太行、王屋二山，方七百里，高万仞。本在冀州之南，河阳之北。
北山愚公者，年且九十，面山而居。惩山北之塞，出入之迂也。聚室而谋曰：“吾与汝毕力平险，指通豫南，达于汉阴，可乎？”杂然相许。其妻献疑曰：“以君之力，曾不能损魁父之丘，如太行、王屋何？且焉置土石？”杂曰：“投诸渤海之尾，隐土之北。”遂率子孙荷担者三夫，叩石垦壤，箕畚运于渤海之尾。邻人京城氏之孀妻有遗男，始龀，跳往助之。寒暑易节，始一反焉。
河曲智叟笑而止之曰：“甚矣，汝之不惠。以残年余力，曾不能毁山之一毛，其如土石何？”北山愚公长息曰：“汝心之固，固不可彻，曾不若孀妻弱子。虽我之死，有子存焉；子又生孙，孙又生子；子又有子，子又有孙；子子孙孙无穷匮也，而山不加增，何苦而不平？”河曲智叟亡以应。
操蛇之神闻之，惧其不已也，告之于帝。帝感其诚，命夸娥氏二子负二山，一厝朔东，一厝雍南。自此，冀之南，汉之阴，无陇断焉。
Do difficult things by an old person
Taihang, Wong ( the ) two mountain, covering an area of seven hundred, seven thousand or eight thousand cubits high, originally on the south side of Jizhou, the Yellow River, north of the North shore. North of the foolish old man, nearly 90 years of age, facing the mountains to live. He suffers from the mountainous areas in the northern part of obstruction, in ( to ) bypass, called the family to discuss said:" I told you to dig the precipitous mountain, the road leads to the Yuzhou south, arrived at the South Bank of the Han River, can?" We have agreed. His wife put forward doubt to say:" with your strength, even his father the hill and plain, and can Taihang, Wangwu how these two mountain? Besides the earth where?" People have said:" throw it to the edge of the Bohai sea, north of the hidden soil." And the foolish old man led the children can Tiaodan three men went up into the mountain, to cut the stone for digging, basket-ji transported to the edge of the Bohai. Neighbor widow named the capital, an orphan, just seven or eight years old, bounce to help him. Summer and winter season, from a can. A bend in the river on the wise old man laughed at the foolish old man, to prevent him from doing this, said:" you're too smart! With your remaining years and the remaining strength, a blade of grass on the mountain can not move, and can the soil, stone how?" "Yugong heaved a long sigh said:" you thought stubborn, stubborn to the point can not be changed, even the orphans and widows are not. Even I dead, there son; son and grandson, grandson and son; son of another son, son and grandson generation after generation of descendants; inexhaustible, but mountains never increase increase, worry about what dug injustice?" Hequ is a wise old man nothing to answer. Yamagami heard about this matter, afraid of his endless digging down to the emperor of heaven, report. The foolish old man moved by the sincere, ordered Hercules boast e's two sons went back the two mountain, a place in the North East, a seat placed in the south of Yong Zhou. From then on, the south of Jizhou to the South Bank of the Han River, no mountains.