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

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

燎樹燒山 Now Let Me Shake Mine

行xíng者zhě道dào:「賢xián甥shēng,住zhù了le手shǒu,等děng我wǒ也yě搖yáo搖yáo你nǐ看kàn。」好hǎo猴hóu子zi,一yì把bǎ揝zǎn了le三sān個gè鈴líng兒ér,一yì齊qí搖yáo起qǐ。你nǐ看kàn那nà紅hóng火huǒ、青qīng煙yān、黃huáng沙shā,一yì齊qí滾gǔn出chū,骨gǔ都dū都dū燎liáo樹shù燒shāo山shān。行xíng者zhě道dào:「贤xián甥shēng,住zhù了le手shǒu,等děng我wǒ也yě摇yáo摇yáo你nǐ看kàn。」好hǎo猴hóu子zi,一yì把bǎ揝zǎn了le三sān个gè铃líng儿ér,一yì齐qí摇yáo起qǐ。你nǐ看kàn那nà红hóng火huǒ、青qīng烟yān、黄huáng沙shā,一yì齐qí滚gǔn出chū,骨gǔ都dū都dū燎liáo树shù烧shāo山shān。


逐句解 Line by line

行xíng者zhě道dào:「賢xián甥shēng,住zhù了le手shǒu,等děng我wǒ也yě搖yáo搖yáo你nǐ看kàn。」 行xíng者zhě道dào:「贤xián甥shēng,住zhù了le手shǒu,等děng我wǒ也yě摇yáo摇yáo你nǐ看kàn。」

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. 看 is kàn, to look.

好hǎo猴hóu子zi,一yì把bǎ揝zǎn了le三sān個gè鈴líng兒ér,一yì齊qí搖yáo起qǐ。 好hǎo猴hóu子zi,一yì把bǎ揝zǎn了le三sān个gè铃líng儿ér,一yì齐qí摇yáo起qǐ。

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

揝 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. 一 takes yì before the rising tones of 把 and 齊, twice.

你nǐ看kàn那nà紅hóng火huǒ、青qīng煙yān、黃huáng沙shā,一yì齊qí滾gǔn出chū,骨gǔ都dū都dū燎liáo樹shù燒shāo山shān。 你nǐ看kàn那nà红hóng火huǒ、青qīng烟yān、黄huáng沙shā,一yì齐qí滚gǔn出chū,骨gǔ都dū都dū燎liáo树shù烧shāo山shān。

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

都 is dū 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.