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

用黃金鎖
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用黃金鎖 Locked In A Golden Lock

那nà娘niáng娘niang接jiē過guò來lái,輕qīng輕qīng的de揭jiē開kāi衣yī箱xiāng,把bǎ那nà假jiǎ鈴líng收shōu了le,用yòng黃huáng金jīn鎖suǒ鎖suǒ了le。卻què又yòu與yǔ妖yāo王wáng飲yǐn了le幾jǐ杯bēi酒jiǔ,教jiào侍shì婢bì:「淨jìng拂fú牙yá床chuáng,展zhǎn開kāi錦jǐn被bèi,我wǒ與yǔ大dà王wáng同tóng寢qǐn。」那nà娘niáng娘niang接jiē过guò来lái,轻qīng轻qīng的de揭jiē开kāi衣yī箱xiāng,把bǎ那nà假jiǎ铃líng收shōu了le,用yòng黄huáng金jīn锁suǒ锁suǒ了le。却què又yòu与yǔ妖yāo王wáng饮yǐn了le几jǐ杯bēi酒jiǔ,教jiào侍shì婢bì:「净jìng拂fú牙yá床chuáng,展zhǎn开kāi锦jǐn被bèi,我wǒ与yǔ大dà王wáng同tóng寝qǐn。」


逐句解 Line by line

那nà娘niáng娘niang接jiē過guò來lái,輕qīng輕qīng的de揭jiē開kāi衣yī箱xiāng, 那nà娘niáng娘niang接jiē过guò来lái,轻qīng轻qīng的de揭jiē开kāi衣yī箱xiāng,

The Queen took them, lifted the lid of the clothes chest gently,

She has been handed three worthless bells and she treats them like the crown jewels. 輕輕 is the doubled word for doing something softly, the same one used when Wukong landed on her hair.

把bǎ那nà假jiǎ鈴líng收shōu了le,用yòng黃huáng金jīn鎖suǒ鎖suǒ了le。 把bǎ那nà假jiǎ铃líng收shōu了le,用yòng黄huáng金jīn锁suǒ锁suǒ了le。

put the false bells away and locked it with a golden lock.

The character 鎖 appears twice running, first as the lock and then as the verb of locking — the same word doing both jobs, which English has to split. 了 is the neutral le.

卻què又yòu與yǔ妖yāo王wáng飲yǐn了le幾jǐ杯bēi酒jiǔ, 却què又yòu与yǔ妖yāo王wáng饮yǐn了le几jǐ杯bēi酒jiǔ,

Then she drank a few more cups with the fiend king,

The party is still going. This is at least the fourth round of the evening, and she is still counting while he is not.

教jiào侍shì婢bì:「淨jìng拂fú牙yá床chuáng,展zhǎn開kāi錦jǐn被bèi,我wǒ與yǔ大dà王wáng同tóng寢qǐn。」 教jiào侍shì婢bì:「净jìng拂fú牙yá床chuáng,展zhǎn开kāi锦jǐn被bèi,我wǒ与yǔ大dà王wáng同tóng寝qǐn。」

and told the maids, "Dust the ivory bed clean and spread the brocade quilt. I shall sleep with the Great King."

牙床 is a bed inlaid with ivory, the grandest thing in the room. 教 is jiào, to order someone to do a thing.


總評 Commentary

The gold lock is the joke of the passage. Three counterfeit bells made from a monkey's hair are placed in a clothes chest and secured with a golden lock, by the woman who knows exactly what they are worth. Nobody will open that chest for a long time, which is precisely the point of locking it.

Then she offers to go to bed with him. This is the moment the evening has been aimed at from the beginning — Wukong told her to use a wife's courtesy and coax him to his rest — and she carries it through in front of the maids, giving the orders for the bed to be made.

It is worth remembering what it costs her to say it. She has been held three years by this creature and has just spent a whole night being charming to him. The next passage is the one where she finds out she did not need to.