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• I want to start by saying how impressed I am by the seriousness with which Australians approach history. In every state and city I visit, there is always a museum--or many of them--recording local history. Even at Port Authur great care is taken in preserving one of the darkest periods of the exiles. In Australia, history is not only stored in museums, but also a presence in daily life. In Adelaide, for instance, almost everybody can tell how the city was originally designed with extraordinary foresight and imagination and hwo it grew over the many years. 我想说的是，澳大利亚人对待历史的认真态度给我留下了非常深刻的印象。我所到过的每一个州、每一座城市都有一座或者好几座博物馆记录着当地的历史，就连亚瑟港最黑暗的流放史也被悉心地保存了下来。在澳大利亚，历史不仅收存于博物馆内，也存在日常的生活中。比如，在阿德莱德，几乎每个人都能讲述这座城市最初设计者富有想象力和前瞻性的规划，以及这座城市不断变化成长的历史。 (查看原文)

  一滴水的重量 1赞 2011-08-27 11:26:14

• Chinese paintings are more philosophical, and are meant to experess ideas and feelings. Professor Zhu Liangzhi, a Chinese aesthetician, made an in-depth analyasis on the subject. A case in point is my favourite painting Qiujiangdaidutu, or literally, Waiting to Cross the River on an Autumn Day, by Qian Xuan from the 13th century. It is a huge painting with a big space in the centre with practically nothing. The shapes around and some strokes indicaiting water waves show it is about a wide river, on the far side of which some mountains fade into the distance. You can see a ferryboat, hardly moving though, halfway across and people waiting very anxiously under the trees on the bank with long stretched necks. The foucs of the painting seems to be the emptiness of the vast, foggy river and the... (查看原文)

  xitchcock 2013-04-17 22:27:05

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