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.

且聽下回
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

且聽下回 To Be Continued

jìngzhīzěnmechúxiéqiětīngxiàhuífēnjiějìngzhīzěnmechúxiéqiětīngxiàhuífēnjiě


逐句解 Line by line

jìngzhīzěnmechúxiéqiětīngxiàhuífēnjiě jìngzhīzěnmechúxiéqiětīngxiàhuífēnjiě

In the end, not knowing how the evil was to be swept away — pray hear the next chapter told.

畢竟不知: = before (1st tone). 除邪 “to rid of the evil.” 且聽下回分解 “now hear it explained in the next chapter” — the storyteller's chapter-closing formula.


總評 Commentary

The chapter closes on the novel's invariable cliff-hanger formula. The 車遲國 arc is not yet resolved: though Wukong has won the rain-contest outright and shamed the immortals before the court, the three Tiger-, Deer-, and Ram-Power immortals will demand further ordeals — meditation on platforms, guessing hidden objects, and the trials of the severed head, the opened belly, and the cauldron of oil — in the chapter to follow (ch.46, 外道弄強欺正法/心猿顯聖滅諸邪), where they are at last exposed in their true animal shapes and destroyed.