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鳴鐘擂鼓
The Bell and the Drum
那道人沒奈何，捨了性命，不敢撞門，從後邊狗洞裡鑽將出去，徑到正殿上，東邊打鼓，西邊撞鐘。鐘鼓一齊響處，驚動了兩廊大小僧眾，上殿問道：「這早還不晚哩，撞鐘打鼓做甚？」道人說：「快換衣服，隨老師父排班，出山門外，迎接唐朝來的老爺。」那眾和尚真個齊齊整整，擺班出門迎接。有的披了袈裟；有的著了偏衫；無的穿著個一口鐘直裰；十分窮的，沒有長衣服，就把腰裙接起兩條披在身上。行者看見道：「和尚，你穿的是甚麼衣服？」和尚見他醜惡，道：「爺爺，不要打，等我說。這是我們城中化的布，此間沒有裁縫，是自家做的個一裹窮。」那道人没奈何，舍了性命，不敢撞门，从后边狗洞里钻将出去，径到正殿上，东边打鼓，西边撞钟。钟鼓一齐响处，惊动了两廊大小僧众，上殿问道：「这早还不晚哩，撞钟打鼓做甚？」道人说：「快换衣服，随老师父排班，出山门外，迎接唐朝来的老爷。」那众和尚真个齐齐整整，摆班出门迎接。有的披了袈裟；有的著了偏衫；无的穿著个一口钟直裰；十分穷的，没有长衣服，就把腰裙接起两条披在身上。行者看见道：「和尚，你穿的是甚么衣服？」和尚见他丑恶，道：「爷爷，不要打，等我说。这是我们城中化的布，此间没有裁缝，是自家做的个一裹穷。」
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那道人沒奈何，捨了性命，不敢撞門，從後邊狗洞裡鑽將出去，徑到正殿上，東邊打鼓，西邊撞鐘。
那道人没奈何，舍了性命，不敢撞门，从后边狗洞里钻将出去，径到正殿上，东边打鼓，西边撞钟。
The servitor, at his wits' end, risked his neck: not daring the door, he wriggled out through the dog-hole in the back, went straight up to the main hall, and beat the drum on the east side and struck the bell on the west.
沒奈何 "having no recourse"; 狗洞 a gap at the base of a wall; 鑽將出去 "to squeeze out," 將 the directional coverb jiāng. Bell and drum together summon the whole community.
鐘鼓一齊響處，驚動了兩廊大小僧眾，上殿問道：「這早還不晚哩，撞鐘打鼓做甚？」
钟鼓一齐响处，惊动了两廊大小僧众，上殿问道：「这早还不晚哩，撞钟打鼓做甚？」
As bell and drum sounded together, they startled the monks great and small in both galleries, who came up to the hall and asked: “It's early yet, not late — what's the bell and drum for?”
兩廊 the two galleries flanking the hall; 還 read hái ("still"); 甚 read shén. Bell and drum out of hours signal something urgent.
道人說：「快換衣服，隨老師父排班，出山門外，迎接唐朝來的老爺。」
道人说：「快换衣服，随老师父排班，出山门外，迎接唐朝来的老爷。」
The servitor said: “Quick, change your robes, form ranks behind the old master, and go out the temple gate to welcome the lord come from Tang.”
排班 "to line up in formation"; 唐朝 "the Tang court," 朝 read cháo.
那眾和尚真個齊齊整整，擺班出門迎接。
那众和尚真个齐齐整整，摆班出门迎接。
The monks, sure enough, formed up in good order and marched out to welcome him.
齊齊整整 "in neat array"; 那 read nà, 和尚 read hé shàng.
有的披了袈裟；
有的披了袈裟；
Some had draped on their kāṣāyas;
披 "to drape over the shoulders"; 袈裟 the patchwork monastic robe.
有的著了偏衫；
有的著了偏衫；
some had put on the 偏衫;
偏衫 (piān shān) a one-sided monastic overgarment covering shoulder and arm; 著 read zhuó ("to don").
無的穿著個一口鐘直裰；
无的穿著个一口钟直裰；
those with neither wore a bell-shaped 直裰;
一口鐘 "a single bell," a cloak flaring like a bell; 直裰 (zhí duō) the long monastic gown; 著 read zhe (durative).
十分窮的，沒有長衣服，就把腰裙接起兩條披在身上。
十分穷的，没有长衣服，就把腰裙接起两条披在身上。
and the very poorest, having no long robe, joined two waist-cloths together and draped them over their bodies.
十分 "utterly," 分 read fēn; 長衣服 "long robe," 長 read cháng; 腰裙 "waist-wrap." A vivid picture of the temple's poverty.
行者看見道：「和尚，你穿的是甚麼衣服？」
行者看见道：「和尚，你穿的是甚么衣服？」
The Pilgrim, seeing this, said: “Monk, what sort of robe is that you're wearing?”
行 read xíng, 和尚 read hé shàng, 甚 read shén.
和尚見他醜惡，道：「爺爺，不要打，等我說。
和尚见他丑恶，道：「爷爷，不要打，等我说。
The monk, seeing how fierce he looked, said: “My lord, don't hit me — let me explain.”
醜惡 "hideous, fearsome"; 和尚 read hé shàng.
這是我們城中化的布，此間沒有裁縫，是自家做的個一裹窮。」
这是我们城中化的布，此间没有裁缝，是自家做的个一裹穷。」
“This is cloth we begged in the city; there's no tailor here, so we made it ourselves — a ‘one-wrap poverty.’”
化的布 "cloth got by alms-begging"; 中 read zhōng; 一裹窮 (yī guǒ qióng) "a single wrap of poverty," a self-mocking name for the makeshift garment.
總評 Commentary
The reversal is now enacted in ceremony. The terrified servitor, sent to summon the community, beats the bell and drum out of hours — the signal for something momentous — and the whole body of monks, roused and hastily robed, marches out to welcome the very pilgrim their abbot had scorned. The narrator lingers on their poverty: some in proper kāṣāyas, others in makeshift overgarments, the poorest draped in two waist-cloths sewn together.
The detail is not incidental. This is a large but genuinely poor community — five hundred monks who beg their cloth in the city and stitch their own "one-wrap poverty" — which sharpens the satire on the abbot who lorded it over a shabby stranger. Wukong's blunt question about their clothes, and the monk's frightened, self-mocking answer, keep the comedy running even as the scene turns the chapter's social order upside down: the poor and humble, not the powerful, now do the honouring.