Rice
goes up the mountain
Hunter Chu Sanxing and wise man Agudengba
stopped at the edge of the cliff.
They were very thirsty while walking, and
saw a clear spring trickling out of a rock on the edge of the cliff. There was
also a wooden barrel in front of them, which was full of water. Chu Sanxing and
Agudengba opened their mouths and drank from the mountain spring.
After drinking enough, Agudengba raised the
barrel and said: "We have drunk enough, spring water, please don't let it
flow out anymore. It is a waste of resources!" But the spring water is
still flowing and does not stop. .
Agudengba suddenly became furious and
chattered beside the barrel.
When the hunter Chu Sanxing saw it, he
smiled and asked: "Mr. Agudengba, you are a wise man. If you don't want to
drink the spring water anymore, you can just leave. Why must the spring water
stop flowing from the rock?"
Agudengba smiled: "What different
changes have you seen around this cliff?"
Hunter Chu Sanxing looked around:
"There's nothing special about it."
Agudengba said: There are overgrown weeds
around the cliff, but rice is planted on the mountainside. What kind of
invention is this? The plains are barren, and the rice goes up the mountain.
Ha, the springs have dried up. Can the rice survive? I use my stupid behavior
to tell people that there are people stupider than me in the world.
Agudengba sang a song "Rice Going Up
the Mountain":
The
plain fields are covered with grass,
Rice
is grown on the mountainside,
The
wonders of the world are so dazzling,
A
foolish man's plowing is extremely stupid.
Spring
water flows down the cliff,
Who
can make it climb to the top of the mountain?
Time
will never go back,
Only
fools mess around.
Taking the legendary wise Agu Demba as the protagonist, I started to create the Chinese-English version of "Snow Land Fable" using the traditional fable creation method that combines poetry and prose. Writing fableskes me feel like a child again. Studying snowy culture is my prescription to prevent Alzheimer’s di masease.
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