原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
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含詞賦 With rhapsody
望海東洋
The Eastern Ocean
卻說那大聖雖被唐僧逐趕，然猶思念感嘆不已，早望見東洋大海，道：「我不走此路者，已五百年矣！」只見那海水：却说那大圣虽被唐僧逐赶，然犹思念感叹不已，早望见东洋大海，道：「我不走此路者，已五百年矣！」只见那海水：
煙波蕩蕩，巨浪悠悠。烟波荡荡，巨浪悠悠。
煙波蕩蕩接天河，巨浪悠悠通地脈。烟波荡荡接天河，巨浪悠悠通地脉。
潮來洶湧，水浸灣環。潮来汹涌，水浸湾环。
潮來洶湧，猶如霹靂吼三春；潮来汹涌，犹如霹雳吼三春；
水浸灣環，卻似狂風吹九夏。水浸湾环，却似狂风吹九夏。
乘龍福老，往來必定皺眉行；乘龙福老，往来必定皱眉行；
跨鶴仙童，反覆果然憂慮過。跨鹤仙童，反覆果然忧虑过。
近岸無村社，傍水少漁舟。近岸无村社，傍水少渔舟。
浪捲千年雪，風生六月秋。浪卷千年雪，风生六月秋。
野禽憑出沒，沙鳥任沉浮。野禽凭出没，沙鸟任沉浮。
眼前無釣客，耳畔只聞鷗。眼前无钓客，耳畔只闻鸥。
海底遊魚樂，天邊過雁愁。海底游鱼乐，天边过雁愁。
逐句解 Line by line
卻說那大聖雖被唐僧逐趕，然猶思念感嘆不已，早望見東洋大海，道：「我不走此路者，已五百年矣！」只見那海水：
却说那大圣虽被唐僧逐赶，然犹思念感叹不已，早望见东洋大海，道：「我不走此路者，已五百年矣！」只见那海水：
Now although the Great Sage had been driven off by the Tang Monk, he could not put an end to his longing and his sighs. Before long the great Eastern Ocean rose into view, and he said, “It has been five hundred years since last I traveled this road!” And there before him lay the sea-water:
The Great Sage's exile-journey home opens the chapter. 五百年 recalls his imprisonment beneath Five-Phases Mountain; the road east is the road back to Flower-Fruit Mountain. 那 both deictic (那大聖 / 那海水).
煙波蕩蕩，巨浪悠悠。
烟波荡荡，巨浪悠悠。
Misted waves rolling boundless, mighty billows drifting long.
Opening the sea-rhapsody in balanced four-graph cola.
煙波蕩蕩接天河，巨浪悠悠通地脈。
烟波荡荡接天河，巨浪悠悠通地脉。
The misted waves, rolling boundless, meet the River of Heaven; the mighty billows, drifting long, thread the veins of the earth.
天河 the Milky Way / River of Heaven; 地脈 the earth's arterial channels of qi.
潮來洶湧，水浸灣環。
潮来汹涌，水浸湾环。
The tide comes surging and turbulent; the flood-waters soak the curving bay.
Introduces the tide-and-flood pair the next two units expand.
潮來洶湧，猶如霹靂吼三春；
潮来汹涌，犹如霹雳吼三春；
The tide comes surging, like a thunderclap roaring through the three months of spring;
三春 the three months of springtime.
水浸灣環，卻似狂風吹九夏。
水浸湾环，却似狂风吹九夏。
the flood soaks the winding bay, like a wild gale blowing through the nine tens of summer.
九夏 the ninety days of summer; parallels 三春.
乘龍福老，往來必定皺眉行；
乘龙福老，往来必定皱眉行；
The blessed elders who ride the dragon must cross it always with knitted brows;
乘 chéng (ride) — riders of dragon and crane are Daoist transcendents who cross the sea with dread.
跨鶴仙童，反覆果然憂慮過。
跨鹤仙童，反覆果然忧虑过。
the immortal lads astride the crane pass over it, back and forth, in unfeigned dread.
Parallels the dragon-riders above; both are Daoist transcendents who dread the crossing.
近岸無村社，傍水少漁舟。
近岸无村社，傍水少渔舟。
Near the shore stands no village or shrine; along the water float but few fishing boats.
少 shǎo (few).
浪捲千年雪，風生六月秋。
浪卷千年雪，风生六月秋。
The waves roll up snow of a thousand years; the wind breeds autumn in the sixth month.
千年雪/六月秋: hyperbole of cold and untimely autumn.
野禽憑出沒，沙鳥任沉浮。
野禽凭出没，沙鸟任沉浮。
Wild fowl come and go as they will; sand-birds sink and rise as they please.
憑…任… “as they please / at will”: the untended freedom of a deserted sea.
眼前無釣客，耳畔只聞鷗。
眼前无钓客，耳畔只闻鸥。
Before the eye no angler appears; at the ear only the gulls are heard.
The absence of men (no angler) answered by the presence of gulls.
海底遊魚樂，天邊過雁愁。
海底游鱼乐，天边过雁愁。
In the depths the roaming fish are glad; at the sky's rim the passing geese are forlorn.
The rhapsody closes on a contrast of joy and sorrow that mirrors Wukong's own divided heart.
總評 Commentary
The chapter opens not with action but with a backward look. Driven from the pilgrimage, Wukong crosses the Eastern Ocean toward the one place that is still his own, and the narrator lingers on the water rather than the traveler — a set-piece sea-rhapsody that suspends the story at the threshold of home. The five hundred years he names are the years of his punishment; the road east is the road of return, and the sea he must recross is the same barrier that once divided his monkey-kingdom from the world.
The rhapsody's imagery is double-edged. Its grandeur — waves that touch the Milky Way, billows that thread the earth's veins — belongs to the old descriptions of Flower-Fruit Mountain in its glory, yet every figure here carries unease: thunder and gale, a thousand-year snow, autumn breeding in high summer. Even the transcendents who ride dragon and crane cross this water with knitted brows. The closing couplet, glad fish below and grieving geese above, sets the emotional key for everything that follows: a homecoming shadowed by dread.