The original translation of Liaozhai Rakshasa Haishi is as follows:

Ma Ji, whose courtesy name is Long Media, is the son of a businessman. He is personable and talented. He has been free and easy since he was a child. He likes to sing and dance. She often performs with the troupe and wraps her head with a brocade handkerchief, just like a beautiful girl, so she is also known as a "handsome person". He was admitted as a scholar at the age of fourteen and became very famous.

My father was old and frail, gave up doing business, and went home to live idle. He said to Ma Ji: "There are a few volumes of books that cannot be cooked and eaten when hungry, and cannot be used as clothes when cold. My son should inherit them." My father went into business." From then on, Ma Ji slowly started doing business. Once, Ma Ji went overseas to do business with others and was blown away by a hurricane. After drifting for several days and nights, we came to a city.

Everyone here is very ugly. When they saw Ma Ji coming, they thought it was a monster and ran away screaming. When Ma Ji first saw this scene, he was still very scared; but when he realized that those people were afraid of him, he bullied them instead. When he met someone eating, he would run over to them. If they were scared away, he would eat the remaining food. After a long time like this, we entered a mountain village. Some of the people in the mountain village look like humans, but they all have shabby clothes and look like beggars.

The detailed translation is as follows:

Ma Ji was resting under a tree. No one in the village dared to come over and just looked at him from a distance. As time passed, I realized that Ma Ji was not a man-eating monster, so I slowly started to get closer to him. Ma Ji smiled and chatted with them. Although their languages ????were different, he could mostly understand them. Ma Ji told them his origin. The people in the village were very happy and told their neighbors: Visitors will not eat people. But those who looked ugly ran away after looking at him and never dared to come near him.

Those who come have roughly the same facial features as the Chinese. They put out wine and food to entertain Ma Ji. Ma Ji asked why they were afraid of him, and replied: "I once heard my grandfather say that twenty-six thousand miles to the west, there is China. The people there are very mysterious and strange. I only heard it before, but now I believe it." "

Asked why they were so poor, the villagers replied: "What matters in our country is not academic ability, but appearance. Even those who are little can be favored by nobles, receive rewards of food, and support their wives and children. Like us, when we are born, our parents think it is unlucky and are often abandoned by our parents for the sake of continuing the family line. That’s all.

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