Jingdong drum music. Short paragraph. One or seven mistakes. Zhao Junliang adapted it from the fable of the same name in 1979.

There is a nest of monkeys surrounding a watermelon, and no one knows how to eat it. The big monkey said: "You should eat the seeds." The second monkey said: "You should eat the flesh." The third monkey said: "It is wrong to eat the seeds and the flesh. You should eat the skin." They smashed the watermelon into pieces, and the third monkey started to eat it first. The skin was off, and the more he ate, the less delicious it became. At this time, the big monkey and the second monkey ate the seeds, tasted the flesh, and gnawed the skin, and finally felt that eating the flesh was the right thing to do. They persuaded Monkey Three to put down the skin and eat the flesh as well. But Little Monkey Three was very face-conscious and didn't want to listen to other people's opinions. As a result, he choked on the watermelon rind and his eyes turned red, tears flowed, and he couldn't breathe. It is intended to illustrate that practice is the yardstick for testing truth, and subjectivism is self-deception.

Performed in 1979 by Zhao Junliang from the Beijing Folk Art Troupe.