泰姬陵，印度知名度最高的古迹之一，世界文化遗产，被评选为“世界新七大奇迹”。她是一座用纯白色大理石建成的巨大陵墓，由殿堂、钟楼、尖塔、水池等构成，用玻璃、玛瑙镶嵌，具有极高的艺术价值，是莫卧儿皇帝沙贾汗为纪念他心爱的妃子而建，距离今印度新德里200多公里。泰姬陵是印度穆斯林艺术最完美的瑰宝，被誉为“完美建筑”，又有“印度明珠”的美誉。泰姬陵因爱情而生，这段爱情的生命也因泰姬陵的光彩被续写。
Taj Mahal是大学时学过的文章中印象最深刻的一篇，主要被其蕴含的情感打动。而今再次听到关于泰姬陵的故事，加上那极度特征的旋律，也顾不上主题是否适合年末，立马分享这段真实而美丽的爱情。
There’s no building more romantic or more tragic than the Taj Mahal. On June the 17th, 1631, Mumtaz Mahal, the wife of the Mogul Emperor, Shah Jahan, died while giving birth to her fourteenth child.
So, in response to the death of his wife, Shah Jahan created one of themost famous buildings in the world, the Taj Mahal, a vision of perfection, of paradise on Earth. The emotional power of the Taj Mahal comes not just from its ruthless symmetry and its dazzling white material, but also from the purity and simplicity really of its forms. In line with Islamic thinking, it is not loaded with images of living beings, banned in the Koran, but by simple abstract decoration, lettering. In this sense very much less ornamentation gives more emotional power.
As you approach nearer, the Taj Mahal, its scale, its craftsmanship become almost overwhelming. It took twenty thousand people twenty years to complete this great structure and its white marble is inlaid with twenty- eight different sorts of precious and semi-precious stones. But, this isn’t a palace or a mosque. It’s a mausoleum. It’s a monument to grief. At this level and so near, I can see just how exquisite and subtle the Taj Mahal is. The inlay is amazing, like a jewel box. And the white marble is carved and the surface is mottled in architectural detail.
It was a great surprise, being inside the Taj Mahal is like being inside a living being. It moans and it groans. There’s no question about it, as a monument to grief and to heartbreak and the expression of agony and pain that lost all that was precious in this world and longing for the next, the Taj Mahal has no equal. It’s unsurpassed.
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