Journey to the West

The Fruit Shaped Like a Child

Test 1, the ginseng fruit of Wuzhuang

6 min read · Members only

한국어로 읽기 ↗

Progress 0/100% · Members-only chapter. Subscribe to track your progress.

Read

On Longevity Mountain there was a temple called Wuzhuang. One tree stood in its courtyard, and it ripened thirty fruits in ten thousand years.

The fruits were shaped like newborn children. They had eyes and noses, hands and feet, and it took three thousand years to flower and three thousand more to bear.

The master, Zhenyuan, was away that day. He left two boys in charge of a guest. “Give two of them to the monk coming from the east.”

🔒 Subscribe to mark this step complete.