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含詞賦 With rhapsody
好山
A Fine Mountain
師徒們上得山來，十分險峻，真個嵯峨。好山：师徒们上得山来，十分险峻，真个嵯峨。好山：
巍巍峻嶺，削削尖峰。巍巍峻岭，削削尖峰。
灣環深澗下，孤峻陡崖邊。湾环深涧下，孤峻陡崖边。
灣環深澗下，只聽得唿喇喇戲水蟒翻身；湾环深涧下，只听得唿喇喇戏水蟒翻身；
孤峻陡崖邊，但見那崒嵂嵂出林虎剪尾。孤峻陡崖边，但见那崒嵂嵂出林虎剪尾。
往上看，巒頭突兀透青霄；往上看，峦头突兀透青霄；
回眼觀，壑下深沉鄰碧落。回眼观，壑下深沉邻碧落。
上高來，似梯似凳；上高来，似梯似凳；
下低行，如塹如坑。下低行，如堑如坑。
真個是古怪巔峰嶺，果然是連尖削壁崖。真个是古怪巅峰岭，果然是连尖削壁崖。
巔峰嶺上，採藥人尋思怕走；巅峰岭上，采药人寻思怕走；
削壁崖前，打柴夫寸步難行。削壁崖前，打柴夫寸步难行。
胡羊野馬亂攛梭，狡兔山牛如佈陣。胡羊野马乱撺梭，狡兔山牛如布阵。
山高蔽日遮星斗，時逢妖獸與蒼狼。山高蔽日遮星斗，时逢妖兽与苍狼。
草徑迷漫難進馬，怎得雷音見佛王？草径迷漫难进马，怎得雷音见佛王？
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師徒們上得山來，十分險峻，真個嵯峨。
师徒们上得山来，十分险峻，真个嵯峨。
Master and disciples made their way up the mountain — utterly precipitous it was, and truly craggy and towering.
嵯峨 (cuó’é), "craggy, towering." 上得山來 — 得 read de (complement).
好山：
好山：
A fine mountain! —
好山 (hǎo shān), "a fine mountain!" — the storyteller’s lead-in to the rhapsody.
巍巍峻嶺，削削尖峰。
巍巍峻岭，削削尖峰。
Lofty, lofty, the steep ranges; sheer, sheer, the pointed peaks.
巍巍 (wēiwēi), "lofty"; 削削 (xuēxuē), "sheer, sharp." 削 read xuē.
灣環深澗下，孤峻陡崖邊。
湾环深涧下，孤峻陡崖边。
Below, deep ravines coil and wind; at the brink, lone crags rise sheer.
灣環 (wānhuán), "winding, coiling"; 陡崖 (dǒu yá), "sheer cliff."
灣環深澗下，只聽得唿喇喇戲水蟒翻身；
湾环深涧下，只听得唿喇喇戏水蟒翻身；
Below the coiling deep ravines, one hears only the splash and churn as a water-sporting python rolls its bulk;
唿喇喇 (hūlālā), onomatopoeia of splashing water. 蟒 (mǎng), "python." 得 read de.
孤峻陡崖邊，但見那崒嵂嵂出林虎剪尾。
孤峻陡崖边，但见那崒嵂嵂出林虎剪尾。
at the lone sheer crag-edge, one sees only, jutting and jagged, a tiger come out of the wood, its tail snapping.
崒嵂嵂 (zú lǜlǜ), "jutting and jagged"; 剪尾, "to snap the tail." 那 read nà.
往上看，巒頭突兀透青霄；
往上看，峦头突兀透青霄；
Look upward: the peak-crowns thrust abruptly through the blue empyrean;
突兀 (tūwù), "abrupt, jutting"; 青霄 (qīngxiāo), "the blue empyrean."
回眼觀，壑下深沉鄰碧落。
回眼观，壑下深沉邻碧落。
turn the eye: the gorge-depths sink profound, bordering the azure void.
碧落 (bìluò), "the azure void of heaven." 壑 (hè), "gorge."
上高來，似梯似凳；
上高来，似梯似凳；
Climbing high, it is like a ladder, like a footstool;
似梯似凳 (sì tī sì dèng), "like a ladder, like a footstool." 似 read sì.
下低行，如塹如坑。
下低行，如堑如坑。
descending low, it is like a moat, like a pit.
如塹如坑 (rú qiàn rú kēng), "like a moat, like a pit."
真個是古怪巔峰嶺，果然是連尖削壁崖。
真个是古怪巅峰岭，果然是连尖削壁崖。
Truly these are weird and wondrous summit-ranges; sure enough, these are serried points and sheer-cut cliff-walls.
巔峰嶺 (diān fēng lǐng), "summit-ranges"; 削壁崖, "sheer cliff-walls." 削 read xuē.
巔峰嶺上，採藥人尋思怕走；
巅峰岭上，采药人寻思怕走；
On the summit-ranges the herb-gatherer, pondering, dreads to go;
採藥人 (cǎi yào rén), "the herb-gatherer." 尋思, "to ponder, muse."
削壁崖前，打柴夫寸步難行。
削壁崖前，打柴夫寸步难行。
before the sheer cliff-walls the woodcutter finds each inch of ground hard to tread.
打柴夫 (dǎ chái fū), "the woodcutter" — anticipating the woodsman soon to appear. 寸步難行, "hard to advance an inch."
胡羊野馬亂攛梭，狡兔山牛如佈陣。
胡羊野马乱撺梭，狡兔山牛如布阵。
Wild sheep and feral horses dart and shuttle in confusion; cunning hares and mountain oxen stand as if drawn up in ranks.
攛梭 (cuān suō), "to dart like a shuttle." 佈陣 (bù zhèn), "to array in battle-ranks" — 佈 = 布.
山高蔽日遮星斗，時逢妖獸與蒼狼。
山高蔽日遮星斗，时逢妖兽与苍狼。
The mountain’s height veils the sun and screens the Dipper’s stars; ever and again one meets goblin-beasts and grey wolves.
星斗 (xīng dǒu), "the stars [and the Dipper]." 斗 read dǒu. 蒼狼, "grey wolf."
草徑迷漫難進馬，怎得雷音見佛王？
草径迷漫难进马，怎得雷音见佛王？
The grassy path, blurred and overgrown, is hard to urge a horse along — how shall one reach the Thunderclap, to look upon the Buddha-King?
雷音 (Léiyīn), the Thunderclap Monastery, the pilgrimage’s goal. 怎得 (zěn dé), "how to attain" — 得 read dé; 佛王 — 佛 read fó.
總評 Commentary
The mountain is introduced through a set-piece 賦, a rhapsody built entirely of the conventional topoi of the perilous peak — lofty ranges and sheer summits, coiling ravines where a water-python rolls, sheer crags where a tiger slips from the wood, gorges bordering the “azure void” (碧落), slopes like ladders and pits. The catalogue of danger is functional as well as decorative: it prepares the ground for the demon-kings whose lair lies within.
Two figures in the rhapsody — the herb-gatherer who “dreads to go” and the woodcutter who cannot advance an inch (採藥人 / 打柴夫) — are more than ornament, for a woodsman (in fact the day’s Merit-Officer in disguise) will step from this very scene in the next passage. The 賦 ends by folding its scenery back into the pilgrimage’s purpose: 怎得雷音見佛王, “how shall one reach the Thunderclap to look upon the Buddha-King?” — the danger measured against the goal.