英国“预热”中国春节

                   若想在一个欧洲城市充分感受中国春节的精彩和热闹，那么就请到伦敦来。

　　随着中英之间人员往来、文化交流不断增多，越来越多的英国人爱上中国文化，中国文化展演活动日益丰富，中文学校越开越多，记者不经意间就能碰到一两位会说中文的英国朋友。再过不到半个月，中国最重要的传统节日——春节就要来临，两国文化团体抓住这一机会，安排了一系列精彩纷呈的活动，意在以中国春节为契机，讲好中国故事、增强中国文化影响力。

　　中国明代著名戏曲家汤显祖，因与英国文豪莎士比亚生活在同一时期，让不少英国人认识了这位中国的“莎士比亚”，他们将汤显祖的《牡丹亭》比作莎士比亚的《罗密欧与朱丽叶》，将《南柯记》比作《仲夏夜之梦》。1月25日至27日，汤显祖的经典作品“临川四梦”之《邯郸记》在伦敦哈克尼帝国剧院上演。为了贴近英国观众的审美习惯，《邯郸记》做了一些改编，例如将现代话剧风格融入中国传统戏曲形式，服装、道具和舞台设计进行了一定的夸张处理，突出了中国文化元素特色，并在舞台两边配上英文字幕，消除语言障碍，让英国观众更好地欣赏剧目。

　　在伦敦，参观各式博物馆可谓一种精神享受。今年，大英博物馆、英国国家美术馆、维多利亚与阿尔伯特博物馆、皇家海事博物馆、伦敦博物馆和大英图书馆这6所知名博物馆均筹备了与中国春节相关的庆祝活动，如舞龙舞狮、茶道表演、书法课等，被称为“六馆庆新春”。据悉，这6所博物馆都是自发筹备相关活动，可见，中国新年已经成为英国文化机构重要的年度活动策划内容。

　　距离伦敦两小时车程的利物浦，也有一场“重头戏”即将上演。被誉为“世界第八大奇迹”的秦始皇陵兵马俑，不仅代表了从中国古代战国到秦朝陶俑制作工艺的日臻成熟，也能够一窥秦朝国力和丧葬文化。2月8日起，利物浦世界博物馆将与陕西省文物交流中心合作举办“秦始皇与兵马俑”展。据主办方介绍，将有包括大型兵马俑、陶器、青铜器、金银器、玉器等125件（组）多种类型的珍贵文物展出。这是兵马俑第一次在利物浦展出，也是第五次登陆英国。2007年，兵马俑在伦敦大英博物馆展出时，曾吸引了85万观众前往参观。

　　此外，还有各种新春音乐会、电影节、中国文化进课堂等活动，不一而足，共同构成了英国2018年“欢乐春节”系列活动。无论是英国当地人还是在英的华侨华人，都表示非常期待。中国驻英国大使馆文化处公使衔参赞项晓炜表示：“总体来看，2018年英国‘欢乐春节’活动有几个特点：一是精益求精，质量为先；二是立足重点城市，辐射周边地区；三是活动丰富多彩，涵盖群体广泛；四是创新发展，深度融合。”他解释说，一方面，英国文化底蕴深厚，为了与之相匹配，今年在英国登场的春节文化活动都是名团名作，在主流剧院上演；另一方面，今年的春节活动不仅在大城市的文化场所举办，还深入到英格兰普雷斯顿、威尔士班戈等小型城市以及社区，做到“全民共享”中国春节。

　　今年的“欢乐春节”活动多数都比较有深度，例如中国戏剧、音乐会以及博物馆的书法课等。这反映出了英国当地人对中国的了解不断加深，从一开始仅仅被中国文化的“外表”所吸引，流连于热闹的舞龙舞狮、华丽的中国传统服饰和各种“中国风”的装饰，到现在将春节作为一个深入学习中国文化的窗口，去探究中国文化的“内在美”，这种转变令人欣喜。（记者 强 薇）  

　来源：　《 人民日报 》

Britain "preheating" Chinese Spring Festival

If you want to feel the wonderful and lively Chinese Spring Festival in a European city, please come to London.

With the increasing number of people and cultural exchanges between China and Britain, more and more Englishmen are in love with Chinese culture. Chinese culture shows more and more activities, and Chinese schools are more and more open. Journalists can hardly meet one or two Chinese friends who speak Chinese. In less than half a month, the most important traditional festival in China -- Spring Festival is coming. The two cultural groups seize this opportunity and arrange a series of colorful activities, which is aimed at telling Chinese story and enhancing Chinese cultural influence with the opportunity of Chinese Spring Festival.

Chinese famous opera Tang Xianzu in Ming Dynasty, with the British writer Shakespeare lived at the same time, so many British people know this China "Shakespeare", they will be Tang Xianzu's "Peony Pavilion" to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", the "Nanke dream" to "A Midsummer Night's dream". In from January 25th to 27th, Tang Xianzu's classic works of "Linchuan four dreams" "Handan" at the Hackney Empire Theatre in london. In order to close to the British audience's aesthetic habits, "Handan" made some adaptations, such as modern drama style into China forms of traditional opera, costumes, props and stage design of exaggerated processing, highlighting the cultural characteristics and China elements, on both sides of the stage with English subtitles, eliminate language barriers, let the British audience to better appreciate the repertoire.

In London, visiting various museums is a kind of spiritual enjoyment. This year, the British Museum, The National Gallery, Vitoria and the Albert Museum, the Royal Maritime Museum, the Museum of London and the British Library of these 6 well-known museums are associated with China preparatory celebrations, such as dragon and lion dance, tea ceremony, calligraphy class, known as the "six spring pavilion". It is reported that the 6 museums are the spontaneous preparation of related activities, so the Chinese new year has become an important content of the annual activities of the British cultural institutions.

In Liverpool, two hours from London, there is a "heavy play". Known as the "eighth wonder of the world, the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor Terracotta Army, not only on behalf of the Warring States period to the Qin Dynasty China from ancient pottery technology has matured, can also be a glimpse of the Qin Dynasty and the national funeral culture. From February 8th, the Liverpool World Museum will cooperate with the cultural relics exchange center of Shaanxi province to hold the exhibition of "Qin Shihuang and Terracotta Army". According to the organizers, there will be 125 kinds of precious cultural relics, including large Terracotta Army, pottery, bronze, gold and silver, jade and so on. It was the first time Terracotta Army was on display in Liverpool and the fifth time to land in Britain. In 2007, when Terracotta Army was on display in British Museum in London, it attracted 850 thousand visitors to visit.

In addition, there are various new spring concerts, movie festivals, Chinese culture and classroom activities. All of them form a series of activities in 2018. Both British and British Overseas Chinese are looking forward to it. Chinese Embassy Cultural Office Minister counsellor Xiang Xiaowei said: "overall, in 2018 the British" Happy New Year "activities have the following characteristics: first, excellence, quality first; the two is based on the key city, the surrounding areas; three is rich and colorful, covering the broad group; four is the innovation and development, the depth of integration." He explained that on the one hand, the British cultural heritage, in order to match the debut in the UK, this year's Spring Festival cultural activities are famous masterpieces, staged in the mainstream Theatre; on the other hand, this year's Spring Festival activities not only held in the city cultural place, also went to England, Bangor Wales and other small city and Preston community, do "Chinese Spring Festival National Sharing".

Most of this year's "happy Spring Festival" activities are more deep, such as Chinese drama, concert and the calligraphy class of the museum. This reflects the local people to understand China continuously, from the beginning only attracted by China culture "outside", linger in the lively dragon and lion dance, gorgeous China traditional costumes and various "Chinese wind" decoration, now will spring festival as an in-depth study of China culture, to to explore Chinese culture "inner beauty", this kind of change gratifying. (reporter Qiang Wei)

Source: "people's Daily"