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含詞賦 With rhapsody
峻嶺天險
The Sheer Ridge, a Natural Fortress
師徒們離了烏雞國，夜住曉行，將半月有餘，忽又見一座高山，真個是摩天礙日。三藏馬上心驚，急兜韁忙呼行者。行者道：「師父有何吩咐？」三藏道：「你看前面又有大山峻嶺，須要仔細隄防，恐一時又有邪物來侵我也。」行者笑道：「只管走路，莫再多心，老孫自有防護。」那長老只得寬懷，加鞭策馬，奔至山巖，果然也十分險峻。但見得：师徒们离了乌鸡国，夜住晓行，将半月有余，忽又见一座高山，真个是摩天碍日。三藏马上心惊，急兜缰忙呼行者。行者道：「师父有何吩咐？」三藏道：「你看前面又有大山峻岭，须要仔细隄防，恐一时又有邪物来侵我也。」行者笑道：「只管走路，莫再多心，老孙自有防护。」那长老只得宽怀，加鞭策马，奔至山岩，果然也十分险峻。但见得：
高不高，頂上接青霄；高不高，顶上接青霄；
深不深，澗中如地府。深不深，涧中如地府。
山前常見骨都都白雲，扢騰騰黑霧。山前常见骨都都白云，扢腾腾黑雾。
紅梅翠竹，綠柏青松。红梅翠竹，绿柏青松。
山後有千萬丈挾魂靈臺，臺後有古古怪怪藏魔洞，洞中有叮叮噹噹滴水泉，泉下有彎彎曲曲流水澗。山后有千万丈挟魂灵台，台后有古古怪怪藏魔洞，洞中有叮叮当当滴水泉，泉下有弯弯曲曲流水涧。
又見那跳天搠地獻果猿，丫丫叉叉帶角鹿，呢呢痴痴看人獐。又见那跳天搠地献果猿，丫丫叉叉带角鹿，呢呢痴痴看人獐。
至晚巴山尋穴虎，待曉翻波出水龍。至晚巴山寻穴虎，待晓翻波出水龙。
登得洞門唿喇的響，驚得飛禽撲魯的起。登得洞门唿喇的响，惊得飞禽扑鲁的起。
看那林中走獸鞠律律的行，見此一夥禽和獸，嚇得人心扢磴磴驚。看那林中走兽鞠律律的行，见此一伙禽和兽，吓得人心扢磴磴惊。
堂倒洞堂堂倒洞，洞當當倒洞當仙。堂倒洞堂堂倒洞，洞当当倒洞当仙。
青石染成千塊玉，碧紗籠罩萬堆煙。青石染成千块玉，碧纱笼罩万堆烟。
逐句解 Line by line
師徒們離了烏雞國，夜住曉行，將半月有餘，忽又見一座高山，真個是摩天礙日。
师徒们离了乌鸡国，夜住晓行，将半月有余，忽又见一座高山，真个是摩天碍日。
The master and his disciples left the kingdom of Wūjī behind, resting by night and traveling by day; and when close upon half a month had passed, they suddenly saw before them a towering mountain, one that truly scraped Heaven and blocked out the sun.
將半月有餘: 將 here the adverbial "nearly, close upon" (a time-span sense), read jiāng.
三藏馬上心驚，急兜韁忙呼行者。
三藏马上心惊，急兜缰忙呼行者。
Tripitaka's heart quailed upon his horse; hastily reining in, he called out to Pilgrim.
三藏: 藏 = zàng.
行者道：「師父有何吩咐？」
行者道：「师父有何吩咐？」
Pilgrim said: "Master, what would you have me do?"
吩咐 = "instruction, command" — Wukong's stock formula for inviting the master's concern before reassuring him.
三藏道：「你看前面又有大山峻嶺，須要仔細隄防，恐一時又有邪物來侵我也。」
三藏道：「你看前面又有大山峻岭，须要仔细隄防，恐一时又有邪物来侵我也。」
Tripitaka said: "Look ahead — there is another great mountain, steep and sheer; we must be careful and on our guard, for fear some evil thing may come to trouble us again."
三藏: 藏 = zàng. 仔細隄防 ("be careful and on guard"): 仔 read zǐ (as in 仔細), overriding pypinyin's default zǎi.
行者笑道：「只管走路，莫再多心，老孫自有防護。」
行者笑道：「只管走路，莫再多心，老孙自有防护。」
Pilgrim laughed and said: "Just keep to the road and don't fret so — old Sun has it well in hand."
防護 = "guard and protect" — Wukong's blanket reassurance, echoed almost verbatim from similar exchanges earlier in the pilgrimage.
那長老只得寬懷，加鞭策馬，奔至山巖，果然也十分險峻。
那长老只得宽怀，加鞭策马，奔至山岩，果然也十分险峻。
The elder, his mind somewhat set at ease, whipped up the horse and pressed on toward the mountain crags, which indeed proved extremely steep and forbidding.
那長老: deictic 那 = nà; 長老 ("the elder") 長 = zhǎng. 只得: 得 = dé.
但見得：
但见得：
This is what was to be seen:
The tag 但見得 (rather than the plainer 但見) adds a complement-particle 得 ("able to make out"), read de.
高不高，頂上接青霄；
高不高，顶上接青霄；
How high? So high its summit joins the blue-grey firmament;
The couplet's opening formula (高不高 / 深不深, "how high — so high") is a stock rhetorical device of JTTW mountain-fu, posing and answering its own question.
深不深，澗中如地府。
深不深，涧中如地府。
how deep? So deep its gorge resembles the very halls of the dead.
澗中: 中 = zhōng ("within").
山前常見骨都都白雲，扢騰騰黑霧。
山前常见骨都都白云，扢腾腾黑雾。
Before the mountain, white clouds are forever seen tumbling and roiling; black mist comes billowing and boiling.
骨都都白雲: an onomatopoeic reduplicative describing roiling motion, not the adverb "all" — 都 read dū (provisional; flagged for confirmation, no corpus precedent for this compound).
紅梅翠竹，綠柏青松。
红梅翠竹，绿柏青松。
Red plum and kingfisher bamboo; green cypress and jade-dark pine.
A four-term color catalogue in strict parallel — the fu's one purely static, ornamental couplet before the bestiary and architecture resume.
山後有千萬丈挾魂靈臺，臺後有古古怪怪藏魔洞，洞中有叮叮噹噹滴水泉，泉下有彎彎曲曲流水澗。
山后有千万丈挟魂灵台，台后有古古怪怪藏魔洞，洞中有叮叮当当滴水泉，泉下有弯弯曲曲流水涧。
Behind the mountain stands a soul-clutching tower ten thousand fathoms tall; behind the tower, a weird and ancient demon-hiding cave; within the cave, a spring that drips tinkle-tankle; below the spring, a stream that winds and wanders.
藏魔洞 ("demon-hiding cave"): 藏 = cáng ("to hide," not the zàng of 三藏). 洞中: 中 = zhōng.
又見那跳天搠地獻果猿，丫丫叉叉帶角鹿，呢呢痴痴看人獐。
又见那跳天搠地献果猿，丫丫叉叉带角鹿，呢呢痴痴看人獐。
One sees fruit-offering apes leaping at heaven and thrusting at earth; antlered deer crisscrossing this way and that; foolish, staring roe-deer gawking at passers-by.
那跳天搠地獻果猿: deictic 那 = nà.
至晚巴山尋穴虎，待曉翻波出水龍。
至晚巴山寻穴虎，待晓翻波出水龙。
At dusk, tigers seek their lairs on the southern slopes; at dawn, dragons churn the waves and rise from the water.
Tiger and dragon in diurnal alternation (至晚 / 待曉) — a conventional pairing marking the mountain's wildness across the full cycle of a day.
登得洞門唿喇的響，驚得飛禽撲魯的起。
登得洞门唿喇的响，惊得飞禽扑鲁的起。
One steps to the cave-gate and it echoes with a great crash; birds start up and flush away in a sudden flutter.
登得洞門 / 驚得飛禽: both complement 得 read de.
看那林中走獸鞠律律的行，見此一夥禽和獸，嚇得人心扢磴磴驚。
看那林中走兽鞠律律的行，见此一伙禽和兽，吓得人心扢磴磴惊。
One watches the beasts of the wood go padding and prowling; and at the sight of this pack of birds and beasts, one's very heart goes thump with fright.
看那林中走獸: deictic 那 = nà; 林中: 中 = zhōng. 嚇得人心: complement 得 = de.
堂倒洞堂堂倒洞，洞當當倒洞當仙。
堂倒洞堂堂倒洞，洞当当倒洞当仙。
A rolling clatter of drum-and-gong: deep booms come tumbling, boom over hollow boom; then sharp notes and deep, rolling and ringing, cavern answering cavern — a very peal of the immortals.
This line is 鑼鼓經 (luógǔ jīng), the mnemonic percussion-notation of Chinese opera, embedded in the rhapsody to render the cavern's uncanny, reverberating acoustics. The graphs are chosen for the strike-sounds they name, not for meaning: 堂 (táng) and 洞 (dòng) stand for deep, resonant blows (a great drum or large gong); 當 (dāng) for a sharp, high-pitched strike (a small gong or cymbal); and 倒, here read dǎo (3rd tone), for a quick rolling or dampening beat — the bouncing cadence of the 3rd tone matching the physical bounce of the drumstick, where a 4th-tone dào would break the rolling flow. The closing 仙 (xiān, "immortal") is the couplet's rhyme-word (paired with 煙 in the line that follows), capping the percussion run.
青石染成千塊玉，碧紗籠罩萬堆煙。
青石染成千块玉，碧纱笼罩万堆烟。
Blue stone turned to a thousand blocks of jade; kingfisher-gauze mist wrapped round ten thousand banks of smoke.
The fu closes on a couplet of pure ornament, stone and mist transfigured into jade and gauze — the conventional high style of a JTTW mountain-set-piece, in deliberate tension with the menace the same mountain is about to prove to hold.
總評 Commentary
The rhapsody that closes Batch 1 is a set-piece in the fullest sense: eleven verse lines built almost entirely of parallel couplets, reduplicated mimetic binomes (骨都都, 扢騰騰, 丫丫叉叉, 呢呢痴痴), and a central line of embedded 鑼鼓經 — the mnemonic drum-and-gong notation of Chinese opera (堂倒洞堂堂倒洞，洞當當倒洞當仙) — in which the graphs stand not for meanings but for percussion strikes, conjuring the cavern's strange reverberation through pure sound. This is the same register the novel reaches for whenever a new mountain must be established as consequential — Flame Mountain, Lion-Camel Ridge, and here, though as yet unnamed, the future 號山 (Sentinel-Horn Mountain) of the Red Boy.
What the fu does not do is name the danger. Tigers, dragons, apes, and deer are catalogued as though this were any wilderness set-piece; the tower and cave introduced in its center (挾魂靈臺, 藏魔洞, "soul-clutching tower," "demon-hiding cave") are given ominous names but no ominous action — they simply exist, backdrop rather than threat. The effect is to let the mountain's menace announce itself twice: once here, in language, as an atmosphere the reader is meant to register as portentous without yet knowing why; and a second time, in the very next block, when a column of red cloud rises from a mountain hollow and the narrative's register drops at once from rhapsody to danger. Batch 1 ends deliberately on this threshold — the mountain fully described, the demon not yet seen.