原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
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 quatrain caps the bridge-scene before the emperor is hurried onward.
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, spirits howling; 號 háo, 'to cry out.' 萬丈 'ten-thousand zhàng,' a hyperbole of height; 丈 zhàng.
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) fierce and hideous. The couplet caps the bridge-scene with its grim wardens.
The closing quatrain distills the rhapsody into a single grim tableau — the howling of the damned, the towering waves of blood, and the ferocious Ox-Head and Horse-Face at their eternal watch. It is the last and most concentrated image of the hell-tour before the emperor is hurried on toward the City of the Wrongfully Dead.