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Tripitaka Does Not Forget His Origin · The Four Saints Test the Meditative Heart

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盡知回報 Wukong Flies Back

jièfàngjiāngxiàngqiánláizěnzhīsūnshèngjìnzhīzhuǎnchìfēiláixiànleběnxiàngxiānjiàntángsēngdào:「shīnéngqiānláile。」zhǎnglǎodào:「ruòqiānkǒnghuānzǒule。」xíngzhěxiàojiāngláirénjièshuōdegòudàngcóngtóushuōlebiànsānzàngxìnxìndejièfàngjiāngxiàngqiánláizěnzhīsūnshèngjìnzhīzhuǎnchìfēiláixiànleběnxiàngxiānjiàntángsēngdào:「shīnéngqiānláile。」zhǎnglǎodào:「ruòqiānkǒnghuānzǒule。」xíngzhěxiàojiāngláirénjièshuōdegòudàngcóngtóushuōlebiànsānzàngxìnxìnde


逐句解 Line by line

jièfàngjiāngxiàngqiánlái jièfàngjiāngxiàngqiánlái

Bajie, not grazing the horse at all, took the horse and led it back to the front.

將馬拉, took the horse and led it, with the handling-word jiāng. Not one mouthful of grass has been eaten.

zěnzhīsūnshèngjìnzhīzhuǎnchìfēiláixiànleběnxiàngxiānjiàntángsēngdào:「shīnéngqiānláile。」 zěnzhīsūnshèngjìnzhīzhuǎnchìfēiláixiànleběnxiàngxiānjiàntángsēngdào:「shīnéngqiānláile。」

Little did he know the Great Sage had learned it all, point by point; wheeling on his wings, Monkey flew back, resumed his true form, and going first to the Tang Monk said, "Master, Wuneng is bringing the horse."

一一盡知, knew it all, item by item. The second reads : is fixed at jìn across this project, and a falling tone in front lifts the tone of , while the first of the doubled pair stays . 現了本相, resumed his true form, takes as xiàng, shape or appearance. 悟能, Awakened to Power, is Bajie's religious name — the one Guanyin gave him, and the one Wukong uses when being formally, unbearably polite.

zhǎnglǎodào:「ruòqiānkǒnghuānzǒule。」 zhǎnglǎodào:「ruòqiānkǒnghuānzǒule。」

The elder said, "If the horse weren't led, I feared it might frisk off."

撒歡 is to frisk, to kick up the heels. Tripitaka has no idea what he has just set up.

xíngzhěxiàojiāngláirénjièshuōdegòudàngcóngtóushuōlebiànsānzàngxìnxìnde xíngzhěxiàojiāngláirénjièshuōdegòudàngcóngtóushuōlebiànsānzàngxìnxìnde

Pilgrim burst out laughing, and told over from the beginning the whole business between the woman and Bajie; Tripitaka listened as if half believing, half not.

笑將起來, broke into laughter, with as the verb-tail jiāng. 勾當 (gòu dàng) is the doings, the affair. 似信不信, as if believing and not believing, takes as . The master would rather not credit it. The reader, who watched the whole thing, knows the report is exact.


總評 Commentary

The dragonfly comes home. Having watched the entire back-gate courtship, Wukong resumes his shape and gets to Tripitaka first — with an innocent announcement, that Wuneng is bringing the horse, and then, laughing, with the whole account of what passed at the gate. Bajie meanwhile comes trudging back with a horse that has not eaten, unaware that every word he said has already been delivered.

The line 一一盡知, knew it all point by point, is the pivot of the covert test. The widow's public offer was refused to her face; Bajie's private appetite has now been witnessed in secret. The disciple who thought himself unobserved is about to be handed his own words back.

Tripitaka's reaction is beautifully understated: he listens 似信不信, half believing and half not. The master's reluctance to think the worst of his disciple is charitable and faintly comic at once — the reader has seen everything and knows Monkey's account is exact — and it lets the exposure unfold a little more slowly, at its own pace.