第二十九回 · 上了大路 The Road to the Land of Precious Images — Journey to the West

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上了大路 The Road to the Land of Precious Images

八bā戒jiè當dāng頭tóu領lǐng路lù，沙shā僧sēng後hòu隨suí，出chū了le那nà松sōng林lín，上shàng了le大dà路lù。你nǐ看kàn他tā兩liǎng個gè嚌jì嚌jì嘈cáo嘈cáo，埋mán埋mán怨yuàn怨yuàn，三sān藏zàng只zhǐ是shì解jiě和hé。遇yù晚wǎn先xiān投tóu宿sù，雞jī鳴míng早zǎo看kàn天tiān。一yì程chéng一yì程chéng，長cháng亭tíng短duǎn亭tíng，不bù覺jué的de就jiù走zǒu了le二èr百bǎi九jiǔ十shí九jiǔ里lǐ。猛měng擡tái頭tóu，只zhǐ見jiàn一yí座zuò好hǎo城chéng，就jiù是shì寶bǎo象xiàng國guó。八bā戒jiè当dāng头tóu领lǐng路lù，沙shā僧sēng后hòu随suí，出chū了le那nà松sōng林lín，上shàng了le大dà路lù。你nǐ看kàn他tā两liǎng个gè哜jì哜jì嘈cáo嘈cáo，埋mán埋mán怨yuàn怨yuàn，三sān藏zàng只zhǐ是shì解jiě和hé。遇yù晚wǎn先xiān投tóu宿sù，鸡jī鸣míng早zǎo看kàn天tiān。一yì程chéng一yì程chéng，长cháng亭tíng短duǎn亭tíng，不bù觉jué的de就jiù走zǒu了le二èr百bǎi九jiǔ十shí九jiǔ里lǐ。猛měng擡tái头tóu，只zhǐ见jiàn一yí座zuò好hǎo城chéng，就jiù是shì宝bǎo象xiàng国guó。

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八bā戒jiè當dāng頭tóu領lǐng路lù，沙shā僧sēng後hòu隨suí，出chū了le那nà松sōng林lín，上shàng了le大dà路lù。你nǐ看kàn他tā兩liǎng個gè嚌jì嚌jì嘈cáo嘈cáo，埋mán埋mán怨yuàn怨yuàn，三sān藏zàng只zhǐ是shì解jiě和hé。八bā戒jiè当dāng头tóu领lǐng路lù，沙shā僧sēng后hòu随suí，出chū了le那nà松sōng林lín，上shàng了le大dà路lù。你nǐ看kàn他tā两liǎng个gè哜jì哜jì嘈cáo嘈cáo，埋mán埋mán怨yuàn怨yuàn，三sān藏zàng只zhǐ是shì解jiě和hé。

Eight Rules took the lead in front and Sha Monk followed behind; they came out of the pine wood and gained the high road. You should have seen the two of them, jabbering and grumbling, muttering and complaining, while Tripitaka did nothing but make peace between them.

當頭領路 = "to lead the way at the front." 嚌嚌嘈嘈 (jì-jì-cáo-cáo) and 埋埋怨怨 (both 埋 = mán) are reduplicated binomes for the disciples' bickering (埋怨 = mányuàn, "to grumble"); 解和 = "to reconcile, to smooth over." The comic squabbling resumes the pilgrims' ordinary manner after the tension of the cave.

遇yù晚wǎn先xiān投tóu宿sù，雞jī鳴míng早zǎo看kàn天tiān。一yì程chéng一yì程chéng，長cháng亭tíng短duǎn亭tíng，不bù覺jué的de就jiù走zǒu了le二èr百bǎi九jiǔ十shí九jiǔ里lǐ。猛měng擡tái頭tóu，只zhǐ見jiàn一yí座zuò好hǎo城chéng，就jiù是shì寶bǎo象xiàng國guó。遇yù晚wǎn先xiān投tóu宿sù，鸡jī鸣míng早zǎo看kàn天tiān。一yì程chéng一yì程chéng，长cháng亭tíng短duǎn亭tíng，不bù觉jué的de就jiù走zǒu了le二èr百bǎi九jiǔ十shí九jiǔ里lǐ。猛měng擡tái头tóu，只zhǐ见jiàn一yí座zuò好hǎo城chéng，就jiù是shì宝bǎo象xiàng国guó。

At nightfall they would seek lodging first; at cockcrow they would rise to watch the sky. Stage by stage, past long pavilions and short, before they knew it they had gone two hundred and ninety-nine li. Then, raising their heads of a sudden, they saw a fine city before them — and this was the Land of Precious Images.

遇晚先投宿，雞鳴早看天 is a formulaic couplet for the daily rhythm of travel. 長亭短亭 (長 = cháng) — the "long and short pavilions" were roadside rest-stops marking the stages of a journey. 寶象國 (the Land of Precious Images) is the chapter's destination.

總評 Commentary

The chapter modulates, after the strain of the cave, back into its ordinary comic register: the two disciples squabble down the road in a spatter of reduplicated onomatopoeia (嚌嚌嘈嘈, 埋埋怨怨), and Tripitaka is reduced to the thankless office of peacemaker between them. The formulaic travel-couplet — lodging at nightfall, rising at cockcrow — telescopes the journey into a few strokes, in the tale-teller's shorthand for distance covered.

The passage exists chiefly to deliver the pilgrims to the gates of Baoxiang, and it does so with the characteristic gesture of the sudden lifted head (猛擡頭) that discovers a city. That discovery cues the set-piece 賦 to follow: the novel habitually greets a major kingdom with a formal descriptive rhapsody, and the abrupt sighting of "a fine city" is the hinge on which narrative gives way to panorama.