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含詞賦 With rhapsody
奈河橋詩 Verse on the Nai River Bridge
詩曰：诗曰：
時聞鬼哭與神號，血水渾波萬丈高。时闻鬼哭与神号，血水浑波万丈高。
無數牛頭並馬面，猙獰把守奈河橋。无数牛头并马面，狰狞把守奈河桥。
逐句解 Line by line
詩曰：
诗曰：
A poem says:
A four-line verse to cap the bridge before the emperor is hurried on.
時聞鬼哭與神號，血水渾波萬丈高。
时闻鬼哭与神号，血水浑波万丈高。
Now and again are heard the weeping of ghosts and the howling of spirits; the blood-waters churn in turbid waves ten thousand zhàng high.
神號, shén háo, is spirits howling — 號 here is háo, to cry out, not hào, a name or title. 萬丈, "ten thousand zhàng," is a stock exaggeration for enormous height; 丈 is zhàng, a unit of about ten Chinese feet.
無數牛頭並馬面，猙獰把守奈河橋。
无数牛头并马面，狰狞把守奈河桥。
Numberless Ox-Heads and Horse-Faces, ferocious, keep guard over the Nai River Bridge.
猙獰, zhēng níng, is fierce and hideous. Ox-Head and Horse-Face close the scene as they opened the Hall of Judgment — on permanent duty at the worst crossing in the world.
The closing quatrain boils the rhapsody down to one grim tableau: the howling of the damned, waves of blood at an impossible height, and Ox-Head and Horse-Face on their eternal watch.
It is the last and most concentrated image of the hell-tour before the emperor is moved on toward the City of the Wrongfully Dead.