| | 南海之帝为倏，北海之帝为忽，中央之帝为浑沌。倏与忽时相与遇于浑沌之地，浑沌待之甚善。倏与忽谋⑦报浑沌之德，曰：人皆有七窍以视听食息，此独无有，尝试凿之。”日凿一窍，七日而浑沌死。
The Emperor of the South Sea was called Shu, the Emperor of the North Sea was called Hu, and the Emperor of the central domain was called Hun Tun. Once, Shu and Hu met in the domain of Hun Tun, who treated both of them very well. Thereupon, Shu and Hu deliberated together over the way in which they might possibly repay his goodness.
"All men", they said, "are possessed of seven orifices for seeing, hearing, eating, and breathing. But this one (i.e., Hun Tun) alone does not possess any. Come, let us bore some for him." They went on boring one orifice every day, until on the seventh day Hun Tun died.
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