原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
含詞賦 With rhapsody
獵戶當前
The Hunter Comes Down the Slope
卻說他雖有災迍，卻有救應。正在那不得命處，忽然見毒蟲奔走，妖獸飛逃，猛虎潛蹤，長蛇隱跡。三藏擡頭看時，只見一人，手執鋼叉，腰懸弓箭，自那山坡前轉出，果然是一條好漢。你看他：却说他虽有灾迍，却有救应。正在那不得命处，忽然见毒虫奔走，妖兽飞逃，猛虎潜踪，长蛇隐迹。三藏擡头看时，只见一人，手执钢叉，腰悬弓箭，自那山坡前转出，果然是一条好汉。你看他：
頭上戴一頂艾葉花斑豹皮帽，身上穿一領羊絨織錦叵羅衣，腰間束一條獅蠻帶，腳下屣一對麂皮靴。头上戴一顶艾叶花斑豹皮帽，身上穿一领羊绒织锦叵罗衣，腰间束一条狮蛮带，脚下屣一对麂皮靴。
環眼圓睛如弔客，圈鬚亂擾似河奎。环眼圆睛如吊客，圈须乱扰似河奎。
懸一囊毒藥弓矢，拿一桿點鋼大叉。悬一囊毒药弓矢，拿一杆点钢大叉。
雷聲震破山蟲膽，勇猛驚殘野雉魂。雷声震破山虫胆，勇猛惊残野雉魂。
逐句解 Line by line
卻說他雖有災迍，卻有救應。正在那不得命處，忽然見毒蟲奔走，妖獸飛逃，猛虎潛蹤，長蛇隱跡。三藏擡頭看時，只見一人，手執鋼叉，腰懸弓箭，自那山坡前轉出，果然是一條好漢。你看他：
却说他虽有灾迍，却有救应。正在那不得命处，忽然见毒虫奔走，妖兽飞逃，猛虎潜踪，长蛇隐迹。三藏擡头看时，只见一人，手执钢叉，腰悬弓箭，自那山坡前转出，果然是一条好汉。你看他：
Now although he had his calamity, he had his rescue as well. Just at that point when his life seemed past all saving, he suddenly saw the venomous insects scurry away, the monstrous beasts take flight, the fierce tigers slink into hiding, and the long snakes withdraw from sight. When Sanzang raised his head to look, he saw a single man, a steel trident in his grasp and bow and arrows at his waist, coming out from before the mountain slope — a stalwart fellow indeed. See him now:
卻說他雖有災迍，卻有救應 — “although he had calamity, he had rescue too” — is a storyteller's formula that both reassures the audience and articulates the novel's providential logic: peril and deliverance are paired. The trident-bearing hunter is Liu Boqin, though the passage withholds his name until he speaks.
頭上戴一頂艾葉花斑豹皮帽，身上穿一領羊絨織錦叵羅衣，腰間束一條獅蠻帶，腳下屣一對麂皮靴。
头上戴一顶艾叶花斑豹皮帽，身上穿一领羊绒织锦叵罗衣，腰间束一条狮蛮带，脚下屣一对麂皮靴。
On his head he wore a mottled leopard-skin cap patterned like mugwort leaves; on his body a robe of figured brocade woven from lamb's-wool; about his waist a belt clasped with a lion-and-barbarian device; and on his feet a pair of boots of muntjac hide.
獅蠻帶 (shī mán dài), a “lion-and-barbarian belt,” is a martial girdle whose clasp bears the figure of a lion; the stanza catalogues the hunter's rugged mountain gear.
環眼圓睛如弔客，圈鬚亂擾似河奎。
环眼圆睛如吊客，圈须乱扰似河奎。
Ring-round eyes and staring pupils, like a mourner come to call; a curling beard in wild disorder, like the star-spirit of the River Kui.
河奎 alludes to 奎 (Kuí), one of the twenty-eight lunar lodges, figured as a bristling, martial spirit — the comparison casts the hunter as fierce and stellar.
懸一囊毒藥弓矢，拿一桿點鋼大叉。
悬一囊毒药弓矢，拿一杆点钢大叉。
Slung with a quiver of poisoned arrows and bow; gripping a great trident of tempered steel.
雷聲震破山蟲膽，勇猛驚殘野雉魂。
雷声震破山虫胆，勇猛惊残野雉魂。
His thunderous voice would burst the gall of the mountain vermin; his fierce valour would shake the very souls of the wild pheasants.
總評 Commentary
The hunter's arrival is announced by the flight of the beasts, and the same providential formula that opens the passage — “though he had calamity, he had rescue too” — states plainly the pattern the scene enacts: Sanzang's extremity is the cue for deliverance. As with the fiends of the pit, the newcomer is introduced by a formal portrait, but the mode is now admiring rather than mock-heroic: the leopard-skin cap and muntjac boots, the lion-clasped belt, the poisoned arrows and steel trident, the thunderous voice that cows the wild things — all build the figure of a formidable mountain-hunter. He is Liu Boqin, the “Guardian of the Mountain,” though the verse and the prose alike keep his name back for his own mouth; and his appearance marks the turn of the chapter from the terrors of the wilderness to the human hospitality of its second half.