Workers prepare a stone monkey from India, which is considered
to be the origin of China's mythical character Sun Wukong, or the
Monkey King who helped its master Husan Tsang succeed in obtaining
the Buddhist sutra after toiling to India in the fiction 'Journey
to the West' by Wu Cheng'en at the National Museum in Beijing
December 17, 2006. The stone money will be on display on December
27 as part of celebrations for China-India Friendship Year
2007.
(Beijing Times December 19, 2006)
