Workers prepare a stone monkey from India, which is considered to be the origin of China's mythical character Sun Wukong, or the Monkey King who helped its master Husan Tsang succeed in obtaining the Buddhist sutra after toiling to India in the fiction 'Journey to the West' by Wu Cheng'en at the National Museum in Beijing December 17, 2006. The stone money will be on display on December 27 as part of celebrations for China-India Friendship Year 2007.

(Beijing Times December 19, 2006)