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老魔出陣
The Elder Fiend Takes the Field
那孫大聖早已知二魔化在葫蘆裡面，卻將他緊緊拴扣停當，撒在腰間，手持著金箍棒，準備廝殺。只見那老妖紅旗招展，跳出門來。卻怎生打扮：那孙大圣早已知二魔化在葫芦里面，却将他紧紧拴扣停当，撒在腰间，手持著金箍棒，准备厮杀。只见那老妖红旗招展，跳出门来。却怎生打扮：
頭上盔纓光燄燄，腰間帶束彩霞鮮。头上盔缨光燄燄，腰间带束彩霞鲜。
身穿鎧甲龍鱗砌，上罩紅袍烈火然。身穿铠甲龙鳞砌，上罩红袍烈火然。
圓眼睜開光掣電，鋼鬚飄起亂飛煙。圆眼睁开光掣电，钢须飘起乱飞烟。
七星寶劍輕提手，芭蕉扇子半遮肩。七星宝剑轻提手，芭蕉扇子半遮肩。
行似流雲離海岳，聲如霹靂震山川。行似流云离海岳，声如霹雳震山川。
威風凜凜欺天將，怒帥群妖出洞前。威风凛凛欺天将，怒帅群妖出洞前。
逐句解 Line by line
那孫大聖早已知二魔化在葫蘆裡面，卻將他緊緊拴扣停當，撒在腰間，手持著金箍棒，準備廝殺。
那孙大圣早已知二魔化在葫芦里面，却将他紧紧拴扣停当，撒在腰间，手持著金箍棒，准备厮杀。
Sun the Great Sage, who already knew the second fiend was melted down inside the gourd, had bound it up snug and fast, tucked it at his waist, and stood with his gold-banded cudgel in hand, ready for the fray.
拴扣停當 (shān kòu tíng dàng) — "tied and fastened all in order," 停當 the lexical binome "settled, in order," 當 read dàng. 腰間, "at the waist," 間 read jiān; 手持著, "holding," durative 著 (zhe).
只見那老妖紅旗招展，跳出門來。
只见那老妖红旗招展，跳出门来。
Then he saw the old monster come bounding out the door, his red banners streaming.
紅旗招展 — "red banners spread and waving," the herald of the fiend’s martial entrance.
卻怎生打扮：
却怎生打扮：
And how was he got up?
A conventional lead-in — 卻怎生打扮, "just how was he arrayed?" — turning the narrative over to the descriptive verse that follows.
頭上盔纓光燄燄，腰間帶束彩霞鮮。
头上盔缨光燄燄，腰间带束彩霞鲜。
Upon his head the helmet-plume shone flashing bright; at his waist the girdle-sash gleamed fresh as rosy cloud.
盔纓 (kuī yīng) — the helmet’s tassel. 腰間, "at the waist," 間 read jiān. The set-piece 賦 begins the fiend’s head-to-foot portrait.
身穿鎧甲龍鱗砌，上罩紅袍烈火然。
身穿铠甲龙鳞砌，上罩红袍烈火然。
His body cased in scaled mail, dragon-plate on plate; over it a red robe, like fierce fire ablaze.
龍鱗砧 — "laid like dragon-scales," the imbricated plates of the armor; 烈火然 ("然" = 燃, to blaze), the robe like flame.
圓眼睜開光掣電，鋼鬚飄起亂飛煙。
圆眼睁开光掣电，钢须飘起乱飞烟。
His round eyes, glaring open, flashed like lightning loosed; his steel-stiff whiskers, bristling up, flew like scattered smoke.
光掣電 — "flashed lightning"; 鋼鬚 (gāng xū), "steel whiskers," a stock feature of the fearsome warrior.
七星寶劍輕提手，芭蕉扇子半遮肩。
七星宝剑轻提手，芭蕉扇子半遮肩。
The Seven-Star treasure-sword rode light in his hand; the plantain-leaf fan half-screened his shoulder.
輕提手 — "held lightly in hand." 扇子, "fan," 子 the suffix (zi). The two treasures just taken up are worked into the portrait.
行似流雲離海岳，聲如霹靂震山川。
行似流云离海岳，声如霹雳震山川。
His gait like streaming cloud loosed from the sea-crags; his voice like thunderclap that shakes the mountain-streams.
行似流雲 (xíng sì liú yún) — "moving like drifting cloud," 行 read xíng, "to move." 霹靂, "thunderclap." The couplet lifts the fiend from figure to force of nature.
威風凜凜欺天將，怒帥群妖出洞前。
威风凛凛欺天将，怒帅群妖出洞前。
Awesome and stern, he cowed the very gods of Heaven; wrathful, he led his pack of fiends out before the cave.
欺天將 (qī tiān jiàng) — "cows the heavenly generals," 將 read jiàng, "general" (not the disposal jiāng). 怒帥群妖, "wrathfully led his host of fiends." The verse closes on the elder in full martial fury.
總評 Commentary
The confrontation opens in the grand manner. Wukong, the melted second fiend bound safe at his waist, stands ready with his cudgel; and against him the old monster bursts forth under streaming banners, ushered by the formulaic lead-in 卻怎生打扮 into a full descriptive 賦. The set-piece portrait — plumed helmet, dragon-scaled mail, flame-red robe, lightning eyes and smoke-flung whiskers — is the vernacular war-tale’s standard way of magnifying a foe before battle.
The verse is carefully weighted. Its images climb from ornament (helmet-plume, girdle-sash) through the two treasures just taken up (sword and fan) to elemental power — cloud, thunder — and end on the boast that he "cows the gods of Heaven." After the sustained farce of the trussed pig and the bottled brother, the portrait restores a note of genuine menace, and pitches the elder fiend as an antagonist worthy of the Great Sage.