A Study of English Translation of Culture-Loaded Words Based on The Mountain Whisperer

The Mountain Whisperer is a long novel written by Jia Pingwa, a famous contemporary writer, which involves a large number of words related to Shaanxi folk culture.Christopher Payne, a Canadian translator and professor at the University of Toronto, recognized that the translation of culture-loaded words was a difficult task in the English translation of The Mountain Whisperer.This paper takes the English translation of Jia Pingwa's novel The Mountain Whisperer as a case study.On the basis of folklore theory, and in accordance with the 12 culturally specific translation methods proposed by Aixela, the cultureloaded words in the original work are classified into four categories.Meanwhile, culture-loaded words are a difficult problem for the translation and dissemination of Chinese novels.It is also suggested that the future development of Chinese novels can provide a model for the dissemination of similar novels in the English-speaking world.