第六十四回 · 滿面春風 Spring Wind In Her Face — Journey to the West

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滿面春風 Spring Wind In Her Face

四sì老lǎo即jí以yǐ長zhǎng老lǎo前qián詩shī後hòu詩shī並bìng禪chán法fǎ論lùn，宣xuān了le一yí遍biàn。那nà女nǚ子zǐ滿mǎn面miàn春chūn風fēng，對duì眾zhòng道dào：「妾qiè身shēn不bù才cái，不bù當dāng獻xiàn醜chǒu。但dàn聆líng此cǐ佳jiā句jù，似sì不bù可kě虛xū，勉miǎn強qiǎng將jiāng後hòu詩shī奉fèng和hè一yí律lǜ如rú何hé？」四sì老lǎo即jí以yǐ长zhǎng老lǎo前qián诗shī后hòu诗shī并bìng禅chán法fǎ论lùn，宣xuān了le一yí遍biàn。那nà女nǚ子zǐ满mǎn面miàn春chūn风fēng，对duì众zhòng道dào：「妾qiè身shēn不bù才cái，不bù当dāng献xiàn丑chǒu。但dàn聆líng此cǐ佳jiā句jù，似sì不bù可kě虚xū，勉miǎn强qiǎng将jiāng后hòu诗shī奉fèng和hè一yí律lǜ如rú何hé？」

逐句解 Line by line

四sì老lǎo即jí以yǐ長zhǎng老lǎo前qián詩shī後hòu詩shī並bìng禪chán法fǎ論lùn，宣xuān了le一yí遍biàn。四sì老lǎo即jí以yǐ长zhǎng老lǎo前qián诗shī后hòu诗shī并bìng禅chán法fǎ论lùn，宣xuān了le一yí遍biàn。

The four old men thereupon recited through the elder's earlier poem, his later one, and his discourse on the dharma of Chan.

All three of Tripitaka's performances are gone through for her benefit, the sermon included. Somebody has been keeping account of everything he said.

那nà女nǚ子zǐ滿mǎn面miàn春chūn風fēng，對duì眾zhòng道dào：「妾qiè身shēn不bù才cái，不bù當dāng獻xiàn醜chǒu。那nà女nǚ子zǐ满mǎn面miàn春chūn风fēng，对duì众zhòng道dào：「妾qiè身shēn不bù才cái，不bù当dāng献xiàn丑chǒu。

With the spring wind all over her face the woman said to the company, "Your handmaid has no talent and ought not to display her clumsiness.

滿面春風 is the ordinary idiom for a beaming face — spring wind all over it — but the 春 inside it does other work in this chapter, and the elders will shortly say there is spring feeling inside her poem.

但dàn聆líng此cǐ佳jiā句jù，似sì不bù可kě虛xū，勉miǎn強qiǎng將jiāng後hòu詩shī奉fèng和hè一yí律lǜ如rú何hé？」但dàn聆líng此cǐ佳jiā句jù，似sì不bù可kě虚xū，勉miǎn强qiǎng将jiāng后hòu诗shī奉fèng和hè一yí律lǜ如rú何hé？」

"But having heard such fine lines, it seems they should not be let pass for nothing. How would it be if I made shift to offer an answering piece to the later poem?"

和 is hè, to answer a poem in its own rhyme, and 強 is qiǎng in 勉強 — the same pair of values the Duke of Lonely Uprightness used when he asked Tripitaka for a whole poem.

總評 Commentary

The recital is the giveaway. All three of Tripitaka's performances are gone through for her — both poems and the sermon — which means either that she is being briefed or that the evening was always going to end with her arrival. Nothing in the text decides between them.

Her request to answer the later poem uses the exact formula the elders used on him: modesty, then a conditional, then a proposal put as a question. She has been in the room for four passages and she is already speaking their language.