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東海龍王
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東海龍王 The Dragon King Of The Eastern Ocean

hǎoshènglegāngjuéniànshēngzhòuzǎojiànzhèngdōngshàngduǒyúnjiànjìntóudǐngshàngjiàodào:「shèngdōnghǎilóngwángáoguǎngláijiàn。」xíngzhědào:「shìgǎnniǎnfánqǐngláizhùxiēgēnshuǐguówángxiàyào。」hǎoshènglegāngjuéniànshēngzhòuzǎojiànzhèngdōngshàngduǒyúnjiànjìntóudǐngshàngjiàodào:「shèngdōnghǎilóngwángáo广guǎngláijiàn。」xíngzhědào:「shìgǎnniǎnfánqǐngláizhùxiēgēnshuǐguówángxiàyào。」


逐句解 Line by line

hǎoshènglegāngjuéniànshēngzhòuzǎojiànzhèngdōngshàngduǒyúnjiànjìntóudǐngshàng hǎoshènglegāngjuéniànshēngzhòuzǎojiànzhèngdōngshàngduǒyúnjiànjìntóudǐngshàng

The excellent Great Sage paced out the Dipper steps and recited a spell, and at once a black cloud appeared in the due east and came gradually up overhead.

The whole summoning takes one sentence. 罡訣 is the ritual pacing of the Dipper — the officiant treads out the pattern of the constellation on the ground — and it is a standard Daoist procedure, not an invention. is .

jiàodào:「shèngdōnghǎilóngwángáoguǎngláijiàn。」 jiàodào:「shèngdōnghǎilóngwángáo广guǎngláijiàn。」

A voice called, "Great Sage — Ao Guang, Dragon King of the Eastern Ocean, comes to see you."

The cloud announces itself. Nobody has told him yet why he was called.

xíngzhědào:「shìgǎnniǎnfánqǐngláizhùxiēgēnshuǐguówángxiàyào。」 xíngzhědào:「shìgǎnniǎnfánqǐngláizhùxiēgēnshuǐguówángxiàyào。」

Pilgrim said, "I would not presume to trouble you without cause. I have asked you here to help with a little rootless water, to get a medicine down a king."

捻煩 is the everyday phrase for putting somebody to trouble. The request is beautifully courteous and is, in substance, a summons already obeyed.


總評 Commentary

The actual summoning takes one sentence: pace out the Dipper steps, recite a spell, and a black cloud comes up in the east. After all the elaborate positioning of the previous scene, the working of it is dispatched in a line.

Ao Guang announces himself from inside the cloud before anyone has told him why he was called, and Pilgrim frames the request as a courtesy — he would not presume to trouble him without cause. Both parties are being extremely polite about what is, underneath, a Dragon King ordered across the sky to help a monkey get a pill down.