Unfortunately Empress Jia was 14)impervious to the poem's moral message, and she carried on with her scandalous sexual exploits and her murderous activities. Some of her ruthlessness may have been 15)warranted, since there were rebels stirring up civil war, and ultimately in 300 AD there was a successful 16)coup. She was captured and forced to commit suicide.
不幸的是，贾后对于此诗所蕴含的道德之义完全无动于衷，且继续着她可耻的荒淫生活和谋杀活动。她的心狠手辣也许有时也在情理之中，因为一些叛乱激起了内战。而最终，在公元300年一场成功的宫廷政变中，她被擒获了，并被逼自行了断。
A hundred years later, around the year 400, the court was once again 17)beset by the same old problems. One day the Emperor Xiaowudi observed to his favourite consort, “Now that you are 30 years old, it's time I exchanged you for somebody younger.” He meant it as a joke, but she didn't take it well, and she murdered him that evening. The court was 18)scandalised. It was obviously time to remind everybody how to behave by re-publicising Zhang Hua's poem in a scroll painted by the greatest artist of the day, Gu Kaizhi. The resulting masterpiece was the Admonitions Scroll.
一百年以后，大约在公元400年，宫廷又一次被同样的老问题所困扰。有一天，当时的皇帝孝武帝对他最喜欢的妃子说：“现在你也30岁了，我是时候该找个更年轻的妃子来代替你了。”他只不过是开个玩笑而已，但她却无法接受，于是当晚她就把皇帝谋杀了。整个宫廷都被震惊了。很显然是时候以当时最著名的画家顾恺之所作的卷轴来再次宣传张华的诗作，以提醒每个人该如何为人处事了。于是，就有了千古名作《女史箴图》。
This scroll became the prized possession of many emperors. We can know exactly whose courts it was viewed in, because each imperial ruler has left their mark on it, in the form of a stamp carefully placed in the blank spaces around the paintings and the calligraphy. Some of the previous owners have also added their own comments to the scroll. And this brings a kind of pleasure you can never find in European painting: the sense that you are sharing this delight with people from centuries past. We can all join the Qianlong Emperor and the other people who through the decades have so enjoyed gazing at the Admonitions Scroll.
这幅卷轴变成了许多皇帝看重的藏品。我们能够准确地知道它究竟在哪些朝代被观赏过，因为每一代王朝的统治者都曾在上面留下过标记，他们在绘画和书法四周的空白位置上小心翼翼地盖下了自己的印章。以前的一些收藏者还在卷轴上加注了他们自己的评论，而这会给你带来一种在欧洲绘画上感受不到的乐趣：一种你正在和过去千百年前的人们一起分享这种快乐的感觉。我们都可以加入乾隆皇帝以及其他穿越千年的人们之列，一起享受观赏这幅《女史箴图》的乐趣。
