第十一回 · 太尉引路 Marshal Zhu Leads the Way — Journey to the West

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太尉引路 Marshal Zhu Leads the Way

那nà太tài尉wèi執zhí一yì首shǒu引yǐn魂hún旛fān，在zài前qián引yǐn路lù。崔cuī判pàn官guān隨suí後hòu保bǎo著zhe太tài宗zōng，徑jìng出chū幽yōu司sī。太tài宗zōng舉jǔ目mù而ér看kàn，不bú是shì舊jiù路lù，問wèn判pàn官guān曰yuē：「此cǐ路lù差chà矣yǐ？」判pàn官guān道dào：「不bú差chà。陰yīn司sī裡lǐ是shì這zhè般bān，有yǒu去qù路lù，無wú來lái路lù。如rú今jīn送sòng陛bì下xià自zì轉zhuǎn輪lún藏zàng出chū身shēn，一yī則zé請qǐng陛bì下xià遊yóu觀guān地dì府fǔ，一yī則zé教jiào陛bì下xià轉zhuǎn托tuō超chāo生shēng。」太tài宗zōng只zhǐ得dé隨suí他tā兩liǎng個gè引yǐn路lù前qián來lái。那nà太tài尉wèi执zhí一yì首shǒu引yǐn魂hún旛fān，在zài前qián引yǐn路lù。崔cuī判pàn官guān随suí后hòu保bǎo著zhe太tài宗zōng，径jìng出chū幽yōu司sī。太tài宗zōng举jǔ目mù而ér看kàn，不bú是shì旧jiù路lù，问wèn判pàn官guān曰yuē：「此cǐ路lù差chà矣yǐ？」判pàn官guān道dào：「不bú差chà。阴yīn司sī里lǐ是shì这zhè般bān，有yǒu去qù路lù，无wú来lái路lù。如rú今jīn送sòng陛bì下xià自zì转zhuǎn轮lún藏zàng出chū身shēn，一yī则zé请qǐng陛bì下xià游yóu观guān地dì府fǔ，一yī则zé教jiào陛bì下xià转zhuǎn托tuō超chāo生shēng。」太tài宗zōng只zhǐ得dé随suí他tā两liǎng个gè引yǐn路lù前qián来lái。

逐句解 Line by line

那nà太tài尉wèi執zhí一yì首shǒu引yǐn魂hún旛fān，在zài前qián引yǐn路lù。那nà太tài尉wèi执zhí一yì首shǒu引yǐn魂hún旛fān，在zài前qián引yǐn路lù。

The marshal took up a soul-guiding banner and went before to lead the way.

引魂旛 (yǐn hún fān) a 'soul-summoning pennant' for conducting spirits. 一首 here serves as a measure-word for the banner.

崔cuī判pàn官guān隨suí後hòu保bǎo著zhe太tài宗zōng，徑jìng出chū幽yōu司sī。崔cuī判pàn官guān随suí后hòu保bǎo著zhe太tài宗zōng，径jìng出chū幽yōu司sī。

Magistrate Cui followed behind, guarding Taizong, and they passed straight out of the shadow-court.

保著 durative zhe, 'keeping guard over.' 幽司 the dark administration, the netherworld offices.

太tài宗zōng舉jǔ目mù而ér看kàn，不bú是shì舊jiù路lù，問wèn判pàn官guān曰yuē：「此cǐ路lù差chà矣yǐ？」太tài宗zōng举jǔ目mù而ér看kàn，不bú是shì旧jiù路lù，问wèn判pàn官guān曰yuē：「此cǐ路lù差chà矣yǐ？」

Taizong lifted his eyes and saw that this was not the road by which he had come, and asked the magistrate, 'Is this the wrong way?'

差矣 'is it in error?'; 差 here chà, 'wrong.'

判pàn官guān道dào：「不bú差chà。陰yīn司sī裡lǐ是shì這zhè般bān，有yǒu去qù路lù，無wú來lái路lù。判pàn官guān道dào：「不bú差chà。阴yīn司sī里lǐ是shì这zhè般bān，有yǒu去qù路lù，无wú来lái路lù。

'Not wrong,' said the magistrate. 'It is so in the world of shade: there is a road out, but no road back.'

有去路，無來路 'a way to go, but no way to return' — the one-directional geography of the underworld.

如rú今jīn送sòng陛bì下xià自zì轉zhuǎn輪lún藏zàng出chū身shēn，一yī則zé請qǐng陛bì下xià遊yóu觀guān地dì府fǔ，一yī則zé教jiào陛bì下xià轉zhuǎn托tuō超chāo生shēng。」如rú今jīn送sòng陛bì下xià自zì转zhuǎn轮lún藏zàng出chū身shēn，一yī则zé请qǐng陛bì下xià游yóu观guān地dì府fǔ，一yī则zé教jiào陛bì下xià转zhuǎn托tuō超chāo生shēng。」

'Now we send Your Majesty out by way of the Wheel of Transmigration — for one thing, to let you tour and behold the Land of Shades; for another, to set you toward rebirth and deliverance.'

轉輪藏 the revolving Wheel of Rebirth; 藏 zàng. 一則…一則 'on the one hand… on the other'; 一 read yī. 轉托超生 to pass through rebirth toward deliverance.

太tài宗zōng只zhǐ得dé隨suí他tā兩liǎng個gè引yǐn路lù前qián來lái。太tài宗zōng只zhǐ得dé随suí他tā两liǎng个gè引yǐn路lù前qián来lái。

Taizong could only follow the two of them as they led the way forward.

只得 dé, 'had no choice but to.' The route out doubles as the tour of hell that fills the passages to come.

總評 Commentary

The return is deliberately not the way in: the magistrate explains the underworld's one-way logic and reframes the tour of hell as at once sightseeing and a soteriological passage through the Wheel of Rebirth. The passage is a hinge, turning the chapter from the tribunal toward the long descriptive tour of the hells that follows.