3.5.3 白蛇传 Legend of the White Snake

目录 Catalog：1. 尘香见母 Dust-scent Meets Mother；2. 养汉 Raising Han；3. 断桥Broken Bridge； 4 尘凡学建筑施工 Dust-mortal Studying Construction

尘香和尘凡被士兵送到了顺皇（又名夏娃，织女，小龙女，女，嫘祖，行天，女娲，顺皇）的新的祖居地，位于武汉北部的法库县。一切都如前文法师（又名后裔，大禹，魃，共工，判官，佛，大黑天，北方之神，禹皇）所说，见到了母亲。母子三人吃完饭，天已经黑了。

Dust-scent and Dust-mortal were sent by soldiers to the new ancestral home of White-king (Emperor) Shun (aka. Eve, Weaving Girl, Little Dragoness, Woman, Ancestor Lei, Migration Sky, Nuwa, White-King Shun) in Faku County, north of Wuhan. Everything was as the foregoing Juristic Teacher (aka. Descendant, Big Yu, Drought, Public Work, Judge, Buddha, Great Black Sky, God of the North, White-King Yu) had said and met their mother. After the mother and sons had finished their meal, it was already dark.

顺皇指着屋地一边的一个袋子说：“那四千两银子是给你们俩的生活费，也可以用来做些买卖。你们俩新身份的文件和这房子的地契也在里面。晚上我得回行宫休息。我的行宫就在这房子后面的三百米处。明天早上我派佣人来接你们俩去吃早饭。”

Emperor Shun pointed to a bag on one side of the house floor and said, "That four thousand taels of silver is for you two to live on, or you can use it to do some trading. The documents of your new identities and the deed of this house are also in there. I must go back to the palace to rest at night. My palace is 300 meters behind this house. Tomorrow morning, I will send servants to pick you both up for breakfast."

送走母亲后，尘香和尘凡开始检查袋子里面的东西，立刻发现顺皇给他们俩的新身份证明是假的。身份证明上的名字不是尘香和尘凡，而是两个不相关的名字。尘凡生气地对尘香叨咕：“大禹叔叔已经改判了咱姥姥西王母的判决，这个女人是皇帝，她为什么不给我们俩做新身份证？”

After sending their mother away, Dust-scent and Dust-mortal begin to check the inside of the bag and immediately realize that the new identification that Emperor Shun gave them both is fake. Instead of Dust-scent and Dust-mortal, the names on the IDs were two unrelated names. Dust-mortal angrily chattered to Dust-scent, “Uncle Big Yu has already commuted our grandma King-Mother of the West's sentence, and this woman is the emperor, so why didn't she make new IDs for the two of us?”

尘香回答：“可能是制作新身份证很麻烦！她认为这个证明不是很重要，所以就没让人做新的。她不至于在这件事上让咱俩感觉不舒服。”

这哥俩发现母亲对他俩不很亲近，就商量：“我们得学着做买卖。看样子她不一定会再给咱俩钱了。”

Dust-scent replied: "It's probably too much works to make a new ID card! She didn't think the proofs are very important, so she didn't have new ones made. She doesn't go so far as to make us both feel uncomfortable on this matter."

Noticing that their mother wasn't very intimate to them, these two brothers discussed, "We need to learn how to do business. It doesn't look like she's going to give us any more money."

2. 养汉 Raising Han

注2-1，养汉这个词在现代中华文化中的意思是妻子与别的男人通奸；但在本文中，女娲是母系氏族文化，是一妻多夫制文化，没有不好的意思。

Note 2-1: The term “Raising Han” in modern Chinese culture refers to a wife committing adultery with another man; however, in this text, Nüwa represents a matriarchal clan culture and a polyandry system, carrying no negative connotations.

第二天早晨，尘香和尘凡跟着卫兵来到行宫吃早饭，发现行宫里女人很少。在院子的一角，有几个脸上蒙着或青或黄或赤或白或黑色面纱的人。他们称呼蒙黑纱的人为殃。

The next morning, Dust-scent and Dust-mortal followed two guards to the palace for breakfast and realized that there were very few women in the palace. In one corner of the courtyard, there were several people with their faces covered with either turquoise or yellow or red or white or black veils. They called the black-veiled people Misfortune.

早饭后，顺皇带着这哥俩被一群汉（注2-2）簇拥着走亲戚。这些汉长得都很普通，高矮胖瘦，老的少的，不男不女的，什么样的人都有，穿着各种不同的衣服，但都没有明显的外貌特征（注2-3）。尘香和尘凡第一次见到了许多亲人，但这哥俩一看就不喜欢他们。那些亲戚都没什么文化，几乎不识字。

After breakfast, Emperor Shun led the two brothers, surrounded by a crowd of Han people (Note 2-2), to visit relatives. These Han folk looked quite ordinary—all shapes and sizes, young and old, and even those who were neither distinctly male nor female. They wore all sorts of clothes, yet none possessed any striking physical features (Note 2-3). Dust-scent and Dust-mortal met many relatives for the first time, but the brothers clearly disliked them at first glance. These relatives were largely uneducated, barely literate.

注2-2，汉族，亦称汉人，主要聚居于大中华区。现代汉族人口超过13亿，是世界上人口最多的单一族群，约占世界人口的18%，中国大陆人口的91%，台湾人口的97%。汉族也是东南亚各国的主要侨民群体，为新加坡第一大民族；马来西亚、文莱、泰国第二大民族。

Note 2: The Han Chinese, also known as the Han people, are primarily concentrated in the Greater China region. With a modern population exceeding 1.3 billion, the Han Chinese constitute the world's largest single ethnic group, accounting for approximately 18% of the global population, 91% of mainland China's population, and 97% of Taiwan's population. The Han Chinese also form the predominant diaspora group in Southeast Asian nations, representing the largest ethnic group in Singapore and the second-largest in Malaysia, Brunei, and Thailand.

注2-3，这群人是一群神，参见10.8 《神的外貌》。具有神的外貌的人高兴的时候，是福，不高兴的时候是殃。他们都是汉族人的祖先。

Notes 2-3: This group of people were gods; see 10.8 "Godly Appearances." Those who possessed the appearance of gods are fortunes when they were happy and misfortunes when they were unhappy. They were all ancestors of Han Chinese.

那些汉似乎知道他们要走的路线，有些汉走在前面，有些汉走在后面。这哥俩还发现，当他们俩不注意时，母亲和那些汉子们像是情人似的亲近。他们走到了一处名为断桥的地方，断桥边有一座像似桥头堡或商店的房子。一位汉推开门对里面喊：“女人来了！” 里面有人答应着：“女娲来了！” 顺皇进到屋子里后，和里面的人拥抱，打招呼。尘香和尘凡不想看了，就开始溜边，商量着成立一家建筑公司。

The Hans seemed to know the route they were going to take, with some Hans walking in front and others behind. The brothers also noticed that when they weren't looking, their mother and the Hans were as intimate as lovers. They came to a place called the Broken Bridge, by which there was a house that looked like a bridgehead or a store. One of the Hans pushed open the door and shouted inside, “Woman is here!” Someone inside responded, “Nuwa is here!” When Emperor Shun entered the house, she hugged and greeted the people inside. Not wanting to look at it anymore, Dust-scent and Dust-mortal started slipping off the edge and talked about starting a construction company.

3. 断桥 Broken Bridge

公元前2070年吴国的公主白蛇（即女娲）在杭州西湖的断桥（如图35）上遇到了许仙（即伏羲），两人结为了夫妻，建立了夏国。白蛇和许仙的故事如图36至39所示。本书中白蛇和许仙第一次在断桥上见面的参考案例有2.2.3 《自由恋爱》，2.8.2 《阪泉之战》，7.3 《相亲》。女娲和伏羲开始了夏文化。约在公元前1770年，夏国吞并了吴国，成为了一个大国。约在公元前1670年，夏国和北面的华国结盟，开始了三皇五帝时代。本文的时间约是公元前1592年（商朝8年），正在缔造中华文明，即正在实施 “女娲造人计划” 的过程中。顺皇要用女娲缔造夏国文明的方法，来创造中华文明。

In 2070 BCE, Princess White-snake (also known as Nüwa) of Wu State of encountered Xu’xian (also known as Fuxi) on Broken Bridge (as shown in Figure 35) at West Lake in Hangzhou. The two became husband and wife and founded the Xia Dynasty. The story of White-snake and Xu’xian is depicted in Figures 36 to 39. In this book, the reference cases for the first meeting of the White-snake and Xu’xian on Broken Bridge include 2.2.3 Naturally Falling in Love, 2.8.2 Battle of Ban Fountain, and 7.3 Blind Date. Nuwa and Fuxi initiated Xia culture. Around 1670 BCE, the Xia Dynasty allied with the Hua Kingdom to the north, beginning the era of Three White-kings and Five Creators. This text is set around 1592 BCE (the 8th year of Shang Dynasty), during the creation of Chinese civilization, specifically in the process of implementing the "Nuwa's Human Creation Plan." Emperor Shun intended to use the methods Nuwa used to create the Xia civilization to create Chinese civilization.

4. 尘凡学建筑施工 Dust-mortal Studying Construction

尘香和尘凡成立了一家建筑公司，聘请了一位建筑公司经理。由于投标的报价低，他们做了几个工程，但都亏损了。

Dust-scent and Dust-mortal set up a construction company and hired a construction company manager. Due to low bids, they did several projects but lost money.

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