原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
Reader's edition
含詞賦 With rhapsody
銅鐘著地 The Bronze Bell on the Ground
金剛跌損隨淋灑，土地無房夜不收。金刚跌损随淋洒，土地无房夜不收。
更有兩般堪嘆處，銅鐘著地沒懸樓。更有两般堪叹处，铜钟着地没悬楼。
逐句解 Line by line
金剛跌損隨淋灑，土地無房夜不收。
金刚跌损随淋洒，土地无房夜不收。
The vajra-holder has fallen and taken the rain as it comes, / the earth god has no house and is not gathered in at night.
The 金剛 is the thunderbolt-bearing guardian at a temple gate, and the 土地 is the local earth god, the humblest deity in the Chinese pantheon and the one nearest to ordinary life. Both are outdoors in the weather.
更有兩般堪嘆處，銅鐘著地沒懸樓。
更有两般堪叹处，铜钟着地没悬楼。
And there are two things more to sigh over here: / the bronze bell on the bare ground with no tower to hang it in.
Here 著 is zhuó, to rest against or be attached to — the reading for a thing in contact with something, quite separate from the zhe that keeps an action going. The line promises two things and names one, which is either a compression or a joke at the reader's expense.
The poem ends on the bell, and the bell is what the next passages are about. Placing it in the last line is the hinge between the description and the scene.
The earth god without a house is the detail that would land hardest on a Chinese reader. Every village had one, in a little shrine the size of a kennel, and he is the god you actually deal with. Having him out in the rain says the neighbourhood has gone, not merely the monastery.