第二十回 · 八戒築殺虎怪 Bajie Strikes the Tiger Fiend Down — Journey to the West

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八戒築殺虎怪 Bajie Strikes the Tiger Fiend Down

那nà虎hǔ怪guài抵dǐ架jià不bú住zhù，回huí頭tóu就jiù走zǒu。他tā原yuán來lái在zài那nà洞dòng主zhǔ面miàn前qián說shuō了le嘴zuǐ，不bù敢gǎn回huí洞dòng，徑jìng往wǎng山shān坡pō上shàng逃táo生shēng。行xíng者zhě那nǎ裡lǐ肯kěn放fàng，執zhí著zhe棒bàng，只zhǐ情qíng趕gǎn來lái，呼hū呼hū吼hǒu吼hǒu，喊hǎn聲shēng不bù絕jué，卻què趕gǎn到dào那nà藏cáng風fēng山shān凹āo之zhī間jiān。正zhèng擡tái頭tóu，見jiàn八bā戒jiè在zài那nà裡lǐ放fàng馬mǎ。八bā戒jiè忽hū聽tīng見jiàn呼hū呼hū聲shēng喊hǎn，回huí頭tóu觀guān看kàn，乃nǎi是shì行xíng者zhě趕gǎn敗bài的de虎hǔ怪guài，就jiù丟diū了le馬mǎ，舉jǔ起qǐ鈀pá，刺cì斜xié著zhe頭tóu一yí築zhù。可kě憐lián那nà先xiān鋒fēng，脫tuō身shēn要yào跳tiào黃huáng絲sī網wǎng，豈qǐ知zhī又yòu遇yù罩zhào魚yú人rén，卻què被bèi八bā戒jiè一yì鈀pá，築zhù得de九jiǔ個gè窟kū窿lóng鮮xiān血xuè冒mào，一yì頭tóu腦nǎo髓suǐ盡jìn流liú乾gān。有yǒu詩shī為wèi證zhèng，詩shī曰yuē：那nà虎hǔ怪guài抵dǐ架jià不bú住zhù，回huí头tóu就jiù走zǒu。他tā原yuán来lái在zài那nà洞dòng主zhǔ面miàn前qián说shuō了le嘴zuǐ，不bù敢gǎn回huí洞dòng，径jìng往wǎng山shān坡pō上shàng逃táo生shēng。行xíng者zhě那nǎ里lǐ肯kěn放fàng，执zhí着zhe棒bàng，只zhǐ情qíng赶gǎn来lái，呼hū呼hū吼hǒu吼hǒu，喊hǎn声shēng不bù绝jué，却què赶gǎn到dào那nà藏cáng风fēng山shān凹āo之zhī间jiān。正zhèng抬tái头tóu，见jiàn八bā戒jiè在zài那nà里lǐ放fàng马mǎ。八bā戒jiè忽hū听tīng见jiàn呼hū呼hū声shēng喊hǎn，回huí头tóu观guān看kàn，乃nǎi是shì行xíng者zhě赶gǎn败bài的de虎hǔ怪guài，就jiù丢diū了le马mǎ，举jǔ起qǐ钯pá，刺cì斜xié着zhe头tóu一yí筑zhù。可kě怜lián那nà先xiān锋fēng，脱tuō身shēn要yào跳tiào黄huáng丝sī网wǎng，岂qǐ知zhī又yòu遇yù罩zhào鱼yú人rén，却què被bèi八bā戒jiè一yì钯pá，筑zhù得de九jiǔ个gè窟kū窿lóng鲜xiān血xuè冒mào，一yì头tóu脑nǎo髓suǐ尽jìn流liú干gān。有yǒu诗shī为wèi证zhèng，诗shī曰yuē：

三sān五wǔ年nián前qián歸guī正zhèng宗zōng，持chí齋zhāi把bǎ素sù悟wù真zhēn空kōng。三sān五wǔ年nián前qián归guī正zhèng宗zōng，持chí斋zhāi把bǎ素sù悟wù真zhēn空kōng。

誠chéng心xīn要yào保bǎo唐táng三sān藏zàng，初chū秉bǐng沙shā門mén立lì此cǐ功gōng。诚chéng心xīn要yào保bǎo唐táng三sān藏zàng，初chū秉bǐng沙shā门mén立lì此cǐ功gōng。

逐句解 Line by line

那nà虎hǔ怪guài抵dǐ架jià不bú住zhù，回huí頭tóu就jiù走zǒu。那nà虎hǔ怪guài抵dǐ架jià不bú住zhù，回huí头tóu就jiù走zǒu。

The Tiger fiend could not hold his guard, and turned his head and fled.

抵架不住, unable to hold the parry. By the poem's own reckoning he has lasted three or five exchanges.

他tā原yuán來lái在zài那nà洞dòng主zhǔ面miàn前qián說shuō了le嘴zuǐ，不bù敢gǎn回huí洞dòng，徑jìng往wǎng山shān坡pō上shàng逃táo生shēng。他tā原yuán来lái在zài那nà洞dòng主zhǔ面miàn前qián说shuō了le嘴zuǐ，不bù敢gǎn回huí洞dòng，径jìng往wǎng山shān坡pō上shàng逃táo生shēng。

But he had boasted before the lord of the cave, and dared not go back into it; so he made straight up the mountain slope to save his life.

說了嘴, "to have talked big" — he cannot go home because of what he said on the way out. This is the Great King's 休得埋怨我也 working exactly as designed.

行xíng者zhě那nǎ裡lǐ肯kěn放fàng，執zhí著zhe棒bàng，只zhǐ情qíng趕gǎn來lái，呼hū呼hū吼hǒu吼hǒu，喊hǎn聲shēng不bù絕jué，卻què趕gǎn到dào那nà藏cáng風fēng山shān凹āo之zhī間jiān。行xíng者zhě那nǎ里lǐ肯kěn放fàng，执zhí着zhe棒bàng，只zhǐ情qíng赶gǎn来lái，呼hū呼hū吼hǒu吼hǒu，喊hǎn声shēng不bù绝jué，却què赶gǎn到dào那nà藏cáng风fēng山shān凹āo之zhī间jiān。

How should the Pilgrim let him go? Holding the rod, he came on after him for all he was worth, whooping and roaring, the noise of his shouting never ceasing, until he had chased him to the wind-sheltered hollow of the hills.

那裡肯放 is the rhetorical question, nǎ; 那藏風山凹 is the pointing nà. Both readings of 那 stand inside this one line, and the 藏 beside the second of them is cáng, the sheltering sense. 只情, for all one is worth; 執著棒 is zhe.

正zhèng擡tái頭tóu，見jiàn八bā戒jiè在zài那nà裡lǐ放fàng馬mǎ。正zhèng抬tái头tóu，见jiàn八bā戒jiè在zài那nà里lǐ放fàng马mǎ。

Just as he raised his head he saw Bajie there, pasturing the horse.

在那裡放馬 — the pointing nà, "over there," not the question-word. The Pilgrim has driven his quarry into precisely the hollow where he ordered his brother to hide.

八bā戒jiè忽hū聽tīng見jiàn呼hū呼hū聲shēng喊hǎn，回huí頭tóu觀guān看kàn，乃nǎi是shì行xíng者zhě趕gǎn敗bài的de虎hǔ怪guài，八bā戒jiè忽hū听tīng见jiàn呼hū呼hū声shēng喊hǎn，回huí头tóu观guān看kàn，乃nǎi是shì行xíng者zhě赶gǎn败bài的de虎hǔ怪guài，

Bajie, hearing of a sudden the whooping and the shouting, turned his head and looked; and it was the tiger fiend, run to a stand by the Pilgrim.

趕敗的虎怪, the tiger fiend he had beaten and driven. Bajie is holding a horse and has been told to keep out of sight.

就jiù丟diū了le馬mǎ，舉jǔ起qǐ鈀pá，刺cì斜xié著zhe頭tóu一yí築zhù。就jiù丢diū了le马mǎ，举jǔ起qǐ钯pá，刺cì斜xié着zhe头tóu一yí筑zhù。

So he let go the horse, lifted his rake, came in slantwise with his head down, and struck once.

刺斜著頭一築: 刺斜 is to come in at an oblique angle, and 著 is the continuing zhe. One stroke, delivered from the side, by someone the fiend never saw.

可kě憐lián那nà先xiān鋒fēng，脫tuō身shēn要yào跳tiào黃huáng絲sī網wǎng，豈qǐ知zhī又yòu遇yù罩zhào魚yú人rén，可kě怜lián那nà先xiān锋fēng，脱tuō身shēn要yào跳tiào黄huáng丝sī网wǎng，岂qǐ知zhī又yòu遇yù罩zhào鱼yú人rén，

Pity the Vanguard! He had slipped clear of the yellow silken net, and never knew that the man with the casting-net stood waiting.

跳黃絲網 and 罩魚人 — he has jumped clear of the silken net and into the fisherman's cast. The figure comes out of Yuan drama, and the reader is meant to hear the fatalism in it before the blow lands. This is the fourth of the chapter's parallel couplets to stand untagged inside prose.

卻què被bèi八bā戒jiè一yì鈀pá，築zhù得de九jiǔ個gè窟kū窿lóng鮮xiān血xuè冒mào，一yì頭tóu腦nǎo髓suǐ盡jìn流liú乾gān。有yǒu詩shī為wèi證zhèng，詩shī曰yuē：却què被bèi八bā戒jiè一yì钯pá，筑zhù得de九jiǔ个gè窟kū窿lóng鲜xiān血xuè冒mào，一yì头tóu脑nǎo髓suǐ尽jìn流liú干gān。有yǒu诗shī为wèi证zhèng，诗shī曰yuē：

One stroke of Bajie's rake, and nine holes gushed with fresh blood, and the whole head ran dry of its brains. There is a poem to prove it; the poem says:

築得九個窟窿: 得 is the result-linking de, and the nine holes are the nine teeth of the muckrake. 流乾 takes 乾 as gān. The cue 有詩為證，詩曰： stays with the prose segment, and 為 in 有詩為證 is wèi.

Three years since, or five, he turned him to the orthodox school; he kept the fast, held to the plain fare, and woke to the true emptiness.

A quatrain of seven characters to the line, and its subject is not Sun Wukong. 三五年前歸正宗 — Bajie was converted by Guanyin in chapter 8 and has been eating vegetable food and waiting at Gao Village ever since. 持齋把素, to keep the fast and hold to plain fare.

With a sincere heart he undertook to guard the Tang Sanzang; and newly come to the śramaṇa's calling, he sets up this merit.

初秉沙門立此功, "having only newly taken up the śramaṇa's calling, he sets up this merit." The poem exists to give the killing to the pig, and to say so in the register of a temple inscription. 三藏 is the name and takes zàng.

總評 Commentary

The Vanguard dies where he was never meant to be. He cannot go back to the cave, because he boasted on the way out and his king warned him not to come complaining afterwards; so he runs uphill, and the Pilgrim drives him — whooping, for all he is worth — into the one fold of ground on the whole mountain where Bajie is sitting with the horse. He had jumped clear of the silken net, says the narrator, and never knew the man with the casting-net was there.

Then the quatrain. It is not about the Great Sage, who chased him. It is about the pig, who was told to hide, and who has now killed the only demon either of them will kill in this chapter. 初秉沙門立此功 — a convert of three years or five, newly come to the religious life, sets up this merit. The chapter's title is 半山中八戒爭先, halfway up the mountain Bajie strives for the lead, and this is where the title gets paid.