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The Fiend Stirs a Cold Wind and Sends Down Great Snow · The Monk, Set on Worshipping the Buddha, Treads the Layered Ice

家常相待
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家常相待 Entertained as of the House

只zhǐ見jiàn一yì僮tóng又yòu請qǐng進jìn早zǎo齋zhāi。到dào廳tīng上shàng吃chī畢bì。敘xù不bù多duō時shí,又yòu午wǔ齋zhāi相xiāng繼jì而ér進jìn。三sān藏zàng見jiàn品pǐn物wù豐fēng盛shèng,再zài四sì不bù安ān道dào:「既jì蒙méng見jiàn留liú,只zhǐ可kě以yǐ家jiā常cháng相xiāng待dài。」陳chén老lǎo道dào:「老lǎo爺yé,感gǎn蒙méng替tì祭jì救jiù命mìng之zhī恩ēn,雖suī逐zhú日rì設shè筵yán奉fèng款kuǎn,也yě難nán酬chóu難nán謝xiè。」只zhǐ见jiàn一yì僮tóng又yòu请qǐng进jìn早zǎo斋zhāi。到dào厅tīng上shàng吃chī毕bì。叙xù不bù多duō时shí,又yòu午wǔ斋zhāi相xiāng继jì而ér进jìn。三sān藏zàng见jiàn品pǐn物wù丰fēng盛shèng,再zài四sì不bù安ān道dào:「既jì蒙méng见jiàn留liú,只zhǐ可kě以yǐ家jiā常cháng相xiāng待dài。」陈chén老lǎo道dào:「老lǎo爷yé,感gǎn蒙méng替tì祭jì救jiù命mìng之zhī恩ēn,虽suī逐zhú日rì设shè筵yán奉fèng款kuǎn,也yě难nán酬chóu难nán谢xiè。」


逐句解 Line by line

只zhǐ見jiàn一yì僮tóng又yòu請qǐng進jìn早zǎo齋zhāi。 只zhǐ见jiàn一yì僮tóng又yòu请qǐng进jìn早zǎo斋zhāi。

Then a boy came to invite them in to the early meal.

早齋 is the morning meal of a religious house. The Chens are keeping monastic hours for their guests.

到dào廳tīng上shàng吃chī畢bì。 到dào厅tīng上shàng吃chī毕bì。

They went to the hall and finished it.

Four characters of narrative dispatch. The novel is marking time on purpose.

敘xù不bù多duō時shí,又yòu午wǔ齋zhāi相xiāng繼jì而ér進jìn。 叙xù不bù多duō时shí,又yòu午wǔ斋zhāi相xiāng继jì而ér进jìn。

They had not talked long before the midday meal followed on after it.

相繼: 相 is xiāng, one thing following another — not xiàng, "appearance."

三sān藏zàng見jiàn品pǐn物wù豐fēng盛shèng,再zài四sì不bù安ān道dào:「既jì蒙méng見jiàn留liú,只zhǐ可kě以yǐ家jiā常cháng相xiāng待dài。」 三sān藏zàng见jiàn品pǐn物wù丰fēng盛shèng,再zài四sì不bù安ān道dào:「既jì蒙méng见jiàn留liú,只zhǐ可kě以yǐ家jiā常cháng相xiāng待dài。」

Tripitaka, seeing the dishes so lavish, was uneasy over and over, and said: 「Since you are good enough to keep us, plain household fare would serve.」

家常相待: 相 is xiāng again, standing in front of the verb — to treat a man as one of the household. 再四, over and over.

陳chén老lǎo道dào:「老lǎo爺yé,感gǎn蒙méng替tì祭jì救jiù命mìng之zhī恩ēn,雖suī逐zhú日rì設shè筵yán奉fèng款kuǎn,也yě難nán酬chóu難nán謝xiè。」 陈chén老lǎo道dào:「老lǎo爷yé,感gǎn蒙méng替tì祭jì救jiù命mìng之zhī恩ēn,虽suī逐zhú日rì设shè筵yán奉fèng款kuǎn,也yě难nán酬chóu难nán谢xiè。」

Old Chen said: 「Your reverence, for the kindness of standing in our stead at the sacrifice and saving those two lives, though we set out a banquet every day of our lives we could never repay nor thank you enough.」

難酬難謝: 難 is nán, "hard to," twice. 替祭 is to sacrifice in another's place, and it is the phrase that names exactly what Wukong and Eight Rules did on that altar.


總評 Commentary

A short interval of meals, doing structural work. The days are passing, the river is freezing, the pilgrims are being fed. Old Chen's phrase for what he owes them — 替祭救命之恩, the kindness of sacrificing in our stead and saving lives — sets down the whole moral account of the Chen Village episode in six characters, and it is why the household will not let them leave quietly.

Tripitaka's discomfort at the lavishness is in character and, in the circumstances, faintly ironic. He asks to be treated 家常, as one of the household, while growing more frantic by the day to be gone from it.