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公元前6世紀(jì)末,羅馬放逐了伊達(dá)拉里亞人,建立了共和政體,逐漸征服了近鄰地區(qū)。羅馬城市國家站在其他自治國家之上,作為城市聯(lián)盟的盟主進(jìn)行統(tǒng)治的傳統(tǒng),到羅馬的統(tǒng)治擴(kuò)大到地中海全部區(qū)域的歷史時,羅馬市不但是羅馬帝國的首都,而且不要忘記是羅馬城市建立了羅馬帝國這個事實(shí)。
the romans in china
羅馬人在中國
they came, saw and settled
他們來、他們見、他們定居
so it's said, anyway.
凱撒大帝死于中國:真的假的?姑妄聽之。
in a remote village of western china, high on the dusty pastures that stretch toward the qilian mountains, the local branch of the communist party is finishing off a new headquarters that stands out from the local buildings, all built of compacted earth. this building has a classical roman portico, made of concrete, at the entrance. the local party chief and his deputy both think they are the descendants of romans.
中國西部,塵土飛揚(yáng)的牧場連綿起伏,一直通向祁連山脈。一個共產(chǎn)黨支部在牧場高處一個偏遠(yuǎn)村莊中蓋起了一座新辦公樓。在周圍全用粘土夯成的其他建筑物陪襯下,這座樓鶴立雞群。建筑物入口處有一座混凝土制作的古典羅馬門廊。該組織的書記和副書記都認(rèn)為自己是羅馬人的后裔。
their village, zhelaizhai, is separated from what was the roman empire by about 6,500km (over 4,000 miles) of forbidding terrain. to get to this little place in gansu province, a roman would have had to cross all of central asia and the middle east, encountering fierce tribes en route. yet some people believe that a group of roman soldiers made this journey 2,000 years ago and then stayed.
這座村莊的名字叫者來寨(zhelaizhai),它與曾經(jīng)的羅馬帝國關(guān)山阻隔,大約6500公里(4000多英里)不可逾越的地域橫亙其間。如果羅馬人想要來到甘肅省的這塊小地方,就必須穿越整個中亞大陸和中東,在路上會遭遇殘忍的部落族人。但有人相信,有一群羅馬戰(zhàn)士曾在2000年前走完成了這段旅途,然后留了下來。
it may be wishful thinking, but so captivating is the notion of a roman town in ancient china that for 50 years it has inspired a disparate variety of supporters, among them an oxford university professor, an australian adventurer and the abbot of a nearby buddhist temple. the abbot says prayers for the ghosts of roman soldiers, who, he reports, visit his temple to petition for salvation. through an illiterate woman who acts as a medium, the abbot has discovered that julius caesar himself spent his final days in yongchang county and died a buddhist. caesar's assassins apparently got the wrong man.
這或許只是人們一廂情愿的想象,但在古代中國存在著一個羅馬城鎮(zhèn)的想法如此迷人,以至于它在50年間鼓舞了各種各樣的支持者,其中包括一位牛津大學(xué)教授,一個澳大利亞探險家和附近一座佛教寺院的住持。那位住持為那些羅馬士兵的鬼魂誦經(jīng),據(jù)他說,這些鬼魂來到他的寺院請求超度。通過一個不識字的神婆作靈媒,這位住持發(fā)現(xiàn),裘里烏斯•凱撒(julius caesar)本人在永昌縣度過了生命的最后時光,而且死前皈依了佛教。刺殺凱撒的人似乎找錯人了。
the curious physical features of the local communist chiefs, zhang jianxin and song guorong, strengthen their belief that they are of roman stock. both have long straight noses, which any chinese will tell you is the hallmark of a foreigner. mr song has long brown hair tipped with curls—quite different from the straight black hair of most chinese. mr zhang tells of his delight when a group of foreigners arrived in the village in the early 1990s and told him about the roman-settlement theory. “it was good to be connected with the romans. we felt we'd discovered our ancestors.”
支部書記張建新和宋國榮(音譯)奇異的面貌更讓他們相信自己是羅馬后裔。他們倆都長著又長又直的鼻子,任何中國人都會認(rèn)定這是老外的標(biāo)記。宋國榮還有一頭棕色的長發(fā),發(fā)尾卷曲,這跟絕大多數(shù)中國人直直的黑發(fā)明顯不同。一群外國人在20世紀(jì)90年代初來過這個村子,他們告知張建新有關(guān)羅馬人在此定居的理論。他說他當(dāng)時很高興:“能跟羅馬人搭上關(guān)系,這可太好了。我們當(dāng)時覺得是找到了自己的祖宗。”
evidence of a roman town in gansu province would indeed be exciting—if it could be established. one of the strangest aspects of china's history is that such a cultivated civilisation should have stayed isolated from its counterparts to the west for so long. the existence of not just a foreign settlement but a western settlement, some 13 centuries before the arrival of marco polo and 16 centuries before the portuguese established a colony in macau, would require some rewriting of history.
如果可以證實(shí)甘肅省有一座羅馬村鎮(zhèn),這的確令人興奮。中國歷史最為奇特的一個方面,是這樣一個高度發(fā)達(dá)的文明社會居然會在如此之長的歷史時期內(nèi)與西方的文明社會相互隔絕。如果大約在馬可波羅來到中國13個世紀(jì)之前、葡萄牙人在澳門建立殖民地16個世紀(jì)之前就在中國存在著一個外國的而且是西方的定居點(diǎn),這將會改寫歷史。
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