Canonical Classics ← 第三十五回
第三十五回
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The Heretic Way plies its might to cow the upright nature;,The Mind-Monkey wins the treasures and quells the vile fiend.

呼名裝魔
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呼名裝魔 He Calls the Name and Bottles the Fiend

guàishènzòngshēntiàojiāngdàokōngzhōngzhízhejiàoshēng:「xíngzhěsūn。」shèngtīngdequèjiùxiēliányìnglejiǔshēngzhǐshìnéngzhuāngzhuìjiāngxiàláidiējiǎochuíxiōngdào:「tiānnazhǐshuōshìqínggǎibiànzhèyàngbǎobèilǎogōngjiànlexióngjiùgǎnzhuāngle。」xíngzhěxiàodào:「qiěshōulúndàolǎosūngāijiào。」zòngjīndǒutiàojiāngercháotiānkǒuercháozhàodìngyāojiàoshēng:「yínjiǎowáng。」guàigǎnkǒuzhǐyìngleshēngshūdezhuāngzàimiànbèixíngzhětiēshàngtàishànglǎojūnlìngfèngchìdetiězixīnzhōngàndào:「deérjīnláishìshìxīnle。」guàishènzòngshēntiàojiāngdàokōngzhōngzhízhejiàoshēng:「xíngzhěsūn。」shèngtīngdequèjiùxiēliányìnglejiǔshēngzhǐshìnéngzhuāngzhuìjiāngxiàláidiējiǎochuíxiōngdào:「tiānnazhǐshuōshìqínggǎibiànzhèyàngbǎobèilǎogōngjiànlexióngjiùgǎnzhuāngle。」xíngzhěxiàodào:「qiěshōulúndàolǎosūngāijiào。」zòngjīndǒutiàojiāngercháotiānkǒuercháozhàodìngyāojiàoshēng:「yínjiǎowáng。」guàigǎnkǒuzhǐyìngleshēngshūdezhuāngzàimiànbèixíngzhětiēshàngtàishànglǎojūnlìngfèngchìdetiězixīnzhōngàndào:「deérjīnláishìshìxīnle。」


逐句解 Line by line

guàishènzòngshēntiàojiāngdàokōngzhōngzhízhejiàoshēng:「xíngzhěsūn。」 guàishènzòngshēntiàojiāngdàokōngzhōngzhízhejiàoshēng:「xíngzhěsūn。」

Delighted, the fiend sprang up in a bound to mid-air, gripped the gourd, and called out once: “Xingzhe Sun!”

甚喜 (shèn xǐ) — "greatly pleased," the intensifier. 執著 (zhí-zhe), "holding fast," durative. The demon takes the first turn Wukong has offered.

shèngtīngdequèjiùxiēliányìnglejiǔshēngzhǐshìnéngzhuāng shèngtīngdequèjiùxiēliányìnglejiǔshēngzhǐshìnéngzhuāng

The Great Sage heard, and without pausing for breath answered eight or nine times running — yet still he could not be drawn in.

連應了八九聲 — "answered eight or nine times over"; 應 (yìng), "to answer to a call." The gourd’s rule fails on Wukong, who is no true mortal — the joke’s payoff.

zhuìjiāngxiàláidiējiǎochuíxiōngdào:「tiānna zhuìjiāngxiàláidiējiǎochuíxiōngdào:「tiānna

The fiend dropped back down, stamping and beating his breast: “Oh, Heavens!”

墜將下來 — "came falling down." 天那 (tiān na) is an exclamation of dismay, "Oh Heaven!"; here is the interjectional particle (= ), read na, not the deictic nà of 那魔 just before it.

zhǐshuōshìqínggǎibiànzhèyàngbǎobèilǎogōngjiànlexióngjiùgǎnzhuāngle。」 zhǐshuōshìqínggǎibiànzhèyàngbǎobèilǎogōngjiànlexióngjiùgǎnzhuāngle。」

“And I’d thought the ways of the world never changed! A treasure like this, and it fears its own husband — the female, seeing the male, dares not bottle him!”

世情不改變 — "the way of things is unaltered." Taking Wukong’s male/female fiction in dead earnest, the demon explains his gourd’s failure by wifely deference — comic self-deception at its richest.

xíngzhěxiàodào:「qiěshōulúndàolǎosūngāijiào。」 xíngzhěxiàodào:「qiěshōulúndàolǎosūngāijiào。」

Pilgrim laughed: “Put it away now — it’s Old Sun’s turn to call you.”

輪到 (lún dào) — "the turn comes round to." Wukong claims his half of the wager.

zòngjīndǒutiàojiāngercháotiānkǒuercháozhàodìngyāojiàoshēng:「yínjiǎowáng。」 zòngjīndǒutiàojiāngercháotiānkǒuercháozhàodìngyāojiàoshēng:「yínjiǎowáng。」

With a quick somersault he leapt up, turned the gourd bottom to the sky and mouth to the ground, took aim at the fiend, and cried: “Silver-Horn King!”

觔斗 (jīn-dǒu) — a somersault, with read dǒu. 底兒 / 口兒 ("bottom" and "mouth") take the diminutive suffix (-r). Naming 銀角大王, the Silver-Horn King, is the whole of the attack.

guàigǎnkǒuzhǐyìngleshēng guàigǎnkǒuzhǐyìngleshēng

The fiend dared not keep his mouth shut, and could only answer once.

只得 (zhǐ dé) — "had no choice but to"; 應 (yìng), to answer. To stay silent is to lose face; to answer is to be lost.

shūdezhuāngzàimiànbèixíngzhětiēshàngtàishànglǎojūnlìngfèngchìdetiězi shūdezhuāngzàimiànbèixíngzhětiēshàngtàishànglǎojūnlìngfèngchìdetiězi

In a flash he was drawn inside, and Pilgrim pasted on the seal: “Most High Lord Lao — quick, quick, as by statute and decree!”

倏的 (shū de) — "in a trice." The talisman’s formula 急急如律令 ("with all speed, as the law commands") is standard Daoist charm-language; 奉敕 = "by decree." The label seals the fiend within.

xīnzhōngàndào:「deérjīnláishìshìxīnle。」 xīnzhōngàndào:「deérjīnláishìshìxīnle。」

In his heart he chuckled: “My child — today it’s your turn to try something new.”

我的兒 (wǒ de ér) — "my boy," a mocking endearment; here is the standalone noun ér (offspring), not the diminutive suffix. Wukong crows over the bottled demon.


總評 Commentary

The wager pays off exactly as arranged. The fiend calls, and Wukong answers "eight or nine times" with impunity — the gourd cannot take him, for he is no true mortal — while the demon, having swallowed the male/female fiction whole, blames the failure on his gourd’s wifely timidity. It is comic self-deception of a high order.

Then the reversal: one somersault, the gourd inverted, the name 銀角大王 called, and the fiend — who dares not stay silent — answers himself into the vessel, sealed by the Daoist talismanic formula. The mocking 我的兒 caps the scene. The second of the two brothers is taken, like the first, by his own device.