原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
Reader's edition
含詞賦 With rhapsody
黃袍出洞
The Yellow Robe
卻說那八戒、沙僧在門前正等，只見妖魔來得兇險。你道他怎生打扮：却说那八戒、沙僧在门前正等，只见妖魔来得凶险。你道他怎生打扮：
青臉紅鬚赤髮飄，黃金鎧甲亮光饒。青脸红须赤发飘，黄金铠甲亮光饶。
裹肚襯腰磲石帶，攀胸勒甲步雲絛。裹肚衬腰磲石带，攀胸勒甲步云绦。
閑立山前風吼吼，悶遊海外浪滔滔。闲立山前风吼吼，闷游海外浪滔滔。
一雙藍靛焦觔手，執定追魂取命刀。一双蓝靛焦觔手，执定追魂取命刀。
要知此物名和姓，聲揚二字喚黃袍。要知此物名和姓，声扬二字唤黄袍。
逐句解 Line by line
卻說那八戒、沙僧在門前正等，只見妖魔來得兇險。你道他怎生打扮：
却说那八戒、沙僧在门前正等，只见妖魔来得凶险。你道他怎生打扮：
Now as Bajie and Sha Monk stood waiting at the gate, they saw the fiend come out in fearsome force. And how was he arrayed? Behold:
那 nà; 來得 de. The demon's martial portrait follows.
青臉紅鬚赤髮飄，黃金鎧甲亮光饒。
青脸红须赤发飘，黄金铠甲亮光饶。
Blue face, red whiskers, crimson hair astream; gold-mounted armor, ablaze with abundant light.
The portrait opens in seven-graph regulated lines — the demon as martial hero.
裹肚襯腰磲石帶，攀胸勒甲步雲絛。
裹肚衬腰磲石带，攀胸勒甲步云绦。
A belt of tridacna-shell wraps his belly and lines his waist; a cloud-patterned cord clasps his chest and laces his mail.
磲石 (giant-clam shell) / 步雲絛 (cloud-tread sash) — the accoutrements of a warrior of rank.
閑立山前風吼吼，悶遊海外浪滔滔。
闲立山前风吼吼，闷游海外浪滔滔。
At ease before the mountain, the wind roars and roars; roaming glum beyond the seas, the waves surge and surge.
Reduplicative 吼吼/滔滔 — the demon at rest and at roam, wind and wave answering each other.
一雙藍靛焦觔手，執定追魂取命刀。
一双蓝靛焦觔手，执定追魂取命刀。
A pair of indigo, sinew-scorched hands grips fast the soul-hunting, life-taking sabre.
焦觔 (觔 = 筋, sinew); 追魂取命刀 the “soul-hunting” blade.
要知此物名和姓，聲揚二字喚黃袍。
要知此物名和姓，声扬二字唤黄袍。
Would you know this creature's name and style? Two ringing graphs proclaim him: Yellow Robe.
黃袍 — the demon named at the fu's close; later revealed as the Kui-wood Wolf, a star-lord in exile.
總評 Commentary
Unlike the sleeping-fiend fu of the pagoda, which grotesquely mixed the hideous and the delicate, this portrait is straightforwardly martial and even handsome — gold armor, tridacna belt, cloud-sash, a warrior at ease before his mountain. The demon is presented as a formidable and dignified antagonist, which both raises the stakes of the coming fight and quietly plants the truth about his origin.
The naming is withheld to the last line, a standard flourish of the descriptive fu: only after the full array does the verse deliver the two graphs, “Yellow Robe.” The dignity of the portrait is not ironic here as it was in the pagoda; it is a genuine measure of the foe, and prepares the revelation — several chapters in the making — that this is no common ogre but the Kui-wood Wolf of the twenty-eight lunar mansions, doing penance on earth for a love affair in heaven.