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含詞賦 With rhapsody
濃雲賦
The Rhapsody of the Clouds
孫行者又顯神通，把金箍棒鑽一鑽，望空又一指。只見那：孙行者又显神通，把金箍棒钻一钻，望空又一指。只见那：
推雲童子，佈霧郎君。推云童子，布雾郎君。
推雲童子顯神威，骨都都觸石垂天；推云童子显神威，骨都都触石垂天；
佈霧郎君施法力，濃漠漠飛煙蓋地。布雾郎君施法力，浓漠漠飞烟盖地。
茫茫三市暗，冉冉六街昏。茫茫三市暗，冉冉六街昏。
因風離海上，隨雨出崑崙。因风离海上，随雨出昆仑。
頃刻漫天地，須臾蔽世塵。顷刻漫天地，须臾蔽世尘。
宛然如混沌，不見鳳樓門。宛然如混沌，不见凤楼门。
此時昏霧朦朧，濃雲靉靆。此时昏雾朦胧，浓云叆叇。
逐句解 Line by line
孫行者又顯神通，把金箍棒鑽一鑽，望空又一指。
孙行者又显神通，把金箍棒钻一钻，望空又一指。
Sun the Pilgrim showed his divine power again, gave the gold-banded cudgel a twist, and pointed once more toward the sky.
孫行者: 行 = xíng. 金箍棒 the gold-banded cudgel. 鑽一鑽 / 又一指: 一 = yì (before 1st/3rd tones).
只見那：
只见那：
One saw only this:
Deictic 只見那: 那 = nà — the verse-tag.
推雲童子，佈霧郎君。
推云童子，布雾郎君。
The Cloud-Pushing Lad, the Mist-Spreading Lord.
童子: 子 = zǐ (a boy-attendant). The two cloud-deities named in apposition.
推雲童子顯神威，骨都都觸石垂天；
推云童子显神威，骨都都触石垂天；
The Cloud-Pushing Lad shows his divine might: billowing and swelling, the clouds touch the rocks and hang from heaven;
童子: 子 = zǐ. 骨都都: 都 = dū (onomatopoeic/descriptive reduplication, “billowing” — cf. the ch.40 鑼鼓經 ruling). 觸石垂天 “touching the crags, trailing from the sky.”
佈霧郎君施法力，濃漠漠飛煙蓋地。
布雾郎君施法力，浓漠漠飞烟盖地。
the Mist-Spreading Lord plies his magic power: thick and boundless, the flying vapour covers the earth.
濃漠漠 “dense and vast.” 飛煙蓋地 “flying vapour blankets the ground.”
茫茫三市暗，冉冉六街昏。
茫茫三市暗，冉冉六街昏。
Vast and dim, the three markets darken; slowly, slowly, the six streets grow dark.
茫茫 “boundless, blurred.” 冉冉 “gradually, softly.”
因風離海上，隨雨出崑崙。
因风离海上，随雨出昆仑。
Borne on the wind, they leave the sea; following the rain, they issue from Kunlun.
因風離海上 “by the wind, off the sea.” 隨雨出崑崙 “with the rain, out of the 崑崙 (Kunlun) range.”
頃刻漫天地，須臾蔽世塵。
顷刻漫天地，须臾蔽世尘。
In a moment they flood heaven and earth; in an instant they veil the dusty world.
頃刻 “in a trice.” 須臾 “an instant.” 蔽世塵 “screen the world of dust.”
宛然如混沌，不見鳳樓門。
宛然如混沌，不见凤楼门。
It is just as in primal chaos: not a gate of the phoenix-tower can be seen.
宛然如混沌 “exactly like the undivided 混沌 (chaos)” — echoing the cosmogonic opening of the whole novel. 不見: 不 = bú before 見 (4th tone).
此時昏霧朦朧，濃雲靉靆。
此时昏雾朦胧，浓云叆叇。
At this the dim mist hung hazy, the thick clouds massed and billowing.
昏霧朦朧 “dim mist, hazy.” 濃雲靉靆 (àidài) “thick clouds, dense and rolling.”
總評 Commentary
The second contest-rhapsody answers the second point of the staff. Shorter and more lyrical than the wind 賦, the cloud rhapsody works by accumulation — billowing, spreading, darkening — until the world is returned, in its closing couplet, to the undivided 混沌 of before creation, a deliberate echo of the novel's opening poem. The onomatopoeic 骨都都 (the clouds “billowing up”) takes 都 = dū, the sound-reading established for the 鑼鼓經 percussion-notation back in ch.40 rather than the everyday dōu.