第六十四篇第六十四篇Story Sixty-Four

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豬婆龍

猪婆龙

Story Sixty-Four · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

The Sow Dragon

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: on a river landing in broad daylight, a startled bearded merchant in a square cap and long gown leans back on the deck of a moored covered boat, holding a slack rope in one hand and raising the other, while a short, scaly, horned dragon-like beast with the rope trailing from its neck leaps over the boat's side into swelling waves, with a stone mooring post, willows, distant hills, a small pagoda and two far sails around them.

豬婆龍,產于西江。形似龍而短,能橫飛;常出沿江岸扑食鵝鴨。或獵得之,則貨其肉于陳﹑柯。此二姓皆友諒之裔,世食豬婆龍肉,他族不敢食也。一客自江右來,得一頭,縶舟中。一日,泊舟錢墉,縛稍懈,忽躍入江。俄頃,波濤大作,估舟傾沉。

猪婆龙,产于西江。形似龙而短,能横飞;常出沿江岸扑食鹅鸭。或猎得之,则货其肉于陈﹑柯。此二姓皆友谅之裔,世食猪婆龙肉,他族不敢食也。一客自江右来,得一头,絷舟中。一日,泊舟钱墉,缚稍懈,忽跃入江。俄顷,波涛大作,估舟倾沉。

The sow dragon is found in the West River. It looks like a dragon, but shorter, and it can fly sideways. It often comes out along the riverbanks to snatch geese and ducks. When someone catches one, he sells the meat to the Chens and the Kes. Both these clans descend from Chen Youliang; for generations they have eaten sow-dragon meat, and no other clan dares to eat it. A traveller from Jiangxi caught one and kept it tied up in his boat. One day he moored at Qiantang. The ropes had worked a little loose, and suddenly it leapt into the river. In a moment great waves rose, and the trader’s boat overturned and sank.

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