第四十九回 · 諸天不知 What Is She Making — Journey to the West

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諸天不知 What Is She Making

行xíng者zhě不bù敢gǎn強qiǎng，只zhǐ得dé走zǒu出chū竹zhú林lín，對duì眾zhòng諸zhū天tiān道dào：「菩pú薩sà今jīn日rì又yòu重zhòng置zhì家jiā事shì哩li。怎zěn麼me不bú坐zuò蓮lián臺tái，不bù妝zhuāng飾shì，不bù喜xǐ歡huān，在zài林lín裡lǐ削xiāo篾miè做zuò甚shén？」諸zhū天tiān道dào：「我wǒ等děng卻què不bù知zhī。今jīn早zǎo出chū洞dòng，未wèi曾céng妝zhuāng束shù，就jiù入rù林lín中zhōng去qù了le。又yòu教jiào我wǒ等děng在zài此cǐ接jiē候hòu大dà聖shèng，必bì然rán為wèi大dà聖shèng有yǒu事shì。」行xíng者zhě沒méi奈nài何hé，只zhǐ得dé等děng候hòu。行xíng者zhě不bù敢gǎn强qiǎng，只zhǐ得dé走zǒu出chū竹zhú林lín，对duì众zhòng诸zhū天tiān道dào：「菩pú萨sà今jīn日rì又yòu重zhòng置zhì家jiā事shì哩li。怎zěn么me不bú坐zuò莲lián台tái，不bù妆zhuāng饰shì，不bù喜xǐ欢huān，在zài林lín里lǐ削xiāo篾miè做zuò甚shén？」诸zhū天tiān道dào：「我wǒ等děng却què不bù知zhī。今jīn早zǎo出chū洞dòng，未wèi曾céng妆zhuāng束shù，就jiù入rù林lín中zhōng去qù了le。又yòu教jiào我wǒ等děng在zài此cǐ接jiē候hòu大dà圣shèng，必bì然rán为wèi大dà圣shèng有yǒu事shì。」行xíng者zhě没méi奈nài何hé，只zhǐ得dé等děng候hòu。

逐句解 Line by line

行xíng者zhě不bù敢gǎn強qiǎng，只zhǐ得dé走zǒu出chū竹zhú林lín，對duì眾zhòng諸zhū天tiān道dào：「菩pú薩sà今jīn日rì又yòu重zhòng置zhì家jiā事shì哩li。怎zěn麼me不bú坐zuò蓮lián臺tái，不bù妝zhuāng飾shì，不bù喜xǐ歡huān，在zài林lín裡lǐ削xiāo篾miè做zuò甚shén？」行xíng者zhě不bù敢gǎn强qiǎng，只zhǐ得dé走zǒu出chū竹zhú林lín，对duì众zhòng诸zhū天tiān道dào：「菩pú萨sà今jīn日rì又yòu重zhòng置zhì家jiā事shì哩li。怎zěn么me不bú坐zuò莲lián台tái，不bù妆zhuāng饰shì，不bù喜xǐ欢huān，在zài林lín里lǐ削xiāo篾miè做zuò甚shén？」

Pilgrim dared not press her, and could only walk out of the bamboo grove and say to the assembled Devas: "The Bodhisattva has set her household in order all over again today. Why does she not sit on the lotus dais, nor put on her adornments, nor look glad, but sits in the grove paring bamboo strips — what is it for?"

不敢強: 強 read qiǎng, "to force, to press." 只得得 dé; 重置重 zhòng, "to set up afresh" — here with a note of complaint, as if she were doing housework. 削篾削 xiāo; 做甚甚 interrogative shén. The ？ bisecting this speech is a modern editorial cut and the two halves are taken as one segment.

諸zhū天tiān道dào：「我wǒ等děng卻què不bù知zhī。今jīn早zǎo出chū洞dòng，未wèi曾céng妝zhuāng束shù，就jiù入rù林lín中zhōng去qù了le。诸zhū天tiān道dào：「我wǒ等děng却què不bù知zhī。今jīn早zǎo出chū洞dòng，未wèi曾céng妆zhuāng束shù，就jiù入rù林lín中zhōng去qù了le。

The Devas said: "We do not know either. This morning she came out of her cave without dressing and went straight into the grove.

林中中 zhōng; 去了了 the aspect particle le. The attendants are as puzzled as Wukong — the Bodhisattva has told no one what she is about.

又yòu教jiào我wǒ等děng在zài此cǐ接jiē候hòu大dà聖shèng，必bì然rán為wèi大dà聖shèng有yǒu事shì。」又yòu教jiào我wǒ等děng在zài此cǐ接jiē候hòu大dà圣shèng，必bì然rán为wèi大dà圣shèng有yǒu事shì。」

She also charged us to wait here and receive the Great Sage, so it must certainly be on the Great Sage's account."

又教教 jiào, causative; 為大聖為 wèi, purposive "on account of." The attendants can infer the errand is Wukong's, but not its instrument.

行xíng者zhě沒méi奈nài何hé，只zhǐ得dé等děng候hòu。行xíng者zhě没méi奈nài何hé，只zhǐ得dé等děng候hòu。

Pilgrim, having no help for it, could only wait.

沒奈何: 沒 méi; 只得得 dé. The line closes the interval — Wukong, who overrides every obstacle, here has no recourse but to sit and wait for a goddess to finish whittling.

總評 Commentary

The block extends the mystery by confirming that it is a mystery to everyone. Wukong's questions to the Devas are a small comic catalogue of everything wrong with the picture — 不坐蓮臺，不妝飾，不喜歡, she is not on her dais, not adorned, not looking glad — and he even reaches for a domestic simile, 重置家事, as though the Bodhisattva were rearranging the furniture. The attendants can tell him only that she rose undressed and went into the grove and that the business must be his; the purpose of the bamboo is withheld from her own court.

What the passage really registers is Wukong reduced to waiting. He is the one who springs past guards and crashes into groves, and the previous block showed him doing exactly that; here, twice sent out, he 沒奈何，只得等候 — has no help for it but to wait. The Bodhisattva's refusal to be hurried has domesticated even the Great Sage, and the chapter lets the delay stand, because the delay is the point: the basket must be finished before it can be used, and neither Wukong's rank nor his urgency can shorten the weaving.