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含詞賦 With rhapsody
前遇高山
A High Mountain Ahead
行者遂領師父上了大路。行夠多時，忽見有高山擋路，三藏勒馬停鞭道：「徒弟，前面一山，必須仔細，恐有妖魔作耗，侵害吾黨。」行者道：「馬前但有吾等三人，怕甚妖魔？」因此，長老安心前進。只見那座山，真是好山：行者遂领师父上了大路。行够多时，忽见有高山挡路，三藏勒马停鞭道：「徒弟，前面一山，必须仔细，恐有妖魔作耗，侵害吾党。」行者道：「马前但有吾等三人，怕甚妖魔？」因此，长老安心前进。只见那座山，真是好山：
高山峻極，大勢崢嶸。高山峻极，大势峥嵘。
根接崑崙脈，頂摩霄漢中。根接昆仑脉，顶摩霄汉中。
白鶴每來棲檜柏，玄猿時復掛藤蘿。白鹤每来栖桧柏，玄猿时复挂藤萝。
日映晴林，疊疊千條紅霧繞；日映晴林，叠叠千条红雾绕；
風生陰壑，飄飄萬道彩雲飛。风生阴壑，飘飘万道彩云飞。
幽鳥亂啼青竹裡，錦雞齊鬥野花間。幽鸟乱啼青竹里，锦鸡齐斗野花间。
只見那千年峰、五福峰、芙蓉峰，巍巍凜凜放毫光；只见那千年峰、五福峰、芙蓉峰，巍巍凛凛放毫光；
萬歲石、虎牙石、三天石，突突磷磷生瑞氣。万岁石、虎牙石、三天石，突突磷磷生瑞气。
崖前草秀，嶺上梅香。崖前草秀，岭上梅香。
荊棘密森森，芝蘭清淡淡。荆棘密森森，芝兰清淡淡。
深林鷹鳳聚千禽，古洞麒麟轄萬獸。深林鹰凤聚千禽，古洞麒麟辖万兽。
澗水有情，曲曲灣灣多遶顧；涧水有情，曲曲湾湾多遶顾；
峰巒不斷，重重疊疊自週迴。峰峦不断，重重叠叠自周回。
又見那綠的槐、斑的竹、青的松，依依千載鬥穠華；又见那绿的槐、斑的竹、青的松，依依千载斗秾华；
白的李、紅的桃、翠的柳，灼灼三春爭艷麗。白的李、红的桃、翠的柳，灼灼三春争艳丽。
龍吟虎嘯，鶴舞猿啼。龙吟虎啸，鹤舞猿啼。
麋鹿從花出，青鸞對日鳴。麋鹿从花出，青鸾对日鸣。
乃是仙山真福地，蓬萊閬苑只如然。乃是仙山真福地，蓬莱阆苑只如然。
又見些花開花謝山頭景，雲去雲來嶺上峰。又见些花开花谢山头景，云去云来岭上峰。
逐句解 Line by line
行者遂領師父上了大路。
行者遂领师父上了大路。
Pilgrim then led Master out onto the high road.
行者 (xíngzhě); the 了 (le) of 上了大路 marks completed action.
行夠多時，忽見有高山擋路，三藏勒馬停鞭道：「徒弟，前面一山，必須仔細，恐有妖魔作耗，侵害吾黨。」
行够多时，忽见有高山挡路，三藏勒马停鞭道：「徒弟，前面一山，必须仔细，恐有妖魔作耗，侵害吾党。」
When they had travelled a good while, of a sudden a towering mountain barred the way. Tripiṭaka reined in his horse, stayed his whip, and said, “Disciples, a mountain lies ahead — we must go warily, lest demons work mischief and do our company harm.”
行夠 (xíng gòu) = to travel enough / a good while, 行 (xíng) ‘to walk.’ 仔細 (zǐxì) = careful, on one’s guard. 作耗 (zuò hào) = to make trouble.
行者道：「馬前但有吾等三人，怕甚妖魔？」
行者道：「马前但有吾等三人，怕甚妖魔？」
Pilgrim said with a laugh, “Before your horse stand we three — what demons need you fear?”
怕甚 (pà shèn) = ‘fear what,’ 甚 (shèn) the interrogative.
因此，長老安心前進。
因此，长老安心前进。
At this the Elder set his heart at ease and pressed forward.
長老 (zhǎnglǎo) = the Elder (Tripiṭaka), 長 (zhǎng) ‘senior.’
只見那座山，真是好山：
只见那座山，真是好山：
And that mountain — it was a fine mountain indeed:
A narrated-verse cue: the colon leads directly into the descriptive 賦 that follows, with no speaker.
高山峻極，大勢崢嶸。
高山峻极，大势峥嵘。
A soaring peak, sublime; a mighty mass, sheer-ridged.
峻極 (jùn jí) = lofty to the utmost; 崢嶸 (zhēngróng) = rugged and towering.
根接崑崙脈，頂摩霄漢中。
根接昆仑脉，顶摩霄汉中。
Its roots joined the veins of Kunlun; its crown brushed the heart of the Milky Way.
崑崙 (Kūnlún) = the axial mountain of myth; 霄漢中 (xiāo hàn zhōng) = amid the empyrean, 中 (zhōng) ‘within.’
白鶴每來棲檜柏，玄猿時復掛藤蘿。
白鹤每来栖桧柏，玄猿时复挂藤萝。
White cranes came ever to roost in its cypress and juniper; dark gibbons swung the season round from its trailing vines.
玄猿 (xuán yuán) = dark ape; 藤蘿 (téngluó) = wisteria / trailing creepers.
日映晴林，疊疊千條紅霧繞；
日映晴林，叠叠千条红雾绕；
Sunlight lit the clear-standing wood — layer on layer, a thousand strands of red mist wound about;
疊疊 (diédié) = fold upon fold; the couplet pairs sun-mist against wind-cloud with the following line.
風生陰壑，飄飄萬道彩雲飛。
风生阴壑，飘飘万道彩云飞。
wind rose from the shadowed ravine — fluttering, ten thousand streams of coloured cloud took flight.
陰壑 (yīn hè) = the sunless gorge; 飄飄 (piāopiāo) = drifting, wind-borne.
幽鳥亂啼青竹裡，錦雞齊鬥野花間。
幽鸟乱啼青竹里，锦鸡齐斗野花间。
Secret birds cried in confusion within the green bamboo; brocade pheasants vied together among the wild blossoms.
錦雞 (jǐnjī) = golden pheasant; 齊鬥 (qí dòu) = contend as one, 鬥 (dòu) ‘vie.’
只見那千年峰、五福峰、芙蓉峰，巍巍凜凜放毫光；
只见那千年峰、五福峰、芙蓉峰，巍巍凛凛放毫光；
There one saw the Thousand-Year Peak, the Five-Blessings Peak, the Lotus Peak, towering stern and cold, casting a fine radiance;
巍巍凜凜 (wēiwēi lǐnlǐn) = majestic and austere; the three named peaks answer the three named stones of the next line.
萬歲石、虎牙石、三天石，突突磷磷生瑞氣。
万岁石、虎牙石、三天石，突突磷磷生瑞气。
the Myriad-Ages Stone, the Tiger-Fang Stone, the Three-Heavens Stone, jutting sharp and glittering, breathing an auspicious vapour.
突突磷磷 (tū tū lín lín) = protruding and scintillant; 瑞氣 (ruì qì) = numinous exhalation.
崖前草秀，嶺上梅香。
崖前草秀，岭上梅香。
Before the cliffs, fine grasses; on the ridges, fragrant plum.
崖 (yá) = cliff; a tight four-plus-four parallel.
荊棘密森森，芝蘭清淡淡。
荆棘密森森，芝兰清淡淡。
Bramble and thorn, dense and thick; iris and orchid, pure and pale.
芝蘭 (zhīlán) = iris and orchid, emblems of virtue; 淡淡 (dàndàn) = faint, delicate.
深林鷹鳳聚千禽，古洞麒麟轄萬獸。
深林鹰凤聚千禽，古洞麒麟辖万兽。
In the deep wood, hawks and phoenixes gathered a thousand fowl; in ancient grottoes, the qilin ruled ten thousand beasts.
麒麟 (qílín) = the qilin, an auspicious beast; 轄 (xiá) = to hold sway over.
澗水有情，曲曲灣灣多遶顧；
涧水有情，曲曲湾湾多遶顾；
The ravine waters ran with feeling — winding, curling, coiling back many times to look again;
遶顧 (rào gù) = to circle round and gaze back; the personified stream answers the ‘unbroken’ ridges below.
峰巒不斷，重重疊疊自週迴。
峰峦不断，重重叠叠自周回。
the ranged peaks, unbroken — fold on fold, tier on tier, turning back upon themselves.
重重疊疊 (chóngchóng diédié) = layer upon layer, 重 (chóng) ‘repeated’; 週迴 (zhōu huí) = to circle around.
又見那綠的槐、斑的竹、青的松，依依千載鬥穠華；
又见那绿的槐、斑的竹、青的松，依依千载斗秾华；
Again one saw the green locust, the mottled bamboo, the blue-black pine, clinging on through a thousand years, vying in lush splendour;
穠華 (nóng huá) = rich, luxuriant bloom; the three evergreens answer the three fruit-trees below.
白的李、紅的桃、翠的柳，灼灼三春爭艷麗。
白的李、红的桃、翠的柳，灼灼三春争艳丽。
the white plum, the red peach, the kingfisher willow, glowing bright, contending in the beauty of the three spring months.
翠的柳 (cuì de liǔ) = the emerald willow; 三春 (sān chūn) = the three months of spring.
龍吟虎嘯，鶴舞猿啼。
龙吟虎啸，鹤舞猿啼。
Dragons intoned and tigers roared; cranes danced and gibbons cried.
Two paired binomes of sound and motion; a standard menagerie couplet.
麋鹿從花出，青鸞對日鳴。
麋鹿从花出，青鸾对日鸣。
River-deer came forth from the flowers; the blue simurgh sang to the sun.
麋鹿 (mílù) = Père David’s deer / river-deer; 青鸞 (qīng luán) = the blue simurgh, a phoenix-kin.
乃是仙山真福地，蓬萊閬苑只如然。
乃是仙山真福地，蓬莱阆苑只如然。
This was a true blessed ground of the immortals’ hills — Penglai and Langyuan were but such as this.
蓬萊閬苑 (Pénglái Làngyuàn) = Penglai and Langyuan, the isles and gardens of paradise; 只如然 (zhǐ rú rán) = are just like this.
又見些花開花謝山頭景，雲去雲來嶺上峰。
又见些花开花谢山头景，云去云来岭上峰。
And one saw, too, the flowering and fading that crown the hilltops, the clouds that come and go along the ridges.
A closing couplet of transience — bloom and wither, cloud and cloud — rounding off the rhapsody.
總評 Commentary
The pilgrimage resumes its westward march, and at once the landscape supplies its next set-piece: a towering mountain that bars the road. Tripiṭaka’s reflexive dread of demons and Pilgrim’s brash reassurance replay the pair’s standing dynamic; the exchange is brief, a frame for the descriptive rhapsody that follows.
The 賦 is a bravura mountain-portrait built almost entirely of matched couplets: sun-mist against wind-cloud, named peaks against named stones, evergreens against fruit-trees, birds against beasts. Its rhetorical climax likens the range to Pénglái and Làngyuàn — the isle-paradise and hanging-garden of the immortals — a hint, planted before any character says so, that this is no ordinary wilderness but the threshold of a holy place.
For the ruby the passage is mostly straightforward landscape diction; the points of care are 仔細 (zǐxì), the interrogative 甚, the elder-sense 長, and the reduplicated 重重 = chóng in the ‘tier on tier’ couplet.