第二十八回 · 旗豎重修 The Banner Raised — Journey to the West

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旗豎重修 The Banner Raised

那nà大dà聖shèng把bǎ旗qí拆chāi洗xǐ，總zǒng鬥dòu做zuò一yí面miàn雜zá彩cǎi花huā旗qí，上shàng寫xiě著zhe「重chóng修xiū花huā果guǒ山shān，復fù整zhěng水shuǐ簾lián洞dòng，齊qí天tiān大dà聖shèng」十shí四sì字zì。豎shù起qǐ杆gān子zi，將jiāng旗qí掛guà於yú洞dòng外wài。逐zhú日rì招zhāo魔mó聚jù獸shòu，積jī草cǎo屯tún糧liáng，不bù題tí「和hé尚shàng」二èr字zì。他tā的de人rén情qíng又yòu大dà，手shǒu段duàn又yòu高gāo，便biàn去qù四sì海hǎi龍lóng王wáng借jiè些xiē甘gān霖lín仙xiān水shuǐ，把bǎ山shān洗xǐ青qīng了le。前qián栽zāi榆yú柳liǔ，後hòu種zhǒng松sōng柟nán，桃táo李lǐ棗zǎo梅méi，無wú所suǒ不bú備bèi。逍xiāo遙yáo自zì在zài，樂lè業yè安ān居jū不bù題tí。那nà大dà圣shèng把bǎ旗qí拆chāi洗xǐ，总zǒng斗dòu做zuò一yí面miàn杂zá彩cǎi花huā旗qí，上shàng写xiě著zhe「重chóng修xiū花huā果guǒ山shān，复fù整zhěng水shuǐ帘lián洞dòng，齐qí天tiān大dà圣shèng」十shí四sì字zì。竖shù起qǐ杆gān子zi，将jiāng旗qí挂guà于yú洞dòng外wài。逐zhú日rì招zhāo魔mó聚jù兽shòu，积jī草cǎo屯tún粮liáng，不bù题tí「和hé尚shàng」二èr字zì。他tā的de人rén情qíng又yòu大dà，手shǒu段duàn又yòu高gāo，便biàn去qù四sì海hǎi龙lóng王wáng借jiè些xiē甘gān霖lín仙xiān水shuǐ，把bǎ山shān洗xǐ青qīng了le。前qián栽zāi榆yú柳liǔ，后hòu种zhǒng松sōng柟nán，桃táo李lǐ枣zǎo梅méi，无wú所suǒ不bú备bèi。逍xiāo遥yáo自zì在zài，乐lè业yè安ān居jū不bù题tí。

逐句解 Line by line

那nà大dà聖shèng把bǎ旗qí拆chāi洗xǐ，總zǒng鬥dòu做zuò一yí面miàn雜zá彩cǎi花huā旗qí，上shàng寫xiě著zhe「重chóng修xiū花huā果guǒ山shān，復fù整zhěng水shuǐ簾lián洞dòng，齊qí天tiān大dà聖shèng」十shí四sì字zì。那nà大dà圣shèng把bǎ旗qí拆chāi洗xǐ，总zǒng斗dòu做zuò一yí面miàn杂zá彩cǎi花huā旗qí，上shàng写xiě著zhe「重chóng修xiū花huā果guǒ山shān，复fù整zhěng水shuǐ帘lián洞dòng，齐qí天tiān大dà圣shèng」十shí四sì字zì。

The Great Sage had the banners unstitched and washed, and pieced them all together into a single many-colored flower-flag, on which were written fourteen graphs: “Rebuilder of Flower-Fruit Mountain, Restorer of the Water-Curtain Cave, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.”

重修 chóng (“rebuild”), not zhòng; 上寫著 zhe. 齊天大聖 Wukong's old self-conferred title, now re-raised. 那 nà.

豎shù起qǐ杆gān子zi，將jiāng旗qí掛guà於yú洞dòng外wài。逐zhú日rì招zhāo魔mó聚jù獸shòu，積jī草cǎo屯tún糧liáng，不bù題tí「和hé尚shàng」二èr字zì。竖shù起qǐ杆gān子zi，将jiāng旗qí挂guà于yú洞dòng外wài。逐zhú日rì招zhāo魔mó聚jù兽shòu，积jī草cǎo屯tún粮liáng，不bù题tí「和hé尚shàng」二èr字zì。

He raised a pole and hung the flag outside the cave. Day by day he summoned demons and gathered beasts, stockpiled fodder and stored grain, and made no more mention of the two graphs “the monk.”

將旗 jiāng; 不題 bù. 招魔聚獸 the reassembling of his old monster-host.

他tā的de人rén情qíng又yòu大dà，手shǒu段duàn又yòu高gāo，便biàn去qù四sì海hǎi龍lóng王wáng借jiè些xiē甘gān霖lín仙xiān水shuǐ，把bǎ山shān洗xǐ青qīng了le。他tā的de人rén情qíng又yòu大dà，手shǒu段duàn又yòu高gāo，便biàn去qù四sì海hǎi龙lóng王wáng借jiè些xiē甘gān霖lín仙xiān水shuǐ，把bǎ山shān洗xǐ青qīng了le。

His connections were wide and his powers high; so he went to the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas to borrow some sweet-rain immortal water, and washed the mountain green again.

四海龍王 the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas; 甘霖 sweet, timely rain. 洗青了 le — the scorched mountain restored to green.

前qián栽zāi榆yú柳liǔ，後hòu種zhǒng松sōng柟nán，桃táo李lǐ棗zǎo梅méi，無wú所suǒ不bú備bèi。逍xiāo遙yáo自zì在zài，樂lè業yè安ān居jū不bù題tí。前qián栽zāi榆yú柳liǔ，后hòu种zhǒng松sōng柟nán，桃táo李lǐ枣zǎo梅méi，无wú所suǒ不bú备bèi。逍xiāo遥yáo自zì在zài，乐lè业yè安ān居jū不bù题tí。

In front he planted elms and willows, behind he set pines and nanmu; peaches, plums, jujubes, and mei — nothing was left wanting. Free and at ease, contented in his settled life — of which no more need be said.

松柟 nán (= 楠, nanmu). 樂業安居 lè — the formulaic close of contentment; 不題 dropping the thread. The scene of ease before the narrative turns to Tripitaka.

總評 Commentary

The chapter's first movement closes on restoration. The banner Wukong raises — stitched from the dead hunters' standards — proclaims the three titles of his old identity, “Rebuilder of Flower-Fruit Mountain, Restorer of the Water-Curtain Cave, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.” The washing of the mountain green with borrowed dragon-rain undoes, cosmetically, the very devastation the poems have just lamented; the scorched slope is made to bloom again.

And with “no more mention of the two graphs ‘the monk,’” the pilgrimage is, for Wukong, formally over. The narrator's parting phrase — free, at ease, contented, “of which no more need be said” — seals him back into the paradise-kingdom of the novel's opening. It is a false ending, and a pointed one: the story now cuts away to Tripitaka walking unprotected into the Black Pine Forest, so that the reader holds Wukong's contentment and his master's peril in the same glance.