Nice day!Every one!

Now,I get a foot in tea field and have a chance to meet various china
teas in my company.
One of our products are Artistic teas with their beautiful chinese name
full of poetry.For example,hanyanshijing stands for ten different
landscapes about a famous ancient showplace named Hanyan in Hangzhou
while dielianhua not only includes a scene full of affection,but also
make one engulfed deeply into the atmosphere of the ancient music of
song which is also named dielianhua.But how superficial usually their
english names are !Because some of them have already lost all of their
originally loveliness. When you see the name of "butterfly love
flower",what's your feeling of it if you are once moved by
"dielianhua"?Now there are many
new kinds of beautiful Artistic teas, whose chinese names are
charming, why not to add your
aptitude in order to make them famous around the world?I think maybe
someone of you would
help me to change this situation.Thank you very much in advance.

Here I give two names as below:
丹桂飘香；danguipiaoxiang,天山雪莲，tian shanxuelian,tianshanlotus
满å›*香；manyuanxiang

For your refference,you can email me for their images.

look forward to hearing from you.
Lily

> But how superficial usually their
> english names are! Because some of them have already lost all of their
> originally loveliness.

Hi Lily,

You are right, when you translate a lot of things into English, they
lose a lot of their meaning. Some things can't even be translated
properly at all, no matter how hard you try. And it's not the fault of
the translator, or bad English skills. It's just because of language
differences. The way you express things in Chinese may be quite
different than in English.

So basically, the only thing you can do is, just use the pinyin instead
of english. Then, explain what the terms in pinyin should mean in
English. And the description in english would probably be quite long,
if you want the readers to understand the full meaning.

Or, you could just provide a very simple translation in English that
doesn't catch the full meaning of the Chinese. But make sure what you
translate into English sounds good in English.

Hope that helps.

Hi, Lily. Your English is charming, and way, way, better than my
Chinese. I am the ignorant one. I appreciate that you speak for a
merchant, which you made clear at once. I appreciate your being
friendly and polite, which we Americans usually expect of our
merchants. There is an old English saying "Let the buyer beware" which
comes from the Latin "Caveat emptor." Both merchant and buyer always
understand this to be the case. I have three suggestions about your
advertising site: 1- Don't use the word "spit" in any name, as in "spit
pearls." 2- Don't use the term "bright red" about tea liquor; it would
mean the color of blood. 3-we really do need to know price and postage
about your teas, so we can compare. Toci
wrote:
> Nice day!Every one!
>
> Now,I get a foot in tea field and have a chance to meet various china
> teas in my company.
> One of our products are Artistic teas with their beautiful chinese name
> full of poetry.For example,hanyanshijing stands for ten different
> landscapes about a famous ancient showplace named Hanyan in Hangzhou
> while dielianhua not only includes a scene full of affection,but also
> make one engulfed deeply into the atmosphere of the ancient music of
> song which is also named dielianhua.But how superficial usually their
> english names are !Because some of them have already lost all of their
> originally loveliness. When you see the name of "butterfly love
> flower",what's your feeling of it if you are once moved by
> "dielianhua"?Now there are many
> new kinds of beautiful Artistic teas, whose chinese names are
> charming, why not to add your
> aptitude in order to make them famous around the world?I think maybe
> someone of you would
> help me to change this situation.Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Here I give two names as below:
> 丹桂飘香；danguipiaoxiang,天山雪莲，tian shanxuelian,tianshanlotus
> 满å›*香；manyuanxiang
>
> For your refference,you can email me for their images.
>
> look forward to hearing from you.
> Lily

i think through this whole conversation its been said, translation is
not easy. there are many factors. we can use literal, connotation or
the pingin (chinese). i do some translating/writiting and i do some
for tea and i also have to take in account how it sounds, because
someone will have to drink it...but i try to keep the meaning the same
or as close as possible, i dont expect people to know chinese... take a
look at some of our translations... i dont take credit for all of them
for many of them have been used before.
http://teaarts.blogspot.com/2005/10/...nthly-273.html
---icetea