第三十一回 · 直闖天門 Storming Heaven’s Gate — Journey to the West

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直闖天門 Storming Heaven’s Gate

那nà大dà聖shèng一yì時shí忍rěn不bú住zhù怒nù發fā，揝zuàn著zhe鐵tiě棒bàng，打dǎ個gè觔jīn斗dǒu，只zhǐ跳tiào到dào南nán天tiān門mén上shàng。慌huāng得de那nà龐páng、劉liú、苟gǒu、畢bì，張zhāng、陶táo、鄧dèng、辛xīn等děng眾zhòng，兩liǎng邊biān躬gōng身shēn控kòng背bèi，不bù敢gǎn攔lán阻zǔ，讓ràng他tā打dǎ入rù天tiān門mén，直zhí至zhì通tōng明míng殿diàn下xià。早zǎo有yǒu張zhāng、葛gé、許xǔ、丘qiū四sì大dà天tiān師shī問wèn道dào：「大dà聖shèng何hé來lái？」行xíng者zhě道dào：「因yīn保bǎo唐táng僧sēng至zhì寶bǎo象xiàng國guó，有yǒu一yì妖yāo魔mó欺qī騙piàn國guó女nǚ，傷shāng害hài吾wú師shī，老lǎo孫sūn與yǔ他tā賭dǔ鬥dòu。正zhèng鬥dòu間jiān，不bú見jiàn了le這zhè怪guài。想xiǎng那nà怪guài不bú是shì凡fán間jiān之zhī怪guài，多duō是shì天tiān上shàng之zhī精jīng，特tè來lái查chá勘kān，那nǎ一yí路lù走zǒu了le甚shén麼me妖yāo神shén？」那nà大dà圣shèng一yì时shí忍rěn不bú住zhù怒nù发fā，揝zuàn着zhe铁tiě棒bàng，打dǎ个gè觔jīn斗dǒu，只zhǐ跳tiào到dào南nán天tiān门mén上shàng。慌huāng得de那nà庞páng、刘liú、苟gǒu、毕bì，张zhāng、陶táo、邓dèng、辛xīn等děng众zhòng，两liǎng边biān躬gōng身shēn控kòng背bèi，不bù敢gǎn拦lán阻zǔ，让ràng他tā打dǎ入rù天tiān门mén，直zhí至zhì通tōng明míng殿diàn下xià。早zǎo有yǒu张zhāng、葛gé、许xǔ、丘qiū四sì大dà天tiān师shī问wèn道dào：「大dà圣shèng何hé来lái？」行xíng者zhě道dào：「因yīn保bǎo唐táng僧sēng至zhì宝bǎo象xiàng国guó，有yǒu一yì妖yāo魔mó欺qī骗piàn国guó女nǚ，伤shāng害hài吾wú师shī，老lǎo孙sūn与yǔ他tā赌dǔ斗dòu。正zhèng斗dòu间jiān，不bú见jiàn了le这zhè怪guài。想xiǎng那nà怪guài不bú是shì凡fán间jiān之zhī怪guài，多duō是shì天tiān上shàng之zhī精jīng，特tè来lái查chá勘kān，那nǎ一yí路lù走zǒu了le甚shén么me妖yāo神shén？」

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那nà大dà聖shèng一yì時shí忍rěn不bú住zhù怒nù發fā，揝zuàn著zhe鐵tiě棒bàng，打dǎ個gè觔jīn斗dǒu，只zhǐ跳tiào到dào南nán天tiān門mén上shàng。那nà大dà圣shèng一yì时shí忍rěn不bú住zhù怒nù发fā，揝zuàn着zhe铁tiě棒bàng，打dǎ个gè觔jīn斗dǒu，只zhǐ跳tiào到dào南nán天tiān门mén上shàng。

The Great Sage, unable for the moment to master his rising wrath, gripped his iron staff, turned a somersault, and in one bound leapt up to the Southern Gate of Heaven.

觔斗, jīn dǒu, a somersault — Wukong's cloud-vaulting leap, which covers a hundred and eight thousand lǐ in one turn. (The 觔 is the same variant character that meant sinew earlier in the chapter.) 南天門, Nán Tiān Mén, the Southern Gate of Heaven, and the door he broke down five hundred years ago.

慌huāng得de那nà龐páng、劉liú、苟gǒu、畢bì，張zhāng、陶táo、鄧dèng、辛xīn等děng眾zhòng，兩liǎng邊biān躬gōng身shēn控kòng背bèi，不bù敢gǎn攔lán阻zǔ，讓ràng他tā打dǎ入rù天tiān門mén，直zhí至zhì通tōng明míng殿diàn下xià。慌huāng得de那nà庞páng、刘liú、苟gǒu、毕bì，张zhāng、陶táo、邓dèng、辛xīn等děng众zhòng，两liǎng边biān躬gōng身shēn控kòng背bèi，不bù敢gǎn拦lán阻zǔ，让ràng他tā打dǎ入rù天tiān门mén，直zhí至zhì通tōng明míng殿diàn下xià。

So alarmed were the marshals Pang, Liu, Gou, and Bi, Zhang, Tao, Deng, and Xin, and the rest, that they bowed low with arched backs on either hand, not daring to bar him, and let him pass in at the gate straight to the foot of the Hall of Universal Brightness.

The reception says everything about his standing. The eight names — 龐劉苟畢張陶鄧辛, Páng, Liú, Gǒu and Bì, Zhāng, Táo, Dèng and Xīn — are the celestial marshals who guard the gates. They do not challenge him; they bow, on both sides, and let him through to the 通明殿, Tōngmíng Diàn, the Hall of Universal Brightness. Nobody in Heaven has forgotten the last time.

早zǎo有yǒu張zhāng、葛gé、許xǔ、丘qiū四sì大dà天tiān師shī問wèn道dào：「大dà聖shèng何hé來lái？」早zǎo有yǒu张zhāng、葛gé、许xǔ、丘qiū四sì大dà天tiān师shī问wèn道dào：「大dà圣shèng何hé来lái？」

At once the Four Grand Celestial Masters — Zhang, Ge, Xu, and Qiu — asked, "What brings the Great Sage?"

張葛許丘四大天師, sì dà tiān shī — Zhāng, Gě, Xǔ and Qiū, the Four Grand Celestial Masters — are the Jade Emperor's permanent attendants, and they handle Wukong the way senior civil servants handle a dangerous petitioner: politely, and first.

行xíng者zhě道dào：「因yīn保bǎo唐táng僧sēng至zhì寶bǎo象xiàng國guó，有yǒu一yì妖yāo魔mó欺qī騙piàn國guó女nǚ，傷shāng害hài吾wú師shī，老lǎo孫sūn與yǔ他tā賭dǔ鬥dòu。行xíng者zhě道dào：「因yīn保bǎo唐táng僧sēng至zhì宝bǎo象xiàng国guó，有yǒu一yì妖yāo魔mó欺qī骗piàn国guó女nǚ，伤shāng害hài吾wú师shī，老lǎo孙sūn与yǔ他tā赌dǔ斗dòu。

Pilgrim said, "While guarding the Tang Monk on the way to Baoxiang, I found a fiend who had cheated the king's daughter and done harm to my master, and old Sun gave him battle.

欺騙, qī piàn, to deceive and cheat; 賭鬥, dǔ dòu, to fight it out. He states the case in the order a complaint is filed: jurisdiction, injury, action taken.

正zhèng鬥dòu間jiān，不bú見jiàn了le這zhè怪guài。正zhèng斗dòu间jiān，不bú见jiàn了le这zhè怪guài。

In the very midst of the fight, the fiend vanished from sight.

正鬥間, zhèng dòu jiān: right in the thick of it.

想xiǎng那nà怪guài不bú是shì凡fán間jiān之zhī怪guài，多duō是shì天tiān上shàng之zhī精jīng，特tè來lái查chá勘kān，那nǎ一yí路lù走zǒu了le甚shén麼me妖yāo神shén？」想xiǎng那nà怪guài不bú是shì凡fán间jiān之zhī怪guài，多duō是shì天tiān上shàng之zhī精jīng，特tè来lái查chá勘kān，那nǎ一yí路lù走zǒu了le甚shén么me妖yāo神shén？」

I judge him no fiend of the mortal world but a spirit of Heaven, and am come expressly to inquire: by which quarter has some spirit-fiend absconded?"

And here is the request, and it is beautifully bureaucratic: 查勘, chá kān, to investigate, to check the records. He is not asking Heaven to fight for him. He is asking Heaven to take a register. Note the two 那 in the line: 那怪 points, nà; 那一路 asks, nǎ.

總評 Commentary

Wukong's fury carries him in a single somersault to the Southern Gate of Heaven, and the marshals' alarmed deference — bowing him through rather than barring the way — is a wry reminder of the terror his name still commands in the celestial court since the uproar of the opening chapters. The Great Sage moves through Heaven not as a supplicant but as a force the bureaucracy dares not obstruct.

Before the Four Celestial Masters he lays out his case with the concision of a plaintiff filing a complaint, and his request — to find out which spirit has absconded — recasts the subduing of a demon as a problem of cosmic administration. The scene opens the celestial-recall ending, in which disorder on earth is traced to a vacancy in the heavenly ranks and set right by the machinery of the divine order itself.