Journey to the West

The Child Who Breathes Fire

Test 6, Red Boy on Roaring Mountain

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A child hangs from a high branch in a pine forest while the travelers pass along the path below.
Illustration from Master Li Zhuowu’s Commentary on Journey to the West, Ming woodblock, 1620sOriginal

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The Roaring Mountain road was thick with trees and dark there at noon. Somewhere a child was crying.

They followed the sound to a tree. A boy of about seven hung upside down from it, with rope around his ankles.

Sanzang got down off the horse and Wukong stepped in front of him. “Master, that is not a child.”

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