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What's fascinating about trying to tell a history through objects is that they go on to have lives and destinies never dreamt of by those who made them-and that's certainly true of this pot.
通過物品講述歷史最迷人之處就是，這些物品自身擁有的生命與命運，遠遠超越了當時制造人的想象。這件陶器也并不例外。這些漆金箔內襯大概是在公元十七或十九世紀貼上去的，當時古代陶器開始陸續出土，被日本學者們收集跟展覽起來。
That gold leaf was applied somewhere between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, when ancient pots were being discovered, collected and displayed by Japanese scholars. And it was probably a wealthy collector a couple of hundred years ago who had the inside of the pot lacquered with a thin layer of gold. After seven thousand years of existence, our Jomon pot then began a new life-as a 'mizusashi', or water jar, for that quintessentially Japanese ritual, the Tea Ceremony.
這件陶器可能在幾百年前，曾經輾轉落入一個富有的收藏家手中，他就在這陶缽內壁貼上了一層薄薄的漆金箔內襯。經過七千多年的歷史塵封，幾百年前我們這繩紋缽被重新賜于了第二生命，變成一個水罐子，運用于最典型的日本文化禮儀之一的茶道。
I don't think that its maker would have minded. We know there were all sorts of rituals and ceremonies involving pots in the time of the Jomon. In that society, as in virtually all others, pots quickly went beyond their functional purpose to become objects of desire and display.
我并不覺得它最初的制造者會介意這點?，F在我們知道在繩紋時期，已經存在了各種與陶器相關的禮儀與儀式。在那個社會里，幾乎像其他社會一樣，陶器很快就超越了其最初的功能性價值，變成一種人類愛好與展示的物品。
In their many manifestations, pots resonate throughout human history, from the most primitive domestic meal or drink to the Last Supper; from a nomadic snack to an international banquet. If mealtimes are a microcosm of society, then pots are the very glue that binds hosts and guests, indeed the whole of society, together.
在它們眾多的表現方式中，縱觀人類歷史，從最原始農耕時代的部落飲食，到“最后的晚餐”，從游牧民族簡陋的一頓飯到國際盛宴，這些鍋碗瓢盆奏響一曲永恒的絕唱。假如說進餐時間是一個社會的縮影，那么這些鍋碗瓢盆便是粘合主人與客人，甚至整個社會的有機結合物。
This week we've traced the beginnings of farming and settlement; in the next programmes, we're with the consequences: the world's first cities.
本周我們追尋了人類農耕時代與定居生活的開始。在下期節目中，我們將繼續探討隨之而產生的世界第一座城市。
