A Report On The Translation Of Ningxia Rock Paintings Under The Guidance Of Strategies Of Domestication And Foreginization (Excerpt)

As the connection between China and the outside world becomes increasingly close, China’s tourism has flourished and tourist resources with a rich culture accumulation have been further developed. Rock art plays an important role in cultural tourism, which attracts numerous foreign tourists. Ningxia Rock Paintings is an informative text about Ningxia rock art and the translation of such texts has become an important way to spread information and culture research which can facilitate the foreign transmission and cultural exchanges.This is a translation practice report. The source text contains a lot of culture-loaded words, which will present better of the development of Ningxia rock art and the relevant history, religions, customs, the primitive lives of local people as well as such cultural information as rock art reflected.In the translation practice, cultural translation strategies are severed as the guidance, under which the author will explore translation methods for cultural information. By relevant case studies, the conclusion can be drawn as follows:when we translate objects or phenomena with ethnic or regional characteristics, literal translation and transliteration can be adopted, with explanation added if necessary to achieve cultural transplant, which contributes to culture supplement and real cultural exchanges; the domestication methods such as substitution and free translation can be used to translate cultural information with a certain difficulty such as linguistic culture, social culture, material culture and religious culture to ensure the translation to be smooth and fluent, and proper note can make target readers to understand well. In brief, it is widely accepted that the domestication methods and foreignization methods should supplement each other. Thus, cultural facsimile, and promote cultural integration and transmission can be achieved by cultural translation.