第三十四回 · 變身赴洞 Assuming Both Their Forms — Journey to the West

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變身赴洞 Assuming Both Their Forms

即jí便biàn拔bá下xià一yì根gēn毫háo毛máo，吹chuī口kǒu仙xiān氣qì，叫jiào：「變biàn！」變biàn做zuò個gè巴bā山shān虎hǔ，自zì身shēn卻què變biàn做zuò個gè倚yǐ海hǎi龍lóng。假jiǎ妝zhuāng做zuò兩liǎng個gè小xiǎo妖yāo，徑jìng往wǎng那nà壓yā龍lóng洞dòng請qǐng老lǎo奶nǎi奶nǎi。這zhè叫jiào做zuò七qī十shí二èr變biàn神shén通tōng大dà，指zhǐ物wù騰téng那nuó手shǒu段duàn高gāo。即jí便biàn拔bá下xià一yì根gēn毫háo毛máo，吹chuī口kǒu仙xiān气qì，叫jiào：「变biàn！」变biàn做zuò个gè巴bā山shān虎hǔ，自zì身shēn却què变biàn做zuò个gè倚yǐ海hǎi龙lóng。假jiǎ妆zhuāng做zuò两liǎng个gè小xiǎo妖yāo，径jìng往wǎng那nà压yā龙lóng洞dòng请qǐng老lǎo奶nǎi奶nǎi。这zhè叫jiào做zuò七qī十shí二èr变biàn神shén通tōng大dà，指zhǐ物wù腾téng那nuó手shǒu段duàn高gāo。

逐句解 Line by line

即jí便biàn拔bá下xià一yì根gēn毫háo毛máo，吹chuī口kǒu仙xiān氣qì，叫jiào：「變biàn！」變biàn做zuò個gè巴bā山shān虎hǔ，自zì身shēn卻què變biàn做zuò個gè倚yǐ海hǎi龍lóng。假jiǎ妝zhuāng做zuò兩liǎng個gè小xiǎo妖yāo，徑jìng往wǎng那nà壓yā龍lóng洞dòng請qǐng老lǎo奶nǎi奶nǎi。即jí便biàn拔bá下xià一yì根gēn毫háo毛máo，吹chuī口kǒu仙xiān气qì，叫jiào：「变biàn！」变biàn做zuò个gè巴bā山shān虎hǔ，自zì身shēn却què变biàn做zuò个gè倚yǐ海hǎi龙lóng。假jiǎ妆zhuāng做zuò两liǎng个gè小xiǎo妖yāo，径jìng往wǎng那nà压yā龙lóng洞dòng请qǐng老lǎo奶nǎi奶nǎi。

At once he plucked out a hair, blew on it a breath of immortal air, and cried “Change!” — turning it into Mountain-Straddling Tiger, while he made his own body into Sea-Reclining Dragon. Counterfeiting the two little imps, he went straight to Dragon-Crushing Cave to invite Old Grandma.

吹口仙氣 (chuī kǒu xiān qì), "blew a breath of immortal air," the standard means of animating a plucked hair. 那壓龍洞 (nà yā lóng dòng), "that Dragon-Crushing Cave," deictic nà; 假妝 (jiǎ zhuāng), "counterfeiting, disguised as.”

這zhè叫jiào做zuò七qī十shí二èr變biàn神shén通tōng大dà，指zhǐ物wù騰téng那nuó手shǒu段duàn高gāo。这zhè叫jiào做zuò七qī十shí二èr变biàn神shén通tōng大dà，指zhǐ物wù腾téng那nuó手shǒu段duàn高gāo。

This is what is called: great is the power of the seventy-two transformations; high the craft of pointing at things and shifting them about.

A paired storyteller's tag closing the episode. 騰那 (téng nuó), "to shift and maneuver" — the same compound as the chapter title's 騰挪／騰那; here 那 is read nuó, a graphic variant of 挪, "to move." 指物 (zhǐ wù), "to point at a thing" and so transform it.

總評 Commentary

Wukong's double transformation solves the problem the couriers posed: to arrive at Dragon-Crushing Cave he must be both messengers at once, and so he splits his presence between a conjured hair and his own body. The economy is characteristic — the corpses hidden, their shapes borrowed, the errand continued without a beat lost. The disguise is not concealment but impersonation, walking into the enemy's house wearing the enemy's face.

The couplet that closes the episode is the storyteller's applause, and its second line names the chapter itself: 騰那 (騰挪), the art of shifting and maneuvering, is precisely the title's 大聖騰挪騙寶貝. The compound's sense — to move, transpose, sleight-of-hand — gathers the whole chapter's method into two characters, and its reading here, nuó, settles the graph as a variant of 挪, “to move,” rather than the demonstrative 那.