Canonical Classics ← 第四十五回
第四十五回
sānqīngguànshèngliúmíng
chēchíguóhóuwángxiǎn

At the Abbey of the Three Pure Ones the Great Sage leaves his name; in the Kingdom of Cart-Slow the Monkey King displays his magic.

留個名罷
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留個名罷 Leaving a Name

xíngzhězuòzàishàngmiàntīngjiànshuōchūzhèhuàerláishíledào:「nòngshǒuduànsuǒxìngliúmíngba。」jiàoyúnxíngzhězuòzàishàngmiàntīngjiànshuōchūzhèhuàerláishíledào:「nòngshǒuduànsuǒxìngliúmíngba。」jiàoyún

dàohàodàohàohǎodàohàodàohàohǎo
sānqīngkěnjiàngfánsānqīngkěnjiàngfán
jiāngzhēnxìngshuōzhījiāngzhēnxìngshuōzhī
tángsēngzhòngfèngzhǐlái西tángsēngzhòngfèngzhǐlái西
liángxiāoshìxiàjiànggōngwéiliángxiāoshìxiàjiànggōngwéi
chīlegòngyǎngxiánzuòchīlegòngyǎngxiánzuò
méngkòubàizhīméngkòubàizhī
shìshénmeshèngshuǐmenchīdedōushìzhī尿niào。」shìshénmeshèngshuǐmenchīdedōushìzhī尿niào。」

逐句解 Line by line

xíngzhězuòzàishàngmiàntīngjiànshuōchūzhèhuàerláishíledào:「nòngshǒuduànsuǒxìngliúmíngba。」 xíngzhězuòzàishàngmiàntīngjiànshuōchūzhèhuàerláishíledào:「nòngshǒuduànsuǒxìngliúmíngba。」

Pilgrim, seated up above and hearing these words spoken out, saw the game was up and said, “Let me work a little trick — I may as well leave them a name.”

話兒: suffixal = er. 已此識破 “by now the ruse was seen through.” 索性留個名罷: sentence-final = ba (hortative), “might as well.”

jiàoyún jiàoyún

He cried out in a loud voice:

大叫云 “he called out aloud” — the verse-tag introducing the taunt.

dàohàodàohàohǎo dàohàodàohàohǎo

“You reverend Daoists, you Daoists — how foolish are your fancies!

道號道號 “O Daoist titles, Daoist titles” — a mocking apostrophe. 你好胡思: = hǎo (“how, so”); 胡思 “wild, groundless fancies.”

sānqīngkěnjiàngfán sānqīngkěnjiàngfán

What Three Pure Ones would ever stoop to this mortal ground?

Rhetorical 那個: = , “what/which?” 肯降凡基: = jiàng, “would deign to descend to the mortal ground.”

jiāngzhēnxìngshuōzhī jiāngzhēnxìngshuōzhī

I'll take my true surname and make it known to you:

吾將真姓: disposal = jiāng, “I take my true name and…”

tángsēngzhòngfèngzhǐlái西 tángsēngzhòngfèngzhǐlái西

the monks of Great Tang, come west by imperial command.

大唐僧眾 “the monkish company of Great Tang.” 奉旨 “by imperial decree.”

liángxiāoshìxiàjiànggōngwéi liángxiāoshìxiàjiànggōngwéi

On a fine night, with nothing to do, we came down to your temple halls,

良宵無事 “on a fair night, at leisure.” 下降宮闈: = jiàng, “descended to the palace-chambers.”

chīlegòngyǎngxiánzuò chīlegòngyǎngxiánzuò

ate up your offerings, and sat about idle and amused.

吃了供養: = gòng, “the offerings.” 閑坐嬉嬉 “to sit idle, laughing.”

méngkòubàizhī méngkòubàizhī

You have knocked your heads to us in worship — how are we to repay it?

蒙你叩拜 “favoured with your kowtows.” 何以答之 “how shall we answer it?” — mock courtesy before the punchline.

shìshénmeshèngshuǐmenchīdedōushìzhī尿niào。」 shìshénmeshèngshuǐmenchīdedōushìzhī尿niào。」

What holy water was that, then? What you drank was every drop my piss!”

Rhetorical 那裡是甚麼聖水: = (“what/where?”), = shén (甚麼 “what” — contrast the intensifier shèn of 不甚 above). 都是: = dōu. 一溺之尿: = before (4th tone).


總評 Commentary

Wukong closes the trick with a taunting self-declaration cast, once more, in tidy tetrasyllabic verse — the same solemn meter the immortals used for their prayers, now turned into a jeer. He mock-observes every courtesy (“how are we to repay your worship?”) only to spring the final line, whose crude 尿 detonates the accumulated pieties of the whole episode. The passage also stages a neat minimal pair for the two readings of : the intensifier shèn (不甚) and the interrogative shén (甚麼).