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In Europe we rarely listen to music that is more than five or six hundred years old,
現(xiàn)在我們能聽到的歐洲音樂，歷史通常都不超過五六百年。
but the music of the ancient Chinese bells has been resonating harmoniously for over two and a half thousand years, symbolising not only the sound of an era but the underlying political ideals of an ancient society and its modern successors.
但中國(guó)古代銅鐘的音樂，兩千五百多年來(lái)一直和諧地回蕩。它不只代表了一個(gè)時(shí)代的聲音，也代表了一個(gè)古代社會(huì)及其現(xiàn)代繼承者的深層政治理想。
It's a Confucian principle that China once again finds very appealing today-although that hasn't always been the case.
孔子的思想在中國(guó)的傳播曾遭中斷，今天又重新流行起來(lái)。
Here's Isobel Hilton again:
伊莎貝爾希爾頓說(shuō)道：
"Confucianism was really the soul of the Chinese state for the best part of two thousand years but,
在過去兩千年中的絕大部分時(shí)期，孔子的思想都是中國(guó)的靈魂。
in the early twentieth century, it was really very strongly criticised by the modernisers, the revolutionaries, the people who blamed Confucianism for the decline of China in the previous two hundred years, and it fell out of favour.
但在二十世紀(jì)早期，革命者和運(yùn)動(dòng)家曾激烈地批判孔子，認(rèn)為他是造成中國(guó)過去兩百年衰退的主因。
But Confucianism never really went away.
孔子學(xué)說(shuō)受到冷落，但它從未消失。
Curiously enough, harmonious society is what we hear today on the lips of Chinese leaders.
如今，我們又從當(dāng)代政治家的口中聽到了和諧社會(huì)。
What the leadership today wants is a society that is more content, in which people are content, if you like, with their station, so no more class struggle;
領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人希望人民對(duì)社會(huì)更滿意，滿足于自己的現(xiàn)狀，不再有階級(jí)斗爭(zhēng)，
in which the leaders are seen to embody virtue as in the old Confucian idea.
而依據(jù)古老的孔子思想，領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人自身亦應(yīng)體現(xiàn)出美德。
And it is their virtue that makes people accept their right to rule. So we've seen the taking of this very old idea of harmony, and we're seeing it in a modern form to justify a static political system, a system in which the right to rule is not questioned."
是政府的德行使得百姓接受政府的管理。因此，我們看到古老的“和”的觀念被重新接納, 轉(zhuǎn)化為一種維護(hù)政治穩(wěn)定的現(xiàn)代形式，讓人民順從地接受政府管理。
