BBC中国故事第一集祖先 Part 3 中国的起源地，一个古老的神话传说

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[00:09.31]And that past goes back thousands of years.中国的历史要回溯到上千年前。
[00:15.62]China is the oldest continuous state on earth.中国是留存至今的最古老的国家。
[00:21.16]There are no historical texts that describe its birth but later myths and traditions take us to the Yellow River plain that gave China its name, Zhonggou, the middle land.关于国家的诞生，没有历史文献记载。但稍晚的神话传说将我们带到黄河，这个国家在此处得名--中国。
[00:42.09]And here you can still reach back to those beginnings.在这里，仍然可以看到中国最初的模样。
[00:50.39]This is a rural fair at an ancient temple, closed down in the Communist era.这是一个古庙前的乡村集市，共产主义时期一度关闭。
[01:01.06]I'm at a great farmers festival in the plain of the Yellow River with a million people all around me.我现在身处黄河平原一个盛大的农民节日，身边有上百万人。
[01:10.23]And these vast crowds have come to celebrate an ancient myth that tells of the origins of the Chinese people.这些人来此，是为了庆祝一个古老的传说，它讲述了中国人的起源。
[01:20.04]As in many ancient cultures, it's the women who have treasured the tales and handed them down.在很多古代文明中，将神话传说视为珍宝并代代传承的都是女人。
[01:27.10]How much? 多少钱？
[01:28.54]Three? 三块钱？
[01:29.53]Especially the tale of the mother goddess of the Chinese people, Nuwa.尤其是中国的神女--女娲的传说。
[01:35.13]Little dog.小狗。
[01:37.17]It's great, isn't it? 很棒吧！
[01:38.46]This whole great festival is to two ancient gods in Chinese mythology, Fuxi, the male god, and Nuwa, the female god.这个盛大的节日，是为了纪念中国古代的两位神--男神伏羲和女神女娲。
[01:48.64]And she's famous because she created humanity out of the yellow mud of the Yellow River.女娲留名千古，因为相传她用黄河的泥浆创造出了人类。
[01:54.43]And the mud that was left over she made dogs and chickens, according to the myth.然后她用剩下的泥浆做出了鸡和狗。
[02:45.08]These myths have been handed down for over 4,000 years.这些传说流传了4000年以上。
[02:49.90]And they contain a crucial idea, the uniqueness of Chinese ethnic identity.它们包含着一个至关重要的思想，就是中国独特的种族身份认同。
[02:57.70]China is a huge and diverse country, with so many languages and cultures.中国是一个庞大而多元的国家，有很多种语言和文化。
[03:05.36]But the vast majority of its people see themselves as Han Chinese, part of the biggest tribe in the world.但是大多数中国人都视自己为汉族人，归属于世界上最大的部落汉族。
[03:17.68]The myths also tell us about the origins of the Chinese state.....神话还说，中国的起源地......
[03:23.50]by the banks of the Yellow River.是在黄河沿岸。
[03:31.37]All four of the great old world civilisations began on rivers - the Nile, the Euphrates, the Indus and the Yellow River.世界四大古老文明都发源于河流--尼罗河、幼发拉底河、印度河，还有黄河。
[03:40.57]China alone has come down until today.只有中国延续至今。
[03:44.47]It was the ability to harness the waters of the river for irrigation that enabled ancient people to feed bigger and bigger populations 掌握利用河水灌溉的能力哺育了上古先民，让这里的人口繁衍不息。
[03:53.37]and eventually to create cities and make civilisation.并最终产生了城市与文明。
[03:58.36]But where the rising of the Nile, for example, was predictable to the day and seen by the Egyptians as a joyful and benign source of life, the Yellow River here in China has been a destroyer.但是，不像尼罗河，涨水期可以精确推算而被埃及人视为欢乐和健康的源头。中国的黄河扮演着毁灭者的角色。
[04:13.76]The killer of millions in its great floods throughout Chinese history, right up to the 20th century.历史上，截至20世纪，中国死于洪水的人不计其数。
[04:21.10]And so the beginnings of Chinese history, the control of the river and its environment, lay at the very heart of political power.因此，中国历史早期，黄河与周边环境的治理和政治权力紧密相连。
[04:35.31]And the tale of the king who tamed the mighty Yellow River and claimed the right to rule the hundreds of tribes along its banks 君王治理汹涌的黄河从而统治了上百个黄河沿岸部落的传说
[04:43.62]became a myth still told by today's storytellers.至今仍被说书人讲述着。
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BBC中国故事 第一集 祖先 Part 3 中国的起源地，一个古老的神话传说

BBC中国故事第一集祖先 Part 3 中国的起源地，一个古老的神话传说