Thursday, June 15, 2006

古 老 的 小 镇

古 老 的 小 镇 (节)

作者:* 刘殿中 *



29日,我们到达了北港镇。这是一座古老的小镇,街道上几百个商业小铺林立,经营各种各样的商品,店铺的招牌整齐地竖立在街道两旁,形成了一道景观。小镇有一座远近闻名的天后宫,香火旺盛,人如潮涌,小镇兴旺的商业与这座天后宫有着直接的关系,这里的人大多数是福建人的后裔。他们在这里生存,繁衍,保持了传统的中华文明与文化。这里似乎没有大超市与商场,除了汽车和现代电器,时间仿佛停滞,仍旧停留在过去。李来群特级大师与当地棋友进行了一对三的对弈,结果全胜。晚上我们乘车返回台北。30日上午乘机到香港转机,晚上到北京,结束了愉快的台湾之行。


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A Small Old Town
by GM Liu Dianzhong


(Written in simple yet captivating style, here is our translation of the above excerpt) :

On the 29th, we arrived at Bei Gang Zhen (北港镇)。This is a small old town, the streets have hundred of little shops selling all sorts of commodities and articles, the signs of these shops are neatly aligned along both sides of the roads, quite an attraction. The small town has a temple called Tian Hou Gong, well known around the area, attracting many visitors, and directly contributing to the development and prosperity of the town. Most of the inhabitants are descendents of Fujian people. They live and prosper here, keeping the traditional way of life and culture of China. Here it seems there is no big supermarkets or shopping centres, apart from cars and modern electrical goods, time has almost stopped as if one is still living in the past. Grandmaster Li Laiqun gave a simultaneous display of one versus three local players and won all. In the evening we went back to Taipei by car transportation. The next morning, on the 30th we took the plane to Hong Kong for our transit, arriving in Beijing at night, thus concluded our pleasant visit of Taiwan.

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