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Xiyou ji (98)
西遊記 (98)

Journey to the West In one hundred days of storytelling
Performed by Dai Buzhang   (戴步章 )
22-10-2003 Yangzhou (揚州)
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On the third day Monkey comes across a rascal on the street who uses the corpse of a traveller who had suddenly died, to blackmail other people. Monkey secretly brings the dead man back to life, and the rascal’s trickery comes to nothing. (The three sections above are adaptations from the Taiping guang ji (Extensive Records of the Taiping Xingguo Period), Liaozhai (Notes on Strange Matters from the Studio of Idleness) and Zuiputi (Drunken Bodhi) that were formerly incorporated by the older generation of storytellers. Altogether there were more than ten sections of this kind, which were distributed all through the Journey to the West. This time I have only used three sections and placed all of them in the story of the prefecture of Brazentower).

第三天悟空在街上見到一名無賴借一暴故行人的屍體訛詐他人。悟空暗中使死人復活,使無賴弄巧成拙。(以上三段是早年前輩藝人從《太平廣記》、《聊齋》、《醉菩提》中移植的,共約十多段,分在《西遊記》各處。此次只在銅台府用了三段。)

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