白龍馬西海龍子 · 5
Leaf 5 of the pilgrimage · 敖烈 Ao Lie of the West Sea
White Dragon Horse 白龍馬
In Journey to the West 西遊記 (c. 1592) · one of the four pilgrims · nicknamed 敖烈 “Ao Lie of the West Sea”
A dragon prince sentenced to death for burning one jewel, saved by Guanyin, and spent for fourteen years as luggage.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 15
The Steed Eaten at Eagle Gorge
鷹愁澗He comes out of the water and eats the emperor's horse, and fights Wukong to a draw in the riverbed.
- ch. 15
Sawn Horns and the Red Rope
鋸角Guanyin saws off his horns, files down his claws, and turns him into a horse with a red rope for a bridle.
- ch. 30
The Dancer's Blade
化婦刺妖With his two brothers dead or scattered he takes human form as a dancer, stabs the Yellow Robe demon, and is crippled for it.
- ch. 31
Bearing the Tiger from the Palace
馱師He carries the transformed tiger-monk out of the palace where no disciple could.
結局 The ending
At the end he is made the Dragon of the Eight Paths of Extensive Power, and the novel shows him doing it: on the pillar before the Great Cloud Temple he throws off the horse hide, grows his scales, and coils up the column. It is the only conversion in the book that looks like relief.
The book itself: why the monkey was pinned, which translation — The 500 years · The translations · The 81 trials