Males have to get up early and , having fasted all night , expose themselves to extreme cold while singing their little hearts out to show females that they are worth breeding with .
But though I have wept and fasted , wept and prayed .
尽管我哭泣过斋戒过,哭泣过祈祷过。
For forty days and nights he fasted , and at the end he was quite hungry .
他斋戒四十个昼夜,最后感到非常饥饿.
Walk along a winding river course and you may come upon an abandoned monastery where generations of monks prayed and fasted or a shrine that still draws pilgrims .