Canonical Classics ← 第七十一回
第七十一回
xíngzhějiǎmíngxiángguàihǒu
guānyīnxiànxiàngyāowáng

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

燎樹燒山
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

燎樹燒山 Now Let Me Shake Mine

xíngzhědào:「xiánshēngzhùleshǒuděngyáoyáokàn。」hǎohóuzizǎnlesānlíngéryáokànhónghuǒqīngyānhuángshāgǔnchūliáoshùshāoshānxíngzhědào:「xiánshēngzhùleshǒuděngyáoyáokàn。」hǎohóuzizǎnlesānlíngéryáokànhónghuǒqīngyānhuángshāgǔnchūliáoshùshāoshān


逐句解 Line by line

xíngzhědào:「xiánshēngzhùleshǒuděngyáoyáokàn。」 xíngzhědào:「xiánshēngzhùleshǒuděngyáoyáokàn。」

Pilgrim said, "Worthy nephew, hold your hand. Let me shake mine for you to see."

賢甥 for the third time in the chapter — worthy nephew, still perfectly courteous, and now used to ask a man to stop failing in public. is kàn, to look.

hǎohóuzizǎnlesānlíngéryáo hǎohóuzizǎnlesānlíngéryáo

Fine monkey! He gripped all three bells in one hand and shook them together.

is zǎn, to grip in the fist — 康熙 手部九畫 gives it one band, 子感切, 音昝, 手動也. takes before the rising tones of and , twice.

kànhónghuǒqīngyānhuángshāgǔnchūliáoshùshāoshān kànhónghuǒqīngyānhuángshāgǔnchūliáoshùshāoshān

Look at it — red fire, blue smoke, yellow sand, all rolling out together, gushing and roaring, scorching the trees and burning the hills.

is twice here, and neither reading is about meaning: 骨都都 is a sound-word, and its modern descendant is 咕嘟嘟, the noise of something bubbling or rushing out. The automatic reading offers the everyday all.


總評 Commentary

住了手 — hold your hand — is Wukong being merciful in the most humiliating possible way. He asks the fiend to stop, addresses him as worthy nephew for the third time in the chapter, and offers to demonstrate.

The three colours are worth having: 紅火, 青煙, 黃沙 — red fire, blue-green smoke, yellow sand. The novel has mentioned the bells' three powers several times without colouring them, and it saves the palette for the moment they actually work.

骨都都 is a sound rather than a word. It survives into modern Chinese as 咕嘟嘟, the noise of a pot boiling over or a bottle emptying, and it is doing double duty here for the rush of the smoke and the roar of the fire. The characters are borrowed purely for their noise.