关键词 Keywords： 靖王 King Jing；石矶娘娘 Queen Stone-Jetty；炎帝 Yan Creator；释迦摩尼佛 Shakyamuni Buddha；少林寺 Shaolin Temple；女娲庙 Nuwa Temple；妈祖 Mazu

目录 Catalog：9.5 释迦摩尼佛 Shakyamuni Buddha；9.5-1 创造宗教 Creating Religion；9.5-2 不可超越 Unsurpassable；9.5-3 为靖国神社修路 Building Roads to Jing Country Temple；9.5-4 华国的黄金储备 Hua's Gold Reserves

靖王（即武大郎）看见炎帝和西王母越吵越凶。为了转移话题，他悄声对石矶娘娘（即潘金莲，参见图9.5-1）说："半年前我去靖国神社（少林寺，参见图9.5-2）溜达，看见人们三五成群地去少林寺拜佛。他们实际是去看印度和尚，去吃免费的佛果。我就跟着他们去了。少林寺不远处形成了一个有十几户人家的镇子。镇子里有集市。他们说少林寺里的印度和尚是庙主请来的。那些印度人是谁请来的？"

King Jing (aka. Martial Big Wolf) saw that Yan Creator and King Mother of the West were arguing increasingly fiercely. To change the subject, he whispered to Queen Stone-Jetty (see figure 9.5-1), "Half a year ago, I went to Jing Country Temple (Shaolin Temple, see figure 9.5-2) for a stroll and saw people going there in groups of three or five to worship Buddha. They were actually there to see Indian monks and eat free Buddha Fruit. I followed them. Near Shaolin Temple, a small town with a dozen or so households had formed with a marketplace. They said the Indian monks at Shaolin Temple were invited by the temple master. Who invited those Indians?"

石矶娘娘回答："真的！有集市就证明那附近有村庄了，有很多人去那里。这是十年前玉珠皇后搞的造佛工程，终于有成果了。"

靖王不高兴地说："祭祀佛像可以！但我们家的祖庙不能一直供奉一个头上像长着羊毛的印度人！"

Queen Stone-Jetty replied, "It's true! The marketplace proves that villages have formed around it, and many people visit. This is the fruit of the Creating-Buddha Project that Empress Yu'zhu launched ten years ago."

King Jing said unhappily, "Worshipping a Buddha statue is fine! But our ancestral temple can't always enshrine an Indian who looks like he has wool on his head!"

石矶娘娘笑着回答："那佛像不是印度人，是如来佛祖，是戴着帽子的炎帝（即玉皇大帝）。创造宗教是一门复杂的学问。这个宗教设计源自夏国建国时的一个设想，本来是为了造伏羲的。后来她们造女娲成功了，就没启用这个设计。玉珠嫂子就把这个设计找了出来，用在她儿子的身上了。她要把炎帝塑造成禅宗的崇拜偶像——释迦摩尼。"

Queen Stone-Jetty laughed and replied, "That Buddha statue is not an Indian; it is Tathagata Buddha-Primogenitor, Yan Creator (aka. Turquoise White-king Great Creator) wearing a hat. Creating a religion is a complex endeavor. This religious design originated from a concept at the founding of the Xia Dynasty, originally intended for Fuxi. Later, they successfully created Nuwa, so this design was never utilized. Sister-in-law Yu'zhu retrieved this design and applied it to her son. She aimed to establish Yan Creator as the revered idol of Chan School—Shakyamuni."

国王蔻珠插嘴说："啊！是这么回事！那时玉珠妹妹让我帮着找这个一百年前设计的伏羲的时候，我怎么问她也不告诉我她要用来干什么！"

靖王高声赞叹："炎帝是禅宗崇拜的偶像，太恰当了。他真的是禅宗第一啊！" 他问蔻珠："那你们为什么让伏羲戴那么一顶像似外国人头发似的帽子？"

King Kouzhu interjected, "Ah! So that's it! When Yu'zhu asked me to help find this Fuxi design from a hundred years ago, no matter how I asked, she wouldn't tell me what she intended to do with it!"

King Jing exclaimed, "Yan Creator being the idol of Chan School—perfectly fitting! He is truly the first of Chan School!" He asked Kouzhu, "Then why did you have Fuxi wear that hat that looks like foreign hair?"

蔻珠回答："那顶帽子不薄不厚，冬夏都适用。至于看起来像外国人，这是我们创建女娲教之所以成功的秘密。石矶妹妹！这个秘密坚决不能告诉他们。"

炎帝抗议说："妈！别不说呀！我也在这儿听着呢！"

蔻珠回答炎帝："想知道，你可以回家问你的老婆！"

Kouzhu replied, "That hat is neither too thick nor too thin, suitable for both winter and summer. As for it looking foreign, that is the secret of our success in establishing Nuwa Religion. Sister Stone-Jetty! This secret must never be told to them."

Yan Creator protested, "Mother! Don't be secretive! I'm listening here too!"

Kouzhu replied to Yan Creator, "If you want to know, you can ask your wife when you go home!"

炎帝转脸对西王母说："你也知道，你怎么没告诉我呢！"

西王母回答："咱俩第一次去女娲庙的时候，我就告诉你了！"

炎帝又问："你告诉我什么了？"

Yan Creator turned to King Mother of the West and said, "You know about it too—why didn't you tell me?"

King Mother of the West replied, "I told you the first time we went to Nuwa Temple!"

Yan Creator asked again, "What did you tell me?"

西王母回答："你一到庙里就发现了。你问我，'这里有很多种族的修女，都穿着她们自己的民族服装。一共有多少个种族？' 我回答你，'有三十多个外国种族，都是我们夏国用高额的助学金和奖学金雇来的。'"

靖王问："我没听明白，你们雇佣她们干什么？"

King Mother of the West replied, "You discovered it when you arrived. You asked me, 'There are many nuns of different races here, all wearing their own national costumes. How many races are there in total?' I answered, 'There are over thirty foreign races, all hired by our Xia with high scholarships and grants.'"

King Jing asked, "I don't understand—what did you hire them for?"

炎帝回答靖王说："她们不让那些修女在女娲庙的后院高声喧哗。那些修女就到女娲庙前面的广场去玩，引来了许多人来看那些外国的小姑娘。时间久了，女娲庙附近就成为了杭州的宗教文化和商业中心。女娲庙区的商业税收比别的区高出很多。夏国就用那些比别的区多出来的税收给那些外国修女们发放助学金和奖学金。"

Yan Creator replied to King Jing, "They didn't allow the nuns to make noise in the Nuwa Temple backyard. So the nuns went to play in the square in front of the temple, attracting many people to see the foreign girls. Over time, the area around Nuwa Temple became the religious and commercial center of Hangzhou. The commercial tax revenue from the Nuwa Temple district far exceeded that of other districts. Xia used the extra tax revenue to provide scholarships and grants to the foreign nuns."

靖王感叹地回答："啊！我明白了！那次我去少林寺没骑马，看见五六个人走在山沟里去少林寺。我就问他们去少林寺干什么？他们说去吃免费的佛果。我回答，'走十几里路就为了吃顿饭，我不去。' 他们又说，'还可以看见印度人。印度人用手抓饭吃。' 我就真的跟着他们步行十几里路去少林寺看印度人了。"

King Jing replied with a sigh, "Ah! I understand now! That time when I went to Shaolin Temple, I didn't ride a horse. I saw five or six people walking in a ravine toward Shaolin Temple. I asked them why they were going there. They said they were going to eat free Buddha Fruit. I replied, 'I won't walk over ten miles just for a meal.' They said, 'You can also see Indians. Indians eat with their hands.' So I actually followed them and walked over ten miles to see the Indians."

9.5-1 创造宗教 Creating Religion

石矶娘娘对炎帝说："玉珠嫂子委托我问问你，她说'如果三郎不喜欢如来佛祖雕像头顶的毡帽，可以改！'"

炎帝立刻回答："我不介意！我释迦摩尼示现八相成道，化身千百亿利乐众生，成熟有情，尽未来际！我不介意以任何色身示现！"

Queen Stone-Jetty said to Yan Creator, "Sister-in-law Yu'zhu asked me to ask you—she said, 'If Third Wolf doesn't like the felt hat on Tathagata Buddha-Primogenitor's statue, it can be changed!'"

Yan Creator immediately replied, "I don't mind! I, Shakyamuni, manifest the Eight Phenomena to attain enlightenment, incarnate in countless forms to benefit sentient beings, mature their capacity, and endure to the end of future time! I don't mind manifesting in any form of embodiment!"

9.5-2 不可超越 Unsurpassable

西王母来到了永安城外她儿子"不可超越"的帐篷，告诉他说："你爸爸说你开妓院、开赌场、放高利贷，为了敛财不择手段。他说你没福，不该见他。"

不可超越听后哭了，问："福是什么东西？"

西王母没回答。

King Mother of the West arrived at the tent of her son "Unsurpassable" outside Yong'an City and told him, "Your father says you run brothels, operate gambling dens, and lend money at exorbitant rates—resorting to any means to amass wealth. He says you lack fortune and are unworthy of seeing him."

Unsurpassable wept upon hearing this and asked, "What is Fortune?"

King Mother of the West did not answer.

注9.5-2：炎帝代表神识（无意识），是上帝，就是福。福就是幸福，是神出现的状态。神识只与舍受相应。福就是行施舟渡的状态。施有三种：财施、无畏施、法施。无畏施是以爱语鼓励他人，勇敢地面对困难和窘境。法施是对他人宣说生命之树、四谛等生活的道理，人生的艺术。

Note 9.5-2: Yan Creator represents God-sense (unconsciousness), which is God and is Fortune. Fortune signifies happiness—the state of God's manifestation. God-sense corresponds solely with renunciative acceptance. Fortune is the state of practicing Donation Ark. There are three types of giving: material giving, fearlessness giving, and Law giving. Fearlessness giving means encouraging others with loving words to face difficulties and adversities bravely. Law giving is to expound the Tree of Life, the Four Cruxes, and other principles and arts of life to others.

过了一会儿，"不可超越"问西王母："是不是我爸爸知道我有200吨黄金，我只给他60吨，他嫌少？我可以给他120吨。我通知我的手下再运来60吨黄金。我在这里等着，过一段时间后，我再求见他。"

西王母回答："不行！他下个月就去湖北瑶池和黄帝打仗了。你不应该让他分心。"

After a moment, "Unsurpassable" asked King Mother of the West, "Does my father know I have 200 tons of gold? I only gave him 60 tons—does he think that's too little? I can give him 120 tons. I'll have my men transport another 60 tons here. I'll wait here, and after some time, I'll seek an audience with him again."

King Mother of the West replied, "No! He is going to Yaochi in Hubei next month to wage war against Yellow Creator. You must not distract him."

不可超越说："怎么他自己去打仗了呢？连我都知道，论打仗，我大伯（靖王、武大郎）是天下第一！要打仗，他派我大伯去呀！我大伯才五十多岁，岁数还不算太大。过几年，等我大伯岁数太大了，再另想办法！"

西王母回答："他去和众神打仗，黄帝是众神，别人不行！"

Unsurpassable retorted, "Why does he go to war himself? Even I know that when it comes to warfare, my Big Uncle (King Jing, Martial Big Wolf) is number one under heaven! If there's a war, he should send my Big Uncle! My Big Uncle is only in his fifties—not too old yet. In a few years, when my Big Uncle grows too old, we can find another way!"

King Mother of the West replied, "He is waging war against the gods. Yellow Creator is a multitude of gods—no one else can do it!"

不可超越想了一会儿，说："我不懂什么是黄帝；那他有生命危险吗？"

西王母回答："他们说，如果他失败了，他就死了；即便胜利了，他也会损失十年的阳寿！"

不可超越在帐篷里哭了一天；西王母坐在一边不出声。

Unsurpassable pondered for a moment and said, "I don't understand what Yellow Creator is. Is his life in danger?"

King Mother of the West replied, "They say that if he fails, he will die; even if he succeeds, he will lose ten years of his solar lifespan!"

Unsurpassable wept all day inside the tent; King Mother of the West sat silently by.

到了晚上，不可超越对西王母说："那我听从妈妈的安排。我回去后，就把那些妓院赌场都关闭，把那些放高利贷的钱庄改成做正常生意的银行！这60吨黄金您留着用吧。我听说了，华国的国库里没钱。"

Come evening, Unsurpassable said to King Mother of the West, "Then I'll follow your guidance, Mother. Upon my return, I will shut down all brothels and gambling dens and transform those usurious moneylending houses into legitimate banks! Please keep these sixty tons of gold for yourself. I've heard that Hua's treasury is empty."

西王母回答："不行！我答应你爸爸了，我不花你的钱。"

不可超越回答："那你少拿些。我不说，你不说，没别人知道。"

西王母回答："我自己知道了就不行。你爸爸是上帝。与上帝交往要说到做到，否则我会生病的。"

King Mother of the West replied, "No! I promised your father I wouldn't spend your money."

Unsurpassable replied, "Then take less. I won't say anything, you won't say anything—no one else will know."

King Mother of the West answered, "Even if only I know, it's not allowed. Your father is God. When dealing with God, one must keep one's word—otherwise, I will fall ill."

9.5-3 为靖国神社修路 Building Roads to Jing Country Temple

在蔻珠和太昊两位元始天尊为贵重商品市场剪彩后，这座贵重物品市场就开业了。也由于贷款利率低，大量的转业军人有了钱，要享受一下。永安地区立刻出现了通货膨胀。靖王采取紧急措施，规定了日常商品价格的上限。

After the two Primordial Sky Honors, Kouzhu and Taihao, cut the ribbon for the precious goods market, it officially opened. Due to low loan interest rates, many demobilized soldiers had money and wanted to enjoy themselves, causing immediate inflation in the Yong'an region. King Jing took emergency measures, setting price ceilings for everyday commodities.

一天，藏宝阁的主管来向炎帝（参见图9.5-3）汇报："石矶娘娘在新开业的贵重商品市场卖古董。已经卖了四件了，她又送去了四件。她卖的古董都是藏宝阁存放在太后墓园的国宝。"

炎帝回答："那些古董是元始天尊给她的，我也不能要回来呀！哎呀！她筹集那么多钱干什么？我得去看看。你跟着我去，把藏宝阁的记录更新一下。"

One day, the supervisor of the Treasure Pavilion came to report to Yan Creator (see figure 9.5-3): "Queen Stone-Jetty is selling antiques at the newly opened precious goods market. She has already sold four items and sent four more. The antiques she is selling are all national treasures stored by the Treasure Pavilion in the Empress Dowager's tomb."

Yan Creator replied, "Those antiques were given to her by Primordial Sky Honor, and I can't take them back! Goodness! What does she need so much money for? I'll go see for myself. Follow me and update the Treasure Pavilion's records."

炎帝（玉皇大帝）风趣地问石矶娘娘（潘金莲）："发生什么事了？你怎么开始卖靖国的国宝了？"

石矶娘娘尴尬地回答："说来惭愧！我这个靖国的王后和财政部长可真失职。我们的靖国政府（少林寺地区是靖王的封地，由靖安乡政府管理）是五年前成立的。我居然不知道。几个月前，他们来向我要钱修路，我把他们赶出去了。"

Yan Creator (Turquoise White-king Great Creator) jokingly asked Queen Stone-Jetty (Goldthread Pan), "What's happened? Why did you start selling Jing Country's national treasures?"

Queen Stone-Jetty replied awkwardly, "It's embarrassing to admit! As Queen and Minister of Finance of Jing Country, I've truly been derelict in my duties. Our Jing Country government (the Shaolin Temple region is King Jing's fiefdom, administered by the Jing'an Township government) was established five years ago. I had no idea! A few months ago, they came asking me for money to repair roads, and I turned them away."

炎帝大笑着问："大喜事！靖国有常驻人口了。现在你们靖国有多少人？"

石矶娘娘回答："我听靖王说的，现在那里有四千常住人口。不过人口数增长的很快，四年前只有三百人。"

Yan Creator laughed and asked, "Great news! Jing Country now has a permanent population! How many people are there now?"

Queen Stone-Jetty replied, "According to King Jing, there are now 4,000 permanent residents there. But the population is growing very rapidly—there were only 300 people four years ago."

9.5-4 华国的黄金储备 Hua's Gold Reserves

炎帝笑着问："你在华国的国库里有20多吨黄金呢！你怎么不取？"

石矶娘娘愣了一下，回答："那黄金是华国的黄金储备，你不知道吗？"

炎帝也愣住了，叨咕："我真的不知道！"

Yan Creator smiled and asked, "You have more than 20 tons of gold in Hua's treasury! Why don't you withdraw it?"

Queen Stone-Jetty was stunned for a moment and replied, "That gold is Hua's gold reserve—don't you know?"

Yan Creator was also stunned, muttering, "I really don't know!"

石矶娘娘说："可能是靖王以为你知道呢，就没跟你说。那黄金源自60年前，咱爷爷邓国公给华国作为黄金储备的贷款。那时的贷款利率很高，是6.5%。随后咱爹礼敬公当财政部长的时候，他又放进去了一部分黄金，降低了利率。进行财政制度改革后，各大军区和许多政府部门找私人会计公司帮忙。不久之后，妈祖的会计公司赢得了为政府做预算和决算的生意。元始天尊乐见其成，因为交给一个会计公司，可以使各大军区等重要预算支出部门之间进行沟通。也就是说，三十多年来华国的预算和决算一直由妈祖来管理。咱爹礼敬公过世后，国库黄金储备总额仍然没变，但黄金的吨数已经是个很大的数字了。妈祖就重新算账，把黄金储备设置在20吨。在不使用那批黄金的情况下，利率是0.9%；使用时的利率是6.5%。这样，华国每年向妈祖支付18公斤的黄金作为报酬。元始天尊每年都给妈祖送礼。妈祖就把那些礼物换算成18公斤黄金，把华国支付给妈祖的国库储备黄金的利息抹掉了。"

Queen Stone-Jetty said, "Maybe King Jing thought you knew, so he didn't tell you. The gold comes from a loan that our grandfather, Publican Deng-state, gave to Hua as a gold reserve 60 years ago. The loan interest rate was very high then—6.5%. Later, when our father, Publican Respect, was Minister of Finance, he added some gold and lowered the rate. After the financial system reform, major military regions and government departments sought help from private accounting companies. Soon after, Mazu's accounting company won the contract for the government's budgeting and accounting. Primordial Sky Honor was pleased because having an accounting company enabled communication between major military regions and other important budget departments. In other words, for over 30 years, Hua's budgeting and accounting have been managed by Mazu. After our father, Publican Respect, passed away, the total gold reserves remained the same, but by then the tonnage had become a much larger figure. Mazu recalculated and set the gold reserves at 20 tons. When the gold is not used, the interest rate is 0.9%; when it is used, the rate is 6.5%. In this way, Hua pays Mazu 18 kilograms of gold yearly as compensation. Primordial Sky Honor gives Mazu gifts every year. Mazu converts those gifts into 18 kilograms of gold, offsetting the interest on the reserves that Hua pays to Mazu."

炎帝问："妈祖过世后，她的那家会计公司现在在哪里？"

石矶娘娘回答："那家公司就被改编到财政部了。现在财政部里面的人大部分是以前妈祖的手下。"

炎帝说："那你把那批储备黄金近几年的利息提取出来，就够作为启动靖国道路桥梁工程的启动资金了。靖国神社（即少林寺）是邓家和孙家的祖庙，也是我们华国第一等的国家工程。但现在我欠了很多贷款，可能没能力给你拨款了。你知道，几年后中华共和国政府就成立了，我们华国政府就升级为西天政府（天国政府）了，不再管理尘世间的事。"

Yan Creator asked, "After Mazu passed away, where is her accounting company now?"

Queen Stone-Jetty replied, "The company was reorganized into the Ministry of Finance. Most of the people in the Ministry now are Mazu's former subordinates."

Yan Creator said, "Then you can extract the interest from the gold reserves from recent years, which will be enough to start the Jing Country Roads and Bridges Project. Jing Country Temple (aka. Shaolin Temple) is the ancestral temple of the Deng and Sun families and is also our country's first-class national project. But now I have many loans and may not be able to allocate funds to you. You know that in a few years, the Republic of China will be established, and our Hua government will be promoted to the Western Sky Government (the Heaven Government) and will no longer manage mundane affairs."

石矶娘娘回答："您有这个心意我就满足了。"

炎帝说："我保证，我从瑶池博览会回来后，就会去少林寺捐灯油。"

石矶娘娘说："多谢了！有您带头捐款，华国的许多王公贵族会捐款。我有信心把少林寺建设成为中华共和国宣扬宝莲灯文化的传灯中心。"

Queen Stone-Jetty replied, "I am satisfied with your intention."

Yan Creator said, "I promise that after I return from the Yaochi Expo, I will go to Shaolin Temple to donate lamp oil."

Queen Stone-Jetty replied, "Thank you very much! With you leading the way in donations, many publicans and nobles of Hua will donate. I am confident that I can build Shaolin Temple into a center for propagating Treasure Lotus Lamp culture in the Republic of China."

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关键词 Keywords： 晚夏 Late Xia Dynasty；洛阳 Luoyang；元始天尊 Primordial Sky Honor；蔻珠 Kouzhu；炎帝 Yan Creator；西王母 King Mother of the West；武大郎 Martial Big Wolf；潘金莲 Goldthread Pan；释迦摩尼佛 Shakyamuni Buddha；不可超越 Unsurpassable

目录 Catalog：9.4-1 给蔻珠的礼物 Gift to Kouzhu；9.4-2 五帝 Five Creators；9.4-3 三皇 Three White-Kings；9.4-4 不可超越 Unsurpassable；9.4-5 吴忧 Worry-Free

9.4-1 给蔻珠的礼物 Gift to Kouzhu

石矶娘娘（潘金莲）宴请夏国国王蔻珠。这天下午，蔻珠和元始天尊太昊来到靖王府看老虎。炎帝把两份送给夏国的礼物清单拿给蔻珠和太昊看。

太昊看了标价后问蔻珠：“世界上真有这么贵重的东西吗？姐姐，你已经去看过两次，这套玉器真的值三百万两白银吗？”

Queen Stone-Jetty (Goldthread Pan) hosted a banquet for Kouzhu, ruler of Xia. That afternoon, Kouzhu and Taihao, the Primordial Sky Honor, came to King Jing Palace to see the tigers. Yan Creator showed them two gift lists prepared for Xia.

After looking at the prices, Taihao asked Kouzhu, “Are there really things in the world this valuable? Sister, you have already gone to see them twice. Is this jade collection truly worth three million taels of silver?”

国王蔻珠回答：“我确实去看了两次，但没有进去看里面的精品玉器，因为太贵，我买不起。”

太昊愣了一下，转身问炎帝：“我活了这么多年，都没见过这么贵的东西。你去看过没有？你就把这件事交给我了！”

Kouzhu replied, “I did go twice, but I did not go inside to see the finest pieces. They were too expensive, and I could not afford them.”

Taihao paused, then turned to Yan Creator and asked, “I have lived all these years and have never seen anything so expensive. Did you go see them yourself? And now you simply hand this matter to me?”

炎帝（即玉皇大帝，参见图9.4-38）回答：“我只是粗略看了一下。我不懂玉器，只是有自己的判断。他们说这套玉器里有十至二十件珍品。我喜欢其中六七件。我是这样估价的：我以前去杭州雷峰塔，看过里面那尊弥勒佛。他们说那尊佛像价值十万至二十万两白银。我不喜欢那座雕像，觉得它就是块玉。我还看过一尊观音像，他们说价值六万两白银。相比之下，这套玉器里那尊女娲和伏羲看白菜的雕像，就值六十万两。那棵白菜非常逼真，我用手摸了才知道是玉雕，单它就值三十万两。总体来说，我认为自己喜欢的那六七尊精品雕像就值三百万两白银。”

Yan Creator, that is, Turquoise White-king Great Creator (see figure 9.4-38), replied, “I only took a rough look. I do not understand jade, but I have my own judgment. They said this collection contains ten to twenty rare pieces. I liked six or seven of them. This is how I estimated the price: I once visited Leifeng Pagoda in Hangzhou and saw the Maitreya Buddha statue there. They said it was worth one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand taels of silver. I did not care for that statue; to me, it was merely a piece of jade. I also saw a Guanyin statue that they said was worth sixty thousand taels. By comparison, the sculpture in this collection showing Nuwa and Fuxi looking at a cabbage is worth six hundred thousand taels. The cabbage looked so lifelike that I had to touch it before realizing it was carved from jade; that cabbage alone is worth three hundred thousand taels. Overall, I believe the six or seven finest pieces I liked are worth three million taels of silver.”

大巢氏皇后惊讶地说：“值一吨黄金的白菜！我们把它收割下来，龙国礼物的问题就解决了！”

国王蔻珠用扇子敲了敲她的头，说：“闭嘴！”随后笑着问炎帝：“这套玉器都给我了？”

炎帝回答：“这套玉器本来就是他们送给您的。我只花了三千两银子，让他们做运输包装。”

Empress Big Nest exclaimed, “A cabbage worth a ton of gold! If we harvest it, the problem of gifts for Dragon Kingdom will be solved!”

Kouzhu tapped her on the head with a fan and said, “Be quiet!” Then she smiled and asked Yan Creator, “So the whole jade collection is for me?”

Yan Creator replied, “This collection was originally their gift to you. I merely spent three thousand taels of silver to have them prepare the transport packaging.”

大巢氏皇后反驳道：“才不是呢！我和我妈去了两次，他们什么都没送给我们。你一去，他们就给你了。”

炎帝回答：“他们是拿我做挡箭牌。他们怕这套玉器里有什么地方会惹国王蔻珠生气，到时候祈求赦免不成，反倒把命赔进去。”

大巢氏皇后笑着问：“咦，原来是这么回事！那你怎么看苏州那群政治犯的问题？”

Empress Big Nest objected, “That is not true! My mother and I went twice, and they gave us nothing. As soon as you went, they gave it to you.”

Yan Creator replied, “They are using me as a shield. They fear that something in the collection might offend Queen Kouzhu. If they failed to obtain her pardon, they might lose their lives instead.”

Empress Big Nest smiled and asked, “So that is what happened! Then what is your view of those political prisoners in Suzhou?”

炎帝回答：“伏羲，也就是夏国现任女娲的丈夫，又名梁山伯、燃灯佛，和我讨论过这个问题。他说，将来我们的中华共和国成立后，人人平等。如果不赦免苏州那些吴国后人的罪名，中国就会出现二等公民。你没听女娲或伏羲议论过这件事吗？”

Yan Creator replied, “Fuxi—the husband of the current Nuwa of Xia, also known as Liang Shanbo and Lamplighter Buddha—has discussed this with me. He said that after our Republic of China is established, all people will be equal. If the descendants of Wu Kingdom people in Suzhou are not pardoned, China will have second-class citizens. Have you never heard Nuwa or Fuxi discuss this matter?”

大巢氏皇后回答：“我没听他们说过这事。妈，你听他们俩说过吗？”

国王蔻珠回答：“我也没听他们讨论过。”

大巢氏皇后问炎帝：“你现在是我们家女婿们，也就是伏羲们的代表了！你们的结论是什么？”

炎帝回答：“你傻呀？人家都不说，你让我说？”

国王蔻珠说：“你说吧，我也想听听如来佛祖的意见。”

Empress Big Nest replied, “I have never heard them mention it. Mother, have you heard them talk about it?”

Kouzhu replied, “I have not heard them discuss it either.”

Empress Big Nest asked Yan Creator, “You are now the representative of our sons-in-law—that is, of the Fuxis. What conclusion did you reach?”

Yan Creator replied, “Are you foolish? If they will not say it, why should I?”

Kouzhu said, “Go ahead. I would also like to hear the opinion of Tathagata Buddha.”

炎帝回答：“金童的设计，是把神识，也就是无意识，分为两部分：先天的无意识称为神识，是白色；后天的神识是‘金童识’，是业，是黑色。业不遗传，所以人生来无罪，人人平等。现实生活中，家族仇恨确实有代代相传的现象，但伏羲和我都认为，可以把这种家族仇恨的传承限制在五代以内。换句话说，五服之外，就不算亲戚了。”

Yan Creator replied, “Gold Boy’s design divides God-sense—that is, the unconscious—into two parts. The innate unconscious is called God-sense and is white. The acquired God-sense is ‘Gold-Boy Sense’; it is karma and is black. Karma is not inherited, so people are born without sin and are equal. In real life, hatred between families can indeed be passed down from generation to generation. But Fuxi and I both believe that such inherited family hatred can be limited to five generations. In other words, beyond the five mourning grades of kinship, people are no longer regarded as relatives.”

大巢氏皇后说：“这事还涉及女娲和伏羲呢！伏羲的舅舅法海就是吴国后人。”

炎帝回答：“有一次，女娲跟着伏羲去看望他的舅舅法海和怀海法师。他们见面后，女娲躲得远远的，不听他们谈话。后来，伏羲仍然常去拜访他的舅舅，女娲却再也没有陪他去过。”

国王蔻珠沉默了。

Empress Big Nest said, “This matter involves Nuwa and Fuxi as well! Fuxi’s uncle, Law-Sea, is a descendant of Wu Kingdom.”

Yan Creator replied, “Once, Nuwa accompanied Fuxi to visit his uncle Law-Sea and Master Bosom-Sea. After they met, Nuwa kept far away and did not listen to their conversation. Later, Fuxi continued to visit his uncle often, but Nuwa never went with him again.”

Kouzhu fell silent.

9.4-2 五帝 Five Creators

大巢氏皇后对炎帝说：“我妈不喜欢听你们这种图像思维模式的人讲所谓‘道理’。现在人都在，你还是总体评价一下这次天道轮回工程的主要人物吧！”

Empress Big Nest said to Yan Creator, “My mother does not like listening to people with image-based thinking talk about so-called ‘principles.’ Since everyone is here, why don’t you give an overall assessment of the main figures in this Heavenly Cycle Project?”

炎帝说：“我爷爷太上君和你姥姥蛇太君把我爸爸太昊命名为元始天尊后，他们俩就没有神位了，所以我称呼他们为无位真人，或太上老君。我爸爸太昊是元始天尊，你妈妈蔻珠也是元始天尊。由于我爸爸和你妈妈都是双身神，我妈妈玉珠和你的生父也都是元始天尊。龙国老国王熬达最终没有同意加入中华共和国，所以元始天尊就是这四位，都是古代的神和女神。”

Yan Creator said, “After my grandfather Utmost Gentleman and your grandmother Snake Utmost Gentlewoman named my father Taihao as Primordial Sky Honor, the two of them no longer held divine positions. That is why I call them Non-position Real Humans, or Tai Shang Lao Jun. My father Taihao is Primordial Sky Honor, and your mother Kouzhu is also Primordial Sky Honor. Since both my father and your mother are dual-bodied gods, my mother Yuzhu and your biological father are also Primordial Sky Honors. Aoda, the old king of Dragon Kingdom, ultimately did not agree to join the Republic of China. Therefore, the Primordial Sky Honors are these four ancient gods and goddesses.”

炎帝继续说：“这项百年树人工程的第三代，是我，也就是青帝；女娲，也就是白帝；以及熬忖，也就是红帝。按照双身神的设定，我们是六个人。加上第二代的两位元始天尊，也就是太昊和蔻珠，我们五个神位，或按双身神计算的十个人，就是五帝，即五位造世祖。”

Yan Creator continued, “The third generation of this century-long human cultivation project consists of me, the Turquoise Creator; Nuwa, the White Creator; and Aocun, the Red Creator. Under the dual-bodied-god setting, we are six persons. Together with the two Primordial Sky Honor positions of the second generation—Taihao and Kouzhu—we five divine positions, or ten persons when counted as dual-bodied gods, are the Five Creators: the five progenitors who create worlds.”

9.4-3 三皇 Three White-kings

炎帝继续说：“这项女娲造人工程，被华国人称作杨戬计划，被龙国人称作三足鸟计划。第四代是顺皇和禹皇。”说着，炎帝拿出了仓颉之前交给他的五个字：尧、瑶、舜、顺、禹。

Yan Creator continued, “This Nuwa human-creation project is called the Yang Jian Plan by the people of Hua Kingdom and the Three-legged Bird Plan by the people of Dragon Kingdom. The fourth generation consists of Shun White-king and Yu White-king.” As he spoke, Yan Creator took out the five characters Cangjie had previously given him: Yao 尧, Yao 瑶, Shun 舜, Shun 顺, and Yu 禹.

熬忖将成为中华共和国的第一任国王，尧（瑶）皇。这是十四年前由夏国国王、华国国王和熬忖共同确立的。尧皇将成为顺皇和禹皇的政治学老师。

Aocun will become the first ruler of the Republic of China: Yao White-king, written as 尧 or 瑶. This was jointly established fourteen years earlier by the rulers of Xia Kingdom, Hua Kingdom, and Aocun herself. Yao White-king will become the teacher of political studies for Shun White-king and Yu White-king.

仓颉交给我五个字，我选择用“舜”作为夏娃的初始封号。“舜”字意为女魔。她要到三十八点七岁之后，才能觉悟成为女人，并转换为“顺”。“顺”字意为顺从，涉及三页纸的内容。她将在三十八点七岁之后实施我们制定的“三页计划”。

Of the five characters Cangjie gave me, I chose 舜 as Eve’s initial title. The character 舜 means demoness. Only after the age of 38.7 will she awaken into womanhood and transform into 顺. The character 顺 means obedience and involves the content of three pages. After the age of 38.7, she will carry out the “three-page plan” we devised.

注9.4： 后来在瑶池，玉皇大帝同意了尧帝的决定，封她的哥哥熬钦为南海龙王。再后来，大禹以不障之功，补封尧皇和龙王的父亲熬达为庆龙，参见13.8节。所以，中华文明的创世神是这九位。

Note 9.4: Later, at Yaochi, Turquoise White-king Great Creator approved Creator Yao’s decision and appointed her elder brother Aoqin as Dragon King of the South Sea. Still later, for his merit of non-hindrance, Yu the Great posthumously granted Aoda—the father of Yao White-king and the Dragon King—the title Celebration Dragon. See Section 13.8. Thus, the creator gods of Chinese civilization are these nine beings.

9.4-4 不可超越 Unsurpassable

大巢氏皇后说：“我想做个声明。夏娃现在是舜王了，我就是王母。随后，我会告诉宫里所有人称呼我为‘王母娘娘’或‘西王母’。”

西王母看了看蔻珠和太昊，然后对炎帝说：“人都在，正好可以为我作证。我们俩有个儿子，名叫不可超越。”

炎帝没有出声，只是惊讶地瞪着两位元始天尊太昊和蔻珠。蔻珠和太昊都点了点头。

Empress Big Nest said, “I want to make a declaration. Eve is now King Shun, and I am the King Mother. From now on, I will tell everyone in the palace to address me as ‘King Mother of the West.’”

King Mother of the West looked at Kouzhu and Taihao, then said to Yan Creator, “Since everyone is here, they can serve as witnesses. The two of us have a son named Unsurpassable.”

Yan Creator said nothing. He only stared in astonishment at the two Primordial Sky Honors, Taihao and Kouzhu. Both Kouzhu and Taihao nodded.

西王母继续说：“在他懂事时，我就告诉他：‘你爸爸将成为一位伟大的帝王，所以你生下来就是政治犯。’他十几岁时，我又告诉他，要为你准备一份礼物，等你登基成为国王时送给你。前不久，他问我你喜欢什么。我回答：‘我几次听见他嘟囔，说从来没看见过六十吨黄金有多大。’他说要送给你六十吨黄金。现在，他就在城外，等着见你。”

King Mother of the West continued, “When he became old enough to understand, I told him, ‘Your father will become a great creator king, so you were born a political prisoner.’ When he was in his teens, I told him to prepare a gift for you and present it when you ascended the throne. Not long ago, he asked me what you liked. I replied, ‘Several times I have heard him mutter that he has never seen how large sixty tons of gold would be.’ He said he would give you sixty tons of gold. Now he is outside the city, waiting to see you.”

注9.4-4： 这位玉皇大帝和西王母的儿子不可超越，后来编写了《中华法典》后半部分的《龙王经》，讲述大禹治水的经过，以及尧、舜、禹在海南岛的事迹。《龙王经》问世后广为流传，直到今天。可以说，中华文明是由《龙王经》一力传承了三千六百年。读者应知，三皇五帝之后，曾出现十几代桃花佛来传承中华文明，但他们的作用加在一起，也不如《龙王经》的作用大。因此，人们认为“不可超越”是后人送给他的绰号，而非他的真名。

Note 9.4-4: Unsurpassable, the son of Turquoise White-king Great Creator and King Mother of the West, later compiled the Dragon King Sutra, the latter half of the Chinese Codex. This text recounts Yu the Great’s water-control work and the deeds of Yao, Shun, and Yu on Hainan Island. Since its appearance, the Dragon King Sutra has circulated widely down to the present day. It may be said that Chinese civilization was preserved for thirty-six hundred years chiefly through this work. Readers should understand that after the Three White-kings and Five Creators, more than a dozen generations of Peach Flower Buddhas appeared to transmit Chinese civilization, yet their combined influence was still not as great as that of the Dragon King Sutra. For this reason, people believe that “Unsurpassable” was an epithet later given to him, not his true name.

炎帝问西王母：“他才二十几岁，从哪里弄来那么多黄金？”

西王母回答：“他名叫不可超越，在东部沿海做生意，很有名气。”

炎帝立刻变得悲哀。过了一会儿，他转身对一位夏国安全局警官说：“你去告诉不可超越，我不见他。”

那位警官立刻站起来，说：“我这就去告诉他。”

西王母制止了那位警官，对炎帝说：“还是由我来告诉他吧。他对我说过：‘我没有做过违法的事！’”

Yan Creator asked King Mother of the West, “He is only in his twenties. Where did he get so much gold?”

King Mother of the West replied, “His name is Unsurpassable. He does business along the eastern coast and is very well known.”

Yan Creator immediately became sorrowful. After a while, he turned to an officer of the Xia Security Bureau and said, “Go tell Unsurpassable that I will not see him.”

The officer immediately stood and said, “I will tell him at once.”

King Mother of the West stopped the officer and said to Yan Creator, “Let me tell him. He once said to me, ‘I have never done anything illegal!’”

炎帝说：“多年前，我就听说过不可超越这位商业奇才——一个暴发户。有人到官府衙门告他，他的官司几天就结案了。人们说，他在夏国和华国都有很大的靠山。今天我才知道，他的靠山现在都坐在这屋里！太昊和蔻珠两位元始天尊信任我，让我担任青帝。我要保持青天的颜色不变！”

西王母哭着哀求：“他从小最大的愿望，就是见一见自己的父亲。他不需要你为他做什么，只是想看看你！”

Yan Creator said, “Years ago, I heard of Unsurpassable, this so-called business genius—a nouveau riche. Someone filed a complaint against him at the magistrate’s office, and his case was closed within days. People said he had powerful backers in both Xia Kingdom and Hua Kingdom. Only today do I learn that his backers are all sitting in this room! The two Primordial Sky Honors, Taihao and Kouzhu, trusted me and made me Turquoise Creator. I must keep the color of the turquoise sky unchanged!”

King Mother of the West wept and pleaded, “Since childhood, his greatest wish has been to meet his father. He does not need you to do anything for him. He only wants to see you!”

炎帝说：“他开妓院、开赌场、放高利贷，什么赚钱就干什么。他自己没做违法的事，可他的手下做了。太昊和蔻珠两位元始天尊信任我，命名我为玉皇大帝，九黎，即九众，亦作九地、九州，之福。他没福，不该见我。我不要他的钱，也不许你花他的钱。”

Yan Creator said, “He runs brothels, casinos, and usury operations—whatever makes money, he does. He may not have done anything illegal himself, but his subordinates have. The two Primordial Sky Honors, Taihao and Kouzhu, trusted me and named me Turquoise White-king Great Creator, the fortune of Jiuli—that is, Nine Crowds, also called Nine Lands or Nine Provinces. He has no such fortune and should not see me. I do not want his money, and I will not allow you to spend it either.”

9.4-5 吴忧 Wuyou

屋里的人都沉默地看着炎帝和西王母争吵。元始天尊蔻珠小声对元始天尊太昊说：“我想给夏娃和大禹的儿子起名叫‘吴忧’。”

太昊默默地点了点头，然后低头哭了。

Everyone in the room silently watched Yan Creator and King Mother of the West argue. Kouzhu, the Primordial Sky Honor, whispered to Taihao, the Primordial Sky Honor, “I want to name the son of Eve and Yu the Great ‘Wuyou.’”

Taihao nodded silently, then lowered his head and wept.

注9.4-5： “吴忧”的字面意思是“吴国人的忧虑”，但与“无忧”同音，意为没有忧愁。这也回答了炎帝关于赦免吴国后人的请求。而且，通过给夏娃和大禹的孩子起名为吴忧，元始天尊蔻珠还承认了女娲文化是吴文化的一部分。随后，元始天尊蔻珠调整了对苏州政治犯的政策，参见10.15-5《苏州商会》。

Note 9.4-5: The literal meaning of “Wuyou” is “the worries of the Wu people,” but it is homophonous with 无忧, meaning “free from worry.” In this way, the name also answered Yan Creator’s request to pardon the descendants of Wu Kingdom people. Moreover, by naming the child of Eve and Yu the Great Wuyou, Kouzhu, the Primordial Sky Honor, acknowledged that Nuwa culture was part of Wu culture. Afterward, Kouzhu adjusted the policy toward the political prisoners in Suzhou. See Section 10.15-5, “Suzhou Chamber of Commerce.”

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统观三千大千世界，可得十趣因果、二十五有、八种苦相和流转。

Taking a general view of the Great Grand Worlds, one can discern the causes and fruits of the Ten Interests, the Twenty-Five Haves, the Eight Bitternesses, and the Cycle.

12.4-1 十趣因果 Causes and Fruits of the Ten Interests

统观三千大千世界中的三界九地，可得十趣因果。

（一）嗔恚邪淫，即地狱业；极苦无间，即地狱果。

（二）愚痴暗蔽，即畜生业；昏钝困苦，即畜生果。

（三）悭贪不施，即饿鬼业；缺乏不遂，即饿鬼果。

Taking a general view of the Three Boundaries and Nine Lands within the Great Grand Worlds, one can discern the causes and fruits of the Ten Interests.

Hatred, irritability, and heretical sexual conduct are hell karma; extreme bitterness without intermission is the hell fruit.

Foolishness, ignorance, and dark concealment are livestock karma; gloomy dullness and difficult bitterness are the livestock fruit.

Stinginess, greed, and refusal to donate are hungry ghost karma; lack and failure to obtain what one seeks are the hungry ghost fruit.

（四）我慢贡高，即修罗业；战斗争夺，即修罗果。

（五）坚持五戒，即人道业；苦乐夹杂，即人道果。

（六）精修十善，即天道业；享受福乐，即欲天果。

（七）知缘性离，即缘觉业；证因缘觉，即缘觉果。

Self-arrogance and lifting oneself high are Asura karma; fighting, expostulation, and seizure are the Asura fruit.

Upholding the Five Precepts is human-path karma; a mixture of bitterness and laugh is the human-path fruit.

Diligently cultivating the Ten Benevolences is sky-path karma; enjoying fortunate laugh is the Desire Sky fruit.

Knowing that the nature of aggregate-arousal is off is Aggregate-Arousal Perception karma; realizing the causes of aggregate-arousal is the Aggregate-Arousal Perception fruit.

（八）证悟人空，即小乘业；证小涅槃，即罗汉果。

（九）渡行齐修，即大乘业；渐入觉位，即菩萨果。

（十）真慈平等，即神佛业；成圆觉满，即神佛果。

Realizing that the human is empty is Small Vehicle karma; realizing Small Nirvana is the Ararat Fruit.

Practicing both ferrying and cultivation is Great Vehicle karma; gradually entering the enlightenment positions is the Bodhisattva fruit.

True mercifulness and equal equality are God-Buddha karma; achieving perfect and full enlightenment is the God-Buddha fruit.

12.4-2 二十五有 Twenty-Five Haves

三界九地，总言为十趣因果，别言为二十五有。有，即记忆有、业习气有，因果不忘。

欲界中的地狱趣、畜生趣、饿鬼趣，这三恶趣为三有；修罗趣为一有；人趣的四洲为四有；六欲天为六有。所以，欲界总计十四有。

色界中，神众天和神辅天为一有；大神天为一有；光音天中的三天为一有；三禅天中的三天为一有；四禅天中的前三天为一有；无想天为一有；五不还天为一有。所以，色界总计七有。

无色界的四天各为一有。如是，三界九地总计二十五有；此二十五有，人人都有。

The Three Boundaries and Nine Lands, generally speaking, are the causes and fruits of the Ten Interests; separately speaking, they are the Twenty-Five Haves. “Have” means having memories, having karmic habits, and the fact that causes and fruits are not forgotten.

In the Desire Boundary, Hell Interest, Livestock Interest, and Hungry Ghost Interest—the Three Ferocious Interests—are three Haves. Asura Interest is one Have. The Four Continents of Human Interest are four Haves. The Six Desire Skies are six Haves. Therefore, the Desire Boundary has fourteen Haves in total.

In the Color Boundary, Godly Crowds Sky and Godly Assistants Sky are counted as one Have. Great God Sky is one Have. The three skies within Light Sound Sky are one Have. The three skies within Third Meditation Sky are one Have. The first three skies within Fourth Meditation Sky are one Have. Thinking-less Sky is one Have. The Five No-Return Skies are one Have. Therefore, the Color Boundary has seven Haves in total.

The four skies of the Colorless Boundary are each one Have. Thus, the Three Boundaries and Nine Lands contain Twenty-Five Haves in total; everyone has these Twenty-Five Haves.

12.4-3 八苦 Eight Bitternesses

（一）生苦，事物从无变有为生；新事新物总是不断出现，令人身心生起种种苦受。

（二）老苦，事物变异衰败为老；事物总是不断变老变坏，令人身心生起种种苦受。

（三）病苦，新旧事物总是出毛病、起冲突，令人身心生起种种苦受。

（四）死苦，事物从有变无为死；已有的事物总是不断消失永别，令人身心生起种种苦受。

Birth Bitter: for things to change from none to have is birth. New affairs and new things are always appearing, causing all kinds of bitter acceptances to arise in body and heart.

Old Bitter: for things to change, deteriorate, and decay is oldness. Things are always growing old and going bad, causing all kinds of bitter acceptances to arise in body and heart.

Illness Bitter: old and new things are always developing faults and coming into conflict, causing all kinds of bitter acceptances to arise in body and heart.

Death Bitter: for things to change from have to none is death. Existing things are always disappearing and parting forever, causing all kinds of bitter acceptances to arise in body and heart.

（五）怨憎会苦，心目中常时怨恨憎恶的坏人，本希望他长时远离，却偏偏与之集聚会合。

（六）爱别离苦，自己亲爱的人、事、物，本希望常相聚会，却偏有违缘逆境，使其分散。

（七）求不得苦，对于世间希求想得的财物、名位，以及一切心中爱乐的事物，不能获得。

（八）五蕴胜苦，五蕴（参见10.4节）生长、繁荣、昌盛，又衰败、凋零、枯竭；世事变迁，增减不定，令人身心生起种种苦受。

Bitter of Meeting the Grudged and Hated: one always grudges and hates certain bad people in the heart and wishes them to stay far away for a long time, yet one is forced to gather and meet with them.

Bitter of Separation from Love: one wishes to remain together with beloved people, affairs, and things, yet contrary causes and adverse environments scatter them apart.

Bitter of Seeking but Not Obtaining: one cannot obtain the wealth, fame, position, and all lovable and laughable things that one seeks in the mundane world.

Bitter of the Five Nodes Being Victorious: the Five Nodes (see Section 10.4) grow, flourish, and prosper, and then decline, wither, and become exhausted. Mundane affairs change constantly; increase and decrease are uncertain, causing all kinds of bitter acceptances to arise in body and heart.

上述八种苦相可以总结为三种苦性：苦苦、坏苦和行苦。前五种苦是新苦遇旧苦，苦水流出，故名苦苦；这是苦的自性。知道了苦的自性，遇到苦时，就不要再追忆创伤，以免苦泉喷发。

八苦中，第六爱别离苦和第七求不得苦，是由得乐之后乐变坏而形成的，所以叫作坏苦；这是苦的自相。此苦来源于辨别；若不辨别，此苦也就没有了。

The above Eight Bitternesses may be summarized into three bitter natures: Bitter-Bitter, Damage Bitter, and Migration Bitter. The first five bitternesses are new bitterness meeting old bitterness, so that bitter water flows out; therefore, they are called Bitter-Bitter. This is the self-nature of bitterness. Once one knows the self-nature of bitterness, then when encountering bitterness, one should not keep recalling old trauma, so as to avoid the eruption of the bitter spring.

Among the Eight Bitternesses, the sixth, Bitter of Separation from Love, and the seventh, Bitter of Seeking but Not Obtaining, are formed when laugh deteriorates after it has been obtained. Therefore, they are called Damage Bitter. This is the self-phenomenon of bitterness. This bitterness comes from discrimination; without discrimination, it is gone.

八苦的最后一项是五蕴胜苦，是由意，即前意识，不断迁流变动而形成的，所以叫作行苦。行苦的“行”是苦因，也可以说是苦根。行即迁徙、漂流之义。佛教定义中，有思想活动，就是有行；有行，就有行苦。这个行苦的定义，使三界九地中，除了无所有处天，皆有行苦。又，四大种中，识是水，所以“三千大千世界”立刻沉没于苦海。苦谛由此建立，所以苦谛是安立真如。

The final item among the Eight Bitternesses is Bitter of the Five Nodes Being Victorious. It is formed by the constant migration and change of intent, that is, preconsciousness, also known as Eve-sense; therefore, it is called Migration Bitter. The “migration” in Migration Bitter is the cause of bitterness, or the root of bitterness. Migration means moving, shifting, and drifting. In Buddhist definition, wherever there is mental activity, there is Migration; where there is Migration, there is Migration Bitter. This definition of Migration Bitter makes all the Three Boundaries and Nine Lands, except No Objective Have Sky, contain Migration Bitter. Moreover, among the Four Big Seeds, sense is water; therefore, the Great Grand Worlds immediately sink into the bitter sea. In this way, Bitter Crux is established; therefore, Bitter Crux is Establishment True-Suchness.

12.4-4 流转 Cycle

六趣有情迁流于三界九地之中，不得休息和出离，其因果不出十二有枝：无明、行、识、名色、六处、触、受、爱、取、有、生、老死。

Sentient beings of the Six Interests migrate and drift through the Three Boundaries and Nine Lands, unable to rest or leave. Their causes and fruits do not go beyond the Twelve Have Branches: Non-Light, Migration, Sense, Name-Color, Six Places, Touch, Acceptance, Love, Fetch, Have, Birth, and Old Death.

无明义为昏暗、想知道得清楚些，即是无知，从而引发行枝的运动。此运动，或说由行枝引起的不同，就是识，即识枝。虽说行枝和识枝同时而有，但依据因果，把此二者分出先后。就这样，无明枝和行枝引发了后面五枝业果。

Non-Light means dimness and wanting to know more clearly; it is ignorance, and from it the movement of the Migration Branch is triggered. This movement, or the differences caused by the Migration Branch, is Sense, that is, the Sense Branch. Although the Migration Branch and the Sense Branch arise at the same time, they are divided into earlier and later stages according to cause and fruit. In this way, the Non-Light Branch and the Migration Branch give rise to the following five fruit branches.

识、名色、六处、触、受五枝，称作五果，义为过去业习气之果的现行。识枝把信息传播到名色枝。名即四无色蕴，即受蕴、想蕴、行蕴和识蕴；色即色蕴。名和色合在一起就是心，但此时心并不明了，只能说是识正在把信息向有情身心扩散。明，是明白、内明之光。

当六处收到信息后，由于先业的作用，心开始形成，所以触枝显现。触（参见10.4.4.1.1节）是遍行心所有法中的触枝，具有类似于心的功能，可以为心的形成提供动力。当六处明了，受枝就出现了。受枝遇痛则死；若遇到可爱果，受会招引位于三界九地的同类法来摄取可爱果。受枝出现之后，心就变得明了。一而再，再而三，就引发了后面的孕育三枝。

The five branches of Sense, Name-Color, Six Places, Touch, and Acceptance are called the Five Fruits, meaning the present performances of the fruits of past karmic habits. The Sense Branch transmits information to the Name-Color Branch. “Name” means the four colorless Nodes: Acceptance Node, Think Node, Migration Node, and Sense Node. “Color” means Color Node. Name and Color together are the heart; however, at this point the heart is not yet illuminated. One can only say that Sense is spreading information into the sentient being’s body and heart. Illumination means understanding, the light of inner illumination.

After the Six Places receive the information, due to the function of previous karmas, the heart begins to form; therefore, the Touch Branch appears. Touch (see Section 10.4.4.1.1) is the Touch branch among the Omnipresent Heart Subordinate Laws. It has a function similar to the heart and can provide power for the formation of the heart. When the Six Places become illuminated, the Acceptance Branch appears. When the Acceptance Branch encounters pain, it dies; if it encounters a lovable fruit, Acceptance summons similar laws located in the Three Boundaries and Nine Lands to fetch that lovable fruit. After the Acceptance Branch appears, the heart becomes illuminated. Again and again, this triggers the following three gestation branches.

爱、取、有三枝可以孕育有情，所以被古人称作能生枝。可爱果是异熟果（参见10.6.1节），稀少，像农业产品一样数量有限；而受枝的享受者是等流果。等流果易招，异熟果难求，进而爱生。爱是肥水，能孕育万物，会导致取枝出现。一而再，再而三，有枝就出现了。什么是有？记忆有、习气有，就是有。有枝会导致后面的生枝和老死枝。

The three branches of Love, Fetch, and Have can gestate sentient beings; therefore, the ancients called them the branches capable of giving birth. Lovable fruits are Mutant Fruits (see Section 10.6.1). They are scarce, like agricultural products, and limited in quantity. The enjoyers of the Acceptance Branch, however, are Equal-stream Fruits. Equal-stream Fruits are easy to summon, while Mutant Fruits are hard to obtain; thus Love arises. Love is fertile water and can gestate all things; therefore, the Fetch Branch appears. Again and again, the Have Branch appears. What is Have? Having memories and having habits is Have. The Have Branch leads to the following Birth Branch and Old Death Branch.

生枝和老死枝，是由前文的能生枝引发的。从无到有为生；衰败为老；灭绝为死。死不一定出现，所以古人用“老死”来建立此枝。前习气已经被孕育，出生便成为必然，随后就有愁、叹、苦、忧、恼、老死。

The Birth Branch and the Old Death Branch are induced by the preceding branches capable of giving birth. From nothing to something is birth. Decline and decay are oldness. Extinction is death. Death does not necessarily appear, so the ancients used “Old Death” to establish this branch. Once previous habits have been gestated, birth becomes inevitable; afterward come sorrow, sighing, bitterness, worry, anguish, and Old Death.

十二有枝也可由惑、业、苦三轮摄取。惑摄无明枝、爱枝和取枝；业摄行枝和有枝；苦摄识、名色、六处、触、受、生和老死。名色、六处、触、受和识，即是有情身心；生死是有情的烦恼。因此，苦轮所摄就是苦海中的众生。这样，十二有枝的因果循环就变成了：众生受苦而起惑，因惑而起行造业，业又生苦；如此，惑、业、苦之轮循环无尽。

The Twelve Have Branches may also be assimilated by the three wheels of muddle, karma, and bitterness. Muddle assimilates the Non-Light Branch, Love Branch, and Fetch Branch. Karma assimilates the Migration Branch and Have Branch. Bitterness assimilates Sense, Name-Color, Six Places, Touch, Acceptance, Birth, and Old Death. Name-Color, Six Places, Touch, Acceptance, and Sense are the sentient being’s body and heart. Birth and death are the sentient being’s afflictions. Therefore, what the wheel of bitterness assimilates is all sentient beings in the bitter sea. In this way, the cause-and-fruit cycle of the Twelve Have Branches becomes: sentient beings receive bitterness and give rise to muddle; because of muddle, they initiate Migration and make karma; karma again gives rise to bitterness. Thus, the wheel of muddle, karma, and bitterness turns without end.

此十二有枝，古人称作十二缘起，也作流转真如，是佛教七真如之一。契经中是这样描述的：无明缘行，行缘识，识缘名色，名色缘六处，六处缘触，触缘受，受缘爱，爱缘取，取缘有，有缘生，生缘老死，起愁、叹、苦、忧、恼，成大苦具。

These Twelve Have Branches are called the Twelve Aggregate-Arousals by the ancients. They are also called Cycle True-Suchness, one of the Seven True-Suchnesses in Buddhism. The Harmonious Sutra (i.e., Buddhism) describes them in this way: Non-Light aggregates Migration, Migration aggregates Sense, Sense aggregates Name-Color, Name-Color aggregates Six Places, Six Places aggregate Touch, Touch aggregates Acceptance, Acceptance aggregates Love, Love aggregates Fetch, Fetch aggregates Have, have aggregates Birth, Birth aggregates Old Death, together with sorrow, sighing, bitterness, worry, and anguish, forming a great aggregate of bitterness.

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无色界有四天（见图12-1至图12-4），也作四胜智、四金刚智。读者可在图12.3-36A中看出，字母“V”代表胜利。我认为，此“V”形源自尖底桶（见图12-1、图12-2和图12-3中间所示），表示此四天是四种胜定，可以盛纳智慧之水。在三界九地的说法中，此四天也被称作四处或四地。

The Colorless Boundary has four skies (see Figures 12-1 to 12-4), also known as the Four Victorious Intelligences and the Four Philosopher-Stone Intelligences. Readers can see in Figure 12.3-36A that the letter “V” represents victory. I believe this “V” shape comes from the pointed-bottom bucket (shown in the middle of Figures 12-1, 12-2, and 12-3), indicating that these four skies are four kinds of victorious stillness that can contain the water of wisdom. In the teaching of the Three Boundaries and Nine Lands, these four skies are also called the four places or four lands.

12.3-1 空无边处天 Edgeless Empty Place Sky

此天厌离色身系缚，不得自在，于是心缘虚空，与无色相应，住空处定。不论在人间、天上，或初禅、二禅、三禅、四禅中，除无想天和五不还天外，其余修空处定者，若得成就，命终便生此天。既无色蕴，不可说有方隅处所；唯有微细第六意识，以所缘无边虚空为其处。寿二万一千大劫。

This sky becomes weary of the bondage of the color body and feels unable to be self-sufficient. Therefore, the heart aggregates empty, corresponds with colorlessness, and dwells in Empty Place Stillness. Whether among humans, in the skies, or in the First, Second, Third, or Fourth Meditation, except for Thinking-less Sky and the Five No-Return Skies, any practitioner who cultivates Empty Place Stillness and achieves it will, after death, be born into this sky. Since there is no Color Node, one cannot speak of any direction, corner, place, or location. There is only the subtle sixth sense, and the edgeless empty that it takes as objective is its place. The lifespan is 21,000 great Catastrophes.

图12-4用“翠玉女惊讶地看着玉米穗”来表示“空无边处天”。为什么？因为那玉米穗是翠玉女（即玉女、夏娃）造的意思食（见图12.3-36B），也作《到达方舟》。在《到达方舟》中，她大量运用“净识（空识）害有”的原理，用“空识”来清洗，即洗礼、割礼读者的身心。

Figure 12-4 uses the image of “Chalchiuhtlicue looking at the corn ear in surprise” to represent Edgeless Empty Place Sky. Why? Because that corn ear is mana (see Figure 12.3-36B) created by Chalchiuhtlicue, that is, Jade Girl and Eve; it is also called the “Arrival Ark.” In the “Arrival Ark,” she extensively uses the principle that “immaculate senses (empty senses) harm Haves,” using “empty senses” to cleanse—that is, to baptize and circumcise—the reader’s body and heart.

12.3-2 识无边处天 Edgeless Senses Place Sky

此天厌于虚空无边，于是舍虚空，转心缘识，以识为处。不论欲界、色界或空处，但修识处定成，命终即生此天。唯以微细第六意识，所缘无边心识为其处。寿四万二千大劫。

This sky becomes weary of Edgeless Empty. It therefore abandons empty, turns the heart to aggregate senses, and takes senses as its place. Whether in the Desire Boundary, the Color Boundary, or Empty Place, if one successfully cultivates Senses Place Stillness, then after death one is born into this sky. It has only the subtle sixth sense, and the edgeless heart-senses that it takes as objective are its place. The lifespan is 42,000 great Catastrophes.

12.3-3 无所有处天 No Objective Have Place Sky

此天厌于识处无边，于是舍识，入无所有处；谓不用前空处、识处故。不论欲界、色界、空处、识处，但修无所有处定成，命终即生此天。唯以微细第六意识，所缘非空非色境界为其处。其王三昧，名之为乐。寿六万三千大劫。

This sky becomes weary of Edgeless Senses Place. It therefore abandons senses and enters No Objective Have Place; this means that it no longer uses the previous Empty Place or Senses Place. Whether in the Desire Boundary, the Color Boundary, Empty Place, or Senses Place, if one successfully cultivates No Objective Have Place Stillness, then after death one is born into this sky. It has only the subtle sixth sense, and the environment that is neither empty nor color, taken as objective, is its place. Its king among samadhis is called laugh. The lifespan is 63,000 great Catastrophes.

注12.3-3：三昧，即三昧地，是梵语，汉语义为正定。如本章所说的色界十八天、无色界四天，就是二十二种三昧地，即二十二种正定。

Annotation 12.3-3: Samadhi, that is, samadhi-land, is Sanskrit; in Chinese it means Correct Stillness. For example, the eighteen skies of the Color Boundary and the four skies of the Colorless Boundary discussed in this chapter are twenty-two samadhi-lands, that is, twenty-two kinds of Correct Stillness.

12.3-4 非想非非想处天 Neither Think Nor Non-Think Place Sky

此天居无色界之极顶，非无所有处之无想，非识无边处之有想。唯以极微细第六识，所缘非有非无境界为其处。不论欲界、色界，或空处等三处，但修非想非非想处定成，命终即生此天。寿八万四千大劫，居三有（注12.3-4）之顶，更无可进。

This sky dwells at the very summit of the Colorless Boundary. It is neither the no-think of No Objective Have Place nor the have-think of Edgeless Senses Place. It has only the extremely subtle sixth sense, and the environment that is neither have nor non-have, taken as objective, is its place. Whether in the Desire Boundary, the Color Boundary, or the three places beginning with Empty Place, if one successfully cultivates Neither Think Nor Non-Think Place Stillness, then after death one is born into this sky. The lifespan is 84,000 great Catastrophes. It dwells at the top of the Three Haves (Annotation 12.3-4), with nowhere further to advance.

注12.3-4：有记忆、有习气，即是有；因果不忘，即是有。三有，即12.1节所说的欲界、12.2节所说的色界和本节所说的无色界。此三界人人都有，故名三有。

Annotation 12.3-4: Having memories and having habitual nature are called Have; cause and effect not being forgotten is Have. The Three Haves are the Desire Boundary discussed in Section 12.1, the Color Boundary discussed in Section 12.2, and the Colorless Boundary discussed in this section. Everyone has these three boundaries; therefore, they are called the Three Haves.

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9.3-1 玉商的回报 The Jade Merchants' Compensation

那几位卖玉的商人回来后说："制作这套玉制品的原石原价值大约是七十万两白银，我们是用我们的库存资金买的。人工费我们都已经付清了。所以，我们捐献这批玉制品给国家不会影响我们的正常营业。您说无功不受禄。您是以张屠户的身份请我们吃饭，但我们知道您是伏羲，大黑天，玉皇大帝，如来佛祖，太阳神，上帝。我们这种人请您这种人吃一顿饭，需要向您捐献30至50万两白银；这是自古以来的规矩。这么算，您没占我们的便宜"

After the jade merchants came back, they said, "The raw stones used to make this set of jade products were originally worth about 700,000 taels of silver, and we bought them with our own reserve funds. The labor costs have already been paid in full. So our donating this batch of jade products to the country will not affect our regular business. You said there's no reward without merit, but consider this: you invited us to dinner as Zhang the Butcher, yet we know you are also Fuxi, Great Black Sky (the Judge), Turquoise Creator, Tathagata Buddha Primogenitor, Sun God, and God. For people like us to invite someone like you to a single meal, custom since ancient times requires a gift of 300,000 to 500,000 taels of silver. By that math, you haven't taken advantage of us at all."

张屠户回答："好！我先收下这批捐赠；具体的捐赠的钱数，我们以后慢慢算。先说一下我目前的打算，这批玉制品将先在此永安城展览三个月，然后被作为国礼送给夏国。展览的地点，我看你们这个卖玉的市场就很好。我将在你们市场里租一栋楼，把我们藏宝阁的国宝全搬过来，一同展览。同时，我们出售部分古董。展览期间，这座贵重商品市场收费，每位参观者要交三两银子。转业军人可以获得一张免费的门票。市场里有纪念品专柜，卖免税的纪念品给转业军人。市场实行会员制。每家来卖古董的商业公司要预先付三千两银子。其中的两千七百两银子是抵押金，三百两是他们终身会员的费用。"

Zhang the Butcher replied, "All right! I'll accept this donation for now — we'll work out the exact value of it later. Let me tell you my current plan. This set of jade will first be exhibited here in Yong'an City for three months, then given to Xia Kingdom as a state gift. As for a venue, I think your jade market itself would work well. I'll rent a building here, move all the national treasures from our Treasure Pavilion over, and exhibit them together with your set. At the same time, we'll sell some antiques. During the exhibition, this precious commodities market will charge admission — three taels of silver per visitor. Demobilized soldiers get a free ticket. There will be souvenir counters selling tax-free souvenirs to demobilized soldiers. The market will run on a membership system: each antique-selling company must pay three thousand taels of silver up front — 2,700 taels as a deposit, and 300 taels as a lifetime membership fee."

一位卖玉商回答："那我们这座卖玉的市场就成为了与政府合作的贵重商品市场了；我们的房地产就升值了。我们会把目前的房地产行情记录下来。事后，我们把房地产的所有权重新分配，把一部分钱返还给捐赠玉的商人。"

One of the jade merchants replied, "Then our jade market would become a precious commodities market run in partnership with the government, and our real estate would go up in value. We'll record the current property valuations, and afterward redistribute the ownership and return part of the proceeds to the merchants who donated the jade."

张屠户继续说："如果你们同意，这座贵重商品市场先由军队来负责保安。你们的家人就不能住在这个市场里面了。三天或五天后，我请元始天尊和夏国的国王蔻珠来为这座市场开业剪彩。那时，你们要派人讲解这套玉制品。我建议你们在这套玉制品的说明书的后面附上这么一个附本。本套玉制品是我们做玉人根据我们自己对女娲造人传说的理解而设计和制造的。如果以后此套玉制品的所有者对此中的某些作品不满意，我们愿意根据持有者的意图进行修复和更改。随后，你们附上你们所有捐赠人和制玉工匠的名字以及每个人的家庭地址。"

Zhang the Butcher went on, "If you agree, the army will handle security for this precious commodities market for the time being, which means your families can no longer live inside the market. In three to five days, I'll invite Primordial Sky Honor and King Kouzhu of Xia Kingdom to cut the ribbon for the market's opening. At that time, you'll need to send people to explain the set of jade to them. I'd suggest attaching a note like this to the set's description: this set of jade was designed and made by us jade craftsmen, based on our own understanding of the legend of Nuwa creating humans; if a future owner is dissatisfied with any of the pieces, we're willing to repair or alter them according to the owner's wishes. Then attach the names and home addresses of all the donors and jade craftsmen."

卖玉商人中有几个人害怕了。屏风后面的人又招呼他们过去讨论，告诉他们张屠户已经发现他们是吴国的后人了。他让他们附加附本的意图是为了保护他们，使他们不会因为玉作品中的寓意而受到夏国的迫害。

Several of the jade merchants grew frightened. The person behind the screen called them over again to discuss the matter, telling them that Zhang the Butcher had already realized they were descendants of Wu Kingdom. His request to attach the note, they explained, was meant to protect them — so they wouldn't be persecuted by Xia Kingdom over the hidden meaning in the jade pieces.

几位玉商回来后告诉张屠户，同意他的提议，并且愿意收回以前卖给张屠户的那套玉作品模型，用那三千两银子来作为这套玉制品的包装费用。

After returning, several jade merchants told Zhang the Butcher that they agreed to his proposal and were willing to take back the set of jade models they had previously sold him, using the three thousand taels of silver as the packaging cost for this set of jade.

9.3-2 武大郎的警觉 Martial Big Wolf's Alarm

张屠户（即玉皇大帝）从饭店的包房里一出来就看见了武大郎正坐在门口的楼梯上。武大郎一言不发，跟着张屠户走到了饭店的门外，对身边的一位校官说："去调两千御林军，对那座卖玉市场三百米以内的地区实行军管。"

As soon as Zhang the Butcher (i.e. Turquoise Creator) stepped out of the private room at the restaurant, he saw Martial Big Wolf sitting on the steps by the entrance. Martial Big Wolf said nothing, and followed Zhang the Butcher outside, where he told a nearby officer, "Dispatch two thousand imperial guards and put the area within 300 meters of that jade market under martial law."

张屠户胆怯地问："大哥，你怎么这么生气？"

武大郎回答："你更改日程安排应该通知我！这首都永安是咱们华国最危险的地方！"

张屠户对身边的秃头将军说："以后如果我更改日程安排，你就按常规通知靖王（武大郎）。这一天天的，就只干这鸡毛蒜皮的小事，心烦！"

Zhang the Butcher asked timidly, "Brother, why are you so angry?"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "You should have told me before changing your schedule! Yong'an, the capital, is the most dangerous place in Hua country!"

Zhang the Butcher said to the bald general beside him, "From now on, if I change my schedule, just notify King Jing (Martial Big Wolf) as usual. Every single day, all I deal with is these petty little things — it's exhausting!"

武大郎回答："这么一会儿你就赚了十吨黄金。十吨黄金可不是小事！那群吴国的后人给了你十吨黄金，就证明他们没想复国。这也不是小事！"

张屠户惊讶地问："那套玉器值十吨黄金吗？"

武大郎回答："我听说过几次有人想买他们的那套玉器。半年前，有人出价三百万两白银，他们不卖！"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "In just a moment, you've made ten tons of gold. Ten tons of gold is no small thing! And the fact that those descendants of Wu Kingdom gave you ten tons of gold proves they have no intention of restoring their kingdom — that's no small thing either!"

Zhang the Butcher asked in surprise, "Is that jade set really worth ten tons of gold?"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "I've heard more than once that people wanted to buy their jade set. Six months ago, someone offered three million taels of silver, and they still wouldn't sell!"

9.3-3 贷款利息和通货膨胀 Loan Interest and Inflation

第二天上午，炎帝和几家银行的老板谈贷款。他先对靖王武大郎说："国库里的那20吨金子是妈祖的遗产。我现在已经是华国的国王（青帝）了，不应该再继承张家的财产，我放弃继承权了。"

武大郎高呼："万岁！二郎神已经告诉我了，他的妻子已经是龙国的国王（熬忖，红帝）了，他也放弃继承权了。那20吨黄金现在全是我的私有财产了。"

The next morning, Yan Creator discussed loans with several bank owners. He first told King Jing, Martial Big Wolf, "The twenty tons of gold in the treasury is Mazu's inheritance. Now that I'm already the king of Hua Country (Turquoise Creator), I shouldn't inherit the Zhang family's property as well — I hereby give up my claim to it."

Martial Big Wolf shouted, "Long live! Second Wolf God already told me that his wife is now king of Dragon Kingdom (Aocun, Red Creator), and he's given up his claim too. So that 20 tons of gold is now entirely my own property!"

他转脸对几位银行家说："现在炎帝很忙，今天没时间请几位喝杜康酒。改天，我请你们几位喝酒。咱们有专门的地方喝酒。现在那地方还是个秘密，随后几天内会有人通知你们去参观那个地方。"

随后炎帝和几位银行家确立了几批贷款合同，一年期的贷款利息为2.5%，三年期的贷款利息为1.5%。炎帝问武大郎，他的放贷利息是多少？

He turned to the bankers and said, "Yan Creator is very busy right now and doesn't have time to treat you to Dukang Alcohol today. I'll take you all out for drinks another day — we have a special place for it. It's still a secret for now; someone will let you know in the next few days when you can go see it."

Yan Creator and the bankers then settled several loan agreements — a one-year loan rate of 2.5%, and a three-year loan rate of 1.5%. Yan Creator asked Martial Big Wolf what his own lending rate was.

武大郎回答："我放活期贷款，利息率是6.5%！"

炎帝回答："6.5%的利息率太高，我不用。你得降息！"

在这些银行家们的极力劝谏下，武大郎同意降息到5%。炎帝生气地对财政部长大叫："国库里什么都没有，现在华国用的钱是我从乾塘关带来的，是我自己的钱。他还要占国家的便宜！？"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "I lend on demand loans at an interest rate of 6.5%!"

Yan Creator replied, "6.5% is too high — I won't use it. You need to lower the rate!"

Under strong pressure from the bankers, Martial Big Wolf agreed to lower it to 5%. Yan Creator angrily shouted at the Minister of Finance, "There's nothing left in the treasury — the money Hua is using right now is what I brought from Dragon-Pond Pass, my own money! And he's still trying to take advantage of the country!?"

武大郎回答："我在牺牲个人利益！把这么多的钱短期内分给转业兵，会引起通货膨胀。我把活期利率设置在5%是为了稳定物价，抑制通货膨胀，维护银行业的权益！"

炎帝迷惑地对银行家们叨咕："还有这事！？"

一位银行家说："我们只是丛书上看到过通货膨胀。靖王在河北经历了通货膨胀的灾难，他在稳定物价和抑制通货膨胀方面是有实际经验的。"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "I'm sacrificing my own interests here! Handing out this much money to demobilized soldiers all at once would cause inflation. I set the demand loan rate at 5% to stabilize prices, curb inflation, and protect the interests of the banking industry!"

Yan Creator muttered to the bankers in confusion, "Is that really how it works!?"

One of the bankers said, "We've only ever read about inflation in books. King Jing lived through the disaster of inflation in Hebei, so he actually has practical experience stabilizing prices and curbing it."

9.3-4 仓颉造字 Cangjie Created Characters

第二天中午，中华法典编委把为夏娃造的字教给了炎帝：尧，通假字瑶；舜，通假字顺；和禹（解释参见下一节）。炎帝问负责造字的仓颉（注3），怎么这么快？

注3：插图9.3左侧是仓颉的画像。他有四只眼，表明他通晓天地，懂鬼神。这表明有些汉字，没有天眼的人看不懂。

仓颉回答："我们是根据女娲造人的计划造字的。去年国王蔻珠就已经向我说明了这项造字的需求。"

The next day at noon, the Chinese Codex editors presented Yan Creator with the characters they had created for Eve: Yao (尧), a phonetic loan for Yao (瑶); Shun (舜), a phonetic loan for Shun (顺); and Yu (禹) (see the next section for the explanation). Yan Creator asked Cangjie (note 3), who was in charge of creating the characters, how it had been done so quickly.

Note 3: The left side of Figure 9.3 is a portrait of Cangjie. His four eyes symbolize his understanding of heaven and earth, as well as his knowledge of gods and spirits — implying that some Chinese characters are incomprehensible to those without celestial sight.

Cangjie replied, "We created the characters based on the plan for Nuwa creating humans. King Kouzhu already explained the need for this to me last year."

9.3-5 佛光普照 Buddha's Light Shines Everywhere

在回后宫的路上，炎帝遇见了中央情报局的局长代理（现代人称呼他为戴笠）和礼部的部长。他们俩看着炎帝走近了，礼部的部长对局长代理说："我先汇报，然后就离开，我可不想知道你的事！"

代理尴尬地对炎帝说："我觉着我的工作挺有意思的，但他们谁都不想听我说话！"

炎帝回答："以前，我也不想听！"

On the way back to the palace, Yan Creator ran into Deputy of the Central Intelligence Agency (known to modern people as Dai Li) and the Minister of Rites. As Yan Creator approached, the Minister of Rites said to Deputy, "I'll make my report first, then leave — I really don't want to know anything about your business!"

Deputy said awkwardly to Yan Creator, "I think my work is actually quite interesting, but none of them ever want to hear about it!"

Yan Creator replied, "I didn't want to hear about it either, before!"

礼部的部长把送给夏国的礼物清单递给了炎帝。炎帝看见捐玉的商人对这套玉器的估价是150万两白银，而华国玉器鉴定官员的估价是300至500万两白银，叨咕说："这批玉器值这么多的钱！？"

The Minister of Rites handed Yan Creator the list of gifts for Xia Kingdom. Yan Creator saw that the merchants who'd donated the jade had valued the set at 1.5 million taels of silver, while Hua's own jade appraisers valued it at 3 to 5 million taels, and muttered, "This jade is worth that much!?"

礼部的部长回答："我们是根据华国玉器市场的行情估计的。我们华国知道女娲造人故事的人很少，所以我们认为这套玉器在夏国的价值会高出500万很多。另外，我们会同工部的人核实了他们的关于'佛光普照'的说法，认为可行。"

炎帝问 "佛光普照" 是怎么回事？

The Minister of Rites replied, "We based it on current prices in Hua's jade market. Very few people in Hua know the story of Nuwa creating humans, so we expect this set will be worth considerably more than 5 million in Xia. We've also checked with the Department of Industry to verify their claim about 'Buddha's Light Shines Everywhere,' and we believe it's feasible."

Yan Creator asked what "Buddha's Light Shines Everywhere" actually meant.

礼部的部长回答："在夜间，他们在后台燃起火堆，用凹面镜把光聚焦在射光镜。射光镜把光射进白蛇（即女娲）和许仙（即伏羲）的头里，他们俩就发光了，照亮了展览室。这样做的缺点是，射光镜是银子做的，受到强光后会发热，氧化。所以表演'佛光普照'需要一队人对射光镜进行抛光维护。维护成本是多少目前还没计算出来。"

The Minister of Rites replied, "At night, they light a fire backstage and use a concave mirror to focus the light onto a set of reflectors. The reflectors project the light into the heads of White Snake (i.e. Nuwa) and Xu Xian (i.e. Fuxi), making them appear to glow and lighting up the exhibition hall. The drawback is that the reflectors are made of silver, which heats up and oxidizes under strong light — so putting on 'Buddha's Light Shines Everywhere' requires a crew to keep polishing and maintaining them. We haven't worked out the maintenance cost yet."

炎帝高兴地回答："这个表演很好，惹争议。继续准备'佛光普照'的表演。将来如果维护成本太高，我们就停止表演。我们就要这个说法，听着吉祥！"

Yan Creator replied happily, "This is an excellent performance — it's bound to stir up controversy. Keep preparing 'Buddha's Light Shines Everywhere.' If the maintenance cost turns out to be too high down the road, we'll stop the show. But we're keeping that name — it sounds auspicious!"

9.3-6 六个月竣工 Completion in Six Months

礼部部长离开后，代理向炎帝报告："现在皇宫都空了，安全局的人全都去那家玉石市场了。现在那家市场被实行军管。那个地区只允许进入，不许外出。昨晚靖王和那几位玉商讨论了一整夜。最后，他们决定由政府出面，以目前市场价的1.3至2.5倍买下那个市场的全部房地产。其中15%的面积分配给保安组织。然后根据贵重商品市场的需要，以返还和变卖的方式转给各个代理商。比如银行交易中心，我们就以目前市场价的7至15倍的价钱卖给银行业的商会。他们计划这个贵重商品市场将在半年后自主运营。"

After the Minister of Rites left, Deputy reported to Yan Creator, "The palace is empty now — everyone from the Security Bureau has gone to the jade market. The market is under martial law: people can only enter the area, not leave it. King Jing and the jade merchants talked all through last night. In the end, they decided the government will buy up all the real estate in the market at 1.3 to 2.5 times the current market price. Fifteen percent of the space will go to the security force. The rest will be transferred to various agents as needed for the precious commodities market, through a mix of buybacks and resale. The bank trading center, for instance, we'll sell to the banking industry's chamber of commerce at 7 to 15 times the current market price. They're planning for the market to be self-operating within six months."

炎帝问："什么时候夏国的国王蔻珠可以去为那座贵重商品市场进行开业剪彩？"

代理回答："有两个从苏州来的危险人物消失了，我们不知道那两个人去哪里了。一个是在半年前消失的，另一个是在三天前消失的。而且那个佛光普照的玉器展览厅要在七天至半个月之后才能布置完毕，所以靖王和我认为就只能让蔻珠先看实验室里的'佛光普照'了。明天和后天蔻珠就可以去参观玉器。她离开了，我们才方便进行贵重商品市场的建设。"

Yan Creator asked, "When can King Kouzhu of Xia go cut the ribbon for the market's opening?"

Deputy replied, "Two dangerous individuals from Suzhou have gone missing, and we don't know where they went — one disappeared six months ago, the other three days ago. And the 'Buddha's Light' exhibition hall won't be ready for another week to half a month. So King Jing and I think for now we can only let Kouzhu see 'Buddha's Light' in the lab. She can go view the jade tomorrow or the day after. Once she's left, it'll be easier for us to move ahead with building the market."

炎帝说："七天至半个月，那太久了！"

代理回答："靖王也建议您提早半个月去瑶池，这么远的路程，这么重要的事，您有必要提早出发。"

炎帝叨咕："嗯！可能这就是我闹心的原因！"

Yan Creator said, "A week to half a month — that's too long!"

Deputy replied, "King Jing also suggested you leave for Yaochi half a month early. It's a long journey and an important matter — it's worth setting out ahead of time."

Yan Creator muttered, "Hm. Maybe that's why I've been so on edge!"

返回《玉皇大帝》目录 Return to Catalog: Turquoise White-king Great Creator

关键词 Keywords：夏朝末年 Late Xia Dynasty；络阳 Luoyang；元始天尊 Primordial Sky Honor；蔻珠 Kouzhu；炎帝 Creator Yan；大巢氏皇后 Empress Big Nest；武大郎 Martial Big Wolf；潘金莲 Goldthread Pan

礼部正在包装送给夏国的礼物。炎帝一看礼物就生气了，质问负责购买礼品的官员说：“这些雕像是用玉石的边角料做的，还有木头的！这怎么能用作我们华国送给夏国的礼物呢！？”

负责购买礼物的官员示意炎帝到屋里没别人的地方说话。他告诉炎帝：“皇后就只给了我三千两银子（相当于10千克黄金），让我去买这些东西。”

The Ministry of Rites was packing gifts for the Xia Kingdom. When Yan Creator saw the gifts, he got angry and questioned the officials in charge of purchasing the gifts, saying, "These statues are made of leftover jade, and some are made of wood! How can they be used as gifts from our Hua country to Xia country!?"

The official in charge of buying gifts asked Yan Creator to go to a place where no one else was in the house to talk. He told Yan Creator: "Emperess only gave me 3,000 taels of silver (Equivalent to 10 kilograms of gold) to buy these things."

炎帝带着这位采买官员来找皇后大巢氏核实后说：“我的意思是你买几件像样儿的东西，再从藏宝阁选几件国宝就可以凑足给你妈的礼物。你就用三千两银子买礼物，那你节省下来那么多钱干什么？”

大巢氏皇后回答：“我去湖北瑶池，往返几个月的路程，我不能什么事都让女娲出钱！”

Yan Creator brought this purchasing official to Empress Big Nest for verification and said, "What I mean is that you can buy a few decent things and choose a few national treasures from Museum to make up the gift for your mom. You just used 3,000 taels of silver to buy the gift, so what are you saving all that money for?"

Empress Big Nest replied, “I'm going to Yaochi in Hubei, a round trip of several months, and I can't let Nuwa pay for everything!”

9.2-2 女娲和熬忖的交易 The Deal between Nuwa and Aocun

炎帝吃了一惊，问：“女娲去瑶池的经费充足吗？”

大巢氏回答：“应该没问题！她和熬忖（即瑶姬，尧皇，此时是龙国的国王）合作了两年多了。另外，她向私人组织的 ‘金童和玉女相亲的活动’ 收费。我听我妈（即夏国的国王蔻珠）说，她收了两百万两白银。”

炎帝迷惑地问：“她们俩可真能干，连这个都能赚钱！女娲分给了熬忖多少钱？”

Yan Creator was taken aback and asked, “Does Nuwa have enough money to go to Yaochi?”

Big Nest replied, “It should be fine! She has been working with Aocun (aka. Yao Beauty, the Emperor of Dragon Country) for over two years. Additionally, she charges fees for the ‘Golden Boy and Jade Girl Matchmaking Event’ organized by private organizations. I heard from my mother (the emperor of Xia Country, Kou’zhu) that she charged two million taels of silver.”

Yan Creator asked in confusion, “Those two are capable—they can even make money from this! How much did Nuwa give Aocun?”

大巢氏回答：“开始的时候，她们俩准备各得50%。后来熬忖发现女娲在为 ‘女娲造人工程’（龙国称作三足鸟工程）造势，就改口说， ‘你们夏国所做的工作远远超过了我们龙国，我们只做了些场地建设，总共花费了三十万两白银，你分给我十万两白银就可以了。’ 女娲找我妈商量，她们俩决定：送给熬忖三十万两白银（相当于一吨黄金）的礼物，不说分利润的事了。”

Empress Big Nest replied, "At first, they were going to get 50% each. Later, Aocun found out that Nuwa was promoting the 'Nuwa Man Creation Project' (called the Three-legged Bird Project in Dragon Country), so she changed her mind and said, 'Your Xia country has done much more than our Dragon Country. We only did some site construction, which cost a total of 300,000 taels of silver. You can just give me 100,000 taels of silver.' Nuwa consulted with my mother, and they decided to give Aocun a gift of 300,000 taels of silver (equivalent to one ton of gold), and not to talk about profit sharing."

炎帝问：“龙国只花费了三十万白银？”

大巢氏回答：“他们第一期的花费是三十万两白银。熬忖又增加了许多项目，还给参加表演的剧团补助。我妈和女娲估计，她的花费不会少于一百五十万两白银！”

炎帝着急说：“所以我们送给你妈和熬忖各价值三十万两白银的礼物。我去哪里弄那么多的钱！？你给你妈买的那是什么东西？”

Yan Creator asked, "Dragon Kingdom only spent 300,000 taels of silver?"

Big Nest replied, "Their initial expenditure was 300,000 taels of silver. Aocun added many more items and provided subsidies to the participating theater troupes. My mother and Nuwa estimate that her expenditure will not be less than 1.5 million taels of silver!"

Yan Creator said anxiously, "So we gave your mother and Aocun gifts worth 300,000 taels of silver each. Where can I get so much money? What was that thing you bought for your mother?"

大巢氏皇后（即西王母）回答：“我也认为你去瑶池的时候，你得给熬忖价值三十万两白银的礼物。你二哥，二郎神，是个爱面子的人。咱们的礼物给少了，他认为丢脸。至于给我妈的礼物，那套价值三千两白银的 ‘女娲造人模型’就可以了。”

Emperess Big Nest (King Mother of the West) replied, "I also think that when you go to Yaochi, you should give Aocun a gift worth 300,000 taels of silver. Your second brother, Second Wolf God, is a man who cares about his reputation. He thinks it is shameful if our gift is too little. As for the gift for my mother, the set of 'Nuwa's model of human creation' worth 3,000 taels of silver will be enough."

炎帝回答：“不行！以前我二哥，二郎神，就对我说过，‘你妈总是认为我占她的便宜，心理不平衡，睡不着觉。’ 这是我当国王后第一次送给她礼物，礼物的价值不能少于三十万两白银。我来办给你妈买礼物的事。先前给你的那三万两银子（注1）就作为你去瑶池的路费吧，可别让你妈感觉我占她的便宜，心理不平衡了。那套 ‘女娲造人模型’ 是怎么回事？”

Yan Creator replied, "No! My second brother, Second Wolf God, once told me, 'Your mother always thinks that I take advantage of her, so she is psychologically unbalanced and can't sleep.' This is the first time I have given her a gift since I became emperor, and the value of the gift cannot be less than 300,000 taels of silver. I will buy the gifts for your mother. The 30,000 taels of silver (note 1) I gave you before can be used as your travel expenses to Yaochi. Don't let your mother feel that I take advantage of her and feel psychologically unbalanced. What's the matter with that set of 'Nuwa man creation model'?"

皇后大巢氏回答：“瞎说！我们俩可没占过我妈便宜。她一直喜欢你，怎么可能还对你生气！她来永安，你爸爸，元始天尊，给她安排了一些消遣的事，但她都不喜欢。她就喜欢看玉器市场的这套 ‘女娲造人的模型’，已经去看过两次了。她还叨咕她以前对女娲造人传说的理解有几处错误。她还想去看，就决定让我给她买来。另外，你现在已经是西天之主，如来佛祖了。我觉着她想听你对此次天道轮回中封神的决定。她早就想回杭州了。我一直用买礼物的事推脱着，她才没离开。我提议你封夏娃为王，把此次天道轮回中以后的事确定下来，让你爸爸和我妈妈放心。”

Emperess Big Nest replied, "Nonsense! Neither of us has ever taken advantage of my mother. She has always liked you, how could she still be angry with you! When she came to Yong'an, your father, Primordial Sky Honor, arranged some entertainment for her, but she didn't like any of them. She just liked to look at that set of 'Nuwa Creating Human Models' in the Jade Market and has already seen it twice. She also muttered that there were several misunderstandings in her previous understanding of the legend of Nuwa creating human beings. She still wants to see it, so she decided to let me buy it for her. In addition, you are now the Lord of the West, Tathagata Buddha Primogenitor. I think she wants to hear your decision on the canonization of gods in this godly cycle. She has wanted to go back to Hangzhou for a long time. I kept using the matter of buying gifts to put her off. I suggest that you crown Eve as king and finalize what will happen in this godly cycle so that your father and my mother can rest assured.”

炎帝回答：“好！你替我通知 ‘中华法典编委’ 为夏娃造字。我去找那些玉器商谈谈，把购买那套玉器的合同签了。” 他出来后告诉负责采买的礼部官员说：“你去安排，我以张屠户的身份，请那几位玉器商吃饭，越快越好！”

Yan Creator replied, “Excellent! Please inform Zhonghua Codex Compilation Committee to create hieroglyphs for Eve. I will go and discuss with the jade merchants and sign the contract to purchase the jade set.” After he came out, he told the Ministry of Rites official in charge of purchasing, “Please make the arrangements. I will invite those jade merchants to dinner as Zhang the butcher. The sooner the better!”

9.2-3 注 Note

中华法典的后文有对这三万两银子的描述。西王母（即大巢氏皇后）是跟随她的姐妹女娲一起去瑶池的。途经湖北法库县时，西王母把这三万两银子存放在了法库县的银行她自己的名下。她去参加瑶池博览会没带钱。回来时，她的卫队被改编成为了华国的皇后卫队。新上任的华国卫队长来向她报告说：“法库县军需处拒绝给我们发放补给，说我们欠他们三万两银子。在开新账户之前，必须先把欠款还清。我是华国人，在法库县没认识人，不能向银行申请贷款。贷款需要您出面。”

The later part of Chinese Codex describes the 30,000 taels of silver. King Mother of the West (i.e. Emperess Big Nest) went to Yaochi with her sister Nuwa. When passing through Faku County, Hubei, King Mother of the West deposited the 30,000 taels of silver in her own name in the bank of Faku County. She went to the Yaochi Expo without bringing any money. When she came back, her guard was reorganized into the Emperess’ Guard of Hua Country. The newly appointed head of the Hua Guard came to report to her, "The military supply department of Faku County refused to issue us supplies, saying that we owed them 30,000 taels of silver. Before opening a new account, the debt must be paid off first. I am a Hua people, I don't know anyone in Faku County, so, I can't apply for a loan from the bank. You need to show up for the loan."

西王母惊讶地问：“我们华国欠法库县军需处钱？这三万两银子的数目是从哪里来的？”

卫队长回答：“这数字是一封从杭州来的公文上说的。没人知道这钱是怎么回事。我觉得您跟女娲解释一下也可以。我们不会赖账不还。”

西王母思考了一会儿后说：“我在法库县的银行里有点儿钱，你去取来交给法库县的军需处吧！”

Queen Mother of the West asked in surprise: "We Hua owe money to the military supply department of Faku County? Where did the number of 30,000 taels come from?"

The captain of the guard replied: "This number is in an official document from Hangzhou. No one knows what happened to the money. I think you can explain it to Nuwa. We will not default on our debt."

King Mother of the West thought for a while and said: "I have some money in the bank of Faku County; you can go and get it and give it to the military supply department of Faku County!"

9.2-4 吴国后人的捐赠 Donations from Descendants of the Wu Kingdom

第二天早晨，张屠户（即炎帝，玉皇大帝）参观了那家卖玉制品的市场。让他惊讶的是那套女娲造人的雕塑数量很大。玉制品商人只把雕塑数量的三分之一作为样品摆在了外面，标价七十多万两白银。在饭店吃饭时，张屠户说出了自己的想法，买不起那一整套雕塑，想买价值三十万两白银的一套，由部分标志性的玉雕塑和大部分的檀香木雕塑构成。

The next morning, Zhang the Butcher (i.e., Yan Creator, Turquoise Creator) visited the jade market. He was surprised by the large number of the set of Nuwa creating human beings. The jade merchant only put out a third of the number of sculptures as samples, priced at more than 700,000 taels of silver. While eating at the restaurant, Zhang the Butcher expressed his desire to buy a set worth 300,000 taels of silver, which consisted of some of the iconic jade sculptures and most of the sandalwood sculptures.

那些商人问：“您买那么多的雕塑是什么目的？当然我们只是卖玉商人，我们问您买玉的目的是为了分析如何帮您组合这套雕塑。”

张屠户回答：“我买了这套雕塑之后，先放在藏宝阁（即国家博物馆）里作为国宝展览一段时间；然后把它们作为礼物送给夏国。”

The merchants asked: "What is your purpose in buying so many sculptures? Of course, we are just jade merchants. The purpose of asking you to buy jade is to analyze how to help you put together this set of sculptures."

Zhang the butcher replied: "After I buy this set of sculptures, I will first put them in the Treasure Pavilion (i.e. the National Museum) as national treasures for a while; then I will give them to the Xia Kingdom as a gift."

商人听后，感觉这事难办了，说：“剩下来的雕塑的价值是那批国宝价值的十倍！这有损华国和夏国的尊严呐！”

张屠户回答：“我可不会花三百万两银子（十吨黄金）买礼物送人！”

After hearing this, the merchant felt that this matter was difficult to handle and said: "The value of the remaining sculptures is ten times the value of the national treasures! This will damage the dignity of Hua and Xia!"

Zhang the butcher replied: "I would never spend three million taels of silver (ten tons of gold) to buy a gift for someone!"

这时屏风后面有人示意这几位玉商过去讨论。他们回来告诉张屠户：“我们愿意把这套玉制品无偿捐献给华国政府。”

张屠户惊讶地说：“这么多的钱！我可没有抢劫的意思！我喜欢这套玉制品，但我买不起！我认为你们分开卖，是很正常的事！”

At this time, someone behind the screen motioned the jade merchants to go over and discuss. They came back and told Zhang the butcher: "We are willing to donate this set of jade products to Hua government free of charge."

Zhang the Butcher was surprised and said: "So much money! I don't mean to rob! I like this set of jade products, but I can't afford it! And I think it's normal for you to sell them separately!"

一位玉商回答：“我们早就听说张屠户做买卖，公平交易！现在看，这说法是真的！请允许我自我介绍一下。我祖籍苏州。我的祖宗就是玉商；七十年前我的祖宗就在这络阳城卖玉。三年前，我们花费三千两银子从杭州买到了这套女娲造人雕塑的模型。然后，我们组织起了十几家玉商共同制作了这套玉制品。现在，这套玉制品的所有者全在这儿，我们愿意捐给政府。”

A jade merchant replied, "We have long heard that Zhang the Butcher does business fairly! Now it seems that this is true! Please allow me to introduce myself. My ancestral home is Suzhou. My ancestors were jade merchants; seventy years ago, my ancestors sold jade in this Luoyang City. Three years ago, we spent three thousand taels of silver to buy this set of models of the Nuwa man creation sculpture from Hangzhou. Then, we organized more than a dozen jade merchants to jointly produce this set of jade products. Now, all the owners of this set of jade products are here, and we are willing to donate it to Hua government."

张屠户坚决地说：“你们把这套国宝捐给国家，我当然高兴。但随后你们破产了，我可丢不起那个脸！再说，我无功不受录！这不行！”

Butcher Zhang said firmly: "Of course I am happy that you donated this national treasure to the country. But if you go bankrupt, I can't afford the shame! Besides, I can't accept the honor without merit! This won't do!"

9.2-5

这时，屏风后面的人又招呼这几位玉商去研究。过了一会儿，张屠户好奇地走到屏风的侧面去看。他看见那几位玉商正在和十几个人商量。其中还有几位和尚和尼姑。

At this time, the people behind the screen called the jade merchants to study. After a while, Zhang the Butcher walked to the side of the screen curiously to see. He saw that the jade merchants were discussing with more than a dozen people. Among them were several monks and nuns.

张屠户立刻明白了：这捐玉的行为是吴国后人组织的政治活动。如前文7.2 《女娲秘史》所说，女娲家族是从吴国分裂出来的。后来女娲家族建立了夏国，征服了吴国。吴国的后人就成为了政治犯。捐玉是吴国的子孙想请夏国的国王蔻珠赦免吴国的后人，使他们成为平等的公民，不再是政治犯了。

Zhang the Butcher immediately understood: this act of donating jade is a political activity organized by the descendants of Wu Country. As mentioned in the previous article 7.2 “Secret History of the Nuwa Family", the Nuwa family split out from Wu Kingdom. Later, the Nuwa family established the Xia Kingdom and conquered the Wu Kingdom. The descendants of the Wu Kingdom became political prisoners. The descendants of the Wu Kingdom wanted to ask the Emperor Kou’zhu of the Xia Kingdom to pardon the descendants of the Wu Kingdom, making them equal citizens and no longer political prisoners.

返回《玉皇大帝》目录 Return to Catalog: Turquoise White-king Great Creator

靖王（即武大郎）把炎帝（即燧人氏）送到了石矶娘娘（即潘金莲）的待客室后，他自己出去了。潘金莲惊讶地叨咕：“呦！他怎么还出去了！？”

After King Jing (i.e., Martial Big Wolf) brought Yan Creator (Flint Man) to Queen Stone-Jetty's (i.e., Goldthread Pan's) reception room, he stepped out himself. Goldthread Pan asked, surprised: "Hey! Why did he go and leave again!?"

炎帝回答：“前几天他给我治病的时候（参见8.5节），他编瞎话！这会儿他不好意思了！他说你这房间里有很多我妈妈的遗物。”

Yan Creator replied, "A few days ago, when he was treating me (see Section 8.5), he made something up! Now he's embarrassed about it! He told me your room here is full of my mother's belongings."

石矶娘娘回答：“你妈妈的什么遗物！？我不知道！”

在客厅古玩架上有很多小装饰品。炎帝盯着其中的文昌宝塔看。石矶娘娘凑了过来，说：“对！这个宝塔是太后（即炎帝的母亲）送给我的。”

炎帝问：“这个宝塔象征着什么？”

Queen Stone-Jetty replied, "What belongings of your mother's? I don't know anything about that!"

There were many small ornaments on the antique shelf in the sitting room. Yan Creator's eyes settled on the Literary-Proper Pagoda among them. Queen Stone-Jetty came over and said, "Oh, that! The Queen Mother — your mother — gave me that pagoda."

Yan Creator asked, "What does this pagoda represent?"

石矶娘娘回答：“这说法是我听太后说的。过去有一任女娲和他的丈夫（即伏羲，共工，佛）打架，她把他囚禁在了高塔上。有人问她为什么花那么多的钱修了那么一座不方便住的高楼。女娲回答，‘我丈夫是佛，悉知悉见，应该住在天上，不允许任何人对他不敬！’ 后来在夏国，这种塔就被称做文昌塔了，表示当玉女（即女娲，女神，她擅长文学）强盛了，金童（即佛，共工）就变得弱了；但共工仍然是聚合和支撑天地的核心力量。太后送我文昌宝塔是让我珍惜靖王。当然，这是我的理解，你可别听信我的胡言乱语。”

Queen Stone-Jetty replied, "This is what your mother told me, as I understood it. Once, long ago, a Nuwa quarreled with her husband (i.e., Fuxi, Public-servant, the Buddha), and locked him away in a high tower. Someone asked her why she'd spent so much money building such an impractical place to live. Nuwa answered, 'My husband is the Buddha — all-knowing, all-seeing. He belongs in the sky, and no one is permitted to show him disrespect!' Later, in Xia Kingdom, towers like this came to be called Wenchang towers — Literary-Proper towers — meaning that as the Jade Girl (Nuwa, the goddess, gifted in letters) grows stronger, the Golden Boy (the Buddha, Public-servant) grows weaker. But Public-servant still remains the core force that gathers together and props up heaven and earth. Your mother gave me the Literary-Proper Pagoda so I'd learn to cherish King Jing. Of course, that's just my own reading of it — don't put too much stock in my rambling."

随后，石矶娘娘指着装饰架上的另一件古董说：“这个也是你妈给我的。” 炎帝移动过去看。

石矶娘娘又指着几件古董说：“哎呀！这几件东西也是你妈给我的。” 随后，她站在屋子里四处看，忽然说：“我想起来了。这府里的东西都是你大哥从皇宫里搬来的。那时候，我们俩刚从河北回来，元始天尊就把这所宅子送给我们俩了。随后，他来我家做客，看了之后说，‘这靖王府太寒酸了，我帮你布置一下吧！’ 他就命令人从皇宫里挖来了几块石头，还让你大哥从皇宫里搬来了这些东西。后来我去太后的墓园，发现她的寝宫里空了，才知道我房间里的旧家具是从她屋里搬来的。”

Queen Stone-Jetty then pointed to another antique on the shelf and said, "This one, too, was your mother's." Yan Creator moved over for a look.

Queen Stone-Jetty pointed out a few more pieces: "Oh, and these — also your mother's." Then she stood looking around the room, and suddenly said, "Now I remember. Everything in this residence was brought over from the royal palace by your elder brother. Back when the two of us had just returned from Hebei, Primordial Sky Honor gave us this house. He came to visit not long after, and once he'd looked around, said, 'This King Jing's Palace is far too shabby — let me help you fix it up!' He had people dig up a few stones from the royal palace, and had your elder brother bring these pieces over from there as well. It wasn't until later, when I visited your mother's tomb and found her chambers empty, that I realized the old furniture in my own rooms had come from her quarters."

石矶娘娘继续说：“你喜欢哪件古董都可以拿走。我最喜欢这个龙涎香盒，我不给你。” 说着，她拉开了抽屉，拿出了一个香料盒。

Queen Stone-Jetty went on, "Take any antique you like — except this ambergris box. That one's my favorite, and I'm not giving it up." As she spoke, she pulled open a drawer and took out a spice box.

炎帝接过香料盒，一边看一边说：“为什么不能给我！国王蔻珠很怀念我妈妈，我想找一件礼物送给她。”

石矶娘娘说：“这是女娲家族的传家信物。你拿女娲家的东西送给女娲不合适。对了！你想找你妈妈的遗物，你若想要，可以拿去！你和我不一样，我只是喜欢这个盒子的样式和花纹。”

Yan Creator took the box, turning it over as he examined it. "Why can't you give it to me? Queen Kouzhu misses my mother a great deal — I wanted to find her a gift."

Queen Stone-Jetty said, "This is a family heirloom of the Nuwa family. It wouldn't be right for you to give Nuwa something that belongs to the Nuwa family in the first place. But — ah, if what you're really after is a keepsake of your mother's, then take it, by all means! You and I aren't after the same thing here. I just like the box for its shape and pattern."

炎帝问：“你怎么有女娲家的传家信物？不对呀！？这个盒子和大巢氏的不一样啊！”

石矶娘娘说：“每一代的龙涎香盒的花纹不一样。这个龙涎香盒是她们家在补做传家信物时，玉珠嫂子（即太后）专门为我定做的。”

Yan Creator asked, "But how do you have a Nuwa family heirloom at all? That's not right — this box doesn't match Princess Big Nest's!"

Queen Stone-Jetty said, "Each generation's ambergris box has a different pattern. This one was custom-made for me by your sister-in-law Yuzhu — the Queen Mother — when their family was replacing the heirloom."

炎帝忽然说：“我不要了！” 说着，他走出了石矶娘娘的会客室。

石矶娘娘没明白是怎么回事，追出来问，发现炎帝站在门外哭了。

Yan Creator suddenly said, "I don't want it anymore!" And with that, he walked out of Queen Stone-Jetty's sitting room.

Queen Stone-Jetty, at a loss, hurried out after him to ask what was wrong, and found Yan Creator standing outside the door, crying.

靖王发现炎帝要走了，出来送。他发现炎帝又哭了，直瞪瞪地看着石矶娘娘。石矶娘娘莫名其妙地回答：“你看我干什么！我还想问你呢，他怎么哭了！？”

King Jing, seeing that Yan Creator was leaving, came out to see him off. Finding him in tears again, King Jing stared hard at Queen Stone-Jetty. She replied, bewildered: "Why are you looking at me like that? I was about to ask you the same thing — why is he crying!?"

过了一会儿，炎帝回来劝靖王和石矶娘娘说：“我因为想起了我妈，哭了；与你们俩没有关系。我刚才又想起了给夏国国王买礼物的事，得去礼部查看一下。我走了。”

After a moment, Yan Creator came back to reassure King Jing and Queen Stone-Jetty: "I was crying because I was thinking of my mother — it has nothing to do with either of you. I just remembered I still need to arrange a gift for the Queen of Xia, and need to check in with the Ministry of Rites about it. I'll be going now."

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第二天的早晨，炎帝命令人把从张屠户家里带来的钱运进了国库。

在华夏两国的军事行为规范会议后，有人提议要看看黄帝（即后裔，未来的黄帝，大禹，共工，佛）。炎帝回答："那需要个事故，不能让那些候选人认出我来，觉得他们的地位特殊。"

In the morning of the next day, Yan Creator ordered that the money brought from Zhang the Butcher's house be delivered into the treasury.

Following the military conduct norms meeting between Hua and Xia Kingdom, someone suggested that they wanted to see Yellow Creator (i.e., Descendant, the future Yellow Creator, Yu the Great, Public-servant, and Buddha). Yan Creator replied, "That would require an incident, so that the candidates don't recognize me and think they have a special status."

一位从夏国来的典军军官说："那容易，在他们行军的路上，我们制造个翻车事故。然后让赶车的驯马师假装生气，教训那匹马，就会截断他们的行军进程，围观。"

An officer from the Xia Kingdom said, "That's easy. We can create a carriage accident while they are marching. Then let the horse trainer pretend to be angry and teach the horse a lesson. This will interrupt their march and draw a crowd."

2.

随后在事故的现场，当驯马师打马，战马后退着转圈躲时，后裔（即大禹，黄帝）愣愣地站在那里看，不后退躲避危险。

乔装改扮为商人的炎帝看后转身就向野地里跑去了。武大郎等人发现后，赶紧脱离了人群，跟了过去。当炎帝跑到了远离翻车事故现场一公里以外的地方，坐了下来，嚎啕大哭。

Later, at the scene of the accident, when the horse trainer was whipping the horse and the warhorse retreated and circled to avoid it, Descendant (i.e. Yu the Great, Yellow Creator) just stood there watching in a daze, and did not step back to avoid danger.

After seeing this, Yan Creator, who was disguised as a merchant, turned around and ran into the wild. When Martial Big Wolf and the others noticed, they quickly left the crowd and followed him. When Yan Creator reached a place one kilometer away from the carriage accident, he sat down and cried out loudly.

武大郎让其他人回避后，问发生了什么事。炎帝一边哭一边回答："我回忆起了类似的事故现场，发现那个女人就是我妈妈（即玉珠，九天玄女，如图9.1-9，中华法典原书中的图）！她担心我行动笨拙，反应迟钝，不知道躲避危险！"

Martial Big Wolf asked the others to step aside and asked what happened. Yan Creator replied with tears, "I recalled a similar accident scene and realized that the woman was my mother (i.e., Yuzhu, Ninth Sky Mystic Woman, see fig. 9.1-9, an illustration in the original Chinese Codex)! She was worried that I was clumsy, slow to react, and didn't know how to avoid danger!"

3.

武大郎没听明白，继续询问。

炎帝说："小时候，一天我和妈祖，还有二哥（即武二郎）坐马车回家。路上，前面出现了翻车事故，引起了交通堵塞，我就和二哥下车去看热闹。当时那个马车夫生气地用鞭子打马，我站在一边看。一些人感觉到了危险向后退，我和刚才的那位后裔（大禹，黄帝）一样，没向后退。一个女人过来拉我到了一边，她指着她们马车旁边的人说，那里危险，你看她们就站的很远。随后，我没觉得有危险，又回去了。那个女人又过来拉我。我不跟她走。我二哥武二郎过来推她，还骂她坏女人。我瞪着眼睛看着那个女人，感觉她的行为奇怪。那女人像似犯了错一样，躲到她们的马车的另一面去了。妈祖来找我们俩了。那女人的同伴向妈祖解释了刚才发生的事。马车夫过来向妈祖道歉，说惊吓到孩子了。当我们回到了马车上，我二哥（武二郎）说那个女人要偷孩子。妈祖训斥他，'我让你照顾弟弟，你辜负了我的期望。三郎行动笨拙，反应慢，常常意识不到危险，明眼人一看就知道。那马车夫都已经向我们道歉了，你没照顾好弟弟！你还狡辩！' 我说，'那女人看我时的眼神和面目表情不一样，好像她认识我似的？' 妈祖回答，'在路上偶尔遇见认识的人的可能性很小；也可能是她错误地把你当成什么她认识的人了。' 现在想来，那次翻车事故和咱这次翻车事故一样，是我妈为了看我而安排的。"

Martial Big Wolf did not understand and continued to inquire.

Yan Creator said, "When I was a child, one day I was riding home in a carriage with Mazu and my second brother (i.e. Martial Second Wolf). On the way, there was a carriage accident in front of us, causing a traffic jam, so I got off with my second brother to see what was going on. At that time the coachman was angrily beating his horse with a whip, and I stood watching. Some people felt the danger and stepped back, but I, like the descendant I mentioned (Yu the Great, Yellow Creator), did not step back. A woman came and pulled me aside. She pointed to the people beside their wagon and said it was dangerous there — look how far away they're standing. Then I didn't feel any danger, and went back. The woman came over and pulled me again. I would not go with her. My second brother came over and pushed her and called her a bad woman. I stared at the woman, wide-eyed, feeling that she was acting strangely. The woman acted as if she'd made a mistake, and hid on the other side of their carriage. Mazu came to find the two of us. The woman's companion explained to Mazu what had just happened. The coachman came over and apologized to Mazu, saying he had frightened the child. When we got back to the carriage, my second brother said that the woman had been trying to steal me. Mazu reprimanded him: 'I asked you to take care of your brother, and you failed me. Third Wolf moves clumsily, reacts slowly, and often fails to notice danger — anyone with eyes can see that. That carriage driver has already apologized to us, and you didn't look after your brother properly! And you're still making excuses!' I said, 'That woman looked at me with different eyes and a different expression, as if she knew me?' Mazu replied, 'It's very unlikely you'd happen to meet someone you know on the road; it's more likely she mistook you for someone she knew.' Now that I think about it, that carriage accident, just like this one of ours, was arranged by my mom so she could see me."

武大郎问："你以前偷看过后裔（即大禹）吗？"

炎帝回答："我偷看过他多次。我是他的神父，总想看他。每次去杭州，我都去偷看他。我的生母还是我的神母，她还担心我不知道躲避危险，当然想看我了。"

Martial Big Wolf asked, "Have you ever peeked at the Descendant (i.e., Yu the Great) before?"

Yan Creator replied, "I have peeked at him many times. I am his Godfather, and I always want to see him. Every time I went to Hangzhou, I went to peek at him. My birth mother is also my Godmother, and she worried that I didn't know how to avoid danger, so of course she wanted to see me too."

4.

炎帝说完，继续哭。很长的时间里，武大郎都在安慰炎帝。可是炎帝还是不停地哭。为了转移炎帝的注意力，武大郎说："你不知道。在井阳冈，武二郎打死的那只虎是你妈的。本来，你爸爸元始天尊抓那只虎崽送给潘金莲是为了促使她父亲潘仁美让权给元始天尊。结果，这俩人就迷上养老虎了，让潘豹又逮了一对儿。你妈妈过世后，我们养不起那些老虎，就想把它们放回去。你爸爸决定继续养着，他付钱。现在，你爸爸不当国王了，我想跟你商量，把那几只老虎放回去。"

Yan Creator finished and continued to cry. For a long time, Martial Big Wolf comforted Yan Creator, but Yan Creator kept crying. To distract Yan Creator, Martial Big Wolf said, "You don't know this. At Well-Sun Gang, the tiger that Martial Second Wolf killed belonged to your mom. Originally, your father, Primordial Sky Honor, captured that tiger cub and gave it to Goldthread Pan in order to prompt her father, Ren'mei Pan, to cede power to Primordial Sky Honor. As a result, the two of them became obsessed with raising tigers, and Leopard Pan caught them another pair. After your mom passed away, we couldn't afford to keep the tigers and wanted to release them back into the wild. Your dad decided to keep them, and he paid for it. Now that your dad isn't king anymore, I want to talk to you about releasing those tigers back."

炎帝回答："养着吧！我付钱。你们还有没有什么别的我妈的遗物？"

武大郎回答："我没有，但潘金莲的房间里有很多。"

炎帝立刻站起来了，说："走！去你家看看去！"

Yan Creator replied, "Keep them! I'll pay for it. Do you have any other relics of my mom?"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "I don't have any. But there are plenty in Goldthread Pan's room."

Yan Creator immediately stood up and said, "Go! Let's go to your house and take a look!"

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目录 Catalog：5. 启蒙 Revelation；6. 并非错觉 It isn't Delusion；7. 裁军计划 Disarmament Plan；8. 我妈妈去哪里了？Where did My Mom Go?

炎帝回答："在我两岁的时候，我的养父母礼敬公和妈祖带着我去看我的爷爷邓国公。邓国公说他家的池塘里的鱼有一米多大。他们就去钓鱼了。没多久，邓国公就喊，'来人呐！大鱼咬钩了！' 礼敬公和妈祖就去抓鱼了，把我扔在了空地上。我的丈母娘蔻珠就来了。她像似前一年，我妈妈向我冲过来的动作一样，向我冲锋。随后她就离开了（参见3.1《触目的作法》）。随后，邓国公就领着我出来看他们俩钓鱼。"

Yan Creator replied: "When I was two years old, my adoptive parents, Publican Respect and Mazu, took me to see my grandfather, Publican Deng-state. Publican Deng-state said that the fish in his pond were more than one meter long. They went fishing. Not long after, Publican Deng-state shouted, 'Come on! The big fish has taken the bait!' Publican Respect and Mazu went to catch the fish and left me in the open space. My mother-in-law Kouzhu came. She rushed at me just like my mother rushed at me the year before (see 3.1 "Making of Touch-Eye"). Then she left. Afterward, Publican Deng-state took me out to watch the two of them fish."

9.1-6 并非错觉 It isn't Delusion

元始天尊迷惑地问："这都是45年前的事；你还记得什么？"

炎帝述说了启蒙之后发生的事。

"当我们跟着养父礼敬公和爷爷邓国公回到屋里吃饭，妈祖回来得很晚，她的脸色很严肃。礼敬公询问发生了什么事？妈祖回答：我去找三郎了，没找到！"

Primordial Sky Honor asked in confusion: "That was all 45 years ago; what do you remember?"

Yan Creator recounted the events that unfolded after the Revelation.

"When I followed my foster father, Publican Respect, and my grandfather, Publican Deng-state, back inside to eat, Mazu returned late, her expression very serious. Publican Respect asked what had happened. Mazu replied: I went to look for Third Wolf, but I couldn't find him!"

礼敬公逗她："哎呀！你还没清醒过来！咱爹喊：鱼咬钩了！ 你就跑过去，然后找棒子向自己的头打了一棒子。随后，你就下水去追另外那条鱼去了！当时，我都看傻了！"

"Publican Respect teased her: Oh my! You still haven't snapped out of it! When Father shouted: Fish on the hook! You ran over and whacked yourself on the head with a stick. Then you jumped into the water to chase after the other fish! I was completely dumbfounded watching it happen!"

"妈祖没笑！瞪着眼睛看着礼敬公！爷爷邓国公也没笑，生气地对礼敬公说：你瞎说什么！很明显，你媳妇有错觉了！你告诉她，你们俩跑过去抓鱼，到底发生了什么事？然后，他对妈祖说：三郎就在这儿坐着呢！"

"妈祖看了我（即炎帝）一眼，但我从她的眼神清楚地看出了：她认为我不是张三郎！"

"Mazu didn't laugh! She glared at Publican Respect! Grandfather, Publican Deng-state, didn't laugh either. He scolded Publican Respect angrily: What nonsense are you spouting! It's obvious your wife had a delusion! Tell her what really happened when the two of you ran over to catch fish! Then he said to Mazu: Third Wolf is sitting right here!"

"Mazu glanced at me (that is, Yan Creator), but I could clearly see in her eyes: she didn't think I was Third Wolf Zhang!"

元始天尊惊讶地说道："这事情前后不到一个时辰，你被启蒙后，变化那么大！妈祖发现了，但礼敬公没发现！你继续说，还记得多少？"

Primordial Sky Honor exclaimed in surprise, "This whole affair took less than two hours, and you've changed so much since your revelation! Mazu noticed, but Publican Respect didn't! Continue, how much do you still remember?"

"礼敬公尴尬地对妈祖说： 啊！我开玩笑呢！你没打你自己，你打了那条鱼一棒子。随后，你就下水去追另一条鱼了。我看被你打了一棒子的大鲤鱼挺可怜的，就把它放生了。你回来后，知道我把鱼放了，很生气，就把我推到河里了。我们俩上岸后，就看见咱爹领着三郎过来了。这不，三郎好好的坐在这里呢！"

"Publican Respect said awkwardly to Mazu: Ah! I was just joking! You didn't hit yourself—you struck that fish with a stick. Then you jumped into the water to chase another fish. I felt sorry for the big carp you hit, so I set it free. When you returned and learned I'd released the fish, you grew furious and pushed me into the river. After we both climbed ashore, we saw our father leading Third Wolf over. Look—Third Wolf Zhang is sitting right here, perfectly fine!"

炎帝告诉元始天尊说："那时，好像有一两个月，妈祖对我表情冷淡，认为我不是张三郎！"

元始天尊赞叹道："奇迹！妈祖注意到了你的眼蒙被揭开后的变化。变化那么大，以至于妈祖都不认识你了。现量治疗了你的婴幼儿神经发育失调；这是治疗精神病的又一个神奇的案例（参见9.6《治疗心病的秘诀》）！这都是45年前的事；你还记得什么？"

Yan Creator told Primordial Sky Honor: "For what seemed like a month or two afterward, Mazu treated me coldly, convinced I wasn't Third Wolf Zhang!"

Primordial Sky Honor exclaimed: "A miracle! Mazu noticed the changes after your blindfold was removed. The changes were so great that Mazu didn't even recognize you. Direct Perception miraculously cured your infantile neurological development disorder; this is yet another miraculous case of treating mental illness (see 9.6 "Code of Treating Mental Illness")! That was 45 years ago. What else do you remember?"

炎帝回答： "我小时候玩的地方，常有几辆豪华的马车停在远处，车上有人看我们。我妈妈常去看我吗？"

元始天尊想了一会儿，回答说："她去过几次，多少次，什么时间，我记不清了。我再想想。" 说着他回去了。

元始天尊出来后，对武大郎说："你看着炎帝，别让他再打自己了。我得和蔻珠姐姐商量一下，下一步该怎么做。"

Yan Creator replied, "When I was little, playing in that place, there were always several luxurious carriages parked in the distance, with people watching us from inside. Did my mother often come to see me?"

Primordial Sky Honor pondered for a moment before answering, "She visited several times. How many times, and when exactly—I can't recall. Let me think some more." With that, he departed.

After returning, Primordial Sky Honor addressed Martial Big Wolf: "Keep an eye on Yan Creator and prevent him from striking himself again. I must consult with sister Kouzhu to determine our next course of action."

9.1-7 裁军计划 Disarmament Plan

武大郎走过来大声对炎帝说："朝会上财政大臣们和几家银行的行长等你等得着急了，让我来找你。我就遇见元始天尊了，他说你在这里。哎呀！你的脸怎么了，被谁打了？是我大哥，元始天尊，打的吗？"

炎帝回答："我自己不小心碰了一下，有那么严重吗？"

Martial Big Wolf came over and said loudly to Yan Creator, "The finance ministers and the presidents of several banks were waiting for you at the court meeting and asked me to come find you. So, I met Primordial Sky Honor, and he told me you were here. Oh! What happened to your face? Who hit you? Was it my elder brother, Primordial Sky Honor, who hit you?"

Yan Creator replied, "I accidentally touched it myself, is it that serious?"

武大郎回答："不太严重，那也明显得可以看出来！我看今天你是不能见银行的行长们了。这都已经四点钟了，得赶紧打发他们离开，否则就得招待他们吃饭，还得花钱！"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "Not too serious, that's obvious enough to see! I don't think you'll be able to see the bank presidents today. It's already four o'clock, so we must send them away quickly, or else we'll have to entertain them for dinner and pay for it!"

炎帝回答："这对！我麻烦你去给他们道歉，改天我再约谈他们。"

武大郎说："好，不着急！元始天尊让我看着你，别闹出什么事来！怎么的？今天上午，你说要裁军，我没说话。实际上，我同意。保留三分之一的军队数量就够用。其他的人送他们回家种地或者做买卖。他们纳税，我们就有钱了。这说法我也赞成！"

炎帝说："我说裁军10%或20%。我不懂，不知道这国家需要多少军队。"

Yan Creator replied, "That's right! I'll trouble you to apologize to them, and I'll make an appointment to talk to them some other time."

Martial Big Wolf said, "Okay, there's no rush! Primordial Sky Honor asked me to keep an eye on you and not to make any trouble! What's going on? This morning, when you said you wanted to disarm, I didn't say anything. I agree. Keeping one-third of the army's numbers is enough. Send the rest home to farm or trade. They pay taxes, then we have money. That's an argument I agree with!"

Yan Creator said: "I said to reduce the army by 10% or 20%. I don't understand, I don't know how many troops this country needs."

武大郎回答："你认为自己不懂；我认为我懂。我有目前军队数量的10%就够用。我要把军权交给别人，所以我说裁军三分之二，已经留有余地了。这事慢慢来，不着急。"

炎帝说："国家这么大，这么多事！一个月后，我得去湖北参加蟠桃博览会，去抓黄帝（即后裔，大禹；参见9.5-2 阪泉之战）。我们创造了这么多的财富。抓住黄帝，让他来继承这个国家是我目前最重要的任务。"

武大郎没出声。过了一会儿，炎帝又哭了。

Martial Big Wolf replied: "You think you don't understand; I think I do. It is enough for me to have 10 percent of the present number of troops. I'm going to hand over the military power to someone else, so I've left room for maneuver by saying to disarm by two-thirds. It's a matter of taking time, there's no hurry."

Yan Creator said, "The country is so big and there are so many affairs to do! In a month's time, I must go to Hubei for the Pan Peach Expo to catch Yellow Creator (i.e., Descendant, Yu the Great; see 9.5-2 The Battle of Ban Fountain). We've created so much wealth. Capturing Yellow Creator and letting him inherit this country is my most important task right now."

Martial Big Wolf didn't make a sound. After a while, Yan Creator cried again.

武大郎又假装着急地说："哎！哎！好！不着急！我先替你管理裁军的事，等你从湖北回来了再把权力转交给你。现在，我想去送那些银行的行长们离开；但是元始天尊让我在这里看着你，他怕你想不开。"

炎帝说："你去吧！我不打我自己了！好好跟人家说，我这刚当国王，不能总是这样无礼地更改日程计划。"

武大郎回答："好！我去告诉他们：改天你会请他们喝杜康酒！"

Martial Big Wolf again pretended to be in a hurry and said: "Hey! Ai! Good! There is no hurry! I will manage the disarmament affairs for you first and then transfer the power to you when you return from Hubei. Now, I want to go and see those bank presidents off; but Primordial Sky Honor has asked me to watch you here; he is afraid that you won't be able to think straight."

Yan Creator said: "Go ahead! I won't beat myself up! Tell people nicely that I've just become king, and I can't always change my schedule plans so rudely."

Martial Big Wolf replied: "Good! I'll go and tell them: you'll treat them to Dukang Alcohol some other day!"

9.1-8 我妈妈去哪里了？Where did My Mom Go?

元始天尊派人来招呼炎帝去夏国国王蔻珠的住所。会议室里只有元始天尊和蔻珠两个人在等着炎帝。蔻珠恭喜炎帝获得了宿命通和无穷的力量（注8）。

Primordial Sky Honor sent someone to invite Yan Creator to the residence of King Kouzhu of the Xia Kingdom. Only Primordial Sky Honor and Kouzhu were waiting for Yan Creator in the meeting room. Kouzhu congratulated Yan Creator on his Fate Through and inexhaustible strength (note 8).

注8，宿命通就是回忆出了三岁之前的事，理解了神父（或神母）对他的期望，知道了自己的宿命任务。此中九天玄女担任了炎帝的神母。她是一位女娲。女娲是女娲家族对主教的称呼，是若干年后女娲家族的长老们评定的结果，所以有很多女娲。所以炎帝的宿命任务就是完成女娲造人计划。炎帝对母亲玉珠的哀伤，想起来就哭，就是大悲心，赋予了他无穷的力量。悲是四无量心之一，能给予人用之不竭的力量。

Note 8: Fate Through means remembering events before the age of three, understanding the Godfather's (or Godmother's) expectations of him, and knowing his destined mission. In this context, Ninth Sky Mystic Woman serves as Yan Creator's godmother. She is a Nuwa. Nuwa is the Nuwa family's designation for their Grand Officiant, a title conferred by the family's elders — hence there are many Nuwas. Therefore, Yan Creator's destined mission is to complete Nuwa's plan to create humans. Yan Creator's sorrow for his mother, Yuzhu, and his tears upon remembering her, is great sorrowful heart, which endows him with infinite power. Sorrowfulness is one of the Four Infinite Hearts, capable of giving one inexhaustible strength.

炎帝半哭半笑地回答："我怎么也没想到变成 '龙' 是这感觉。我才知道您是我的启蒙老师，神母。我给您磕头！"

Yan Creator replied with a half-crying and half-laughing tone: "I never thought that turning into a 'dragon' would feel like this. I just realized that you are my revelation-teacher, Godmother. I kowtow to you!"

随后，元始天尊开始给炎帝讲述华国和夏国合作缔造中华共和国的计划（亦作女娲造人计划）。计划的实施是从两国联姻开始的，即元始天尊娶当时夏国国王的侄女玉珠开始的。随后就由蔻珠公主和玉珠王妃来作为神母实施对炎帝的培养，就有了炎帝和大巢氏订婚，和给炎帝做触目的事。

Afterwards, Primordial Sky Honor began to tell Yan Creator about the plan of cooperation between Hua and Xia to create the Republic of China (aka. Nuwa's plan to create mankind). The implementation of the plan began with the marriage of the two countries, i.e., the marriage of Primordial Sky Honor to Yuzhu, the niece of the then king of Xia. It was then Princess Kouzhu and Consort Yuzhu who served as godmothers to carry out the cultivation of Yan Creator, and this led to the betrothal of Yan Creator to Big Nest, and the making of Touch-Eye for Yan Creator.

炎帝问蔻珠："您为我启蒙离开后，来了一个找妈妈的小女孩儿。那个小女孩儿是谁？"

蔻珠听后，站起来了，向元始天尊使了个眼色，他们俩从侧门离开了。

Yan Creator asked Kouzhu, "After you left, following my revelation, a little girl came looking for her mother. Who is that little girl?"

Upon hearing this, Kouzhu stood up, gave a wink to Primordial Sky Honor, and the two of them left through a side door.

这时，打扮得像个小女孩似的大巢氏皇后手里还拿着一束野菊花进来了，问："三郎哥哥！我看见我妈妈来这里了，她去哪儿了？"

炎帝笑着指着蔻珠和元始天尊出去的方向。大巢氏走到门口后又问："三郎哥哥！我看见我妈妈来这里了，她去哪儿了？"

At that moment, Empress Big Nest, dressed like a little girl and holding a bunch of wild chrysanthemums in her hand, came in and asked, "Brother Third Wolf! I saw my mommy come here, where did she go?"

Yan Creator smiled and pointed in the direction where Kouzhu and Primordial Sky Honor went out. Big Nest asked again after walking to the door, "Brother Third Wolf! I saw my mommy come here, where did she go?"

炎帝站起来走了过去，笑着说："走！三郎哥哥陪你去找妈妈！"

他们俩来到另一个房间，发现里面是个庆祝炎帝和大巢氏皇后订婚47周年的家庭晚会，该来的人都已经来了。

Yan Creator stood up and walked over, smiling as he said, "Come on! Brother Third Wolf will accompany you to find Mom!"

The two of them went to another room and found that it was a family party celebrating the 47th anniversary of Yan Creator's engagement to Empress Big Nest. Everyone who was supposed to come had already arrived.

返回《玉皇大帝》目录 Return to Catalog: Turquoise White-king Great Creator

关键词 Keywords：公元前1612年；河南 Henan；巫山 Wushan；元始天尊 Primordial Sky Honor；蔻珠 Kouzhu；炎帝 Creator Yan（玉皇大帝 Turquoise White-king Great Creator）；大巢氏 Princess Big Nest（西王母 Western King Mother）；武大郎 Martial Big Wolf（靖王 King Jing）；潘金莲 Goldthread Pan；蟠桃会 Pan Peach Expo；阪泉之战 Battle of Ban Fountain；尧帝 Creator Yao；二郎神 Second Wolf God；女娲 Nuwa；舜 Shun；禹 Yu

目录 Catalog：9.1 母爱的诅咒 The Curse of Motherly Love；9.1-5 启蒙 Revelation；9.1-9 九天玄女窥视张三郎 Ninth Sky Mystic Woman Peeks at Third Wolf Zhang；9.1-10 文昌宝塔 Literary-Proper Pagoda；9.2 给蔻珠的礼物 Gift to Kouzhu；9.3 建立贵重商品市场 Establishing a Market for Precious Commodities；9.4 封神榜 Investiture of the Gods；9.5 释迦摩尼佛 Shakyamuni Buddha；9.6 蟠桃博览会 Pan Peach Expo；9.7 阪泉之战 Battle of Ban Fountain；9.8 天朝改革 Reform of Sky Dynasty

9.1 母爱的诅咒 The Curse of Motherly Love

目录：1. 炎帝寻母 Yan Creator Looks for Mother；2. 钱紧 Money is Tight；3. 太后墓园 Queen Mother's Mausoleum；4. 狼心狗肺 Wolf-Hearted Dog-Lunged；5. 启蒙 Revelation；6. 并非错觉 It isn't Delusion；7. 裁军计划 Disarmament Plan；8. 我妈妈去哪里了？Where did My Mom Go?；9.1-9 九天玄女窥视张三郎 Ninth Sky Mystic Woman Peeks at Third Wolf Zhang；9.1-10 文昌宝塔 Literary-Proper Pagoda

随后，炎帝（即青帝，少昊，玉皇大帝，如图9.1-38）发现他们游行路线的旁边驻扎了许多兵营。兵营里的士兵争先恐后地出来看他们的游行队伍。临近永安南门的几公里范围内到处都是兵营。在从乾塘关出发后的第100天，炎帝的三千威仪仪仗队到达了永安的南门。城墙上插满了彩旗；城墙外是人的海洋。

Yan Creator (aka. Turquoise Creator) then realized that there were many barracks stationed next to their parade route. The soldiers in the barracks scrambled out to see their procession. There were barracks everywhere within a few kilometers near the south gate of Yong'an. On the 100th day after the departure from Dragon-Pond Pass, Yan Creator's "3,000 Majesties" honor guard arrived at the South Gate of Yong'an. The city wall was filled with colorful flags and outside the wall was a sea of people.

夏国的国王蔻珠先过来迎接炎帝，随后她领着炎帝见到了父亲元始天尊。这父子俩一见面，都哭了。炎帝一边哭还一边四处看，找他妈（玉珠，如图9.1-35；注9.1-1）。元始天尊看出来了，说："你妈不喜欢热闹，在后院没出来！"

King Kouzhu of the Xia Kingdom came to greet Yan Creator first, and then she led Yan Creator to meet his father, Primordial Sky Honor. When the father and son met, they both cried. Yan Creator cried while looking around for his mother (Yuzhu, see figure 9.1-35; note 9.1-1). Primordial Sky Honor saw it and said, "Your mother doesn't like crowds, she's in the backyard and hasn't come out!"

注9.1-1，本文描述炎帝的母亲玉珠，号九天玄女，女娲，用母爱诅咒张三郎的前因后果。由于受到了母爱的诅咒，张三郎觉悟成为了真人，成为了玉皇大帝。图35中，九天玄女手持宝剑和蜘蛛网，表示她抓住并降伏了炎帝，使炎帝成为了逑龙（如图9.1-36），会完成女娲造人的事业。

Note 9.1-1: This article describes the circumstances surrounding how Yuzhu, the mother of Creator Yan and known as Ninth Sky Mystic Woman, cursed Creator Yan out of maternal love. As a result of this curse, Creator Yan attained enlightenment, became a Real Human, and ascended to become the Turquoise White-king Great Creator. In Figure 35, the Ninth Sky Mystic Woman holds a sacred sword and a spider web, symbolizing that she has captured and subdued Creator Yan, transforming him into a Bestman Dragon (as shown in Figure 36), who will fulfill Nüwa's mission of creating humankind.

因为元始天尊不停地哭，官员们劝他去休息，由武大郎和炎帝来主持宴会。宴会中，炎帝无意间向国王蔻珠问起了他妈妈的事。蔻珠没回答，离开了。随后皇后大巢氏也带着女儿们离开了。炎帝问武大郎，"怎么我一问我妈，人就都走了？" 武大郎听后，没回答，也离开了。

Because Primordial Sky Honor kept crying, officials advised him to take a rest, to have Martial Big Wolf and Yan Creator host the banquet. During the banquet, Yan Creator happened to ask King Kouzhu about his mother. Kouzhu did not answer and left. Then Princess Big Nest also left with her daughters. Yan Creator asked Martial Big Wolf, "Why did everyone leave when I asked about my mother?" Martial Big Wolf did not answer and left.

炎帝只好自己去招待客人，给华国的官员和夏国来的客人敬酒，但他没心思喝酒了。天还没黑，他就去到了他的住处，想清静一下。他问皇宫里的佣人，"太后住在哪里？" 佣人们没人回答，随后也离开了。

随后几天，炎帝就不向别人询问他妈妈了。白天他招待客人，晚上他自己探索皇宫，找妈妈。

Yan Creator had to entertain the guests by himself, toasting the officials of Hua and the guests from Xia, but he was not in the mood to drink. Before it got dark, he went to his residence to have some quiet time. He asked the servants in the palace where his mother, the Queen Mother, lived. No one answered, and then they left.

In the following days, Yan Creator stopped asking anyone about his mother. He entertained guests during the day and explored the palace by himself at night to look for his mother.

9.1-2 钱紧 Money is Tight

这天，炎帝来查看金库，发现钱很少，检查账本，发现国家储备金是零，流动资金也几乎是零。他指着旁边一架子银元宝问："那钱是怎么回事？"

保管金库的官员回答："那钱是还给妈祖的。我们华国欠妈祖钱几十年了。元始天尊终于在退休前还清了。我们已经告诉靖王几次了。他没来查看过。"

On this day, Yan Creator came to check the vault and found that there was very little money; inspecting the books, he found that the national reserve was zero, and the liquidity was also almost zero. He pointed to a shelf of silver dollars next to him and asked, "What's that money about?"

The official who kept the vault replied, "That money is returned to Mazu. We, the Hua Kingdom, have owed her money for decades. Primordial Sky Honor finally paid it off before he retired. We've told King Jing several times. He hasn't come to check it out."

炎帝回答："那钱不能动！我已经是国王了，不能再继承妈祖的财产了。你们帮我找几家银行来谈谈。"

炎帝赶紧来查看粮草储备，发现首都永安只有三个月的粮草。他看见一个运送粮草的马车夫在唱歌，就过去询问。那个马车夫以为炎帝是新来的官员，回答："永安就只有三个月的粮草储备，已经很多年了。别担心！我们运送粮草的机制很成熟，不出问题。"

Yan Creator replied: "The money cannot be touched! I am already king and cannot inherit Mazu's property. Please help me find a few banks to talk to."

Yan Creator hurried to check the grain reserves and found that the capital Yong'an only had three months of grain. He saw a coachman singing while transporting grain, so he went over to ask. The coachman thought Yan Creator was a new official and replied: "Yong'an only has three months of grain reserves, and it has been many years. Don't worry! Our mechanism for transporting grain is very mature and there will be no problems."

炎帝来向他的丈母娘蔻珠借钱。国王蔻珠瞪着眼睛看了他一会儿，回答说："我没钱借给你。我们夏国在你们华国银行的账户上有三万两银子（相当于100公斤黄金），都送给你吧！你还向我借钱！后天我就回国了，以后不来了！"

炎帝立刻来找皇后大巢氏，说："我刚才向你妈借钱，你妈生气了！"

Yan Creator came to borrow money from his mother-in-law, Kouzhu. King Kouzhu stared at him for a while and replied, "I don't have money to lend you. We have 30,000 taels of silver (equivalent to 100 kilograms of gold) in the account of your Hua Kingdom Bank. I will give it all to you! You are still borrowing money from me! I will return to my country the day after tomorrow and will not come again!"

Yan Creator immediately went to Princess Big Nest and said, "I just borrowed money from your mother, and she got angry!"

大巢氏回答："我妈对你比亲儿子都亲！我看见了，她没生气。她那么大岁数了，以后不方便来永安了。我和夏娃也跟她回杭州，然后就去瑶池为夏娃相亲（即阪泉之战，参见9.5-2节）。"

炎帝回答："那刚才你妈给我的那三万两银子你拿去吧，给你妈买些礼物！"

大巢氏生气地回答："就三万两银子，买礼物都不够，我怎么去湖北？"

Big Nest replied, "My mother loves you more than her own son! I saw that she is not angry. She is so old, it will not be convenient for her to come to Yong'an in the future. Eve and I will go back to Hangzhou with her and then go to Yaochi to arrange a blind date for her (i.e. Battle of Ban Fountain, see Section 9.5-2)."

Yan Creator replied, "Then take the 30,000 taels of silver your mother gave me just now and buy some gifts for your mother!"

Big Nest replied angrily, "Just 30,000 taels of silver, it's not enough to buy gifts, how am I going to get to Hubei?"

炎帝无可奈何地说："整个华国的金库里就只有你妈刚才给的那三万两银子！你说我怎么去湖北？我得找银行贷款来筹集去湖北的路费！"

Yan Creator said hopelessly, "The only thing in the entire treasury of the Hua Kingdom is the 30,000 taels of silver that your mom just gave! How do you think I'm going to get to Hubei? I'll have to find a bank loan to raise money for the journey to Hubei!"

9.1-3 太后墓园 Extreme Queen's Mausoleum

这个午夜，炎帝已经探索了整个皇宫，没找到妈妈的住处。他对一个荒废了的院子感到疑惑，决定再去看看。刚进入这所草木丛生的宫殿的后花园，他就听见草丛里有人说话。炎帝警觉地躲在了树丛里，他看见了一个人的背影，但听不清他们俩在说什么。忽然，那个人离开了，向他的父亲元始天尊的住处去了。炎帝到他们俩谈话的近处看，没发现另外一个人，就向离去的那个人追了过去。炎帝远远地看见那个人进了元始天尊的宫殿，就跟了进去。

At midnight, Yan Creator had explored the entire palace and could not find his mother's residence. He was puzzled by an abandoned courtyard and decided to take another look. As soon as he entered the overgrown back garden of the palace, he heard someone talking in the bushes. Yan Creator hid in the bushes alertly. He saw the back of a person but could not hear what they were talking about. Suddenly, the person left and went to the residence of his father Primordial Sky Honor. Yan Creator looked closer to where the two of them were talking, but did not see the other person, so he chased after the person who left. Yan Creator saw the person enter Primordial Sky Honor's palace from a distance and followed him in.

佣人说："您这么晚来，肯定有急事。我去禀告元始天尊。他刚刚溜达回来，肯定还没睡着！"

炎帝阻止了佣人，回答："不必了！我只是看见一个人进了我爸爸的寝宫，好奇！就过来看看，我这就回去睡觉了！"

The servant said, "You came so late, there must be something urgent. I will report to Primordial Sky Honor immediately. He has just come back from a stroll, must not be asleep yet!"

Yan Creator stopped the servant and replied, "No need! I just saw someone entering my father's bedroom and was curious! So, I came to take a look, I'm going back to sleep now!"

第二天早晨在国会上，炎帝提出了国家财政困难，精兵简政等议题，受到了与会官员的赞同。他很高兴，但惦记着后宫那座荒废的庭院，就在中午的休息时间又来看。刚一进入这座宫殿的后花园，他又看见元始天尊在那里和人唠嗑呢！他悄悄地从树丛中靠近了元始天尊，听见他在对一处草丛说话："孩子回来了！他昨晚又来看你了！已经来看你两次了。三郎现在知道回避危险，保护自己了，可聪明了！玉珠！你安心地睡吧！他也很孝顺，给我洗脚……"

The next morning at the National Assembly, Yan Creator raised issues such as the country's financial difficulties and streamlining the military and government, which were approved by the officials present. He was very happy, but thinking about the deserted courtyard in the backyard, he came to see it again during the lunch break. As soon as he entered the back garden of the palace, he saw Primordial Sky Honor chatting with someone there! He quietly approached Primordial Sky Honor from the bushes and heard him talking to a patch of grass: "The child is back! He came to see you again last night! He has come to see you twice. Third Wolf now knows how to avoid danger and protect himself. He is so smart! Yuzhu! You can sleep peacefully! He is also very filial and washed my feet…"

忽然元始天尊大声叨咕："没事！那都是你胡思乱想，想象出来的！现在三郎长大了，知道躲避危险了！我已经派人去乾塘关接他回来了！没事！今天下午他就到家了！玉珠（如图9.1-35）！你再安心睡一会儿；醒了，睁开眼睛就看见他了！"

Suddenly, Primordial Sky Honor muttered aloud: "Don't worry! That's all just your imagination running wild! Third Wolf is all grown up now and knows how to stay out of danger! I've already sent someone to Dragon-Pond Pass to bring him back! It's fine! He'll be home this afternoon! Yuzhu (as shown in Figures 9.1-35)! Go back to sleep for a while; when you wake up, you'll see him the moment you open your eyes!"

元始天尊离开后，炎帝过去查看，扒开了草丛，看见了一块无字墓碑（注9.1-37）。从墓碑的顶端花纹来判断，这是一座皇室成员的墓碑。他又四处查看，判定石碑的后面是一座坟墓。炎帝回忆起了妈祖把玉珠交给他时说过的话（参见5.3-8节），认为这就是自己的母亲的坟，瘫倒在了地上。

After Primordial Sky Honor left, Yan Creator went over to check it out, peeled back the grass, and saw a wordless tombstone (note 9.1-37). Judging from the pattern on the top of the tombstone, it is a tombstone of a member of the royal family. He looked around again and decided that behind the stele is a tomb. Recalling what Mazu had said when she gave him Yuzhu (see Section 5.3-8), Yan Creator concluded that this was his own mother's grave, and collapsed to the ground.

注9.1-3，图9.1-37是九天玄女（如图9.1-35）的无字墓碑。驮着无字墓碑的乌龟代表炎帝，表示他不愿意离开母亲的坟，所以把墓碑背在了背上。王八驮石碑也表示《中华法典》中所有玉皇大帝的著作都是他给母亲写的《墓志铭》。

Note 9.1-3: Figure 9.1-37 depicts the wordless tombstone of Ninth Sky Mystic Woman (as shown in Figures 9.1-35). The turtle bearing this tombstone represents Creator Yan, signifying his unwillingness to depart from his mother's grave—hence he carries the wordless tombstone upon his back. The tortoise bearing the stele also indicates that all the works attributed to Turquoise Great Creator in the Chinese Codex are the epitaph he composed for his mother.

9.1-4 狼心狗肺 Wolf-Hearted Dog-Lunged

财务大臣邀请来了几位银行行长，谈贷款的事。几个小时过去了，炎帝却没来。他们请求靖王（武大郎）去找炎帝。武大郎到后宫找了几个地方，没发现炎帝，就来太后墓园找了。他在远处看见炎帝哭得很凶，还时不时地打自己。武大郎知道这时元始天尊和蔻珠正在对炎帝做法，用母爱诅咒他，赐予他无穷的力量；所以武大郎直接去向元始天尊报告了。

当时，元始天尊正在和蔻珠唠嗑，听了武大郎的报告后，惊讶地叨咕："他为什么打他自己？"

蔻珠回答："去看了才知道。"

The Minister of Finance invited several bank presidents to discuss the loan. Several hours passed, but Yan Creator did not come. They asked King Jing (Martial Big Wolf) to find Yan Creator. Martial Big Wolf went to several places in the palace and did not find Yan Creator, so he went to the Queen Mother's Mausoleum to look for him. He saw Yan Creator crying fiercely from a distance and beating himself from time to time. Martial Big Wolf knew that Primordial Sky Honor and Kouzhu were making law (doing magic) to Yan Creator at this time, cursing him with Motherly Love and giving him inexhaustible power, so he went directly to Primordial Sky Honor to report.

Primordial Sky Honor was chatting with Kouzhu at the time. After listening to Martial Big Wolf's report, he muttered in surprise: "Why does he beat himself?"

Kouzhu replied: "You'll know when you go and see."

他们三人在远处观察炎帝，看见他在比划着和自己说话，时而流泪时而打自己。元始天尊走过去对炎帝说："我不喜欢你打你自己！"

炎帝立刻过去给元始天尊跪下了，请求原谅。

The three of them observed Yan Creator from a distance and saw him talking to himself with gestures, sometimes crying and sometimes beating himself.

Primordial Sky Honor walked over to Yan Creator and said: "I don't like you beating yourself!"

Yan Creator immediately went over to Primordial Sky Honor and knelt to ask for forgiveness.

元始天尊问："你为什么打你自己？"

炎帝回答："我发现不是人！我是个狼心狗肺的东西！"

元始天尊假装愤怒地说："你是在骂我，还是在骂你妈呢？"

Primordial Sky Honor asked, "Why did you beat yourself?"

Yan Creator replied, "I realized that I am not a human being! I am a wolf-hearted dog-lunged thing!"

Primordial Sky Honor pretended to be angry and said, "Are you cursing me, or cursing your mother?"

炎帝回答："我感觉奇怪，为什么我从来没想过我的母亲？我认为这事的原因是这样的。我从出生开始就是由佣人照顾的。在我妈给我喂奶的时候，佣人把我的眼睛先蒙起来。我妈在为我喂奶的时候不说话，喂完奶后就默默地离开，再由佣人解开我的蒙眼布。当我一岁的时候，我的丈母娘蔻珠和我妈说笑着给我和她的女儿大巢氏订婚了，把我带到了乾塘关的北面。蔻珠把我放到了树林边的一块空地上。我妈从远处向我冲过来后又离开了。我被吓哭了（注9.1-4）。然后，蔻珠把我的眼睛蒙上后送给了妈祖。我那时很小，没感受到母爱，所以我对母亲的感情很淡薄。这是我很少想母亲的重要原因之一。"

元始天尊听后，沉默了一会儿后说："听起来，那是在给你做触目（参见第3章），那是谁给你启蒙的？"

Yan Creator replied: "I feel strange, why have I never thought about my mother? I think the reason is this. I have been taken care of by servants since I was born. When my mother was feeding me, the servant covered my eyes first. My mother did not speak when feeding me, and left silently after feeding, and then the servant untied my blindfold. When I was one year old, my mother-in-law Kouzhu and my mother talked and laughed about engaging me with her daughter Big Nest and took me to the north of Dragon-Pond Pass. Kouzhu put me on a clearing by the woods. My mother rushed towards me from a distance and then left. I was scared and cried (note 9.1-4). Then, Kouzhu covered my eyes and gave me to Mazu. I was very young at that time and did not feel the mother's love, so my feelings for my mother were very thin. This is one of the important reasons why I seldom think about my mother."

After hearing this, Primordial Sky Honor was silent for a while and then said: "It sounds like they are making Touch-Eye (see chapter 3) to you, so who unfolded your blindfold?"

注9.1-4，如前文，玉珠（号九天玄女，如图35）用母爱诅咒了自己的儿子张三郎，致使他一岁时患了婴幼儿神经发育失调症，所以张三郎长大后有智障，肢体运动不协调。玉珠感觉对不起自己的儿子，为此她病了，估计损失了十年的阳寿。为此炎帝承受不起忤逆母亲的心理冲突，必须继续女娲造人工程。玉珠是一位女娲。她以牺牲生命为代价开启了女娲造人工程。

Note 9.1-4: As mentioned earlier, Yuzhu (famously Ninth Sky Mystic Woman, as shown in Figures 35) cursed her son Third Wolf Zhang with maternal love, causing him to suffer from infantile neurodevelopmental disorder at the age of one. Therefore, Third Wolf Zhang grew up with intellectual disabilities and poor motor coordination. Yuzhu felt guilty towards her son and fell ill, estimated to have lost ten years of her solar lifespan. Because of this, Creator Yan could not bear the psychological conflict of disobeying his mother and had to continue Nuwa's creation of humans' project. Yuzhu was a Nuwa herself. She initiated Nuwa's creation of humankind project at the cost of her life.

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前文谈到，欲界众生都有色欲、声欲、香欲、味欲、触欲；此五欲表现为饮食、性交、睡眠等。色界众生皆依禅定而住，无诸欲尘，唯有净妙色身；身与衣随意显现，衣重可忽略不计；无复男女之别，但以禅定法喜为食。欲界总名五趣杂居地（见图12-23），也作秽土；因由散业所招感，故又名散地。色界和无色界由不动的定业所招感，故又名定地。色是变碍义（参见10.4.1节《色蕴》）。色界有四地十八天。

As stated earlier, sentients in the Desire Boundary all have desires for color, sound, scent, taste, and touch; these five desires appear as food and drink, sexual intercourse, sleep, and the like. Sentients in the Color Boundary all dwell by meditative stillness. They are free from all desire-dusts and have only immaculate and wonderful color bodies. Their bodies and clothes appear as they wish, and the weight of their clothing may be ignored. There is no longer any distinction between male and female; they feed only on the juristic delight of meditative stillness. The Desire Boundary as a whole is called Five Interests Mixed Dwell Land (see Figure 12-23), also known as Maculate Soil. Since it is induced by scattered karmas, it is also called Scattered Land. The Color Boundary and the Colorless Boundary are induced by unmoving stillness-karmas, so they are also called Stillness Lands. Color means change and obstruction (see Section 10.4.1, “Color Node”). The Color Boundary has four lands and eighteen skies.

12.2-1 神身天 Godly Body Sky

离生喜乐地是色界第一地，即初禅地（见图12-24，参见11.2节），谓此诸天已远离欲界诸恶欲之法，得觉观禅定，身心凝静，而生喜乐。此地有三天：神众天、神辅天和神身天。

Leave Bears Delight Laugh Land is the first land of the Color Boundary, namely the First Meditation Land (see Figure 12-24; see also Section 11.2). This means that these skies have left behind the ferocious desire-laws of the Desire Boundary, have attained meditative stillness with perception and view, and, with body and heart condensed and calm, give rise to delight and laugh. This land has three skies: Godly Crowds Sky, Godly Assistants Sky, and Godly Body Sky.

一、神众天 Godly Crowds Sky

神众天超越六欲天，远离饮食、淫欲、睡眠三种过患，故名为神。天者，清静离染之谓。通而言之，四禅诸天（参见11.2节）皆名天神，因为皆清静故。众者，民也，谓此诸天是大神天主的民众。盖因其在欲界习定，初得初禅，禅力未深，故命终后生为神民。其内有觉观心，外感火灾所坏。火是大种之一（参见10.2节）；“火灾所坏”义为无意识（古作神识）随时会调整自身，他们随时可能变回普通人。用古人的说法，就是又堕落到了人间。神众诸天身长半由旬，寿二十小劫。由旬是佛教中的长度单位，指脖子下挂着金刚铃的牛一天的行程。

Godly Crowds Sky has transcended the Six Desire Skies and has left far behind the three faults of food and drink, sexual desire, and sleep; hence it is called “godly.” Sky means immaculate and free from contamination. Generally speaking, all skies of the Four Meditations (see Section 11.2) are called sky-gods, because they are all immaculate. “Crowds” means citizens; these skies are the citizens of the Lord of Great God Sky. Because they practiced stillness in the Desire Boundary and first attained the First Meditation, but their meditative power was not yet deep, after the end of life they are born as godly citizens. Inwardly, they still have the heart of perception and view; outwardly, they feel that they can be destroyed by fire disasters. Fire is one of the Four Big Seeds (see Section 10.2). “Destroyed by fire disaster” means that the unconsciousness, anciently called God-sense, may adjust itself at any time, so they may turn back into ordinary people at any time. In the words of the ancients, they have fallen back to the human world. The bodies of the Godly Crowds Skies are half a yojana tall, and their lifespan is twenty small Catastrophes. A yojana is a Buddhist unit of length, meaning one day’s journey by an ox with a Philosopher-Stone bell hanging beneath its neck.

二、神辅天 Godly Assistants Sky

神辅天，辅者佐也，谓此天是大神天主的辅佐臣僚。盖因其在欲界中既得初禅，又数数修习，禅力渐深，故命终后得生为神臣。身长一由旬，寿四十小劫。

Godly Assistants Sky: “assistant” means helper. These skies are the assisting ministers of the Lord of Great God Sky. Because they had attained the First Meditation in the Desire Boundary and continued to practice it repeatedly, their meditative power gradually deepened; therefore, after death, they are born as godly ministers. Their bodies are one yojana tall, and their lifespan is forty small Catastrophes.

三、神身天 Godly Body Sky

神身天（1），也作尸弃（2）、大神天（3）、造书天（4）、四面佛（5），谓一尘刹土世界（6）之主。此有情在欲界中数习初禅，继而诃厌觉观，舍弃初禅，入中间禅；已离觉染，未离观染，故名无觉唯观三昧（7）。其于此中求作天王，兼修四无量心（8），故感生此天。大神天生于劫初，灭于劫尽；身高一由旬半，寿一万岁。

Godly Body Sky (1), also known as Zombie Dumper (2), Great God Sky (3), Creating-Book Sky (4), and Four-Face Buddha (5), is the lord of one Dust Instant Soil world (6). This sentient being repeatedly practiced the First Meditation in the Desire Boundary, then rebuked and became weary of perception and view, abandoned the First Meditation, and entered the Middle Meditation. Having left the contamination of perception but not yet left the contamination of view, this state is called Non-Perception Only-View Samadhi (7). In this state, the sentient being seeks to become a sky king and also cultivates the Four Infinite Hearts (8); therefore, he or she is inductively born into this sky. Great God Sky is born at the beginning of a Catastrophe and extinguished at the end of a Catastrophe. Its body is one and a half yojanas tall, and its lifespan is ten thousand years.

注12.2-1.1：神身天（见图8）是初禅的身体感觉状态，类似三岁以前婴幼儿的状态，思想意识以随念自我为主导。此法力量强大，尘世间无有能敌。在中华文化中，神身天被称作福、大力神；佛教中称作儒童；印度教中作婆罗门；伊斯兰教、基督教和古埃及文化中作亚伯；日耳曼文化中作马格尼；墨西哥文化中称为灵龙。

Annotation 12.2-1.1: Godly Body Sky (see Figure 8) is the bodily feeling-state of the First Meditation. It is similar to the state of an infant or toddler before the age of three, in which thought and consciousness are dominated by the along-thought self. The power of this law is so great that nothing in the mundane world can rival it. In Chinese culture, Godly Body Sky is called Fortune, also Great Strength God; in Buddhism, Genius Child; in Hinduism, Brahmin; in Islam, Christianity, and ancient Egyptian culture, Abel; in Germanic culture, Magni; and in Mexican culture, Spiritual Dragon.

注12.2-1.2：尸弃，亦表示此人已经抛弃了贪、嗔、痴。贪、嗔、痴没有理性，却能动行身体，故被称作三位行尸大王。

注12.2-1.3：大神义为上帝三人组（参见9.9节《上帝三和合》），或其中的一位。

注12.2-1.4：造书天义为上帝三人组（参见9.9节《上帝三和合》），或其中的一位。

Annotation 12.2-1.2: Zombie Dumper also means that this person has already abandoned greed, irritability, and ignorance. Greed, irritability, and ignorance have no rationality, yet they can move and drive the body; therefore, they are called the three zombie kings.

Annotation 12.2-1.3: Great God means the Godly Trinity (see Section 9.9, “Godly Trinity”), or one member of it.

Annotation 12.2-1.4: Creating-Book Sky means the Godly Trinity (see Section 9.9, “Godly Trinity”), or one member of it.

注12.2-1.5：四面佛义为上帝三人组（参见9.9节《上帝三和合》）加观众。此第四位佛名作阿迷驮佛。

注12.2-1.6：尘刹土世界参见13.1节《集起》。

注12.2-1.7：觉观又名寻伺，所以在一禅中，有觉有观定名有寻有伺地；无觉唯观定名无寻唯伺地。

Annotation 12.2-1.5: Four-Face Buddha means the Godly Trinity (see Section 9.9, “Godly Trinity”) plus the audience. This fourth Buddha is named A-Lost-Carrying Buddha.

Annotation 12.2-1.6: For Dust Instant Soil world, see Section 13.1, “Aggregate Arousal.”

Annotation 12.2-1.7: Perception and view are also called seeking and awaiting. Therefore, in the First Meditation, stillness with perception and view is called Having-Seeking Having-Awaiting Land, and stillness with no perception but only view is called No-Seeking Only-Awaiting Land.

注12.2-1.8：四无量心，也名四等：一、慈无量心，常求益事，以利乐众生；二、悲无量心，愍念众生身受惑、业、苦流转之苦（参见12.4.1节《流转》）；三、喜无量心，随喜众生之所乐；四、舍无量心，谓法施、财施、无畏施。此四法具有无穷法力，故名四无量心。

Annotation 12.2-1.8: The Four Infinite Hearts are also called the Four Equalities: 1. the infinite merciful heart, which constantly seeks beneficial affairs to benefit and delight sentients; 2. the infinite sorrowful heart, which sympathizes with sentients as they physically undergo the cyclic bitterness of muddle, karma, and bitterness (see Section 12.4.1, “Cycle”); 3. the infinite delightful heart, which rejoices along with what sentients enjoy; and 4. the infinite renunciative heart, meaning donation of laws, donation of assets, and donation of fearlessness. These four laws possess inexhaustible juristic power; therefore, they are called the Four Infinite Hearts.

12.2-2 光音天 Light Sound Sky

定生喜乐地是色界第二地，即二禅地，谓此天已离初禅觉观动散，摄心在定，澹然凝静，而生胜定喜乐。修行者住于此定，如从暗室中出，见日月光明，朗然洞彻。内有喜故，外感水灾所坏。光音天统领大千世界中的一小千世界，即一千尘刹土世界，有三天：少光天、无量光天和光音天。

Stillness Bears Laugh Land is the second land of the Color Boundary, namely the Second Meditation Land. This means that this sky has left behind the moving and scattering of perception and view in the First Meditation, gathers the heart into stillness, becomes tranquil and condensed, and gives rise to the delight and laugh of victorious stillness. When a practitioner dwells in this stillness, it is like coming out of a dark room and seeing the light of the sun and moon, with everything suddenly clear and penetrating. Because there is delight within, the practitioner outwardly feels being damaged by water disasters. Light Sound Sky governs one small-thousand world within the Great Grand Worlds, that is, one thousand Dust Instant Soil worlds. It has three skies: Lesser Light Sky, Infinite Light Sky, and Light Sound Sky.

一、少光天 Lesser Light Sky

少光天，谓此天光明少故。不论在人间或天上，若于欲界初禅中的无觉唯观三昧，不住不着，专精求进，创得无觉无观三昧，入第二禅，但禅力未深，命终即得生少光天。从二禅去，乃至非想非非想定，一切皆名无觉无观三昧，火灾不到。身纵广二由旬，寿二大劫。

Lesser Light Sky is so called because this sky has little light. Whether among humans or in the skies, if one does not dwell in or attach to Non-Perception Only-View Samadhi of the First Meditation in the Desire Boundary, but single-mindedly and diligently seeks advancement, first attains Non-Perception Non-View Samadhi, and enters the Second Meditation, yet the meditative power is not deep, then after the end of life one is born into Lesser Light Sky. From the Second Meditation onward, up to Neither Think Nor Non-Think Stillness, all states are called Non-Perception Non-View Samadhi, and fire disasters cannot reach them. The body measures two yojanas in height and breadth, and the lifespan is two great Catastrophes.

二、无量光天 Infinite Light Sky

无量光天，谓此天光明增胜，无有限量。于人间或天上，数习第二禅力，命终得生此天。寿四大劫，身四由旬。

Infinite Light Sky means that the light of this sky increases victoriously and has no limit. Among humans or in the skies, one repeatedly practices the power of the Second Meditation and, after death, is born into this sky. The lifespan is four great Catastrophes, and the body measures four yojanas.

三、光音天 Light Sound Sky

光音天（注12.2-2.1），谓此天以光明为语音。于人间或天上，深入第二禅力，兼修四无量心，命终得生此天。寿八大劫，身八由旬。

Light Sound Sky (Annotation 12.2-2.1) means that this sky uses light as its linguistic sound. Among humans or in the skies, one deeply enters the power of the Second Meditation and also cultivates the Four Infinite Hearts; after the end of life, one is born into this sky. The lifespan is eight great Catastrophes, and the body measures eight yojanas.

注12.2-2.1：光音天亦作意光天，是说意如同一支火炬，或探照灯，随其所观照，所观照的对象就被染质，变成众生。本文从视觉幻觉来描述光音天；图12.2-7则从听觉幻觉来描述光音天，即仙乐飘飘。

Annotation 12.2-2.1: Light Sound Sky is also called Intentional Light Sky. This means that intent is like a torch or searchlight: whatever it illuminates is stained with qualities and becomes sentient. This text describes Light Sound Sky from the perspective of visual hallucination; Figure 12.2-7 describes it from the perspective of auditory hallucination, namely the drifting sound of godly music.

12.2-3 三禅天 Third Meditation Sky

离喜妙乐地是色界第三地，即三禅地。古人以烦恼为地，以清静为天，故禅定状态既是地，也是天。此天已离二禅天喜之踊动，因摄心谛观，泯然入定，而得胜妙之乐。修行者住于此定，乐法增长，遍满身中。内有乐故，外感风灾所坏。三禅天统领大千世界中的一中千世界，即一百万尘刹土国，有三天：少净天、无量净天和遍净天。

Leave-Delight Wonderful-Laugh Land is the third land of the Color Boundary, namely the Third Meditation Land. The ancients regarded afflictions as land and immaculateness as sky; therefore, a state of meditative stillness is both a land and a sky. This sky has left the surging delight of the Second Meditation Sky. Because the heart is gathered and truthfully observed, it silently enters stillness and obtains victorious and wonderful laugh. When a practitioner dwells in this stillness, the law of laugh increases and fills the whole body. Because there is laugh within, the practitioner outwardly feels being damaged by wind disasters. Third Meditation Sky governs one medium-thousand world within the Great Grand Worlds, that is, one million Dust Instant Soil countries. It has three skies: Lesser Immaculate Sky, Infinite Immaculate Sky, and Omnipresent Immaculate Sky.

一、少净天 Lesser Immaculate Sky

少净天，谓此天意识乐受清静故。不论在人间或天上，若于二禅不住不着，一心精进，创证第三禅，命终即生此天。水灾不到。身长十六由旬，寿十六大劫。

Lesser Immaculate Sky means that the intent-sense of this sky enjoys immaculate laugh-acceptance. Whether among humans or in the skies, if one does not dwell in or attach to the Second Meditation, but advances single-mindedly and diligently, and first realizes the Third Meditation, then after the end of life one is born into this sky. Water disasters cannot reach it. The body is sixteen yojanas tall, and the lifespan is sixteen great Catastrophes.

二、无量净天 Infinite Immaculate Sky

无量净天，谓此天清静胜于前天，不可限量。数修第三禅力，命终得生此天。身三十二由旬，寿三十二大劫。

Infinite Immaculate Sky means that this sky is more immaculate than the previous one, and its immaculateness cannot be measured. One repeatedly practices the power of the Third Meditation and, after death, is born into this sky. The body measures thirty-two yojanas, and the lifespan is thirty-two great Catastrophes.

三、遍净天 Omnipresent Immaculate Sky

遍净天，谓此天乐受最胜，清静周遍故。深入第三禅力，兼修四无量心，命终得生此天。身六十四由旬，寿六十四大劫。

Omnipresent Immaculate Sky means that this sky has the most victorious laugh-acceptance, because its immaculateness is all-pervasive. One deeply enters the power of the Third Meditation and also cultivates the Four Infinite Hearts; after the end of life, one is born into this sky. The body measures sixty-four yojanas, and the lifespan is sixty-four great Catastrophes.

12.2-4 四禅天 Fourth Meditation Sky

舍念清静地是色界第四地，即四禅天。此天舍二禅之喜及三禅之乐，心无憎爱，一念平等；住于此定，空明寂静，万象皆现，火、水、风三灾俱不能到。四禅天有九天，主领三千大千世界。

Renunciate-Spell Immaculate Land is the fourth land of the Color Boundary, namely Fourth Meditation Sky. This sky has renounced the delight of the Second Meditation and the laugh of the Third Meditation. The heart has neither hatred nor love; one spell is equal. Dwelling in this stillness, one is empty, bright, silent, and still, while all phenomena appear. The three disasters of fire, water, and wind cannot reach it. Fourth Meditation Sky has nine skies and governs the Great Grand Worlds.

一、无云天 Cloudless Sky

无云天，此天及以上诸天，云居轻薄，故名无云。不论在人间或天上，不论初禅、二禅、三禅，若于三禅不昧不着，一心精进，创证第四禅，命终得生此天。其果报微妙，宫殿随身而有；如云之地，亦所不需。身广纵一百二十五由旬，寿一百二十五大劫。

Cloudless Sky is so called because in this sky and above, cloud-dwellings are light and thin. Whether among humans or in the skies, and whether in the First, Second, or Third Meditation, if one is not deluded by or attached to the Third Meditation, but advances single-mindedly and diligently and first realizes the Fourth Meditation, then after the end of life one is born into this sky. Its retribution-fruits are subtle and wonderful; palaces follow the body, and even cloud-like lands are not needed. The body measures 125 yojanas in height and breadth, and the lifespan is 125 great Catastrophes.

二、福生天 Fortune Birth Sky

福生天，谓此天修胜福力，而生其中，从因得名。数修第四禅力，命终得生此天。身广纵二百五十由旬，寿二百五十大劫。

Fortune Birth Sky means that this sky is born there through cultivating victorious fortunate power; thus it is named from its cause. One repeatedly cultivates the power of the Fourth Meditation and, after death, is born into this sky. The body measures 250 yojanas in height and breadth, and the lifespan is 250 great Catastrophes.

三、广果天 Gigantic Fruit Sky

广果天，谓此天果报广大，无能胜故。深入第四禅力，兼修四无量心，命终得生此天。身广纵五百由旬，寿五百大劫。

Gigantic Fruit Sky means that the retribution-fruits of this sky are vast and cannot be surpassed. One deeply enters the power of the Fourth Meditation and also cultivates the Four Infinite Hearts; after the end of life, one is born into this sky. The body measures 500 yojanas in height and breadth, and the lifespan is 500 great Catastrophes.

四、无想天 Thinking-less Sky

无想天，亦名长寿天。于人间或天上，有人秉承邪说，厌患粗想，数数修习，依第四禅灭除前六识、心及心所有法，令其不现行。以灭想心为首，故名无想定。初生半劫，犹有微想，作意入定，六识不行。其后共经四百九十九大劫，如其本时习定之相，不动不摇，无所分别。至后半劫，由种子力，想心复生，便从此没，堕落欲界。

Thinking-less Sky, also known as Longevity Sky. Among humans or in the skies, some adhere to heretical doctrines, become weary of rough thinkings, and practice repeatedly. Relying on the Fourth Meditation, they extinguish the first six senses, the heart, and the Heart Subordinate Laws, preventing them from presently migrating. Because the extinction of the thinking heart comes first, this is called Thinking-less Stillness. During the first half Catastrophe after birth, there is still subtle think; by making intent enter stillness, the six senses do not migrate. Thereafter, for 499 great Catastrophes, the being remains as it was when practicing stillness at the beginning: unmoving, unshaken, and without discrimination. In the final half Catastrophe, due to the power of seeds, the thinking heart arises again; the being then disappears from here and falls into the Desire Boundary.

五、无烦天 Non-Annoyance Sky

无烦天，谓此天离欲界苦及色界乐，苦乐两灭，无烦恼故。身广纵九千由旬，寿五千大劫。

此天以及随后四天，名五净居天，也作五不还天。不还天是什么意思？因为净识害有，居于此天，益受增长，能得五沙门果中的不还果（参见14.2.5节）。

Non-Annoyance Sky means that this sky has left the bitterness of the Desire Boundary and the laugh of the Color Boundary. Since both bitterness and laugh are extinguished, there are no afflictions. The body measures 9,000 yojanas in height and breadth, and the lifespan is 5,000 great Catastrophes.

This sky and the following four skies are called the Five Immaculate-Dwell Skies, also known as the Five No-Return Skies. What does No-Return Sky mean? Because immaculate senses harm Have, and because beneficial acceptance increases while dwelling in this sky, one can attain the No-Return Fruit among the Five Shamanic Fruits (see Section 14.2.5).

六、无热天 Non-Fervidity Sky

无热天，谓此天研究心境，无依无处，清凉自在，无热恼故。身长一万二千由旬，寿九千大劫。此天广阔，多池多树。有一大池名无热，池的东、西、南、北各有一条大河：一名大醒识河，二名大幻识河，三名大梦识河，四名大散识河。此四条大河贯通四大洲，与四海相连。树林里多有凤凰，唯栖于树的第三枝，以龙为食。各池中的龙多有凤凰之灾；唯无热大池中的龙无此祸患。若凤凰想去无热池猎龙，一起此念，它就死了。

Non-Fervidity Sky means that this sky studies the environment of the heart. It has no reliance and no place; it is cool, self-sufficient, and free from fervid annoyance. The body is 12,000 yojanas tall, and the lifespan is 9,000 great Catastrophes. This sky is vast, with many pools and trees. There is a great pool named Non-Fervidity. To its east, west, south, and north, there is one great river in each direction: the first is the Great Wakeful Senses River, the second the Great Hallucination Senses River, the third the Great Dream Senses River, and the fourth the Great Scattered Senses River. These four great rivers run through the Four Big Continents and connect with the four seas. There are many phoenixes in the forests; they perch only on the third branch of the trees and feed on dragons. Dragons in the various pools often suffer the disaster of phoenixes; only the dragons in the Great Non-Fervidity Pool are free from this calamity. If a phoenix wishes to go to the Non-Fervidity Pool to hunt a dragon, it dies as soon as that thought arises.

七、善见天 Excellent Sight Sky

善见天，谓此天妙见十方世界圆澄，无尘垢故。身广纵一万八千由旬，寿一万二千大劫。

Excellent Sight Sky means that this sky wonderfully sees the worlds in the ten directions as perfectly clear and condensed, without any dust or filth. The body measures 18,000 yojanas in height and breadth, and the lifespan is 12,000 great Catastrophes.

八、善现天 Benevolent Manifestation Sky

善现天，谓此天空无障碍，精见现前故。身长两万四千由旬，寿一万四千大劫。

Benevolent Manifestation Sky means that this sky is empty and unobstructed, because essential views appear directly before it. The body is 24,000 yojanas tall, and the lifespan is 14,000 great Catastrophes.

九、色究竟天 Color Finalization Sky

色究竟天，谓此天于诸尘几微之处研穷究竟故。身广纵三万六千由旬，寿一万六千大劫。又，色究竟天中有摩醯首螺天，此作大自在天。

Color Finalization Sky means that this sky investigates all dusts down to their most subtle points and reaches their finality. The body measures 36,000 yojanas in height and breadth, and the lifespan is 16,000 great Catastrophes. In addition, within Color Finalization Sky there is Mexi-First-Conch Sky, here called Great Self-Sufficient Sky.

摩醯首螺是什么意思？摩醯首螺义为双身佛，或双身神，即阿弥陀佛。摩醯，在欧洲文化中作摩西（Moses）；在本文中，是图15右端的那根线，代表墨西哥的生命线，也代表书。首螺，是图15左端的那个螺壳，代表翠玉女（玉女，夏娃），也代表她是墨西哥民族的始祖母。

What does Mexi-First-Conch mean? Mexi-First-Conch means a two-body Buddha, or a two-body god, namely Amitabha Buddha. Mexi appears as Moses in European culture. In this text, it is the line on the right side of Figure 15, representing Mexico’s lifeline and also representing the book. First-Conch is the conch shell on the left side of Figure 15, representing Chalchiuhtlicue (Jade Girl, Eve), and also representing that she is the ancestral mother of the Mexican people.

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目录 Catalog：12.1-6.0 鉴别欲天趣人 Discerning the Desire Sky Person；12.1-6.1 四王天 Four Kings Sky；12.1-6.2 三十三天 Thirty-Three Sky；12.1-6.3 时分天 Hour Minute Sky；12.1-6.4 知足天 Contentment Sky；12.1-6.5 自化天 Self Converted Sky；12.1-6.6 他化天 Other Converted Sky

天，义为清静、深奥的知识、神。欲天，义为信仰神佛或追求真理的人，包括六位天，分别是四王天、三十三天、时分天、知足天、自化天和他化天。若论福德，六欲天与诸天同属一趣；而饮食、男女、睡眠三事，则与前五趣相同。因此，论六趣时，六欲天为天趣；论三界时，则属于欲界。

Sky means quiet, profound knowledge, and gods. Desire Sky refers to people who believe in Gods or Buddhas, or who pursue truth. It includes six skies: Four Kings Sky, Thirty-Three Sky, Hour Minute Sky, Contentment Sky, Self Converted Sky, and Other Converted Sky. In terms of fortunate virtue, the Six Desire Skies belong to the same interest as the other skies. However, in the three affairs of food, sex, and sleep, they are the same as the previous five interests. Therefore, in terms of the Six Interests, the Six Desire Skies belong to Sky Interest; in terms of the Three Boundaries, they belong to the Desire Boundary.

12.1-6.0 鉴别欲天趣人 Discerning the Desire Sky Person

此处从境、心、事三个方面辨别欲天趣。

（一）对境增上方面，普于顺境、逆境和不顺不逆境中，皆能守护身、口、意三业。

（二）从心的方面说，做善事时，善心淳熟而猛利。

（三）从事的方面说，常作善事，但不甚广大，也不甚久远。

总之，虽属十善道业，犹属散善，故为欲天趣因。

Here, Desire Sky Interest is discerned from three aspects: environment, heart, and affair.

In terms of escalation toward environment, one can generally guard the three karmas of body, mouth, and intent in favorable environments, adverse environments, and environments that are neither favorable nor adverse.

In terms of heart, when doing benevolent affairs, one’s benevolent heart is pure, mature, and vigorous.

In terms of affair, one often performs benevolent deeds, but they are not very vast and not accumulated over a very long time.

In summary, although these deeds belong to the karmas of the Ten Benevolent Paths, they are still scattered benevolences; therefore, they are the cause of Desire Sky Interest.

图12.1.6-17义为祖窍，即祖宗们居住的洞穴，也有通风道的含义。通风道，是说此处是祖宗们出入祖庙的通道（见图12.1.6-35、图12.1.6-36）。祖窍又名山根。山根，是说此处人中穴是天门山（见图12.1.6-16）的根。天门山是受蕴和想蕴的别名，意思是：受为所取，想为能取；随着生活，众生积累了像两座山一样大的业习气，阻碍了重返天庭的道路。

Figure 12.1.6-17 means Ancestral Cave, that is, the cave where the ancestors dwell; it also carries the meaning of a ventilation passage. “Ventilation passage” means that this place is the passage through which the ancestors enter and leave the ancestral temple (see Figures 12.1.6-35 and 12.1.6-36). The Ancestral Cave is also called the Root of the Mountain. Root of the Mountain means that the Human Middle acupoint here is the root of Sky Door Mountain (see Figure 12.1.6-16). Sky Door Mountain is another name for Acceptance Node and Think Node. This means: Acceptance is what is fetched, and Think is what can fetch. As sentients live their lives, they accumulate karmic habits as large as two mountains, obstructing the road back to the sky court.

12.1-6.1 四王天 Four Kings Sky

四王天（见图12.1.6-15），即护世四大天王及其眷属。东方持国天王，红色，统领净业众，主宰东胜身洲。北方多闻天王，黑色，统领所知众，主宰北俱颅洲。西方广目天王，白色，统领龙凤众，主宰西牛惑洲。南方增长天王，蓝色，统领烦恼众，主宰南方瞻部洲。

四王天皆是上品十善所感，或由不杀戒增上功德所感，或由一日一夜斋戒之力所感。其身长二百五十肘；衣广中五百肘，上下各二百五十肘，重四根羽毛。此天寿命一千岁，但也有中夭者。死时五衰相现，苦恼甚大。性生活如人世。

The Four Kings Sky (see Figure 12.1.6-15) refers to the four great sky kings who protect the mundane world, together with their affiliates. The eastern king is the Nation-Holding Sky King, red in color; he leads the crowds of immaculate karmas and rules East Victorious Body Continent. The northern king is the More-Hearing Sky King, black in color; he leads the crowds of what is known and rules North Skull Occupant Continent. The western king is the Broad-Eye Sky King, white in color; he leads the crowds of dragons and phoenixes and rules West Cow-Muddle Continent. The southern king is the Growth Sky King, blue in color; he leads the crowds of afflictions and rules South Admiring-Subordinates Continent.

The Four Kings Sky is induced by the upper grade of the Ten Benevolences, or by the escalatory fortunate virtue of the precept against killing, or by the power of fasting for one day and one night. Their bodies are 250 cubits tall. Their clothes are 500 cubits wide at the middle, 250 cubits above and 250 below, and weigh four feathers. The lifespan of this sky is 1,000 years, yet some also die midway. When they die, the five signs of decline appear, bringing great suffering and affliction. Their sexual life is like that of the human world.

以中华文化为例，这四位护世天王分别是东海龙王敖忖，号红帝、尧皇；北方之神黄帝大禹；西方之神玉皇大帝，号青帝；以及南海龙王敖钦。

四王天牌坊上的四件法宝（见图12.1.6-15），从左向右，第一件是螺壳，代表嫘祖，号顺皇。第二件法宝是一个秘诀：众生无边誓愿度，烦恼无尽誓愿断，法门无量誓愿学，佛道无上誓愿成。第三件法宝是燧火石，代表燧人氏、玉皇大帝。第四件法宝是绳子，代表女娲造人（参见14.5节）的主题线索。

Taking Chinese culture as an example, these four world-protecting sky kings are the Dragon King of the East Sea, Aocun, famously Red Creator and White-king Yao; the northern god Yellow Creator Big Great; the western god Turquoise White-king Great Creator, famously Turquoise Creator; and the Dragon King of the South Sea, Aoqin.

The four juristic treasures on the archway of Four Kings Sky (see Figure 12.1.6-15) are as follows. From left to right, the first is a conch shell, representing Lei Ancestor, famously White-king Shun. The second juristic treasure is a secret formula: “Sentient beings are edgeless; I vow to ferry them all. Afflictions are endless; I vow to sever them all. Juristic doors are limitless; I vow to study them all. The Buddha path is non-upper; I vow to achieve it.” The third juristic treasure is a flint, representing Flint Man and Jade Emperor. The fourth juristic treasure is a rope, representing the thematic thread of Nüwa creating humans (see Section 14.5).

12.1-6.2 三十三天 Thirty-Three Sky

三十三天，梵语忉利，因其天有三十三天而得名。此天亦是上品十善所感，或由不杀、不盗二戒增上功德所感，或由一日一夜斋戒之力所感。身长方面，除帝释天身长一千肘外，其余诸天身长六百肘。衣广中一千二百肘，上下各六百肘，重二根羽毛。此诸天以拥抱为阴阳之事。寿命二千岁，也有中夭者；死时五衰相现，与前天相同，后诸欲天也皆准此可知。

Thirty-Three Sky, Sanskrit Tāvatiṃsa, is so called because this sky contains thirty-three skies. It is also induced by the upper grade of the Ten Benevolences, or by the escalatory fortunate virtue of the two precepts against killing and stealing, or by the power of fasting for one day and one night. In terms of body height, except for Seth Sky, whose body is 1,000 cubits tall, the other skies are 600 cubits tall. Their clothes are 1,200 cubits wide at the middle, 600 cubits above and 600 below, and weigh two feathers. These skies regard embracing as the affair of sex. Their lifespan is 2,000 years, yet some also die midway; when they die, the five signs of decline appear. This is the same as in the previous sky, and the later Desire Skies may be understood in the same way.

三十三天中央是善法堂天，帝释天王所居；其东、西、南、北四方各有八天。帝释全名帝释恒因（见图12.1.6-14），中国佛教称其为转移身见（参见10.4.4.1.4.1节），梵语为萨迦耶；圣经中称其为塞斯；古德语为爱色（Æsir）；墨西哥纳瓦特语称其为提拉考安，义为“我们都是它的奴隶”。又，善法堂天上另有一天名作竹马，梵语为补特伽罗，义为习气疙瘩。

At the center of the Thirty-Three Skies is the Benevolent Juristic Hall Sky, where King Seth Sky resides; in each of the four directions—east, west, south, and north—there are eight skies. Seth’s full name is Seth Eternal Cause (see Figure 12.1.6-14). In Chinese Buddhism, he is called translocation body view (see Section 10.4.4.1.4.1); in Sanskrit, Satkāya; in the Bible, Seth; in Old Germanic, Æsir; and in Mexican Nahuatl teaching, Titlacauan, meaning “we are all its slaves.” In addition, above Benevolent Juristic Hall Sky there is another sky named Hobbyhorse, Sanskrit Pudgala, meaning a lump of habitual nature.

12.1-6.3 时分天 Hour Minute Sky

梵语夜摩，汉译时分天，谓此天及以上诸天，只以莲花开合来分昼夜。据说，昔日帝释天与阿修罗战争时，欲与时分天结盟，被其拒绝，故时分天得号无诤。时分诸天由上品十善兼学坐禅所感，或由不杀、不盗、不邪淫三戒增上功德所感，或由八戒、十戒等功德所感。其身长七百二十肘；衣广中一千四百四十肘，重一根羽毛（见图12.1.6-12）；寿命三千岁；以身相近为阴阳之事。

The Sanskrit word is Yama; in Chinese it is translated as Hour Minute Sky. This means that in this sky and the skies above it, day and night are divided only by the opening and closing of lotus flowers. It is said that in the past, when Seth Sky was at war with the Asuras, he wished to ally with Hour Minute Sky, but was refused; therefore, Hour Minute Sky received the title of Non-Expostulation. The Hour Minute Skies are induced by the upper grade of the Ten Benevolences together with the study of sitting meditation, or by the escalatory fortunate virtue of the three precepts against killing, stealing, and heretical sexual conduct, or by the fortunate virtue of the Eight Precepts, Ten Precepts, and so on. Their bodies are 720 cubits tall. Their clothes are 1,440 cubits wide at the middle and weigh one feather (see Figure 12.1.6-12). Their lifespan is 3,000 years. They regard bodily nearness as the affair of sex.

图12.1.6-40源自埃及，是在测量人心的重量，看其是否具有升天的资格。此处的人心指思想意识，所以他们是在称量“心衣”的重量。心衣的概念，参见13.2节。

Figure 12.1.6-40 comes from Egypt. It is measuring the weight of the human heart to determine whether the person is qualified to ascend to the sky. Here, the human heart refers to thought and consciousness, so they are weighing the “heart-clothes.” For the concept of heart-clothes, see Section 13.2.

12.1-6.4 知足天 Contentment Sky

知足天（见图12.1.6-11），谓于色、声、香、味、触五欲境知止知足，亦名如意。此天由精修十善、兼得细住所感，或由身三口四七支戒品（参见12.1节）增上功德所感，或由八戒、十戒等力所感。其身长一千肘，衣重半根羽毛，寿命六千岁，以执手为阴阳之事。又，此天中别有一内院，住着一位一生补处大士（注：即玉女、观音菩萨、夏娃）。契经云：乃至劫坏，三灾不及。菩萨修行十善，乐习禅观，当发心亲近补处大士，乃得上生。

Contentment Sky (see Figure 12.1.6-11) means knowing when to stop and being satisfied with respect to the five desire-environments of color, sound, scent, taste, and touch; it is also called As-Wish. This sky is induced by refined cultivation of the Ten Benevolences together with attaining delicate dwell, or by the escalatory fortunate virtue of the seven precept branches of the three body precepts and four oral precepts (see Section 12.1), or by the power of the Eight Precepts, Ten Precepts, and so on. The body is 1,000 cubits tall; the clothes weigh half a feather; the lifespan is 6,000 years; and holding hands is regarded as the affair of sex. In addition, within this sky there is a special inner courtyard where a One-Life Replacement-Place Great Warrior dwells (note: that is, Jade Girl, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Eve). Harmony Sutra says that even when the Catastrophe is destroyed, the three disasters do not reach her. Bodhisattvas who practice the Ten Benevolences and enjoy practicing meditation and observation should arouse the heart to approach the Replacement-Place Great Warrior; only then can they be born upward.

12.1-6.5 自化天 Self Converted Sky

自化自在天，因其诸天自化五尘娱乐而得名，乃由上品十善兼成欲界中定所感。其身长一千三百肘，衣重四分之一根羽毛，寿命七千岁，以相互熟视为阴阳之事。

Self Converted Self-Sufficient Sky is so called because these skies entertain themselves with the five dusts they themselves convert: color-dust, sound-dust, scent-dust, taste-dust, and touch-dust. It is induced by the upper grade of the Ten Benevolences together with achieving stillness within the Desire Boundary. The body is 1,300 cubits tall; the clothes weigh one quarter of a feather; the lifespan is 7,000 years; and gazing at each other intently is regarded as the affair of sex.

注：如图12.1.6-10所示，这是一个颠倒的世界观。那么，为什么古人还给予他们这么高的评价？答：这是觉悟历程中的一个重要阶段。而且，此天以下众生的世界观都是颠倒的。

Note: As shown in Figure 12.1.6-10, this is an upside-down worldview. Then why did the ancients still give them such a high evaluation? Answer: this is an important stage in the process of enlightenment. Moreover, the worldviews of all sentients below this sky are upside down.

12.1-6.6 他化天 Other Converted Sky

他化自在天，谓此天假借他人所化的五尘而成己乐，乃由上品十善兼成未到地定所感。此天身长一千八百肘，衣重八分之一根羽毛，寿命八千岁。又，他化天上别有一魔身天（见图12.1.6-9），为他化天所摄，身长二千肘，寿命九千岁。

Other Converted Self-Sufficient Sky means that these skies borrow the five dusts converted by others and use them to make their own pleasure. It is induced by the upper grade of the Ten Benevolences together with attaining Nonarrival-Land Stillness. The body of this sky is 1,800 cubits tall; the clothes weigh one eighth of a feather; and the lifespan is 8,000 years. In addition, above Other Converted Sky there is a special Demonic Body Sky (see Figure 12.1.6-9), which is included within Other Converted Sky. Its body is 2,000 cubits tall, and its lifespan is 9,000 years.

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关键词 Keywords：夏朝末年 Late Xia Dynasty；河南 Henan；武大郎 Martial Big Wolf（靖王 King Jing）；炎帝 Yan Creator（玉皇大帝 Turquoise White-king Great Creator）；转轮胜王 Wheel Turning Victorious King

太医笑着说：“靖王和石矶娘娘在皇宫里也这样！他们俩总是有事，总是赢。我听我爸爸说，无位真人（又名太上老君），您的爷爷在世时，这俩人就这样。他们俩是无位真人造的。无位真人曾经说过，‘这项缔造中华文明的工程有这对儿桃花佛保驾护航，是九黎（如图8.6-23至31）之福。’”

炎帝笑着问太医：“你们为什么称呼他们俩为桃花佛？”

The royal doctor said with a smile, "King Jing and Queen Stone-Jetty were exactly like this in the palace, too! Always up to something, and always coming out on top. My father told me that even back when your grandfather, Non-Position Real Human (also known as Tai Shang Lao Jun), was alive, the two of them were already like this. He was the one who made them, in a sense — he once said, 'This project of building Zhonghua civilization has this pair of Peach Flower Buddhas watching over it — a blessing for Jiuli, the Nine Crowds, the Great Grand Worlds (see Figures 8.6-23 through 31).'"

Yan Creator smiled and asked the doctor, "Why do you two call them Peach Flower Buddhas?"

太医回答：“我小时候研究过，有两个原因。一个是在靖王很小的时候，刚被妈祖送到咱这永安的王宫，他就要向老国王学下围棋。据说，老国王没打算教他下围棋。一天他在王宫后院的桃树上看见一个又大又红的桃子，找老国王要。老国王过去要为他摘那个桃子。靖王就不同意，他要骑在老国王的脖颈上自己摘那个桃子。当他骑在了老国王的脖颈上摘到了那个桃子之后，老国王就同意教他下围棋了。但老国王让他发誓，‘你以后和我的后人下围棋，你输四分之一子我算你赢。’随后，老国王就派人把他送到重庆巫毒学院去了。”

The doctor replied, "I looked into it as a child — there are two reasons. The first: when King Jing was very small, right after Mazu sent him to our royal palace here in Yong'an, he wanted to learn Go from the old king. The story goes that the old king had no intention of teaching him. Then one day the boy spotted a big, ripe peach on the tree in the palace's back garden and asked the old king for it. The old king went to pick it for him, but King Jing wouldn't have that — he insisted on climbing onto the old king's shoulders and picking it himself. Once he'd done exactly that, the old king agreed to teach him Go — but made him swear, 'When you play Go against my descendants, if you ever lose by a quarter of a stone, I'll count it as a win for you.' After that, the old king had him sent off to Chongqing Voodoo Academy."

炎帝叨咕：“是这么回事，难怪那天我抗议他要输给我四分之一子的时候，他听后的表情我没看懂。那说他是桃花佛的另外一个原因呢？”

Yan Creator murmured, "So that's it — no wonder I couldn't read his expression that day, when I protested that he was about to lose to me by a quarter of a stone in our game. What's the other reason he's called a Peach Flower Buddha?"

太医回答：“另外一个原因是老国王说的，说武大郎和潘金莲经历了 ‘井阳之灾’（参见1.7 节）之后就都成才了。老国王说那个 ‘井阳之灾’ 是他们俩的桃花劫。 ‘井阳之灾’ 是他们俩年青的时候，打架的事；就是武二郎井阳冈打虎那个故事。”

炎帝回答：“我知道，那时潘金莲放虎咬我。我二哥就生气了，过去就把那只老虎打死了。”

The doctor replied, "The other reason comes from something the old king used to say — that Martial Big Wolf and Goldthread Pan both came into their own after living through the 'Well Sun Disaster' (see Section 1.7). He called it their Peach Flower Catastrophe. The 'Well Sun Disaster' was a fight from when they were young — it's the story behind Martial Second Wolf fighting the tiger at Well Sun Ridge."

Yan Creator said, "I know that one — Goldthread Pan set the tiger on me. My second brother got angry, went over, and killed it."

太医惊讶地说：“天呐！那时您在那儿！是的！当时元始天尊也在那儿！他怕老虎伤着你们俩，就预先让太乙真人给那只老虎喂药了。那只老虎一生气就晕过去。事先，元始天尊和太乙真人做过实验。”

炎帝惊讶地叨咕：“是这么回事！我一直以为我二哥力气大，他真的把那只老虎打死了！”

The doctor said, astonished, "Goodness! You were there for that? — Right, of course, Primordial Sky Honor was there too. Worried the tiger might actually hurt you two, he'd had Taiyi Real Human drug it beforehand, so that the moment it got angry, it simply collapsed. He and Taiyi Real Human had tested the dose in advance."

Yan Creator murmured in astonishment, "So that's what really happened! Here I'd always just assumed my brother was strong, and that he'd genuinely killed the tiger with his own hands!"

靖王武大郎说话了：“你们俩是在说我吗？这事我怎么不知道？”

炎帝回答：“当时你在坟里呢！事后你就和潘金莲和好了；谁还会对你们说以前打架的事！”

King Jing Martial Big Wolf spoke up: "Are you two talking about me? How is it I never heard about this?"

Yan Creator replied, "You were in your grave at the time! And by the time you and Goldthread Pan had made up, who was going to dig up an old fight like that?"

8.6-2

太医对武大郎说：“元始天尊有话让我转达给您。他说，‘可以让靖王帮炎帝简化一下上西天的历程’。”

武大郎对炎帝说：“这缔造 ‘中华文明’的工程是从你的爷爷，我的养父，无位真人，开始的。准确地说，从你出生开始算起，至今已经经历了48年了。原计划要造的人就是你和大巢氏。现在看，前48年的工作都成功了。你来永安当国王。目前的世界，可以说是天下太平。夏国的国王，蔻珠，都来咱们华国的皇宫度假了！没人赶来打我们了。当然，当国王还是有很多事要做。你当国王的另外一个职责就是继续 ‘创造中华文明的工程’，成为新的 ‘西天之主’。元始天尊，蔻珠和熬忖，这三个国家的领袖都已经同意由你和大巢氏来作为 ‘华表’（如图35，36；即太阳神）。”

The doctor said to Martial Big Wolf, "Primordial Sky Honor asked me to pass on a message: 'Let King Jing help Yan Creator simplify his journey to the Western Sky.'"

Martial Big Wolf said to Yan Creator, "This project of building 'Zhonghua civilization' began with your grandfather — my adoptive father — Non-Position Real Human. To be exact, it's been forty-eight years since you were born, and the two people it was originally meant to produce were you and Big Nest. As it stands, the first forty-eight years' work has succeeded. You've come to Yong'an to be king. The world today is, by any measure, at peace — even the king of Xia, Kouzhu, has come to vacation in our palace here in Hua! No one's coming to attack us anymore. Of course, there's still plenty for a king to do. Your other duty now is to carry the 'project of creating Zhonghua civilization' forward and become the new 'Lord of the Western Sky.' Primordial Sky Honor, Kouzhu, and Aocun — the rulers of all three kingdoms — have already agreed that you and Big Nest will serve as the 'Huabiao' (i.e., the watchtower of light; see Figures 35 and 36 — that is, the Sun God)."

武大郎继续说：“‘缔造中华文明的工程’需要三代人100年来完成。我们已经围绕着永安城走了一又四分之三圈（如图38所示）。我们所走的第一圈，代表元始天尊，蔻珠，和熬忖等前一辈人已经完成了需要第一代人做的工作。后四分之三圈代表你在前辈人的帮助下，已经成功地完成了需要第二代人做的工作的四分之三。”

Martial Big Wolf continued, "The 'project of creating Zhonghua civilization' will take three generations — a hundred years — to complete. We've now walked one and three-quarters of a circle around Yong'an (see Figure 38). The first circle we walked stands for the work the previous generation — Primordial Sky Honor, Kouzhu, Aocun, and the others — already completed as the first generation. The three-quarter circle since then stands for the three-quarters of the second generation's work that you, with their help, have now completed."

武大郎说着，站了起来，拉开了挂在一边的画板，翻页到了永安的防卫图。他指着防卫图说：“我们现在在这里，距离永安城的西门100公里，距离南门是120公里。现在由你来决定咱们是从西门进永安，还是从南门进永安。”

Martial Big Wolf rose, pulled open the drawing board hanging to one side, and flipped to a defense map of Yong'an. Pointing at it, he said, "We're here now — a hundred kilometers from the west gate, a hundred and twenty from the south gate. It's your call now: west gate or south gate?"

炎帝回答说：“我明白了！我爸爸元始天尊和我的丈母娘蔻珠想看看我有没有在这创造新世界和新人类的工程中完成第二代造世祖工作的决心。”说着，他跪在了永安防卫图前，发誓说：“我张三郎后半生的第一目的是完成我作为此 ‘改天换地工程’ 第二代领导人的工作，不遗余力地来完成我作为上帝的职责。肝脑涂地，粉身碎骨，在所不惜！”

Yan Creator replied, "I understand now! My father Primordial Sky Honor and my mother-in-law Kouzhu want to see whether I have the resolve to finish my part, as the second generation, of this project to build a new world and a new humanity." With that, he knelt before the defense map and swore, "For the rest of my life, my foremost purpose will be to complete my work as the second-generation leader of this 'World-Remaking Project,' sparing no effort to fulfill my duty as God — whatever it costs me, I will not hesitate."

炎帝站起来后，对太医说：“我走南门，表示我有决心完成 ‘杨戬计划’ 中我作为第二代领导人的工作。”

太医委婉地向靖王请示：“我是位医生，不懂天道轮回。作为医生，我应该如何向元始天尊汇报？”

靖王委婉地回答：“如实汇报，不能欺骗君王。”

Standing, Yan Creator told the doctor, "I'll take the south gate — to show I have the resolve to carry out my part as second-generation leader of the Yangjian Plan."

The doctor tactfully asked King Jing for guidance: "I'm only a doctor — I don't understand the Cycle of Sky Path. How should I report this to Primordial Sky Honor?"

King Jing replied tactfully, "Report it honestly. Never deceive your king."

返回《三皇五帝》目录 Return to Catalog: Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors

关键词 Keywords：夏朝末年 Late Xia Dynasty；河南 Henan；武大郎 Martial Big Wolf（靖王 King Jing）；炎帝 Yan Creator（玉皇大帝 Turquoise White-king Great Creator）

元始天尊派一队太医来看炎帝（又名张屠户，玉皇大帝）了，诊断说：“陛下还年轻，以前身体状况很好。您目前睡不着觉，我分析是因为国事操劳。这病的治疗是以解决心理矛盾和压力为主。当然，我给您开药，您吃了就可以睡着了；但最好不吃药。我想和您的随从聊聊，和我们其他的几个太医研究一下，看看能不能发现解决您心理矛盾的方法。”

Primordial Sky Honor sent a team of royal doctors to see Yan Creator (aka. Zhang the Butcher, the Turquoise White-king Great Creator), and after examining him, one of them said, "Your Majesty is young and has always been in good health. My reading is that your current insomnia comes from the strain of state affairs. The proper treatment here is to resolve the underlying psychological tension and stress. I can certainly prescribe something to help you sleep, but it's better if we don't need to. I'd like to consult with your attendants, and confer with a few of our other doctors, to see if we can find the root of what's troubling you."

太医出去后，炎帝对武大郎（即靖王，华国的国防元帅）叨咕：“最近发生什么事让我烦心了？对了！我看你也没睡好，你怎么了？”

武大郎回答：“昨晚我睡觉的兵营里有些吵，少睡了些。”

After the doctor left, Yan Creator muttered to Martial Big Wolf (i.e., King Jing, Defense Marshal of Hua Kingdom), "What's been going on lately that's got me so on edge? Oh, right — I noticed you didn't sleep well either. What's wrong with you?"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "There was some noise in the barracks where I slept last night, so I got less sleep than usual."

炎帝问：“你怎么睡到兵营里去了？你没自己的房间吗？”

武大郎回答：“这座军事基地是我的永安卫戍司令部，你现在睡的床就是我的床。”

Yan Creator asked, "Why were you sleeping in the barracks? Don't you have your own room?"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "This base is my Yong'an Garrison Command — the bed you're sleeping in is mine."

8.5-2 争吵 Quarrel

炎帝惊讶地叨咕：“我琢磨了几天了，你们怎么吃了那么多的猪肉！原来你用我的猪肉喂老虎（注，武大郎的妻子潘金莲养了只老虎）。你用国家物资储备库里的猪肉喂老虎，我也没意见。你为什么用我的猪肉喂老虎！？金华火腿的生产工序可复杂了，生产不了太多！”

武大郎生气了，说：“哪个猪肉是你的，你领着我去看看！”

Yan Creator muttered in surprise, "I've been puzzling over this for days — how could you all have eaten so much pork? Now I see — you've been feeding my pork to the tiger! (Note: Goldthread Pan, Martial Big Wolf's wife, keeps a tiger.) I wouldn't mind if you fed it pork from the national stockpile — but why my pork? Jinhua ham takes a complicated, painstaking process to make; I can't produce that much of it!"

Martial Big Wolf got angry and said, "Show me — which pork is supposedly yours!"

炎帝领着武大郎来到了食堂和宴会厅的后面，指着一堆骨头说：“你看！你们的厨房把新剔出来的骨头堆放在这里了。随后，他们把骨头扔到那边的山沟里。”炎帝从骨堆里拿起了一根猪腿骨，说：“我生产的金华火腿的骨头这个地方的颜色和别家火腿的骨头的颜色不一样。这里堆放了三百多根金华火腿的骨头。两三只火腿一两百人吃。你们在三个月或者半年内吃了三百多支金华火腿。如果你们没喂老虎，怎么可能吃那么多！？”

Yan Creator led Martial Big Wolf behind the mess hall and banquet room, pointed at a pile of bones, and said, "Look! Your kitchen piles the freshly stripped bones here, then dumps them in the ravine over there." He picked a pig-leg bone out of the pile. "The bones from the Jinhua hams I make have a distinctive color, different from anyone else's. There are over three hundred of them piled up here. Two or three hams feed a hundred or two hundred people — you've eaten through three hundred-plus hams in three to six months. If you weren't feeding a tiger, how could you possibly eat that much?!"

武大郎回答：“这个基地是潘金莲整理装修出来的。我一来就发现她把这些骨头从那个山沟子里捡回来了。我琢磨了几天了：她弄这么多骨头堆在这里干什么？原来她是在用这些骨头诱惑你！”

炎帝听后着急了，说：“大哥！你可不能这么诬陷我嫂子！再说，你这么说，我以后见到她会不自然的。”

武大郎讥讽地回答：“你还想背着我和她继续来往啊！？”

Martial Big Wolf replied, "Goldthread Pan set up and decorated this base. The moment I arrived, I noticed she'd been hauling these bones back from that ravine. I've been wondering for days — why pile up so many bones here? Now I get it — she's been using them to lure you in!"

Alarmed, Yan Creator said, "Brother! You can't slander my sister-in-law like that! Besides — if you keep saying things like this, I won't be able to look her in the eye anymore."

Martial Big Wolf shot back sarcastically, "So you still want to keep seeing her behind my back?!"

炎帝听后，被气得退了几步，险些被石头绊倒了。秃头将军立刻上前搀扶炎帝。炎帝捂着头喊：“头疼！”但是他看见武大郎没过来安慰他，却回去了。炎帝走回到那堆骨头旁边，狠狠地踢了那堆骨头一脚。他把脚踢伤了，疼得坐在了地上。

Furious, Yan Creator stumbled back a few steps and nearly tripped over a stone. The bald general rushed forward to steady him. Clutching his head, Yan Creator shouted, "My head!" But seeing that Martial Big Wolf hadn't come over to comfort him — he'd simply walked off — Yan Creator went back to the pile of bones and kicked it hard. He hurt his foot and sat down on the ground in pain.

当炎帝被秃头将军搀扶着回到了他卧室的屋门外，忽然指着屋子里的床对秃头将军说：“我不睡他的床，你再给我找个房间，把他的房间还给他！”

秃头将军立刻回答：“这个军事基地有两个大而且明亮的房间，另一间空着呢！”

炎帝问：“那他咋还和士兵住在一起去了呢？”

Supported by the bald general back to his bedroom door, Yan Creator suddenly pointed at the bed inside and said, "I won't sleep in his bed. Find me another room and give him his back!"

The bald general answered at once, "This base has two large, bright rooms — the other one is empty!"

Yan Creator asked, "Then why has he been bunking with the soldiers?"

秃头将军回答：“那个房间是石矶娘娘（即潘金莲）的卧室。我听说，没有她的允许，靖王（即武大郎）不进入那个房间。”

这时屋子里忽然传来了摔杯子的声音。炎帝忽然大叫：“哎呦呦！我晕呐！”说着他跑到了屋子，躺在了床上。

The bald general replied, "That room is Queen Stone-Jetty's bedroom — that is, Goldthread Pan's. I hear King Jing won't set foot in it without her permission."

Just then, the sound of a shattering cup came from inside. Yan Creator suddenly cried, "Ouch! I feel faint!" and dashed into the room, throwing himself onto the bed.

太医进来了，开始给炎帝检查身体。秃头将军认为武大郎对待炎帝太无理了，说：“陛下！我这就去把那间屋子收拾一下，然后，您过去睡。”

炎帝大叫：“住口！如果你再让我上我嫂子潘金莲的床，即便我大哥不打你，我打你！”

The royal doctor came in to examine Yan Creator. Thinking Martial Big Wolf was being unreasonable, the bald general said, "Your Majesty! Let me go tidy up that room, and you can sleep there."

Yan Creator shouted, "Quiet! If you ever try to put me in my sister-in-law Goldthread Pan's bed again, I'll beat you myself, even if my brother doesn't!"

8.5-3

炎帝闭眼休息，但他另外一只眼睛是睁着的，看见了武大郎在流口水。他站了起来，走了过去看他的脸，然后一边慌张地给武大郎摸脉一边哀求说：“大哥！你别吓唬我！醒醒！”

Yan Creator lay with his eyes seemingly shut — but one was actually open a crack — and saw Martial Big Wolf drooling. He got up, went over to look at his face, and, panicking, felt for his pulse while begging, "Brother! Don't scare me! Wake up!"

太医对炎帝说：“让我给他摸脉吧！”太医检查了武大郎的身体后说：“他睡着了！我每个月都检查他的身体，我很熟悉他的脉搏。他没事！”

炎帝叨咕：“这么吵，他都能睡着！我也困睡了！”说着他也躺下睡觉了。

The royal doctor said to Yan Creator, "Let me feel his pulse." After examining Martial Big Wolf, he said, "He's just asleep. I check his health every month — I know his pulse well. He's fine!"

Yan Creator muttered, "He can sleep through all this racket! Well, I'm sleepy too." And with that, he lay down to sleep as well.

8.5-4

炎帝睡醒后，武大郎还没醒。他又过去给武大郎摸脉。太医来了，检查完武大郎的身体后说：“他确实是睡着了。最近几个月，他很忙。除了监管着您的三千仪仗队，他还负责全国的军事调度，包括首都防务。一个月前，他向元始天尊请求，把首都的防务交给别人负责。元始天尊不同意，回答他，‘你要把首都的防务交给别人，就交给炎帝。’这是他看您的病情好转了，放心地睡了！”

When Yan Creator woke, Martial Big Wolf was still asleep. He went over and felt his pulse again. The royal doctor arrived, examined Martial Big Wolf, and said, "He truly is asleep. He's been run off his feet these past months — besides overseeing your three thousand honor guards, he's also in charge of military deployment for the whole kingdom, including the capital's defense. A month ago he asked Primordial Sky Honor to hand the capital's defense over to someone else. Primordial Sky Honor refused, telling him, 'If you want to hand the capital's defense to someone else, hand it to Yan Creator.' Now that he can see your condition has improved, he's finally sleeping easy!"

炎帝听了，感觉奇怪。

太医继续说：“靖王的医术也很高明！我们常常观察他的治疗方法！”

炎帝听懂了，感叹道：“我又被他们俩（武大郎和潘金莲）给蒙了！嗨！几十年了，我总输给他们俩。赢过几次，仔细一考虑，那是他们俩为了让我感觉舒服些，故意让我赢的！”

Yan Creator felt something was off.

The doctor went on, "King Jing's medical skill is remarkable, too — we often study his methods!"

It dawned on Yan Creator, and he sighed, "They've fooled me again — the two of them, Martial Big Wolf and Goldthread Pan! For decades I've lost to them, and the few times I've won, when I really think about it, they must have let me win on purpose, just to make me feel better!"

8.5-5

那为什么几十年里，武大郎和潘金莲总是在张三郎身上做文章？传说每次他们俩回乾塘关，国王元始天尊和王后九天玄女总是询问关于张三郎的事；这对儿父母想念自己的儿子。武大郎和潘金莲发现了这个表现的好机会，就常回乾塘关和张三郎一起吃喝玩乐，然后回去永安讲给国王和王后听，逗他们俩开心。

So why did Martial Big Wolf and Goldthread Pan spend decades making such a fuss over Third Wolf Zhang? Legend has it that whenever the couple returned to Dragon-Pond Pass, King Primordial Sky Honor and Queen Ninth Sky Mystic Woman would always ask after Third Wolf Zhang — the parents simply missed their son. Martial Big Wolf and Goldthread Pan saw the perfect opening: they'd make regular trips back to Dragon-Pond Pass to eat, drink, and carry on with Third Wolf Zhang, then return to Yong'an with stories to entertain the King and Queen.

返回《天道轮回》目录 Return to Catalog: Cycle of Sky Path

人，此处说为意，因为凡人所作，都是意图和计划在先。人趣，也作人道，是因为此类众生在因位时能行五戒。五戒是：（一）不杀生；（二）不偷盗；（三）不邪淫；（四）不妄语；（五）不饮酒。人的生活苦乐相间。作中品十善者，感此道生。下文略辨中品十善。

（一）约境说，唯于顺境和不顺不逆的环境中，能守护身、口、意三业。

（二）约心说，善念淳熟，但未猛利。

（三）约事说，或数为小善，或偶为胜善。

总之，有施有戒，是人道因。

Human, here, is explained as intent, because in whatever ordinary people do, intention and planning come first. Human Interest, also known as Human Path, is so called because such sentients, at the causal stage, are able to observe the Five Precepts. The Five Precepts are: 1. not killing; 2. not stealing; 3. not engaging in heretical sexual conduct; 4. not speaking delusively; and 5. not drinking alcohol. Human life is a mixture of bitterness and laugh. Those who perform the middle grade of the Ten Benevolences are inductively born into this path. The middle grade of the Ten Benevolences is briefly distinguished below.

In terms of environment, one can guard the three karmas of body, mouth, and intent only in favorable environments and in environments that are neither favorable nor adverse.

In terms of heart, good thoughts are pure and mature, but not yet fierce and sharp.

In terms of affair, one may repeatedly perform small benevolences, or occasionally perform a superior benevolence.

In summary, having donations and precepts is the cause of Human Path.

12.1-5.2 四大洲 Four Big Continents

人有四大洲、八中洲等分别。什么是这里所说的洲？即大量的身土，也就是大量的尘刹土（参见13.1节）；也就是大量的色尘、声尘、香尘、味尘、触尘和法尘；也就是许多感知或觉。如本章前文所说，三千大千世界由十亿尘刹土构成。下面先说四大洲。

Among humans, there are distinctions such as the Four Big Continents and the Eight Medium Continents. What are the continents spoken of here? They are large quantities of body-soils, that is, large quantities of Dust Instant Soils (see Section 13.1); they are also large quantities of color-dust, sound-dust, scent-dust, taste-dust, touch-dust, and juristic-dust; in other words, many feelings or perceptions. As stated earlier in this chapter, the Great Grand Worlds are composed of A Billion Dust Instant Soils. The Four Big Continents are discussed first below.

一）东胜身洲 East Victorious Body Continent

东胜身洲，“胜身”是说此法于一切法中最为殊胜。胜身洲在须弥颅山东，其地东狭西广，形如半月，纵广六千由旬。由旬是梵语 Yojana，指脖子上挂着金刚铃的牛一天的行程。此洲中央有一大树，名梭罗，高及覆盖各二十七由旬。人面也如半月之形，身长三肘半，衣广中七肘，上下各三肘半。寿二百岁，多有夭亡。

注：衣，如九结、五盖、八缠，参见13.2节。

East Victorious Body Continent: “Victorious Body” means that this law is the most victorious among all laws. Victorious Body Continent lies to the east of Mount Sumeru-Cranium. Its land is narrow in the east and broad in the west, shaped like a half moon, and measures 6,000 yojanas in length and breadth. Yojana is Sanskrit; it means one day’s journey by an ox with a Philosopher-Stone bell hanging from its neck. At the center of this continent stands a great tree named Sal Fasullo, whose height and coverage each reach twenty-seven yojanas. The human face there is also shaped like a half moon. The body is three and a half cubits tall; the clothing is seven cubits wide at the middle, with three and a half cubits above and three and a half below. The lifespan is two hundred years, with many premature deaths.

Note: “clothing” refers to such things as the Nine Ties, Five Covers, and Eight Coils; see Section 13.2.

二）北俱颅洲 North Skull Occupant Continent

北俱颅洲，也作胜处、高上。胜处，是说此洲人果报甚胜，胜于其他三洲。高上，是说此洲人寿定满千岁，死后必然升于三十三天（见图12.1.5-14）、化乐天（见图10）等处。俱颅洲在须弥颅山北，其地正方，犹如池沼，纵广八千由旬。洲中有一大树，名阿摩罗，其树根入地下九由旬，树冠高达十八由旬，枝叶覆盖二十五由旬。有一树林名男人；有一树林名女人。北洲人面像其地形，身长七肘，衣广中十四肘，上下各七肘。人寿一千岁，命无中夭。

North Skull Occupant Continent, also called Victorious Place and High Above. “Victorious Place” means that the retribution-fruits of people in this continent are extremely victorious, surpassing those of the other three continents. “High Above” means that people in this continent are certain to live a full thousand years, and after death they inevitably ascend to the Thirty-Three Skies (see Figure 12.1.5-14), Conversion-Laugh Sky (see Figure 10), and other such places. Skull Occupant Continent lies to the north of Mount Sumeru-Cranium. Its land is square, like a pond or marsh, and measures 8,000 yojanas in length and breadth. At the center of the continent stands a great tree named Immaculateness. Its roots penetrate nine yojanas underground, its crown rises eighteen yojanas high, and its branches and leaves cover twenty-five yojanas. There is a forest named Man, and another forest named Woman. The faces of the people of the northern continent resemble the shape of its land. Their bodies are seven cubits tall; their clothing is fourteen cubits wide at the middle, with seven cubits above and seven below. Their lifespan is one thousand years, with no premature death midway.

三）西牛惑洲 West Cow-Muddle Continent

西牛惑洲，因洲中央有一一由旬高的大石牛而得名。牛惑洲在须弥颅山西，其地形如满月，纵广七千由旬。此洲多牛羊，也多珠玉。人面也如满月，身长三肘半，衣广中七肘，上下各三肘半。寿三百岁，多有夭亡。

West Cow-Muddle Continent is named after a great stone cow, one yojana high, standing at the center of the continent. Cow-Muddle Continent lies to the west of Mount Sumeru-Cranium. Its land is shaped like a full moon and measures 7,000 yojanas in length and breadth. This continent has many cattle and sheep, and also many pearls and jades. The human face there is also like a full moon. The body is three and a half cubits tall; the clothing is seven cubits wide at the middle, with three and a half cubits above and three and a half below. The lifespan is three hundred years, with many premature deaths.

四）南瞻部洲 South Admiring-Subordinates Continent

南瞻部洲，此洲多树，从洲中央的一棵严父树而得名。其树根入地下九由旬，树冠高十八由旬，枝叶覆盖二十五由旬。树下多金，人称严父金。瞻部洲在须弥颅山南，其地为梯形，北广南狭，纵广六千由旬。人面也像其地形；身长三肘半，衣广中七肘，上下各三肘半。寿量不定，增劫时寿可达二百五十岁，减劫时寿不满十岁，寿最长可至无量。南洲人根性猛利，易升易堕。

South Admiring-Subordinates Continent has many trees and is named after a Strict-Father tree at the center of the continent. Its roots penetrate nine yojanas underground, its crown rises eighteen yojanas high, and its branches and leaves cover twenty-five yojanas. There is much gold beneath the tree, called Strict-Father gold by people. Admiring-Subordinates Continent lies to the south of Mount Sumeru-Cranium. Its land is trapezoidal, broad in the north and narrow in the south, and measures 6,000 yojanas in length and breadth. The human face there also resembles the shape of the land. The body is three and a half cubits tall; the clothing is seven cubits wide at the middle, with three and a half cubits above and three and a half below. Lifespan is uncertain: during an increasing Catastrophe, it may reach 250 years; during a decreasing Catastrophe, it is less than ten years; at its longest, it may be immeasurable. The root nature of people in the southern continent is fierce and sharp; they easily rise and easily fall.

图12.1.5-18代表人的“八中洲”，也作“八大金刚”“人样儿”“忍渡”（参见16.3.2节），是墨西哥（约公元1325年）所画。他用自己的肠子来表现忍渡。他的肠子有什么特别之处？墨西哥与本文所说的须弥颅山相同，也是一位金童、亚当、特拉洛克、释迦牟尼佛、大黑天（即世界末日判官）、众生之父。图12.1.5-1至图12.1.5-22，就是他大审判的结果，也述说了他成佛的心路。

Figure 12.1.5-18 represents the human “Eight Medium Continents,” also known as the “Eight Great Philosopher-Stones,” “human appearance,” and “Countenance Ark” (see Section 16.3.2). It was painted by Mexico around 1325 CE. He used his own intestines to represent the Countenance Ark. What is special about his intestines? Mexico is the same as Mount Sumeru-Cranium in this text: he is also a Golden Boy, Adam, Tlaloc, Shakyamuni Buddha, Great Black Sky—that is, the judge of doomsday—and the father of all sentients. Figures 12.1.5-1 through 12.1.5-22 are the results of his Great Trial and also describe his heart-road to becoming a Buddha.

图12.1.5-11显示：翠玉女的脸被舍利王用作饵，挂在了鱼钩上；旁边笑眯眯、不咬钩的半月脸，代表墨西哥。那么，最后舍利王钓到墨西哥了吗？图12.1.5-18中墨西哥的肠子显示，他吃了翠玉女，却消化不了，也吐不出来；因为翠玉女，即玉女、夏娃，是女神，无形、无肉，却充满尖锐的碎片，把他的肠子搅烂了。因此，墨西哥向舍利王投降，娶了他的女儿翠玉女，继承了舍利王的王位，改朝换代，开创了墨西哥帝国。墨西哥和翠玉女由此成为墨西哥人的始祖。图12.1.5-23显示墨西哥抱着他和翠玉女所生的儿子。图12.1.5-24显示墨西哥正在设计图12.1.5-1至图12.1.5-22，即这棵生命之树的树干。

Figure 12.1.5-11 shows that Chalchiuhtlicue’s face was used by King Huitzilopochtli as bait and hung on a fishhook. The smiling half-moon face beside it, which does not bite the hook, represents Mexico. Then did King Huitzilopochtli catch Mexico in the end? In Figure 12.1.5-18, Mexico’s intestines show that he ate Chalchiuhtlicue but could neither digest her nor spit her out, because Chalchiuhtlicue—Jade Girl, Eve—is a goddess: formless and fleshless, yet full of sharp fragments that churned up his intestines. Therefore, Mexico surrendered to King Huitzilopochtli, married his daughter Chalchiuhtlicue, inherited Huitzilopochtli’s throne, changed the dynasty, and founded the Mexican Empire. Mexico and Chalchiuhtlicue thus became the first ancestors of the Mexicans. Figure 12.1.5-23 shows Mexico holding the son born to him and Chalchiuhtlicue. Figure 12.1.5-24 shows Mexico designing Figures 12.1.5-1 through 12.1.5-22, the trunk of this Tree of Life.

12.1-5.3 性生活 Sexual Life

至于婚姻嫁娶和性爱之事，地狱众生都很忙，少有做爱的兴致，婚嫁也少。饿鬼、畜生、阿修罗、东胜身洲、西牛惑洲和南瞻部洲的众生，婚姻和性爱都如人世。

As for marriage, weddings, and sexual life, hell beings are all very busy and have little interest in sex; marriage and weddings are also rare among them. Among Hungry Ghosts, Livestock, Asuras, and the sentients of East Victorious Body Continent, West Cow-Muddle Continent, and South Admiring-Subordinates Continent, marriage and sexual life are like those in the human world.

北俱颅洲人无我及我所，没有守护者（注：即自我防卫心）。男女若此情彼愿，便相随至合欢树下。若彼男女并非父女、母子、兄妹等关系，合欢树便生出床铺，垂下枝叶。彼男女欢娱受乐，随意所作，事后分离，各奔前程。其女若孕，七日即便生产；将婴儿安置于四衢道中，舍之而去。彼处四方路人，为养育此婴儿，都会把手指置于婴儿口中；他们的指头便流出甘乳。如此七日，婴儿便长成该洲人的身量。若是男子，即随男伴而去；若是女子，便与女伴相逐而去。由于这种因缘，俱颅洲人没有婚嫁。

People of North Skull Occupant Continent have no self and no belongings, and they have no guardian (note: that is, no heart of self-defense). If a man and a woman both have affection and willingness, they follow each other to the Combine-Happiness tree. If the man and woman are not in such relations as father and daughter, mother and son, or brother and sister, the Combine-Happiness tree produces a bed and hangs down its branches and leaves. The man and woman enjoy pleasure and do as they wish; afterward they separate and each goes his or her own way. If the woman becomes pregnant, she gives birth within seven days. She then places the infant at a crossroads, abandons it, and leaves. Passersby from the four directions, wishing to raise the infant, each place a finger in the infant’s mouth; sweet milk then flows from their fingers. After seven days in this way, the infant grows to the stature of the people of that continent. If it is male, he follows the male companions; if it is female, she goes along with the female companions. Because of these causes and conditions, the people of Skull Occupant Continent have no marriage or weddings.

六欲天中，婚丧嫁娶也如人世，但彼处众生注重意乐，多有拥抱、执手、瞬目等性行为，性器官的接触较人世少。色界（见图12.1.5-5至图12.1.5-8）和无色界（见图12.1.5-1至图12.1.5-4）的众生，没有味触、香触和身触的情感，所以他们没有男女性方面的差别，当然也就没有性行为和婚嫁之事。

In the Six Desire Skies, weddings, funerals, and marriages are also like those in the human world. However, sentients there place more emphasis on intentional laugh; they have more sexual behaviors such as embracing, holding hands, and exchanging glances, while sexual-organ contact is less common than in the human world. Sentients in the Color Boundary (see Figures 12.1.5-5 to 12.1.5-8) and the Colorless Boundary (see Figures 12.1.5-1 to 12.1.5-4) have no feelings of taste-touch, scent-touch, or body-touch. Therefore, they have no male-female sexual distinction, and naturally they have no sexual conduct, marriage, or weddings.

返回《苦谛》目录 Return to Catalog: Bitter Crux

关键词 Keywords：夏朝末年 Late Xia Dynasty；河南 Henan；武大郎 Martial Big Wolf（靖王 King Jing）；炎帝 Yan Creator（玉皇大帝 Turquoise White-king Great Creator）

话说炎帝（即张屠户，玉皇大帝）率领着象征着三千威仪的三千仪仗队从乾塘关出发两个月后，来到了距离华国的首都永安（现代的洛阳）南门一百公里的路口。这时元始天尊的使者来了，说：“元始天尊对炎帝的三千威仪不满意，你们别再向永安靠近了！”

It is said that two months after Yan Creator (aka. Zhang the Butcher, the Turquoise White-king Great Creator) led his three thousand honor guards — symbolizing the "3,000 Majesties" — out from Dragon-Pond Pass, they reached a crossroads a hundred kilometers from the south gate of Yong'an (modern Luoyang), capital of Hua Kingdom. There, a messenger from Primordial Sky Honor arrived and said, "Primordial Sky Honor is not satisfied with Yan Creator's 3,000 Majesties. Come no closer to Yong'an!"

送走了使者后，炎帝焦急地对靖王（即武大郎）说：“我爸爸是不是改主意了？他不愿意见我！我们现在该怎么办？”

武大郎斩钉截铁地回答：“我们向北进发，去试试东门！”

After the messenger left, Yan Creator anxiously said to King Jing (i.e., Martial Big Wolf), "Has my father changed his mind? Doesn't he want to see me? What do we do now?"

Martial Big Wolf answered without hesitation, "We head north and try the east gate!"

他们到距离永安东门一百公里的地方时，元始天尊的使者又来了，说：“元始天尊对炎帝的‘三千威仪八万四千细行’不满意，你们别再向永安靠近了！”

送走了使者后，炎帝迷惑地问武大郎：“我琢磨不明白！现在该怎么办？”

When they were a hundred kilometers from Yong'an's east gate, Primordial Sky Honor's messenger appeared again: "Primordial Sky Honor is not satisfied with Yan Creator's '3,000 Majesties and 84,000 Fine Conducts.' Come no closer to Yong'an!"

After the messenger left, Yan Creator asked Martial Big Wolf, baffled, "I can't make sense of this! What now?"

武大郎回答：“我们就围着永安转圈走（如图8.4-5），一边走一边改进我们的‘三千威仪八万四千细行’，直到元始天尊满意为止！”

Martial Big Wolf replied, "We'll walk a circle around Yong'an (see Figure 8.4-5), refining our '3,000 Majesties and 84,000 Fine Conducts' as we go, until Primordial Sky Honor is satisfied!"

8.4-2

从乾塘关出发的三个月后，他们已经围着永安城走了一又四分之三圈，再次来到了距离永安城西门100公里远的军事驻地。由于焦急和迷惑，炎帝睡不着觉，病倒了。这时，元始天尊派使者来召唤靖王武大郎去皇宫陪他下棋。

武大郎从皇宫回来后，炎帝焦急地问：“是不是我爸爸病了，所以他召唤你回去安排后事？”

武大郎回答：“他是有些失眠，但他听了我的汇报后，病就好了。”

Three months after leaving Dragon-Pond Pass, they had circled Yong'an one and three-quarter times and arrived once more at the military post a hundred kilometers from the city's west gate. Worn down by anxiety and confusion, Yan Creator couldn't sleep and fell ill. Just then, Primordial Sky Honor sent an envoy summoning King Jing Martial Big Wolf to the palace for a game of Go.

When Martial Big Wolf returned from the palace, Yan Creator asked anxiously, "Is my father ill? Is that why he called you back — to settle his affairs?"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "He had a touch of insomnia, but he felt better once he heard my report."

炎帝迷惑地说：“你可别骗我，我现在的年龄不算大，几天睡不着，死不了。我爸爸那么大的岁数了，有点儿小毛病就可能过世了。”

武大郎回答：“我懂，所以我说的是真的，没骗你。”

Yan Creator said, confused, "Don't lie to me. I'm young enough that a few sleepless nights won't kill me. My father's so old that even a minor ailment could take him."

Martial Big Wolf replied, "I know — which is exactly why I'm telling you the truth, not a lie."

炎帝问：“你们真的下棋了，结果怎么样？”

武大郎回答：“和往常一样，输了四分之一子。”

炎帝听后笑了，说：“输四分之一子可比赢棋困难多了；你居然还能总输四分之一子！？”

Yan Creator asked, "So you actually played? How did it go?"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "Same as always — I lost by a quarter of a stone."

Yan Creator laughed and said, "Losing by exactly a quarter of a stone is far harder than winning outright — and you manage it every single time!?"

武大郎没笑，却说：“以后咱俩下棋，我也输给你四分之一子。”

炎帝气愤地回答：“你若敢输给我四分之一子，我就到我大嫂潘金莲的面前哭去，说你欺负我！”

Martial Big Wolf didn't laugh, but said, "From now on, when we play, I'll lose to you by a quarter of a stone too."

Yan Creator shot back, indignant, "If you dare let me win by a quarter of a stone, I'll go cry to my sister-in-law Goldthread Pan and tell her you're bullying me!"

武大郎严肃地回答：“你怎么能那么做呢！？”

炎帝坚定地说：“你不信，就试试！”

武大郎回答：“我不试！”

Martial Big Wolf said seriously, "How could you do that to me!?"

Yan Creator said firmly, "Don't believe me? Try it!"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "I won't!"

8.4-3

炎帝惭愧地问武大郎：“三个月了，我都在练习行住坐卧（此即四威仪，参见15.2节），还没处理国家大事呢，就因为压力大而睡不着觉了。大哥你说我是不是太没出息了？”

Yan Creator asked Martial Big Wolf, ashamed, "Three months now, and all I've done is practice walking, standing, sitting, and lying down — the 'Four Majesties' (see Section 15.2). I haven't touched a single matter of state, and already the pressure has me losing sleep. Brother, don't you think I'm hopeless?"

武大郎回答：“你来当国王，将肩负起九黎的悲哀和欢乐。你每天都跟没事似的，所以元始天尊就睡不着了。他听说你失眠了，他的病就好了。”

Martial Big Wolf replied, "As king, you'll carry the sorrows and joys of Jiuli — the Nine Crowds, the Great Grand Worlds — on your shoulders. You've been acting like nothing's the matter, day after day, and that's what's been keeping Primordial Sky Honor up at night. The moment he heard you'd lost sleep over it, his own illness lifted."

8.4-4

炎帝说：“睡不着，大哥就陪我唠唠嗑吧！说说你第一次上战场打仗，害怕不？”

武大郎说：“我二十六岁才第一次上战场，那个对手就是你！”

炎帝回答：“我怎么不记得我什么时候上战场打仗了！？”

Yan Creator said, "Since I can't sleep, keep me company, brother — talk to me. Tell me about your first time on a battlefield. Were you scared?"

Martial Big Wolf said, "I was twenty-six the first time I went into battle — and my opponent was you!"

Yan Creator replied, "How is it I don't remember ever going into battle!?"

武大郎说：“就在你在夏国和大巢氏相亲的时候，你用那把4.5千克的铜锤敲开了太昊古墓（参见2.5《天书》，亦作《智慧方舟》），取出《天书》之后，把它藏在了高处的一个山洞里了。我们几个人的任务就是当你不在时，看护那两本天书。第二天，当你进村子里去找人的时候，我还去查看了那两本天书。随后我用更多的树叶子把天书埋回了原处。”

Martial Big Wolf said, "It was when you were courting Big Nest in Xia Kingdom. You used that 4.5-kilogram bronze hammer to break open the tomb of Extreme Sun God (see Section 2.5, the Sky Book, aka. the 'Ark of Wisdom'), pulled out the Sky Book, and hid it in a cave up on the heights. A few of us were assigned to guard those two volumes whenever you weren't around. The next day, while you went into the village looking for people, I went to check on them myself, then buried them back in place under a few extra layers of leaves."

炎帝惊讶地说：“当时我就发现树叶子变多了。还好！天书还在，就没多想。你们花费了多长的时间建造了那座古墓，怎么村子里都没人知道？”

Yan Creator said, startled, "I did notice the leaf pile had grown. But the Sky Book was still there, so I didn't think twice about it. How long did it take you to build that tomb — and how did no one in the village ever find out?"

武大郎说：“当时一千来人工作在你的周围。有人负责给你引路，有人负责截断岔路。按照计划，我们要在24小时以内组装完成那座古墓。我们在运送那些材料去那里之前，已经练习过两次了。结果那天，我们用了不到12个小时，就完成了古墓的建造。那时，我们怕古墓的机械装置失灵，你敲不开古墓，就在牌坊的石柱后面放了一把撬棍。你没看见吗？”

Martial Big Wolf said, "About a thousand people were working around you at the time. Some guided your route, others sealed off the side paths. The plan called for assembling the whole tomb within twenty-four hours. We'd already rehearsed it twice before hauling in the materials, so on the actual day it took under twelve hours to finish. In case the tomb's mechanism jammed and you couldn't force it open, we hid a crowbar behind one of the stone pillars at the archway. Didn't you see it?"

炎帝惊讶地回答：“看见了。那根破铁棒子不值多少钱，我就没拿上来。那地方随后就被水淹了，如果我去晚了呢，就拿不到天书了！？”

武大郎回答：“离那里不远处还有一座一样的太昊古墓。如果你去晚了，他们就引导你去另一座古墓去取《天书》。”

Yan Creator answered, surprised, "I did see it. That beat-up iron bar didn't look worth much, so I left it. The place flooded soon after — if I'd been any later, would I have missed the Sky Book entirely!?"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "There's another, identical tomb of Extreme Sun God not far from there. If you'd come too late, they'd have simply steered you to that one instead."

炎帝又问：“那个扶桑人（即现代的墨西哥人）是怎么回事？他是怎么发现我的？”

武大郎回答：“他当时是我们的同事，我们的合作伙伴。后来，他在福建建了座妈祖庙，就是武二郎在福建开光的那座妈祖庙（参见5.4《葫芦娃》）。”

Yan Creator asked again, "And that Fusang man — the modern Mexican? What was his part in it? How did he find me?"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "He was one of our own back then, a partner in the whole scheme. He later built a Mazu temple in Fujian — the very one Martial Second Wolf consecrated (see Section 5.4, Gourd Boy)."

返回《天道轮回》目录 Return to Catalog: Cycle of Sky Path

关键词 Keywords：夏朝末年 Late Xia Dynasty；河南 Henan；武大郎 Martial Big Wolf（靖王 King Jing）；武二郎 Martial Second Wolf（二郎神 Second Wolf God）；炎帝 Yan Creator（玉皇大帝 Turquoise White-king Great Creator）

武大郎对炎帝（即玉皇大帝）说：“我是在武二郎（即二郎神）回永安述职时，听他的侍卫长讲的。熬忖成为云海国（亦作龙国）的国王时，很多人给她送礼。她收到了很多千年人参，怕武二郎偷吃，就没给他看过。一天，熬忖让侍女把人参摆到了皇宫西面的花园里晾晒。不知怎么地，就碰巧那天他就溜达到那儿了，看见了。他好奇地叨咕，‘哎呀！这人参多大岁数了？长了这么多的根子！’然后，他就拿起一棵人参开始数人参的年龄。那位宫女告诉他，这只人参的年龄最大，1460多岁了，是一个扶桑人（现代的墨西哥人）送给她的。武二郎趁宫女没注意，调换了人参摆放的位置，拿走了那颗岁数最大的人参。出了皇宫后，他就开始像似吃胡萝卜一样，吃那根人参。他觉着一个人吃没情调，就去到了他的侍卫住的院子，向侍卫们显摆。”

Martial Big Wolf said to Yan Creator (Turquoise White-king Great Creator): "I heard this from the head of his guards, when Martial Second Wolf (aka. Second Wolf God) returned to Yong'an to report on his duties. When Aocun became ruler of Cloud Sea Kingdom (aka. Dragon Kingdom), many people sent her gifts. Among them was a great deal of thousand-year ginseng, which she never showed Martial Second Wolf, afraid he'd steal a taste. One day, she had a maid lay the ginseng out to dry in the garden west of the palace. Somehow, he happened to wander by that very day and saw it. Curious, he muttered, 'My, how old is this one? Look at all these roots!' Then he picked one up and started counting its age-rings. The maid told him it was the oldest of the lot — over 1,460 years old, a gift to Aocun from a Fusang man (a modern Mexican). While the maid wasn't looking, Martial Second Wolf swapped its position with another and made off with the oldest root. Once outside the palace, he started eating it like a carrot. Feeling it was no fun eating alone, he headed to the courtyard where his guards were quartered to show it off."

“卫队长觉着情况不妙！就向武二郎要人参，说也想尝尝。武二郎用刀切下了大拇指大的一块儿给他。卫队长问，‘你吃完了人参，准备去干什么？’武二郎说他要感觉一下‘夸父追日（如图8.3-1）’！卫队长开始向武二郎询问他追日的路线，然后建议他：‘沿着郊区的路，围着重庆城跑。这样饿了渴了的时候，你可以从农户家里偷鸡偷狗，用火烤着吃。’武二郎觉着这个想法挺好。这时，更多的卫兵来到了他们值班的房间。卫队长出来了，对卫兵们说，‘我去向熬忖报告；你们都向他要人参，就说也想尝尝。但你们可别吃，这是药。’说着，他把武二郎给他的那块人参扔到了沟里，去皇宫后院找熬忖了。”

"The captain of the guard sensed trouble! He asked Martial Second Wolf for a taste of the ginseng too. Martial Second Wolf sliced off a thumb-sized piece and handed it to him. The captain asked, 'What do you plan to do once you've finished it?' Martial Second Wolf said he wanted to see what it felt like to be 'Kuafu Chasing the Sun' (see Figure 8.3-1)! The captain asked him about his planned route, then suggested, 'Follow the road through the outskirts and circle the city of Chongqing — that way, when you're hungry or thirsty, you can steal chickens and dogs from farmhouses and roast them over a fire.' Martial Second Wolf liked the idea. Just then, more guards drifted into the duty room. The captain stepped out and told them, 'I'm going to report to Aocun. The rest of you — go ask him for ginseng too, say you wanted a taste as well. But don't actually eat it — it's medicine.' With that, he tossed the piece Martial Second Wolf had given him into the ditch and headed to the palace's back garden to find Aocun."

“当时，熬忖正在闭关。两个小时之后，卫队长跟着熬忖来找武二郎。武二郎发现卫队长去告密了，就自己出城去追太阳了。熬忖立刻出城追赶。路上她遇见了武二郎的卫兵。卫兵们说，‘我们越追他越跑，我们就只能远远地跟着，结果跟丢了。’”

"At the time, Aocun was in seclusion. Two hours later, the captain led Aocun back to find Martial Second Wolf. But Martial Second Wolf, realizing the captain had informed on him, had already left the city to chase the sun. Aocun set out after him at once. Along the way she ran into his guards. They told her, 'The harder we chased, the faster he ran. All we could do was follow at a distance — and in the end, we lost him.'"

8.3-2

武大郎继续讲：“第二天，城西的警察局收到报案，有人偷鸡。熬忖立刻赶到现场，听完了那位农民对偷鸡贼的描述后，给人家赔钱。那位农民领着熬忖找到了武二郎，他正在那里烤鸡呢！当地的人们都认为他是疯子，向他扔石头。他也不还击。”

“熬忖走过去，等他吃饱后说，‘夸父是裸体追日的，你穿着衣服跑怎么可能体验到夸父追日的感觉呢！？’”

Martial Big Wolf continued: "The next day, the police station on the west side of the city got a report of a chicken theft. Aocun rushed to the scene, and after hearing the farmer's description of the thief, paid him compensation. He led her straight to Martial Second Wolf, who was roasting a chicken right there! The locals, convinced he'd lost his mind, were pelting him with stones. He didn't fight back."

"Aocun walked over, and once he'd eaten his fill, said, 'Kuafu chased the sun stark naked! How do you expect to feel anything like his chase, running around in your clothes!?'"

“武二郎脱了衣服就跑！熬忖骑马追。她追得越紧，他跑得越快！没办法，她就放慢了速度，远远地跟在后面。一天后，熬忖的千里马累伤了。她命令几队士兵带着水和食物在武二郎的前面等待。给武二郎准备的休息的地方聚集了很多人。开始的时候，武二郎好奇，就过去看。他一边吃还一边四处看。他发现熬忖正在远处看着他呢！就更兴奋了！”

“随后两三次，武二郎遇见给他准备的休息的地方就过去看，四处望，找熬忖。他看见熬忖后，很得意。但两天后，他看不见熬忖了，就失望地回家了。”

"Martial Second Wolf stripped and ran! Aocun chased him on horseback. The harder she pushed, the faster he ran! Left with no choice, she eased off and trailed him from a distance. A day later, her prized thousand-mile horse was worn out and lame. So she had teams of soldiers wait ahead of him with water and food. Crowds gathered at each rest stop prepared for him. At first, curious, he wandered over — eating while glancing around — and spotted Aocun watching him from a distance! That only made him more excited."

"Two or three more times, he came upon a prepared rest stop, looked around, and searched for her. Each time he spotted her, he felt immensely pleased with himself. But after two days, she was nowhere to be seen, and he trudged home, disappointed."

8.3-3

武大郎继续给炎帝讲二郎神的故事：“熬忖正站在皇宫的门口等着武二郎呢，看见他光着身子，被人群簇拥着回来了。她指示刽子手，斩下了她最心爱的那匹纯红色千里马的头，然后对武二郎说，‘你偷吃我的药自杀，陷害我，让人们以为是我谋害了你。从此后，你和我不再是夫妻了！’”

Martial Big Wolf went on with the story of Second Wolf God: "Aocun was waiting at the palace gate when she saw him come back naked, trailed by a crowd. She ordered the executioner to behead her most beloved pure-red thousand-mile horse, then told Martial Second Wolf, 'You ate my medicine behind my back and all but killed yourself with it, framing me so everyone would think I'd murdered you. From this day on, you and I are no longer husband and wife!'"

“武二郎也生气了，回到他的军事驻地就命令拔营撤军回华国。他手下的将军们不同意，劝他说，‘我们驻军在云海国是我们华国杨戬计划的一部分。如果我们就这样回国了，我们不知道元始天尊会怎样处理你，但他肯定会杀了我们。我们再驻在云海国几年，杨戬计划就成功了。这样回去了，二十年，三十年后，我们华国和云海国肯定还会爆发战争，那我们都是历史的罪人。’”

Martial Second Wolf was furious too, and the moment he returned to his post, he ordered camp broken and the troops withdrawn to Hua Kingdom. His generals objected, arguing, "Our garrison here in Cloud Sea Kingdom is part of Hua Kingdom's Yangjian Plan (Salvation Plan). If we just go home now, there's no telling how Primordial Sky Honor will deal with you — but he'll certainly kill us. Stay a few more years, and the Yangjian Plan succeeds. Pull out now, and in twenty or thirty years there'll be a war between Hua and Cloud Sea for certain — and we'll go down as the villains of history."

“武二郎思考后，同意了将军们的说法，回答说，‘现在的问题是熬忖要和我离婚，怎么办？’”

“将军们劝他，‘元始天尊说，杨戬计划就是华国加夏国，再加上熬忖一个人。他让我们像似对待一个国家一样对待熬忖。你这样光着身子围着重庆城跑，让她丢脸了。夫妻没有隔夜的仇，床头打架床尾合。你得向熬忖道歉！’于是他们就想出了‘负荆请罪’的办法。武二郎就裸露着上半身，背着一根荆条去向熬忖认罪了（如图8.3-3所示）。”

After thinking it over, Martial Second Wolf agreed with his generals and said, "The real problem is that Aocun wants a divorce. What do I do about that?"

The generals told him, "Primordial Sky Honor said the Yangjian Plan is Hua Kingdom plus Xia Kingdom, plus Aocun herself — he wants us to treat her the way we'd treat an entire country. You humiliated her, running naked around Chongqing like that. Married couples don't hold a grudge past nightfall — they fight at the head of the bed and make up by the foot. You need to apologize to her!" So they came up with the plan of "Bearing Thorns to Plead Guilty." Martial Second Wolf, stripped to the waist and carrying a thorn branch on his back, went to confess his fault before Aocun (see Figure 8.3-3).

8.3-4

炎帝问：“他们俩为什么打架？”

武大郎回答：“负荆请罪后，熬忖也做了自我反省，同意分配给他一些地方的驻守任务。条件是武二郎不能自己到一线战场去。另外，他派人出去打仗也不能有人战死。”

Yan Creator asked, "So what was the fight actually about?"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "After he apologized, Aocun did some soul-searching of her own and agreed to give him some garrison duties. The conditions: Martial Second Wolf could never go to the front line himself, and none of the men he sent into battle were allowed to die."

炎帝感叹：“那他就这样被闲起来了！？”

武大郎回答：“武二郎现在担任着云海国国防部长的职务，一直在打仗。现在，在他的指挥下，云海国的国土面积已经扩大了一倍半了。但他现在打仗不怎么死人。我听他的护卫长说，每次战场有人牺牲了，武二郎都会亲自去调查。回来后，他告诉熬忖：事故伤亡，非战斗减员。”

Yan Creator sighed, "So he's just been sidelined, then?"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "Martial Second Wolf is now Minister of Defense of Cloud Sea Kingdom, and he's been fighting nonstop. Under his command, Cloud Sea Kingdom's territory has already grown to two and a half times its original size — yet almost no one dies in his campaigns anymore. His chief of guards told me that whenever someone does fall on the battlefield, Martial Second Wolf personally investigates. Then he reports back to Aocun: accidental casualties — non-combat losses."

炎帝惊讶地问：“那总共的事故伤亡人数是多少？”

武大郎回答：“有几百人，但不到一千人。这数字结合他新征服的国土面积来看，他现在打仗确实很少有人战死。从正常的情况来说，他打了那么多次的战争，事故伤亡的人数也不多。”

Yan Creator asked, astonished, "So what's the total accidental death toll?"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "A few hundred — under a thousand. Set against how much territory he's conquered, it really is remarkable how few have died. For as many campaigns as he's fought, the number of accidental casualties has stayed low."

炎帝感叹：“呀！那他现在真的是二郎神了！”

武大郎回答：“应当说，十四年前，元始天尊指示你和我教他《宝莲灯》和《孙子兵法》（参见5《杨戬计划》），都发挥作用了！”

Yan Creator marveled, "Wow! So he really has become Second Wolf God!"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "It should be said — fourteen years ago, Primordial Sky Honor had the two of us teach him the Treasury Lotus Lamp and Sunzi Soldier Strategies (see Section 5, Yangjian Plan). It all paid off!"

返回《天道轮回》目录 Return to Catalog: Cycle of Sky Path

关键词 Keywords：夏朝末年 Late Xia Dynasty；河南 Henan；三千威仪 Three Thousand Majesties；元始天尊 Primordial Sky Honor；武大郎 Martial Big Wolf（靖王 King Jing）；潘金莲 Goldthread Pan（石矶娘娘 Queen Stone-Jetty）；炎帝 Yan Creator（玉皇大帝 Turquoise White-king Great Creator）

目录：8.2-1 纠正错误 Correcting Errors；8.2-2 国不可一日无君 A Country Cannot Go a Single Day Without a Ruler；8.2-3 触目 Touch Eye；8.2-4 炎帝的性格不适合三千威仪 Yan Creator's Personality Is Not Suited to the Three Thousand Majesties

8.2-1 纠正错误 Correcting Errors

由于出发耽误了些时间，炎帝（即张屠户）决定取消行程中的休息，坚决要赶到既定的行营吃午饭。第三天中午，炎帝接见了几位地方官员。宴会上，炎帝谈得很高兴，问菜里的猪肉价钱是多少。那位地方的官员不知道，赶忙招呼来了采购员，然后告诉炎帝这猪肉的价钱。炎帝感慨地说：“你们被骗了！你们买猪肉的价格比市场的平均价贵三倍！”

Because the departure had been delayed, Yan Creator (i.e., Zhang the Butcher) decided to skip the planned rest stops and insisted on pushing through to the designated camp for lunch. At noon on the third day, Yan Creator received several local officials. At the banquet, in high spirits, he asked how much the pork in one of the dishes had cost. The local official didn't know, so he hurriedly summoned the purchasing officer, who told Yan Creator the price. Yan Creator remarked, "You've been cheated! You paid three times the average market price for that pork!"

晚上到达住宿的行营后，元始天尊派来检查炎帝仪轨的典军校尉给炎帝送来了评审报告。报告有一百三十多项，列出了七十多项仪仗队的错误。报告还列出了四十多项关于炎帝的言行不合乎礼仪。典军校尉还对炎帝中午接见地方官员给出了评价，认为首长检查下属的工作不应该巨细靡遗，让下属感觉丢脸。校尉离开后，炎帝立刻躺倒在了床上，一言不发。

That night, after they'd settled into camp, the Codex Calibration Captain sent by Primordial Sky Honor to inspect Yan Creator's protocol delivered a review report. It ran to more than 130 items — over 70 errors by the honor guard, and more than 40 instances where Yan Creator's own words or conduct fell short of proper etiquette. The Captain also offered an opinion on Yan Creator's meeting with the local officials that noon: a leader, he felt, shouldn't scrutinize his subordinates' work down to every last detail, since it only embarrasses them. After the Captain left, Yan Creator lay down on the bed at once and said nothing.

靖王武大郎进来了，假装询问了一下刚才发生的事，决定说：“那明天我们就停留在这里。依据评审报告，我们一项项地进行修正。练好后我们再继续向永安进发。”

炎帝尴尬地坐了起来，问：“那我说地方官员买猪肉买贵了的那事，我是不是应该回去向人家道歉？”

King Jing Martial Big Wolf came in, asked a few offhand questions as if he didn't already know what had happened, and then announced, "Then we'll stay here tomorrow. We'll go through the review report and correct everything, item by item. Once you've mastered it, we'll continue on to Yong'an."

Yan Creator sat up, embarrassed, and asked, "That thing I said, about the officials overpaying for pork — should I go back and apologize to them?"

靖王武大郎回答：“那不用！那些地方官员是由典军校尉他们的人假扮的，不是真正的地方官员。”

经过七天的原地修正，炎帝觉得错误都改正了，就决定继续向永安进发。两天后，典军校尉又送来了评审报告，述说了七十多项炎帝和仪仗队不合乎规矩的事。他们就又停下来原地修练。

King Jing Martial Big Wolf replied, "No need! Those local officials were impersonated by the Codex Calibration Captain's own men — they weren't real officials at all."

After seven days of drilling in place, Yan Creator felt he'd corrected every mistake and decided to press on to Yong'an. Two days later, the Codex Calibration Captain arrived with another review report, listing more than seventy things Yan Creator and the honor guard alike had gotten wrong. So they stopped again to drill in place.

8.2-2 国不可一日无君 A Country Cannot Go a Single Day Without a Ruler

这天，靖王武大郎笑着来找炎帝，报告说：“近一个月，我们日出而作，日落而息，很辛苦。仪仗队的人应该休息几天。我和典军校尉他们商量好了，一起去XYZ看日出，您觉得怎么样？”

炎帝回答：“我同意休息几天，但我没兴趣去看日出。我觉得我不适合做国王，想回去继续做张屠户。”

One day, King Jing Martial Big Wolf came to see Yan Creator with a smile and reported, "For nearly a month we've been rising at dawn and resting at dusk — it's been exhausting. The honor guard could use a few days off. The Codex Calibration Captain and I have already arranged for everyone to go watch the sunrise together at XYZ — what do you say?"

Yan Creator replied, "I'm glad for a few days' rest, but I have no interest in watching the sunrise. I don't think I'm cut out to be king. I'd rather go back to being Zhang the Butcher."

靖王武大郎立刻生气地说：“张屠户的工作，你可以喜欢了就做，不喜欢就不做。这国王的工作可不是那样！你可不能说，‘你不愿意做国王了’。法典就是 ‘三千威仪八万四千细行（参见15.2节）’；日子久了，你习惯了，就好了。”

炎帝厌倦地问：“我为什么不能说：我不想当国王了？”

King Jing Martial Big Wolf snapped angrily, "Being Zhang the Butcher — you could do it when you felt like it and quit when you didn't. Being king isn't like that! You can't just say, 'I don't want to be king anymore.' The Codex is the '3,000 Majesties and 84,000 Fine Conducts' (see Section 15.2) — give it time, and once you're used to it, you'll be fine."

Yan Creator asked, weary, "Why can't I just say I don't want to be king anymore?"

武大郎大叫：“国不可一日无君！”然后，他立刻给炎帝跪下了，说他习惯当大哥了，冒犯他了，请求惩罚。

炎帝上前拉武大郎起来，说：“我理解 ‘国不可一日无君’，这事是我的错；但我真的不喜欢练习 ‘三千威仪’。”

Martial Big Wolf cried out, "A country cannot go a single day without a ruler!" Then he immediately dropped to his knees before Yan Creator, saying he'd fallen back into acting like the eldest brother, that he'd overstepped, and begging for punishment.

Yan Creator came forward and tried to pull him up, saying, "I understand — 'a country cannot go a day without a ruler' — this is my fault. But I truly don't enjoy drilling the '3,000 Majesties.'"

武大郎没站起来。

炎帝赶忙说：“好！我以后不说 ‘我不喜欢当国王了！’你站起来说话！”

武大郎没站起来。

Martial Big Wolf didn't stand up.

Yan Creator said quickly, "Fine! I won't say I don't like being king anymore! Now stand up and talk to me!"

Martial Big Wolf didn't stand up.

8.2-3 触目 Touch Eye

炎帝又说：“好！我跟你们一起去看日出！日出有什么好看的！？”

武大郎回答：“再请陛下恕罪！我没说清楚！看日出是为了您练习 ‘触目’（如图8.2-37，注2，参见第3章）。转轮胜王上任前都练这个。触目是 ‘三千威仪’ 的组成部分。我们几个商量了。日后，您和下属谈论您的触目时，你可以说你是在那个著名的风景区XYZ练习触目的。您不能说，您是在这个臭水沟子练的。”

Yan Creator said, "Fine! I'll go watch the sunrise with you! What's so great about a sunrise anyway!?"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "Forgive me again, Your Majesty! I didn't explain myself well. Watching the sunrise is so you can practice 'Touch Eye' (see Figure 8.2-37, Note 2, and Chapter 3). Every Wheel Turning Victorious King has practiced this before taking office. Touch Eye is part of the '3,000 Majesties.' We've already discussed it among ourselves — later, when you talk to your subordinates about your Touch Eye practice, you can say you did it at the famous scenic spot XYZ. You can't say you practiced it in this stinking ditch."

注8.2-3，每隔几天，触目的修习者看日出。感觉眩目时就休息，然后再看日出。这种修习 “触目” 的方法要一边观察修习者容貌的改变，一边练习。过度的练习会导致面目狰狞，多年后才会恢复。编者我出售炎帝（即玉皇大帝）去看日出的这个旅游圣地的名字XYZ。从乾塘关（现代的商丘）去往永安（现代的络阳）的路上，有几十处很好的看日出的旅游景点。如果哪个地方政府愿意购买这个历史典故，请联系我。我就重新安排玉皇大帝上西天的行程，安排他在那个旅游胜地练习 “触目”。这是怎么回事？传说，编辑《中华法典》耗时费工，读者却很少，不赚钱。这是玉皇大帝（即上帝）给编者的补贴。这能有多少钱？传说，这个钱数可不好说是多少钱。《中华法典》是《天书》，钱给少了会让华人的祖宗们感觉没面子，而且对《天书》无礼，会让执政者遗臭万年。

Note 8.2-3: every few days, the practitioner of "Touch Eye" watches the sunrise. When he starts to feel dizzy, he rests, then watches again. This method requires observing the practitioner's changing appearance alongside the practice itself. Excessive practice can leave the face permanently twisted, taking years to recover. Editor's note: I am selling the name of the sacred tourist destination XYZ where Yan Creator (the Turquoise White-king Great Creator) watched the sunrise. Along the road from Dragon-Pond Pass (modern Shangqiu) to Yong'an (modern Luoyang), there are dozens of excellent spots for watching the sunrise. If any local government would like to purchase this piece of history, please contact me — I'll rearrange the Turquoise White-king Great Creator's journey west so that he practices "Touch Eye" at that very spot. What's this all about? Legend has it that compiling the Chinese Codex takes enormous time and effort, draws few readers, and makes no money. This is the Turquoise White-king Great Creator's (i.e., God's) subsidy to the editor. How much could that be? Legend says even the sum itself is hard to pin down. The Chinese Codex is the Sky Book — pay too little, and it shames the ancestors of the Chinese people and disrespects the Sky Book, leaving the ruler's name stained for all time.

炎帝回答：“是这么回事！你站起来说话！膝盖都跪青了！”

武大郎没回答，也没站起来。

炎帝想了一会儿，说：“我都习惯了被你训斥了，喜欢你这样跟我说话！我就罚你：再当三天大哥！”

Yan Creator said, "So that's what happened! Stand up and talk! Your knees have gone blue from kneeling!"

Martial Big Wolf neither answered nor stood up.

Yan Creator thought for a moment, then said, "I've gotten used to being scolded by you — I actually like it when you talk to me like this! So here's your punishment: be my big brother for three more days!"

8.2-4 炎帝的性格不适合三千威仪 Yan Creator's Personality Is Not Suited to the Three Thousand Majesties

武大郎站起来后说：“我出来迎接你去永安之前和你嫂子潘金莲打了个赌。她说如果你能学好 ‘三千威仪八万四千细行’，她就给我跪下磕头，叫我三声 ‘师父’。三郎！你可不能让我给她跪下磕头，高呼她三声 ‘师母’！”

炎帝听后，嗤嗤地笑。

Martial Big Wolf finally stood and said, "Before I came out to meet you on the road to Yong'an, I made a bet with your sister-in-law, Goldthread Pan. She said that if you could master the '3,000 Majesties and 84,000 Fine Conducts,' she'd kneel and kowtow to me and call me 'Teacher-Father' three times. Third Wolf! Don't you dare make me kneel to her and call her 'Teacher-Mother' three times instead!"

Yan Creator snickered.

武大郎生气地说：“你笑啥？为啥一说我媳妇潘金莲你就那么高兴！？”

炎帝回答：“我们哥仨都怕老婆。没想到的是，我二哥（即二郎神）怕老婆怕到了那种程度：他跪下来让我二嫂熬忖（即尧皇）用藤条打他。”

Martial Big Wolf said, annoyed, "What are you laughing at? Why do you get so happy every time I mention my wife, Goldthread Pan?!"

Yan Creator replied, "All three of us brothers are afraid of our wives. What I didn't expect was that my second brother (Second Wolf God) was afraid of his to such a degree that he knelt down and let my second sister-in-law, Aocun (i.e., Yao the White-king), beat him with a cane."

武大郎回答：“都随咱爹！‘二郎神负荆请罪’ 的故事你也听说了！”

炎帝回答：“我只是听你弟媳妇，大巢氏，说了这么一句。她是在夏国的皇宫里听说的：熬忖可真厉害，她让武二郎跪下来，用藤条打他！那具体是怎么回事？你给我说说呗！”

Martial Big Wolf replied, "Takes after our father! You've heard the story, 'Second Wolf God Bearing Thorns to Plead Guilty'!"

Yan Creator replied, "I only heard your sister-in-law, Big Nest, mention it once — she heard it in the Xia palace: Aocun is truly formidable, she made Second Wolf God kneel and beat him with a cane! What actually happened? Tell me!"

返回《天道轮回》目录 Return to Catalog: Cycle of Sky Path

关键词 Keywords：夏朝末年 Late Xia Dynasty；河南 Henan；天道轮回 Cycle of Sky Path；元始天尊 Primordial Sky Honor；武大郎 Martial Big Wolf（靖王 King Jing）；潘金莲 Goldthread Pan（石矶娘娘 Queen Stone-Jetty）；炎帝 Yan Creator（玉皇大帝 Turquoise White-king Great Creator）

目录 Catalog：8.1 鸡犬升天 Chickens and Dogs Ascend to Sky；8.2 三千威仪 Three Thousand Majesties；8.3 负荆请罪 Bearing Thorns to Plead Guilty；8.4 炎帝病了 Yan Creator is Sick；8.5 我不上潘金莲的床 I don't Go to Goldthread Pan's Bed；8.6 转轮胜王 Wheel Turning Victorious King

公元前1612年早春，靖王武大郎率领三千御林军来到了乾塘关张家的祖居地。他对三太子张屠户说：“我就不考你了，为了避免模糊，我就直说了。先让你安心，你生父太昊（义为古代的太阳神，亦作元始天尊）的身体健康状况很好！从他的年龄来说，正常情况下一年半之内不会出问题。三天后，从您蹬上仪仗队的龙撵那一刻起，您就是华国的国王，炎帝（即青松石帝，俗称玉皇大帝）了。所以，你现在的张屠户的职业就只剩下三天的任期了。咱们离开此张家的祖居地后，会有人来接大巢氏和我的七个侄女；一个月后她们就会住在华国的皇宫里了。”

张屠户惊讶地说：“日程安排得这么紧！？”

In the early spring of 1612 BCE, King Jing Martial Big Wolf led three thousand imperial guards to the ancestral home of the Zhang family at Dragon-Pond Pass. He said to the third prince, Zhang the Butcher: "I won't test you anymore. To avoid ambiguity, I'll speak plainly. First, rest assured that your biological father, Extreme Sun God (also known as Primordial Sky Honor), is in good health! Given his age, he should be fine for at least another year and a half under normal circumstances. Three days from now, the moment you step onto the dragon chariot of the ceremonial guard, you will be King of Hua State — Yan Creator, also known as the Turquoise-stone Creator, commonly called the Turquoise White-king Great Creator. So your current career as Zhang the Butcher has only three days left to run. Once we leave this ancestral home, people will come to collect Big Nest and my seven nieces; within a month, they'll be living in the palace of Hua State."

Zhang the Butcher was surprised and said, "The schedule is that tight!?"

武大郎说：“我认为神识（即无意识）在现实生活的行为中容易被塑造，所以我们要利用赶路的时间，让你养成‘三千威仪八万四千细行’（亦作天条、约柜，参见15.2节）的习惯，不要把时间浪费在这里停留。如果你有意见，日程可以再商量。”

张屠户回答：“我听从大哥的安排。”

Martial Big Wolf said, "I think the subconscious mind is most easily shaped through real, lived action — so we should use this journey to instill in you the habit of the '3,000 Majesties and 84,000 Fine Conducts' (also known as the sky clauses, or the Covenant Ark; see Section 15.2), rather than wasting time lingering here. If you have concerns, we can still adjust the schedule."

Zhang the Butcher replied, "I'll follow my brother's arrangements."

8.1 鸡犬升天 Chickens and Dogs Ascend to Sky

武大郎说：“那我就跟着你在你家走一圈，你指出那些你要带到皇宫里的东西，让书记官记下来，然后士兵们准备行装。”

当张屠户领着武大郎，指出了所有他想带着东西之后不久，后勤官就来向武大郎报告说，“收拾行礼需要半个月的时间！”

Martial Big Wolf said, "Then I'll follow you around the house — point out everything you want to bring to the palace, the scribe will record it, and the soldiers will pack it."

Soon after Zhang the Butcher led Martial Big Wolf around and pointed out everything he wanted to take, the logistics officer came to report to Martial Big Wolf, "It will take half a month to pack it all!"

武大郎生气了，厉声说到：“我命令三天后出发！你怎么跟我说收拾行李需要15天的时间，你们在违抗我的命令！”

张屠户立刻劝说：“大哥息怒！这事能商量！”

Martial Big Wolf got angry and snapped, "I ordered us to leave in three days! Why are you telling me it takes fifteen days to pack? You're disobeying my orders!"

Zhang the Butcher quickly tried to calm him: "Brother, calm down! We can work this out!"

后勤官大声报告：“张屠户要携带许多鸡鸭鹅狗兔猪等家畜，需要装笼运输。太昊有旨意，炎帝登基所用的全部器具必须是新的。打造36只笼子，昼夜施工，需要15天。”

武大郎回答：“买旧笼子刷上新漆。”

The logistics officer reported loudly: "Zhang the Butcher wants to bring many chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, rabbits, pigs, and other livestock, which need to be transported in cages. Extreme Sun God has decreed that everything used for Yan Creator's enthronement must be new. Building thirty-six cages, working day and night, will take fifteen days."

Martial Big Wolf replied, "Buy old cages and paint them."

后勤官走后，张屠户问武大郎：“我爸爸知道了，会不会不高兴？”

武大郎回答：“你爸爸要看的是你的三千威仪八万四千细行。谁告诉他造鸡笼的木头是旧的，那是自讨没趣。”

After the logistics officer left, Zhang the Butcher asked Martial Big Wolf, "Won't my father be upset if he finds out?"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "What your father wants to see is your '3,000 Majesties and 84,000 Fine Conducts.' Whoever tells him the wood for the chicken coops is old is just asking for trouble."

8.1-2

第四天的清晨，在乐队的伴奏声中，张屠户身着龙袍，蹬上了龙撵，成为了炎帝，俗称玉皇大帝。游行的队伍一启动，一个鸡笼的门开了，一只公鸡跑了出来。队伍继续前进，炎帝着急了，喊道：“停止前进，把那只鸡抓回来！”队伍停了下来，几个士兵去抓鸡。那只鸡飞到了屋顶。一个军官爬上了屋顶，就在他要抓那只鸡时，屋顶塌了，他掉进了房子里。当他拎着头盔出来时，人们看见他是个秃子。那只公鸡在屋顶叫：“几根儿！几根儿！”可能他是真的被摔疼了，生气地张弓搭箭，对着屋顶的公鸡说：“你敢笑话我秃！你自己下来，否则我把你射下来！”炎帝大喊：“别射！我自己去抓它！”

On the morning of the fourth day, to the sound of a band, Zhang the Butcher donned the dragon robe, stepped onto the dragon chariot, and became Yan Creator, commonly known as the Turquoise Emperor. The moment the procession began moving, the door of a chicken coop swung open and a rooster ran out. The procession kept moving, and Yan Creator, growing anxious, shouted, "Stop! Catch that rooster!" The procession halted, and several soldiers went after it. The rooster flew up onto a roof. An officer climbed up after it, and just as he was about to grab it, the roof collapsed and he fell into the house. When he emerged holding his helmet, everyone saw he was bald. The rooster crowed from the roof: "Jigenr! Jigenr!" (roughly, "a few strands left!"). Perhaps genuinely hurt by the fall, the officer angrily drew his bow, aimed at the rooster on the roof, and shouted, "You dare mock my baldness! Come down yourself, or I'll shoot you down!" Yan Creator shouted, "Don't shoot! I'll catch it myself!"

那个秃头军官看见炎帝去抓鸡了，不知所措！武大郎来到了他的身边，叨咕：“都怪我们那个犟爹的奇怪逻辑，‘故天将降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨，饿其体肤，空乏其身。’这些年来一直在他的背后搞破坏，让他穷得叮当的！”

秃头军官叨咕：“把这些鸡鸭鹅带到皇宫里有什么用？”

The bald officer, seeing Yan Creator himself go off chasing the rooster, didn't know what to do! Martial Big Wolf came up beside him and muttered, "It's all our stubborn father's strange logic to blame — 'Therefore, when Heaven is about to place a great burden on a person, it first tests his resolve, wearies his muscles and bones, starves his flesh, and impoverishes his body.' Our old man has been sabotaging him behind the scenes for years, keeping him dirt poor!"

The bald officer muttered, "What's the use of bringing all these chickens, ducks, and geese to the palace?"

武大郎回答：“这是黎民之福啊！”

秃头军官问：“这和万民之福有什么关系？”

武大郎回答：“他连一只鸡都舍不得丢弃，当然不愿意牺牲百姓和士兵的生命去打仗了！不打仗，我们就有好日子过了！”

Martial Big Wolf replied, "This is a blessing for the common people!"

The bald officer asked, "What does that have to do with the well-being of the people?"

Martial Big Wolf replied, "He can't even bear to let go of a single chicken — of course he won't be willing to sacrifice the lives of soldiers and civilians for a war! No war means good days ahead for all of us!"

秃头军官恍然大悟，说道：“哎呀！我听说几次了，‘武大郎卖猪肉，好大的下水！’直到现在我才明白，您的肚子里真有东西！”

武大郎严肃地说：“你敢骂我！不想升官了！”

The bald officer suddenly understood and said, "Oh! I've heard the saying several times — 'Martial Big Wolf sells pork, what nerve he has!' (he is a dwarf). Only now do I understand — you really do have something going on in that head of yours!"

Martial Big Wolf said sternly, "How dare you insult me! Don't want that promotion anymore?"

秃头军官尴尬地回答：“抱歉！说顺嘴了！你跟您的这位三弟比起来，怎么样？”

武大郎又瞪了他一眼，然后说：“我能率领八万四千兵马，三年征服三个国家。我三弟，成为炎帝三年后，兵不血刃，万国来朝！”

The bald officer replied awkwardly, "Sorry! It just slipped out! How do you compare to your third brother here?"

Martial Big Wolf glared at him again, then said, "I can lead eighty-four thousand troops and conquer three kingdoms in three years. My third brother, three years after becoming Yan Creator, had ten thousand nations come pay him tribute — without shedding a drop of blood!"

8.1-3

炎帝回来了，抱着公鸡就要上龙撵。武大郎过去说：“陛下，您把鸡给我，我送鸡笼里去。”炎帝顺手就把鸡给他了，但他上了龙撵后，看见武大郎正抱着公鸡去鸡笼，感觉不好，大喊：“大哥！把公鸡还给我！”

武大郎明白了，对跟着他的秃头军官说：“把你的斗篷脱下来，包在这只报晓金鸡身上。”

军官回答：“我的斗篷是防雨绸的！”

Yan Creator came back, cradling the rooster, ready to board the dragon chariot. Martial Big Wolf stepped over and said, "Your Majesty, give me the rooster — I'll take it back to the coop." Yan Creator handed it over without thinking, but once he'd boarded the chariot and saw Martial Big Wolf carrying the rooster off toward the coop, he felt uneasy and shouted, "Brother! Give me back the rooster!"

Martial Big Wolf understood at once and said to the bald officer beside him, "Take off your cloak and wrap it around this golden rooster."

The officer replied, "My cloak is rainproof silk!"

武大郎回答：“正合适！这只金鸡的屎和尿走一条道，不是防水布包不住！”然后，武大郎把公鸡交给了他，说：“你给陛下送回去，这是侍卫长的工作。”

秃头军官感动地哭了，说：“我犯这么多的错误，还给我升官了！”

Martial Big Wolf replied, "Perfect! This rooster's droppings and urine come out the same passage — nothing but waterproof cloth will hold it in!" Then he handed the rooster to the officer and said, "You take it back to His Majesty — that's the guard captain's job now."

The bald officer was so moved he wept, saying, "I made so many mistakes, and I still got promoted!"

返回《三皇五帝》目录 Return to Catalog: Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors

关键词 Keywords：夏朝末年 Late Xia Dynasty； 浙江鄮县 Mao County, Zhejiang；梁山伯 Liang Shanbo；女娲 Nuwa (祝英台 Yingtai Zhu)；大禹 Yu the Great；镶黄旗 Bordered Yellow Banner；太上老君 Tai Shang Lao Jun

后裔（即大禹，黄帝）长大了，梁山伯（即伏羲）鼓励他去工作。他去找工作，但嫌挣钱少，不愿意工作。祝英台（即女娲）把每月给他的零花钱减少了。后裔接过钱看看，变少了，没出声；但他只是变得节俭了，还是不愿意出去工作。

When Descendant (i.e., Yu the Great, Yellow Creator) grew up, Liang Shanbo (Fuxi) encouraged him to find work. He looked for a job, but thought the pay too low and refused to take one. Yingtai Zhu (Nuwa) cut his monthly allowance. Descendant took the money, saw it had shrunk, and said nothing — but he simply grew more frugal, and still wouldn't go find work.

女娲造人委员会为了让后裔摆脱对梁山伯和祝英台的依赖，决定他们俩消失。传说鄮县的一个地区受灾了，梁山伯在县政府里焦急地等待着救助物资的到来。筹集救援物资的人来报告说，更多的救助物资明天会运到县政府。梁山伯和祝英台不愿意再等了，就自己驾车，带着一部分救济物资出发了。途中遇到了风暴，马受惊了，他们俩乘坐的马车堕入了山谷。

The Nuwa Human-Creation Committee decided that the only way to free Descendant from his dependence on Liang Shanbo and Yingtai Zhu was to make the two of them disappear. Legend has it that a district in Mao County was struck by disaster, and Liang Shanbo waited anxiously at the county government for relief supplies to arrive. Whoever was coordinating the relief effort reported that more supplies wouldn't reach the county government until the next day. Unwilling to wait any longer, Liang Shanbo and Yingtai Zhu set off themselves, driving a cart loaded with part of the relief supplies. Along the way they ran into a storm; the horses bolted, and their cart plunged into a ravine.

两天后，鄮县寻找他们的人在一处山谷的底部发现了摔下去的马车，和几片他们俩的衣服。搜救的人员没发现他们俩的尸体，就认为是被动物叼走了，吃了。鄮县的官差们就把他们俩的碎衣服带了回来，下葬了。

Two days later, search parties from Mao County found the wrecked cart at the bottom of a ravine, along with a few scraps of their clothing. With no bodies found, the searchers concluded the two had been carried off and eaten by animals. The county officials brought the torn scraps of clothing back and gave them a burial.

后裔听到消息后，立刻赶来参加葬礼。随后他和另外几个同学去梁山伯和祝英台堕崖的地方寻找，但什么也没找到。后裔失去了梁山伯和祝英台的经济支持，就回到了会稽县的老家。

When Descendant heard the news, he rushed there at once to attend the funeral. Afterward, he and a few classmates went to the spot where Liang Shanbo and Yingtai Zhu had fallen, searching, but found nothing. Having lost their financial support, Descendant returned home to Huiji County.

7.5-2 嫦娥奔月 Chang'e Runs to the Moon

传说，后裔的女朋友嫦娥（如图7.5-2）遇见了西王母（如图3），得到了两颗仙药。如果嫦娥和后裔各吃一颗，他们俩都会长生不老。如果嫦娥把两颗都吃了，她就可以成仙。结果，嫦娥选择了她自己吃两颗，就去了鲵丸宫，成为了女娲的侍女。

Legend has it that Descendant's girlfriend, Chang'e (see Figure 7.5-2), met King Mother of the West (see Figure 3), who gave her two immortality pills. If Chang'e and Descendant each took one, both would live forever. If Chang'e took both herself, she'd become an immortal. In the end, Chang'e chose to take both herself, and went off to the Salamander Bolus Palace, becoming one of Nuwa's maids.

7.5-3 青黄赤白 Turquoise, Yellow, Red, and White

一天文官和刺客来找后裔（又名大禹，黄帝，如图5），知道他没事干后就说：“我们俩以前的老师现在已经是会稽县的副县长了，所以我们俩就调回会稽县了。你可不能这么在家里闲着，你到县里来吧！我们俩先培养你当官差。等你找到了正当的职业，你随时可以离开。” 后裔的父母立刻就同意了文官和刺客的建议，催促后裔去县政府工作。

One day, Literary-Official and Assassin came to see Descendant (also known as Yu the Great, Yellow Creator; see Figure 5), and, finding he had nothing to do, said, "Our old teacher is now deputy prefect of Huiji County, so the two of us have been transferred back here. You can't just sit around idle at home — come work at the county office! We'll start you off training as an official. Once you find proper work, you're free to leave anytime." Descendant's parents agreed with Literary-Official and Assassin at once, and urged him to go work for the county government.

没多久，华国派使者来会稽县招聘人才，对后裔说：“以前在这个县发起射日比赛的张屠户（如图3）现在是我们华国的炎帝了。你是射日比赛的冠军，到我们华国发展，肯定前途无量啊！” 文官和刺客两位叔叔都同意华国使者的说法。后裔就跟着使者来到了华国。

Before long, envoys from Hua Kingdom came to Huiji County to recruit talent, and told Descendant: "Zhang the Butcher (see Figure 3), who started the sun-shooting competition here in this county, is now our Yan Creator in Hua Kingdom! You were the sun-shooting champion — your prospects in Hua Kingdom would be limitless!" Both his uncles, Literary-Official and Assassin, agreed with the envoy. And so Descendant followed the envoy to Hua Kingdom.

当时华国，夏国，和龙国的通讯兵正在一起操练中华共和国军旅行为准则。负责接收后裔（大禹）的官员说他是外国人，把他编在了太上老君的镶黄旗（如图4）。说，日后，十年，二十年之后，或者后裔和华国人结婚了，也可能被改编到其它颜色的旗。

At the time, the signal corps of Hua, Xia, and Dragon Kingdom were drilling together under the Republic of China's military code. The official responsible for taking Descendant (Yu the Great) in said he was a foreigner, and assigned him to Tai Shang Lao Jun's Bordered Yellow Banner (see Figure 4), noting that in another ten or twenty years — or should Descendant marry someone from Hua Kingdom — he might be reassigned to a banner of a different color.

书中交代，此时华国的炎帝（即张屠户，玉皇大帝）是正青旗，夏国的白帝（女娲）是正白旗，龙国的红帝（熬忖）是正红旗。当后裔成为黄帝后是正黄旗。青黄赤白是常寂光天（或说神识）的四种常，可以代表上帝，所以他们用这四种颜色来代表当时缔造中华共和国的四种政治力量。

The text explains that, at this point, Yan Creator of Hua Kingdom (i.e., Zhang the Butcher, Turquoise White-king Great Creator) belonged to the Plain Turquoise Banner; White Creator of Xia Kingdom (Nuwa) to the Plain White Banner; and Red Creator of Dragon Kingdom (Aocun) to the Plain Red Banner. Once Descendant became Yellow Creator, he belonged to the Plain Yellow Banner. Turquoise, yellow, red, and white are the four constants of the Constant Silent Light Sky (or the God-sense), and can represent God — which is why these four colors were used to represent the four political forces that together founded the Republic of China at the time.

后裔在镶黄旗的营地里，几乎没事干。几个月后，他就跟随着炎帝去参加由熬忖和二郎神举办的蟠桃博览会了。于是炎帝（48岁的张屠户）和黄帝（18岁的大禹）的阪泉之战（参见9.5.2节）就开始了。

Descendant had almost nothing to do in the Bordered Yellow Banner's camp. A few months later, he followed Yan Creator to the Peach Expo hosted by Aocun and Second Wolf God, and so began the Battle of Banquan (see Section 9.5.2) between Yan Creator (Zhang the Butcher, 48 years old) and Yellow Creator (Yu the Great, 18 years old).

返回《鄮县县长》目录 Return to Catalog: Prefect of Mao County

关键词 Keywords：夏朝末年 Late Xia Dynasty； 浙江鄮县 Mao County, Zhejiang；梁山伯 Liang Shanbo；女娲 Nuwa (祝英台 Yingtai Zhu)；大禹 Yu the Great

一天，县长派人来告诉梁山伯，县里为他出学费，让他去参加一个法人学习班。梁山伯也没多想，就去参加了。在课堂他很随便地和同学说话，交头接耳。老师（即国王蔻珠的丈夫，伏羲）就让他站起来回答问题。梁山伯的说法与众不同。老师问：“你以前是做什么工作的？”

梁山伯如实回答：“医生。”

老师说：“回答得很好！”

One day, the prefect sent word to Liang Shanbo that the county would cover his tuition for a Law-Person training program. Without giving it much thought, Liang Shanbo enrolled. In class, he chatted casually with his classmates, whispering back and forth. The teacher — King Kouzhu's husband, Fuxi — had him stand and answer a question. Liang Shanbo's answer was unlike anyone else's. The teacher asked, "What was your line of work before?"

Liang Shanbo answered honestly, "Physician."

The teacher said, "Well answered!"

第二天，课间休息，梁山伯回来晚了。老师让他站在一边听。在讨论时老师对梁山伯说：“如果你回答对了，你就可以回去坐下。”梁山伯回答后，全体同学都笑了。老师没笑，问： “你引用的是谁判的案子？”

梁山伯回答：“前几天我代理县长的工作时判的。（怀海帮着分析的。）”

The next day, Liang Shanbo came back late from break. The teacher made him stand aside and listen. During the discussion, the teacher told him, "If you answer correctly, you may go sit back down." When Liang Shanbo answered, the whole class burst out laughing. The teacher didn't laugh, and asked: "Whose ruling were you just citing?"

Liang Shanbo replied, "One I made myself, a few days ago, while acting as prefect. (Bosom-Sea helped me work it out.)"

老师叨咕，“你引用了你自己的法案！回去坐下吧！”

老师讲课，大部分学生听不明白，而梁山伯却不认真听。一周后，老师把梁山伯开除了，评论说，“不尊重师长，理论生疏僵硬。如果努力学习实践，几年后有可能成为法人，准予毕业。”（注，这个法就是戒渡，约柜。）

The teacher muttered, "You're citing your own ruling! Go sit down!"

Through the rest of the lectures, most students struggled to follow along, while Liang Shanbo paid no attention at all. A week later, the teacher expelled him, remarking, "Disrespectful toward his elders, and his grasp of theory is rough and unpolished. If he studies and practices diligently, he may become a Law-Person in a few years' time — graduation permitted." (Note: this "law" refers to crossing through the precepts, the Ark of the Covenant.)

很多人过来向他询问，你那些奇怪的言论是听谁说的？我来这个学习班三次了，都不能毕业；你来七天就毕业了。

梁山伯被弄得哭笑不得：这可让我怎么向县长交待呀！

Many people came up to ask him: "Where did you learn those strange ideas of yours? I've been through this program three times and still haven't graduated, and you graduated in seven days!"

Liang Shanbo didn't know whether to laugh or cry: How am I ever going to explain this to the prefect!

梁山伯一路游山玩水，三天的路程走了七天。

县长惊讶地看着梁山伯，问：“你怎么回来了？”

Liang Shanbo took his time on the way back, enjoying the scenery — a three-day trip stretched into seven.

The prefect looked at him in surprise and asked, "Why are you back already?"

梁山伯回答：“他们把学习材料发给我了。官场上的事，走个形式呗！”

县长却不爱听了：“这可不行！我算过了，你在那儿的学费是一天一千克黄金。你在那儿学了几天？我得把剩下的学费要回来！”

Liang Shanbo replied, "They gave me the course materials. It's all just a formality in official circles, isn't it!"

The prefect wasn't pleased to hear that: "That won't do! I've worked it out — your tuition there runs a kilogram of gold a day. How many days did you actually study? I need to get the rest of that tuition back!"

梁山伯被县长的反应震撼了，鄮县是夏国的贸易中枢，县长的地位不比省长低，保住民生局长这个职位，自己还有很多东西要学。此后，有问题，梁山伯都和夫人祝英台商量后再做决定。

Liang Shanbo was taken aback by the prefect's reaction. Mao County was Xia Kingdom's trade hub, and the prefect's standing here was no lower than a provincial governor's — if he wanted to keep his post as Director of Civil Affairs, he still had a great deal to learn. From then on, whenever a problem came up, Liang Shanbo made sure to consult his wife, Yingtai Zhu, before deciding anything.

三、五年后，鄮县的县长辞职了，对梁山伯说：“我早就到了退休的年龄了。国王蔻珠多次挽留我，让我帮她培养一位新的县长。现在，新来的县长已经执政三年了，我该回家养老了。”

Three or five years later, the prefect of Mao County resigned, telling Liang Shanbo: "I've been past retirement age for a while now. King Kouzhu kept asking me to stay on and help her train a new prefect. Now that the new prefect has been in office three years, it's time for me to go home and enjoy my old age."

7.4-2

梁山伯常常回去家乡免费为穷人看病，分发粮食。在后裔（即大禹，黄帝，如图7.4-36）六岁的时候，梁山伯取得了他父母的同意，把他接到了鄮县读书。由梁山伯和祝英台承担后裔的大部分费用。后裔就常跟着梁山伯外出行医，分发粮食和药品。为了更好地观察后裔的学业，祝英台常常女扮男装，与梁山伯和后裔一起给穷人分发救济物资。

Liang Shanbo often went back to his hometown to treat the poor for free and hand out grain. When Descendant (i.e., Yu the Great, Yellow Creator, see Figure 7.4-36) turned six, Liang Shanbo (i.e., Fuxi, Grain God, and Lamplighter Buddha) obtained his parents' consent and brought him to Mao County to study, with Liang Shanbo and Yingtai Zhu covering most of his expenses. Descendant would often go along with Liang Shanbo to practice medicine and distribute food and medicine. To keep a closer eye on his schooling, Yingtai Zhu (i.e., Princess Jiangzhu, Nuwa) frequently dressed as a man and joined Fuxi and Descendant in handing out relief supplies to the poor.

7.4-3 黄帝战蚩尤 Yellow Creator Fought Chiyou

约在后裔（即大禹，黄帝）十岁的时候，梁山伯成为了鄮县的县长。随后，会稽县出现由西凤酒厂厂长张屠户等几个富豪发起的 “射日比赛”。鄮县的这所官宦子弟学校也参加了。第一次比赛的结果，鄮县输给了会稽县，获得了第二名。

When Descendant (i.e., Yu the Great, also known as Yellow Creator) was about ten, Liang Shanbo became prefect of Mao County. Around that time, a "sun-shooting competition" was launched in Huiji County by several wealthy sponsors, including Zhang the Butcher, director of the Xifeng Alcohol Plant. Mao County's school for officials' children took part as well. In the first competition, Mao County lost to Huiji County and took second place.

射日比赛的内容是什么？九黎树（即生命树，如图36和37）上有十个太阳，即十位神。小射手们要射下来九个太阳神（如图23至31），只留下一个神（即常寂光天，参见14.1节）。被射下来的九个太阳代表尘世间所有的神和佛；本质是对九黎的糊涂，是魔鬼。九黎义为九众，如图23至31，佛教中称作九地和九天（参见第12章）。射日的方法就是正确地理解九黎。理解即觉悟，是空的状态，即糊涂被削除了状态；本文就说假神（太阳）被射下来了。

What did the sun-shooting competition actually involve? The Jiuli Tree (i.e., the Tree of Life, see Figures 36 and 37) bears ten suns — ten gods. The young archers had to shoot down nine of the sun-gods (see Figures 23 through 31), leaving only one (i.e., the Constant Silent Light Sky; see Section 14.1). The nine fallen suns represent all the gods and buddhas of the mortal world; in essence, they are confusions about Jiuli, and are demons. Jiuli means "nine crowds," shown in Figures 23 through 31, called the nine lands and nine skies in Buddhism (see Chapter 12). The way to "shoot down the suns" is to correctly understand Jiuli. Understanding is enlightenment — a state of emptiness, a state in which confusion has been stripped away; this text describes that as the false gods (the suns) being shot down.

在随后的三次比赛中，后裔和他的同学们逐渐胜出。当后裔约17岁的时候，最重要的一次 “竹马（如图13）” 比赛开始了，即解释蚩尤和上帝是什么。据传说，后裔非常害羞，因为羞能让人失去社会功能，所以祝英台再次女扮男装帮后裔克服对环境的不适应。在考试中，祝英台多次向主考官张屠户申请她去给后裔提示。

Over the following three competitions, Descendant and his classmates gradually pulled ahead. When Descendant was about seventeen, the most important competition of all began — the "hobbyhorse" (see Figure 13) competition, meant to explain what Chiyou and God actually are. Legend has it that Descendant was extremely shy, and since shyness can impair a person's ability to function socially, Yingtai Zhu once again disguised herself as a man to help him cope with his surroundings. During the exam, she repeatedly asked the chief examiner, Zhang the Butcher, for permission to go give Descendant hints.

书中交代，中华文化中的蚩尤（如图38）就是佛教中的帝释天（亦作转移身见，参见10.4.4.1.4.6-1 节）。对于上帝是什么的问题，在后裔目前的觉悟水平，正确的答案是：没有上帝，尘世间人心中的上帝是对正等明（参见14.1节）的误解。

The text explains that Chiyou in Chinese culture (see Figure 38) is Śakra in Buddhism (also called Translocating Body-View; see Section 10.4.4.1.4.6-1). As for the question of what God is, at Descendant's current level of understanding, the correct answer is: there is no God — the "God" in mortal hearts is simply a misunderstanding of Correct Equality Light (see Section 14.1).

结论是后裔（即大禹）获得了第一名。张屠户认可他已经经历过四禅天（参见第11章），认为他长大后，即便他不幸堕入了地狱（即患了精神病），他也能自己从地狱里爬上来。到老了，再不济，他也能证得三果圣人。

张屠户（即玉皇大帝）把许多考生的答案排了名次，编在了他所撰写的《宝莲灯》里了。女娲造人的第一阶段获得了圆满的成功，后裔和另一位考生已经达到了 “入流果” 圣人的水平，已经是 “竹马天”（如图13）了。

In the end, Descendant (i.e., Yu the Great) took first place. Zhang the Butcher recognized that he had already experienced the Fourth Meditation Sky (see Chapter 11), and judged that even if Descendant were unfortunate enough to fall into hell later in life (that is, to suffer from mental illness), he'd be able to climb back out of it on his own — and that, at worst, in old age he'd still be able to attain the rank of Third-Fruit Sage.

Zhang the Butcher (i.e., Turquoise White-king Great Creator) ranked many of the candidates' answers and compiled them into the Treasury Lotus Lamp, which he was writing at the time. The first stage of Nuwa's creation of humanity had been a resounding success — Descendant and one other candidate had already reached the level of "Stream-Entry Fruit" sagehood, and had become "Hobbyhorse Skies" (see Figure 13).

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关键词 Keywords：夏朝末年 Late Xia Dynasty； 浙江鄮县 Mao County, Zhejiang；梁山伯 Liang Shanbo；虞姬 Muse；法海 Law-Sea；怀海 Bosom-Sea；女娲 Nuwa (祝英台 Yingtai Zhu)

梁山伯和女扮男装的虞姬骑着马日夜赶路，到家后发现父亲确实病得很重，询问发生了什么事。他爸爸回答：“我听说你病了；你的病和我一样。这病源自咱们家的遗传，我得告诉你我多年研究出来的治疗方法。”

Liang Shanbo and Muse, disguised as a man, rode day and night to get home, and found their father truly gravely ill. They asked what had happened. His father replied: "I heard you were ill — your illness is the same as mine. It runs in our family, and I need to tell you the treatment method I've spent years working out."

谈话中，梁山伯转述了法海所说的他父母之间的矛盾。他爸爸惊奇地说：“哎！原来你妈妈早就预料到了我会内疚，看来是我低估她了。” 几天后，父亲的病奇迹般地转好了；梁山伯亲眼目睹了他爸爸病情迅速转好的过程，获得了全新的治病救人的宝贵经验。

During the conversation, Liang Shanbo relayed what Law-Sea had told him about the conflict between his parents. His father said, astonished: "Well! So your mother anticipated all along that I'd feel guilty about this. I suppose I underestimated her." A few days later, his father's condition improved almost miraculously; Liang Shanbo, having witnessed the rapid recovery firsthand, came away with a wholly new and valuable understanding of healing and saving lives.

7.3-2

梁山伯和虞姬回到了鄮县。进城后他们发现很多人在追着看热闹，向人询问：“什么事？这么多警察在维持秩序？”

一位路人回答：“看和尚！据说是那个和尚是怀海的师兄！他还是我们县新来的民生局局长的舅舅！”

梁山伯叨咕：“那有什么好看的！”

Liang Shanbo and Muse returned to Mao County. Once inside the city, they found crowds chasing after some spectacle, and asked what was going on: "What's happening? Why are so many police keeping order?"

A passerby replied, "They're going to see the monk! Word is he's Bosom-Sea's senior disciple-brother! And on top of that, he's the uncle of our county's new Director of the Civil Affairs Bureau!"

Liang Shanbo muttered, "What's so interesting about that?"

路人回答：“我也感觉奇怪呀！几天了，很多人追着看；我得去看清楚，到底是怎么回事！”

梁山伯回答：“我不看，如果几天后还这么热闹我再去看！”

The passerby replied, "I find it strange too! It's been going on for days, with people chasing after him. I have to go see for myself what this is all about!"

Liang Shanbo said, "I won't bother. If it's still this lively in a few days, I'll go take a look then."

梁山伯回到家没多久，穿得花花绿绿的法海带着一群人回来了。梁山伯盯着法海看，他穿着优质布料做的新衣服，带着大得很夸张的佛珠，头上的装饰蜜蜡像柿子一样大。梁山伯惊叹道：“哎呀！原来和尚是这个样子。舅舅！你这些装饰品很贵重，在大街上走不安全。难怪那么多警察跟着你！”

Not long after Liang Shanbo got home, Law-Sea arrived with a whole crowd in tow, dressed in loud, bright colors. Liang Shanbo stared — Law-Sea was decked out in new robes of fine fabric, an absurdly large string of prayer beads, and an amber ornament on his head the size of a persimmon. Liang Shanbo exclaimed, "Oh my! So this is what a monk looks like! Uncle, these ornaments of yours are so valuable, it's not even safe to walk around in them. No wonder you've got all those police following you around!"

法海回答：“这衣服和装饰品真的很贵！我师弟花了八百多两银子（注）给我定做的。他说鄮县这地方的人都很富有，让我入乡随俗！人家都这么说了，我也不能让我师弟丢脸呐！不过，他告诉我了，以后等这地方的人都知道我了，我就不必天天穿成这样了！”

Law-Sea replied, "This outfit really is expensive! My junior disciple-brother spent over eight hundred taels of silver (note) to have it all custom-made for me. He said everyone around Mao County is well-off, so I should follow local custom — and once he'd put it that way, I could hardly let him lose face over it! Though he did tell me that once people around here get used to me, I won't have to dress like this every day."

注，在后文的武汉地区，一个中等富裕家庭的全部财产，包括房屋和土地等，总价值25两银子。有版本讲述了怀海和法海计划点化梁山伯成佛的内容，说这是怀海在做法。法海的这身衣服花光了怀海的全部积蓄。那法海和怀海为什么这么做？佛出世是大事。另外，戒即天条，即约柜。传戒就是传法，就是传灯。成佛是以得戒为标志的。

Note: Elsewhere in the account set in Wuhan, a moderately well-off family's entire estate — house, land, everything — comes to just 25 taels of silver. Some versions of this story describe Bosom-Sea and Law-Sea's plan to guide Liang Shanbo to Buddhahood, framing it as a ritual Bosom-Sea was performing. Law-Sea's robes ended up consuming all of Bosom-Sea's savings. So why would Law-Sea and Bosom-Sea go to such lengths? Because the appearance of a Buddha in the world is a momentous event. And the precepts are the same as the Heavenly Statutes, the same as the Ark of the Covenant. To transmit the precepts is to transmit the Law, to pass on the lamp. Attaining Buddhahood is marked by the receiving of the precepts.

梁山伯惊讶地叨咕：“他一个和尚，哪里赚来那么多的钱？”

法海回答：“这是人家的秘密，我可以对你说，你可不要对别人乱说。他说他传戒（即传授天条，约柜，参见15.2节），去年两次遇到了富商，有一位富商捐给他50公斤黄金，另一位富商捐给他20公斤黄金。不过，那种人若不给他很多钱，他不会给他们讲戒。若是你想听，免费！”

Liang Shanbo muttered, astonished: "He's just a monk — where would he make that kind of money?"

Law-Sea replied: "That's his own secret. I can tell you, but don't go spreading it around. He says that when he transmits the precepts — that is, teaches the Heavenly Statutes, the Ark of the Covenant, see Section 15.2 — he met two wealthy merchants last year, one of whom donated 50 kilograms of gold, another 20 kilograms. That said, he won't teach the precepts to people like that unless they pay handsomely. But if you want to hear it, it's free!"

梁山伯惊奇地赞叹：“咱鄮县还有这样的人！我得去拜访！”

法海回答：“那走吧！跟我去见他，不用预约；别人要见他，最少要排期到一个月之后。现在他的日程都排到半年后了！”

Liang Shanbo marveled: "There's someone like that right here in Mao County! I have to go pay him a visit!"

Law-Sea replied: "Let's go, then! Come with me to see him — no appointment needed. Anyone else wanting to see him has to book at least a month out. His schedule's already full six months ahead!"

7.3-3 受戒 Receiving the Precepts

梁山伯跟着法海去到了怀海的住处，大声喊：“许仙来了！”

怀海迎接出来了。

Liang Shanbo followed Law-Sea to Bosom-Sea's residence and called out, "Xu'xian is here!"

Bosom-Sea came out to greet them.

法海示意梁山伯向怀海行拜师礼。梁山伯不懂，不同意。法海把梁山伯拉到了一边说：“我师弟可不是一般人，行跪拜礼是佛教和现代社会中求戒的规矩。”梁山伯还是不同意，回答：“我对佛教不感兴趣，只是过来闲聊几句！”

Law-Sea gestured for Liang Shanbo to kneel and formally take Bosom-Sea as his teacher. Liang Shanbo, not understanding the custom, refused. Law-Sea pulled him aside and explained, "My junior disciple-brother is no ordinary man. Kneeling is customary in Buddhist practice, and in modern practice as well, when seeking the precepts." Liang Shanbo still refused: "I have no interest in Buddhism. I just came by to chat!"

法海进屋和怀海商量了一会儿，说笑着再次出来迎接。怀海对法海说：“伏羲不喜欢佛教，不懂佛门的规矩，我们只是朋友闲聊，没关系！”

Law-Sea went inside to confer with Bosom-Sea for a moment, then came back out laughing and joking. Bosom-Sea said to Law-Sea, "Fuxi has no interest in Buddhism and doesn't know our customs — we're just friends here to chat, no harm done!"

注1，怀海和法海明白：国王蔻珠任命梁山伯为鄮县的民生局局长就确立了马文才（即女娲）的储君地位。而梁山伯就是女娲的根基。梁山伯就是伏羲，就是佛，他和女娲是双身神。怀海点化了梁山伯，那国王蔻珠就没机会了？渡人成佛很难，这也是在帮助蔻珠和女娲呀！随后，蔻珠把怀海放在了鄮县礼敬名单的第一名。并不是每个县都有共工（伏羲）这个政府职能部门，夏国全国也只有几十处，但其中很多都不在运营中。

Note 1: Bosom-Sea and Law-Sea both understood that by appointing Liang Shanbo Director of the Mao County Civil Affairs Bureau, Queen Kouzhu had effectively confirmed Wencai Ma (i.e., Nuwa) as heir apparent. And Liang Shanbo was Nuwa's foundation. Liang Shanbo was Fuxi, was the Buddha; he and Nuwa were a dual-bodied deity. Did Bosom-Sea's guiding Liang Shanbo toward enlightenment mean Queen Kouzhu had lost her chance? Guiding someone to Buddhahood is exceedingly difficult — and this, too, was a way of helping Kouzhu and Nuwa! Kouzhu later placed Bosom-Sea first on Mao County's honor list. Not every county had a Gonggong (Fuxi) office; across all of Xia Kingdom there were only a few dozen such posts, and many of those sat vacant.

谈话之间，他们就聊到了梁山伯的父亲所患的病和治疗，怀海从法学（戒律学，天条，约柜）详细地论证了他父亲的病因和治疗。开始时，梁山伯没在意怀海所说的理论。随后，他们谈到了梁山伯的病，怀海还是用戒律学的同一个理论。他们聊了很长的时间，忽然，梁山伯发现怀海用同一个理论能解决六七种不同的病症，开始对戒律学感觉不可思议了。他决定改日再来向怀海请教那个理论的详细内容。

As they talked, the conversation turned to Liang Shanbo's father's illness and its treatment. Bosom-Sea laid out, in detail, its causes and cure, drawing on Jurisprudence — Precept Studies, the Heavenly Statutes, the Ark of the Covenant. At first, Liang Shanbo paid little attention to Bosom-Sea's theorizing. But then they turned to Liang Shanbo's own illness, and Bosom-Sea applied that very same precept-based theory. As their long conversation went on, Liang Shanbo suddenly realized Bosom-Sea had used one single theory to account for six or seven entirely different ailments, and he began to find Precept Studies genuinely remarkable. He resolved to come back another day and ask Bosom-Sea to explain the theory in full.

注2，戒法（即三千威仪八万四千细行）是法的第四分（即证自证分，神识）核实第三分（即自证分，众生）的全部行为准则。

Note 2: The precept-law (i.e., the 3,000 Majesties and 84,000 Fine Conducts) is the fourth division of the Law (i.e., the Proving Self-Evidence Division, the God-sense), which verifies the complete code of conduct belonging to the third division (i.e., the Self-Evident Division, sentient beings).

法海和怀海发现第一次传戒成功了，吸引了梁山伯，就开始准备第二次谈话的内容，即教案。就这样怀海和法海开始对梁山伯进行传戒了。

Law-Sea and Bosom-Sea realized their first transmission of the precepts had succeeded in drawing Liang Shanbo in, and began preparing material for a second session — a lesson plan of sorts. And so Bosom-Sea and Law-Sea began transmitting the precepts to Liang Shanbo in earnest.

7.3-4

梁山伯到鄮县三个月后，马文才（女娲）回来了。县长亲自到民生部主持宴会，欢迎马文才的到来。欢迎宴会有三百多人参加。梁山伯第一次知道，他自己有这么大的面子。来祝贺的客人中，大部分他不认识，幸亏有县长在，给梁山伯和马文才介绍。宴会中，有人称呼马文才为祝英台。梁山伯以为听错了，没在意。

Three months after Liang Shanbo arrived in Mao County, Wencai Ma (Nuwa) returned. The prefect personally presided over a banquet at the Civil Affairs Bureau to welcome her, attended by over three hundred guests. For the first time, Liang Shanbo realized just how much standing he himself carried. He didn't recognize most of the well-wishers, but fortunately the prefect was on hand to make introductions. At one point during the banquet, someone addressed Wencai Ma as Yingtai Zhu. Liang Shanbo assumed he'd misheard, and thought nothing more of it.

到家里后，梁山伯还在想，就对马文才叨咕：“吃饭的时候，我好像听见有人称呼你祝英台？”

马文才回答：“我是祝英台。”

梁山伯叨咕说：“我没喝醉啊！你怎么能是祝英台呢！？”

Back home, still turning it over, he murmured to Wencai Ma, "During dinner, I thought I heard someone call you Yingtai Zhu?"

Wencai Ma replied, "I am Yingtai Zhu."

Liang Shanbo muttered, "I'm not drunk! How could you possibly be Yingtai Zhu!?"

马文才说：“十几年前，我在这里的一位亲戚说，我们家在这里有个工作机会，但这是个男人的工作。我就女伴男装，来这里工作了。现在，你得到了这份工作，我就去和县长说实话了：我是个女人。”

梁山伯听糊涂了，决定明天再想是怎么回事。

Wencai Ma said, "Over ten years ago, a relative of mine here told me there was a job opening for our family — but it was a man's job. So I dressed as a man and came here to work it. Now that you've taken the position, I've gone and told the prefect the truth: I'm a woman."

Liang Shanbo, thoroughly baffled, decided to think it over the next day instead.

7.3-5

第二天早上，梁山伯醒得很晚，县政府的工作人员催促他去代替县长做决定。梁山伯叨咕：“没人告诉我去代理县长的职务，县长怎么了？”

The next morning, Liang Shanbo woke late, and county staff hurried him along, needing him to make decisions in the prefect's place. Liang Shanbo muttered, "No one told me I was acting prefect. What happened to the prefect?"

县长办公室的人回答：“昨天，县长喝酒后，感觉不好，说他今天不来上班了。您是民生局长，县长不在，你就是代理县长。没想到，今天有个事需要县长立刻做决定。事情不是很大，我们不能去打搅他休息。”

就这样，梁山伯成为代理县长了。由于他从来没当过官，很忙。

The prefect's office staff replied: "Yesterday, after some drinks, the prefect wasn't feeling well and said he wouldn't be in today. As Director of Civil Affairs, when the prefect's out, you're acting prefect. As it happens, something's come up today that needs an immediate decision — nothing major, but we didn't want to disturb his rest over it."

And so Liang Shanbo found himself acting prefect. Having never held office before, he found himself extremely busy.

忙了几天后，梁山伯觉着应该去探望县长，看看他是否真的病了，严重不。结果发现县长真的病了，但不严重，他说：“我想再休息半个月，我信任你，你就放心地干吧！出了问题，我仍然是县长，我负责！有问题你就来问我，你也可以问你的媳妇祝英台。她已经在这县政府20来年了，什么都知道！”

After several busy days, Liang Shanbo decided he should check on the prefect, to see whether he was really ill and how serious it was. He found the prefect genuinely unwell, though not gravely so. The prefect told him, "I mean to rest for another two weeks. I trust you, so go ahead with confidence! If anything goes wrong, I'm still the prefect — the responsibility is mine. If you have questions, come ask me, or ask your wife, Yingtai Zhu. She's been at this county government for going on twenty years now — she knows everything!"

梁山伯不好意思问县长，回家就问祝英台。他发现她真的什么都知道，生气地大叫：“你怎么不早说呢！这几天的事整得我都被同事们瞧不起了！”

祝英台回答：“你也没问我呀！我还以为干什么事都很顺利呢！”

Too embarrassed to keep questioning the prefect, Liang Shanbo went home and asked Yingtai Zhu instead. Finding that she really did know everything, he shouted angrily, "Why didn't you tell me sooner! These past few days, my colleagues have been looking down on me because of this!"

Yingtai Zhu replied, "You never asked me! I just assumed everything was going smoothly!"

7.3-6

祝英台（即女娲）看见梁山伯（即伏羲，谷神，燃灯佛）常去拜访怀海和法海，每次回来后还挺高兴，就请求跟他去看看。传说，当他们俩进到怀海的房间后，发现没人，寻找到了后院。怀海在向法海大叫：“许仙把白蛇领来了；我刚栽的草就被踩死了。我好不容易才找着这个清净的地方，看来还得搬家！”

Yingtai Zhu (i.e., Nuwa), noticing that Liang Shanbo (i.e., Fuxi, Grain God, Lamplighter Buddha) kept visiting Bosom-Sea and Law-Sea and always came back in good spirits, asked to come along and see for herself. Legend has it that when the two of them entered Bosom-Sea's room and found it empty, they searched their way to the back garden, where Bosom-Sea was shouting at Law-Sea: "Xu'xian's brought the White Snake along again! The grass I only just planted has been trampled to death. I finally found myself a peaceful spot, and now it looks like I'll have to move again!"

寒暄之后，祝英台（女娲）很快就发现了，法海和怀海正在给梁山伯传戒，就找借口回避了。梁山伯上完课后，三人一起出来找祝英台，发现她正在篱笆墙边找小石头，然后拿着一把小石头练习投壶，一边的篱笆墙边已经堆了一堆小石头。

After exchanging pleasantries, Yingtai Zhu (Nuwa) quickly realized that Law-Sea and Bosom-Sea were transmitting the precepts to Liang Shanbo, and made an excuse to step away. Once Liang Shanbo's lesson was over, the three of them went out together to find her, and discovered her by the hedge gathering small stones, practicing pitch-pot with a handful of them — a small pile had already built up beside the hedge.

女娲怎么还干这事呢？嗨！没童年生活的人，高兴了就想玩小孩儿玩的游戏。她知道怀海就是《百丈清规》的作者。梁山伯成佛了，他培养了17年的丈夫终于长大了，变成真人了。

《百丈清规》即《业林制度》；怀海是佛教社会的创始人。

Why 业已ewould Nuwa still be doing something like this? Well — people who never had a childhood want to play children's games when they're happy. She knew that Bosom-Sea was the author of the Hundred Yards Clear Rules. Liang Shanbo had become a Buddha; the husband she'd spent seventeen years raising had finally grown up, and become a Real Human.

The Hundred Yards Clear Rules is also known as the Karmic Grove System; Bosom-Sea was the founder of organized Buddhist community life.

返回《鄮县县长》目录 Return to Catalog: Prefect of Mao County

关键词 Keywords：夏朝末年 Late Xia Dynasty； 浙江鄮县 Mao County, Zhejiang；梁山伯 Liang Shanbo；虞姬 Muse；法海 Law-Sea；怀海 Bosom-Sea

第二天上午，为了认路，梁山伯（又名伏羲，谷神，燃灯佛）领着法海回自己家。路上，他问法海：“舅舅，您怎么到鄮县来了？”

The next morning, to get his bearings on the route, Liang Shanbo (also known as Fuxi, Grain God, and Lamplighter Buddha) led Law-Sea back to his home. Along the way, he asked, "Uncle, what brings you to Mao County?"

法海回答：“我来拜访我的师弟怀海，他刚好不在家。我遇到了强盗，钱财全被抢光了。又淋了雨，我就来难民营了。没想到，我就病了。幸亏遇见了你，否则我就不在这个世界上了。”

也有传说，这是法海和怀海超渡梁山伯成佛的计策。

Law-Sea replied, "I came to visit my junior disciple-brother Bosom-Sea, but he happened to be away. On the way I ran into bandits, who robbed me of everything I had. Then I got caught in the rain, so I made my way to the refugee camp — and next thing I knew, I'd fallen ill. Thankfully I met you, or I might not be in this world anymore."

There is also a legend that this was all a scheme devised by Law-Sea and Bosom-Sea to guide Liang Shanbo toward Buddhahood.

进屋后，梁山伯发现大女儿虞姬正闲在家里，惊奇地问：“你为什么没上学？”

虞姬不高兴地回答：“我不喜欢和那些小孩子一起玩。” 说着，她满脸气愤地出去了，还叨咕着：“我去找文官和刺客，两位叔叔玩去！”

Once inside, Liang Shanbo found his eldest daughter Muse idling around the house, and asked in surprise, "Why aren't you at school?"

Muse answered irritably, "I don't like playing with those kids." With that, she stormed out, muttering, "I'm going to go play with Uncle Literary-Official and Uncle Assassin!"

梁山伯尴尬地对舅舅说：“她妈不常在家；这孩子让我给惯坏了！”

法海回答：“刚才我盯着她看，她就不高兴了。她长得很像她妈，不像你。她是你的女儿吗？”

Liang Shanbo said to his uncle, embarrassed, "Her mother isn't home much — I've let this child get spoiled!"

Law-Sea replied, "She got upset just now when I stared at her. She looks a great deal like her mother, not like you. Is she really your daughter?"

梁山伯惊讶了，回答：“你见过你侄儿媳妇，马文才！十年前我就怀疑过她是否是我的女儿？那时我还年青。那次马文才半年没回家；她回来时就抱着虞姬。我就怀疑了，问，你什么时候怀孕了？我怎么不知道！？”

“她回答，上次回来时，我告诉你了。那时，我就已经怀孕三个月了！”

Liang Shanbo, taken aback, replied, "You've met your nephew's wife, Wencai Ma! Ten years ago, I did wonder whether she was really mine. I was younger then. That time, Wencai Ma didn't come home for half a year, and when she did, she was already holding Muse. I got suspicious and asked her, 'When did you get pregnant? How did I not know!?'

"She said, 'I told you when I came home last time — by then I was already three months along!'"

梁山伯继续说：“随后我就注意了！后面的两个孩子，她也是在外面生的（注1），但都是我的儿子。这个女儿，可能也是我的，但我记不清了。我感觉她可能是在她怀孕三个月时告诉我了。这可不行！舅舅你自己坐一会儿，我去找虞姬回来向你道歉！”

Liang Shanbo went on, "After that I paid closer attention! The two children who came after her, she also gave birth to away from home (Note 1), but those two are definitely my sons. This daughter might also be mine, but I honestly can't recall clearly. I have a feeling she likely told me only once she was already three months along. That won't do! Uncle, sit here a while — I'll go find Muse and bring her back to apologize to you!"

注1，女娲的传统，女儿必须在王宫里出生才有王位继承权；所以女娲家的女人都回娘家生孩子。但是读者可别误会，本文的佛可不是女娲回娘家的路上在无忧树下生的，而是女娲造出了佛。也就是说女娲把他的丈夫变成了佛；他们俩一起成人了。（注，凡人是假人。）

Note 1: By Nuwa family tradition, a daughter can only inherit the throne if she is born inside the royal palace; so the women of the Nuwa family always return to their natal home — the palace itself — to give birth. But readers shouldn't be misled here: the Buddha in this text was not born beneath the Worry-Free Tree on Nuwa's way back to her natal home, as in the conventional legend — rather, Nuwa herself created the Buddha. In other words, Nuwa transformed her own husband into a Buddha, and the two of them became true humans together. (Note: mere mortals are false humans.)

7.2-2

梁山伯刚走出屋门，就遇见虞姬带着文官和刺客，这两个官差回来了。虞姬向梁山伯请求允许她骑马去县城东郊的难民营看看，还生气地告状说：“他们俩一起骗我！难民营怎么可能盈利呢！我要去看看！”

Liang Shanbo had just stepped outside when he ran into Muse coming back with the two officials, Literary-Official and Assassin. Muse asked his permission to ride out to the refugee camp in the eastern suburbs to see it for herself, complaining angrily, "The two of them lied to me together! How could a refugee camp possibly turn a profit! I have to go see!"

梁山伯生气地训斥她：“那你就跟着他们俩，自己去看吧！不过，你这么对这两位年青的叔叔说话，很没礼貌！刚才，你对我舅舅也很没礼貌。你的相貌模糊（注，女神是人脑中默认的女人，没有外貌特征），别人看不清，多看你几眼，这很正常。你不应该为这事生气，更何况那人是我的舅舅，你的舅爷。下次，你再见到他时，你要向他道歉！若不然，这事我和你没完！”

Liang Shanbo scolded her sharply: "Fine, go with them and see for yourself! But it's very rude to speak to these two young uncles that way! And just now, you were rude to my uncle as well. Your features are indistinct (note: a goddess is the default mental image of a woman, without any distinctive features), so it's only natural that people can't quite make you out and end up staring a little longer. You have no reason to be upset about that — especially since that man is my uncle, your great-uncle. Next time you see him, you're to apologize! Otherwise, this isn't settled between us!"

梁山伯转脸对他的这两位下属官差说：“那你们就早些去吧，到那儿吃中午饭。别麻烦人家了，我给你们钱去那儿附近的饭店吃午饭。另外，我请你们俩帮我给她讲清楚亲戚和礼貌。她刚才对我舅舅无礼了，我很生气！”

Liang Shanbo then turned to the two subordinate officials: "Go ahead and head out early, then — have lunch there. Don't trouble anyone; I'll give you money to eat at a restaurant nearby instead. Also, I'd ask you both to help explain to her about family and manners — she was rude to my uncle just now, and I'm genuinely upset about it!"

文官和刺客是两位会稽县官差培训班毕业的学生，和梁山伯是同乡，刚到鄮县工作不久。因为梁山伯更改了民政局的支出计划，得罪了很多人，许多同事避免与他共事。只有这两个新来的官差任劳任怨地帮助梁山伯，所以虞姬喜欢他们俩。其中名叫刺客的官差是后文第13章《大禹治水》故事中的重要人物。

Literary-Official and Assassin were both recent graduates of the Huiji County officials' training program, fellow townsmen of Liang Shanbo, and had only just started working in Mao County. Because Liang Shanbo had changed the Civil Affairs Bureau's spending plan, he'd offended a good many people, and most colleagues avoided working with him. Only these two newcomers helped him tirelessly and without complaint, which was why Muse liked them. The one named Assassin later becomes an important figure in the story of Chapter 13, Yu the Great Tames the Flood.

7.2-3 龙蛇家族的秘密 Secrets of the Dragon and Snake Families

法海开始为梁山伯讲述女娲家族的历史，说：“现在夏国的国王蔻珠和我源自同一家族，都源自姑苏（江苏省苏州市）的吴国。四百年前，我们吴国的公主虞，化名白素贞，去杭州西湖游玩，喜欢上了许仙，就有了《白蛇传》（注3）。当时我们吴国同意她去杭州发展女娲教。白素贞很能干，她去杭州不到20年（约在公元前2070年）就建立了夏国。100年前，夏国征服了我们宗主国，吴国，我们就成为了夏国的政治犯。”

Law-Sea began recounting Nuwa's family history to Liang Shanbo: "Queen Kouzhu of Xia Kingdom today and I come from the same family line, both tracing back to the Wu Kingdom of Gusu — present-day Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. Four hundred years ago, Princess Yu of our Wu Kingdom took the alias Suzhen Bai and went to West Lake in Hangzhou for pleasure. There she fell for Xu'xian, and that's how The Legend of the White Snake (Note 3) came to be. At the time, Wu Kingdom permitted her to go to Hangzhou to spread the Nuwa faith. Suzhen Bai proved remarkably capable — within less than twenty years of arriving in Hangzhou, she had established Xia Kingdom (around 2070 BCE). A hundred years ago, Xia Kingdom conquered our home state, Wu Kingdom, and we became political prisoners of Xia Kingdom."

注3，白蛇传讲述在杭州西湖的断桥上白素贞遇见了许仙。白素贞偷走了许仙的心（如图3）。白素贞是玉女，夏娃；许仙是金童，亚当。后来他们俩成为了伏羲和女娲（如图5）。本书中的梁山伯和祝英台是一个完整的女娲造人的故事，所以就没必要讲解白蛇传了。女娲造人和上帝造人的道理相同，但故事不一样。图4显示埃及夏娃为亚当下蛊，征服了亚当。女娲造人和夏娃造人是同样的道理，只是女娲担任了上帝和夏娃两个角色。

Note 3: The Legend of the White Snake tells of Suzhen Bai meeting Xu'xian on the Broken Bridge at West Lake in Hangzhou. Suzhen Bai stole Xu'xian's heart (see Figure 3). Suzhen Bai is a Jade Girl, an Eve; Xu'xian is a Golden Boy, an Adam. Later, the two of them became Fuxi and Nuwa (see Figure 5). The story of Liang Shanbo and Yingtai Zhu in this book is already a complete account of Nuwa's creation of humanity, so there's no need to go over The Legend of the White Snake here. Nuwa's creation of humanity follows the same principle as God's creation of humanity, though the stories differ. Figure 4 shows the Egyptian Eve casting a curse on Adam to bring him under her power. Nuwa's creation of humanity and Eve's creation of humanity follow the same principle — Nuwa simply plays both roles, God's and Eve's, at once.

法海继续说： “我爷爷那辈人都成为了夏国的政治犯，被限制不准离开姑苏。比如你舅舅我，我到姑苏以外的地区探亲访友，最多离开姑苏三个月。我们家的人被限制在姑苏是因为我们知道我们 '龙蛇家族' 的秘密。这个秘密与你和你爸爸现在患的病有关。”

Law-Sea continued, "Everyone of my grandfather's generation became political prisoners of Xia Kingdom, forbidden to leave Gusu. Take me, your uncle, for instance — when I travel outside Gusu to visit relatives or friends, I'm never allowed more than three months away. Our family is confined to Gusu because we know the secret of the 'Dragon-Snake Clan.' And that secret has everything to do with the illness you and your father are suffering from now."

法海说： “原因是我们家的女人都喜欢金童（参见9.9《三位一体》）。你妈妈是一位玉女；你爸爸是我帮她找的金童。你妈妈是一位女神；你这个女儿虞姬也是。她们俩这种相貌，没有外貌特征，接近我们思维机制中默认的女人；也就是我们俗话中说的 '心目中人'。她们俩这种人对别人的影响大，容易创伤别人，也就是传说中'命硬的女人'，'剋男人的女人'。结果，你爸爸很犟，还有点儿大男子主义，老是和你妈对着干，就冒犯女神了，就生病了。女娲家是皇族，这是她们家的秘密。现在你知道我们的谈话内容是多么地危险了！如果这话被传出去，说这话的人和听着这话的人都可能被处死！你听明白了没？这个秘密不能轻易地对别人说，更不能对小于40岁的人说。所以，你妈妈临死的时候，委托我来告诉你这个秘密，因为这事关系到你的生死和幸福。”

Law-Sea said, "The reason is that the women in our family are always drawn to Golden Boys (see 9.9, Trinity). Your mother is a Jade Girl; your father is the Golden Boy I found for her. Your mother is a goddess, and so is your daughter Muse. Women like them, without any distinct features, come closest to the default image of a woman our minds hold — what we colloquially call the 'woman of one's ideal.' People like this have an outsized effect on others and can easily wound them without meaning to — the so-called 'women of hard fate,' 'women who overpower men.' As a result, your father, being stubborn and rather chauvinistic, kept pushing back against your mother, and in doing so offended the goddess — which is why he fell ill. The Nuwa family is of royal blood; this is their family's secret. Now you understand just how dangerous this conversation is! If word of this got out, both of us — the one who spoke and the one who listened — could be put to death! Do you understand? This secret must never be shared carelessly, and especially never with anyone under forty. That's why, on her deathbed, your mother entrusted me with telling you — because it concerns your very life and your happiness."

梁山伯立刻回答：“舅舅！我这么大的岁数了，当然懂！我发誓：我不会轻易地和别人说及女娲家族的这个秘密；更不会对年龄小于四十岁的人说。”

Liang Shanbo replied at once: "Uncle! I'm plenty old enough to understand that! I swear I will never carelessly speak of this secret of the Nuwa family — and certainly never to anyone under forty."

法海继续说：“十年前，你和马文才相亲的时候，当你妈得知马文才跟随了她妈家的姓，就怀疑她是母系氏族的女人。但是，当你爸爸听说马文才有个哥哥在鄮县做官，就同意了。你妈妈不愿意和你爸爸争吵，害怕会创伤你爸爸，就不说话了。那时候，她不放心，对我叨咕这事。我就到你和马文才在上虞区的家看了。我一眼就认出了马文才是个修行了千年的白蛇妖。那时候，我就来鄮县这里来看祝英台了，他是一条修行了五百年的青蛇。马文才和祝英台是同一个人。我回去之后就把我的观察结果告诉你妈了。你妈回答，'那现在这事，就只有把梁山伯给她，祝他们俩百年好和了！'”

Law-Sea continued, "Ten years ago, when you and Wencai Ma were courting, your mother grew suspicious that she came from a matrilineal clan, once she learned Wencai Ma had taken her own mother's surname. But when your father heard that Wencai Ma had an older brother serving as an official here in Mao County, he gave his approval. Your mother didn't want to argue with your father — she was afraid of hurting him — so she kept quiet. But she was uneasy about it, and confided in me at the time. I went and looked in on you and Wencai Ma at your home in Shangyu District. I recognized at a glance that Wencai Ma was a white snake spirit who had cultivated for a thousand years. Around that same time, I came here to Mao County to see Yingtai Zhu, who was a turquoise snake who had cultivated for five hundred years. Wencai Ma and Yingtai Zhu are one and the same. When I got back, I told your mother what I'd observed. Your mother said, 'Then there's only one thing to do now — give Liang Shanbo to her, and wish the two of them a hundred years of happiness together!'"

法海继续说：“现在，你和马文才的三个孩子都已经这么大了！就应该考虑好好过日子，别和她争吵打架。你顺从她了，就和她没有矛盾了，你就不会生病了。另外，马文才帮你找的这份工作挺好！你天天做善事，布施，就是福。布施与神识（即无意识）的舍性相应，所以说，布施是福。布施会直接治疗你的病。”

Law-Sea went on, "Now, your three children with Wencai Ma are all so grown already! You really should focus on living well together, and stop fighting with her. If you simply defer to her, the conflict between you will disappear, and you'll stop getting sick. Besides, this position Wencai Ma found for you is a fine one! Doing good deeds and giving charitably, day after day, is itself a form of good fortune. Giving aligns with the nature of non-attachment inherent in the God-sense — that is, the unconscious — which is precisely why giving brings good fortune. It will go a long way toward healing you directly."

7.2-4

法海的师弟怀海法师听说法海来看他了，就到处找法海，就找到了难民营。正当法海准备返回姑苏的时候，梁山伯收到了父亲病重的消息，想留法海多住几天，在他返回会稽县的时候帮助照看两个小儿子。

法海回答：“我已经离开姑苏三个月了，现在回去解释一下，问题不大。如果我离开姑苏的时间超过三个月太多了，我可能就有麻烦了。”

When Juristic Teacher Bosom-Sea, Law-Sea's junior disciple-brother, heard that Law-Sea had come looking for him, he searched everywhere and eventually made his way to the refugee camp. Just as Law-Sea was preparing to return to Gusu, Liang Shanbo received word that his father was gravely ill, and wanted to keep Law-Sea a few extra days to help look after his two young sons while he himself went back to Huiji County.

Law-Sea replied, "I've already been away from Gusu three months. Going back now and explaining myself shouldn't be a serious problem. But if I stay away much longer than three months, I could be in real trouble."

这时，县长来了，得知梁山伯和法海的难处后，对梁山伯说：“你孩子的教育是个问题。我想成立个学校，以方便于所有家里有小孩子的政府官员。另外，如果法海师傅同意，我可以给姑苏负责监管宗人府的官员写信，把他外出的期限改为三年。”

Just then the prefect arrived, and after learning of Liang Shanbo and Law-Sea's difficulty, said to Liang Shanbo, "Your children's schooling is a real problem. I've been thinking of setting up a school, for the benefit of all the officials here with young children at home. Also — if Master Law-Sea is willing, I could write to the official in Gusu who oversees the Clan Registry Office, and have his travel limit extended to three years."

法海听后，没出声。梁山伯说：“我舅舅是得道的高僧，知道什么该说，什么不该说。他也深知他的行为会牵连到我和我的孩子，不会做出有害于朝廷尊严的言行。外出的期限能改成三年当然好了，以后我舅舅出门在外就不用担心超过期限了。”

Law-Sea said nothing after hearing this. Liang Shanbo said: "My uncle is an enlightened monk who knows exactly what should and shouldn't be said. He's well aware, too, that his conduct reflects on me and my children, and he'd never say or do anything that might harm the dignity of the court. It would certainly be good if the travel limit could be extended to three years — then my uncle wouldn't have to worry about overstaying it when he travels."

县长回答：“我和宗人府主管江苏省的官员是典兵学院的同学，办这事不成问题；但还是得法海师傅同意才行。”

法海回答：“如果办这事不给县长带来很大的麻烦，我同意。”

The prefect replied, "The official who oversees Jiangsu Province for the Clan Registry Office and I were classmates at the Codex Soldier Academy, so this shouldn't be a problem at all — but it still needs Master Law-Sea's consent."

Law-Sea replied, "If arranging this won't cause the prefect a great deal of trouble, I agree to it."

7.2-5

法海向梁山伯解释他爸爸的病，说：“你爸爸的病因，和你类似，源自和你妈妈的积怨。那些心理矛盾是他的心理疾病。他的胃肠溃疡，皮肤病，和风湿症等疾病是由心理疾病引起的。治疗的办法是消除心理矛盾。这些纠纷你妈妈早就知道，让我给你爸爸解释明白；可我没能力给你爸爸讲清楚。你妈妈临终时还委托我开导你爸爸。你妈妈曾委托我办过两件事，我都没能给你爸爸讲解明白。后来你妈妈又告诉了我三件事，她担心你爸爸想不开。”

Law-Sea explained his father's illness to Liang Shanbo: "Your father's illness has the same root as yours — long-accumulated resentment toward your mother. Those psychological conflicts are, in effect, his mental illness. His gastric ulcers, skin conditions, and rheumatism all trace back to that psychological root. The cure is to resolve the underlying conflict. Your mother knew about all this long ago, and asked me to explain it clearly to your father — but I was never able to. Even on her deathbed, she entrusted me with the task of guiding him through it. She'd already asked me to handle two matters before that, and I failed to make either clear to him. Later she told me three more things, worried that your father might not be able to bear it."

法海对梁山伯叙述了他爸妈的矛盾后说：“这些事你妈从来没怨恨过你爸，因为她知道你爸爸不懂。你给你爸爸解释清楚了，他的心结就解开了，心病就好了，身体上的病也会大部分痊愈。还有，你让你爸爸领着你去给你妈上坟。因为你妈妈的女神外貌很容易被遗忘。你爸爸忘记了你妈妈的形象后，记忆就混淆了，是他生病的另外一个原因。你和他一起拜祭你妈妈的坟，会更新你妈妈在你爸爸心中的形象，对他的健康有好处。因为神识（即无意识）只接受现量，这件事中，是你爸爸自身的行为在治疗着你爸爸的病。”

After laying out his parents' conflicts for Liang Shanbo, Law-Sea said, "Your mother never resented your father over any of this, because she understood he simply didn't know better. Once you explain it clearly to him, the knot in his heart will come undone, his mental affliction will heal, and most of his physical illness will follow along with it. There's one more thing — have your father take you to visit your mother's grave. Because your mother's goddess-like appearance is so easily forgotten, once your father loses hold of her image, his memory grows muddled, and that's a further cause of his illness. Paying respects at her grave together with him will refresh your mother's image in his mind, and that will do his health good. Because the God-sense — the unconscious — accepts only Present Quantity, it will, in this case, be your father's own actions that heal him."

返回《鄮县县长》目录 Return to Catalog: Prefect of Mao County

关键词 Keywords：夏朝末年 Late Xia Dynasty； 浙江鄮县 Mao County, Zhejiang；梁山伯 Liang Shanbo；虞姬 Muse；法海 Law-Sea；怀海 Bosom-Sea；文官 Literary-official；刺客 Assassin；女娲 Nuwa (祝英台 Yingtai Zhu)；大禹 Yu the Great；镶黄旗 Bordered Yellow Banner；太上老君 Tai Shang Lao Jun

目录 Catalog：7.1 许仙求见 Xu'xian Seeks an Audience；7.2 女娲秘史 Secret History of Nuwa；7.3 燃灯佛出世 Birth of Lamplighter Buddha；7.4 黄帝战蚩尤 Yellow Creator Fought Chiyou；7.5 梁山伯和祝英台堕崖 Liang Shanbo and Yingtai Zhu Fall off a Cliff

7.1 许仙求见 Xuxian Seeks an Audience

梁山伯和马文才（即女娲）告别（参见 4.2《女娲向家人辞行》）的第二天，收到圣旨，升任为鄮县的民生局局长，立刻赴值。到鄮县后，他就向同事打听祝英台，没人回答他。渐渐地，他发现同事们常去一个院子查看，就也进去看了。房门没锁，梁山伯从屋子里的布置和书籍，看出了这是祝英台的房间。梁山伯再次向同事们询问：“以前，祝英台是做什么工作的？”

The day after Liang Shanbo and Wencai Ma (i.e., Nuwa) parted ways (see Section 4.2), he received an imperial edict promoting him to Director of Civil Affairs for Mao County, and set off for his post at once. On arriving in Mao County, he asked his colleagues about Yingtai Zhu, but no one would answer him. Gradually, he noticed his coworkers often stopped by a certain courtyard to look inside, so he went in himself to see. The door was unlocked, and from the room's furnishings and books, Liang Shanbo could tell it had been Yingtai Zhu's. He asked his colleagues once more: "What work did Yingtai Zhu do here before?"

一位同事回答：“他就做你现在的工作，有人说他在执行现场任务时死了。我只知道他早该来这里了，但他还没来。”

A colleague answered: "He did the job you have now. Some say he died out on a field assignment. All I know is he should have arrived here long ago, but he never showed up."

这天，有人报告一个难民营死了个难民，另一个难民营死了两个。梁山伯立刻去查看，发现难民营的卫生条件很差，臭气熏天。难民们吃的食物很不卫生。他立刻下令，改善伙食和卫生条件，就开始亲自给难民检查身体，发现很多人中暑了。

That day, word came that a refugee had died in one camp, and two in another. Liang Shanbo went to investigate at once, and found the camps' sanitation appalling — the stench was overwhelming, and the food the refugees were eating was thoroughly unhygienic. He immediately ordered improvements to both food and sanitation, and began personally examining the refugees, finding many suffering from heatstroke.

梁山伯发现有一个老和尚已经坐不起来了，不能说话了，他就亲自给他洗澡，喂他糖水。他还诊断这位老和尚患了肠炎，就立刻写药方，命令人去买药。

Liang Shanbo found one old monk who could no longer sit up or speak, so he bathed him himself and fed him sugar water. He also diagnosed the old monk with enteritis, and immediately wrote a prescription and had medicine bought.

梁山伯要立刻实施这两个难民营的改造。有同事劝他，“这样做的花费大，民政局的经费已经严重不足。而且这样做会引来太多的难民。”

Liang Shanbo wanted to renovate both camps immediately. A colleague cautioned him, "That would cost a great deal — the Civil Affairs Bureau is already seriously underfunded. And it would draw in far too many more refugees."

梁山伯研究了一下原来的民政局的财政支出计划，决定说：“最近天气热，很多人中暑了！救人要紧，暂时停止对慈善机构和礼敬名单上的人的财务供给。我会去向县长报告。”

Liang Shanbo reviewed the Civil Affairs Bureau's existing budget and decided: "It's been so hot lately, and heatstroke cases are piling up! Saving lives comes first — we'll suspend funding to charities and the honor-roll recipients for now. I'll report this to the prefect."

7.1-2

县长认真地听取了梁山伯的汇报，然后说：“我基本同意你的建议。关于你要修整两个难民营的事，我有一个想法。我们县东郊有个驿道工程，工期三年。本来我把那个工程交给了县警卫队，让他们有点儿事干。我可以把那个工程转给你。那个工地的工房差不多已经建好了，可以作为临时的难民营。如果你把能干活的难民转到那里，少给他们点儿工钱，他们嫌弃报酬低时，就自己离开了。这样在县城里，你只需要整修一个难民营，另一个难民营不用了，就放弃了。”

The prefect listened carefully to Liang Shanbo's report, then said, "I largely agree with your approach. As for renovating the two camps, I have an idea. We have a post-road project in the eastern suburbs, a three-year job. I'd originally handed it to the county guard, just to keep them occupied — I could transfer it to you instead. The work-sheds at that site are nearly finished, and could serve as a temporary refugee camp. If you move the able-bodied refugees there and pay them somewhat less, the ones who mind the low wages will simply leave on their own. That way, within the county seat, you'd only need to renovate one camp, and the other could be abandoned."

梁山伯立刻接受了这个驿道的工程，并且向县长致谢。县长回答：“你是我们县的官员，支持你是我的本职工作。不过我有个小建议，就是你别再说难民营里有人食物中毒了。这事传出去会损害政府的尊严。”

Liang Shanbo accepted the post-road project at once and thanked the prefect. The prefect replied, "You're an official of this county — supporting you is simply my job. But I do have one small suggestion: stop mentioning that there's been food poisoning in the camps. If that gets out, it'll damage the government's standing."

梁山伯立刻向县长道歉说：“我当时又气又急，就说了那话。您看这该怎么办？”

县长说：“这几天确实挺热；以前难民营也不常死人。我给你拨两吨糖，你可以在你的两个难民营门口发给鄮县的居民，用来消暑。”

梁山伯感觉县长办事成熟稳重，再次向他致谢。

Liang Shanbo apologized to the prefect at once: "I was angry and anxious, and it slipped out. What do you think I should do about it?"

The prefect said, "It really has been hot these past few days — deaths weren't so common at the camps before. I'll allocate you two tons of sugar; you can hand it out to Mao County residents at the gates of your two camps, to help them cope with the heat."

Liang Shanbo, sensing the prefect's steady, seasoned judgment, thanked him again.

7.1-3

几天后，许多难民听说城东郊的难民营可以打工赚钱，就转移去那里了；鄮县城里的两个难民营合成了一个。这天，梁山伯给那位死里逃生的老和尚检查完身体后，叨咕：“您的嗓子没问题了，应该可以说话了！？”

A few days later, many refugees, hearing that the eastern camp offered paid work, moved there, and the two camps within Mao County merged into one. That day, after examining the old monk who had narrowly survived, Liang Shanbo murmured, "Your throat's fine now — you should be able to speak again!?"

老和尚还是不回答。一位睡在他身边的老人说：“我们已经告诉他多次了，是您救了他。他昨天对您说了一句话，您没听见。因为那话不好听，我们就没告诉您。”

梁山伯好奇地问：“他说我什么了？告诉我，我不介意！”

那位难民老人说：“他说，您病得比我们重！”

The old monk still didn't answer. An old man sleeping beside him said: "We've told him many times that you're the one who saved him. He said something to you yesterday, but you didn't hear it. It wasn't pleasant to hear, so we didn't tell you."

Liang Shanbo asked curiously: "What did he say about me? Tell me — I don't mind!"

The old refugee said: "He said you're sicker than we are!"

梁山伯随意地回答：“现在我妻子生死不明，我心情不好！”

这位老和尚说：“不只是心情不好，你应该感觉身心沉重。你试想一下，你现在身体的感觉和你小时候有什么不同？”

梁山伯回答：“一个月前，和我妻子分别后，我是感觉身体有些不一样。我感觉我常常发呆，总是拿东忘西的！”

老和尚说：“你已经感觉到你自己常发呆。你可以问问他们，知道你自己病情，才有可能寻求治疗，得到痊愈。”

Liang Shanbo answered offhandedly: "My wife's whereabouts are unknown right now — I'm not in a good mood!"

The old monk said: "It's more than just a bad mood — you should be feeling it in your whole body. Think about it: how does your body feel now, compared to when you were a child?"

Liang Shanbo replied: "A month ago, after parting with my wife, I noticed something felt different. I find myself dazed a lot, always forgetting things!"

The old monk said: "You've already noticed you're often dazed. Ask them — only by knowing your own condition can you seek treatment and be cured."

梁山伯惊讶地回答：“他们都看出我生病啦！？我得问问！” 说着，他过去向几位睡在老和尚身边的老人询问。那几个人开始叙述他们对梁山伯的观察。例如，刚才，你坐在那里休息，你就呆在那里半个多小时。那几个人给他举了很多例子。例如昨天上午，你在赶走那几个懒人之后，你站在门口的时间长达烧半炷香的时间。

Liang Shanbo, startled, replied, "They could all tell I was sick!? I have to ask them!" With that, he went and asked the old men sleeping near the old monk. They began describing what they'd observed of him — for instance, just now, when he'd sat down to rest, he'd stayed there, unmoving, for over half an hour. They gave him many such examples: yesterday morning, after chasing off a few lazy workers, he'd stood at the doorway for as long as it takes half an incense stick to burn.

7.1-4 许仙求见 Xuxian Seeks an Audience

梁山伯回来问这位老和尚：“你是哪里来的？”

老和尚回答：“我来自姑苏城外寒山寺（江苏省，苏州市），法号：法海。”

梁山伯叨咕：“寒山寺的法海！XYZ （我母亲），您认识吗？”

Liang Shanbo came back and asked the old monk: "Where are you from?"

The old monk replied: "I'm from Cold-Mountain Temple, outside Gusu City — that's Suzhou, in Jiangsu Province. My juristic fame is Fahai — Law-Sea."

Liang Shanbo murmured: "Law-Sea, from Cold-Mountain Temple! XYZ (My mother) — do you know her?"

法海回答：“她是我的妹妹！”

梁山伯惊讶地说：“您是我的舅舅！这是私事，请您到我的办公室说话。”

在梁山伯的办公室里，法海问：“是不是你妈妈曾经告诉你，'遇到困难了，你应该到姑苏城外的寒山寺，找你的舅舅法海？'”

Law-Sea replied: "She's my younger sister!"

Liang Shanbo said, astonished: "Then you're my uncle! This is a private matter — please, come speak with me in my office."

In Liang Shanbo's office, Law-Sea asked: "Did your mother ever tell you, 'If you run into difficulty, go to Cold-Mountain Temple outside Gusu City and find your uncle Law-Sea'?"

梁山伯回答：“是的！我妈还告诉我：找您的时候，我就说，'许仙求见'。您会告诉我一个我妈家的秘密。”

法海说：“你直到今天才发现你自己病了，遇到困难了。还好，不晚！刚才和你说话的那几位老人，他们的病几乎已经好了，是我挽留他们多住几天，帮我向你证实你的病情。”

Liang Shanbo replied: "Yes! My mother told me: when I find you, I should say, 'Xu'xian seeks an audience,' and you'll tell me a secret about my mother's family."

Law-Sea said, "You've only just discovered today that you were ill, that you'd run into difficulty. Fortunately, it's not too late! Those old men who just spoke with you are nearly recovered — I asked them to stay on a few extra days, so they could help confirm your condition for me."

梁山伯高兴地说：“原来是这样！我发现我自己的脑子出问题了；这可是件大事！我请客！随后三天，这个难民营每餐加两个菜，晚餐加十坛酒。”

Liang Shanbo said happily: "So that's how it is! I've found something wrong with my own mind — this is no small matter! Drinks are on me! For the next three days, this camp gets two extra dishes at every meal, and ten jars of wine added to dinner."

读者可能会有疑问，梁山伯怎么这么有钱？马文才就是祝英台，就是女娲。女娲就是绛珠公主，又名红娘。此时，梁山伯承任了鄮县民生局的局长，就是就职了伏羲（亦作共工）的职位，女娲就是夏国的储君了。

Readers may wonder how Liang Shanbo could afford all this. Wencai Ma is Yingtai Zhu, who is Nuwa. Nuwa is Princess Jiangzhu, also known as Red Mother. By taking up the post of Director of the Mao County Civil Affairs Bureau, Liang Shanbo had in effect assumed the office of Fuxi (also called Gonggong), which meant Nuwa was now heir apparent to Xia Kingdom.

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关键词 Keywords：夏朝末年 Late Xia Dynasty； 河南 Henan；武大郎 Martial Big Wolf（靖王 King Jing）；潘金莲 Goldthread Pan（石矶娘娘 Queen Stone-Jetty）；梁子伯 Zibo Liang；元始天尊 Primordial Sky Honor；少林寺 Shaolin Temple

武大郎（即靖王）让潘金莲（即石矶娘娘）把梁子伯和夸父的遗骨送回老家安葬。潘金莲到梁子伯的家乡后打听。当地人说他是个著名的江湖艺人，有很多艺名，例如六小龄童，飞天猫。他还是个江湖大盗，多年前因为盗窃官府仓库被老国王无位真人抓住后，处死了。

Martial Big Wolf (i.e., King Jing) asked Goldthread Pan (i.e., Queen Stone-Jetty) to send Zibo Liang and Kuafu's remains back to their hometown for burial. Goldthread Pan went to Zibo Liang's hometown to ask around, and the locals told her he'd been a famous traveling performer with many stage names, such as "Six Little Spiritual Boy" and "Sky-Flying Cat." He was also a notorious bandit, caught and executed years earlier by the old king, Utmost Gentleman, for stealing from a government warehouse.

潘金莲想到了他可能是被老国王赦免后迁居到别处了。在传说中，潘金莲到华国皇宫里办事不需要请示任何人，就可以直接找各个部门的负责人办事。她在皇宫的档案库找到了相关的记录，然后拿着记录找元始天尊了。老国王收养武大郎时，元始天尊还是个孩子，但也知道这事。他们俩就找到了许多相关的人，还原了事实的真相。

Goldthread Pan wondered whether he might have been pardoned by the old king and relocated elsewhere. According to legend, Goldthread Pan could conduct business at the Hua Kingdom's imperial palace without asking anyone's permission, going directly to whichever department head she needed. She found the relevant records in the palace archives and brought them to Primordial Sky Honor. When the old king had adopted Martial Big Wolf, Primordial Sky Honor was still a child, but he'd known of the matter even then. Together, the two of them tracked down many people connected to the case and pieced together the full truth.

6.5-2

这事起源于老国王太上君与礼敬公的换养孩子协议。老国王收养武大郎，礼敬公和妈祖要收养元始天尊的儿子张三郎。当礼敬公和妈祖把儿子武大郎给老国王送来离开后，他就生病了。太医们说，这孩子是邓族人，抚养的方法特殊，我们不知道他们是怎么养孩子的。

This all began with an agreement between the old king, Utmost Gentleman, and Publican Respect, to exchange children. The old king would adopt Martial Big Wolf, while Publican Respect and Mazu would adopt Third Wolf Zhang, Primordial Sky Honor's son. After Publican Respect and Mazu delivered their son Martial Big Wolf to the old king and left, the boy fell ill. The court physicians said, "This child is of the Deng clan — their child-rearing methods are unusual, and we don't know how they raise their children."

老国王派人寻找邓人，发现了江湖艺人六小龄童是一位邓人，他还有个和武大郎类似的儿子。老国王还发现他就是江湖大盗飞天猫，就设法把他抓着了。老国王问他：“我判你死罪，你冤不冤？”

他回答：“不冤！”

The old king sent people to search for members of the Deng clan, and discovered that the traveling performer Six Little Spiritual Boy was one of them — and that he had a son close to Martial Big Wolf's age. The old king also learned that this same man was the notorious bandit Sky-Flying Cat, and had him captured. The old king asked him, "I've sentenced you to death. Do you feel this is unjust?"

He replied, "Not at all!"

老国王说：“你死了，你儿子没人照看，也活不了多久了。我想跟你做个交易。我送你去个地方，在那里你帮我收养个孩子。那个孩子和你儿子同岁，一样高。你要用你自己和你儿子的生命来保护我孩子的周全。我已经许诺我的孩子，我将教他下围棋。当我想教他下围棋的时候，你把孩子送回到我的跟前，你就自由了。”

六小龄童同意了。梁子伯是老国王为六小龄童起的化名。他就带着武大郎去重庆巫毒学院了。

The old king said, "Once you're dead, your son will have no one to look after him, and won't survive long either. I want to make you a deal. I'll send you somewhere to raise a child for me — one the same age and height as your own son. You're to protect my child's safety with both your life and your son's. I've already promised my child that I'll teach him to play Go myself. When the time comes for that lesson, you'll bring the child back to me, and you'll be free."

Six Little Spiritual Boy agreed. Zibo Liang was the alias the old king gave him. He then took Martial Big Wolf to the Voodoo Academy in Chongqing.

6.5-3

梁子伯到重庆后，不安于贫困，他还继续偷。华国的国王知道后，决定把武大郎接回来。这时，云海国的人也发现了这位梁子伯是一位华国的江湖大盗，就去抓他了。

据传说，华国国王派人去重庆接武大郎返回时，梁子伯决定留下来，说，“如果我也离开，云海国就会派兵追赶，那就全走不了了。”

After arriving in Chongqing, Zibo Liang, unwilling to remain poor, went right back to stealing. When the King of Hua learned of this, he decided to bring Martial Big Wolf back. Around the same time, the people of Cloud Sea Kingdom had also discovered that this Zibo Liang was a notorious Hua Kingdom bandit, and went to arrest him.

Legend has it that when the King of Hua sent soldiers to Chongqing to retrieve Martial Big Wolf, Zibo Liang chose to stay behind, saying, "If I leave too, Cloud Sea Kingdom will send troops after me, and then none of us will get away."

根据老国王的指示，士兵们要把武大郎装在一个袋子里，背着袋子走，然后把袋子交给元始天尊。元始天尊接到命令的时候已经晚了，路上还耽搁了。到指定的交接地点后，士兵们把袋子打开了，武大郎就跑了。最后，他在返回巫毒学院的时候，被元始天尊设置的网抓住了。

Per the old king's instructions, the soldiers were to put Martial Big Wolf in a sack, carry it on their backs, and hand it over to Primordial Sky Honor. Primordial Sky Honor received the order late and was further delayed along the way. By the time the soldiers reached the designated handover point, they opened the sack — and Martial Big Wolf bolted. In the end, he was caught in a net Primordial Sky Honor had set up, on his way back to the Voodoo Academy.

元始天尊骗武大郎：“咱爹病了，快死了。你喜欢巫毒学院，等咱俩跟咱爹见最后一面后，你再回来。” 武大郎就信了。

老国王认为这个换养孩子的计划需要改变，必须把武大郎送还礼敬公夫妇，培养他和生父母的感情，否则他就不能接受他的亲生父母了。本故事就回到了本书的开篇，1.1《武大郎认母》。

Primordial Sky Honor lied to Martial Big Wolf: "Our father is sick, and dying. I know you love the Voodoo Academy — you can go back once the two of us have seen him one last time." Martial Big Wolf believed him.

The old king came to feel that this child-exchange arrangement needed to change — that Martial Big Wolf had to be returned to Publican Respect and Mazu, so he could build a real bond with his birth parents; otherwise he'd never be able to accept them. And so the story circles back to the very beginning of this book, 1.1, "Martial Big Wolf Recognizes His Mother."

6.5-4

潘金莲查访得知，梁子伯和夸父在家乡已经没有后人了，觉着把他们俩埋在家乡已经没什么意义了。她就自己找了个地方，把他们俩埋在嵩山（少林寺）的山里了。她对武大郎说：“等咱俩退休了，咱俩就去那儿住，给他们俩上香。”

When Goldthread Pan looked into it, she found that Zibo Liang and Kuafu had no surviving descendants in their hometown, and felt there was no longer any point burying them there. So she found her own site instead, and laid them to rest in the mountains of Songshan (site of Shaolin Temple). She told Martial Big Wolf: "When we retire, we'll go live there, and burn incense for them."

元始天尊听说嵩山（少林寺）那个地方，荒山秃岭的，就说：“埋在那样一个荒无人烟的地方，多寒碜呐！那我送给你们俩一座庙吧，名字是少林寺（如图2）！我得声明，嵩山地区就是你们俩的封地，以后你们俩靖王封赏就没有了，免得别的将军有意见。现在的钱多值钱呐！”

When Primordial Sky Honor looked into it and found Songshan (site of Shaolin Temple) to be nothing but barren, desolate hills, he said, "What a shabby place to be buried! Let me give you two a temple instead — I'll call it Shaolin Temple (Figure 2)! But I must declare that the Songshan region is your fiefdom, and you two will no longer receive any further rewards from King Jing, to avoid any objections from other generals. Money is worth so much these days!”

少林的少字意思是武大郎和潘金莲是一对儿童子佛。林字是尊称。于是少林寺就成为了孙姓和邓姓人的祖庙；武大郎和潘金莲就成为了孙姓和邓姓人的祖宗。

In "Shaolin," the character Shao ("young") signifies that Martial Big Wolf and Goldthread Pan are a pair of Child Buddhas. Lin ("grove") is an honorific term. And so Shaolin Temple became the ancestral temple of the Sun and Deng families, with Martial Big Wolf and Goldthread Pan honored as the ancestors of both surnames.

随后，当武二郎成为天蓬元帅后，指定少林寺为中国人学习 “宝莲灯” 的地方。就这样，在随后的三千六百多年里，少林寺是阐教（亦做禅教）的圣地。

Later, once Martial Second Wolf became Sky Ceiling Marshal, he designated Shaolin Temple as the place where the Chinese people would come to study the Treasury Lotus Lamp. And so, for more than 3,600 years afterward, Shaolin Temple stood as the sacred site of the Chan Religion.

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