原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
含詞賦 With rhapsody
神兵鏖戰
A Clash of Weapons
六臂哪吒太子，六臂哪咤太子，
天生美石猴王，天生美石猴王，
相逢真對手，相逢真对手，
正遇本源流。正遇本源流。
那一個蒙差來下界，那一个蒙差来下界，
這一個欺心鬧斗牛。这一个欺心闹斗牛。
斬妖寶劍鋒芒快，斩妖宝剑锋芒快，
砍妖刀狠鬼神愁；砍妖刀狠鬼神愁；
縛妖索子如飛蟒，缚妖索子如飞蟒，
降妖大杵似狼頭；降妖大杵似狼头；
火輪掣電烘烘艷，火轮掣电烘烘艳，
往往來來滾繡毬。往往来来滚绣毬。
大聖三條如意棒，大圣三条如意棒，
前遮後擋運機謀。前遮后挡运机谋。
苦爭數合無高下，苦争数合无高下，
太子心中不肯休。太子心中不肯休。
把那六件兵器多教變，把那六件兵器多教变，
百千萬億照頭丟。百千万亿照头丢。
猴王不懼呵呵笑，猴王不惧呵呵笑，
鐵棒翻騰自運籌。铁棒翻腾自运筹。
以一化千千化萬，以一化千千化万，
滿空亂舞賽飛虯。满空乱舞赛飞虬。
諕得各洞妖王都閉戶，諕得各洞妖王都闭户，
遍山鬼怪盡藏頭。遍山鬼怪尽藏头。
神兵怒氣雲慘慘，神兵怒气云惨惨，
金箍鐵棒響颼颼。金箍铁棒响飕飕。
那壁廂，天丁吶喊人人怕；那壁厢，天丁呐喊人人怕；
這壁廂，猴怪搖旗個個憂。这壁厢，猴怪摇旗个个忧。
發狠兩家齊鬥勇，发狠两家齐斗勇，
不知那個剛強那個柔。不知那个刚强那个柔。
逐句解 Line by line
六臂哪吒太子，
六臂哪咤太子，
Six-armed Prince Nezha,
The 賦 opens by squaring the two combatants in apposition — 六臂哪吒 against the 美石猴王.
天生美石猴王，
天生美石猴王，
the heaven-born Handsome-Stone Monkey King —
相逢真對手，
相逢真对手，
meeting, a true match for each other,
真對手 / 本源流 — “a true match,” meeting “their very source”; the couplet frames the duel as a meeting of equals.
正遇本源流。
正遇本源流。
they had found their very source and stream.
那一個蒙差來下界，
那一个蒙差来下界，
That one, sent down by command to the lower world;
The antithesis of cause: 蒙差來下界 (sent down on command) against 欺心鬧斗牛 (overweening, troubling the stars). 那一個 / 這一個 take yí before 個; 斗牛, the Dipper and Ox asterisms.
這一個欺心鬧斗牛。
这一个欺心闹斗牛。
this one, with overweening heart, troubling the very stars.
斬妖寶劍鋒芒快，
斩妖宝剑锋芒快，
The demon-beheading sword, its edge keen,
Nezha's six weapons are now itemized in matched couplets — sword and saber, rope and pestle, fire-wheel and embroidered ball.
砍妖刀狠鬼神愁；
砍妖刀狠鬼神愁；
the demon-hacking saber so fierce that gods and ghosts grieved;
縛妖索子如飛蟒，
缚妖索子如飞蟒，
the demon-binding rope like a flying python,
索子 takes 子 as the neutral suffix zi; 似 (next line) is sì; 降妖 takes 降 as xiáng.
降妖大杵似狼頭；
降妖大杵似狼头；
the demon-quelling pestle like a wolf's head;
火輪掣電烘烘艷，
火轮掣电烘烘艳，
the fire-wheel flashing lightning, blazing bright,
掣電, “flashing lightning” (掣 = chè); 烘烘艷, blazing bright.
往往來來滾繡毬。
往往来来滚绣毬。
and to and fro the embroidered ball came rolling.
大聖三條如意棒，
大圣三条如意棒，
The Great Sage's three As-You-Will cudgels,
Against the six weapons, Wukong's three cudgels — 前遮後擋, warding and blocking, 運機謀, plied with stratagem.
前遮後擋運機謀。
前遮后挡运机谋。
warding front and blocking back, plied with stratagem.
苦爭數合無高下，
苦争数合无高下，
They fought hard, bout after bout, with neither above the other,
數合無高下 — “bout after bout, neither above the other” (合, a round of combat); 不肯 (next line) takes bù before third-tone 肯.
太子心中不肯休。
太子心中不肯休。
and the prince in his heart would not give up.
把那六件兵器多教變，
把那六件兵器多教变，
He took his six weapons and made them all transform —
The duel escalates to multiplication: 把那六件兵器多教變 — 教 causative jiào, “made them all transform” — into 百千萬億, hundreds of millions, raining on the head.
百千萬億照頭丟。
百千万亿照头丢。
by the hundreds, thousands, millions, hurled at the head.
猴王不懼呵呵笑，
猴王不惧呵呵笑，
The Monkey King, unafraid, laughed aloud,
不懼 takes bú before fourth-tone 懼; the monkey answers multiplication with multiplication, and laughing.
鐵棒翻騰自運籌。
铁棒翻腾自运筹。
his iron cudgel tumbling and turning at his own command.
以一化千千化萬，
以一化千千化万，
From one he made a thousand, from a thousand ten thousand,
以一化千千化萬 — “from one a thousand, from a thousand ten thousand”; 一 takes yí before fourth-tone 化. 賽飛虯, rivaling soaring horned-dragons (虯).
滿空亂舞賽飛虯。
满空乱舞赛飞虬。
filling the sky with their wild dance, rivaling soaring dragons.
諕得各洞妖王都閉戶，
諕得各洞妖王都闭户，
So frightened that the demon-kings of every cave shut their doors,
諕得, “so frightened that” (諕 = xià, = 嚇, to frighten); the cosmic combat empties the mountain — even Wukong's own host hides.
遍山鬼怪盡藏頭。
遍山鬼怪尽藏头。
and across the mountain the goblins all hid their heads.
神兵怒氣雲慘慘，
神兵怒气云惨惨，
The divine soldiers' fury, clouds grim and dark;
慘慘 / 颼颼 — grim clouds and whistling iron; the reduplicatives carry the gloom and sound of the field.
金箍鐵棒響颼颼。
金箍铁棒响飕飕。
the gold-banded iron cudgel whistling and whirring.
那壁廂，天丁吶喊人人怕；
那壁厢，天丁呐喊人人怕；
On that side, the heavenly troops shouted, and every man afraid;
The two camps set in strict parallel: 那壁廂 (“on that side”) the heavenly troops afraid, 這壁廂 (“on this side”) the monkey-fiends anxious — both ranks dismayed by their own champions' fury.
這壁廂，猴怪搖旗個個憂。
这壁厢，猴怪摇旗个个忧。
on this side, the monkey-fiends waved flags, and every one anxious.
發狠兩家齊鬥勇，
发狠两家齐斗勇，
Roused to fury, the two sides vied in valor alike,
The 賦 closes on a held balance: 不知那個剛強那個柔 — “none could tell which was stronger, which softer.” 那個…那個 is interrogative nǎ gè; 不知 takes bù.
不知那個剛強那個柔。
不知那个刚强那个柔。
and none could tell which was the stronger, which the softer.
總評 Commentary
The battle rhapsody, the longest of the chapter's six and its climax, is built — like the 好殺 賦 before it (#11) — on relentless parallelism, but to an opposite end. Where the Mighty-Spirit duel tilted every couplet toward Wukong and resolved in a single deflating blow, the Nezha duel holds its antitheses in perfect equipoise: weapon answers weapon (sword and saber, rope and pestle, fire-wheel and ball against three cudgels warding front and back), multiplication answers multiplication (百千萬億 against 以一化千千化萬), and the verse arrives not at a verdict but at a deadlock — 不知那個剛強那個柔, “none could tell which was stronger, which softer.”
What the 賦 stages is the 心猿 meeting its match in kind. Nezha's 三頭六臂 and proliferating weapons are the esoteric arsenal of a sanctioned god; Wukong reproduces the same multiplicity from a single cudgel, and the two fill the sky with copies until the heavens themselves go grim and both armies cower. The image is almost cosmological — creation by division, 以一化千, the One generating the many — and it is precisely here that brute combat reaches its limit. Equals cannot resolve a fight by force; the deadlock the verse so carefully balances is the structural sign that Wukong will not be beaten in the field at all. The chapter has been telling us so from its title: the rebellion will end not in defeat but in the granting, and the hollowing, of the name.