第七十九回 · 一擁回城 Carried Through The Streets — Journey to the West

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一擁回城 Carried Through The Streets

無wú大dà無wú小xiǎo，若ruò男nán若ruò女nǚ，都dōu不bú怕pà他tā相xiàng貌mào之zhī醜chǒu，擡tái著zhe豬zhū八bā戒jiè，扛káng著zhe沙shā和hé尚shàng，頂dǐng著zhe孫sūn大dà聖shèng，撮cuō著zhe唐táng三sān藏zàng，牽qiān著zhe馬mǎ，挑tiāo著zhe擔dān，一yì擁yōng回huí城chéng。那nà國guó王wáng也yě不bù能néng禁jìn止zhǐ。无wú大dà无wú小xiǎo，若ruò男nán若ruò女nǚ，都dōu不bú怕pà他tā相xiàng貌mào之zhī丑chǒu，抬tái着zhe猪zhū八bā戒jiè，扛káng着zhe沙shā和hé尚shàng，顶dǐng着zhe孙sūn大dà圣shèng，撮cuō着zhe唐táng三sān藏zàng，牵qiān着zhe马mǎ，挑tiāo着zhe担dān，一yì拥yōng回huí城chéng。那nà国guó王wáng也yě不bù能néng禁jìn止zhǐ。

逐句解 Line by line

無wú大dà無wú小xiǎo，若ruò男nán若ruò女nǚ，都dōu不bú怕pà他tā相xiàng貌mào之zhī醜chǒu，擡tái著zhe豬zhū八bā戒jiè，扛káng著zhe沙shā和hé尚shàng，頂dǐng著zhe孫sūn大dà聖shèng，撮cuō著zhe唐táng三sān藏zàng，牽qiān著zhe馬mǎ，挑tiāo著zhe擔dān，一yì擁yōng回huí城chéng。无wú大dà无wú小xiǎo，若ruò男nán若ruò女nǚ，都dōu不bú怕pà他tā相xiàng貌mào之zhī丑chǒu，抬tái着zhe猪zhū八bā戒jiè，扛káng着zhe沙shā和hé尚shàng，顶dǐng着zhe孙sūn大dà圣shèng，撮cuō着zhe唐táng三sān藏zàng，牵qiān着zhe马mǎ，挑tiāo着zhe担dān，一yì拥yōng回huí城chéng。

Big and small, men and women alike, none of them minding how ugly the pilgrims were, they hoisted up Zhu Bajie, they shouldered Sha Monk, they carried the Great Sage Sun on their heads and they bore up Tang Tripitaka, and led the horse and took up the luggage and swept back into the city in one great crowd.

Six 著 in one sentence and every one is zhe, marking the action as going on — hoisting, shouldering, carrying, bearing, leading, taking up. It is the longest run of the character in the chapter and it is all one register. 不怕他相貌之醜, not minding how ugly they were, answers the Grand Preceptor who recoiled from their monstrous heads and freakish faces fifty passages ago. Sha Monk said then that if the master saw his elder brother he would be handsome again. This is the real answer.

那nà國guó王wáng也yě不bù能néng禁jìn止zhǐ。那nà国guó王wáng也yě不bù能néng禁jìn止zhǐ。

And the king could not stop them.

Eight characters, and they are the best joke in the chapter. A monarch who commanded eleven hundred children be collected cannot get his people to put the monks down.

總評 Commentary

The image is the chapter's answer to itself. The same four figures the court took for monsters are being carried shoulder-high through the streets by the people whose children they saved, and nobody is looking at their faces.

The line about the king is doing real work. His authority over this city was absolute enough to requisition its children; it is not sufficient to control a happy crowd. The novel has spent two chapters on what a ruler can compel, and finishes on the one thing he cannot.