BBC中国故事第六集革命时代 Part4 太平天国运动

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[00:01.50]The revolution was about to begin.革命就要开始了。
[00:07.25]Soon, Hong had an army of 100,000 men and they defeated the Qing forces in the south.不久，洪秀全就要十万之众的军队，他们打败了南方的清军。
[00:13.82]The tale is long told by the traditional storytellers.传统的说书人长久以来都在讲述这个故事。
[00:51.86]On March 19th 1853, Nanjing fell and Hong was enthroned as ruler of God's heavenly kingdom in his new Jerusalem.在1853年3月19日，南京被攻陷。洪秀全在自己新的圣地登基为天国之王。
[01:05.25]So, the Taiping had gained power, but what would they do with it?太平天国得到了权力，但他们如何运用权力？
[01:09.68]It's a question faced by all China's revolutionaries. 这是中国所有革命者都面临的一个问题。
[01:15.75]There's the throne of the Heavenly King.太平天国拥有君主。
[01:17.67]Once God's kingdom here on Earth had been established in Nanjing, 一旦在南京建立了这个凡间天国，
[01:23.30]a blizzard of ideological pronouncements came pouring from this throne.雪片般繁多的理念公告从这个王座上纷纷发出。
[01:29.93]They had printing presses here, 这里他们有个印刷机，
[01:31.92]they had a whole workshop for woodblock cutting for their publications - 有一个完整的车间，用来雕刻他们出版物的木刻板--
[01:36.10]their translations of the Old and New Testament.也就是新约和旧约的译文。
[01:39.00]They banned opium, tobacco, alcohol, foot binding, prostitution, gambling, 他们禁止了鸦片、烟草、酒精、裹足、卖淫、赌博，
[01:45.59]they separated the sexes, there was the death penalty for sex between men.采取男女分营，男人间同性性行为会被判处死刑。
[01:51.13]Most important of all, China was to be classless.最重要的是，中国将变成无阶级区分，
[01:55.67]Private ownership of property, private ownership of land were abolished.财产私有化、土地私有化被废除。
[02:00.38]All land would be owned by the State and distributed by the State.所有土地将收归国有，由国家分配。
[02:04.64]And this would be accompanied by a purging of the language of its foreign elements, which had been brought in by the alien Manchu conquerors.与此相伴的是，清除语言的外来元素，就是外来的满族征服者带来的那些。
[02:14.92]A new world of words for a new time.一个新时代的文字新世界。
[02:24.87]The Taiping State spread its power across the rich heartland of the south.太平天国把势力范围扩展到了南方富裕的中心地带。
[02:29.42]And here in Nanjing, the people got used to a new kind of fundamentalist rule, with new laws condemning old pleasures.在南京，人们习惯了一种全新的根本规矩，用新法废除旧的娱乐。
[02:46.22]In the backstreets, you can still find traces of the Taiping's 16-year rule.在街头巷尾，你依然能够发现太平天国十六年统治的一些遗迹。
[02:52.15]This was the house of one of their leaders.这是他们其中一位领袖的宅院。
[03:01.79]This house belonged to the Li family before the Taiping rebels took over the city.在太平天国叛军接管南京之前，这所宅院属于李家。
[03:07.19]They fled into the countryside and a leading Taiping prince took this over as his own residence.他们逃到了乡下，太平天国的东王把这里当成自己的住处。
[03:15.37]And he has the house painted with Taiping themed murals.他在屋里粉刷了带有太平天国主题的壁画。
[03:22.43]No representation of the human form.不再表现人的形态。
[03:25.06]They were iconoclasts.他们是打破旧习俗的人。
[03:26.27]They destroyed images and human representations of Daoist temples, Buddhist and Confucian shrines, wherever they'd gone.他们摧毁道观、佛庙、儒家祠堂中的人偶和画像，所到之处，无一幸免。
[03:34.54]So, the images from nature of birds, horses, landscapes, 所有这些是自然画像，包括鸟、马、山水，
[03:38.40]over there the five-storey wooden watchtower, were the kind that the Taiping armies constructed.那边有个五层的t望台，那就是太平天国军队建造的那种。
[03:47.43]In one of the inner halls, the Taiping prince had had the Chinese symbol for long life painted on the wall.在其中一个内殿中，太平天国领袖把中国象征长寿的符号画在了墙上。
[03:57.64]But long life, the Taiping leaders would not achieve.但是太平天国的领袖们并不会长寿。

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BBC中国故事 第六集 革命时代 Part4 太平天国运动

BBC中国故事第六集革命时代 Part4 太平天国运动