原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
含詞賦 With rhapsody
太子英姿
The Third Prince
總角才遮顖，总角才遮顖，
披毛未蓋肩。披毛未盖肩。
神奇多敏悟，神奇多敏悟，
骨秀更清妍。骨秀更清妍。
誠為天上麒麟子，诚为天上麒麟子，
果是煙霞彩鳳仙。果是烟霞彩凤仙。
龍種自然非俗相，龙种自然非俗相，
妙齡端不類塵凡。妙龄端不类尘凡。
身帶六般神器械，身带六般神器械，
飛騰變化廣無邊。飞腾变化广无边。
今受玉皇金口詔，今受玉皇金口诏，
敕封海會號三壇。敕封海会号三坛。
逐句解 Line by line
總角才遮顖，
总角才遮顖，
His child's tufts barely cover his crown,
總角, the twin top-knots of a child; 顖 (= 囟, xìn) is the crown of the head. The portrait stresses Nezha's youth — a boy-general.
披毛未蓋肩。
披毛未盖肩。
his draping hair not yet reaching his shoulders.
神奇多敏悟，
神奇多敏悟，
Marvelously quick and keen of mind,
骨秀更清妍。
骨秀更清妍。
his bones fine, his features clear and fair.
骨秀 / 清妍 — fine-boned and fair; the immortal-child physiognomy.
誠為天上麒麟子，
诚为天上麒麟子，
Truly a qilin-child of Heaven above,
麒麟子, a “qilin-child” (為 = wéi); the qilin marks an auspicious, exceptional birth.
果是煙霞彩鳳仙。
果是烟霞彩凤仙。
indeed a rosy-mist phoenix immortal.
龍種自然非俗相，
龙种自然非俗相，
Of dragon stock, his nature no common cast,
龍種, “of dragon stock” (種 = zhǒng); 非俗相, “no common visage” — 相 as xiàng (“appearance, physiognomy”).
妙齡端不類塵凡。
妙龄端不类尘凡。
in tender years plainly unlike the dust-bound world.
不類塵凡, “unlike the dust-bound world”; 不類 takes bú before fourth-tone 類.
身帶六般神器械，
身带六般神器械，
On his body he bears six kinds of divine arms,
六般神器械 — Nezha's six magic weapons, the arsenal of the boy-god.
飛騰變化廣無邊。
飞腾变化广无边。
his soaring and shape-shifting boundlessly wide.
今受玉皇金口詔，
今受玉皇金口诏，
Now he has received the Jade Emperor's golden-mouthed decree,
金口詔, the “golden-mouthed decree” — an utterance of the Jade Emperor himself, the highest sanction.
敕封海會號三壇。
敕封海会号三坛。
commissioned of the Sea Assembly, titled of the Three Altars.
敕封海會號三壇 — his titles, 三壇海會大神, named at the close (cf. #8); 敕 (chì), an imperial investiture.
總評 Commentary
Nezha's portrait is the formal counterpart to Wukong's a few passages earlier (#9), and the contrast is pointed. Where the Monkey King was armoured magnificence undercut by a beast's snout, the boy-general is sheer auspicious pedigree: 總角 tufts and unshouldered hair, qilin-child and phoenix-immortal, 龍種 of dragon stock, fine-boned and fair. He is, in every line, what Heaven recognizes as legitimate — a being whose rank is written into his very features and confirmed by the Jade Emperor's 金口詔.
That legitimacy is exactly the point of the pairing. Nezha carries his authority by birth and investiture, titled 三壇海會大神 before he has struck a blow; Wukong is reaching for a title he has had to name himself. The novel sets the sanctioned boy-god against the self-styled 齊天大聖 not to predict the outcome — the reader already suspects Nezha will fare no better than 巨靈 — but to sharpen the chapter's question of what makes a name real. The next passage will test whether celestial pedigree, fully armed with six divine weapons, can do what brute office could not.