原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
Reader's edition
含詞賦 With rhapsody
獵戶佈山
The Hunters' Array
那大聖上了山巔看處，只見那南半邊鼕鼕鼓響，噹噹鑼鳴，閃上有千餘人馬，都架著鷹犬，持著刀槍。猴王仔細看那些人來得兇險，好男子，真個驍勇。但見：那大圣上了山巅看处，只见那南半边冬冬鼓响，当当锣鸣，闪上有千余人马，都架著鹰犬，持著刀枪。猴王仔细看那些人来得凶险，好男子，真个骁勇。但见：
狐皮蓋肩頂，錦綺裹腰胸。狐皮盖肩顶，锦绮裹腰胸。
袋插狼牙箭，胯掛寶雕弓。袋插狼牙箭，胯挂宝雕弓。
人似搜山虎，馬如跳澗龍。人似搜山虎，马如跳涧龙。
成群引著犬，滿膀架其鷹。成群引著犬，满膀架其鹰。
荊筐擡火炮，帶定海東青。荆筐擡火炮，带定海东青。
粘竿百十擔，兔叉有千根。粘竿百十担，兔叉有千根。
牛頭攔路網，閻王扣子繩。牛头拦路网，阎王扣子绳。
一齊亂吆喝，散撒滿天星。一齐乱吆喝，散撒满天星。
逐句解 Line by line
那大聖上了山巔看處，只見那南半邊鼕鼕鼓響，噹噹鑼鳴，閃上有千餘人馬，都架著鷹犬，持著刀槍。猴王仔細看那些人來得兇險，好男子，真個驍勇。但見：
那大圣上了山巅看处，只见那南半边冬冬鼓响，当当锣鸣，闪上有千余人马，都架著鹰犬，持著刀枪。猴王仔细看那些人来得凶险，好男子，真个骁勇。但见：
The Great Sage climbed to the summit to look, and there on the southern side came the boom-boom of drums and the clang-clang of gongs; more than a thousand men and horses flashed into view, all with hawks and hounds on the leash and blades and spears in hand. The Monkey King looked closely: these were men of fearsome approach, stalwart fellows, valiant indeed. Behold:
那 nà (thrice: 那大聖 / 只見那 / 那些人); 都 dōu; 架著 / 持著 zhe; 仔細 zǐ; 來得 de. The verse portrait that follows.
狐皮蓋肩頂，錦綺裹腰胸。
狐皮盖肩顶，锦绮裹腰胸。
Fox-fur cloaks their shoulders and crowns; brocade and damask swathe waist and breast.
The opening couplet of the hunters' portrait, in balanced five-graph lines.
袋插狼牙箭，胯掛寶雕弓。
袋插狼牙箭，胯挂宝雕弓。
In their quivers, wolf-fang arrows; at their hips, bows of jeweled carving.
狼牙箭 barbed “wolf-fang” arrows.
人似搜山虎，馬如跳澗龍。
人似搜山虎，马如跳涧龙。
The men are like mountain-searching tigers; the horses, like dragons vaulting a ravine.
似 sì (“like”); parallel simile-couplet, 似 answered by 如.
成群引著犬，滿膀架其鷹。
成群引著犬，满膀架其鹰。
In packs they lead their hounds along; on every arm they perch their hawks.
引著 zhe (durative). 滿膀 the whole forearm, on which the hawk is carried.
荊筐擡火炮，帶定海東青。
荆筐擡火炮，带定海东青。
In wicker baskets they haul the fire-guns; and fast on the wrist, the sea-east falcon.
海東青 the gyrfalcon of the northeast, a prized hunting hawk. 火炮 hand-guns.
粘竿百十擔，兔叉有千根。
粘竿百十担，兔叉有千根。
Lime-poles by the hundred-odd loads; hare-forks a thousand shafts and more.
擔 dàn (load-measure), not dān. 粘竿 bird-liming poles; 兔叉 pronged hare-spears.
牛頭攔路網，閻王扣子繩。
牛头拦路网，阎王扣子绳。
Ox-head nets to bar the trails; and Yama-snares, the buckling cords.
牛頭 / 閻王 — the nets and snares named for the ox-headed jailer and King Yama of the underworld, presaging the carnage. 扣子 zi.
一齊亂吆喝，散撒滿天星。
一齐乱吆喝，散撒满天星。
All at once the wild hallooing rises; scattered they spread like stars filling the sky.
散撒 sàn (scatter); the beaters fan out across the slope like stars.
總評 Commentary
The hunters get the full rhapsodic treatment usually reserved for a martial hero or a demon-king — fox-fur and brocade, wolf-fang arrows, tiger-men and dragon-horses, hawks and hounds and gyrfalcons by the thousand. The catalogue is admiring in form, and the narrator even calls them “stalwart fellows, valiant indeed.”
But the praise is laid down like a trap. The two closing images — nets named for the ox-headed jailer of hell, snares named for King Yama — quietly reassign the whole magnificent host to the side of death. The men who have come to kill are themselves marked for it, and the scattering “like stars filling the sky” anticipates exactly how they will be flung across the mountain a moment later.