out and found this cave, so you can sleep in peace. Why not worship me as king? "After hearing this, all the monkeys immediately worshipped the stone monkey, and they all called it" Chitose King ". Since then, the stone monkey has ascended the throne and is called the "Monkey King".

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Appreciation of The Birth of the Monkey King:

This skimming abstract is from the first time of China's classical fairy tale The Journey to the West. This text mainly wrote that a fairy stone on the Guo Hua Mountain gave birth to a stone monkey. When playing with monkeys, the stone monkey is regarded as the monkey king because it dares to jump into water curtain cave first, showing lively, lovely and aggressive characteristics.

According to the sequence of events, this article can be divided into three parts. The first part tells the birth and life of the stone monkey. The second part tells the story of the stone monkey and the group of monkeys looking for the source of the mountain stream and coming to the waterfall. The stone monkey jumped into the waterfall first and found water curtain cave. The third part is about monkeys entering water curtain cave to worship stone monkeys as kings.

This stone monkey is a mythical figure integrating monkeys, gods and people. First of all, he is a stone monkey who feels the essence of the sun and moon. His birth is full of magical colors. Secondly, he has more animal characteristics ── wildness, intelligence and playfulness. Thirdly, he has human thoughts and feelings, alert and intelligent, brave and considerate, and sometimes naive and lively. The author skillfully combines his animal characteristics with his clever and brave personality, making this image attract readers from generation to generation with its infinite charm.

Teaching suggestion

The content of this skimming text is relatively simple. Students can read the text freely and understand the content through self-study. On the basis of students' full reading, let the students talk about how the stone monkey was born and how it became the Monkey King, and check their mastery of the content.

2. After students basically understand the text, they can organize students to discuss the questions they don't understand in groups. Students can be guided to solve incomprehensible words by reading more texts and looking up dictionaries.

It is worth noting that it is impossible and unnecessary to understand all the words in the text. For example, the sentence "Since the cover was opened, it has been naive to show it every time, and it has been sunny for a long time, so it has been well informed", so that students can probably know that "this stone has had aura since Pangu opened the world".

3. Short words, concise language and strong sense of rhythm. Let the students read aloud fully. Teachers should also give guidance on key points, so that students can feel the splendid culture and rich and beautiful language of the motherland on the basis of reading articles.

For example, the action descriptions of "stretching his head and shrinking his neck" and "shouting loudly" in the article highlight the rich, complex, lively and lovely personality of timid monkeys; "Grab pots and pans", "move" and "move" let the monkeys find a place to live, and "stubborn" and "monkey nature" are vividly displayed in front of readers, making people feel immersive.

Most students are familiar with the story of The Journey to the West. This fairy tale, with fairy colors, has created very vivid characters such as the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand, and is deeply loved by children.

After learning the text, you can carry out Chinese activities to let students tell stories about Journey to the West that they read in books, movies and TV plays. While further understanding the Monkey King's heroic image, stimulate students' interest in reading good books and expensive books after class.