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Version 1 (Oct 1950 – National Day) Long night shrouded China’s dark, unbroken sky;A century of fiends ran wild, passed by.Five hundred million people torn, denied.One cock’s crow bursts – day breaks, all darkness flies;From every land, sweet songs from Khotan rise.Poets’ joy soars high, unmatched, unties.
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There was a king who was willing to pay a thousand pieces of gold for a horse that could run a thousand li without stopping. However, he tried in vain for three years to find such a steed.
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A charlatan informed the King of Yan that he could make him immortal, and the prince bade one of his subjects learn this art; but before the envoy could do so the stranger died. Then the prince, in great anger, executed his subject.
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Tang Monk was so terrified by what he had just heard that his bones seemed to turn to jelly.
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“Did you count their warriors and steeds?” growled the demon.
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Sun Wukong scooped a bit of dust and threw it into the air while reciting an invisibility spell to make himself invisible. Then he turned toward the southwest, filled his lungs with air, and blew with all his might. In the blink of an eye, a hurricane-force wind erupted forcing the crowd to shield…
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Tang Monk wins the meditation contest with the help of the Monkey King. The king wanted to hand him the travel permit, but once again Great Immortal Deer Strength intervened, saying: