Once upon a time, there was a deep blue sea. And in that big blue sea, there was a small island! A very beautiful island, with white sandy beaches that glittered under the sun. On that island, there was a mountain. On that mountain, flowers bloomed and sweet fruit grew…This mountain - was called “Hua-Guo-Shan”: Flower-Fruit-Mountain.
从前啊,有一片蓝蓝的海洋。蓝蓝的海洋上有一座小岛,一座非常美丽的小岛! 在阳光下，岛上的白沙滩闪闪发光! 岛上有座山。山上有花有果！这座山，叫做花果山。
Now it is on Hua-Guo-Shan that our story begins…
我们的故事啊，就从花果山讲起…
在花果山的山顶上有一块石头。一块奇怪的石头！它非常大：高三丈六，宽二丈四！第一眼看上去它就是块灰色的石头，但在温暖阳光下它却发出了紫色的光，而在银色的月光下它又发出了翠绿色的光。有人说那块石头,是从神仙女娲手中落下的…不过那已经是很久很久以前的事了。如今，几乎所有人都已忘记石头是从哪里来的。我们只知道它非常非常的古老...
On the highest peak of Hua Guo Shan, that mountain of flower and fruit, there was… a stone. A strange stone it was: thirty-six feet tall and twenty-four feet wide! At first glance, it was a gray stone. Yet, under warm sunshine it shimmered purple, and under moonlight it shone a jade green… Some say that the stone dropped from the hands of the goddess Nüwa, when she had repaired the sky. But all that happened a long, long time ago. Now, almost all had forgotten from whence the stone came. All we know, is that it was very, very old…
有一天，一件奇怪的事发生了：石头自己开始动了！最开始，它扭了扭…又跳了跳！然后…电闪雷鸣！咔嚓的一声巨响... 石头啊，裂成了两半！从石头里蹦出了一个什么呢? 哇!它有两只毛茸茸的手，两条毛茸茸的腿，一条长长的尾巴…和一双好奇的眼睛!
One day, something strange happened: the stone, it began to move! First, it wiggled. And then... a hop! And then…lighting flashed, and thunder roared! And with an almighty CRACK, the stone… split into two! And from inside the stone, do you know what came leaping out? Why, something with two fuzzy arms and two fuzzy legs; one long tail, and a pair of curious eyes!
你能猜出这是什么吗？
Can you guess who this someone was?
若你猜的是猴子，恭喜你，猜对了！不过，这可是一只石猴哦 － a Stone Monkey！石猴挠了挠它的头, 眨了眨好奇的眼睛…而从那双眼睛里啊射出两道金光！那光真亮–穿过了云朵一直射进了天上的灵霄宝殿!
If you guessed a Monkey , then congratulations! You guessed right! However, this was a Stone Monkey - a shi-hou! The Stone Monkey scratched its head, and blinked curious eyes… and from those eyes shone two beams of brilliant light! That light shone so brightly that it shot straight through the clouds and into the celestial palace in the sky!
而在天上,玉皇大帝惊醒了。“你感觉到了吗？”他问了问王母娘娘。“不用理它”，王母娘娘答道。“对我们神仙来说，凡间的事算什么？” 然后他们又闭上了眼睛，在午夜的天空里安然入睡...
And high in the sky, the Jade Emperor stirred in his sleep. “Did you feel that?” He asked the Heavenly Queen. “Pay it no mind”, came the Queen’s reply, “for what are earthly matters to gods?” And so they shut their eyes and slumbered peacefully in a midnight sky…