用英語說中國的史前文化
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用英語說中國史前文化：The Hemudu Culture 河姆渡文化
The Hemudu culture (5000 BC to 4500 BC) was a Neolithic culture that flourished just south of the Hangzhou Bay in Jiangnan in modern Yuyao, Zhejiang, China.
河姆渡文化(公元前5000年——公元前4500年)興起於江南杭州灣的南部，也就是今天的中國浙江省餘姚市。
The site at Hemudu was discovered in 1973.
河姆渡遺址與1973年被發現。
Hemudu sites were also discovered on the islands of Zhoushan.
河姆渡文化同樣在舟山羣島被發現。
The Hemudu culture co-existed with the Majiabang culture as two separate and distinct cultures, with cultural transmissions between the two.
河姆渡文化與馬家浜文化以兩種分離且不同的文化共存並互相交流。
Two major floods caused the nearby Yaojiang River to change its course and inundated the soil with salt, forcing the people of Hemudu to abandon its settlements.
兩次大洪水使附近的姚江河改變了它的河道，土地被鹽淹沒，迫使河姆渡人民放棄他們的居住。
The Hemudu people lived in long, stilt houses.
河姆渡人住在又長又高的支柱支撐的房子裏。
The Hemudu culture is one of the earliest cultures to cultivate rice.
河姆渡文化是最早種植水稻的文化之一。
Most of the artifacts discovered at Hemudu consist of animal bones, exemplified by hoes made of shoulder bones used for cultivating rice.
大多數在河姆渡被發現的手工藝品由骨頭組成，例如用於種植水稻的由肩骨製成的鋤頭。
The culture also produced lacquer wood.
這個文化同樣製造漆木。
The remains of various plants, including water caltrop, Nelumbo nucifera, acorns, beans, Gorgon euryale and brottle gourd, were found at Hemudu.
無數植物的遺蹟，包括菱角、荷花、橡樹果實、豆子、芡實和葫蘆在河姆渡被發現。
The Hemudu people likeed domesticated pigs, water buffalo and dogs.
河姆渡人喜歡家養的豬、水牛和狗。
The people at Hemudu also fished and hunted, as evidence by the remains of bone harpoons and bows and arrowheads.
從骨叉、弓和箭頭的遺蹟看來，河姆渡人也會捕魚和打獵。
Music instruments, such as bone whistles and wooden drums, were also found at Hemudu.
一些樂器例如骨哨和木鼓同樣在河姆渡被發現.
The culture produced a thick, porous pottery.
這種文化製造了一種厚的、有孔能滲水的陶器。
The distinct pottery was typically black and made with charcoal powder.
這種獨特的陶器呈深黑色，由木炭粉製成。
Plant and geometric designs were commonly painted onto the pottery; the pottery was sometimes also cord-marked.
通常，植物和幾何的圖案會被繪製到陶器上。有些時候，陶器也會被繩索標記。
The culture also produced carved jade ornaments, carved ivory artifacts and small, clay figurines.
河姆渡文化還製造了雕刻的玉飾、象牙工藝品和小的粘土雕像。
用英語說中國史前文化：Banpo Culture 半坡文化
Banpo Culture belongs to the Yangshao Culture of the Neolithic Age( about 10000 B.C. to 5 000 B.C. ),
半坡文化屬於新石器時代的仰韶文化(大約公元前10000年——公元前5000年)，
which originated in the middle valley of the Yellow River.
它發源於黃河的中部山谷。
As this culture was discovered in the vicinity of today’s Banpo Village, in Xi'an City in Shaanxi Province, it was named after this village.
因爲這個文化在如今陝西省西安市的半坡村附近被發現，所以以這個村子的名稱命名。
However, thousands of years ago it was not so called.
然而多年以前，它並不叫這個名字。
Primitive Banpo villagers lived 6 800—6 300 years ago, and they came from two different tribes.
原始的半坡村民生活在大約6800到6300年前，來自兩個不同的部落。
In light of many kinds of farm implements and fishing tools excavated,
根據挖掘出的各種類型的農耕工具和捕魚器具，
it is inferred that the Banpo people depended primarily on farming and fishing for survival.
可以發現半坡人主要依靠農業和捕魚來生存。
At the same time, the Banpo people cultivated a colored Pottery Culture, one of the most representatives of Yangshao Culture.
同時，半坡人創造了一個彩陶文化，而彩陶文化正是仰韶文化最具有代表性的東西。
Their earthen wares were uniformly red in color and decorated with black pigment.
它們的陶器都是紅色且以黑色顏料作爲裝飾。
The craftsmen had their potteries simply decorated, the most striking are the designs of fish that can be seen everywhere.
手工藝人們簡單裝飾他們的陶器，最引人注目的就是隨處可見的魚的圖案。
The fish was finished in symbolic pattern.
魚用象徵符號所描繪。
It is concluded that fish should be the totem of ancient Banpo people.
由此可見，魚是古代半坡人的圖騰。
Here the masterpiece wares include: a tip-bottomed bottle, which is a water sucker under the principal of shifting gravity center (not really clear);
在這裏，器皿中的傑作包括一個尖底瓶，它是一個吸水器，依據了重心改變(不一定如此)的原理;
and a painted basin with design of a human face holding fish at the corners of mouth.
還有一個着色的水盆，裏面有一個人臉嘴角含魚的圖案。
Moreover, on certain similar parts of potteries are found twenty-two kinds of mysterious marks, which are estimated to be some primitive script.
不僅如此，在陶器的一些相似的地方發現了22中神祕的符號，這些符號被可能是某種遠古的文字。
Meanwhile Banpo Culture witnessed the time of matriarchal clan society.
同時，半坡文化見證了母系氏族社會。
Women took a dominant position in everything and there were no permanent couples.
女性在任何事物中占主導地位，沒有固定的伴侶。
After death, adult women and men were buried separately in communal graveyard,
去世以後，成年女性和男性被分別葬在公用的墓地，
having potteries and beads of animal bones as burial objects.
以陶器和動物骨頭的粉末爲陪葬品。
Children, however, were not allowed be buried with adults.
孩子卻不被允許和成人葬在一起。
The mother would put the body of her child into pottery jar and bury it in a pit close to her house.
母親會把死去的孩子放在一個陶瓶裏然後埋在家附近的井裏。
This special burial jar practice reveals that child was still not counted as the member of primitive community.
這種特殊的瓶中埋葬方式說明孩子仍不算遠古社會的一員。
More burial articles were found in girl's pit than in that of boys.
在埋葬女孩子的井裏發現了比男孩子的井裏更多的陪葬品。
用英語說中國史前文化：Longshan Culture 龍山文化
Longshan culture was a late Neolithic culture centered around the central and lower Yellow River in China.
龍山文化是一種以中國的黃河中游和下游爲中心的新石器時代晚期文化。
The Longshan people lived on the plains of eastern China.
龍山人居住在中國東部的平原。
Their villages were similar to those of the Yangshao, but evidence of stamped earth fortresses is found in some sites.
他們的村落和仰韶文化非常相似，但是踏平的土堡的痕跡在一些遺址裏也被發現。
The distinctive feature of Longshan culture was the high level of skill in pottery making,
龍山文化的特別之處在於製陶的高超技能，
including the use of pottery wheels.
包括對於拉柸機的使用。
Longshan pottery was noted for its highly polished black pottery.
龍山陶器因它高度拋光的黑陶而聞名。
Just because of its distinguished pottery, Longshan culture has been called the Black Pottery Culture.
正是因爲它與衆不同的陶藝，龍山文化被稱爲黑陶文化。
Their domesticated animals were the pig, dog, sheep, and ox.
他們家養的動物有豬、狗、綿羊和公牛。
