武汉市简介及旅游景点中英对照(3)

legend 1

More than 1000 years ago, an old man surnamed Xin ran a restaurant on Snake Hill. A Taoist who was a regular visitor never ordered dishes, but drank wine with fruits he brought along. The owner refused to accept the Taoist’s money, assuming that he was poor. They became friends. One day, the Taoist drew a yellow crane on the wall with the orange skin, said, “The crane will dance upon hearing the clap”. Then he left and never returned.

The curious customers clapped their hands and the crane flew from the wall, danced and then returned to its original place. The restaurant became very famous as the story was

widely spread. A corrupt official ordered somebody to move the wall to the local authorities. But the crane flew away and the official chased after the crane but drowned in the river. The old man selling wine built the Yellow Crane Tower on the original site to commemorate the crane.

Legend 2

The tower was first built in 223 A.D of the Three Kingdoms Period. Sun Quan, the King of Wu built the earliest Yellow Crane Tower on the Town of Wuchang. During the Three

Kingdoms Period, the tower served a significant military purpose. After the three kingdoms were united, with the development of the city, the tower lost its military value and gradually became an ornamental tower.

The tower was built and ruined many times and undergone many wars and changes. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the tower was built and ruined seven times. In 1184 A.D., the tower was reduced to ashes. One hundred years later, a magnificent tower, the only one in China, appeared in Wuhan.

城市之眼——东湖

一个城市的湖是一个城市的眼睛；透过一个城市的眼睛可以看到一个城市的过去、现在和未来；可以看到一个城市的天、一个城市的地、一个城市的文化和经济。

西湖是杭州的眼睛，东湖是武汉的魂魄，如果说西湖之美在于她的小巧，在于小家碧玉的精致与秀气，那么东湖之美应该在于她的大气，在于大家闺秀的气质神韵和埋藏千年的底蕴流长

“只说西湖在帝都，武昌又说新东湖。一围烟浪六十里，几队寒鸦千百雏。野目迢迢遮去雁，渔舟点点映飞鸟。如何不作钱塘景，要与江城作画图。”南宋诗人袁说友这首《游武昌东湖》诗作过去千年，如今的东湖，面积是杭州西湖的6倍，是中国最大的城中湖，全国首批4A级旅游区，国家级风景名胜区 文化给风景穿上了高贵的衣服，使她呈现出文明的魅力，就像知识分子会给一个相貌堂堂的人增添魅力一样，有了知识和风度的人便成为有气质的人，有了文化积淀的风景则也成为了有气质的风景，而东湖就是这样一个包容了太多历史文化的湖。东湖的美，浓妆淡抹，神采不同；阴晴雨雪，风韵万千。东湖的美，在于晴中见潋滟，雨中显空灵。窈窕曲折的湖道，串以长堤春柳、磨山赏梅、武大赏樱等两岸景点，俨然一副天然秀美的国画长卷。

东湖，清新与凝重、自然与典雅、质朴与华丽并举。这种和谐的感知，构成了一个辽阔高远的艺术空间，是景非景，是境非境，给人以无穷无尽的想象：或倚栏卧听风雨声，或醉里挑灯看剑，或临风高歌，或对酒畅饮，或约三五知己谈古论今，吟诗赏画，或约一人品茶静思 江湖一城梦，明月百年心。但愿若干年以后，此梦此心不会被城市的喧嚣与浮华所吞噬。

Eyes of the City - East Lake

Lakes, the eyes of a city, represent the past, present and future of a city, embody everything of a city: culture and economy etc.

The West Lake is the eyes of Hangzhou while the East Lake is the soul of Wuhan. The beauty of the West Lake lies in its exquisiteness and prettiness while the East Lake is like a girl from a noble family: her beauty lies in her temperament and the thousand-year-old cultural deposit.

Culture is the noblest cloth of a landscape, which embody the charm of the landscape just as knowledge adds charm and temperature to a handsome man. A landscape with cultural deposit is a landscape of elegant disposition. The East Lake is a lake boasting a long history and deep-rooted culture.

The East Lake is fresh, dignified, natural, elegant, simple but magnificent, which forms a harmonious artistic space. Here, you can listen to the sound of wind and rain, or sing loudly in the wind or drink to your heart’s content, or talk over past and present with your friends, or chant poems and admire paintings, or taste tea and meditate …The East Lake is a

hundred-year-old dream of the city. We wish that the dream wouldn’t be swallowed by the bustle and vanity of the city.

方寸之间追溯千年——湖北省博物馆

一件具体的物品，一段具体的历史，都能见证一个城市的深度和内涵。对于武汉这个充满活力，又有一副老江湖风味的城市来说，她的珍贵之处在于新旧并存所迸发的独特魅力，让我们通过湖北省博物馆这双洞察一切的眼睛，走进楚文化的世界吧！

不愿逛博物馆，是因为我们无法以逛的心态面对，在幽光下的青铜器、漆木器、金玉器，让我们注视的目光陡然凝重。凝重是因为它浓缩了我们楚国的文化。当年的尊盘、鹿角立鹤、漆盖豆、鸳鸯盒 件件见证了楚国的文化和武汉这座城市的历史。它们值得我们炫耀，也值得我们凝视。

Hubei Provincial Museum

A specific piece of good and the history can represent the depth and connotation of a city. For a city which is as vigorous as Wuhan, the charm lies in its combination of the new and old. Let's walk into the world of culture via Hubei Provincial Museum, the eyes of Wuhan. Usually we are not willing to visit museum because we don't have the right mood. At the sight of the bronze ware, lacquer ware, golden and jade articles, we look dignified because these goods represent the culture of Hubei province. The plate, bronze ware featuring deer and crane etc; all these witness the culture of Hubei province and the history of Wuhan. They are worth admiring and flaunting.