-There were two high
mountains between Jizhou in the south and Heyang in the north. One was called
Taihang Mountain and the other Wangwu Mountain. Both of the mountains were more
than three hundred kilometers around and rose as high as 3,000
meters.
在冀州的南面，河陽的北面，有兩座巍峨的大山，壹座是太行山，壹座是王屋山，方圓七百裏，有萬丈高。
Just to the north
of the mountains lived an old man called Yu Gong who was nearly ninety years
old. With the two high mountains just in front of his house, his family and he
had to walk a long way around the mountains when they had something to do on the
other side of the
mountains.
山的北邊住著年近九十歲的愚公，他的家門被山擋住，每次外出都要繞過大山，多走很多路，很不方便。
One day, Yu Gong
called all his family together to talk about how to move the two mountains to
other places. His wife said, "An old man like you cannot even move a small hill,
not to mention the two high mountains. Even if you can, where can you throw so
much earth and
stone?"
愚公把全家人召到壹起商量要把兩座大山移走。妻子說："憑妳的力量，連壹座小山丘也移不走，何況這兩座大山呢？再說，妳就是能移走，那土石往哪裏放呢？"
"The
Bohai Sea is big enough to contain all the earth and stone." Yu Gong said.
It
was decided. His children started to dig the mountains, led by the old man Yu
Gong.
愚公說："渤海那麽大，可以把土石扔到渤海裏去。"
於是，愚公便帶領子孫們挖起山來。
A man named Zhi Sou saw
them working and tried to stop them with a smile, "You are so silly! You're so
old and weak that you can't even take away the grass and trees. How can you move
the high
mountains?"
河曲的智叟看見了，笑著阻止道："妳呀，真是太傻了！以妳的殘年余力，連山上的壹根草都動不了，更何況這壹座大山呢？
"You're
wrong." Yu Gong said with a sigh. "Look, my sons can continue my work after my
death. When my sons die, my grandchildren will continue. So generation after
generation, there's no end. But the mountains can't grow higher. Don't you think
I can move them away?"
Seeing the old man so confident, Zhi Sou was
tongue-tied.
"愚公嘆了口氣說道："妳錯了，妳想想，我死了以後還有我的兒子，我的兒子又有兒子，子子孫孫沒有窮盡的呀！可是山上的土石不會增加，還怕挖不走嗎？"
看著愚公如此自信，智叟無法可說了。
Later
the Heaven God was reported the story of Yu Gong, and greatly moved by the old
man's determination. He then ordered another god to come down and take the two
high mountains
away.
後來，愚公移山的事被天上的玉皇大帝知道了。玉帝被愚公堅忍不拔的精神所感動，便派大力神誇娥氏把兩座大山背走了。
The story tells us that so long as one is determined and sticks to it long enough, anything can be done, no matter how difficult it is.
這個故事告訴我們：只要有決心，有毅力，再難的事情也能辦成。