Journey to the West: The Four Pilgrims · chapter 10 of 25
The Golden Headband
头好疼
Wukong learns what the flowered cap really does and must choose between his pride and his master, and then trouble rises from a freezing ravine.
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- Sun Wukong 头好疼！头好疼！
Tóu hǎo téng! Tóu hǎo téng!
My head! My head hurts!
- Narrator 路边，悟空倒了，拉坏了头上的花帽子。唐僧不念了。
Lùbiān, Wùkōng dǎo le, lā huài le tóu shàng de huā màozi. Táng Sēng bú niàn le.
By the road, Wukong fell down and tore apart the flowered cap on his head. Tang Seng stopped.
- Sun Wukong 不疼了……帽子没了，头上怎么还有线？不，是一个金箍！
Bù téng le… Màozi méi le, tóu shàng zěnme hái yǒu xiàn? Bù, shì yí gè jīn gū!
It stopped hurting... The cap's gone, so why is there still a thread on my head? No, it's a gold band!
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- Sun Wukong 拿不掉！拉也拉不坏！这是什么东西？
Ná bu diào! Lā yě lā bu huài! Zhè shì shénme dōngxi?
It won't come off! It won't break! What is this thing?
- Tang Seng 悟空，你……你的头还疼吗？
Wùkōng, nǐ… nǐ de tóu hái téng ma?
Wukong, does... does your head still hurt?
- Sun Wukong 师父，这个帽子，真是你小时候戴的？
Shīfu, zhège màozi, zhēn shì nǐ xiǎoshíhou dài de?
Master, did you really wear this cap when you were little?
- Tang Seng 我……我小时候，没戴过。
Wǒ… wǒ xiǎoshíhou, méi dài guo.
I... I never wore it as a child.
- Sun Wukong 你骗老孙！
Nǐ piàn Lǎo Sūn!
You tricked Old Sun!
- Narrator 悟空从耳朵里拿出针，变成金箍棒，举了起来。
Wùkōng cóng ěrduo lǐ náchū zhēn, biànchéng jīn gū bàng, jǔ le qǐlai.
Wukong took the needle from his ear, turned it into the Golden-Hoop Staff and raised it high.
- Tang Seng 菩萨……我念了！
Púsà… wǒ niàn le!
Bodhisattva... I'm saying it!
- Sun Wukong 头好疼！师父，我知道了！别念了！
Tóu hǎo téng! Shīfu, wǒ zhīdào le! Bié niàn le!
My head! Master, I understand! Stop saying it!
- Tang Seng 你还打不打师父了？
Nǐ hái dǎ bu dǎ shīfu le?
Are you still going to hit your master?
- Sun Wukong 不打了，不打了！
Bù dǎ le, bù dǎ le!
No, I won't! I won't!
- Tang Seng 以后，还乱打人吗？
Yǐhòu, hái luàn dǎ rén ma?
And from now on, will you still go around hitting people?
- Sun Wukong 不乱打了……可是，你念的是什么？谁教你的？
Bú luàn dǎ le… Kěshì, nǐ niàn de shì shénme? Shéi jiāo nǐ de?
No more... But what is it you're saying? Who taught you?
- Tang Seng 这叫紧箍咒。是一个老奶奶在路上教我的。
Zhè jiào jǐn gū zhòu. Shì yí gè lǎonǎinai zài lù shàng jiāo wǒ de.
It's called the Tightening Spell. An old woman on the road taught it to me.
- Sun Wukong 老奶奶？一定是观音！老孙一个筋斗，去南海打她！
Lǎonǎinai? Yídìng shì Guānyīn! Lǎo Sūn yí gè jīndǒu, qù Nán Hǎi dǎ tā!
An old woman? It must have been Guanyin! One somersault, and Old Sun will be at the Southern Sea to beat her!
- Tang Seng 紧箍咒，她也会念。你一个筋斗到了南海，她一念……
Jǐn gū zhòu, tā yě huì niàn. Nǐ yí gè jīndǒu dào le Nán Hǎi, tā yí niàn…
She knows the spell too. You somersault to the Southern Sea, she says it once, and...
- Sun Wukong 她一念……老孙的头……
Tā yí niàn… Lǎo Sūn de tóu…
She says it once... and Old Sun's head...
- Sun Wukong 老孙五百年没戴帽子。一戴，就戴上一个金箍！
Lǎo Sūn wǔbǎi nián méi dài màozi. Yí dài, jiù dài shàng yí gè jīn gū!
Five hundred years without a cap, and the first one Old Sun puts on comes with a gold band!
- Sun Wukong 好吧，师父，老孙不走了。你别老念它，老孙保护你，一直到西天！
Hǎo ba, shīfu, Lǎo Sūn bù zǒu le. Nǐ bié lǎo niàn tā, Lǎo Sūn bǎohù nǐ, yìzhí dào Xītiān!
All right, Master, Old Sun won't leave. Just don't keep saying it, and Old Sun will protect you all the way to the Western Heaven!
- Tang Seng 好徒弟，起来吧。是我骗了你……对不起。
Hǎo túdì, qǐlai ba. Shì wǒ piàn le nǐ… duìbuqǐ.
Get up, my good disciple. I'm the one who tricked you... I'm sorry.
- Sun Wukong 师父啊师父，你说假话，脸都红了！
Shīfu a shīfu, nǐ shuō jiǎhuà, liǎn dōu hóng le!
Oh, Master, Master. When you tell a lie, your whole face goes red!
- Narrator 一个多月过去了。冬天到了，唐僧和悟空来到了鹰愁涧。
Yí gè duō yuè guòqu le. Dōngtiān dào le, Táng Sēng hé Wùkōng lái dào le Yīngchóu Jiàn.
More than a month went by. Winter came, and Tang Seng and Wukong reached Eagle Grief Ravine.
- Tang Seng 好冷啊……悟空，这里的水声好大。
Hǎo lěng a… Wùkōng, zhèlǐ de shuǐshēng hǎo dà.
It's so cold... Wukong, the water here is so loud.
- Sun Wukong 别怕，有老孙在！师父，你骑马比以前好多了！
Bié pà, yǒu Lǎo Sūn zài! Shīfu, nǐ qí mǎ bǐ yǐqián hǎo duō le!
Don't worry, Old Sun is here! Master, your riding is much better than it used to be!
- Tang Seng 真的？这匹白马，现在也不怕你了。
Zhēn de? Zhè pǐ báimǎ, xiànzài yě bú pà nǐ le.
Really? And this white horse isn't afraid of you anymore.
- Sun Wukong 别说话！老孙的火眼金睛看见了：水里有东西！
Bié shuōhuà! Lǎo Sūn de huǒyǎn jīnjīng kànjiàn le: shuǐ lǐ yǒu dōngxi!
Quiet! Old Sun's fiery golden eyes can see it: there's something in the water!
- Narrator 忽然，一条白色的龙从水里跳了出来！
Hūrán, yì tiáo báisè de lóng cóng shuǐ lǐ tiào le chūlai!
Suddenly a white dragon burst out of the water!
- Sun Wukong 师父，快下马！
Shīfu, kuài xià mǎ!
Master, off the horse, now!
- Narrator 悟空拉着唐僧，拿着东西，跳到了一边。那条龙一口吃了白马，什么也没留下。
Wùkōng lāzhe Táng Sēng, názhe dōngxi, tiào dào le yìbiān. Nà tiáo lóng yì kǒu chī le báimǎ, shénme yě méi liúxià.
Wukong grabbed Tang Seng and the bags and leapt aside. The dragon swallowed the white horse in one bite, leaving nothing behind.
- Tang Seng 马……我的马呢？
Mǎ… wǒ de mǎ ne?
My horse... where's my horse?
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What changed in the story?
- What is left on Wukong's head after he tears the cap apart?
“不，是一个金箍……拿不掉”
- How does Wukong learn that Tang Seng tricked him?
“我……我小时候，没戴过”
- Why is it no use for Wukong to go and beat Guanyin?
“紧箍咒，她也会念”
- What does Wukong promise his master?
“老孙保护你，一直到西天”
- What happens at Eagle Grief Ravine?
“一条白色的龙从水里跳了出来……那条龙一口吃了白马”