BBC中国故事第一集祖先 Part 1 新中国的再次崛起

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[00:00.95]China is the oldest nation on earth.中国，地球上最古老的国度。
[00:04.69]For thousands of years its rulers believed their task was to keep human society in balance with the eternal order of the universe.几千年来中国的统治者坚信：他们的使命是维持人类社会与宇宙恒常秩序的和谐。
[00:16.00]The emperor who achieved that harmony would receive the mandate of heaven, blessed by the ancestors.达到天人和谐的君主将会承载天恩祖德。
[00:24.84]But in the late 19th century the collision with the West shook China to its core.但19世纪末期，与西方世界的激烈冲突撼动了这个泱泱大国的内核。
[00:31.77]In midwinter 1899, the emperor came here to the Altar of Heaven in Beijing to ask the ancestors for support in China's hour of crisis, 1899年冬，皇帝来到北京的天坛，祈求祖先赐福，度过此次危机,
[00:42.86]as the empire crumbled in the face of rebellion and foreign armies.其时，整个帝国已因内忧外患而风雨飘摇。
[00:50.12]It was the last time the ritual was performed.这也是最后一次祭天仪式。
[00:57.25]Here, just before dawn on the winter solstice.....冬至日破晓之前，在这里......
[01:04.60]the emperor prostrated himself before the powers of the universe.皇帝向自然的洪荒之力下跪叩首。
[01:12.78]He performed rituals that they believed went back 5,000 years to the Yellow Emperor, the mythical first founder of China.祭天的仪式可以追溯至黄帝--传说中五千年前第一位建立中国的人。
[01:23.56]He made a report to the ancestors about the state of the empire.祭天仪式上，皇帝向祖先陈说帝国现状。
[01:28.47]But that winter of 1899...但在1899年的那个冬天......
[01:32.44]China faced disaster.中国面临着巨大的灾难。
[01:38.43]The following year, 1900, China was plunged into catastrophe with rebellion, flood and famine.....第二年，也就是1900年，中国陷入一场浩劫：叛乱、洪水、饥荒......
[01:47.48]foreign aggression.....还有外国的侵略，接踵而至......
[01:52.79]and the new century saw swiftly the fall of the Empire, short-lived republic, Communist revolution and then the insane madness of the Cultural Revolution.新世纪见证了古老帝国的迅速衰落、短命的共和政体，共产主义革命和疯狂的文化大革命。
[02:07.52]But despite the tragedies of the 20th century, the Chinese people have come through.尽管如此，中国人已经从20世纪的种种悲剧中走出。
[02:16.24]Today China is writing its own story once more, under a new mandate.今日的中国，在新的统治下，书写着新的故事。
[02:23.60]So long the greatest civilisation on earth, China is rising again.作为世界上最伟大的文明古国，中国正再次崛起。
[02:29.14]It's a great time to be looking at the events which have shaped the history of China and the ideals which have made its culture so distinctive and so brilliant for so long.我们不妨趁此时机回顾一下中国的历史和思想，正是这些思想使得中国文化如此独特绚烂而源远流长。

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BBC中国故事 第一集 祖先 Part 1 新中国的再次崛起

BBC中国故事第一集祖先 Part 1 新中国的再次崛起