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福祿壽三詩
The Poems of Blessing, Emolument, and Long Life
大眾感激，各獻詩伸謝。福詩曰：大众感激，各献诗伸谢。福诗曰：
福星光耀世尊前，福星光耀世尊前，
福納彌深遠更綿。福纳弥深远更绵。
福德無疆同地久，福德无疆同地久，
福緣有慶與天連。福缘有庆与天连。
福田廣種年年盛，福田广种年年盛，
福海洪深歲歲堅。福海洪深岁岁坚。
福滿乾坤多福蔭，福满乾坤多福荫，
福增無量永周全。祿詩曰：福增无量永周全。禄诗曰：
祿重如山彩鳳鳴，禄重如山彩凤鸣，
祿隨時泰祝長庚。禄随时泰祝长庚。
祿添萬斛身康健，禄添万斛身康健，
祿享千鍾世太平。禄享千钟世太平。
祿俸齊天還永固，禄俸齐天还永固，
祿名似海更澄清。禄名似海更澄清。
祿恩遠繼多瞻仰，禄恩远继多瞻仰，
祿爵無邊萬國榮。壽詩曰：禄爵无边万国荣。寿诗曰：
壽星獻彩對如來，寿星献彩对如来，
壽域光華自此開。寿域光华自此开。
壽果滿盤生瑞靄，寿果满盘生瑞霭，
壽花新採插蓮臺。寿花新采插莲台。
壽詩清雅多奇妙，寿诗清雅多奇妙，
壽曲調音按美才。寿曲调音按美才。
壽命延長同日月，寿命延长同日月，
壽如山海更悠哉。寿如山海更悠哉。
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大眾感激，各獻詩伸謝。福詩曰：
大众感激，各献诗伸谢。福诗曰：
The whole assembly, moved with gratitude, each presented a poem to voice their thanks. The Poem of Blessing says:
福詩曰 introduces the first of three felicitation-poems (福祿壽, Blessing, Emolument, Longevity), each line of which opens with its title-graph as an anaphora.
福星光耀世尊前，
福星光耀世尊前，
Blessing's star shines radiant before the World-Honored One,
福納彌深遠更綿。
福纳弥深远更绵。
blessing received runs ever deeper, distant and unbroken.
福德無疆同地久，
福德无疆同地久，
Blessing's virtue knows no bound, enduring as the earth,
福緣有慶與天連。
福缘有庆与天连。
blessing's affinity brings rejoicing, joined fast to Heaven.
福田廣種年年盛，
福田广种年年盛，
Blessing's field, broadly sown, flourishes year on year,
福田 (“field of blessing”) is a Buddhist figure for meritorious giving; 種 here is the verb “to sow,” read zhòng.
福海洪深歲歲堅。
福海洪深岁岁坚。
blessing's sea, vast and deep, holds firm age upon age.
福滿乾坤多福蔭，
福满乾坤多福荫，
Blessing fills heaven and earth, its sheltering shade abundant,
福增無量永周全。祿詩曰：
福增无量永周全。禄诗曰：
blessing grows beyond measure, forever whole and entire. The Poem of Emolument says:
無量 (immeasurable) carries a Buddhist resonance; 祿詩曰 rides the close of the first poem to introduce the second.
祿重如山彩鳳鳴，
禄重如山彩凤鸣，
Emolument weighty as a mountain, the bright phoenix sings,
祿 is official salary, by extension worldly prosperity; 重 here is zhòng (heavy).
祿隨時泰祝長庚。
禄随时泰祝长庚。
emolument attends the peaceful hour, hailing the Evening Star.
長庚 is the planet Venus as evening star, an omen of good fortune; 長 is read cháng.
祿添萬斛身康健，
禄添万斛身康健，
Emolument heaped in myriad measures, the body hale and sound,
萬斛 — ten-thousand hu (a large dry measure), an emblem of plenty.
祿享千鍾世太平。
禄享千钟世太平。
emolument enjoyed by the thousandfold, the age at peace.
千鍾 — a thousand zhong of grain, likewise a figure of abundance.
祿俸齊天還永固，
禄俸齐天还永固，
Emolument's stipend, high as Heaven, stands yet forever firm,
還 here is the adverb hái (“yet, still”).
祿名似海更澄清。
禄名似海更澄清。
emolument's renown, like the sea, grows ever more clear.
祿恩遠繼多瞻仰，
禄恩远继多瞻仰，
Emolument's grace, continued afar, draws many a reverent gaze,
祿爵無邊萬國榮。壽詩曰：
禄爵无边万国荣。寿诗曰：
emolument's rank, without bound, brings glory to ten thousand realms. The Poem of Longevity says:
壽詩曰 rides the close of the second poem to introduce the third.
壽星獻彩對如來，
寿星献彩对如来，
Longevity's star offers its splendour before the Tathāgata,
壽星 is the star-god of long life (Canopus), a stock figure of birthday felicitation.
壽域光華自此開。
寿域光华自此开。
the realm of long life, in radiant glory, opens from this place.
壽果滿盤生瑞靄，
寿果满盘生瑞霭，
Longevity's fruits, heaped on the tray, breathe an auspicious haze,
壽花新採插蓮臺。
寿花新采插莲台。
longevity's flowers, freshly plucked, are set upon the lotus throne.
壽詩清雅多奇妙，
寿诗清雅多奇妙，
The longevity poems, pure and refined, abound in wondrous art,
壽曲調音按美才。
寿曲调音按美才。
the longevity songs, their melodies and tones, are set by consummate skill.
調音 — the melody and pitch of the songs; 調 here is the nominal diào (tune, mode).
壽命延長同日月，
寿命延长同日月，
The span of life, long prolonged, endures with sun and moon,
延長 — to extend; 長 is cháng.
壽如山海更悠哉。
寿如山海更悠哉。
long life, like mountain and sea, is more lasting still!
總評 Commentary
The grateful assembly answers the Ullambana feast with three felicitation-poems on the conventional triad of 福祿壽 — Blessing, Emolument, and Longevity. Each is an eight-line regulated poem built on a single anaphora: every line opens with its title-graph, a virtuosic constraint that the translation preserves by beginning each line with “Blessing,” “Emolument,” or “Long life.”
The poems are pointedly secular in idiom — stars, stipends, grain-measures, birthday emblems — grafted onto a Buddhist paradise. This is the novel's characteristic syncretism in miniature: the most worldly of Chinese good-luck verse is offered up before the Tathāgata himself. Andrew Plaks reads such interpolations as deliberate tonal counterpoint, the everyday and the transcendent allowed to share a single page.
Following Anthony C. Yu, these gift-poems keep the plain reader's-edition treatment rather than the rhapsody chip: they are formally regulated verse (律詩), not the irregular parallel prose of a 賦. Their function is occasional and decorative, a courtly flourish that rounds off the feast before the chapter turns to its real business — the commissioning of the scripture-quest.