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含詞賦 With rhapsody
竊擊入園
The Striker Taken, the Garden Entered
那大聖使一個隱身法，閃進道房看時，原來那兩個道童吃了果子，上殿與唐僧說話，不在房裡。行者四下裡觀看，看有甚麼金擊子，但只見窗櫺上掛著一條赤金，有二尺長短，有指頭粗細；底下是一個蒜疙疸的頭子；上邊有眼，系著一根綠絨繩兒。他道：「想必就是此物叫做金擊子。」他卻取下來，出了道房，徑入後邊去，推開兩扇門，擡頭觀看，呀！卻是一座花園！但見：那大圣使一个隐身法，闪进道房看时，原来那两个道童吃了果子，上殿与唐僧说话，不在房里。行者四下里观看，看有甚么金击子，但只见窗櫺上挂著一条赤金，有二尺长短，有指头粗细；底下是一个蒜疙疸的头子；上边有眼，系著一根绿绒绳儿。他道：「想必就是此物叫做金击子。」他却取下来，出了道房，径入后边去，推开两扇门，擡头观看，呀！却是一座花园！但见：
朱欄寶檻，曲砌峰山。朱栏宝槛，曲砌峰山。
奇花與麗日爭妍，翠竹共青天鬥碧。奇花与丽日争妍，翠竹共青天斗碧。
流杯亭外，一灣綠柳似拖煙；流杯亭外，一湾绿柳似拖烟；
賞月臺前，數簇喬松如潑靛。赏月台前，数簇乔松如泼靛。
紅拂拂，錦巢榴；红拂拂，锦巢榴；
綠依依，繡墩草；绿依依，绣墩草；
青茸茸，碧砂蘭；青茸茸，碧砂兰；
攸蕩蕩，臨溪水。攸荡荡，临溪水。
丹桂映金井梧桐，錦槐傍朱欄玉砌。丹桂映金井梧桐，锦槐傍朱栏玉砌。
有或紅或白千葉桃，有或香或黃九秋菊。有或红或白千叶桃，有或香或黄九秋菊。
荼䕷架，映著牡丹亭；荼䕷架，映著牡丹亭；
木槿臺，相連芍藥圃。木槿台，相连芍药圃。
看不盡傲霜君子竹，欺雪大夫松。看不尽傲霜君子竹，欺雪大夫松。
更有那鶴莊鹿宅，方沼圓池；更有那鹤庄鹿宅，方沼圆池；
泉流碎玉，地萼堆金。泉流碎玉，地萼堆金。
朔風觸綻梅花白，春來點破海棠紅。朔风触绽梅花白，春来点破海棠红。
誠所謂人間第一仙景，西方魁首花叢。诚所谓人间第一仙景，西方魁首花丛。
逐句解 Line by line
那大聖使一個隱身法，閃進道房看時，原來那兩個道童吃了果子，上殿與唐僧說話，不在房裡。
那大圣使一个隐身法，闪进道房看时，原来那两个道童吃了果子，上殿与唐僧说话，不在房里。
The Great Sage worked a spell of invisibility and slipped into the Daoist quarters to look; but the two boys, having eaten the fruit, had gone up to the hall to talk with the Tang Monk, and were not in the room.
那大聖 (nà dàshèng), 那 (nà); 隱身法 (yǐnshēn fǎ) = a spell of invisibility; 那兩個道童 (nà liǎng gè dào tóng), 那 (nà); 吃了果子 (chī le guǒzi), 子 (zi).
行者四下裡觀看，看有甚麼金擊子，但只見窗櫺上掛著一條赤金，有二尺長短，有指頭粗細；底下是一個蒜疙疸的頭子；上邊有眼，系著一根綠絨繩兒。
行者四下里观看，看有甚么金击子，但只见窗櫺上挂著一条赤金，有二尺长短，有指头粗细；底下是一个蒜疙疸的头子；上边有眼，系著一根绿绒绳儿。
Pilgrim looked about him for any golden striker, and saw only, hung on the window-lattice, a rod of red gold some two chi long and thick as a finger; its lower end was a knob like a garlic-clove, its upper end pierced with an eye and threaded through with a green silk cord.
觀看 (guān kàn), verb 觀 (guān); 甚麼 (shénme), 甚 (shén); 金擊子 (jīn jī·zi), 子 (zi); 掛著 (guà·zhe) / 系著 (jì·zhe), durative 著 (zhe); 二尺長短 (èr chǐ chángduǎn), 長 (cháng) ‘length’; 蒜疙疸 (suàn gēda), 疸 (da) (= 瘩, a lump); 繩兒 (shéng·er), 兒 (er) suffix.
他道：「想必就是此物叫做金擊子。」
他道：「想必就是此物叫做金击子。」
He said, “This must be the thing they call the golden striker.”
金擊子 (jīn jī·zi), 子 (zi); 想必 (xiǎngbì) = surely.
他卻取下來，出了道房，徑入後邊去，推開兩扇門，擡頭觀看，呀！
他却取下来，出了道房，径入后边去，推开两扇门，擡头观看，呀！
He took it down, went out of the Daoist quarters, and made straight for the back; he pushed open a double door, raised his head to look — ah!
出了 (chū le), 了 (le); 擡頭觀看 (tái tóu guān kàn), verb 觀 (guān); 呀 (yā) = a cry of surprise.
卻是一座花園！
却是一座花园！
— it was a flower garden!
一座花園 (yí zuò huāyuán) = a whole garden of flowers.
但見：
但见：
And this is what he saw:
但見 (dàn jiàn) — the cue leading into the descriptive verse.
朱欄寶檻，曲砌峰山。
朱栏宝槛，曲砌峰山。
Vermilion railings, jewelled balustrades; winding stonework, peaks piled like hills.
朱欄寶檻 (zhū lán bǎo jiàn) = red rails and precious balustrades; 曲砌峰山 (qū qì fēng shān) = terraced stone rising like miniature peaks.
奇花與麗日爭妍，翠竹共青天鬥碧。
奇花与丽日争妍，翠竹共青天斗碧。
Rare blossoms vied in beauty with the fair sun; kingfisher bamboo contended in green with the blue sky.
爭妍 (zhēng yán) = to vie in beauty; 鬥碧 (dòu bì), 鬥 (dòu) ‘to contend.’
流杯亭外，一灣綠柳似拖煙；
流杯亭外，一湾绿柳似拖烟；
Beyond the Floating-Cup Pavilion, a bend of green willows trailed like mist;
流杯亭 (liú bēi tíng) = the Floating-Cup Pavilion; 綠柳似拖煙 (lǜ liǔ sì tuō yān), comparative 似 (sì).
賞月臺前，數簇喬松如潑靛。
赏月台前，数簇乔松如泼靛。
before the Moon-Viewing Terrace, clumps of tall pines stood dark as spilt indigo.
賞月臺 (shǎng yuè tái) = the Moon-Viewing Terrace; 數簇 (shù cù), 數 (shù); 如潑靛 (rú pō diàn) = like dashed indigo.
紅拂拂，錦巢榴；
红拂拂，锦巢榴；
Ruddy and glowing, the brocade-nested pomegranate;
紅拂拂 (hóng fú fú) = glowing red; 錦巢榴 (jǐn cháo liú) = pomegranate like a brocade nest.
綠依依，繡墩草；
绿依依，绣墩草；
soft and green, the embroidered-cushion grass;
綠依依 (lǜ yī yī) = tenderly green; 繡墩草 (xiù dūn cǎo) = grass like an embroidered stool-cushion.
青茸茸，碧砂蘭；
青茸茸，碧砂兰；
downy and blue-green, the jasper-sand orchid;
青茸茸 (qīng róng róng) = downy blue-green; 碧砂蘭 (bì shā lán) = orchid on jasper sand.
攸蕩蕩，臨溪水。
攸荡荡，临溪水。
and rippling wide, the water along the brook.
攸蕩蕩 (yōu dàng dàng) = broadly rippling; 臨溪水 (lín xī shuǐ) = by the streamside.
丹桂映金井梧桐，錦槐傍朱欄玉砌。
丹桂映金井梧桐，锦槐傍朱栏玉砌。
Cinnabar cassia set off the golden-well parasol-trees; brocade pagoda-locusts leaned by vermilion rails and jade steps.
丹桂 (dān guì) = cinnabar cassia; 金井梧桐 (jīn jǐng wútóng) = parasol-tree by a gilded well-curb; 錦槐 (jǐn huái) = brocade pagoda-locust.
有或紅或白千葉桃，有或香或黃九秋菊。
有或红或白千叶桃，有或香或黄九秋菊。
There were peaches of a thousand petals, now red, now white; and chrysanthemums of deep autumn, now fragrant, now yellow.
千葉桃 (qiān yè táo) = many-petalled peach; 九秋菊 (jiǔ qiū jú) = late-autumn chrysanthemum.
荼䕷架，映著牡丹亭；
荼䕷架，映著牡丹亭；
The tumi-rose trellis threw its light against the peony pavilion;
荼䕷 (tú mí) = the tumi rose (= 酴醾), the graph 䕷 U+4577 (Ext-A); 映著 (yìng·zhe), durative 著 (zhe); 牡丹亭 (mǔdan tíng) = the peony pavilion.
木槿臺，相連芍藥圃。
木槿台，相连芍药圃。
the hibiscus terrace ran on into the peony-herb plot.
木槿 (mùjǐn) = hibiscus / rose-of-Sharon; 相連 (xiānglián), 相 (xiāng); 芍藥圃 (sháoyào pǔ) = a bed of Chinese peony.
看不盡傲霜君子竹，欺雪大夫松。
看不尽傲霜君子竹，欺雪大夫松。
Past all seeing were the frost-defying gentleman-bamboo and the snow-scorning grandee-pine.
看不盡 (kàn bú jìn), 不 (bú) (sandhi before 盡 (jìn)); 君子竹 (jūnzǐ zhú), 子 (zǐ) (‘gentleman’); 大夫松 (dàfū sōng) = the ‘grandee’ pine.
更有那鶴莊鹿宅，方沼圓池；
更有那鹤庄鹿宅，方沼圆池；
And there were besides the crane-lodge and the deer-house, square pools and round ponds;
更有那 (gèng yǒu nà), 那 (nà); 鶴莊鹿宅 (hè zhuāng lù zhái) = homes for cranes and deer; 方沼圓池 (fāng zhǎo yuán chí) = square and round pools.
泉流碎玉，地萼堆金。
泉流碎玉，地萼堆金。
the springs flowed with shattered jade, the ground-blossoms heaped up gold.
碎玉 (suì yù) = shattered jade (the water); 地萼堆金 (dì è duī jīn) = flowers heaping gold on the ground.
朔風觸綻梅花白，春來點破海棠紅。
朔风触绽梅花白，春来点破海棠红。
The north wind, brushing them open, whitened the plum-blossom; the coming of spring dotted the crabapple red.
朔風 (shuò fēng) = the north wind; 觸綻 (chù zhàn) = to brush into bloom; 點破 (diǎn pò) = to dot open.
誠所謂人間第一仙景，西方魁首花叢。
诚所谓人间第一仙景，西方魁首花丛。
Truly this was called the first immortal scene in all the mortal world, the chief flowering-grove of the West.
人間 (rén jiān), 間 (jiān); 第一仙景 (dì-yī xiān jǐng) = the foremost fairy-scene; 魁首 (kuíshǒu) = the chief, the first.
總評 Commentary
The theft begins in earnest. Invisible, Pilgrim finds the boys’ room empty and locates the 金擊子 — rendered with a craftsman’s exactness (a two-chi rod of red gold, a garlic-knob head, an eye and a green cord), the one tool without which the fruit cannot be taken. He carries it to the back and pushes through into a flower garden.
The garden is set out in a full 賦 (rhapsody): parallel couplets catalogue railings and terraces, rare blossoms, named structures (流杯亭, 賞月臺, 牡丹亭), and the whole apparatus of a Daoist paradise-garden, closing on the claim that it is ‘the first immortal scene in all the mortal world.’ The set-piece extends the abbey’s aura of supreme sanctity begun at P9.
Textual notes: the flower 荼䕷 (túmí) carries the Extension-A graph 䕷 (U+4577); 君子竹 puns the honorific 子 (zǐ) against the suffix zi of 繩兒; the comparative 似 (sì) and the durative 映著 (zhe); and the recurring 看不盡 → 不 (bú) before the elevated 盡 (jìn).