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天下名山
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天下名山 The First Mountain Under Heaven

jièguānzhījìn滿mǎnxīnhuāndào:「ahǎochùguǒránshìtiānxiàmíngshān。」xíngzhědào:「xiánguòdezime?」jièxiàodào:「kànshīxiōngshuōdehuàbǎoshānnǎidòngtiānzhīchùzěnmeshuōzhīyán?」jièguānzhījìnmǎnxīnhuāndào:「ahǎochùguǒránshìtiānxiàmíngshān。」xíngzhědào:「xiánguòdezime?」jièxiàodào:「kànshīxiōngshuōdehuàbǎoshānnǎidòngtiānzhīchùzěnmeshuōzhīyán?」


逐句解 Line by line

jièguānzhījìn滿mǎnxīnhuāndào:「ahǎochùguǒránshìtiānxiàmíngshān。」 jièguānzhījìnmǎnxīnhuāndào:「ahǎochùguǒránshìtiānxiàmíngshān。」

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 look without exhausting the sight, takes as guān; and because the following is a falling tone, the in front of it lifts to . 天下第一 is "first under Heaven," the standard superlative for anything.

xíngzhědào:「xiánguòdezime?」 xíngzhědào:「xiánguòdezime?」

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

In 過得日子, to manage to get through the days, the character is de and is the suffix zi. Wukong asks a deliberately small question about a place he has just been told is the finest mountain in the world.

jièxiàodào:「kànshīxiōngshuōdehuàbǎoshānnǎidòngtiānzhīchùzěnmeshuōzhīyán?」 jièxiàodào:「kànshīxiōngshuōdehuàbǎoshānnǎidòngtiānzhīchùzěnmeshuōzhīyán?」

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 is the Daoist paradise-term straight out of the verse a moment ago, which Bajie has evidently been listening to; 度日 is to get through the days, to eke a living out. Bajie is scandalised on Wukong's behalf that he would undersell the place.


總評 Commentary

The exchange is quietly weighted. Bajie extols Flower-Fruit Mountain as a paradise — a "grotto-heaven, a blessed land," borrowing the exact phrase of the verse just past — while Wukong, its lord, asks only whether one "could pass one's days" there. The contrast is comic on the surface and does real work underneath: this is the home the Mind-Monkey came back to and made new, and Bajie's errand is precisely to draw him out of it again.