第六十六回 · 花殘葉落 Blossom Fallen And Leaf Down — Journey to the West

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花殘葉落 Blossom Fallen And Leaf Down

那nà怪guài雖suī是shì肚dù腹fù絞jiǎo痛tòng，還hái未wèi傷shāng心xīn。俗sú語yǔ云yún：「人rén未wèi傷shāng心xīn不bù得dé死sǐ，花huā殘cán葉yè落luò是shì根gēn枯kū。」他tā聽tīng見jiàn叫jiào張zhāng口kǒu，即jí便biàn忍rěn著zhe疼téng，把bǎ口kǒu大dà張zhāng。行xíng者zhě方fāng才cái跳tiào出chū，現xiàn了le本běn像xiàng，急jí掣chè棒bàng還hái要yào打dǎ時shí，早zǎo被bèi佛fó祖zǔ把bǎ妖yāo精jīng裝zhuāng在zài袋dài裡lǐ，斜xié跨kuà在zài腰yāo間jiān。那nà怪guài虽suī是shì肚dù腹fù绞jiǎo痛tòng，还hái未wèi伤shāng心xīn。俗sú语yǔ云yún：「人rén未wèi伤shāng心xīn不bù得dé死sǐ，花huā残cán叶yè落luò是shì根gēn枯kū。」他tā听tīng见jiàn叫jiào张zhāng口kǒu，即jí便biàn忍rěn着zhe疼téng，把bǎ口kǒu大dà张zhāng。行xíng者zhě方fāng才cái跳tiào出chū，现xiàn了le本běn像xiàng，急jí掣chè棒bàng还hái要yào打dǎ时shí，早zǎo被bèi佛fó祖zǔ把bǎ妖yāo精jīng装zhuāng在zài袋dài里lǐ，斜xié跨kuà在zài腰yāo间jiān。

逐句解 Line by line

那nà怪guài雖suī是shì肚dù腹fù絞jiǎo痛tòng，還hái未wèi傷shāng心xīn。那nà怪guài虽suī是shì肚dù腹fù绞jiǎo痛tòng，还hái未wèi伤shāng心xīn。

The monster, though his bowels were griping, was not yet hurt at heart.

還 is hái, still or yet. 傷心 is literal here — an injury to the heart, not the grief the compound usually means — and the proverb that follows turns on that literal sense.

俗sú語yǔ云yún：「人rén未wèi傷shāng心xīn不bù得dé死sǐ，花huā殘cán葉yè落luò是shì根gēn枯kū。」俗sú语yǔ云yún：「人rén未wèi伤shāng心xīn不bù得dé死sǐ，花huā残cán叶yè落luò是shì根gēn枯kū。」

As the common saying has it: a man cannot die until his heart is hurt; when blossom withers and leaf falls, it is the root that is dry.

不得 stands before its verb and is therefore the full bù dé, cannot. The narrator stops the action to quote a proverb, which is the storyteller's own voice breaking through the story.

他tā聽tīng見jiàn叫jiào張zhāng口kǒu，即jí便biàn忍rěn著zhe疼téng，把bǎ口kǒu大dà張zhāng。他tā听tīng见jiàn叫jiào张zhāng口kǒu，即jí便biàn忍rěn着zhe疼téng，把bǎ口kǒu大dà张zhāng。

Hearing himself told to open his mouth, he bore the pain and opened it wide.

著 is zhe. The fiend obeys an instruction given by the creature inside him, which is the plainest possible statement of who is in charge.

行xíng者zhě方fāng才cái跳tiào出chū，現xiàn了le本běn像xiàng，急jí掣chè棒bàng還hái要yào打dǎ時shí，早zǎo被bèi佛fó祖zǔ把bǎ妖yāo精jīng裝zhuāng在zài袋dài裡lǐ，斜xié跨kuà在zài腰yāo間jiān。行xíng者zhě方fāng才cái跳tiào出chū，现xiàn了le本běn像xiàng，急jí掣chè棒bàng还hái要yào打dǎ时shí，早zǎo被bèi佛fó祖zǔ把bǎ妖yāo精jīng装zhuāng在zài袋dài里lǐ，斜xié跨kuà在zài腰yāo间jiān。

Pilgrim leapt out at last and showed his true form; and just as he snatched out his rod to strike again, the Buddha Patriarch had already bagged the fiend and slung it slantwise at his waist.

還 is again hái, still. 早被 — had already — puts the bagging ahead of the blow, and Monkey is stopped mid-swing for the second time in two passages.

總評 Commentary

The proverb is the chapter's only piece of folk wisdom and it is doing plot work rather than moralising. It explains why a creature with a monkey rearranging his intestines is nonetheless in no danger of dying, and so why the whole scene can be played for comedy.

The bagging is the chapter's neatest reversal. The Bag of Human Seed has swallowed every rescue party sent against it, and Maitreya's final use of it is on the thief who stole it — slung at the hip like luggage, which is what it was before any of this began.

Monkey is stopped mid-blow again, and the sequence of three is deliberate: he digs after the first request, stops after the second, and snatches out the rod once more only to find the matter already settled. The chapter will not let him land the last hit.