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Honor Your Scars with the Art of Kintsugi　化缺陷為美麗的金繼修補藝術

精英翻譯社轉自: https://paper.udn.com/udnpaper/POH0062/338543/web/

This Japanese art form shows how to find beauty in brokenness.
這種日本藝術形式展現如何從破損中找出它美的一面。

 If you’ve ever broken a favorite mug, plate, or bowl, you’ve likely gone through several stages of sorrow. You might even hopelessly try to glue all the pieces back together, but of course, it doesn’t look as good as it did before. You could pay someone to fix it and make it look new again, but this would cost a lot of money and take too long. Tossing it would be an option, but there is another way. The Japanese art of kintsugi shines with broken pottery.

如果你曾打破一個最喜歡的馬克杯、盤子或是碗，你可能已經經歷過幾個階段的難過。你可能甚至會絕望地試著把所有的碎片重新拼黏起來，但是當然，它看起來無法完好如初了。你可以付錢請某個人修復它讓它看起來又像新的一樣，但是這會花很多錢和過長的時間。扔掉它也是個選擇，但是還有另外一個方法。日本的「金繼」藝術讓破損的陶器綻放光芒。

This tradition, which means “golden seams” or “golden joinery,” uses lacquer mixed with gold, silver, or platinum to fix an object. Kintsugi celebrates the damage of broken pottery and turns the brokenness into something beautiful. It treats the whole breaking incident like a happy accident. Its origins are uncertain, but kintsugi is believed to have started in Japan in the 15th or 16th century. 
這項意思為「金色線縫」或「金色木工」的傳統用亮漆混合金、銀或白金來修復一件物品。金繼歌頌破損陶器的破損缺陷並將破損轉變成美麗的東西。它把這整個打破東西的事件視為一場令人開心的意外。它的起源不明，但金繼據信起源於十五或十六世紀的日本。

We could all use the message of kintsugi in our everyday lives. Things fall apart and nobody is perfect. That’s life. But the beauty is in picking yourself upafter failure or loss. After all, scars are what give us character. 

我們都可以在日常生活中應用金繼的中心思想。東西都會破碎而且沒有人是完美的。這就是人生。但是美好的地方就是在失敗或輸了之後你重新振作起來。畢竟，就是創傷決定了我們的性格。