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The Fair Girl Seeks the Yang · The Primal Spirit Guards the Way

不用葷
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

不用葷 This Poor Monk Eats No Meat

yāojīngwǎnzhesānzàngxíngjìncǎotíngdào:「zhǎnglǎobànlebēijiǔzhuózhuó。」tángsēngdào:「niángzipínsēngyònghūn。」yāojīngwǎnzhesānzàngxíngjìncǎotíngdào:「zhǎnglǎobànlebēijiǔzhuózhuó。」tángsēngdào:「niángzipínsēngyònghūn。」


逐句解 Line by line

yāojīngwǎnzhesānzàngxíngjìncǎotíngdào:「zhǎnglǎobànlebēijiǔzhuózhuó。」 yāojīngwǎnzhesānzàngxíngjìncǎotíngdào:「zhǎnglǎobànlebēijiǔzhuózhuó。」

The fiend drew Tripitaka along and came up to the thatched pavilion, saying, "Elder, I have set out a cup of wine, and mean to take a drink with you."

The invitation is domestic and perfectly polite, which is what makes it dangerous. is zhe, the reading for an action held in place, so she does not take his arm once — she keeps hold of him the whole way. doubled is the modest word for taking a drink together.

tángsēngdào:「niángzipínsēngyònghūn。」 tángsēngdào:「niángzipínsēngyònghūn。」

The Tang Monk said, "Madam, this poor monk has never taken meat."

is the class of foods forbidden to a Buddhist — flesh, and also the pungent vegetables of the onion family, which were held to inflame the passions. He is refusing on the narrowest available ground, which is the ground he has, and she is about to close it off.


總評 Commentary

Tripitaka's objection is technically correct and tactically hopeless. He has reached for the rule that fits, and the rule is about food. She has already arranged for the food to comply.

The forbidden class is broader than English meat suggests and the breadth matters. Garlic, onion and their relatives were banned alongside flesh on the reasoning that they heat the blood and stir desire. The vegetarian banquet upstairs is therefore not a concession but a strategy: she has removed his only stated objection while leaving the real one untouched.