第三十回 · 天下名山 The First Mountain Under Heaven — Journey to the West

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天下名山 The First Mountain Under Heaven

八bā戒jiè觀guān之zhī不bú盡jìn，滿mǎn心xīn歡huān喜xǐ道dào：「哥gē啊a，好hǎo去qù處chù，果guǒ然rán是shì天tiān下xià第dì一yì名míng山shān。」行xíng者zhě道dào：「賢xián弟dì，可kě過guò得de日rì子zi麼me？」八bā戒jiè笑xiào道dào：「你nǐ看kàn師shī兄xiōng說shuō的de話huà，寶bǎo山shān乃nǎi洞dòng天tiān福fú地dì之zhī處chù，怎zěn麼me說shuō度dù日rì之zhī言yán也yě？」八bā戒jiè观guān之zhī不bú尽jìn，满mǎn心xīn欢huān喜xǐ道dào：「哥gē啊a，好hǎo去qù处chù，果guǒ然rán是shì天tiān下xià第dì一yì名míng山shān。」行xíng者zhě道dào：「贤xián弟dì，可kě过guò得de日rì子zi么me？」八bā戒jiè笑xiào道dào：「你nǐ看kàn师shī兄xiōng说shuō的de话huà，宝bǎo山shān乃nǎi洞dòng天tiān福fú地dì之zhī处chù，怎zěn么me说shuō度dù日rì之zhī言yán也yě？」

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八bā戒jiè觀guān之zhī不bú盡jìn，滿mǎn心xīn歡huān喜xǐ道dào：「哥gē啊a，好hǎo去qù處chù，果guǒ然rán是shì天tiān下xià第dì一yì名míng山shān。」八bā戒jiè观guān之zhī不bú尽jìn，满mǎn心xīn欢huān喜xǐ道dào：「哥gē啊a，好hǎo去qù处chù，果guǒ然rán是shì天tiān下xià第dì一yì名míng山shān。」

Bajie, gazing his fill and more, said in high delight: "Brother, what a place! Truly the first famous mountain under Heaven."

觀之不盡 ("to gaze without exhausting the sight") takes 觀 as guān; because the following 盡 is raised to jìn (fourth tone), the 不 shifts to bú by sandhi. 天下第一, "first under Heaven."

行xíng者zhě道dào：「賢xián弟dì，可kě過guò得de日rì子zi麼me？」行xíng者zhě道dào：「贤xián弟dì，可kě过guò得de日rì子zi么me？」

The Pilgrim said: "Worthy brother, could one pass one’s days here?"

In 過得日子 ("manage to pass one’s days") the graph 得 is de, and 子 is suffixal zi. Wukong’s modest question sets up Bajie’s grander retort.

八bā戒jiè笑xiào道dào：「你nǐ看kàn師shī兄xiōng說shuō的de話huà，寶bǎo山shān乃nǎi洞dòng天tiān福fú地dì之zhī處chù，怎zěn麼me說shuō度dù日rì之zhī言yán也yě？」八bā戒jiè笑xiào道dào：「你nǐ看kàn师shī兄xiōng说shuō的de话huà，宝bǎo山shān乃nǎi洞dòng天tiān福fú地dì之zhī处chù，怎zěn么me说shuō度dù日rì之zhī言yán也yě？」

Bajie laughed: "Listen to my brother! This treasure-mountain is a grotto-heaven, a blessed land — how can you speak of merely ‘passing the days’?"

寶山 is a "treasure-mountain"; 洞天福地, the Daoist paradise-term recalled from the 賦; 度日, "to get through the days, eke out a living." Bajie’s enthusiasm underscores what Wukong is being asked to abandon.

總評 Commentary

The exchange is quietly weighted. Bajie extols Flower-Fruit Mountain as a paradise — a "grotto-heaven, a blessed land," the very phrase of the preceding 賦 — while Wukong, its lord, asks only whether one "could pass one’s days" there. The contrast is comic on the surface, but it also frames the chapter’s underlying tension: this is the home the Mind-Monkey has returned to and made new, and the errand Bajie carries is precisely to draw him out of it again.