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.

冤家路窄
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

冤家路窄 Enemies on a Narrow Road

jīnháizàijiānzhèngsuǒwèiyuānjiāerzhǎi。」guówángwényánzhūzhòngjīnháizàijiānzhèngsuǒwèiyuānjiāerzhǎi。」guówángwényánzhūzhòng


逐句解 Line by line

jīnháizàijiānzhèngsuǒwèiyuānjiāerzhǎi。」 jīnháizàijiānzhèngsuǒwèiyuānjiāerzhǎi。」

Today he is here again in this very place — truly, as the saying goes, 'foes will meet where the road is narrow.'”

還在此間: = hái, “still.” 冤家路兒窄: suffixal = er — the proverb “enemies meet on a narrow road” (there is no avoiding a reckoning).

guówángwényánzhūzhòng guówángwényánzhūzhòng

At these words the king flew into a rage and would have put the four of them to death.

Deictic 那國王: = . 發怒 “to fly into a fury.” 欲誅四眾: (zhū) “to execute”; 四眾 “the four” (the pilgrim band).


總評 Commentary

The Daoist caps his indictment with a proverb and the king's anger boils over into a death sentence — the confrontation's first crisis. That the pilgrims will not simply be executed, but drawn instead into the contest of powers that fills the rest of the chapter, is the swerve the next batch will begin: Wukong turns a threatened killing into a public trial of Buddhist against Daoist magic.