原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
Reader's edition
含詞賦 With rhapsody
好風賦
The Rhapsody of the Wind
行者聽得老師父經文念盡,卻去耳朵內取出鐵棒,迎風幌了一幌,就有丈二長短,碗來粗細,將棍望空一指。那風婆婆見了,急忙扯開皮袋;巽二郎解放口繩。只聽得呼呼風響,滿城中揭瓦翻磚,揚砂走石。看起來,真個好風,卻比那尋常之風不同也。但見:行者听得老师父经文念尽,却去耳朵内取出铁棒,迎风幌了一幌,就有丈二长短,碗来粗细,将棍望空一指。那风婆婆见了,急忙扯开皮袋;巽二郎解放口绳。只听得呼呼风响,满城中揭瓦翻砖,扬砂走石。看起来,真个好风,却比那寻常之风不同也。但见:
折柳傷花,摧林倒樹。折柳伤花,摧林倒树。
九重殿損壁崩牆,五鳳樓搖梁撼柱。九重殿损壁崩墙,五凤楼摇梁撼柱。
天邊紅日無光,地下黃砂有翅。天边红日无光,地下黄砂有翅。
演武廳前武將驚,會文閣內文官懼。演武厅前武将惊,会文阁内文官惧。
三宮粉黛亂青絲,六院嬪妃蓬寶髻。三宫粉黛乱青丝,六院嫔妃蓬宝髻。
侯伯金冠落繡纓,宰相烏紗飄展翅。侯伯金冠落绣缨,宰相乌纱飘展翅。
當駕有言不敢談,黃門執本無由遞。当驾有言不敢谈,黄门执本无由递。
金魚玉帶不依班,象簡羅衫無品敘。金鱼玉带不依班,象简罗衫无品叙。
彩閣翠屏盡損傷,綠窗朱戶皆狼狽。彩阁翠屏尽损伤,绿窗朱户皆狼狈。
金鑾殿瓦走磚飛,錦雲堂門歪槅碎。金銮殿瓦走砖飞,锦云堂门歪槅碎。
這陣狂風果是兇,刮得那君王父子難相會;这阵狂风果是凶,刮得那君王父子难相会;
六街三市沒人蹤,萬戶千門皆緊閉。六街三市没人踪,万户千门皆紧闭。
正是那狂風大作。正是那狂风大作。
逐句解 Line by line
行者聽得老師父經文念盡,卻去耳朵內取出鐵棒,迎風幌了一幌,就有丈二長短,碗來粗細,將棍望空一指。
行者听得老师父经文念尽,却去耳朵内取出铁棒,迎风幌了一幌,就有丈二长短,碗来粗细,将棍望空一指。
Pilgrim, hearing the old master's scripture come to its end, reached into his ear, drew out the iron cudgel, waved it once in the wind — and it grew to a zhàng and two in length and a bowl's thickness — and pointed the staff once toward the sky.
聽得: 得 = de. 念盡: 盡 = jìn. Disposal 將棍: 將 = jiāng. 丈二: the measure 丈 (zhàng) untranslated. 一幌 / 一指: 一 = yì (before 3rd tones).
那風婆婆見了,急忙扯開皮袋;
那风婆婆见了,急忙扯开皮袋;
Granny Wind, seeing it, hastily pulled open her leather bag;
Deictic 那風婆婆: 那 = nà. 扯開皮袋 “to tug open the (wind-)sack.”
巽二郎解放口繩。
巽二郎解放口绳。
Xun the Second loosed the mouth-cord.
解放口繩 “to release the cord that ties the sack's mouth.”
只聽得呼呼風響,滿城中揭瓦翻磚,揚砂走石。
只听得呼呼风响,满城中揭瓦翻砖,扬砂走石。
One heard only the whoosh and roar of the wind, and through the whole city it tore off tiles and flipped bricks, flung up sand and sent the stones rolling.
聽得: 得 = de. 滿城中: 中 = zhōng. 揭瓦翻磚 “to rip off tiles and overturn bricks.” 揚砂走石 “to whirl the sand and roll the stones.”
看起來,真個好風,卻比那尋常之風不同也。
看起来,真个好风,却比那寻常之风不同也。
To look at it, it was truly a fine wind — quite unlike your ordinary wind.
看起來: 看 = kàn. Deictic 那尋常之風: 那 = nà. 不同: 不 = bù before 同 (2nd tone).
但見:
但见:
Behold:
但見 — the verse-tag introducing the wind rhapsody.
折柳傷花,摧林倒樹。
折柳伤花,摧林倒树。
It snapped the willows and bruised the blossoms, crushed the groves and toppled the trees.
摧林倒樹: 倒 = dǎo, “to fell, bring down.”
九重殿損壁崩牆,五鳳樓搖梁撼柱。
九重殿损壁崩墙,五凤楼摇梁撼柱。
In the ninefold hall it cracked the walls and breached the ramparts; at the Five-Phoenix Tower it rocked the beams and shook the pillars.
九重殿: 重 = chóng (“layered, ninefold”). 搖梁撼柱 “to rock the beams and shake the columns.”
天邊紅日無光,地下黃砂有翅。
天边红日无光,地下黄砂有翅。
At heaven's edge the red sun lost its light; on the ground below the yellow sand took wing.
天邊紅日無光 “the sun at the sky's rim darkened.” 黃砂有翅 “the sand grew wings” — flung aloft in sheets.
演武廳前武將驚,會文閣內文官懼。
演武厅前武将惊,会文阁内文官惧。
Before the drill-hall the generals took fright; within the scholars' pavilion the civil officers quailed.
演武廳 the martial-training hall; 會文閣 the hall of letters. 武將: 將 = jiàng (a general, standalone noun).
三宮粉黛亂青絲,六院嬪妃蓬寶髻。
三宫粉黛乱青丝,六院嫔妃蓬宝髻。
In the three palaces the painted ladies' black tresses were flung awry; in the six courts the concubines' jeweled coils came all undone.
粉黛 “powder and kohl” — the palace beauties. 青絲 “black hair.” 蓬寶髻 “the jeweled chignon dishevelled.”
侯伯金冠落繡纓,宰相烏紗飄展翅。
侯伯金冠落绣缨,宰相乌纱飘展翅。
The marquises' and earls' gold crowns lost their broidered tassels; the ministers' black-gauze caps flapped their wings wide.
侯伯 marquises and earls. 金冠落繡纓: 落 = luò. 宰相: 相 = xiàng (a chief minister). 烏紗 the black-gauze cap of office; its side-flaps (展翅) stand out like wings.
當駕有言不敢談,黃門執本無由遞。
当驾有言不敢谈,黄门执本无由递。
The officer of the day, though he had words, dared not speak them; the Yellow-Gate usher, memorial in hand, had no way to hand it up.
當駕: 當 = dāng (the officer on duty). 執本 “holding the memorial-tablet.” 無由遞 “no means to present it.”
金魚玉帶不依班,象簡羅衫無品敘。
金鱼玉带不依班,象简罗衫无品叙。
Gold-fish pendants and jade belts kept no rank; ivory tablets and gauze robes fell out of all precedence.
金魚玉帶 gold fish-pendants and jade girdles — court insignia. 象簡 the ivory audience-tablet. 無品敘 “no order of rank.”
彩閣翠屏盡損傷,綠窗朱戶皆狼狽。
彩阁翠屏尽损伤,绿窗朱户皆狼狈。
The painted lofts and kingfisher screens were all battered and torn; the green casements and vermilion doors were every one in ruin.
彩閣翠屏 painted galleries and kingfisher-blue screens. 盡損傷: 盡 = jìn. 狼狽 (lángbèi) “in wretched disarray.”
金鑾殿瓦走磚飛,錦雲堂門歪槅碎。
金銮殿瓦走砖飞,锦云堂门歪槅碎。
At the Hall of the Golden Chariot the tiles slid and the bricks flew; at the Brocade-Cloud Hall the doors hung askew and the lattices shattered.
金鑾殿 the throne hall. 錦雲堂 the Brocade-Cloud Hall. 門歪槅碎: 槅 (gé) a latticed door-panel.
這陣狂風果是兇,刮得那君王父子難相會;
这阵狂风果是凶,刮得那君王父子难相会;
This blast of wild wind was fierce indeed, blowing so that the king and his princes could scarcely meet;
刮得: 得 = de (complement). Deictic 那君王: 那 = nà. 難相會: 相 = xiāng (“to meet one another”) — contrast 宰相 xiàng above.
六街三市沒人蹤,萬戶千門皆緊閉。
六街三市没人踪,万户千门皆紧闭。
In the six streets and three markets not a footprint of a soul; the ten thousand doors and thousand gates were all shut fast.
六街三市 “all the streets and markets.” 沒人蹤: 沒 = méi. 萬戶千門 “a myriad households.”
正是那狂風大作。
正是那狂风大作。
Indeed, that was a wild wind raging.
Deictic 那狂風: 那 = nà. 狂風大作 “a wild wind raged up” — the coda closing the rhapsody.
總評 Commentary
The first of the chapter's four contest-rhapsodies, the wind 賦 turns Wukong's single upward point of the staff into a catalogue of cosmic and courtly havoc. Its structure is a descent through the social order — palace halls, generals and scholars, palace women, nobles and ministers, court usher and insignia, buildings, and finally the emptied streets — so that the wind's force is measured by the disarray of an entire hierarchy. The parallelism is strict and the diction ornate, in the manner of the descriptive 賦 embedded throughout the novel; the couplet 侯伯金冠落繡纓,宰相烏紗飄展翅 is characteristic, pairing rank against rank. The passage also stages a clean minimal pair for 相: the xiàng of 宰相 (a minister) against the xiāng of 相會 (to meet), two lines apart. Formally, this is the chapter's first four-chip verse-showcase since the immortals' prayers, and it inaugurates the sequence — wind, cloud, thunder, rain — by which the Great Sage answers the Daoist's five-signal boast in kind.