A Cultural Turn In Translation Studies(1)(3)
2016-04-29 01:00
导读：Bai EnglishBaip milwan zix baip jixjix, A white lady in the white moonlight,Go nox zo'de baip ngeid jinx; A pair of white shoes on her feet;Cainlnox yi'de baip zvnp yil, She wears a white dress,Baip z
Bai EnglishBaip milwan zix baip jixjix, A white lady in the white moonlight,Go nox zo'de baip ngeid jinx; A pair of white shoes on her feet;Cainlnox yi'de baip zvnp yil, She wears a white dress,Baip zil yondbeidsei. With a sheet of white sheepskin.Baipxil-baiphhop xux jiant cainl, Fewer Bai words (plain words) out of your lips,Baiphail-baipsit dol ye juix; A little more white rice to your mouth;Baipzipyin zil yindgail jil, So many eyes upon us in the white day-time,Baip milwan sanlhui. Meet my lady in the white moonlight.This poetic Bai song uses the word ‘white’ many times, and shows the Bai people's abundant imagination about the colour ‘white’. It's a ‘white-loving nationality’.4.2 Basic colour words in the Bai languageBeside the colour ‘white’, ‘Black’, ‘Blue’, ‘Red’ are very common colours seen in Bai clothes. Even today, a typical Bai lady in Jianchuan will wear a blue shirt and a black and blue sleeveless jacket outside, a two sided apron, (one side is blue and another is white) tied on the front, and a black turban on her head. But the Bai people living in the mountain area prefer the colour ‘Red’.In the legends of Maiden Blue, Maiden Blue was a woman with many miseries, who killed herself in the Haiwei River because she couldn't bear the evil treatment from her mother-in-law. Bai people feel sorrow for her death, and on the date of her death (the 15th day of the first month in the Chinese calendar ) people in Jianchuan get together and hold a great memorial ceremony in honour of Maiden Blue. They make a paper statue of Maiden Blue, wearing a blue dress and a white sheepskin cloak on her back with a white turban on her head.‘White’, ‘Black’ and ‘Blue’ are the three basic colours seen in Bai clothes, at least in Jianchuan, why so? Because they’re natural colours, ‘white’ is the original colour of fibrous plants, and the dye for ‘Black’ and ‘Blue’ are easily gotten from nature, with the colour ‘green’ and ‘yellow’, there are altogether six basic colour words in the Bai language: ‘white’, ‘black’, ‘blue’, ‘red’, ‘yellow’ and ‘green’. And in the Bai language people can't distinguish colours such as ‘pink’ or ‘brown’ from the colours ‘red’ or ‘yellow’. The Bai may say ‘red as peach blossom’ to indicate the colour pink and ‘the colour of palm fibre’ for brown. It seems the limited basic colour words can't prevent Bai people from expressing all the colours in the world.共3页: 1 [2] [3] 下一页 论文出处(作者):
