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Right in the visual centre of this beautiful painting
在這幅絕美圖景的視覺中心點上
is the temple itself,
是一座山寺
and the temple is almost more important
而這座寺廟的重要性
than the whole mountain.
簡直要蓋過山巒
It is the place of equipoise, the place of peace.
這是一個平衡點 是平靜祥和的所在
Above the temple, there is no human action at all,
自寺廟之上再無人類活動
and Li Cheng has changed the wash of the ink.
李成的用墨也隨之改變
It's lighter, finer, more ethereal.
這里的用墨更淡雅細致 更加縹緲
So this is a borderland
所以這就是塵世
between the human and the spiritual world,
和精神世界的分隔地帶
and gradually we move up
慢慢往上看
and face the greatest questions of all.
我們就要面對幾個重要的問題
What is nature?
什么是自然
What lies beyond surface appearance?
萬物表象之下是什么本質
What truly moves the universe?
又是什么真正推動著宇宙前行
And how, above all,
以及最重要的一點
does the dialogue between flowing water
就是流水與被蝕穿的堅勁山石之間
and the adamant face of that eroded rock
究竟有著怎樣的對話
bring us harmony
才帶來了和諧
and bring us what everybody in China wanted -
帶來了中華大地上人人期盼的
happiness and peace?
安寧和樂的太平治世
Li Cheng offers us a glimpse of who we are
李成將熙攘眾生的細碎百態
by linking the comings and goings of our little lives
和浩渺世界的宏偉大觀聯結起來
to the majesty of the cosmos.
讓我們得以一窺內心的真我
And that sense of fit between things mortal and things eternal
而這種消逝與永恒之間的契合平衡
fills the mind with the ancient Confucian sense of rightness.
讓人心中凜然 體味到上古儒家真意
Everything in its ordained place.
一切皆歸正位
This is how life is supposed to be.
而這 便是生活應有的樣子
So powerful was the message that, within a century,
這一思想是如此有力 以致于不到百年
landscape art had sunk deep roots
山水畫便將其根脈深植于
into the culture of Song China.
宋代中國的文化之中
New painting academies flourished where it was practised.
而與此同時 新的畫派層出不窮
Weighty tomes were written about its philosophy and technique.
也有許多書卷記載了各畫派的理念及技巧
To be Chinese meant to be civilised
身為華夏子民 意味著文明開化
and to be civilised meant to paint,
而文明開化 少不了提筆作畫
above all, landscapes.
其中最重要的 就是山水畫
