Canonical Classics ← 第七十一回
第七十一回
行xíng者zhě假jiǎ名míng降xiáng怪guài犼hǒu
觀guān音yīn現xiàn像xiàng伏fú妖yāo王wáng

Pilgrim Under a False Name Subdues the Monster Hou · Guanyin Shows Her Image and Puts Down the Fiend King

從頭至尾
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script 繁
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

從頭至尾 From Beginning To End

又yòu變biàn化huà,復fù偷tōu出chū,與yǔ他tā對duì敵dí。幸xìng遇yù觀guān音yīn菩pú薩sà將jiāng他tā收shōu去qù,又yòu與yǔ我wǒ說shuō拆chāi鳳fèng之zhī故gù。……」從cóng頭tóu至zhì尾wěi,細xì說shuō了le一yí遍biàn。那nà舉jǔ國guó君jūn臣chén內nèi外wài,無wú一yì人rén不bù感gǎn謝xiè稱chēng讚zàn。又yòu变biàn化huà,复fù偷tōu出chū,与yǔ他tā对duì敌dí。幸xìng遇yù观guān音yīn菩pú萨sà将jiāng他tā收shōu去qù,又yòu与yǔ我wǒ说shuō拆chāi凤fèng之zhī故gù。……」从cóng头tóu至zhì尾wěi,细xì说shuō了le一yí遍biàn。那nà举jǔ国guó君jūn臣chén内nèi外wài,无wú一yì人rén不bù感gǎn谢xiè称chēng赞zàn。


逐句解 Line by line

又yòu變biàn化huà,復fù偷tōu出chū,與yǔ他tā對duì敵dí。 又yòu变biàn化huà,复fù偷tōu出chū,与yǔ他tā对duì敌dí。

"Then I changed shape again, stole out once more, and met him in battle.

Ten characters for the escape, the disguise and the fight — three clauses of three and four characters, the shortest run in the summary.

幸xìng遇yù觀guān音yīn菩pú薩sà將jiāng他tā收shōu去qù,又yòu與yǔ我wǒ說shuō拆chāi鳳fèng之zhī故gù。……」 幸xìng遇yù观guān音yīn菩pú萨sà将jiāng他tā收shōu去qù,又yòu与yǔ我wǒ说shuō拆chāi凤fèng之zhī故gù。……」

"By good fortune I met the Bodhisattva Guanyin, who took him back, and she also told me the reason for the parting of the phoenixes …"

將 is jiāng, the disposal marker. 拆鳳 is the fifth and last time the phrase appears in the chapter — the queen sang it, the Bodhisattva pronounced it, and Wukong has now used it three times. The row of dots and the closing bracket end the speech: the storyteller declines to write the rest of it out.

從cóng頭tóu至zhì尾wěi,細xì說shuō了le一yí遍biàn。 从cóng头tóu至zhì尾wěi,细xì说shuō了le一yí遍biàn。

and so from beginning to end he told it all through in detail.

從頭至尾 is a set phrase, from head to tail, and it stands in for the speech the storyteller has just declined to finish. 一 takes yí before the falling tone of 遍.

那nà舉jǔ國guó君jūn臣chén內nèi外wài,無wú一yì人rén不bù感gǎn謝xiè稱chēng讚zàn。 那nà举jǔ国guó君jūn臣chén内nèi外wài,无wú一yì人rén不bù感gǎn谢xiè称chēng赞zàn。

In the whole kingdom, ruler and ministers, inside and out, there was not one who did not give thanks and praise.

A double negative — 無一人不, not one who did not — which is emphatic in Chinese as in English. 一 takes yì before the level tone of 人.


總評 Commentary

The ellipsis is the interesting thing on this page. 拆鳳之故。……」 — the source puts a row of dots inside the quotation marks and then closes them, and follows with 從頭至尾,細說了一遍, he told it from head to tail in detail. The storyteller is explicitly refusing to repeat himself.

It is a device the novel uses often and it is worth noticing here, because the reader has just spent six thousand characters on the events being summarised. The ellipsis is a courtesy to the audience of a storyteller who knows they were listening.

拆鳳 closes its account here, at five occurrences. The queen sang it in her lament not knowing it was a sentence; the Bodhisattva pronounced it as the sentence; Wukong explained it to the queen, and now explains it to the court. The same four characters have travelled the length of the chapter.