{"id":651001,"date":"2013-03-31T11:56:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T03:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lidaitao.com\/blog\/?p=651001"},"modified":"2013-03-31T11:56:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T03:56:29","slug":"xian-of-eight-rivers-transalatio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lichaohua.com\/works\/archives\/651001","title":{"rendered":"\u516b\u6c34\u897f\u5b89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u4f5c\u8005\/[\u610f]\u5e93\u5c14\u9f50\u5965\u00b7\u9a6c\u62c9\u5e15\u5c14\u7279 Curzio Malaparte<br \/>\n\u8bd1\u8005\/<a title=\"\u6708\u5149\u8bd5\u9a8c\u7530\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lidaitao.com\/blog\/\">\u674e\u4ee3\u6843<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u662f\u6ce5\u5df4\uff0c\u4e2d\u56fd\u662f\u7531\u6652\u5e72\u7684\u6ce5\u5df4\u9020\u6765\u7684\u3002<\/p>\n<p>\u5c31\u4e2d\u56fd\u7684\u8fd9\u4e00\u5757[2]\uff0c\u4e00\u5207\u7686\u9020\u81ea\u6ce5\u571f\uff1a<br \/>\n\u623f\u5c4b\uff0c\u57ce\u5e02\u7684\u8bf8\u5899\uff0c\u4ee5\u53ca\u4e61\u6751\uff0c<br 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mud.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">In this part of China everything is made from the earth:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">the houses, the walls around cities, and villages,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">the tombs scattered over the countryside.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Even the people.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">There are hills below that appear to be piles of mud<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">set out to dry in the sun, naked,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">without a single tree or bush.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">They crowd around the landscape<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">like the coils of bulging intestines<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">tossed on the ground outside butchers&#8217; shops,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">slowly unraveling.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Sometimes we fly so low that we almost touch them.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">And then I notice that the wind has brushed<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">some kind of pattern into the earth: a mysterious alphabet<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">written in the mud,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">struggling to communicate something precise.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">But there is not a single animal<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">or human being in the yellow desert below.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Not a single village.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Suddenly we are landing: Xian,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">the geographic center of China,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">where Chinese civilization was born,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">in the cradle of the Yellow River.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">In front of the terminal,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">three children are playing with a lump of earth:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">they are bundled up in jackets<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">and brightly printed cotton trousers.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">I join them in their game<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">until a young woman comes out of the terminal<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">to call me in for dinner.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">One of the children grabs me by my overcoat,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">to keep me from leaving.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">So do the other two, clinging to me,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">asking me not to go.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">The young woman comes out again,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">and yells at them to stop.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">They let go, disappointed.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">One of them calls to me as I turn away:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Come back soon!<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">We eat quickly and then prepare to take off for Lanchow.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">My three new friends wave goodbye to me. The littlest one<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">gives me a present: a pebble,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">a precious gift.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">In this part of China there are no stones.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">You have to go to Karelia to find stone,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">very far north; or to the Caucasus;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">or to southern Siberia, along the slopes of the Pamir,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">slanting toward the steppes of Central Asia.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">I put the pebble in my pocket,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">to take back home, to show what a precious gift<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">I was given by a little Chinese girl: a pebble<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">from the cradle of Chinese civilization.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">A civilization made of earth,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">a civilization without bones,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">without a skeleton for support.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">A civilization of assembled customs,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">which suddenly unravel,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">dissolving into thousands of separate gestures,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">thousands of calligraphic icons,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">thousands of smells, colors, flavors,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">thousands of different shades. And then just as suddenly<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">they solidify again into tradition, memory, habit.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">It is this absence of stone, of solid, durable material,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">which makes China such an exquisite thing.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Everything is reflected:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">an unimaginable number of movements,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">of patterns, thoughts, images,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">of which we see the copies in immense numbers,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">but never the originals.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">The originals were destroyed long ago.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Here are the four elements out of which China is made:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Earth, Wood, Porcelain, Silk.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">The most durable of these is Silk.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">I should add a fifth element: Poetry,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #999999;\">which is the most durable of all.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Curzio Malaparte, &#8220;Xian of Eight Rivers&#8221; from <em>The Bird That Swallowed Its Cage<\/em>, translated by Walter Murch. 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