(Translation) 不禽不獸
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Translator(s) | Participants of 2018 Hanmun Summer Workshop (Intermediate Training Group) | |
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Year | 2018 |
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Student translation : (Althea Volpe)
The Feng Huang lived so long that every bird went to the court to congratulate him and only the bat didn't show up. The Feng, blaming it, said: "You are inferior to me so how can you be so arrogant?" The bat replied: "I have feet so I belong to the beasts' race, why should I congratulate you?" One day it was the Qi Lin birthday and the bat didn't show up again. Also the Qi Lin blamed the bat. The bat replied: "I have wings so I belong to the birds' race, what should I congratulate for?" The Feng Huang and the Qi Lin gathered and talked about the bat's matter and, complaining for the indignation they both felt, said: "Now in an evil and ungenerous world, there is even a crowd of neither bird nor beast that moves from place to place and there is really nothing you can do about it."
- Discussion Questions:
+ How would we render Fenghuang? (Fenghuang bird? Phoenix?) How about Qilin?
+ For 壽, wouldn't it be better to say "banquet/celebration for its long life"?