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高山遇怪
The Demon of the High Mountain
菩薩與他別了，同木吒徑奔東土。行了多時，又見一座高山，山上有惡氣遮漫，不能步上。正欲駕雲過山，不覺狂風起處，又閃上一個妖魔。他生得又甚兇險，但見他：菩萨与他别了，同木吒径奔东土。行了多时，又见一座高山，山上有恶气遮漫，不能步上。正欲驾云过山，不觉狂风起处，又闪上一个妖魔。他生得又甚凶险，但见他：
捲臟蓮蓬吊搭嘴，卷脏莲蓬吊搭嘴，
耳如蒲扇顯金睛。耳如蒲扇显金睛。
獠牙鋒利如鋼剉，獠牙锋利如钢剉，
長嘴張開似火盆。长嘴张开似火盆。
金盔緊繫腮邊帶，金盔紧系腮边带，
勒甲絲絛蟒退鱗。勒甲丝绦蟒退鳞。
手執釘鈀龍探爪，手执钉钯龙探爪，
腰挎彎弓月半輪。腰挎弯弓月半轮。
糾糾威風欺太歲，纠纠威风欺太岁，
昂昂志氣壓天神。昂昂志气压天神。
逐句解 Line by line
菩薩與他別了，同木吒徑奔東土。行了多時，又見一座高山，山上有惡氣遮漫，不能步上。正欲駕雲過山，不覺狂風起處，又閃上一個妖魔。他生得又甚兇險，但見他：
菩萨与他别了，同木吒径奔东土。行了多时，又见一座高山，山上有恶气遮漫，不能步上。正欲驾云过山，不觉狂风起处，又闪上一个妖魔。他生得又甚凶险，但见他：
The Bodhisattva took leave of him and, with Moksa, made straight for the Eastern Land. After traveling a good while, they came upon a high mountain wreathed in baleful vapor, which they could not climb. Just as they meant to ride the cloud across it, of a sudden a wild wind arose, and up sprang another demon, fearsome and savage of form. They saw him thus:
不覺 — “unawares”; 覺 is jué. 生得 — the descriptive 得 is de. Each 一 (一座, 一個) takes yí before a fourth-tone graph. 但見他 introduces the portrait.
捲臟蓮蓬吊搭嘴，
卷脏莲蓬吊搭嘴，
Rolled-up tripe like a lotus-pod for a dangling snout,
The portrait of the future Zhu Bajie. 捲臟 — his pursed, tripe-like muzzle; 臟 is zàng.
耳如蒲扇顯金睛。
耳如蒲扇显金睛。
ears like rush-fans, and flashing golden eyes.
獠牙鋒利如鋼剉，
獠牙锋利如钢剉，
His tusks keen-edged as steel files,
長嘴張開似火盆。
长嘴张开似火盆。
his long maw, gaping, like a brazier.
長嘴 — long snout; 長 is cháng. 似 is sì.
金盔緊繫腮邊帶，
金盔紧系腮边带，
A golden helm strapped tight beneath his jaw,
勒甲絲絛蟒退鱗。
勒甲丝绦蟒退鳞。
his laced armor and silk cords like a python's sloughed scales.
手執釘鈀龍探爪，
手执钉钯龙探爪，
In his hand a spiked rake like a dragon stretching its claws,
釘鈀 — the nine-toothed rake, Bajie's signature weapon.
腰挎彎弓月半輪。
腰挎弯弓月半轮。
at his waist a curved bow like a half-wheel moon.
糾糾威風欺太歲，
纠纠威风欺太岁，
Stalwart, his menace overawes the Year-Star,
太歲 — Jupiter as the dread Year-Star deity.
昂昂志氣壓天神。
昂昂志气压天神。
high-spirited, his temper bears down the very gods of Heaven.
總評 Commentary
The journey continues to a second obstacle — a baleful high mountain — where a third future disciple erupts: the boar-demon who will become Zhu Bajie. As with Sha Wujing, his appearance is announced by a portrait-poem, here a regulated ten-line verse cataloguing his grotesque, martial form.
Unlike the irregular parallel prose of the river-monster's 賦, this portrait is strictly regulated seven-syllable verse (排律), and so takes the plain reader's-edition treatment with couplet markers on its closing lines rather than the rhapsody chip. The formal distinction is deliberate in the novel's prosody: the same descriptive office may be carried by either a 賦 or a regulated 詩, and the encoding follows the form on the page.
Following Anthony C. Yu, the portrait's blend of the bestial (tusks, golden eyes, tripe-like snout) and the martial (helm, armor, rake, bow) fixes Bajie's double nature from the outset — a creature of appetite armed like a heavenly marshal, which is exactly what his backstory will reveal him to be.