Canonical Classics ← 第七十六回
第七十六回
xīnshénshèguīxìng
tóngxiángguàizhēn

The Spirit Settles in Its Dwelling and the Demon Returns to Its Nature · The Wood Mother Joins to Subdue the Monster's True Form

打滾痛哭
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

打滾痛哭 Weeping On The Ground

shèngshōushéngzijìngzhuǎnshāndōngyuǎnyuǎndekànjiàntángsēngshuìzàixiàgǔntòngzhūjièshāsēngjiělebāojiāngxíngfènérzàifēnlishèngshōushéngzijìngzhuǎnshāndōngyuǎnyuǎndekànjiàntángsēngshuìzàixiàgǔntòngzhūjièshāsēngjiělebāojiāngxíngfènérzàifēnli


逐句解 Line by line

shèngshōushéngzijìngzhuǎnshāndōngyuǎnyuǎndekànjiàntángsēngshuìzàixiàgǔntòngzhūjièshāsēngjiělebāojiāngxíngfènérzàifēnli shèngshōushéngzijìngzhuǎnshāndōngyuǎnyuǎndekànjiàntángsēngshuìzàixiàgǔntòngzhūjièshāsēngjiělebāojiāngxíngfènérzàifēnli

The Great Sage gathered in his cord and turned back east along the mountain. From far off he saw Tripitaka lying on the ground, rolling and weeping bitterly, while Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing had opened the bundles, laid the baggage out in shares, and were dividing it there.

in 搭分兒 reads fèn, a share or portion, while the of 在那裡分哩 is the verb fēn, to divide. Same character, two jobs, one sentence apart.


總評 Commentary

Wukong comes home victorious and finds his own funeral in progress. The staging is exact: the master on the ground in real grief, and the two disciples a little way off sorting the luggage into piles. Nobody has waited even an hour.

The novel gives the two reactions in one sentence and lets the reader do the arithmetic. Tripitaka is genuinely bereaved. Bajie has moved on to the question of who gets what. This is the joke the whole passage is built on, and it works because the narrator reports both without a flicker of comment.

Dividing the baggage is also a plot statement. The pilgrimage runs on four people and a horse, and splitting the load means the group is disbanding — going home, each to his own place. Wukong is not merely watching his colleagues be tactless; he is watching the journey end.