原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
Reader's edition
含詞賦 With rhapsody
道士打扮
The Daoists' Array
你看他怎生打扮。但見他：你看他怎生打扮。但见他：
頭戴星冠，身披錦繡。头戴星冠，身披锦绣。
頭戴星冠光耀耀，身披錦繡彩霞飄。头戴星冠光耀耀，身披锦绣彩霞飘。
足踏雲頭履，腰繫熟絲絛。足踏云头履，腰系熟丝绦。
面如滿月多聰俊，形似瑤天仙客嬌。面如满月多聪俊，形似瑶天仙客娇。
逐句解 Line by line
你看他怎生打扮。
你看他怎生打扮。
Look how they were got up.
怎生打扮 = “how (they were) dressed.”
但見他：
但见他：
See them:
但見他, the tag opening the costume showcase.
頭戴星冠，身披錦繡。
头戴星冠，身披锦绣。
On their heads, star-crowns; over their bodies, brocade.
星冠: 冠 = guān, the noun “cap, crown.”
頭戴星冠光耀耀，身披錦繡彩霞飄。
头戴星冠光耀耀，身披锦绣彩霞飘。
On their heads star-crowns, glittering bright; over their bodies brocade, like drifting rosy cloud.
彩霞飄: brocade shimmering like drifting sunset cloud; the fù restates and amplifies the couplet above.
足踏雲頭履，腰繫熟絲絛。
足踏云头履，腰系熟丝绦。
On their feet, cloud-toed shoes; at their waists, sashes of glossy silk.
腰繫: 繫 = jì here, “to tie, fasten” a physical sash — not the abstract xì. 絛 (tāo), a silk cord.
面如滿月多聰俊，形似瑤天仙客嬌。
面如满月多聪俊，形似瑶天仙客娇。
Faces round as the full moon, clever and comely; forms like fairy-guests of the Jasper Heaven, and fair.
形似: 似 = sì, the comparative. 瑤天, the Jasper (jade) Heaven of the immortals.
總評 Commentary
The set-piece portrait — star-crowns, brocade, cloud-toed shoes, silk sashes, moon-round faces — renders the two young Daoists in the idiom the novel reserves for transcendents and grandees, and the irony is deliberate: these gorgeously appointed “fairy-guests of the Jasper Heaven” are the overseers of a slave-gang. The finery sits directly against the previous passage’s ragged, straining monks, and the collision of the two images is the chapter’s argument in miniature.