原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
含詞賦 With rhapsody
帝王儀容
The Emperor Arrayed
戴一頂沖天冠，穿一領赭黃袍。戴一顶冲天冠，穿一领赭黄袍。
繫一條藍田碧玉帶，踏一對創業無憂履。系一条蓝田碧玉带，踏一对创业无忧履。
貌堂堂，賽過當朝；貌堂堂，赛过当朝；
威烈烈，重興今日。威烈烈，重兴今日。
好一個清平有道的大唐王，起死回生的李陛下。好一个清平有道的大唐王，起死回生的李陛下。
逐句解 Line by line
戴一頂沖天冠，穿一領赭黃袍。
戴一顶冲天冠，穿一领赭黄袍。
He wore a sky-piercing crown and donned a robe of ochre-yellow.
沖天冠 the 'heaven-piercing' cap of the sovereign; 冠 the noun, guān. 赭黃袍 the ochre-yellow robe reserved for the emperor.
繫一條藍田碧玉帶，踏一對創業無憂履。
系一条蓝田碧玉带，踏一对创业无忧履。
He fastened a belt of Lantian green jade and trod in a pair of 'founding, care-free' boots.
藍田碧玉 the famed green jade of Lantian. 創業無憂履 boots styled for 'founding the enterprise without care.' 繫 xì.
貌堂堂，賽過當朝；
貌堂堂，赛过当朝；
His countenance imposing, surpassing the courts of the age;
賽過當朝 'outshining the reigning court'; 朝 cháo.
威烈烈，重興今日。
威烈烈，重兴今日。
his majesty blazing, flourishing anew this very day.
重興 (chóng xīng) 'to flourish again'; 重 chóng, 興 xīng — the phrase marks the reborn emperor's fresh start.
好一個清平有道的大唐王，起死回生的李陛下。
好一个清平有道的大唐王，起死回生的李陛下。
What a Tang king, ruling in peace and virtue! What a Lord Li, risen from death to life!
清平有道 'peaceful and possessed of the Way,' the ideal of a good reign. 起死回生 'to rise from death and return to life' — the chapter's epithet for Taizong.
總評 Commentary
The regalia rhapsody re-crowns the emperor, cataloguing crown, robe, jade belt, and auspiciously named boots to reassert his authority after the humbling passage through death. Its closing couplet — 'risen from death to life' — makes the visual restoration explicit: the trappings of sovereignty are also the sign that the underworld has released him whole.