五行山下
Under the Five-Element Mountain
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孙悟空大闹天宫，打来打去，谁也打不赢他。玉皇大帝没有办法，就请西天的如来佛祖来帮忙。
如来佛祖笑着问：“你为什么要在天宫里打人？”孙悟空大声说：“玉皇大帝坐的那把椅子，应该让我来坐！我会七十二变，还有筋斗云，一个筋斗就能飞十万八千里。我是齐天大圣，谁也比不上我！”
如来佛祖说：“好，我们来比一比。你站到我的右手上，如果你能跳出我的手心，天宫就给你。如果跳不出去，你就回花果山去，再学几千年吧。”
孙悟空想：“这个人真傻！他的手那么小，比一张桌子还小。我一下就能飞出去！”他跳到如来佛祖的右手上，大叫一声：“我走了！”就翻了一个筋斗，一下子不见了。
他飞啊飞啊，飞了很久很久，看见前面有五根粉红色的柱子，很高很高，一直高到天上。他想：“这里一定是世界的最边上了。我得在这里写点什么，回去才有人信我。”他把一根毛变成一支笔，在中间的柱子上写了八个大字：“齐天大圣到此一游”。写完了，他想了想，又在第一根柱子下面撒尿。他笑着说：“这下好了，谁也不能说我没来过！”
他又翻了一个筋斗，飞了回来，站在如来佛祖的手上，大声说：“我已经到了世界的最边上，还在那里写了字。快把天宫给我！”
如来佛祖说：“你这只猴子，你一直都在我的手上，哪儿也没去！”孙悟空说：“不可能！不信，你跟我去看看！”如来佛祖说：“不用去，你自己看看我的手吧。”
孙悟空一看，如来佛祖右手的中指上，写着八个小字：“齐天大圣到此一游”。大拇指下面，还能闻到猴子尿的味儿。原来，那五根柱子，就是如来佛祖的五根手指！孙悟空吓了一大跳：“这怎么可能？我不信，我再去看看！”
他刚要跳起来，如来佛祖把右手往下一翻，把孙悟空推了出去。五根手指变成了五座连在一起的大山，叫五行山，一下子就把孙悟空压在了下面。
孙悟空的头还在外面，可是他怎么也出不来。他大叫：“放我出来！放我出来！”如来佛祖又拿出一张纸，上面写着六个字，把它贴在山上。这下，这座山动也不动，孙悟空再也出不来了。
如来佛祖回西天的时候，对山上的神仙说：“他饿了，就给他吃铁丸子；他渴了，就给他喝铜水。”
就这样，孙悟空被压在五行山下面，等啊等，一年，十年，一百年……一共等了五百年。春天下雨，冬天下雪，他每天只能看着天，再也不能飞了。
他还不知道，有一天，一个从东边来的和尚会走过这座山，要去西天。到那时，齐天大圣的新故事，才刚刚开始。
Key words
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 办法 | bànfǎ | way; method; means |
| 变 | biàn | to change; to become; change; transformation |
| 张 | zhāng | surname Zhang |
| 跳 | tiào | to jump; to leap |
| 不见 | bújiàn | not to see |
| 久 | jiǔ | long (time) |
| 一直 | yìzhí | always; all along; continuously |
| 一定 | yídìng | surely; certainly; must |
| 世界 | shìjiè | world |
| 毛 | máo | surname Mao |
| 变成 | biànchéng | to change into; to turn into; to become |
| 信 | xìn | letter |
English (for the teacher)
Sun Wukong was wreaking havoc in heaven, fighting this way and that, and nobody could beat him. The Jade Emperor didn't know what to do, so he asked the Buddha from the Western Paradise to come and help.
The Buddha smiled and asked: "Why are you hitting people in the Heavenly Palace?" Sun Wukong said loudly: "That chair the Jade Emperor sits in should be mine! I know the Seventy-Two Changes, and I have my Somersault Cloud: one somersault and I can fly a hundred and eight thousand li. I am the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, and nobody can compare with me!"
The Buddha said: "Fine, let's have a contest. Stand on my right hand, and if you can jump out of my palm, heaven is yours. If you can't jump out, you go back to your Flower Fruit Mountain and study for a few thousand more years."
Sun Wukong thought: "What a fool this man is! His hand is so small, it's smaller than a table. I can fly out of it in one go!" He jumped onto the Buddha's right hand and shouted: "I'm off!" He turned a somersault and was gone in an instant.
He flew and flew for a long, long time, until he saw five pink pillars ahead of him, so tall that they reached all the way up into the sky. He thought: "This must be the very edge of the world. I'd better write something here, so people will believe me when I get back." He turned one of his hairs into a brush and wrote eight big characters on the middle pillar: "The Great Sage Equal to Heaven was here." When he finished writing, he thought for a moment, and then he peed at the foot of the first pillar. He laughed and said: "There, now nobody can say I never came!"
He turned another somersault, flew back, stood on the Buddha's hand and said loudly: "I've already been to the very edge of the world, and I wrote my name there too. Hurry up and give me heaven!"
The Buddha said: "You monkey, you've been on my hand the whole time and haven't gone anywhere!" Sun Wukong said: "Impossible! If you don't believe me, come with me and see!" The Buddha said: "No need to go. Just look at my hand."
Sun Wukong looked, and on the middle finger of the Buddha's right hand were eight small characters: "The Great Sage Equal to Heaven was here." And at the base of the thumb, you could still smell monkey pee. So the five pillars had been the Buddha's five fingers all along! Sun Wukong got a huge fright: "How can this be? I don't believe it, I'm going to look again!"
Just as he was about to jump up, the Buddha flipped his right hand over and pushed Sun Wukong out. The five fingers turned into five big mountains joined together, called the Five-Element Mountain, and in an instant they pinned Sun Wukong underneath.
Sun Wukong's head was still outside, but no matter how he tried, he couldn't get out. He shouted: "Let me out! Let me out!" Then the Buddha took out a piece of paper with six characters written on it and stuck it on the mountain. Now the mountain didn't move at all, and Sun Wukong could never get out.
When the Buddha went back to the Western Paradise, he said to the gods on the mountain: "When he's hungry, give him iron pellets to eat; when he's thirsty, give him melted copper to drink."
And so Sun Wukong lay pinned under the Five-Element Mountain and waited and waited: one year, ten years, a hundred years... Five hundred years in all. Spring rain fell, winter snow fell, and every day all he could do was look at the sky; he could never fly again.
He didn't know yet that one day a monk coming from the east would pass by this mountain on his way to the West. And then the Great Sage's new story would only be beginning.