BBC中国故事第三集盛世中华 Part2 开封第一巷--双龙巷

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[00:02.27]After 907, it fragmented into 16 dynasties in a little over 50 years, warlords fighting each other for the Empire.公元907年后的约50多年里，中国分裂为16国，各国为争领土而互相开战。
[00:14.80]CEREMONIAL CRY At this point, there was no certainty that China would ever be reunited.从当时的情况看，中国的统一看起来有点遥不可及。
[00:29.69]But as it says in China's famous novel, The Romance Of The Three Kingdoms, 正如著名小说《三国演义》中所言：
[00:34.62]"It is a truth universally acknowledged that everything long united will fall apart and everything long divided will come back together again".“话说天下大势，合久必分，分久必合。”
[00:49.66]The Song would transform Kaifeng from a provincial backwater into the greatest city on Earth.宋朝要将开封城从一个穷乡僻壤建成全球最为壮观的城市。
[01:02.24]And now it's rebuilding again.如今，开封城正经历又一次的重建。
[01:04.20]After the struggles of the 20th century, today's Chinese people are fascinated by the spectacle of what their ancestors achieved and they want to touch that time again.经过了20世纪不断的波折后，今天的中国人醉心于先辈们创造的成就，他们想要回溯时光，重温过往。
[01:19.18]And as always in Chinese history, great events were foretold by signs and omens.在中国的历史中，每逢大事，总有预言和征兆在先。
[01:27.64]Here in Kaifeng, the most famous tells of the birth of two brothers who, like Romulus and Remus, would become the first emperors of the new dynasty.开封最有名的传说是两兄弟诞生的故事。正如罗慕路斯与雷姆斯的故事一样，这两兄弟将成为新王朝的开国皇帝。
[01:41.94]Story goes like this - at the time of chaos and war and destruction, after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, 故事是这样的：自唐朝覆灭以来，战乱纷飞，满目疮痍。
[01:49.86]a man called Chen Tuan fled to the sacred mountain Huashan, where he lived in a cave and became a hermit.一个叫陈抟的人归隐于世外之地的华山。他隐居于山洞之中，成为当时的隐士。
[01:57.90]And he acquired prophetic visionary powers.他拥有预知未来的神奇力量。
[02:02.40]And one day he came off the mountain and in the road he met a crowd of refugees and there was a poor man carrying two baskets on a pole on his shoulders.一天，他离山出行，路遇一群衣衫褴褛的人。人群中有个穷人用一根扁担挑着两个箩筐。
[02:13.38]And when the hermit looked into the basket, there were two baby boys, but the hermit saw dragons and he roared out with laughter.陈抟向箩筐中看去，是两个男孩。但他看到了真龙，然后他放声大笑。
[02:25.91]And everybody said, "Why are you laughing?" 所有人都问：“你笑什么？”
[02:27.64]and he said, "I never expected that the Mandate of Heaven would come back to earth so quickly".陈抟答曰：“我道天下无真主，天下自此定矣。”
[03:45.74]Ah, great. 太棒啦。
[03:48.00]Ah, fantastic. 太神奇了。
[04:00.02]There's the surviving dragon, the last dragon of Twin Dragon Alley.这就是那条真龙，双龙巷的最后一条真龙。
[04:07.67]Any day now, Twin Dragon Alley will be redeveloped and soon only the memory will remain.今天，双龙巷要进行开发改造。很快留下的就只有记忆了。
[04:17.09]But that's Kaifeng for you, China's city of memory.这就是开封给你的，中国城市的记忆。

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BBC中国故事 第三集 盛世中华 Part2 开封第一巷--双龙巷

BBC中国故事第三集盛世中华 Part2 开封第一巷--双龙巷