第六十七回 · 播江攪海 Rolling The River Churning The Sea — Journey to the West

原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition 含詞賦 With rhapsody

播江攪海 Rolling The River Churning The Sea

原yuán來lái行xíng者zhě力lì量liàng大dà，不bù容róng說shuō，一yì把bǎ拉lā在zài天tiān井jǐng裡lǐ站zhàn下xià。那nà陣zhèn風fēng越yuè發fā大dà了le，好hǎo風fēng：原yuán来lái行xíng者zhě力lì量liàng大dà，不bù容róng说shuō，一yì把bǎ拉lā在zài天tiān井jǐng里lǐ站zhàn下xià。那nà阵zhèn风fēng越yuè发fā大dà了le，好hǎo风fēng：

倒dǎo樹shù摧cuī林lín狼láng虎hǔ憂yōu，播bō江jiāng攪jiǎo海hǎi鬼guǐ神shén愁chóu。倒dǎo树shù摧cuī林lín狼láng虎hǔ忧yōu，播bō江jiāng搅jiǎo海hǎi鬼guǐ神shén愁chóu。

掀xiān翻fān華huà岳yuè三sān峰fēng石shí，提tí起qǐ乾qián坤kūn四sì部bù洲zhōu。掀xiān翻fān华huà岳yuè三sān峰fēng石shí，提tí起qǐ干qián坤kūn四sì部bù洲zhōu。

村cūn舍shè人rén家jiā皆jiē閉bì戶hù，滿mǎn莊zhuāng兒ér女nǚ盡jìn藏cáng頭tóu。村cūn舍shè人rén家jiā皆jiē闭bì户hù，满mǎn庄zhuāng儿ér女nǚ尽jìn藏cáng头tóu。

黑hēi雲yún漠mò漠mò遮zhē星xīng漢hàn，燈dēng火huǒ無wú光guāng遍biàn地dì幽yōu。黑hēi云yún漠mò漠mò遮zhē星xīng汉hàn，灯dēng火huǒ无wú光guāng遍biàn地dì幽yōu。

逐句解 Line by line

原yuán來lái行xíng者zhě力lì量liàng大dà，不bù容róng說shuō，一yì把bǎ拉lā在zài天tiān井jǐng裡lǐ站zhàn下xià。原yuán来lái行xíng者zhě力lì量liàng大dà，不bù容róng说shuō，一yì把bǎ拉lā在zài天tiān井jǐng里lǐ站zhàn下xià。

But Pilgrim's strength was great. Without allowing any argument he hauled them both into the courtyard at one grip and stood them there.

量 is liàng in 力量, strength. 一把 is one grab — the number takes its ordinary tone slide before a rising tone.

那nà陣zhèn風fēng越yuè發fā大dà了le，好hǎo風fēng：那nà阵zhèn风fēng越yuè发fā大dà了le，好hǎo风fēng：

And that gust of wind grew greater still. A fine wind it was:

Nine characters carrying both the narrative and the announcement, so this unit opens the poem from inside itself rather than standing in front of it as a bare tag would.

It fells the trees and breaks the forest till wolf and tiger fret; it rolls the rivers and churns the seas till gods and spirits grieve.

倒 is the verb dǎo, to topple — not the adverb dào the same character has twice taken already in this chapter. Every rhyme word here is level: yōu, chóu, zhōu, tóu, yōu, and the opening line rhymes at its midpoint too.

It heaves over the rock of the three peaks on Mount Hua, and lifts the four continents of heaven and earth.

華 is huà in the mountain's name — Mount Hua, the Western Marchmount, one of the five sacred peaks. The 1716 dictionary gives that reading explicitly under the plant radical, and the ancient glossary 爾雅 names the mountain as the western of the five. 乾 is qián in 乾坤, the reading it took in the Daoist's rhapsody, not the gān it takes elsewhere here.

In hamlet and cottage every household bars its door; through the whole village the young hide their heads.

舍 is shè, a dwelling. 藏 is the verb cáng, to hide — the noun reading zàng belonged to the jade in the stone, some two thousand characters back.

Black cloud lies wide and blots out the Star River; the lamps give no light and the ground is dark from end to end.

星漢, the "Star River," is the Milky Way. The poem has moved from forests to mountains to the village and now to the sky, and it ends on the light going out.

總評 Commentary

The wind poem is the fourth showcase in the chapter and the first with nobody in it. The others gave a self-portrait and two defeats; this one describes weather, and it does so at four widening scales — trees and beasts, then a named mountain and the four continents, then one village, then the sky.

The third couplet is the one that matters. After two lines of cosmic exaggeration the poem drops to bolted doors and children hiding, and the exaggeration works backwards to make that domestic detail frightening rather than quaint.

It ends in the dark. 燈火無光 — "the lamps give no light" — is the last image, and the next thing anybody sees in this chapter is a pair of lights in the air.