第三十八回 · 陰風聚獸 A Shadow-Wind Gathers the Beasts — Journey to the West

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陰風聚獸 A Shadow-Wind Gathers the Beasts

那nà各gè神shén即jí著zhuó本běn處chù陰yīn兵bīng，刮guā一yí陣zhèn聚jù獸shòu陰yīn風fēng，捉zhuō了le些xiē野yě雞jī山shān雉zhì、角jiǎo鹿lù肥féi獐zhāng、狐hú獾huān狢hé兔tù、虎hǔ豹bào狼láng蟲chóng，共gòng有yǒu百bǎi千qiān餘yú隻zhī，獻xiàn與yǔ行xíng者zhě。行xíng者zhě道dào：「老lǎo孫sūn不bú要yào，你nǐ可kě把bǎ他tā都dōu捻niǎn就jiù了le觔jīn，單dān擺bǎi在zài那nà四sì十shí里lǐ路lù上shàng兩liǎng傍bàng，教jiào那nà些xiē人rén不bú放fàng鷹yīng犬quǎn，拿ná回huí城chéng去qù，算suàn了le汝rǔ等děng之zhī功gōng。」眾zhòng神shén依yī言yán，收shōu了le陰yīn風fēng，擺bǎi在zài左zuǒ右yòu。那nà各gè神shén即jí著zhuó本běn处chù阴yīn兵bīng，刮guā一yí阵zhèn聚jù兽shòu阴yīn风fēng，捉zhuō了le些xiē野yě鸡jī山shān雉zhì、角jiǎo鹿lù肥féi獐zhāng、狐hú獾huān狢hé兔tù、虎hǔ豹bào狼láng虫chóng，共gòng有yǒu百bǎi千qiān余yú只zhī，献xiàn与yǔ行xíng者zhě。行xíng者zhě道dào：「老lǎo孙sūn不bú要yào，你nǐ可kě把bǎ他tā都dōu捻niǎn就jiù了le觔jīn，单dān摆bǎi在zài那nà四sì十shí里lǐ路lù上shàng两liǎng傍bàng，教jiào那nà些xiē人rén不bú放fàng鹰yīng犬quǎn，拿ná回huí城chéng去qù，算suàn了le汝rǔ等děng之zhī功gōng。」众zhòng神shén依yī言yán，收shōu了le阴yīn风fēng，摆bǎi在zài左zuǒ右yòu。

逐句解 Line by line

那nà各gè神shén即jí著zhuó本běn處chù陰yīn兵bīng，刮guā一yí陣zhèn聚jù獸shòu陰yīn風fēng，捉zhuō了le些xiē野yě雞jī山shān雉zhì、角jiǎo鹿lù肥féi獐zhāng、狐hú獾huān狢hé兔tù、虎hǔ豹bào狼láng蟲chóng，共gòng有yǒu百bǎi千qiān餘yú隻zhī，獻xiàn與yǔ行xíng者zhě。那nà各gè神shén即jí著zhuó本běn处chù阴yīn兵bīng，刮guā一yí阵zhèn聚jù兽shòu阴yīn风fēng，捉zhuō了le些xiē野yě鸡jī山shān雉zhì、角jiǎo鹿lù肥féi獐zhāng、狐hú獾huān狢hé兔tù、虎hǔ豹bào狼láng虫chóng，共gòng有yǒu百bǎi千qiān余yú只zhī，献xiàn与yǔ行xíng者zhě。

Each of those gods at once dispatched the ghost-soldiers of his own domain to raise a beast-gathering shadow-wind, and they took wild fowl and mountain pheasants, antlered deer and fat roe, foxes, badgers, raccoon-dogs and hares, tigers, leopards, wolves and vermin — several hundreds and thousands of head in all — and presented them to the Pilgrim.

即著本處陰兵: at once set the ghost-soldiers of his own precinct to work (著 = zhuó, causative). 聚獸陰風: a beast-gathering yin-wind. The catalogue heaps up game beasts and predators alike. 那 = nà.

行xíng者zhě道dào：「老lǎo孫sūn不bú要yào，你nǐ可kě把bǎ他tā都dōu捻niǎn就jiù了le觔jīn，單dān擺bǎi在zài那nà四sì十shí里lǐ路lù上shàng兩liǎng傍bàng，教jiào那nà些xiē人rén不bú放fàng鷹yīng犬quǎn，拿ná回huí城chéng去qù，算suàn了le汝rǔ等děng之zhī功gōng。」行xíng者zhě道dào：「老lǎo孙sūn不bú要yào，你nǐ可kě把bǎ他tā都dōu捻niǎn就jiù了le觔jīn，单dān摆bǎi在zài那nà四sì十shí里lǐ路lù上shàng两liǎng傍bàng，教jiào那nà些xiē人rén不bú放fàng鹰yīng犬quǎn，拿ná回huí城chéng去qù，算suàn了le汝rǔ等děng之zhī功gōng。」

The Pilgrim said: 'Old Sun does not want them. You may just pinch them all lifeless and lay them out singly along both sides of the forty-li road, so that those men, without loosing hawk or hound, may carry them back into the city — and that will be counted to your credit.'

捻就了觔: to pinch [them] until their sinews set — i.e. rendered motionless. 四十里路上兩傍: along both sides of the forty-lǐ road (傍 = bàng, 'beside'; 里 = lǐ, retained untranslated). 都 = dōu; 那 (twice) = nà; the ruse lets the soldiers 'catch' pre-arranged game without hawk or hound.

眾zhòng神shén依yī言yán，收shōu了le陰yīn風fēng，擺bǎi在zài左zuǒ右yòu。众zhòng神shén依yī言yán，收shōu了le阴yīn风fēng，摆bǎi在zài左zuǒ右yòu。

The host of gods did as he said, withdrew the shadow-wind, and arranged them to left and right.

收了陰風: withdrew the shadow-wind. 擺在左右: set them out on either side.

總評 Commentary

The gods execute the requisition with supernatural efficiency — a 'beast-gathering shadow-wind' sweeps up a comic superabundance of game, predators included, heaped in the thousands. Wukong's refusal of the actual animals in favor of a staged tableau (game laid out along the road, to be 'caught' without hawk or hound) is the joke's payoff: the hunt will be counterfeited as neatly as the demon has counterfeited the king.

The passage quietly doubles the chapter's theme of the false made to pass for the true. Just as the impostor's kingship is a fabrication, so the prince's triumphant 'catch' will be a fabrication — but a benign one, engineered by the pilgrims to protect him. The novel is untroubled by the irony; deception in a good cause is simply good tactics.