The Book of Songs,as the first collection of poems in China,is of great significance for understanding the culture of China’s pre-Qin Dynasty and plays an important role in the history of Chinese literature.Confucius...The Book of Songs,as the first collection of poems in China,is of great significance for understanding the culture of China’s pre-Qin Dynasty and plays an important role in the history of Chinese literature.Confucius once said,“If you do not study The Book of Songs,you cannot speak”.However,poem translation is of great difficulty and importance during cultural exchange.On the one hand,translators should strike the balance between the original poem’s beauty and readers’understanding.This paper aims to offer suggestions upon how to render Chinese poems into English by analyzing Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang’s translation of“Guan Ju”,the first poem of The Book of Songs.展开更多
In their article “pu 匍”-inscrihed Duck-shaped Bronze He Tripod and the “Fupin 聘JRite”, Mr. Wang Longzheng and others made a decipherment of the inscription on the vessel, and sol.red anumber of problems in it. B...In their article “pu 匍”-inscrihed Duck-shaped Bronze He Tripod and the “Fupin 聘JRite”, Mr. Wang Longzheng and others made a decipherment of the inscription on the vessel, and sol.red anumber of problems in it. But the character “柬” was not successfully deciphered, which made the textincoherent and difficut to understand. In my opinion, the “柬” should be read as “管”, which is identicalwith “管” and means house. The inscription shows that during the Western Zhou period, feudatoryprincedoms built special houses as hotels for envoys sent to them.展开更多
文摘The Book of Songs,as the first collection of poems in China,is of great significance for understanding the culture of China’s pre-Qin Dynasty and plays an important role in the history of Chinese literature.Confucius once said,“If you do not study The Book of Songs,you cannot speak”.However,poem translation is of great difficulty and importance during cultural exchange.On the one hand,translators should strike the balance between the original poem’s beauty and readers’understanding.This paper aims to offer suggestions upon how to render Chinese poems into English by analyzing Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang’s translation of“Guan Ju”,the first poem of The Book of Songs.
文摘In their article “pu 匍”-inscrihed Duck-shaped Bronze He Tripod and the “Fupin 聘JRite”, Mr. Wang Longzheng and others made a decipherment of the inscription on the vessel, and sol.red anumber of problems in it. But the character “柬” was not successfully deciphered, which made the textincoherent and difficut to understand. In my opinion, the “柬” should be read as “管”, which is identicalwith “管” and means house. The inscription shows that during the Western Zhou period, feudatoryprincedoms built special houses as hotels for envoys sent to them.
