許其正：九寨溝．海．傳說

那天，天青氣朗，陽光普照

我抵達了九寨溝

傳說的敘述者從口中

向我噴湧來一團團迷霧

走在霧中，我彷彿

走進了一個恍如世外的夢境

一汪汪海，竟是一面面明鏡

乃由鈣化、沉澱後的

透明琉璃所鋪就

傳說的敘述者卻說那是

仙女摔破她的寶鏡散落的碎片

明鏡中，紛紛向我招手的

除了各自精彩的傳說故事

還有各種彩色圖案，以及

和鏡外相對應的各種美景——

探首攬鏡自照的

穹蒼、白雲、叢山、群樹……

最令我疑惑不解的莫過於

那一則則精彩的傳說故事

即使走出那一團團迷霧

它們仍然纏著我不放……

註：九寨溝，在四川西岷山山脈萬山叢中，風景秀麗，水因鈣化，沉澱雜質，尤為清淨，有「看罷九寨溝不看水」之諺。傳說仙女不慎摔破寶鏡，碎片散落成海。每個海都有其傳奇故事。海，其實是湖，因當地人嚮往海，遂以之稱說。

Jiuzhaigou．Sea．Legend Hsu ChiCheng

It was a sunny day, the sky was clear and boundless

I reach Jiuzhaigou

Genes fogs sprayed to me

From the legend-teller’s mouth

Walking in the dense fogs, I felt

As if into a dreamland

To my surprise, puddles of sea were mirrors

Formed of transparent water glazes

Calcified and with foreign matters precipitated

But the legend-teller said those were the broken glass

Of a goddess’s treasured mirror

What were beckoning me in the mirror

Were brilliant legendary stories

Coloured patterns

And wonderful views reflecting in the mirror—

Blue sky, white clouds

Hills and woods

What let me feel puzzled most

Were those brilliant legends

That kept pestering me

Even after I had stepped out of the dense fogs

Note: Jiuzhaigou is a famous scenic spot located in Minshan Mountains in the west of Sichuan Pro. Wate here is Specially clear and clean because it Is calcified and the foreign matters in it precipitated. There goes an old saying “No water is worth seeing after visiting Jiuzhaigou”. It is said a goddess once accidentally broke her treasure mirror, and the broken glass fell onto the ground and turned into sea. Each sea has a legendary story. Here the “sea” is, in fact, a lake,, because the aborigines long for the sea, they named them “sea”. @