第六十一回 · 奉承成功 She Gives Up The Fan — Journey to the West

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奉承成功 She Gives Up The Fan

又yòu見jiàn有yǒu金jīn剛gāng眾zhòng聖shèng與yǔ天tiān王wáng父fù子zǐ，慌huāng忙máng跪guì在zài地dì下xià，磕kē頭tóu禮lǐ拜bài道dào：「望wàng菩pú薩sà饒ráo我wǒ夫fū妻qī之zhī命mìng，願yuàn將jiāng此cǐ扇shàn奉fèng承chéng孫sūn叔shū叔shu成chéng功gōng去qù也yě。」行xíng者zhě近jìn前qián接jiē了le扇shàn，同tóng大dà眾zhòng共gòng駕jià祥xiáng雲yún，徑jìng回huí東dōng路lù。又yòu见jiàn有yǒu金jīn刚gāng众zhòng圣shèng与yǔ天tiān王wáng父fù子zǐ，慌huāng忙máng跪guì在zài地dì下xià，磕kē头tóu礼lǐ拜bài道dào：「望wàng菩pú萨sà饶ráo我wǒ夫fū妻qī之zhī命mìng，愿yuàn将jiāng此cǐ扇shàn奉fèng承chéng孙sūn叔shū叔shu成chéng功gōng去qù也yě。」行xíng者zhě近jìn前qián接jiē了le扇shàn，同tóng大dà众zhòng共gòng驾jià祥xiáng云yún，径jìng回huí东dōng路lù。

逐句解 Line by line

又yòu見jiàn有yǒu金jīn剛gāng眾zhòng聖shèng與yǔ天tiān王wáng父fù子zǐ，慌huāng忙máng跪guì在zài地dì下xià，磕kē頭tóu禮lǐ拜bài道dào：「望wàng菩pú薩sà饒ráo我wǒ夫fū妻qī之zhī命mìng，願yuàn將jiāng此cǐ扇shàn奉fèng承chéng孫sūn叔shū叔shu成chéng功gōng去qù也yě。」又yòu见jiàn有yǒu金jīn刚gāng众zhòng圣shèng与yǔ天tiān王wáng父fù子zǐ，慌huāng忙máng跪guì在zài地dì下xià，磕kē头tóu礼lǐ拜bài道dào：「望wàng菩pú萨sà饶ráo我wǒ夫fū妻qī之zhī命mìng，愿yuàn将jiāng此cǐ扇shàn奉fèng承chéng孙sūn叔shū叔shu成chéng功gōng去qù也yě。」

Seeing the Vajras and the holy company and the Heavenly King with his son, she knelt in haste upon the ground, knocked her head and made obeisance, saying: "I beg the bodhisattvas to spare the lives of my husband and myself. I will offer up this fan for Uncle Sun to accomplish his work."

孫叔叔 is a startling way to address him. 叔叔 is a woman's word for her husband's younger brother, and the Rākṣasī uses it of the man who impersonated her husband in order to rob her. The sworn brotherhood the Great Sage traded on is being handed straight back to him, by her, at the moment she gives up the fan. 父子 takes the full zǐ.

行xíng者zhě近jìn前qián接jiē了le扇shàn，同tóng大dà眾zhòng共gòng駕jià祥xiáng雲yún，徑jìng回huí東dōng路lù。行xíng者zhě近jìn前qián接jiē了le扇shàn，同tóng大dà众zhòng共gòng驾jià祥xiáng云yún，径jìng回huí东dōng路lù。

Pilgrim came forward and took the fan, and with all the company rode the auspicious cloud straight back to the eastern road.

The third time in this chapter that the fan has passed into the Great Sage's hands. He was given it by a trick, had it taken off his shoulder, and now receives it publicly, from its owner, with the four Vajras and the Heavenly King looking on. Only the third transfer will hold.

總評 Commentary

孫叔叔 is the word that repays reading twice. 叔叔 is what a woman calls her husband's younger brother, and the Rākṣasī uses it of the man who wore her husband's face to rob her. The sworn brotherhood the Great Sage invoked when he first wanted the fan is handed back to him, by her, at the moment she gives it up.

What she asks for is both their lives, hers and her husband's, and she asks the assembled Vajras rather than the Great Sage. She has read the room correctly: the power in it is not his.

接了扇 is the third time the fan has come into his hands. The first was a trick and it was taken back off his shoulder within the hour; the second never really happened, because the thing he was given was a leaf. This one is handed over in daylight by its owner in front of the celestial establishment, and it is the one that holds.