术语“苏绣”的详细信息

英译术语:

Suzhou embroidery

汉语语境:

苏绣有着悠久的历史，它始于人们对身体的装饰，先后历经了从画身到纹身，再到画服，直至绣服的发展过程。从汉代《说苑》中的“绣衣而豹裘者”到宋代“画绣”、明代闺阁绣的盛行，再到清代仿真绣的开创，苏绣艺术不断发生着演化。在吴文化的长期浸润之下，经过一代代兰心蕙性的苏绣艺人不断探索，以及文人墨客潜移默化的影响，苏绣最终形成了“精、细、雅、洁”的艺术风格，位居中国“四大名绣”之首。

英语语境:

Suzhou embroidery has a long history. It started with people's decoration of the body. It had gone through development from painting to tattooing the body, and then to drawing clothing, until embroidered clothing. The art of Suzhou embroidery has been evolving constantly. It started from "(people)wearing embroidered clothing and leopard fur" in "Shuoyuan" in Han dynasty to "painted embroidery" in Song dynasty, then the prevailing "Boudoir Embroidery" in Ming dynasty, and after that "simulation embroidery" was created in Qing dynasty. Eventually under the long-term influence of the culture of Wu, through generations'of kind-hearted and virtuous Suzhou embroidery artists exploring continuously and the gradual influence from men of literature and writing, Suzhou embroidery has finally formed an artistic style of "exquisite, fine, elegant and pure" and becomes the best of Four Major Forms of Chinese embroidery.