BBC中国故事第二集丝绸之路与中国航船 Part6 大唐长安城

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[00:02.92]In the seventh century Xi'an was the greatest city in the world......7世纪，西安是全世界最大的城市...
[00:08.40]half a million people, where the biggest European city had only a few thousand.它拥有五十万人口，而欧洲最大的城市只有寥寥数千人。
[00:16.10]It was a dynamic place of new styles, new fashions and new music.这里充满生机，有新的潮流，新的风尚，新的音乐。
[00:21.93]PEOPLE SING The city, it was said, was laid out like a vast chessboard.据说，长安城的布局宛如一块巨大的棋盘。
[00:45.00]About five miles square and we are just here at this corner.面积达五平方英里，而我们所在之地只是它的一个角落。
[00:52.00]Tang Xi'an was strictly regulated.在唐朝，西安的管制森严。
[00:54.69]That was the way Chinese cities had always been, vast gated royal enclosures where public access was controlled.中国的城市一向如此，高大的皇家围墙将百姓拦在门外。
[01:02.46]Xi'an had 108 wards, all of them under curfew.西安有108个里坊，都有宵禁管制。
[01:07.23]So this was Anxi Ward in Tang Dynasty times, in between a palace area and the great government area over there.这里在唐朝是安兴坊，处于皇宫内殿和外政朝堂之间。
[01:17.51]So it was quite posh, quite well-to-do.所以当时相当富裕漂亮。
[01:20.74]There was......mansions of court musicians, a princess lived down the road.有宫廷乐师的宅院，街尾曾是公主府邸。
[01:29.15]Looks like you can still buy some of their garden ornaments, doesn't it?看来还能买到那个年代的庭院装饰。
[01:36.80]The city was low-rise.这座城市建筑不高。
[01:37.65]Palaces, residential quarters, gardens, almost every ward had Buddhist and Taoist temples.宫殿、居民区、庭院，几乎每片区域都有佛教和道教寺庙。
[01:44.96]Ni hao. 你好。
[01:45.39]Ni hao. 你好。
[01:46.16]You see all the things for temples here. 这些都是寺庙用的东西。
[01:50.47]Incense, that's because right back to the Tang Dynasty there was a huge temple in this area.这是香。因为在唐朝这里有一座很大的寺庙。
[01:59.60]And it is still a Taoist temple today, the Temple of the Eight Immortals.现在也有一座道观--八仙宫。
[02:07.85]There you go. 到了。
[02:10.07]The Temple of the Eight Immortals. 万寿八仙宫。
[02:15.66]The theatre quarter and red light districts were here, the hostels for candidates for the civil service exams, and all tastes were catered for.当时这里有戏院，有青楼，有进京赶考学生住的客栈，各种服务应有尽有。
[02:27.52]Fortune-tellers, ancient Chinese craft. 算命--一门古老的中国技艺。
[02:35.47]Later, later! 待会再来！
[02:38.48]There were special funeral streets. 还有专门的丧葬街。
[02:39.92]One of them features in a famous Tang novel.其中一条被写进了唐代一本著名的小说里。
[02:43.25]I love all these pilgrimage knick-knacks.我喜欢这种朝圣似的小商品。
[02:45.14]My family are really fed up with me bringing them back to London.我老是带这些东西回伦敦，家里人都烦了。
[02:47.77]It may seem hard to square all this control with an outward-looking age but the Tang was a centralized state where everyone was registered in the censuses.在如此开发的时代，要严格管制似乎很困难。但唐是个集权帝国，每个人的身份都在普查中被登记。
[02:58.15]Social harmony came from knowing and keeping your place.社会和谐来源于认准自己的位置，而且不要逾矩。
[03:04.48]Here is the Drum Tower.这里是鼓楼。
[03:05.95]Much later, of course, Ming Dynasty, but there was a drum tower in the middle of Tang Dynasty Xi'an, beating the drum for the curfew.比唐晚得多，明朝修建。但唐朝的时候西安中心也有座鼓楼，每逢宵禁便击鼓。
[03:13.33]A very strictly-regulated city.这座城市管制严格。
[03:15.91]You couldn't be found outside your own ward at night, for example.比如说，到了晚上就必须回到自己的里坊。
[03:19.80]So the 600 beats of the drum, you had to be back home.所以鼓击到六百下，就必须到家。
[03:23.74]DRUMBEATS In the seventh century the West Market was the Central Asian quarter.七世纪，长安西市，是亚洲的贸易中心。
[03:39.46]Here were the Silk Road merchants, Uyghurs and Persians, and they brought all their exotic foods with them.这里有丝绸之路的商人，维吾尔人，波斯人，他们带来了异域美食。
[03:48.32]Cherries, barbaries, apricots, peaches from Afghanistan.樱桃、枸杞、杏子、阿富汗传入的桃子。
[03:57.78]Xie xie. 谢谢。
[04:03.60]Oh, my God! 哦，天哪！
[04:06.21]I'm coming back there.我还会回来的。
[04:07.00]Beautiful!太好吃啦！
[04:08.32]Xie xie.谢谢。
[04:15.22]Fizzing with energy, the capital city matched the ambitions of the Emperor Taizong on himself.这座城市充满了能量，衬得上唐太宗的野心。

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BBC中国故事 第二集 丝绸之路与中国航船 Part6 大唐长安城

BBC中国故事第二集丝绸之路与中国航船 Part6 大唐长安城