From the first time in The Journey to the West, Wu Cheng'en in the Ming Dynasty, the original sentence is:
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; Spend the night under the cliff, in the cave at the top of the mountain.
Translation:
In the mountains, monkeys can walk and jump, eat vegetation, drink spring water, pick flowers, eat fruits from trees, make friends with wolves, insects, tigers, leopards, roe deer and other animals, and keep company with macaques and apes; Sleep under the cliff at night and play in the cave in the morning.
Extended data:
This passage is the first description of the Monkey King in Journey to the West. In form, rhetoric is often used, such as parallelism (eating vegetation, drinking spring water, picking mountain flowers and looking for trees and fruits); Duality (such as staying under a cliff for the night, facing the peak hole) vividly depicts a smart, lively and unrestrained the Monkey King with short sentences (such as picking mountain flowers and looking for trees and fruits).
Since the beginning of the world, the Monkey King was born from immortal stones. He led the monkeys into water curtain cave and became the Monkey King, who was honored as the "Monkey King". After worshipping Bodhi as a teacher, Qian Shan was named the Monkey King, and learned the superb spells of the earth demon, such as seventy-two changes, somersault cloud and immortality.
Smart, lively, loyal and hateful, representing wit and courage in folk culture. The legend of westward journey began to appear in the Tang Dynasty and continued until the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the Ming Dynasty, The Journey to the West, the representative of these legends, appeared.
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