A Cultural Approach to the Translation of Changes in Traditional Chinese Poetry

Everything in the world changes all the time.Throughout the ages,changes in life and of the world have always been a favorite of the Chinese literati poetry themes.A translation is spoken or pen language form to convey the thoughts the source language expresses in a way the audience or readers can understand,with the aim to establish a kind of equivalence between two different language expression;that is to say,translation is a kind of recreation by the translator under the influence of the social and cultural language rather than a reappearance of the language in another form objectively and stiffly.Therefore,cultural interpretation,as well as the interpreting of poetry forms and contents,becomes the most important mission in the translation of traditional Chinese poetry.Based on Chinese and English linguistic features,the transmission of Chinese culture of changes in poems translation process by taking human affairs vicissitudes as the theme in ancient China is analyzed and explored under both the Chinese and western translation theories.