太行、王屋两座大山，四面各七百里高达七八千丈。它们原来位于冀州的南部、黄河北岸的北边。
北山脚下有个叫愚公的人，年纪将近九十岁了,面对着山居住。愚公苦于山北面道路阻塞，进进出出曲折绕远。于是愚公召集全家人来商量说：“我和你们用尽全力铲平险峻的大山，使它一直通到豫州南部，到达汉水南岸，好吗？”大家纷纷表示赞同他的意见。愚公的妻子提出疑问说：“凭您的力量，连魁父这座土山都削不平，又能把太行、王屋这两座山怎么样呢？况且把土石放到哪里去呢？”大家纷纷说：“把土石扔到渤海的边上，隐土的北面。”愚公于是带领三个能挑担子的子孙，凿石头，挖泥土，用箕畚运送到渤海的边上。邻居姓京城的寡妇有个孤儿，刚七八岁，蹦蹦跳跳去帮助他们。冬夏换季，才往返一次呢。河曲的智叟讥笑着阻止愚公说：“你太不聪明了。凭你的余年剩下的力气，连山上的一根草都不能毁掉，又能把泥土和石头怎么样？”北山愚公长叹一声说：“你思想顽固，顽固到不能改变的地步，还不如寡妇和弱小的孩子。即使我死了，还有儿子在呀；儿子又生孙子，孙子又生儿子；儿子又有儿子，儿子又有孙子；子子孙孙没有穷尽的，可是山不会增高加大，愁什么挖不平？”河曲智叟没有话来回答。
手持着条蛇的山神听说了这件事，怕他不停地挖下去，向天帝报告了这件事。天帝被他的诚心感动，命令夸娥氏的两个儿子背走了两座山。一座放在朔方的东部，一座放在雍州的南面。
从此，冀州的南部，汉水的南面，没有山岗阻隔了。
愚公移山的故事说 明了要克服困难就必须下定决心,坚持不懈的道理.
Yu Gong Removed the Mountains
There were two high mountains between Jizhou in the south and Heyang in the north. One was called Taihang Mountain and the other Wangwu Mountain. Both of the mountains were very high.
Just to the north of the mountains lived an old man called Yu Gong who was nearly 90 years old. With the two high mountains just in front of his house, his family and he had to walk a long way around the mountains whenever they had something to do on the other side of the mountains.
One day, Yu Gong called Old Man Yu called together his family and said: “I’m going to move these mountains.” The family cheered. His wife said, "An old man like you cannot even move a small hill, not to mention the two high mountains. Even if you can, where can you throw so much earth and stone?"
"The Bo Sea is big enough to contain all the earth and stone," the youngest said. So it was decided. Yu Gong led his family to remove the mountains. The neighbor widow had a seven-year old son who came and help the Yu family. They went between Bo Sea and their home only once from winter to summer.
A man named Zhi Sou saw them working and tried to stop them. He said to Yu Gong: "You are so silly! You're so old and weak that you can't even take away the grass and trees. How can you move the high mountains?"
"You're wrong," Yu Gong said with a sigh. "Look, my sons can continue my work after my death. When my sons die, my grandchildren will continue. So generations after generations, there's no end. But the mountains can't grow higher. Do you still say I can’t move them away?"
Later the Heaven God, upon learning of Yu Gong’s story, was greatly moved. He then ordered another god to come down and take the two high mountains away.
The story tells us that so long as one makes up his mind and sticks to it, anything can be done, no matter how difficult it is.
