Canonical Classics ← 第二十九回
第二十九回
脫tuō難nàn江jiāng流liú來lái國guó土tǔ
承chéng恩ēn八bā戒jiè轉zhuǎn山shān林lín

Freed from Ordeal, River-Float Comes to the Kingdom's Land · Receiving Grace, Eight Rules Turns to the Mountain Forest

努力齊心
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition 含詞賦 With rhapsody

努力齊心 The Departure Quatrain

卻què說shuō那nà沙shā僧sēng趕gǎn上shàng八bā戒jiè道dào：「哥gē哥gē，我wǒ來lái了le。」八bā戒jiè道dào：「兄xiōng弟dì，你nǐ來lái怎zěn的de？」沙shā僧sēng道dào：「師shī父fù叫jiào我wǒ來lái幫bāng幫bāng功gōng的de。」八bā戒jiè大dà喜xǐ道dào：「說shuō得de是shì，來lái得de好hǎo。我wǒ兩liǎng個gè努nǔ力lì齊qí心xīn，去qù捉zhuō那nà怪guài物wù，雖suī不bù怎zěn的de，也yě在zài此cǐ國guó揚yáng揚yáng姓xìng名míng。」你nǐ看kàn他tā：却què说shuō那nà沙shā僧sēng赶gǎn上shàng八bā戒jiè道dào：「哥gē哥gē，我wǒ来lái了le。」八bā戒jiè道dào：「兄xiōng弟dì，你nǐ来lái怎zěn的de？」沙shā僧sēng道dào：「师shī父fù叫jiào我wǒ来lái帮bāng帮bāng功gōng的de。」八bā戒jiè大dà喜xǐ道dào：「说shuō得de是shì，来lái得de好hǎo。我wǒ两liǎng个gè努nǔ力lì齐qí心xīn，去qù捉zhuō那nà怪guài物wù，虽suī不bù怎zěn的de，也yě在zài此cǐ国guó扬yáng扬yáng姓xìng名míng。」你nǐ看kàn他tā：

靉ài靆dài祥xiáng光guāng辭cí國guó界jiè，氤yīn氳yūn瑞ruì氣qì出chū京jīng城chéng。叆ài叇dài祥xiáng光guāng辞cí国guó界jiè，氤yīn氲yūn瑞ruì气qì出chū京jīng城chéng。
領lǐng王wáng旨zhǐ意yì來lái山shān洞dòng，努nǔ力lì齊qí心xīn捉zhuō怪guài靈líng。领lǐng王wáng旨zhǐ意yì来lái山shān洞dòng，努nǔ力lì齐qí心xīn捉zhuō怪guài灵líng。

逐句解 Line by line

卻què說shuō那nà沙shā僧sēng趕gǎn上shàng八bā戒jiè道dào：「哥gē哥gē，我wǒ來lái了le。」八bā戒jiè道dào：「兄xiōng弟dì，你nǐ來lái怎zěn的de？」沙shā僧sēng道dào：「師shī父fù叫jiào我wǒ來lái幫bāng幫bāng功gōng的de。」八bā戒jiè大dà喜xǐ道dào：「說shuō得de是shì，來lái得de好hǎo。我wǒ兩liǎng個gè努nǔ力lì齊qí心xīn，去qù捉zhuō那nà怪guài物wù，雖suī不bù怎zěn的de，也yě在zài此cǐ國guó揚yáng揚yáng姓xìng名míng。」你nǐ看kàn他tā： 却què说shuō那nà沙shā僧sēng赶gǎn上shàng八bā戒jiè道dào：「哥gē哥gē，我wǒ来lái了le。」八bā戒jiè道dào：「兄xiōng弟dì，你nǐ来lái怎zěn的de？」沙shā僧sēng道dào：「师shī父fù叫jiào我wǒ来lái帮bāng帮bāng功gōng的de。」八bā戒jiè大dà喜xǐ道dào：「说shuō得de是shì，来lái得de好hǎo。我wǒ两liǎng个gè努nǔ力lì齐qí心xīn，去qù捉zhuō那nà怪guài物wù，虽suī不bù怎zěn的de，也yě在zài此cǐ国guó扬yáng扬yáng姓xìng名míng。」你nǐ看kàn他tā：

Now Sha Monk caught up with Eight Rules and said, 'Brother, here I am.' Said Eight Rules, 'Brother, what have you come for?' Said Sha Monk, 'The master bade me come and lend a hand.' Eight Rules was delighted: 'Well said, and well come. If the two of us bend our strength with one heart to take that monster, then, come what may, we shall at least make our names ring in this kingdom.' Look at them:

卻說 = "now, to tell of..." (a storyteller's shift of thread); 趕上 = "to catch up with." 說得 (得 = de) 是，來得 (得 = de) 好 = "well said, well come"; 揚揚姓名 = "to make [our] names resound." 你看他 = "look at them" — the lead-in to the departure-verse that follows.

靉ài靆dài祥xiáng光guāng辭cí國guó界jiè，氤yīn氳yūn瑞ruì氣qì出chū京jīng城chéng。 叆ài叇dài祥xiáng光guāng辞cí国guó界jiè，氤yīn氲yūn瑞ruì气qì出chū京jīng城chéng。

In billowing auspicious radiance they take leave of the kingdom's bounds; / in curling propitious vapors they issue from the capital.

靉靆 = "dense, billowing [cloud]"; 氤氳 = "curling, vaporous [mist]" — a matched pair of binomes for the clouds of the two flying monks. 辭國界 = "take leave of the realm's borders"; 出京城 = "issue from the capital." The couplet opens the quatrain that speeds them from Baoxiang to the demon's mountain.

領lǐng王wáng旨zhǐ意yì來lái山shān洞dòng，努nǔ力lì齊qí心xīn捉zhuō怪guài靈líng。 领lǐng王wáng旨zhǐ意yì来lái山shān洞dòng，努nǔ力lì齐qí心xīn捉zhuō怪guài灵líng。

Bearing the king's command, they come to the mountain cave; / with strength bent and hearts as one, to seize the demon-sprite.

領王旨意 = "bearing the king's decree"; 來山洞 = "come to the mountain cave." 努力齊心 = "exerting strength with one heart"; 捉怪靈 = "to seize the demon-spirit." The closing couplet states the errand — the royal charge, the shared resolve — on which the pilgrims fly to the coming battle.

總評 Commentary

The passage completes the Baoxiang interlude and launches the return to the demon's lair. Eight Rules, reunited with his brother, cannot resist a last flourish of vanity — even should the fight go indifferently ("come what may"), the two of them will at least "make their names ring" in this kingdom — a boast wholly of a piece with his self-styling as the foremost demon-queller. Sha Monk's plain report of the master's command sets the errand on its proper footing, and the scene turns from the comedy of the court to the earnest of battle.

The quatrain effects that turn formally. Its two couplets carry the pilgrims out of the capital on their auspicious clouds and to the mountain cave, restating the charge (the king's decree) and the resolve (strength and heart made one) on which they fly. The verse is a conventional transition-piece, its billowing binomes — 靉靆, 氤氳 — the stock diction of departure-on-cloud; but it seals the shift of scene cleanly, closing the long audience at Baoxiang and opening the confrontation with the Yellow-Robe Ogre that the next passages will join.