Modern Social Science Research

Chinese cultural relics are the most direct carriers of China’s excellent culture, embodying the profound history and traditional civilization of the Chinese nation. The translation of cultural relics’ names is not only a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communicative activity, but also a rhetorical act oriented to international communication. Based on the theory of Identification in New Rhetoric, the paper selects the Chinese and English texts of 207 pieces of porcelain relics’ names in Q City Museum as its corpus. It first summarizes the principles of English translation of cultural relics’ names, and then explores the practical translation strategies of English translation of cultural relics’ names, so as to improve the quality of English translation of the names of cultural relics of the local museums, and to give full play to the role of the cultural relics in the international communication of Chinese culture.

English translation of the names of cultural relics; Identification; Translation strategies