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。
新城王欽文老太爺家裡，有個姓王的馬伕，年少時進勞山學道。日子久了，他不再吃煙火煮熟的食物，只吃松子和白石頭，全身都長出了毛。過了幾年，他想到母親年老，便回了家鄉，漸漸又吃起熟食來，卻仍像從前一樣吃石頭。他把石頭對著太陽一看，就知道它是甜是苦，是酸是鹹，吃起來就像吃芋頭一樣。母親去世後，他又進了山，到如今又有十七八年了。
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。
新城王钦文老太爷家里，有个姓王的马夫，年少时进劳山学道。日子久了，他不再吃烟火煮熟的食物，只吃松子和白石头，全身都长出了毛。过了几年，他想到母亲年老，便回了家乡，渐渐又吃起熟食来，却仍像从前一样吃石头。他把石头对着太阳一看，就知道它是甜是苦，是酸是咸，吃起来就像吃芋头一样。母亲去世后，他又进了山，到如今又有十七八年了。
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.