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含詞賦 With rhapsody
禪堂陰風
A Cold Wind in the Chan Hall
卻說三藏坐於寶林寺禪堂中燈下，念一會《梁皇水懺》，看一會《孔雀真經》，只坐到三更時候，卻才把經本包在囊裡。正欲起身去睡，只聽得門外撲剌剌一聲響喨，淅零零刮陣狂風。那長老恐吹滅了燈，慌忙將褊衫袖子遮住。又見那燈或明或暗，便覺有些心驚膽戰。此時又困倦上來，伏在經案上盹睡。雖是合眼朦朧，卻還心中明白。耳內嚶嚶，聽著那窗外陰風颯颯。好風！真個那：却说三藏坐于宝林寺禅堂中灯下，念一会《梁皇水忏》，看一会《孔雀真经》，只坐到三更时候，却才把经本包在囊里。正欲起身去睡，只听得门外扑剌剌一声响喨，淅零零刮阵狂风。那长老恐吹灭了灯，慌忙将褊衫袖子遮住。又见那灯或明或暗，便觉有些心惊胆战。此时又困倦上来，伏在经案上盹睡。虽是合眼朦胧，却还心中明白。耳内嘤嘤，听著那窗外阴风飒飒。好风！真个那：
淅淅瀟瀟，飄飄蕩蕩。淅淅潇潇，飘飘荡荡。
淅淅瀟瀟飛落葉，飄飄蕩蕩捲浮雲。淅淅潇潇飞落叶，飘飘荡荡卷浮云。
滿天星斗皆昏昧，遍地塵沙盡灑紛。满天星斗皆昏昧，遍地尘沙尽洒纷。
一陣家猛，一陣家純。一阵家猛，一阵家纯。
純時松竹敲清韻，猛處江湖波浪渾；纯时松竹敲清韵，猛处江湖波浪浑；
刮得那山鳥難棲聲哽哽，海魚不定跳噴噴；刮得那山鸟难栖声哽哽，海鱼不定跳喷喷；
東西館閣門窗脫，前後廊房神鬼瞋；东西馆阁门窗脱，前后廊房神鬼瞋；
佛殿花瓶吹墮地，琉璃搖落慧燈昏；佛殿花瓶吹堕地，琉璃摇落慧灯昏；
香爐攲倒香灰迸，燭架歪斜燭焰煙。香炉攲倒香灰迸，烛架歪斜烛焰烟。
幢幡寶蓋都搖拆，鐘鼓樓臺撼動根。幢幡宝盖都摇拆，钟鼓楼台撼动根。
逐句解 Line by line
卻說三藏坐於寶林寺禪堂中燈下，念一會《梁皇水懺》，看一會《孔雀真經》，只坐到三更時候，卻才把經本包在囊裡。
却说三藏坐于宝林寺禅堂中灯下，念一会《梁皇水忏》，看一会《孔雀真经》，只坐到三更时候，却才把经本包在囊里。
Now Tripitaka sat beneath the lamp in the meditation hall of Baolin Temple, reading a while in the Litany of Emperor Liang, reading a while in the True Sutra of the Peacock; and when his sitting had reached the hour of the third watch, he wrapped his scripture-book back into its wallet.
三藏 (Sānzàng) "Tripitaka," the pilgrim-monk; 中 (zhōng) is locative, "within" the hall. 三更 (sān gēng) is the third of the five night-watches (c. 11 p.m.–1 a.m.). The two texts are apotropaic: a penitential litany and the protective Peacock (Mahāmāyūrī) sutra.
正欲起身去睡，只聽得門外撲剌剌一聲響喨，淅零零刮陣狂風。
正欲起身去睡，只听得门外扑剌剌一声响喨，淅零零刮阵狂风。
He was just about to rise and go to sleep when he heard, beyond the door, a rustling, crackling burst of sound, and a swirling gust of wild wind came sweeping in.
聽得 (tīng de): 得 is the neutral complement particle de, not dé. 撲剌剌 (pū là là), 淅零零 (xī líng líng): onomatopoeic reduplications for the rising wind.
那長老恐吹滅了燈，慌忙將褊衫袖子遮住。
那长老恐吹灭了灯，慌忙将褊衫袖子遮住。
The elder, fearing the lamp would be blown out, hastily drew the sleeve of his cassock across to shield it.
那長老 (nà zhǎng lǎo): deictic nà + zhǎng ("elder"). 將 (jiāng) is the disposal coverb, "took [the sleeve] and…". 褊衫 (biǎn shān), a monks narrow-sleeved robe — this edition writes 褊衫 where ch. 36 had 偏衫.
又見那燈或明或暗，便覺有些心驚膽戰。
又见那灯或明或暗，便觉有些心惊胆战。
He saw, too, that the lamp now brightened, now dimmed, and he felt his heart start with a shiver of dread.
那燈 (nà dēng): deictic nà. 心驚膽戰 (xīn jīng dǎn zhàn), "heart alarmed, gall trembling" — a set phrase for sudden fright.
此時又困倦上來，伏在經案上盹睡。
此时又困倦上来，伏在经案上盹睡。
By now weariness had come over him as well, and he slumped across the sutra-desk in a doze.
盹睡 (dǔn shuì) "to doze off"; 經案 (jīng àn) the desk on which scriptures are read.
雖是合眼朦朧，卻還心中明白。
虽是合眼朦胧，却还心中明白。
Though his eyes were shut in a haze, his mind within was still clear.
卻還 (què hái): hái "still, yet." 心中 (xīn zhōng) "within the mind," locative zhōng.
耳內嚶嚶，聽著那窗外陰風颯颯。
耳内嘤嘤，听著那窗外阴风飒飒。
In his ears there was a faint humming as he listened to the shadowy wind soughing beyond the window.
聽著 (tīng zhe): durative zhe. 嚶嚶 (yīng yīng), 颯颯 (sà sà): sound-reduplications, the ringing in his ears and the wind.
好風！
好风！
A fine wind indeed!
好風 (hǎo fēng) "a fine [i.e. mighty] wind," the exclamatory tag opening the rhapsody.
真個那：
真个那：
Truly it was like this:
真個那 (zhēn gè nà) "truly it was thus:" — the formulaic lead-in to the embedded rhapsody; 那 is deictic nà.
淅淅瀟瀟，飄飄蕩蕩。
淅淅潇潇，飘飘荡荡。
Pattering and sighing, drifting and swirling.
淅淅瀟瀟 (xī xī xiāo xiāo) / 飄飄蕩蕩 (piāo piāo dàng dàng): paired mimetic reduplications that set the rhapsodys metre.
淅淅瀟瀟飛落葉，飄飄蕩蕩捲浮雲。
淅淅潇潇飞落叶，飘飘荡荡卷浮云。
Pattering and sighing, it sends the fallen leaves flying; drifting and swirling, it rolls the floating clouds.
捲 (juǎn) "rolls up." The couplet turns the opening mimetics into action.
滿天星斗皆昏昧，遍地塵沙盡灑紛。
满天星斗皆昏昧，遍地尘沙尽洒纷。
The stars that crowd the sky are all dimmed to gloom; the dust and sand across the earth are flung in scattering confusion.
星斗 (xīng dǒu) "stars and constellations"; 盡 (jìn) "entirely, all."
一陣家猛，一陣家純。
一阵家猛，一阵家纯。
One gust drives fierce, one gust drives pure.
一陣家 (yí zhèn jiā): colloquial 家 (jiā) is an intensifying suffix, "a whole bout of." Yí before 陣 (fourth tone) by sandhi.
純時松竹敲清韻，猛處江湖波浪渾；
纯时松竹敲清韵，猛处江湖波浪浑；
In its pure moments pine and bamboo strike a clear tune; in its fierce reaches the rivers and lakes churn their waves to turbid confusion;
純時 (chún shí) / 猛處 (měng chù): the pure/fierce pairing structures the whole description; 處 is chù "place, point."
刮得那山鳥難棲聲哽哽，海魚不定跳噴噴；
刮得那山鸟难栖声哽哽，海鱼不定跳喷喷；
It blows till the mountain birds, unable to roost, cry with a choking sob, and the sea fish, unable to hold, leap spouting and gasping;
刮得 (guā de): complement de. 哽哽 (gěng gěng) / 噴噴 (pēn pēn): sound-reduplications; 不定 (bú dìng) "cannot settle," bú by sandhi.
東西館閣門窗脫，前後廊房神鬼瞋；
东西馆阁门窗脱，前后廊房神鬼瞋；
East and west, the doors and windows of hall and lodge are wrenched loose; front and back, in corridor and chamber the very spirits glower;
館閣 (guǎn gé) "halls and lodges"; 神鬼瞋 (shén guǐ chēn) "spirits and ghosts glare in anger."
佛殿花瓶吹墮地，琉璃搖落慧燈昏；
佛殿花瓶吹堕地，琉璃摇落慧灯昏；
In the Buddha-hall the flower-vase is blown to the floor; the glazed lamp is shaken down, and the lamp of wisdom dims;
佛殿 (fó diàn) "Buddha-hall"; 琉璃 (liú lí) the glazed sanctuary-lamp; 慧燈 (huì dēng) "the lamp of wisdom," a Buddhist trope.
香爐攲倒香灰迸，燭架歪斜燭焰煙。
香炉攲倒香灰迸，烛架歪斜烛焰烟。
The censer tilts and topples, its incense-ash bursting out; the candle-stand leans awry, its flame guttering to smoke.
攲倒 (qī dǎo) "tilts and topples"; 倒 is dǎo (fall over), not dào. 迸 (bèng) "bursts out."
幢幡寶蓋都搖拆，鐘鼓樓臺撼動根。
幢幡宝盖都摇拆，钟鼓楼台撼动根。
Banners and pennants, jeweled canopies all sway and split apart; the bell-and-drum tower is shaken to its very roots.
幢幡 (chuáng fān) ritual banners; 都 (dōu) "all." 撼動根 (hàn dòng gēn) "shaken to the roots" — the storm reaches the temples foundations.
總評 Commentary
The chapter opens without a seam from the close of Chapter 36: Tripitaka keeps his night vigil in the Chan hall of Baolin Temple, and the two scriptures named here are pointedly apotropaic — a penitential Water Litany and the protective Peacock sutra — so that the devotional stillness he cultivates is exactly what the supernatural wind is about to violate.
The wind rhapsody works as omen rather than weather. Its catalogue of disturbances moves inward and upward through the sacred architecture — dimmed stars, wrenched doors, toppled censer, the extinguished “lamp of wisdom” and finally the shaken foundations of the bell-and-drum tower — reading the storm as a breach in cosmic and monastic order that heralds the drowned king's intrusion. The recurring antithesis of 純 (pure) and 猛 (fierce) gives the description its structural spine.
Textually, this edition writes 褊衫 (biǎn shān) for the monk's robe where Chapter 36 used 偏衫, and the passage is dense with onomatopoeic reduplication (撲剌剌, 淅零零, 哽哽, 噴噴) that the translation renders through paired English sound-words rather than glossing away.