Navneet：西充20年的变化（1）

三泰虎12月10日译文，Navneet：本文讲的是中国城市西充，是中国粉丝Young先生发来的。在我看来，Young先生确实很年轻。叙述中，他谈到了他的学校，也许他在那里上学。我估计他年龄不超过16岁。让我吃惊的是他的意识。我对他的文字进行了一些纠正，同时努力保持他原本要表达的感情和想法。有网友评论称，“照片非常生动。某种程度上，新旧民居并排在一起的变化景观，有点类似许多拥有数千年历史的印度古城。进入我脑海的其中一个城市是瓦拉纳西。明显的不同时，西充的边上是山，而瓦拉纳西是常年性河流恒河边上的一座城市。”

译文来源：三泰虎 http://www.santaihu.com
外文标题：Twenty Years of Transformation of ichong........Part 1
外文地址：http://creative.sulekha.com/twenty-years-of-transformation-of-xchong-part-1_619501_blog

For a long time, I haven't posted a blog on China. I have been waiting for my site to become functional, at least good enough to work on, for my patient and understanding friends, who may not have to tear their hair and swear and curse. I am posting this blog to finally check that it is reasonably ok. So you can find this blog at my own website beyoulin.com too and you are requested to visit there to check and leave a comment. I would also like to invite you to register there and post your blogs there as well.

很久没有写关于中国的文章了。一直在等我的网站运行起来。我的网站是beiyoulin.com，大家可以去那里留言。

This blog is about the Chinese city of ichong. It was sent to me by one Chinese fan Mr. Young. Mr. Young, it seems to me is indeed quite young because, in the narration, he talks of his school, perhaps, he studies there.I reckon, he is not more than sixteen years old. What has amazed me is his awareness. I have made some corrections in his text but still have tried to keep the feelings, the thoughts he wanted to express, intact.

本文讲的是中国城市西充，是中国粉丝Young先生发来的。在我看来，Young先生确实很年轻。叙述中，他谈到了他的学校，也许他在那里上学。我估计他年龄不超过16岁。让我吃惊的是他的意识。我对他的文字进行了一些纠正，同时努力保持他原本要表达的感情和想法。

Thanks Mr. Young. Your blog is indeed thought provoking. Here is your blog.

谢谢Young先生，你的文章确实发人深思。

iChong(西充) my home town is a county of SiChuan province ,China. It is under the administration of NanChong city. My hometown belongs to 6th-level city in China. It has 3000 years of history. Around 2000 ago，General Jiing（纪信, during a famous battle,sacrificed his life to save the Emperor LiuBang（刘邦）,who was founder of Han Dynasty. To honor the sacrifice of his loyal soldier the king named my hometown as the “town of loyalty”. It also has an interesting nickname “Kingdom of sweet potato" that it earned in the recent decades because in 1959~1961, millions of people died in the so called “great famine” caused as a result of “the great leap forward” during Mao's period，but ichong had the great-harvest of sweet potato just in that time that saved the lives of thousands people. That is how this town got a nickname of Kingdom of Sweet Potatoes.

西充是四川的一个县，由南充市管辖。我的家乡属于中国的六线城市，拥有3000年的历史。

First, I will show you some old pictures of the period between 1985 to 1990. At that time time my hometown was really very poor and was identified as national level-poverty county by central-government.

首先，给大家展示1985年至1990年间的一些老照片。当时，我的家乡非常贫穷，被中央认定为国家级贫困县。

The following pictures are of 40th anniversary of National Day（1989）celebration

以下是1989年40周年国庆的照片。

The Main Street- This picture is of the bridge connecting the City to the Main Street. Notice the narrow street and the crowds, thatched roofs and crumbling houses tell their own story.

主街道。连接市中心和主街道的桥梁。注意看那狭窄的街道和拥挤的人群，茅草屋顶和破碎的房屋诉说着属于自己的故事。

Let me show to you some pictures depicting the condition of the city, the roads and the streets and the economic status of the people in 1990s

这座县城1990年代的状况，公路、街道还有人们的经济状况。