A C-E Translation Report Of The Illustrated Canon Of Chen Style Tai Chi Chuan From The Perspective Of Traditional Chinese Medicine's Health Preservation

As one of the major boxing schools in Chinese martial arts,Tai Chi Chuan,in its hundreds of years of history,combines the knowledge of the collateral and meridian system and the thought of health preservation of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM).Practicing Tai Chi Chuan can clear and activate the channels and collaterals,regulate psychological activities,and enhance the immunity of the human body thus improving human organ functions.Therefore,Tai Chi Chuan is conducive to life cultivation and health preservation,which also is a reflection of the thought of TCM health preservation in Tai Chi Chuan.This report is based on the C-E translation practice of the first chapter of The Illustrated Canon of Chen Style Tai Chi Chuan,This book is a classic of the Chen school and is full of cultural connotation,possessing a high research value.This book was first translated by Australian translator Alex Golstein in 2007 and his version is reasonably accurate regarding the translation of Tai Chi Chuan boxing routines and basic theories.However,it falls short of some important points pertinent to TCM regimen.Its inadequacy calls for a more accurate interpretation of the cultural connotation and Tai Chi Chuan's role in health benefits presented in the first chapter of the book from the view of TCM health preservation.Translating culturally rich words and dealing with cultural shocks have always been a focus of translators.In this report,the reporter will begin with an interpretation of the text from the perspective of the thought of TCM health preservation and a detailed exposition of the book's reflection on the TCM rule of conformity to nature and environment,preservation of constitution and mentality,recuperation of spleen and kidney.Then,he will address the problems in translating of cultural schemata and propose strategies and methods for translating cultural references and cultural default in the first chapter of the book based on the cultural schema theory.The target readers in particular will be considered since the strategy of foreignization will be used as the main strategy and domestication as a complementary one.Also annotation will be added to make up cultural schema default in the process of translation.The methods of literal translation,free translation,and note will be used to adjust,activate and create the corresponding schema for improving the cultural schema default presented in Alex's version.