Su Zhaolong translated the prose poems "Moonlight Couple" and "Which is true"

"Jose, listen to this passage-in a city or town in ancient Greece, when the troubadours sang their poems, the Canary Islands in the story had already been sung by them. Homer has mentioned this fairy island on the sea many times in his epic. It blows a breeze all the year round and lures sailors into its arms with its mysterious beauty-what's more, the ancients said that the golden apples in Greek mythology were guarded by six waitresses and hidden in a cave on these islands. "

When I finished reading my last book, Jose and I were sitting on the deck of a big ship, sailing from gran canaria to Liv Island in Denari. "It turns out that these islands have been known since Homer's time. I think it's a passage from the Odyssey, don't you think? " I looked at the sea fairy island surrounded by clouds in the distance, sighing and indulging in that beautiful legend.

"Jose, can you tell me the route of the Odyssey?" I asked Jose again.

"You'd better ask me questions about the Trojan War. I prefer the story of Trojan horse killing the city. " Jose said awkwardly that he obviously didn't fully understand Homer's epic. "The book says that the golden apples of the goddess are hidden on the island. At least three or four books say so."

"San Mao, you wake up! Didn't you see the skyscrapers and chimneys on the island? " "There is still hope, let's go find the golden apple!" I was talking happily on the boat, and Jose just smiled and said nothing, as if I were a neurotic patient.

Seven diamonds in the sea

These seven islands moored in the Atlantic Ocean, opposite to the northwest of Africa, cover an area of 7,273 square kilometers. Generally speaking, the Canary Islands are regarded as a dependency of Spain in Africa, but in fact they are only two overseas provinces of western countries.

In SantaCruzDeTenerife province of Holy Cross, there are four islands: LaGomera, LaPalma, Hierro and Tenerife. Las palmas is divided into three islands, namely Futventura, lanzarote and the most prosperous Greater Ghana Island, where Jose and I live now.

Together, these two provinces are called the Canary Islands, which have also been translated into Canary Islands by some people in China, because canary and canary are homophonic, which is also the origin of canary. However, we can't investigate the island name because of birds, or the bird name because of islands.

Although geographically speaking, the Canary Islands is actually the daughter of the African continent, and it is nearly a thousand kilometers away from Cadiz, the nearest port in Spain, but the residents on the island never admit that they are a part of Africa. Even the book says that the Canary Islands are several exposed peaks in the Atlantic Ocean that have long since disappeared. My friends in the Canary Islands proudly think that they are the only human beings left in the Atlantic Ocean. That's not quite right. Phoenicians, Canadians and Jagas people came here many years ago. In the 11th century, Arabs also set foot on this land. In the next four centuries, it became a paradise for pirates and conquerors. Whether Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish or British, they all conquered the islands one after another.

At that time, there were already a group of tall, white-skinned, blond aborigines living in the Canary Islands. This group of people who still live in the Stone Age model is called "Bay Bay". /kloc-After 0/4th century, after several landings, the "Bay Bay" people were killed and taken into slavery, and few people survived. When the last chief of the Gulf Convention fell off a cliff and died, European immigrants moved away from various countries. As a result of their intermarriage, they don't know their true "roots" at present.

Since the Canary Islands became the territory of Spain, its language has been completely assimilated for hundreds of years, although there are still some differences with western countries in customs and food.

Also, because the Canary Islands is located on the main road of navigation routes in Europe, Africa and the United States, its excellent ports have brought endless prosperity to it. China's ocean-going fishing boats have berths in gran canaria and Lifu Island in Denari, so this place is no stranger!

I don't know when it started, but it has become seven shining diamonds in the Atlantic Ocean. Sailors from northern Europe and tourists who avoid winter embellish these islands more charmingly.

Traveling to so many islands separately has completely deleted the item of flying from our plan. Of course, flying and staying in a hotel have their advantages, but Jose and I prefer to take a tent and drive across the ocean to explore this fabulous fairyland.

Dana Reeve's Carnival

Before this beautiful green island in the future, I always imagined that it was a beautiful island, surrounded by blue and waveless sea water, with a famous snow-capped mountain "Ted" towering into the sky, solemnly overlooking the scattered villages and fields at the foot, and the sky on the island was dark blue, lined with its snow-covered peaks all year round. Although I have long known that this is a big island with an area of 2058 square kilometers, I still stubbornly imagine that it should be what it is described in the book because of the influence of books.

When we came ashore from the belly of the big ship in a small car, we suddenly saw that the street near the dock was crowded, the sound of gongs, drums and flutes was endless, the noise was loud, the road was impassable, the direction was unknown, there were tall buildings in front and behind, and the windows of the tall buildings were full of people. It's really as messy as the scene before the catastrophe. Jose is driving, blocking the east and blocking the west. In order to stop it, the police waved and blew the siren wildly, and we were frightened at once, and we didn't know where we were for a while.

I was just about to stick my head out to ask the way, when a furry paw had reached in, and then a monster whined at me outside the window, twisted his black fur body and blew at me.

I was too scared to scream. This thing chuckled and staggered away. I couldn't move in my seat. I saw the monster from a distance. It was actually a "donkey kong".

Strangely, the book has long said that there are no harmful wild animals, including snakes, in the Canary Islands, and there have never been any here. How can there be "King Kong"? Appear openly in the street!

"Yes! We caught the carnival here, and we don't know yet. " Jose a clap the steering wheel, an epiphany cried. "ah! Let's go down and see. " I shouted excitedly, pushed open the car door and ran into the street.

"Don't worry, today is Friday, and they will celebrate until next Tuesday." Jose said.

Although Dunalley is a small place, it is the only Spanish province that celebrates carnival. Almost all the residents of the city are in their nests, and some companies and schools even dress up in groups. In those days, people all over the street dressed up as their own choice of makeup style at dusk, walking on the street, and countless bands escorted them, dazzling, dazzling.

Perhaps it is the residents of Dana Liv, with the blood and enthusiasm of carnival, crowded with people who saw strange clothes all over the street. There are people wearing18th century palace costumes, people wearing different national costumes, soldiers, clowns, monsters, pirates, workers, the Statue of Liberty, Lincoln, slaves, Indians, western cowboys, people wearing China Kung Fu costumes, circuses and banshees.

The streets are full of stalls selling cosmetics, balloons, candied apples and masks are floating in the air, and business is booming.

Jose chose a gaudy rose wig and told me to wear it. He didn't want to do it himself. I looked at the big glass and saw such big red curly hair on my head. I was really shocked. I put it on and became a "red madman". I looked around the street, looking for a child to scare me.

In fact, people can't be scared. Any child's clothes are more terrible than mine. The seven-or eight-year-old kid, wearing a black suit and a big black cloak, with a gray-blue face, an open mouth and two fangs, howled at me with a cane, which was clearly "Mr. dr. jekyll and mr. hyde and Hyde" in the movie.

Although I soon got tired of these strange passers-by, every night when I went out on the street, the men dressed as women would still play tricks on me and rob Jose, while the men dressed as women kept fighting with Jose and robbing his red-haired wife. When we shouted, the police just squinted and laughed, which was taken for granted as entertainment.

A child on the roadside saw me, grabbed my mother's skirt and shouted, "Mom, look, there is a red porcelain here!" " "

I squatted down and said to her in a strange voice, "Look, little thing, I'm just wearing an oriental mask!" " "

She really reached out and touched my face, and everyone around me laughed hysterically. Jose looked at me in surprise and said, "When did you suddenly become humorous? In the past, people pointed at you and called you China. You always felt that they were rude! "

The climax of the float parade is the last day of Jiahua Annual Meeting. Waves of people crowded the roads on both sides and the traffic was completely controlled. The TV station set up a high platform. At dusk, the first prize group dressed in plaid and dressed as a clown band began to play music, followed by endless queues of makeup.

Jose and I couldn't see anything in the crowd, only the clown's hat floated slowly in front of our eyes. After a while, Jose squatted down and told me to straddle his shoulder. He firmly grasped my calf, and I grabbed his hair and stood high in the crowd, never letting go of everyone's expression and makeup. Almost every few teams of dancers, there is another drum and flute team. Then, music is never cold. The crowd sometimes applauded, sometimes laughed, and sometimes exclaimed. The spectators mingled with the dancers. Only this joyful atmosphere is intoxicating enough. I don't want to be a bystander. Although I was on Jose's shoulder, I was equally indifferent to the people marching.

A clown who appeared alone was walking in the middle of the road. He simply installed a fake nose with half a red ping-pong ball, wore a big gray suit, short black pants and two big shoes. His pale face was carefully painted with thin red lips, and a faint inverted eyebrow hung there sadly. The atmosphere and lonely expression completely describe the sadness of a clown after he stepped down. But the crowd didn't give him applause because the beautiful carnival girl's red and green float had arrived.

We stood in the street until dark, but the parade was still there. I was deeply moved by the people in the street. They hoped that they could not turn their enthusiasm into flames to burn their enthusiasm. As a China man with five thousand years of suffering scars, when he saw another nation, he knew how to enjoy the life they loved so much and opened their hearts so frankly. When they are happy, they wear colorful clothes, sing high-pitched songs, dance, shy and ignore everyone. In my explanation, this is not childish, but a childlike heart. I used to regard the brilliance of human nature as people's endless patience and sacrifice for great suffering. Now, in joy, I see the moving and magnificent colors on the other side of human nature. Why is endless work called "meaningful" Isn't timely leisure and enjoyment another extremely important aspect of life?