Woman claims to be a descendant of the legendary Monkey King
She has "monkey fur" and an "ancestral stone" that supposedly prove her lineage
A woman from Jiangsu province has claimed to be a descendant of Sun Wukong, the famous Monkey King from Journey to the West, a classic tale of Chinese literature.
“Mama’s Concubine” wrote a series of online posts earlier this month describing how her parents had given her “monkey fur” and an “ancestral stone” – two heirlooms that had been passed down from her ancestors, who had lived in Lianyunggang for generations.
“I’m shocked,” the woman wrote on January 4. “Mother just told me that she is an offspring of the Monkey King, which makes me a descendant of him as well! Can this be true?”
In a series of follow-up posts, the woman wrote that she slowly began to believe her mother’s claims and decided to travel to the School of Life Sciences in Shanghai’s Fudan University to have the “monkey fur” and “ancestral stone” examined.