原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
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含詞賦 With rhapsody
真龍現像
The True Dragons Appear
那大聖仰面朝空，厲聲高叫：「敖廣何在？弟兄們都現原身來看。」那龍王聽喚，即忙現了本身，四條龍。在半空中度霧穿雲，飛舞向金鑾殿上。但見：那大圣仰面朝空，厉声高叫：「敖广何在？弟兄们都现原身来看。」那龙王听唤，即忙现了本身，四条龙。在半空中度雾穿云，飞舞向金銮殿上。但见：
飛騰變化，遶霧盤雲。飞腾变化，遶雾盘云。
玉爪垂鉤白，銀鱗舞鏡明。玉爪垂钩白，银鳞舞镜明。
髯飄素練根根爽，角聳軒昂挺挺清。髯飘素练根根爽，角耸轩昂挺挺清。
磕額崔巍，圓睛晃亮。磕额崔巍，圆睛晃亮。
隱顯莫能測，飛揚不可評。隐显莫能测，飞扬不可评。
禱雨隨時佈雨，求晴即便天晴。祷雨随时布雨，求晴即便天晴。
這才是有靈有聖真龍像，祥瑞繽紛遶殿庭。这才是有灵有圣真龙像，祥瑞缤纷遶殿庭。
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那大聖仰面朝空，厲聲高叫：「敖廣何在？
那大圣仰面朝空，厉声高叫：「敖广何在？
The Great Sage turned his face up to the sky and cried out in a stern, loud voice, “Where is Ao Guang?
Deictic 那大聖: 那 = nà. 仰面朝空: 朝 = cháo, “facing toward the sky.” 厲聲 “in a stern voice.”
弟兄們都現原身來看。」
弟兄们都现原身来看。」
Brothers, all of you show your true forms for us to see.”
都現原身: 都 = dōu. 來看: 看 = kàn. 原身 “original (true) body.”
那龍王聽喚，即忙現了本身，四條龍。
那龙王听唤，即忙现了本身，四条龙。
Those Dragon Kings, hearing the summons, at once revealed their true bodies — four dragons.
Deictic 那龍王: 那 = nà. 現了本身: 了 = le. 四條龍 “four dragons.”
在半空中度霧穿雲，飛舞向金鑾殿上。
在半空中度雾穿云，飞舞向金銮殿上。
In the mid-air they passed through the mist and pierced the clouds, flying and wheeling toward the Hall of the Golden Chariot.
半空中: 中 = zhōng. 度霧穿雲 “to cross the mist and pierce the clouds.” 飛舞 “to fly and wheel.”
但見：
但见：
Behold:
但見 — the verse-tag introducing the dragon rhapsody.
飛騰變化，遶霧盤雲。
飞腾变化，遶雾盘云。
Soaring and transforming, coiling through mist, winding among clouds.
飛騰變化 “soaring and shape-shifting.” 遶霧盤雲 “wreathing the mist, coiling the clouds.”
玉爪垂鉤白，銀鱗舞鏡明。
玉爪垂钩白，银鳞舞镜明。
Their jade claws hung white as hooks; their silver scales danced bright as mirrors.
玉爪垂鉤白 “jade claws, drooping white hooks.” 銀鱗舞鏡明 “silver scales, dancing mirror-bright.”
髯飄素練根根爽，角聳軒昂挺挺清。
髯飘素练根根爽，角耸轩昂挺挺清。
Their whiskers streamed like white silk, crisp strand by strand; their horns reared high and proud, straight and clear.
髯飄素練 “whiskers afloat like bleached silk.” 角聳軒昂 “horns rearing lofty.”
磕額崔巍，圓睛晃亮。
磕额崔巍，圆睛晃亮。
Their knobbed brows towered up; their round eyes gleamed and flashed.
磕額崔巍 “bossed foreheads, towering.” 圓睛晃亮 “round eyes, glittering.”
隱顯莫能測，飛揚不可評。
隐显莫能测，飞扬不可评。
Now hidden, now shown, past all fathoming; soaring aloft, beyond all describing.
隱顯莫能測 “appearing and vanishing, past gauging.” 不可評: 不 = bù before 可 (3rd tone).
禱雨隨時佈雨，求晴即便天晴。
祷雨随时布雨，求晴即便天晴。
Pray for rain, and at once they spread the rain; ask for clearing, and straightway the sky is clear.
禱雨隨時佈雨 “pray rain — rain forthwith.” 求晴即便天晴 “seek clear — sky at once clears.”
這才是有靈有聖真龍像，祥瑞繽紛遶殿庭。
这才是有灵有圣真龙像，祥瑞缤纷遶殿庭。
This indeed was the numinous, holy, true dragon-form: auspicious signs in profusion circling the palace court.
有靈有聖 “numinous and holy.” 真龍像 “the true dragon-shape.” 祥瑞繽紛 “auspicious omens in profusion.” 遶殿庭 “wreathing the palace court.”
總評 Commentary
The chapter's fifth and final rhapsody is its visual climax: the four Dragon Kings, invisible until now, manifest their true forms above the throne at Wukong's word. Where the earlier 賦s catalogued destruction, this one is pure epiphany — jade claws, silver scales, streaming whiskers, towering horns — the numinous made visible to a court that has never seen a living dragon. The couplet 禱雨隨時佈雨，求晴即便天晴 restates the whole contest's lesson in miniature: true power answers instantly and completely, needing neither talisman nor tablet. This is the proof no rite can counterfeit, and it settles the dispute the immortals raised in fact if not yet in law.