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What are the image characteristics of stone monkeys?

In the last sentence of the first natural paragraph of The Birth of the Monkey King, we can see that this is a stone monkey with humanity, honesty and agility.

Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon on a Journey to the West is an excerpt from the first episode of The Journey to the West, one of China's four classical novels. Author Wu Cheng'en in Ming Dynasty, the article mainly tells that a fairy stone on Guo Hua Mountain gave birth to a human-like stone monkey.

When playing with the monkeys, this stone monkey was regarded as the monkey king by the monkeys because he dared to jump into water curtain cave first, showing the characteristics of liveliness, cuteness and fearlessness.

Text analysis:

Monkeys are in the mountains, but they can walk and jump, eat vegetation, drink streams and springs, pick mountain flowers and find trees and fruits; Keep company with wolves and insects, tigers and leopards as a group, roe as a friend and apes as relatives; This passage describes the cleverness and bravery of the little monkey, who stays under the cliff at night and faces the peak hole.

The author wrote the free life of the stone monkey after birth with a few strokes in parallel and concise language. It laid the groundwork for later aragonite monkeys to dare to enter the cave.