新城王欽文太翁家，有圉人王姓，幼入勞山學道。久之，不火食。惟啖松子及白石，遍體生毛。既數年，念母老歸里，漸復火食，猶啖石如故。向日視之，即知石之甘苦酸鹹，如啖芋然。母死，復入山，今又十七八年矣。
新城王钦文太翁家，有圉人王姓，幼入劳山学道。久之，不火食。惟啖松子及白石，遍体生毛。既数年，念母老归里，渐复火食，犹啖石如故。向日视之，即知石之甘苦酸咸，如啖芋然。母死，复入山，今又十七八年矣。
In the household of old Master Wang Qinwen of Xincheng there was a groom whose surname was Wang. As a boy he had gone into Mount Lao to study the Way. After a long time he stopped eating cooked food. He ate only pine nuts and white stones, and hair grew all over his body. Some years later, thinking of his aged mother, he came home, and little by little went back to cooked food; but he still ate stones as before. He would hold a stone up to the sun and look at it, and at once he knew whether it was sweet or bitter, sour or salty. He ate it as if it were taro. When his mother died he went back into the mountains. It has now been another seventeen or eighteen years.