第六十一回 · 撼嶺搖山 Shaking Ridge And Mountain — Journey to the West

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撼嶺搖山 Shaking Ridge And Mountain

行xíng者zhě也yě就jiù現xiàn了le原yuán身shēn，抽chōu出chū金jīn箍gū棒bàng來lái，把bǎ腰yāo一yì躬gōng，喝hè聲shēng叫jiào：「長zhǎng！」長zhǎng得de身shēn高gāo萬wàn丈zhàng，頭tóu如rú泰tài山shān，眼yǎn如rú日rì月yuè，口kǒu似sì血xuè池chí，牙yá似sì門mén扇shàn，手shǒu執zhí一yì條tiáo鐵tiě棒bàng，著zhuó頭tóu就jiù打dǎ。那nà牛niú王wáng硬yìng著zhe頭tóu，使shǐ角jiǎo來lái觸chù。這zhè一yì場cháng，真zhēn個gè是shì撼hàn嶺lǐng搖yáo山shān，驚jīng天tiān動dòng地dì。行xíng者zhě也yě就jiù现xiàn了le原yuán身shēn，抽chōu出chū金jīn箍gū棒bàng来lái，把bǎ腰yāo一yì躬gōng，喝hè声shēng叫jiào：「长zhǎng！」长zhǎng得de身shēn高gāo万wàn丈zhàng，头tóu如rú泰tài山shān，眼yǎn如rú日rì月yuè，口kǒu似sì血xuè池chí，牙yá似sì门mén扇shàn，手shǒu执zhí一yì条tiáo铁tiě棒bàng，着zhuó头tóu就jiù打dǎ。那nà牛niú王wáng硬yìng着zhe头tóu，使shǐ角jiǎo来lái触chù。这zhè一yì场cháng，真zhēn个gè是shì撼hàn岭lǐng摇yáo山shān，惊jīng天tiān动dòng地dì。

逐句解 Line by line

行xíng者zhě也yě就jiù現xiàn了le原yuán身shēn，抽chōu出chū金jīn箍gū棒bàng來lái，把bǎ腰yāo一yì躬gōng，喝hè聲shēng叫jiào：「長zhǎng！」行xíng者zhě也yě就jiù现xiàn了le原yuán身shēn，抽chōu出chū金jīn箍gū棒bàng来lái，把bǎ腰yāo一yì躬gōng，喝hè声shēng叫jiào：「长zhǎng！」

Pilgrim likewise showed his own body, drew out the gold-banded rod, bent his waist and shouted: "Grow!"

The answer to size is size, and it takes one shouted syllable. 喝 is hè, to shout: the character is reached correctly only inside the frame 喝道, and here the frame is 喝聲叫. 長 in the command is zhǎng, to grow — the same character that was wrong at 長短 three lines back, with the error running the opposite way.

長zhǎng得de身shēn高gāo萬wàn丈zhàng，頭tóu如rú泰tài山shān，眼yǎn如rú日rì月yuè，口kǒu似sì血xuè池chí，牙yá似sì門mén扇shàn，手shǒu執zhí一yì條tiáo鐵tiě棒bàng，著zhuó頭tóu就jiù打dǎ。长zhǎng得de身shēn高gāo万wàn丈zhàng，头tóu如rú泰tài山shān，眼yǎn如rú日rì月yuè，口kǒu似sì血xuè池chí，牙yá似sì门mén扇shàn，手shǒu执zhí一yì条tiáo铁tiě棒bàng，着zhuó头tóu就jiù打dǎ。

He grew until he stood ten thousand zhàng high, his head like Mount Tai, his eyes like sun and moon, his mouth like a pool of blood, his teeth like door-leaves; and holding an iron rod in his hand he struck straight at the head.

What he grows into is described in exactly the figures the Bull King was: head like Mount Tai, eyes like sun and moon, teeth like door-leaves. 長得 takes the light linking de, hooking the growing to the whole clause of result. 著頭 takes 著 at zhuó, the contact sense: the blow is aimed at, and lands on, the head.

那nà牛niú王wáng硬yìng著zhe頭tóu，使shǐ角jiǎo來lái觸chù。那nà牛niú王wáng硬yìng着zhe头tóu，使shǐ角jiǎo来lái触chù。

The Bull King hardened his head and came at him with the horns.

硬著頭 takes the zhe that keeps the hardening going — holding the head hard — against the zhuó of 著頭就打 in the line before. 觸 is to butt, the verb proper to horned cattle, and it will come back when the gods surround him.

這zhè一yì場cháng，真zhēn個gè是shì撼hàn嶺lǐng搖yáo山shān，驚jīng天tiān動dòng地dì。这zhè一yì场cháng，真zhēn个gè是shì撼hàn岭lǐng摇yáo山shān，惊jīng天tiān动dòng地dì。

This bout of theirs shook ridge and mountain and startled heaven and earth.

Four characters and four characters, and it is the storyteller's last word before the poem. (一 shifts to yì in 一場, before the dipping tone of 場.)

總評 Commentary

The answer to size is size. 把腰一躬，喝聲叫：「長！」 — one bent back, one shouted syllable, and the Great Sage matches him. It is the shortest command in the chapter and the single character 長 does all the work.

What he grows into is described in the same figures the Bull King was: head like Mount Tai, eyes like sun and moon, teeth like door-leaves. The parallel is exact and deliberate, and it makes the contest legible — two things of the same order now, and the fight can go on.

著頭就打 and 硬著頭 close the passage on a small piece of physical comedy that the language carries without comment: one strikes at the head, and the other hardens his head and butts. Ten thousand zhàng of divine transformation, and the manoeuvre is what any two bulls would do.