Cao Shui：The Belief Under The Burj Khalifa（Speech on the 5th Silk Road Poetry Festival in Dubai）

Описание: The Belief Under The Burj Khalifa: We Originate From The Same Place And Will Inevitably Reach The Same Place
Cao Shui, the executive chairman of the Silk Road International Poetry Art Festival

When I was a child, I fantasized about traveling from Chang'an in Asia to Rome in Europe along the ancient Silk Road, passing through Arabia because it was once the center of the world. Today my dream came true, I met everyone in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Before arriving in Dubai, I had imagined the Burj Khalifa, and I had written poems for this modern Tower of Babel multiple times. We all know the story of the Tower of Babel. When people came to build the Tower of Babel, God knew that and disrupted their language. People stopped building it because they couldn't communicate, and they dispersed around the world, becoming more than two thousand ethnic groups. We come from the same place, and we will eventually come to the same place. This is also the theme of my "Epic of Eurasia", and of course, it is also the theme of Manseerah, "Epic of Humanity" created by Adel Khozam, who organized 86 famous artists from around the world. He created the beginning of this poem, and I created the end. In the second half, we will tell everyone. This is also the core proposition of the Great Poetry Movement that I advocate, which integrates ancient and modern cultures, integrates East and West cultures, and integrates sacred and secular cultures.
I would like to deeply thank my friend, the poet Adel Khozam, the Honorary President and partner of this year’s festival edition, who made exceptional efforts to ensure the festival’s success. He coordinated our participation, selected the poems, nominated the winners from the United Arab Emirates, and prepared the cultural materials about the UAE for the World Poets magazine.
With his support, I translated three poems and the articles dedicated to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the inspiring figure for the Poets of the Silk Road. I was profoundly moved by His Highness’s poetry, As he wrote in 'I Hear the Echo of Your Voice': And I go astray in a desert with no destination, And I go astray in a world mysterious，and for that reason, I hope to translate his complete collection Poems from the Desert into Chinese.
Today's world is a globalized world, and Arab civilization originated from the ancient Babylonian civilization. There were once seven major civilizations on the Eurasian continent, from Babylon, westward to Canaan, Egypt, Greece, eastward to Persia, India, and China. We must break out of our own civilization and integrate into a new world civilization. Today under the Burj, the tallest building in the world, the modern Tower of Babel, we should believe that humanity originated from the same place and will inevitably move towards the same place. (End)
哈利法塔下的信念：我们源自同一个地方，必将抵达同一个地方
曹谁，第五届丝绸之路国际诗歌节执行主席

当我还是一个孩子的时候，我就幻想，从亚洲的长安到欧洲的罗马，沿着古老的丝绸之路，途中一定要经过阿拉伯，因为那里曾经是世界的中心。今天我的梦想成为真实，我在阿拉伯联合酋长国的迪拜，跟所有的人相会。
在到迪拜之前，我就曾经想象哈利法塔，我曾经多次为这座现代的巴别塔写诗。我们都知道巴别塔的典故，人来想要建造通天塔，上帝知道后变乱人们的语言，人们因为无法交流而停止建造，于是分散到世界各地，成为二千多个民族。我们来自同一个地方，终究会走到同一个地方，这也是我的《亚欧大陆地史诗》的主题，当然这也是阿德尔·霍扎姆组织全球86位著名艺术家创作的《人类史诗》Manseerah的主题，他创作了这首诗的开头，我创作了这首诗的结尾，下半场我们就会告诉大家。这也是我所倡导的大诗主义运动的核心主张，融合古今、合璧东西、合一天人。
我要深深地感谢我的朋友、诗人阿德尔·科扎姆，他是今年诗歌节的名誉主席和合作伙伴，为确保音乐节的成功做出了非凡的努力。他协调了我们的参与，挑选了诗歌，提名了阿拉伯联合酋长国的获奖者，并为《世界诗人》杂志准备了关于阿联酋的材料。
在他的支持下，我翻译了三首诗和献给丝绸之路诗人鼓舞人心的人物谢赫·穆罕默德·本·拉希德·阿勒马克图姆殿下的文章。我被殿下的诗歌深深打动了，就像他在《我听到你声音的回声》I Hear the Echo of Your voice中所写：我毫无目的地迷失在你的沙漠中，我误入一个美丽绝伦的神秘世界。（And I go astray in a desert with no destination, And I go astray in a world mysterious.）因此，我希望将他的全集《沙漠诗》翻译成中文。
我这次翻译了谢赫·穆罕穆德·本·拉希德·阿勒阿克图姆的三首诗歌和评论，我深深为他的诗句所打动。所以我希望翻译他的整本诗集《沙漠之诗》（Poems From the Desert）。
今天的世界是全球化的世界，阿拉伯文明发源自古老的巴比伦文明，在亚欧大陆上曾经存在七大文明，从巴比伦，向西到迦南、埃及、希腊，向东到波斯、印度、中国，我们一定要走出自己的文明，融合为一个全新的世界文明。今天在哈利法塔下，这座世界最高的建筑，这座现代的通天塔，我们应该相信：人类源自同一个地方，必将走向同一个地方。（完）