术语“阴文”的详细信息

英译术语:

characters cut in intaglio

汉语语境:

唐宋之际，收藏图书字画的风气流行，书法家和画家们常用印章代替签名，或者在签名下面再加盖印章表示信用。后来，又成为一门专门的印章艺术。印章文字或图像有凹下与凸起两种形体，凹下的通称阴文，突起通称阳文。

英语语境:

During Tang and Song dynasties, it was very popular for calligraphers and painters to collect books, calligraphy and paintings, and use seal instead of the signature or employ both the seal and signature to show credit. Later, this has become a special seal art. The characters or images of seal cutting have two kinds of forms: one is concave characters being cut in intaglio known as Yin wen, while the other type is convex character known as Yang wen.

英译术语:

negative legend

汉语语境:

阴文作为我国长篇小说发展历史中早期的一个现象,可以作为元刊小说的重要鉴定依据。现存的宋元刊平话七种,而在明刻章回小说和话本小说中,阴文已不存在。可以说,阴文是宋元刊话本,特别是平话的一个特殊现象。

英语语境:

As a phenomenon in the early period in Chinese history of novels, negative legend can be regarded as an important evidence of the novels duplicated in Yuan dynasty in China. The negative legend can be still found existing among the publications of Song and Yuan dynasties which can be classified into seven sorts. However, they were lost in the Zhanghui novels and narrative novels in Ming dynasty. Therefore, it makes sense to conclude that negative legend is a special phenomenon for story-telling publications in Song and Yuan dynasties, especially for monologue story-telling publications.