第七十六回 · 假捏聲音 A Voice Calling His Name — Journey to the West

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假捏聲音 A Voice Calling His Name

好hǎo大dà聖shèng，飛fēi近jìn他tā耳ěr邊biān，假jiǎ捏niē聲shēng音yīn，叫jiào聲shēng：「豬zhū悟wù能néng，豬zhū悟wù能néng。」八bā戒jiè慌huāng了le道dào：「晦huì氣qì呀ya，我wǒ這zhè悟wù能néng是shì觀guān世shì音yīn菩pú薩sà起qǐ的de，自zì跟gēn了le唐táng僧sēng，又yòu呼hū做zuò八bā戒jiè，此cǐ間jiān怎zěn麼me有yǒu人rén知zhī道dào我wǒ叫jiào做zuò悟wù能néng？」好hǎo大dà圣shèng，飞fēi近jìn他tā耳ěr边biān，假jiǎ捏niē声shēng音yīn，叫jiào声shēng：「猪zhū悟wù能néng，猪zhū悟wù能néng。」八bā戒jiè慌huāng了le道dào：「晦huì气qì呀ya，我wǒ这zhè悟wù能néng是shì观guān世shì音yīn菩pú萨sà起qǐ的de，自zì跟gēn了le唐táng僧sēng，又yòu呼hū做zuò八bā戒jiè，此cǐ间jiān怎zěn么me有yǒu人rén知zhī道dào我wǒ叫jiào做zuò悟wù能néng？」

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好hǎo大dà聖shèng，飛fēi近jìn他tā耳ěr邊biān，假jiǎ捏niē聲shēng音yīn，叫jiào聲shēng：「豬zhū悟wù能néng，豬zhū悟wù能néng。」好hǎo大dà圣shèng，飞fēi近jìn他tā耳ěr边biān，假jiǎ捏niē声shēng音yīn，叫jiào声shēng：「猪zhū悟wù能néng，猪zhū悟wù能néng。」

Good Great Sage: he flew close to Bajie's ear, put on a false voice and called: "Zhu Wuneng! Zhu Wuneng!"

假捏聲音 — to pinch up a voice that is not one's own.

八bā戒jiè慌huāng了le道dào：「晦huì氣qì呀ya，我wǒ這zhè悟wù能néng是shì觀guān世shì音yīn菩pú薩sà起qǐ的de，自zì跟gēn了le唐táng僧sēng，又yòu呼hū做zuò八bā戒jiè，此cǐ間jiān怎zěn麼me有yǒu人rén知zhī道dào我wǒ叫jiào做zuò悟wù能néng？」八bā戒jiè慌huāng了le道dào：「晦huì气qì呀ya，我wǒ这zhè悟wù能néng是shì观guān世shì音yīn菩pú萨sà起qǐ的de，自zì跟gēn了le唐táng僧sēng，又yòu呼hū做zuò八bā戒jiè，此cǐ间jiān怎zěn么me有yǒu人rén知zhī道dào我wǒ叫jiào做zuò悟wù能néng？」

Bajie was thrown into a panic: "This is bad luck. My name Wuneng was given me by the Bodhisattva Guanyin, and since I followed the Tang monk I have been called Bajie as well. How can anyone here know I am called Wuneng?"

觀世音菩薩 — Guanyin, who ordained him. 晦氣 is ill luck, the sort that hangs about a person.

總評 Commentary

Wukong's opening move is the name, and it is well chosen. Wuneng is the religious name Guanyin gave Bajie at his conversion; Bajie is the nickname the pilgrims use. Only someone from the institution that ordained him would use the first, which is why hearing it out of the dark in a demon's pond frightens him so badly.

It is also a small piece of theology working as a plot device. A religious name is a record: it says you were taken in, given vows, and entered on a list. Bajie's immediate fear is not of a ghost but of a clerk — someone official has looked him up.

And the reasoning is characteristically his. He does not wonder whether it might be his brother playing a trick, though his brother is famous for exactly this. He goes straight to bad luck, which is where he went with the unlucky-day theory sixteen hundred characters ago.