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.

亂棒闖出
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亂棒闖出 Cudgels and Escape

dàoshìwényánlánzhùméndòngchāsǎozhǒukuàishítóuméitóuméiliǎnwǎngmiànluànhǎoxíngzhězuǒshǒuxiéleshāsēngyòushǒuxiélejièchuǎngchūménjiàzheyúnguāngjìngzhuǎnzhìyuānfāngzhànggǎnjīngdòngshīsānrényòushuìxiàdàoshìwényánlánzhùméndòngchāsǎozhǒukuàishítóuméitóuméiliǎnwǎngmiànluànhǎoxíngzhězuǒshǒuxiéleshāsēngyòushǒuxiélejièchuǎngchūménjiàzheyúnguāngjìngzhuǎnzhìyuānfāngzhànggǎnjīngdòngshīsānrényòushuìxià


逐句解 Line by line

dàoshìwényánlánzhùméndòngchāsǎozhǒukuàishítóuméitóuméiliǎnwǎngmiànluàn dàoshìwényánlánzhùméndòngchāsǎozhǒukuàishítóuméitóuméiliǎnwǎngmiànluàn

The Daoists, hearing these words, blocked the door and all at once laid on with rake-forks, brooms, roof-tiles and stones, striking blindly, head and face, into the dark within.

Deictic 那道士: = . 聞得: = , “to hear, get wind of.” 叉鈀: = (a rake). 掃帚 sǎozhǒu (a broom). 沒頭沒臉: = méi, “wildly, head and face alike.”

hǎoxíngzhězuǒshǒuxiéleshāsēngyòushǒuxiélejièchuǎngchūménjiàzheyúnguāngjìngzhuǎnzhìyuānfāngzhàng hǎoxíngzhězuǒshǒuxiéleshāsēngyòushǒuxiélejièchuǎngchūménjiàzheyúnguāngjìngzhuǎnzhìyuānfāngzhàng

Good Pilgrim! Tucking Friar Sand under his left arm and Bajie under his right, he burst out the door, rode off on a beam of cloud-light, and went straight back to the abbot's quarters of the Zhiyuan Temple.

好行者: = xíng — the storyteller's admiring exclamation. 駕著: durative = zhe. 徑轉 “went straight back.” 智淵寺方丈 the abbot's hall of Zhiyuan Temple.

gǎnjīngdòngshīsānrényòushuìxià gǎnjīngdòngshīsānrényòushuìxià

Not daring to disturb their master, the three lay down again to sleep.

不敢: = before (3rd tone). 又復睡下 “lay down to sleep once more” — the prank closed off before dawn, the master none the wiser.


總評 Commentary

The episode ends in slapstick violence and a clean getaway: the enraged immortals flail at empty darkness while Wukong scoops up his brothers and flies home to feign innocent sleep. The tidy return to bed seals off the night's caper and pivots the chapter toward its public sequel — the morning audience where the two sides will meet again before the throne.