BBC中国故事第一集祖先 Part 2 当代人清明节祭祀先祖的习俗

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[00:02.75]Every year in spring millions of Chinese people set off on the journey home.每年春天，都有数百万的中国人踏上返乡归程。
[00:10.32]It's the time of the Qingming Festival, the festival of light, when, since ancient times, the Chinese have honoured the ancestors.此时正值中国的清明节，这是祭祀的节日。自古以来，中国人就在这一天祭祀先祖。
[00:22.20]I'm heading down to the city of Wuxi for a very special occasion, a family reunion.我现在正前往无锡去参加一场特殊的家族重聚。
[00:31.14]For the last 30 years Chinese people have grown up in a consumer society.在过去的30年中，中国人在消费社会中成长起来。
[00:37.42]After the break with Communism, China has been on a headlong rush into the future.自从和共产主义分道扬镳，中国正急速地向未来进发。
[00:48.60]But there's a deeper China, for as new freedoms beckon, the people themselves are reaching back to the things that have mattered most to them in their history.不过，还有一个更深层次的中国，在拥有种种自由后，人们开始回溯过去，投向历史中对他们而言最重要的部分。
[00:58.55]And for the Chinese people, identity begins with the family.对于中国人来说，个人首先是家族的一份子。
[01:03.90]Sometimes the new proves less enticing than was first thought and the old far more durable than anyone had ever imagined.有时候新事物的吸引力并没有想象中的大，而旧事物所能延续的时间之长则出乎所有人的意料。
[01:23.50]This is the Qin family of Wuxi.这是无锡的秦家。
[01:35.34]BIRDS CHIRP （鸟鸣）
[01:48.90]It's dawn on the day of the ancestors, what the Chinese call Tomb-Sweeping Day.属于祖先的一天开始了，中国人称之为：扫墓日。
[01:57.34]And the Qin family gather at the grave of their founding ancestor, Qin Guan, a poet who lived 1,000 years ago.秦氏一家聚集在他们的先祖秦观的墓前。秦观是一千年前的诗人。
[02:11.80]They have come from all over China and further afield to make their own report to the ancestors.这些人从全国各地、甚至更远的地方赶来，向祖先交上答卷。
[02:18.80]To tell them how the family is doing and how the ancestors and their values still live on in us.汇报家族的近况，承诺祖先和组训将在心中永存。
[02:25.40]As the ancients used to say, repaying our roots.就像古人所说的：落叶归根。
[02:32.80]Amazing scene, isn't it? 很奇妙的场景，对吧？
[02:36.40]It recalls the whole of Chinese history over the last 100 years, wars, revolutions, famines, families broken up and cast to the four winds, 让人想起过去一百年的中国历史--战争、改革、饥荒、家族散落、漂泊无依。
[02:46.35]and yet they come back with this kind of homing instinct, almost, to the tomb of the founder, as if everything can be reconstituted again.但回家的本能让他们又再次回到了祖先的墓前，就好像重现过去的一切。
[02:59.01]These rituals were banned in the Communist era and the grave was lost after the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s.这些祭祀活动在共产主义时期是被禁止的，70年代文化大革命期间，坟墓也找不到了。
[03:07.13]But when the revolutionary time drew to a close, Frank Ching and his sister came searching for the tomb.但在文化大革命接近尾声时，弗兰克・秦和他的姐姐一起来到这里寻墓。
[03:14.64]Back in 1982, when I found that gravestone, none of these things existed.1982年，我找到墓碑的时候，这些东西都没有。
[03:21.56]When I first sought it out I was like a blank slate, I didn't know what existed.刚找到墓碑的时候，我什么也不知道，对于历史一无所知。
[03:27.51]It's really very exciting that this is happening.能够像今天这样，真的很激动人心。
[03:29.43]I certainly never expected anything like this to happen when I started my own journey of discovery.我自己来寻墓的时候，没想到会有今天这样的场面。
[04:01.90]Like everyone in China, the Qin family have experienced dizzying change since the end of empire.和所有中国人一样，秦氏家族也经历了帝国末期以来的动荡。
[04:10.50]From colonial subjects to emigres seeking a better life, Communist revolutionaries on the long march with Chairman Mao and even glamour on the Shanghai stage.有人留在被殖民的中国，有人移居海外追寻更好的生活。有共产主义革命者曾随毛主席进行长征，甚至有上海舞台上的女演员。
[04:24.30]Their family story mirrors the story of the nation.他们的家族往事映射着国家的故事。
[04:30.02]And now the meaning of that history is flooding back.现在，历史的意义重新涌现在心头。
[05:21.80]THEY TOAST （碰杯）
[05:25.50]I'm going to regret this.我会后悔喝这杯的。
[05:30.35]So the Chinese people have found again the warmth of home.....中国人再一次找寻到了家的温暖......
[05:35.87]after the vast and terrifying dislocation of the mid-20th century when for a time China turned its back on its past.特别是经过了20世纪中叶与历史的大决裂之后。
[05:46.82]The Qin family, like the nation itself, are seeking a renewed identity, a distinctively Chinese way forward, anchored in the Chinese past.秦氏家族，也像这个国家一样，正找寻自己的新身份。并以中国历史为基点，探索前方的中国特色道路。

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BBC中国故事 第一集 祖先 Part 2 当代人清明节祭祀先祖的习俗

BBC中国故事第一集祖先 Part 2 当代人清明节祭祀先祖的习俗