Canonical Classics ← 第六十一回
第六十一回
zhūjièzhùwáng
sūnxíngzhěsān調tiáojiāoshàn

Zhu Eight Rules Lends His Strength to Defeat the Demon King · Sun the Pilgrim Contrives the Third Fetching of the Banana-Leaf Fan

從裡邊罵
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從裡邊罵 He Comes Out Cursing

niúwángzhèngmiàngōngzhǔbèiyánshìàohènsūnxíngzhělitīngshuōqiánménshífēnguàletiěgùncóngbiānchūláidào:「sūnshìduōrénérgǎnzhèděngshàngménménshàn?」niúwángzhèngmiàngōngzhǔbèiyánshìàohènsūnxíngzhělitīngshuōqiánménshífēnguàletiěgùncóngbiānchūláidào:「sūnshìduōrénérgǎnzhèděngshàngménménshàn?」


逐句解 Line by line

niúwángzhèngmiàngōngzhǔbèiyánshìàohènsūnxíngzhěli niúwángzhèngmiàngōngzhǔbèiyánshìàohènsūnxíngzhěli

The Bull King was just then telling the Jade-Faced Princess the whole affair, and railing at Pilgrim Sun.

The comedy here is precise and entirely unremarked. 備言其事 is to relate a matter in full — and the grievance Eight Rules cut off with a rake two passages ago is at last being delivered complete, to a sympathetic audience, at the exact moment the gate comes down. holds at li.

tīngshuōqiánménshífēnguàletiěgùncóngbiānchūláidào:「sūn tīngshuōqiánménshífēnguàletiěgùncóngbiānchūláidào:「sūn

Hearing that the front gate was broken he flew into a rage, hurriedly put on his armour, took up his iron staff and came out from within, cursing: "Wretched ape!

披掛 is to put on armour piece by piece, and the Bull King has had to do it twice in two chapters: he was left in his undershirt at the end of Chapter 60 and is only now properly equipped again. 十分 takes at fēn, "wholly".

shìduōrénérgǎnzhèděngshàngménménshàn?」 shìduōrénérgǎnzhèděngshàngménménshàn?」

"How big a fellow are you, that you dare come to my door and make such a riot and break down my gate-leaf?"

A good insult, and it is about size. 門扇 is the leaf of a double door, taking its ordinary shàn — the very character that carries the banana-leaf fan through this whole chapter, here in its plain sense of a flat hinged panel. 人兒 takes the full ér. 撒潑 is to behave outrageously, and is the character the Bull King has been throwing at the Great Sage since the chapter opened.


總評 Commentary

The comedy of the moment is precise and unremarked. 那牛王正與玉面公主備言其事 — the Bull King is at last telling his wife the whole story, the very grievance Eight Rules cut off with a rake two passages earlier, and he gets to finish it just as the front gate is smashed in.

He has to put his armour on again. This is the second time in two chapters: he was left in his undershirt at the end of Chapter 60, having lost mount, armour and weapons in a single day, and 急披掛 is the novel keeping count.

你是多大個人兒 — how big a fellow are you? — is a good insult, and it is about size. The Bull King is enormous and the Great Sage is not, and the question of who is bigger will be picked up and thrown straight back in the next passage. The whole exchange that follows is two demons arguing about scale.