BBC中国故事第一集祖先 Part 4 中国最早的帝王级中国第一个王朝

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[00:04.45]Look at this.看这个。
[00:13.84]THUNDER RUMBLES （雷声）
[00:26.87]This is a Ming Dynasty temple that was built in the 1520s but on a very, very ancient terrace.这是16世纪20年代明朝时期的庙宇，但建在一个非常非常古老的台子上。
[00:36.68]And that is King Yu.这就是大禹。
[00:40.86]Historians have always thought the tale of King Yu was just a myth. 历史学家一直认为大禹只是传说中的人物。
[00:44.91]but the recent find of a bronze bowl nearly 3,000 years old engraved with his story proves the tale goes back to the Bronze Age.但是，最近发现了一件三千年前的青铜碗，上面刻有他的故事，证明早在青铜时期就有这个传说了。
[01:02.73]The legend says that King Yu was the founder of China's first dynasty 4,000 years ago.传说中，大禹是4000年前中国第一个王朝的建立者。
[01:11.66]They were called the Xia and they came from the middle plain of the middle land, here in Henan.这个王朝被称为夏，坐落在中国的中原地区--河南。
[01:21.91]And at the village of Erlitou, traditions survived until modern times that this had been the seat of China's first rulers.在二里头，直到现在依然传说：就是这里孕育出了中国最早的统治者。
[01:33.55]SHE SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE （她讲着自己的语言）
[01:36.40]The most ancient site in the world? 这里是世界上最古老的一片遗址吗？
[01:42.93]No? 不会吧？
[01:45.25]Incredible! 难以置信！
[01:46.55]Ancient Greece, ancient Iraq, ancient Egypt...古希腊，古巴比伦（现伊拉克地区），古埃及......
[01:50.45]Wherever you look, some memory survives on site. 不论何处，总有一些记忆在遗址上留存。
[01:54.34]Here, towns first emerged out of China's myriad Stone Age villages.在这里，城镇始现于中国石器时代的各种村庄。
[02:08.29]Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor, the original Emperor of China. 黄帝，中国最早的帝王。
[02:27.83]Under these wheat fields the archaeologists excavated a settlement which had thousands of people and a huge walled enclosure.这片麦田之下，考古学家发掘出一片遗址，曾有数以千计的人定居于此，周边有高耸城墙将其环绕。
[02:42.80]Inside it were pillared halls, palaces from different periods between 2000 and 1500 BC.里面是封闭的殿堂，这些建筑的历史可以追溯至公元前2000到1500年之间。
[02:53.60]They stood on rammed earth platforms, one of them with a triple gate, the pattern of all later Chinese royal cities.他们建于厚实的泥土底座之上，其中一个有着三扇门，也是之后所有都城建筑的模板。
[03:08.72]The Xia are still a mystery.夏朝对于我们来说依旧是个谜。
[03:12.70]But here at Erlitou archaeologists have found tantalizing clues - pottery, bronze casting 可是在二里头，考古学家们仍旧发现了一些蛛丝马迹--这里有陶器、铜制品，
[03:21.95]and most intriguing of all a burial with a sceptre made of 2,000 pieces of turquoise in the shape of a dragon, the symbol of royalty all the way through Chinese civilisation.更有趣的是这里埋着一根由2000块绿松石碎片制成的龙形权杖，龙是贯穿中国文明史的权力象征。
[03:44.20]Whether the Xia were China's first dynasty and whether this was their capital is still not known and that's because we lack the key evidence - writing.夏朝是否就是中国的第一个王朝，他们的首都是否就在此地，还不得而知。因为缺少关键证据--文字记载。
[03:55.99]Do you think that this was the capital of the Xia or what do you think? 你觉得这里就是夏朝的首都吗？还是你有别的想法？
[04:00.80]THEY LAUGH （笑声）
[04:02.65]Difficult question.很难回答。
[04:24.95]If it this was the capital of the Xia, for the Chinese, myth would become history, for they would have found the root of the Chinese state.如果这就是夏朝的首都，那对于中国来说，传说就成了历史，因为他们就能够就此找到华夏民族的根。
[04:45.72]As it is, though, we now have to leap forward to around 1200 BC to find China's first historical rulers, the Shang Dynasty.不过，我们现在要循着历史向前出发，前往公元前1200年，去寻找中国有记载的第一代统治王朝--商朝。

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BBC中国故事 第一集 祖先 Part 4 中国最早的帝王级中国第一个王朝

BBC中国故事第一集祖先 Part 4 中国最早的帝王级中国第一个王朝