老皮皮老 2008-4-17 16:55
关于雪灾
虽然回了国,但是还不忘跟教授辩论的习惯。在广州看了关于春节雪灾的报道,于是写了封信给教授,那日跟方舟在扯,问可不可以在这里发英文的东西,他觉得没问题,于是发个,给大家看着玩。-@@|8fv1G"R%qP
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[align=left][align=center][b][size=16pt][font=Times New Roman]About The Belief of Chinese People[/font][/size][/b][/align][/align][size=14pt][font=Times New Roman]The spring festival, or say Chinese new year, in 2008 was really a disaster. The whole nation suffered a snow-storm which cut off the electric power support in the 14 southern provinces and transportation system of the country. Most large cities stayed hundreds of thousands of workers who wanted to go back to their hometown to be with their family, and some villages suffered difficulties to survive and needed army to rescue them. Usually, disaster will show us something we ignore most of time but valuable. And, in my opinion, this snow-storm show us all what we Chinese people care about highest in our soul, which I call it belief. [/font][/size]
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[font=Times New Roman][size=14pt]What Chinese belief? If ask this question to some westerns, they would say the Chinese have nothing belief. In their sight, Chinese don’t read Bible, don’t believe in God, neither do any other religions. If ask some Chinese, part will have the same idea to those westerns, while others will think that Chinese consider all religions as superstition, except the Marx’s Communication. Well as my sight, first of all the Communication is just one method or theory we develop our country, but not the belief of all Chinese people all over the country or the world. And truly, in [/size][size=14pt]China[/size][size=14pt], we seldom read Bible. [/size][/font]
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[size=14pt][font=Times New Roman]However, does a person have no any belief if he don’t have any public-known behavior of religions? Does a person have no any belief if he don’t believe in any public-known religions in the world? God says He will also love those who don’t believe in Him, but He never identifies that the range of “don’t believe in Him” just contains those people who believe in other religions. And also, does God says that all belief have to be built on one well-known religion, or even extremely, dose God says that all belief have to be built on one formed and systematic religion? [/font][/size]&K4Ow;r `I7cPN2?*ux
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[size=14pt][font=Times New Roman]The Bible says that God’s messages are all around us, and once we believe, we will get his messages, we will feel his existence. Belief, a simple but hard to describe in human-language, cannot be identified in human religions. Thus Chinese have belief, though the belief still not formed as a religion and we don’t describe God in the phase “God”. [/font][/size]4[EB3tx8s5^c#W$j
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[font=Times New Roman][size=14pt]Then what is our belief? Just take a look at what people did in that storm disaster. Even now several weeks after, I can still remember one live interview I saw in the special TV report of the snow storm. The journalist asked a woman passenger who was stopped up in a bus on the high way to north, she said. ”No matter what happen, I got to be back home.” And another news is more interesting, on the day before the spring festival, the snows began to melt, and railway station started to open some railway trains, people who had decided to stay in [/size][size=14pt]Guangzhou[/size][size=14pt] to spend the spring festival knew this gathered to [/size][size=14pt]Guangzhou[/size][size=14pt] railway station again. We might ask, why are people so longing to go back to spend the spring festival? Can you imagine this view: people stop doing any just go back to home, maybe more specifically, just go back to the hometown where their parents or grandparents live in, taking children and packages, standing in the snows or rains and facing the cold, and waiting for the buses or trains moving. What a view of pilgrimage! What, if we can say it is a kind of pilgrimage, are those people worshiping then? The answer is simple—the family. [/size][/font]&^
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[font=Times New Roman][size=14pt]Family, a word in western may refer to a couple and their underage children. But in China, it usually refers to all members in the family-tree, since grandparents and granduncles, to grandchildren and grandnephews, especially everyone’s parents and grandparents, which in traditional Chinese culture name “High Hall”(you can interpret as the people having the highest seat in the hall of family reunion). In [/size][size=14pt]China[/size][size=14pt] “go home” both means go back to the house you living and go back to your hometown to be with your parents, and the latter one more significant in important festivals like Spring Festival. “Home”, in Chinese, partly just as “Home” in Bible, is a place people think are pure and secure without any worries or sadness, a place to let us rest and recover into powerful and strong to go down the way of life, and a place to untie our worries and grief to make our mind quiet and calm. In one word, “family” is a concept our soul couch and care. Going back to the place called “home”, especially in the day of Chinese New Year, we think we will throw away all the sad and grey things which happened in passed year and have a fresh new year, a fresh beginning of our lives. [/size][/font]?!sy3e6i?1I(V
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[font=Times New Roman][size=14pt]What is funny, God says in the temple people should be like one family, everybody should treat each other like sister and brother. But in western, the relationship of real sisters and brothers even parents and aged children are not so close. In [/size][size=14pt]China[/size][size=14pt], we don’t have God and church, but we have Family, in which we also feel love, we also have no fear, and we also worship something invisible, something deep in our heart, so deep that, if there is no such huge snow storm, even ourselves can hardly recognize it. Yes, we have belief. [/size][/font]
梧桐夜 2008-4-17 18:19
“In China, we don’t have God and church, but we have Family”,这句太精辟了。
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没错,我们没有上帝和教会,但是我们有“五行孝为先”的民族信仰,我们有五湖四海一家人的思想。
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“家”,中国的家是充满亲情的地方,是可以遮风挡雨心灵栖息的地方,有子女,更有父母,所以中国人是恋家的,恋朋友,恋兄弟姐妹,恋子女,恋辛劳了一辈子的父母。7q
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再大的风雪也挡不住一颗游子归家的心,到家了,就没有风雪了!
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阴风 2008-4-18 09:57
西方人对亲情似乎不像中国人那么深,父母把子女养大了,就两边没多大往来了
北郭先生 2008-4-18 11:20
楼主或者哪位高手帮忙把英文翻译成中文咋样?要不看不懂啊,当然如果大家都没空的话就算了。
阴风 2008-4-18 11:51
2008年的春节,又称中国新年是一场真实的灾难。整个国家饱受暴雪的苦难,有14个南部省份的电力供应被切断,并且交通瘫痪。大部分大城市中逗留了数以万计的外来工,他们都想回家乡和他们的家庭在一起。另外,有些农村出现了生存困难,并且需要军队实施救援。一般来说,灾难可以告诉我们一些平时我们忽略但有意义的事情。然而,在我的观点看来,这场暴雪告诉我们中国人民灵魂深处最在乎的东西,我称它为信仰。!C\[|;N)n
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这是第一段,翻译水平欠佳。。。大家多多担待
阴风 2008-4-18 12:00
什么是中国人的信仰?如果将这个问题抛给西方国家的人民,他们会说中国人没有任何信仰。在西方人的眼中,中国人不读圣经,不信上帝,也没有其他宗教。如果用这个问题来问中国人,有部分人应该会和上述西方人民的看法一样,同时会有人会觉得中国把所有宗教看作迷信,不过马克思思想除外。。。(X C7c^"Bi
以我看来,马克思思想只是一种发展我国的方法和学说,而不是所有中国人民的信仰。另外,客观的说,在中国确实很少人会阅读圣经。y7V(?Y%do1M
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阴风 2008-4-18 12:09
但是,是不是没有宗教(为人熟知)习惯的人们就不具有任何信仰吗?是不是没有宗教信仰(世界熟知)的人们就不具有任何信仰吗?上帝说它也会爱那些不相信它的人,但是它从未定义过“不信上帝的人“的范围只限于那些被人熟知的其他宗教教徒。另外,上帝是否说过所有的信仰必须是宗教(为人熟知)信仰?或者,上帝是否说过所有的信仰必须建立在一种有组织,有系统的宗教形式上?#kPu G[,b4[$F.u
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阴风 2008-4-18 12:15
圣经中说上帝的讯息就在我们身边,只要我们开始相信它,我们就会得到他的讯息,我们会感受到它的存在。
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信仰,一个简单却又难以用人类语言描绘的词语,不能被任何人类宗教所定义。所以中国人拥有信仰,虽然这种信仰没有用任何宗教形式来表现,另外我们也不用“上帝”这个词汇来描述我们心中的神。EMb'JUGM
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阴风 2008-4-18 12:36
那么什么是我们中国人的信仰呢?只需要看一看那些在暴雪中受灾的人民的行为就能明白。0F:E cW,rh%T
直到现在,这么多周过去了,我仍然能回忆起我看过的在暴雪中一个特别电视台的现场采访。
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那是一个新闻记者在采访一名女性旅客。这位女性旅客因雪灾导致她要乘坐的巴士无法从高速公路前往北方。w3m-v7VuC/h$g
这位旅客说道:"无论发生什么事,我都要回家。”
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还有一则更有趣的新闻,在春节前一天,地上的冰雪开始消融,火车站重新开通了一些线路。那些原来决定呆在广州过春节的人们又回到了广州火车站。我们可能会问为什么人们如此渴望回家过春节呢?
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你能否在脑中刻画这样一幅画面:人们停止手中的一切事情,只是为了回家。或者,更具体一些,只是回到他们父母或老人居住的家乡,带着小孩和礼品,站在雪雨中面对寒冷,等侯那一班火车或巴士。这是朝圣般的一番景象啊!b6Y3yJ;`
等等,如果我们用朝圣来形容,那么什么是这些人们向往的东西呢?答案是如此简单--家庭。@PS5Cpy[
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[[i] 本帖最后由 阴风 于 2008-4-18 13:06 编辑 [/i]]
阴风 2008-4-18 12:55
家庭,在西方应该是三口之家的代名词。但是在中国,一般代表一个家族的整个成员,从祖父和祖叔父到孙子和孙侄。特别是每个人的父母和祖父母,在中国传统语言中有这么一个词来形容--“高堂”(你可以将其理解为坐在家庭最高位置的人们).vBavl0D%f
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在中国,“回家”代表的不仅仅是回到你居住的房子中,也代表了回到家乡和你的父母们在一起,尤其是像春节这么重要的节日。“家”,在中文中,就像圣经中说的,那是一个人们认为没有担忧,没有悲伤,纯洁又安心的地方,一个让我们休息并恢复能量去勇敢面对以后的人生的地方,一个解决我们忧虑和困难从而让我们头脑清醒冷静的地方。
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用一句话来说,“家”就是我们灵魂的住所。回到我们称为“家”的地方,特别是在春节的时候,我们认为这让我们抛弃了过去一年中的一切忧愁和烦恼,并且迎接一个崭新的新年,一个我们人生的崭新的开始。
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[[i] 本帖最后由 阴风 于 2008-4-18 14:56 编辑 [/i]]
阴风 2008-4-18 13:02
有趣的是,上帝说在神殿里的人们应该像一个大家庭一样,每个人要像姐妹兄弟一样对待他人。但是在西方国家,真正姐妹兄弟间的关系,甚至父母与子女的关系都不亲近。在中国,我们没有上帝和教会,但我们有家庭,它让我们感到爱,它让我们感到没有恐惧,它让我们感到我们信仰着一些肉眼看不见的东西,一些我们内心深处的东西。深到即使没有这么一场大暴雪,即使我们自己很难意识到它,但他仍然存在。%]2hIA1i _(H Vz
是的,我们拥有信仰!!
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