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Merry Cemetary
Nguồn: Đỗ Mạnh Hà sưu tầm
Người gửi: Đỗ Mạnh Hà (trang riêng)
Ngày gửi: 13h:14' 04-02-2009
Dung lượng: 4.3 MB
Số lượt tải: 21
Mô tả:
I took the skin of many sheep
Good meat I prepared
So you can eat freely
I offer you good fat meat
and to have a good desire for food.”
Had she lived another year,
I would be lying here.”
Người gửi: Đỗ Mạnh Hà (trang riêng)
Ngày gửi: 13h:14' 04-02-2009
Dung lượng: 4.3 MB
Số lượt tải: 21
Mô tả:
Merry Cemetary
March 13, 2006Voice 1
Thank you for joining us for Spotlight, I’m Joshua LeoVoice 2
And I’m Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no matter where in the world they live.Voice 1
Crosses stand in lines next to a church. They shine blue in the light of the bright sun. These crosses mark the place where dead people are buried. In the distance, you can hear someone laughing. Today’s Spotlight is on the Merry Cemetery in the Town of Sapinta Romania.Voice 2
In November 2005 a listener from the country of Romania sent us an email. His name was Adrian. He told us about a special place in his country. It is a place called the Merry Cemetery. A cemetery is a place for dead people. They are buried there when they die. Adrian said that this cemetery is special because it helps people to remember that life does not end after death.Voice 1
Often, cemeteries are places where people come to remember. They remember friends and family members who are no longer living. A stone marks the place where a person is buried. This stone is called a headstone or tombstone. Usually, the headstone is made of a dark rock. The headstone may be flat against the ground or it may stand up.Voice 2
Headstones often have words on them. The words often tell some information about the person who died. It tells their name. It also tells the dates when the person was born and when the person died. Sometimes, the headstone includes a few words about the person’s life, or a Bible verse.Voice 1
But the cemetery in Sapinta is not a normal cemetery. You will not find gray headstones made of rock in this cemetery. And many of the people visiting the Merry Cemetery are not sad. Merry is another word for happy. For some people, this cemetery is a place to be merry. It is a place to laugh.Voice 2
People are happy at the Merry Cemetery because of the special headstones. The headstones are made of wood. They are as tall as a person and painted blue. The colour blue represents the sky. The Romanian people believe the spirit of a person goes to the sky when he dies. A person carves, or cuts, words and pictures into the wood of the headstone.Voice 1
These carvings show pictures from the life of the person buried there. The carvings use many beautiful colours. Some of the headstones show the person working at their job or doing another thing he enjoyed. Some headstones show how the person died. The words carved into the headstone read as if the person who died is saying them. Here is an example from one headstone. It is about a man who prepared meat for food. The picture shows the man with a large knife in his hand. He is cutting meat. The headstone says:Voice 3
“As I lived in this world,I took the skin of many sheep
Good meat I prepared
So you can eat freely
I offer you good fat meat
and to have a good desire for food.”
Voice 1
Here are the words from another headstone:Voice 4
“Here lies my mother-in-law.Had she lived another year,
I would be lying here.”
Voice 2
It does not sound like that man liked his wife’s mother very much! Some of the pictures and writing on the headstones are full of humour like this. The headstones make people happy when they walk through the cemetery. But why did the people in Sapinta start making these different headstones?Voice 1
Well, a wood artist named Ion Stan Patras started this interesting tradition. Ion’s father died when Ion was very young. And his mother also became sick. When Ion was a young man, he began carving wood crosses for fun. In 1934 he began to carve words into the crosses. He painted the crosses bright blue. Over the years, more people in the town started using his beautiful crosses for headstones. He enjoyed learning about the people in his town. When a person died, he would remember what the person was like. He would make a headstone showing part of the person’s life. Ion wrote about the bad things and the good things. The headstones showed what the person’s life was truly like.Voice 2
In the 1950’s a group of people from France travelled through Ion’s town. They visited the cemetery with Ion’s headstones. The travellers enjoyed the cemetery very much. They gave it the name “Merry Cemetery.” In 1971, a museum invited Ion to France to present his headstones in an art show. After that, many people visited the merry cemetery. In fact, his headstones made the Merry Cemetery one of the most visited cemeteries in Europe! The United Nations cultural organization, UNESCO, declared the Merry Cemetery to be a World Heritage Site. Now it is part of the world’s history. It is a protected place.Voice 1
People from all over the world still come to Sapinta to see the Merry Cemetery. But today, a man named Dumitru Pop carves the headstones. Ion was his teacher. Dumitru spends most of his time putting new paint on the old headstones. There are almost eight hundred [800] carved headstones in the cemetery, so this job takes a lot of time. Dumitru also leads visitors around the cemetery. He says that people like the cemetery so much, that they want their own headstones to look like the ones there. Dumitru makes headstones for the people of the town. But he also makes almost as many headstones for visitors.Voice 2
Many people think of cemeteries as sad places. But the Merry Cemetery does not make people feel sad. When a person dies, his friends and family do not only mourn his death. They also celebrate his life. The Merry Cemetery uses colourful pictures and poems to show happiness.Voice 1
For Christians, death is both a sad and happy time. People are sad because their friend or family member is gone. But they are happy because the dead person goes to heaven. Christians believe that followers of Jesus go to be with him when they die. As Adrian said in his e-mail, life does not end at death. The Merry Cemetery helps all people to remember the joy of life even in the sadness of death.Voice 2
The writer and producer of this program was Joshua Leo. The voices you heard were from the United States. Computer users can hear our programs, read our scripts, and see our word list on our website at www.radio.english.net. This program is called “The Merry Cemetery”. We love to hear comments and questions from our listeners. If you have a comment or question, you can e-mail us. Our e-mail address is radio @ english . net. We hope you can join us again for the next Spotlight program. Goodbye!
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