Canonical Classics ← 第五十九回
第五十九回
tángsānzànghuǒyànshān
sūnxíngzhě調tiáojiāoshàn

Tripitaka's Road Is Blocked at the Mountain of Flames · Sun the Pilgrim Contrives the First Fetching of the Banana-Leaf Fan

仍送還他
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

仍送還他 We Will Send It Back

quèráolejiāngshànláidàiguòlehuǒyànshānréngsònghuán。」sānzàngwényángǎnxièjìnquèráolejiāngshànláidàiguòlehuǒyànshānréngsònghuán。」sānzàngwényángǎnxièjìn


逐句解 Line by line

quèráolejiāngshànlái quèráolejiāngshànlái

'So I let her go, and brought the fan away.'

拿將扇來 uses as the vernacular verbal infix, on the pattern of 打將來 — not the disposal marker, though the reading is the same jiāng.

dàiguòlehuǒyànshānréngsònghuán。」 dàiguòlehuǒyànshānréngsònghuán。」

'Once we are past the Mountain of Flames, we shall send it back to her.'

is the verb huán, to return. The promise he made to her at the cave door is repeated to his master, and this time nobody is being persuaded of anything — which suggests he means it.

sānzàngwényángǎnxièjìn sānzàngwényángǎnxièjìn

Tripitaka, hearing him out, thanked him without end.

感謝不盡 for the second time in the chapter, and it needs the same hand correction: the corpus-wide ruling raises to jìn after mechanical sandhi has already run against the base tone jǐn, so the must be lifted to by fixspec.


總評 Commentary

我卻饒了他 — so I let her go. Nine graphs for the mercy, and the verb is the one she used when she begged. The promise that follows is the one he made at the cave: once past the mountain, the fan goes back.

He has no reason to say it here. There is nobody to persuade — the woman is fifty thousand li behind him and his master would not have thought to ask. That he repeats it to a room where it buys him nothing is the strongest evidence in the chapter that the 志誠有餘的君子 speech at the cave door was not purely tactical.

感謝不盡 — Tripitaka thanked him without end. The chapter's second use of the phrase, after Pilgrim used it of Lingji four blocks ago. The same formula passes from monkey to Bodhisattva and from monk to monkey, and in both cases the thanks are for a gift that has not yet been tested.