This year the Spring Festival, we go to Nanjing travelling. There is an exhibit in Nanjing museum, imprint in my brain deeply, that pays a debt of gratitude greatly namely arch of tower of temple coloured glaze.
今年春节,我们一家去南京旅游。在南京博物院里有一件展品,深深地印在了我的脑海里,那就是大报恩寺琉璃塔拱门。
Arch has two meters many tall, be become by colourful coloured glaze fire. A deity is on the top of arch, double eye of his goggle at, arch is worn nose, look very martial. His bare is worn the body, show brown skin, develop double arm, return the wing with piece of aureate move after one's death, he is crouching partly, scale was bestrewed on the leg, seem to want to jump down from door top at any time. Of the both sides semmetry of deity quarter have the divine animal with a few peculiar appearance. Most above it is a goddess like merman, she is wearing gules long skirt, what there is green all round is lacy. Appearance very resemble the small mermaid in fairy tale story. The lower part of goddess is a divine animal that resembles Long Shi, it all over viridescence, but bibcock is yellow, it is holding a head high, admire Tian Changxiao, look very feral. Of dragon below it is a rise high into the air and the Aries that rise, the round white feather necklace on its neck, body both sides writes a composition / opening aureate wing, as if should come down from the leap on arch. Ovine lower part is a white elephant, its whiteness is like snow, wrapping around to resemble saddle luxuriantly, its arms and legs is sturdy, let me feel its strength is very great, its foot steps on lotus, let me become aware it is very divine.
拱门有两米多高,是由色彩鲜艳的琉璃烧制而成。拱门的顶上是一位天神,他瞪着双眼,拱着鼻子,看起来十分威武。他赤着身体,露出棕色的皮肤,展开双臂,身后还张着金色的翅膀,他半蹲着,腿上布满了鳞片,好像随时要从门顶上跳下来。天神的两旁对称的刻有一些样子奇特的神兽。最上面是一位像人鱼一样的神女,她穿着红色的长裙,周围飘着绿色的丝带。样子很像童话故事里的小美人鱼。神女的下方是一条像龙似的神兽,它浑身青绿,但龙头是黄的,它昂着头,仰天长啸,看起来十分凶猛。龙的下面是一只腾空而起的白羊,它的脖子上围着白色的羽毛项圈,身子两边作文/张开着金色的翅膀,仿佛要从拱门上飞跃下来。羊的下方是一头白象,它洁白如雪,披着华丽的象鞍,它的四肢粗壮,让我感觉到它的力气很大,它脚踩莲花,让我觉它很神圣。
Mom tells me, what what we see today is big pay a debt of gratitude arch of tower of temple coloured glaze is to use the coloured glaze component part that come up out of land, one by one joining together and into. Pay a debt of gratitude greatly tower of temple coloured glaze only then build Yumingyonglenian, the world of “ be weighinged ” of the first tower. The altogether on the tower has such 72 coloured glaze arched door, nevertheless very regrettablly, pay a debt of gratitude greatly misfortune of tower of temple coloured glaze destroys Yu Taiping celestial flames of war. When burning the coloured glaze component part that makes arched door of tower of big coloured glaze signing up for a temple in those days allegedly, altogether burned 3, one apply mechanically will build a tower, two are buried in ” of “ underground storeroom to use Yu Weixiu ……
妈妈告诉我,今天我们所看到的大报恩寺琉璃塔拱门是用出土的琉璃构件,一一拼接而成。大报恩寺琉璃塔始建于明永乐年间,被称“天下第一塔”。塔上一共有72座这样的琉璃拱门,不过很可惜,大报恩寺琉璃塔不幸毁于太平天国战火。据说当年烧造大报寺琉璃塔拱门的琉璃构件时,一共烧了三套,一套用来建塔,两套埋在“地下库房”用于维修……
I stand in front of arch, listening to mom's introduction, look at arch, as if at the moment appeared
我站在拱门前面,听着妈妈的介绍,看着拱门,眼前仿佛出现了
The about —— of coloured glaze tower pays a debt of gratitude greatly there are a 9 coloured glaze towers in the temple, in sunshine beamed below, coloured glaze arch is glisten ……
琉璃塔的模样——大报恩寺中耸立着一座九层高的琉璃塔,在阳光的照耀下,琉璃拱门闪闪发光……