花香霧氣中底夢 A Dream Amid Flower Scent and Mist

A Dream in Flower Fragrance and Mist

花香雾气中底梦

In a hillside dwelling of thatched roof and mud walls, the flower fragrance and mist that nothing could hold back stole in through the sparse blinds, rushing straight at a pair of dream-

在覆茅涂泥底山居里,那阻不住底花香和雾气从疎帘窜进来,直扑到一对梦

,『-ers. The wife shook her husband awake and said, 'Get up quickly — our quilt and bedding are nearly soaked through. No wonder I keep feeling cold; it

人身上.妻子把丈夫摇醒,说,『快起罢,我们底被褥快湿透了.怪不得我总觉得冷,原

.』turns out the sun has been imprisoned in a jail of thick fog and cannot come out.'

来太阳被囚在浓雾底监狱里不能出来.』

The man in the dream had his own warmth within his heart, and whether it was cold outside or not did not concern him at all. Without opening his

那梦中底男子,心里自有他底温煖,身外底冷与不冷他毫不介意.他没有睁开

便,『eyes he said, 'Ah, how fragrant!?』It must be that the jasmine dew on your table has spilled, mustn't it?'

眼睛便说,『瞹呀,好香!许是你桌上底素馨露洒了罢?』

'What are you talking about?.』You're still dreaming. Just open your eyes and look at the scene beyond the blinds.'

『那里?你还在梦中哪.你且睁眼看帘外底光景.』

,『Sure enough, he rubbed his eyes, and pulling the quilt around him sat up, saying to his wife, 'No wonder I kept dreaming of a crowd of women playing in a light

他果然揉了眼睛,拥着被坐起来,对妻子说,『怪不得我净梦见一群女子在微

.』rain. If you hadn't woken me, I'd still be dreaming on.'

雨中游戏.若是你不叫醒我,我还要往下梦那.』

:『.』His wife too sat up wrapped in her woolen quilt and said, 'I had a dream as well.'

妻子也拥着她底绒被坐起来说:『我也有梦.』

.』'Tell it to me quickly.'

『快说给我听.』

'I dreamed that I had lost you. All alone I searched for you everywhere on this mountain, but no matter what I could not find you. I crossed over

『我梦见把你丢了.我自己一人在这山中遍处找寻你,怎么也找不着.我越过

the mountain, and there I saw a beautiful young woman carrying a basket of beads on her arm, scattering them wildly over the flowers and leaves of the trees. I went up to her

山后.只见一个美丽的女郎挽著一篮珠子向各树底花叶上头乱撒.我上前去向她

?」,——』to ask after your whereabouts, and she asked me with a smile, "Who is he, and what do you want him for?" Naturally I answered that he was my husband——'

问你底下落,她笑着问我「他是谁,找他干什么?」我当然囘答,他是我底丈夫,——』

!』'So it turns out you remember him even in your dreams!' He said this with a laugh, his eyes still carrying a very comical look.

『原来你在梦中也记得他!』他笑着说这话,那双眼睛还显出很滑稽的样子.

,『His wife did not like this. She turned her face away from her husband and said, 'What a thing to say!You're always finding fault with other people's

妻子不喜欢了.她转过脸背着丈夫说,『你说什么话!你老是要挑剔人家底话

.』words. I won't say any more.' She pushed aside the woolen quilt and at once called for the maid to prepare wash water.

语,我不往下说了.』她推开绒被,随即呼唤丫头预备脸水.

,『Her husband quickly caught hold of her and pleaded, 'Dear one, I won't dare do it again. Go on with your story — if I run my mouth again after this, I'll willingly

丈夫速把她揪住,央求说,『好人,我再不敢了.你往下说罢,以后若再饶舌,情愿

.』take my punishment.'

挨罚.』

?』'Who's so eager to punish you?' His wife sealed this round of peace with her mark. She went on:

『谁希罕罚你?』妻子把这次底和平押画了.她往下说:

.……』'That woman told me you were hiding in the pomelo-blossom grove in front of the mountain. And then it seemed I had forgotten you again ......'

『那女人对我说,你在山前柚花林里藏着.我那时又像把你忘了.……』

…….'Oh, you again ...... No, I promised not to say anything more;otherwise I'll have to take my punishment. Did you find me in the end,

『哦你又…….不,我应许过不再说什么底;不然,我就要挨罚了.你到底找着我

?』or not?'

没有?』

'I didn't walk any further, I only stood to one side watching her scatter the beads. Strange to say: those beads, once they stuck to the flowers

『我没有向前走,只站在一边看她撒珠子.说来也很奇怪:那些珠子黏在各花

滿,「and leaves, all turned into scattered dew of five colors, until even my own body was covered with it. I couldn't help myself, so I asked the young woman. She said, "Things

叶上都变成五彩的零露,连我底身体也沾满了.我忍不住,就问那女郎.女郎说,「东

西are just the same as ever, unchanged; it is only that your mind was different before and after, and so you feel they changed. You took them for beads while I

西还是一样没有变化,因为你底心思前后不同,所以觉得变了.你认为珠子,是在我

had not yet let go of them, because you thought this basket of mine could never hold dew. You took them for dewdrops after I had let go of them, because

撒手之前,因为你想我这篮子决不能盛得露水.你认为露珠时,在我撒手之后,因为

西使西you thought those flowers and leaves could not hold beads. Let me tell you: what you recognize lies not in the thing itself, but in the person who uses the thing, and in

你想那些花叶不能留住珠子.我告诉你:你所认底不在东西,乃在使用东西底人和

the time. What you love lies not in the substance, but in the feeling that the substance expresses. How is it that you love the moon?Is it that you love that thing hanging in the sky, already

时间.你所爱底,不在体质,乃在体质所表底情.你怎样爱月呢?是爱那悬在空中已经

long dead — a dark, lifeless orb?How is it that you love snow??」』Is it that you love that piercing cold of his, cutting to the very bone?"'

老死底暗球么?你怎样爱雪呢?是爱他那种砭人肌骨底凛冽么?」』

便.』'The moment she spoke of snow, I gave a shiver and woke up.'

『她一说到雪,我打了一个寒噤,便醒起来了.』

:『.』Her husband said, 'So in the end you never found me.'

丈夫说:『到底没有找着我.』

,『?……His wife grabbed hold of his hair with one hand and said with a laugh, 'Isn't this finding you? ......?』So tell me, how was this dream?'

妻子一把抓住他底头发,笑说,『这不是找着了吗?……我说,这梦怎样?』

'Everything you dreamed is good. What that young woman said is right too. Isn't our happiest moment the one right after a

『凡你所梦都是好的.那女郎底话也是不错.我们最愉快底时候岂不是在接

?』,『kiss, when we gaze at each other?' He grinned foolishly at his wife; she picked up the woolen quilt and threw it over his head, saying, 'You devil!.』This time I certainly won't let you have a second gaze.'

吻后,彼此底凝视吗?』他向妻子痴笑,妻子把绒被拿起来,盖在他头上,说,『恶鬼!这会可不让你有第二次底凝视了.』

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What it’s about

Mist and flower scent enter a rough mountain house and soak the bedding of a married couple. The wife wakes her husband, who would rather remain with a dream of women playing in rain. She has dreamed that she lost him and met a beautiful woman scattering pearls over leaves. The pearls became dew because the observer's expectations changed: identity lies not simply in matter but in the user, moment and feeling through which matter appears.

The dream woman asks whether anyone loves the moon as a dead dark sphere or snow for its bone-piercing cold. We love what bodies express, she says, not bare substance. Yet the wife becomes absorbed in the pearls and forgets her search, while her husband cares chiefly that she never found him. Their teasing resumes in waking life: she catches his hair, he speaks of lovers gazing after a kiss, and she covers his head to prevent a second gaze. Philosophy remains inseparable from playful attachment.

When it was written 背景

Xu repeatedly gives a wife the sharper philosophical speech, here embedding it one level deeper in a female figure inside her dream. The distinction between substance and the affection it manifests draws together Buddhist suspicion of fixed perception and a modern defense of embodied romantic love. The mountain hut's cold mist grounds the metaphysics in sensation, and the husband's interruptions keep abstraction comic. Learners can track the repeated verbs 夢, 找 and 愛: the dream argues that perception depends on relation, while the frame demonstrates how quickly a lover turns even that argument into a demand to be remembered.

Words in this chapter 生词