原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
含詞賦 With rhapsody
救苦原身
The Form of Guanyin
瑞靄散繽紛，祥光護法身。瑞霭散缤纷，祥光护法身。
九霄華漢裡，現出女真人。九霄华汉里，现出女真人。
那菩薩，頭上戴一頂金葉紐、翠花鋪、放金光、生瑞氣的垂珠纓絡；那菩萨，头上戴一顶金叶纽、翠花铺、放金光、生瑞气的垂珠缨络；
身上穿一領淡淡色、淺淺妝、盤金龍、飛綵鳳的結素藍袍；身上穿一领淡淡色、浅浅妆、盘金龙、飞彩凤的结素蓝袍；
胸前掛一面對月明、舞清風、雜寶珠、攢翠玉的砌香環珮；胸前挂一面对月明、舞清风、杂宝珠、攒翠玉的砌香环珮；
腰間繫一條冰蠶絲、織金邊、登彩雲、促瑤海的錦繡絨裙；腰间系一条冰蚕丝、织金边、登彩云、促瑶海的锦绣绒裙；
面前又領一個飛東洋、遊普世、感恩行孝、黃毛紅嘴白鸚哥。面前又领一个飞东洋、游普世、感恩行孝、黄毛红嘴白鹦哥。
手內托著一個施恩濟世的寶瓶，瓶內插著一枝灑青霄、撒大惡、掃開殘霧垂楊柳。手内托著一个施恩济世的宝瓶，瓶内插著一枝洒青霄、撒大恶、扫开残雾垂杨柳。
玉環穿繡扣，金蓮足下深。玉环穿绣扣，金莲足下深。
三天許出入。三天许出入。
這才是救苦救難觀世音。这才是救苦救难观世音。
逐句解 Line by line
瑞靄散繽紛，祥光護法身。
瑞霭散缤纷，祥光护法身。
Auspicious haze scatters in profusion; sacred light guards the dharma-body.
九霄華漢裡，現出女真人。
九霄华汉里，现出女真人。
In the ninth heaven's splendid firmament, she reveals herself, a true woman-immortal.
那菩薩，頭上戴一頂金葉紐、翠花鋪、放金光、生瑞氣的垂珠纓絡；
那菩萨，头上戴一顶金叶纽、翠花铺、放金光、生瑞气的垂珠缨络；
That Bodhisattva: upon her head she wears a pendant-pearl chaplet — clasped with gold leaf, spread with kingfisher blooms, casting a golden light and breeding an auspicious vapor;
那 is demonstrative nà. The fu now catalogues Guanyin's iconography head to foot in long, ornament-laden parallel clauses — the crown, robe, pendant, and skirt of the White-robed Guanyin.
身上穿一領淡淡色、淺淺妝、盤金龍、飛綵鳳的結素藍袍；
身上穿一领淡淡色、浅浅妆、盘金龙、飞彩凤的结素蓝袍；
upon her body she wears a plain blue robe of woven silk, pale of hue and lightly adorned, coiled with golden dragons and soaring with colored phoenixes;
胸前掛一面對月明、舞清風、雜寶珠、攢翠玉的砌香環珮；
胸前挂一面对月明、舞清风、杂宝珠、攒翠玉的砌香环珮；
at her breast hangs a fragrant jeweled pendant, facing the bright moon and dancing in the pure breeze, set with mingled precious pearls and gathered kingfisher-jade;
腰間繫一條冰蠶絲、織金邊、登彩雲、促瑤海的錦繡絨裙；
腰间系一条冰蚕丝、织金边、登彩云、促瑶海的锦绣绒裙；
at her waist she binds an embroidered woolen skirt of ice-silkworm thread, its border woven with gold, mounting the colored clouds and hastening over the jasper sea;
面前又領一個飛東洋、遊普世、感恩行孝、黃毛紅嘴白鸚哥。
面前又领一个飞东洋、游普世、感恩行孝、黄毛红嘴白鹦哥。
and before her she leads a white parrot with yellow down and red beak, that flies the Eastern Ocean, roams the whole world, and, mindful of kindness, practices filial duty.
The 白鸚哥 (white parrot) is a familiar attendant of Guanyin in iconography, emblem of gratitude and filial devotion. 行 in 行孝 ('practices filial duty') is xíng.
手內托著一個施恩濟世的寶瓶，瓶內插著一枝灑青霄、撒大惡、掃開殘霧垂楊柳。
手内托著一个施恩济世的宝瓶，瓶内插著一枝洒青霄、撒大恶、扫开残雾垂杨柳。
In her hand she holds up a precious vase that bestows grace and succors the world; and in the vase is set a drooping willow-sprig that sprinkles the blue empyrean, scatters great evil, and sweeps away the lingering mist.
Both occurrences of 著 — in 托著 ('holds up') and 插著 ('is set') — are the durative zhe.
玉環穿繡扣，金蓮足下深。
玉环穿绣扣，金莲足下深。
Jade rings run through embroidered clasps; golden lotuses sink deep beneath her feet.
金蓮 ('golden lotuses') beneath the feet are the traditional support of a deity's tread.
三天許出入。
三天许出入。
Through the Three Heavens she is granted passage.
這才是救苦救難觀世音。
这才是救苦救难观世音。
This, indeed, is Guanshiyin, who relieves suffering and delivers from calamity.
難 in 救苦救難 ('relieves suffering and delivers from calamity') is nàn; the closing line names her by her defining epithet.
總評 Commentary
The fu of Guanyin's true form is a set-piece of religious ecphrasis, translating the painted and sculpted iconography of the Bodhisattva into cascading verse. It moves head to foot — pearl chaplet, blue robe figured with dragon and phoenix, jeweled breast-pendant, gold-bordered skirt — and gathers in her canonical attributes: the white parrot of filial gratitude, the vase of grace, the willow that sprinkles sweet dew and sweeps away evil, the golden lotuses beneath her feet. The accumulation is not idle decoration but an act of devotion in words, building the image the assembled worshippers behold and Wu Daozi is about to paint. The frame-lines that open and close the passage — sacred light guarding the dharma-body, and the naming of her as she 'who relieves suffering and delivers from calamity' — fix the whole ornate display to its single point: this is compassion made visible.