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含詞賦 With rhapsody
望見城池
The City Walls Come in Sight
師徒們在路上，那消半日，早望見城池相近。三藏道：「悟空，前面想是烏雞國了。」行者道：「正是，我們快趕進城幹事。」那師徒進得城來，只見街市上人物齊整，風光鬧熱。早又見鳳閣龍樓，十分壯麗。有詩為證。詩曰：师徒们在路上，那消半日，早望见城池相近。三藏道：「悟空，前面想是乌鸡国了。」行者道：「正是，我们快赶进城干事。」那师徒进得城来，只见街市上人物齐整，风光闹热。早又见凤阁龙楼，十分壮丽。有诗为证。诗曰：
海外宮樓如上邦，人間歌舞若前唐。海外宫楼如上邦，人间歌舞若前唐。
花迎寶扇紅雲繞，日照鮮袍翠霧光。花迎宝扇红云绕，日照鲜袍翠雾光。
孔雀屏開香靄出，珍珠簾捲彩旗張。孔雀屏开香霭出，珍珠帘卷彩旗张。
太平景像真堪賀，靜列多官沒奏章。太平景像真堪贺，静列多官没奏章。
逐句解 Line by line
師徒們在路上，那消半日，早望見城池相近。
师徒们在路上，那消半日，早望见城池相近。
Master and disciples on the road — in less than half a day they descried the city walls close at hand.
那消半日: rhetorical 那 = nǎ ("how would it take"). 城池相近: 相 = xiāng ("drawing near").
三藏道：「悟空，前面想是烏雞國了。」
三藏道：「悟空，前面想是乌鸡国了。」
Tripitaka said: "Wukong, up ahead I suppose is Wūjī Kingdom."
三藏: 藏 = zàng. 前面想是 = "ahead, I take it, is—."
行者道：「正是，我們快趕進城幹事。」
行者道：「正是，我们快赶进城干事。」
Pilgrim said: "Just so — let's press quickly into the city and see to our business."
快趕進城幹事: 幹 = gàn.
那師徒進得城來，只見街市上人物齊整，風光鬧熱。
那师徒进得城来，只见街市上人物齐整，风光闹热。
As that master and disciples got into the city, they saw the market streets with people trim and orderly, the scene bustling and lively.
Deictic 那師徒: 那 = nà. 進得城來: complement 得 = de. 風光鬧熱 = "the prospect noisy and warm [with life]."
早又見鳳閣龍樓，十分壯麗。
早又见凤阁龙楼，十分壮丽。
Soon they saw phoenix-towers and dragon-galleries, splendid in the extreme.
鳳閣龍樓 = "phoenix-lofts and dragon-towers," the palace precinct. 十分壯麗: 分 = fēn ("utterly magnificent").
有詩為證。詩曰：
有诗为证。诗曰：
There is a poem in witness. The poem says:
有詩為證: the collocation 為證 = wéi zhèng ("as proof"). 詩曰 ("the poem says") introduces the set-piece; spliced at the colon (：).
海外宮樓如上邦，人間歌舞若前唐。
海外宫楼如上邦，人间歌舞若前唐。
Palaces and towers beyond the seas, like a sovereign realm; / songs and dances among men, as in the Tang of old.
First couplet. 上邦 = a suzerain state; 人間 間 = jiān; 若前唐 = "as in former Tang," a flattering comparison to the pilgrims' own homeland.
花迎寶扇紅雲繞，日照鮮袍翠霧光。
花迎宝扇红云绕，日照鲜袍翠雾光。
Flowers greet the jewelled fans, red clouds encircling; / sun lights the fresh robes, a kingfisher haze aglow.
寶扇: 扇 = shàn ("fan," the noun). 翠霧光 = "a jade-green mist of light" — the court in ceremonial splendour.
孔雀屏開香靄出，珍珠簾捲彩旗張。
孔雀屏开香霭出，珍珠帘卷彩旗张。
Peacock screens spread open, fragrant vapours issuing; / pearl curtains rolled high, coloured banners unfurled.
孔雀屏 = a screen figured with peacocks; 珍珠簾 = a curtain of pearls. The couplet piles up the regalia of a great court.
太平景像真堪賀，靜列多官沒奏章。
太平景像真堪贺，静列多官没奏章。
A scene of Great Peace, truly to be hailed; / ranged in quiet, the many officials with never a memorial to present.
太平景像 = "a vista of Great Peace." 沒奏章: 沒 = méi; "no memorials submitted" — an outward calm that the reader knows to be the usurper's false order.
總評 Commentary
The pilgrims reach the capital of Wūjī, and the narrative pauses for a descriptive 詩 — again a four-chip, "with rhapsody" passage. The set-piece does the conventional work of such interludes: it halts the action to paint the city in the stock splendours of a great court — phoenix-towers and dragon-galleries, jewelled fans and pearl curtains, peacock screens and unfurled banners — and flatters it as "like a sovereign realm" and gay "as in the Tang of old," the pilgrims' own dynasty.
But the poem's last line is quietly barbed. "A scene of Great Peace… the many officials with never a memorial to present" (靜列多官沒奏章) describes an outward calm that the reader knows to be counterfeit: the court is orderly precisely because a fiend wearing the king's face rules it, and no official dares — or is able — to speak. Mañjuśrī will later confirm that under the impostor the land in fact enjoyed "favourable winds and rains"; the splendour is real, and that is the disquieting point. The verse thus sets the stage for the throne-room confrontation by showing the usurpation at its most seamless, the false order most convincingly at peace.