原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
Reader's edition
含詞賦 With rhapsody
此泉乃濯垢
The Nine Yang Springs
那九陽泉，乃香冷泉、伴山泉、溫泉、東合泉、潢山泉、孝安泉、廣汾泉、湯泉──此泉乃濯垢泉。那九阳泉，乃香冷泉、伴山泉、温泉、东合泉、潢山泉、孝安泉、广汾泉、汤泉──此泉乃濯垢泉。
有詩為證。詩曰：有诗为证。诗曰：
逐句解 Line by line
那九陽泉，乃香冷泉、伴山泉、溫泉、東合泉、潢山泉、孝安泉、廣汾泉、湯泉──此泉乃濯垢泉。
那九阳泉，乃香冷泉、伴山泉、温泉、东合泉、潢山泉、孝安泉、广汾泉、汤泉──此泉乃濯垢泉。
Those nine Yang Springs are: Fragrant Cold Spring, Companion Hill Spring, Warm Spring, Eastern Union Spring, Golden Hill Spring, Filial Peace Spring, Broad Fen Spring, Hot Spring — and this spring, which is Filth-Cleansing Spring.
Eight names and then the ninth, held to the end after a dash. The list is the chapter placing its own setting inside a geography of the whole world, and the punchline is that the pool these women are about to bathe in is one of the nine fallen suns.
有詩為證。
有诗为证。
There is a poem in proof.
為 is wéi, to serve as. The same four characters opened the kickball poem, and they work the way a footnote marker does.
詩曰：
诗曰：
The poem runs:
Two characters, and the seventh set-piece of the chapter begins — a regulated poem about hot water.
總評 Commentary
Eight spring names, then a dash, then the ninth — which is this one. The list is doing what a map does: fixing a small place inside a large frame.
None of the other eight matters to the plot and the book names all of them anyway. That is worth noticing about how this novel handles its world. The bathing pool seven spiders took from seven immortals is not just a location; it is item nine on a list of the world's hot springs, each of which used to be a sun.