明显陵英文导游词汇编20篇

A garden is located in the outskirts of yangzhou, jiangsu province dongguan street, formerly the ShouZhi garden of qing dynasty. Jiaqing and daoguang years, liang huai salt merchants yellow and converted to the narration for the garden, because of kinds of bamboo, named "a garden", its meaning has straight not bent, modest upward. "Yangzhou gardens, gardens to fold Lin chuang". A garden in his bamboo stone as the main body, in the peak using stone for the characteristics of urban forest, the legend of emperor kangxi years famous painter Shi Taozhi hand. Previous call "by HuiShi Duo mountain", is a garden Duo rao HuaLi, between like and dont like, an infinite daydream. The park mountain peaks, tall and straight, majestic, give a person the sense with rockery real taste. Appropriate woo hin, mountain building and the garden are brushed YunTing transparent, live in the autumn pavilion, yue xuan building, hand in photograph reflect with rockery pool, with a fomous trees, more show of primitive simplicity and elegant.

This park south entrance, there are two central pool, pool east Bridges cross waters as two, fanaw osmanthus hall, the width between the three, single eaves jehiel mountain, is the main building, garden ChiBeiYou hexagonal pavilion a; QiYou west pool is small, the north lake stone rockery, the south bank of bamboo forest. Garden north has up to 11 floor garden architecture.

A garden is famous for its "four seasons rockery". Spring scenery in osmanthus south hall near the entrance, down the tracery wall decorate stalagmites, like spring unearthed bamboo, bamboo echo, increased the spring in the air. Xia Jing in northwest of lake rockery LinChi, jian valley deep and quiet, the purple shadow show wood, the gurgling, beautiful and clinking. Autumn scenery is Yellowstone rockery, the number to pull, towering cliffs, the hole set way, upwards, step different scene change, fascinating. The top of the mountain pavilion, forming dominated the highest scenic spot. Winter rockery in the southeast of the small courtyard, lean on a wall of superimposed color white, body roundy XuanShi (snow), did not disappear, like snow in the south wall four lines round hole, using a narrow alley walls of air change produced by the effect of the north wind roar, as the atmosphere of winter blizzard. And on the west wall of the small courtyard and a round hole empty Windows open, you can see the spring mountain bamboo, camellia, and as winter is over, beautiful spring had come. The design idea, make the garden space changes with new idea.

Four seasons rockery, distinctive expression "hills YanYe and like to laugh, summerhill, such as green, bright and clean, such as makeup, akiyama mountain winter bleak and such as sleep" and "hills should swim, summerhill appropriate, the appropriate akiyama, winter mountain livable" poetry. A novel garden purport, tight structure, is the Chinese garden alone, it is also one of the most famous landscape of yangzhou.

Hello, everyone. Im your guide, Xiao Wang. First of all, welcome toBeijing Juyongguan Great Wall.

Juyong Pass is one of the most famous passes of the Great Wall. It is abarrier to the northwest of Beijing since ancient times. Juyong Pass is built ina 20 kilometer long valley between the mountains, which is the famous "pass" inthe capital.

Both sides of Juyong Pass city are "high mountains", with steep cliffs. Thepass city dominates the passage to Beijing. This extremely dangerous terraindetermines its military importance. Ancient military experts called it "theancient and modern defense of controlling the north and the South". Gao Shi, afrontier poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote in describing the dangerous road ofJuyongguan and Guanxiong: "juepo is under the water, and the peaks are high.

According to the records of the Yuan Dynasty, the name of Juyong came fromthe immigrants who lived here when the first emperor of Qin built the GreatWall. Yong is the civilian soldiers who were forced to come. In fact, the nameof Juyong existed before Qin Shihuang unified the whole country. It was writtenin the spring and Autumn Annals of the Lu family in the Warring States period.It is recorded that "there are nine fortresses in the world, and one of them isthe mediocre". Juyongguan ranks the eighth among the famous eight Xings inTaihang, namely junduxing, which controls Jundushan. Although Juyong Pass hasalways been an important military defense town for a long time, its name hasbeen changed many times. It was called "Xiguan" in the Three Kingdoms period,changed to "Naqian pass" in the Northern Qi period, first called "Jimen pass" inthe Tang Dynasty, and then changed to "Jundu pass". From the Liao Dynasty to thelater Jin, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has always been calledJuyongguan.

After Zhu Yuanzhang destroyed the Yuan Dynasty and established the Zhuregime, Xu Da, the founder of the country, was sent to build Juyongguan city in1370 A.D., which is the earliest record of building the Great Wall pass in theMing Dynasty. This shows that Juyongguan has an important strategic position.The Guancheng built by Xu Da is very big. According to the ancient books,"crossing two mountains, thirteen Li on Monday, four Zhang and two feet high."After the establishment of Juyongguan City, there was a garrison of 1000households. In the second year of Yongle (A.D. 14__), it was promoted to Wei,commanding five garrisons.

Juyong Pass has been built in all dynasties since Hongwu built it, and thelarger one was in the early years of Jingtai. After the change of civilengineering, Yu Qian, then Minister of the Ministry of war, told the emperorthat Juyong was the gateway of the capital and should be on guard as soon aspossible. The stone plaque of Juyongguan is inscribed with the inscription of"auspicious sunrise in August of the fifth year of Jingtai".

Juyong Pass is also one of the most dangerous passes of the Great Wall. Ithas experienced a lot of war. It once conducted several battles that determinedthe fate of the imperial court.

In the fourth year of Xuanhe (1120 x A.D.) of the Northern Song Dynasty,the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Liao Dynasty. It was the Juyong Pass that wasfirst conquered, and then it moved southward to take Yanjing, the capital of theLiao Dynasty.

In the Late Jin Dynasty, the Mongolian troops had captured Juyong Pass manytimes. However, in the second year of Jiading (12__ A.D.), when the emperorTaizu led his army to attack Juyong Pass, the Jin soldiers could not attack itfor a long time because of the danger. Finally, the Mongolians turned to attackthe Zijingguan pass, and then went around Zhuozhou and Yizhou to attack JuyongPass.

When the Ming army destroyed Yuan Dynasty, it first attacked Juyong Pass,then drove straight in and won the capital of Yuan Dynasty. After 277, LiZichengs peasant uprising army conquered Juyong Pass, then marched into Beijingand overthrew the decadent Ming Dynasty.

In history, although Juyongguan was full of war, more often than not, itwas a peaceful scene. In 1971, in a tomb of the Eastern Han Dynasty found inHelingeer, Inner Mongolia, there is a mural "when the envoy moved from Fanyangto Duguan", which vividly depicts the prosperous scene of vehicles and horses inJuyongguan at that time. This precious mural is enough to show that Juyong Passwas an important gateway between the inside and outside of the great wall morethan 20__ years ago.

Everybody is good! Im liu, you can call me liu guide, welcome to visit huangshan scenic spots, now let me introduce you to huangshan! Huangshan mountain is very beautiful, spring is a beautiful season, youre really fit you literally see.

Now I will take you to look at and spectacular! You see, on the right side of that piece of peak, the peak thousand odd provide some beautiful some magic some said, also touched the peak, the legend can be dozens of years younger; If the disease, touch it, dont. Quick to touch! Well, you look left, now this is odd matsuyama, songshan have a hoard, a hoard of four director with some very sweet pine tree, the pine trees is very strong, even falling rain blows continuously, be quiet, please keep quiet! In front of a hot spring, lets take a look, listen and try that hot springs, remember dont litter!

Everybody free tour!

Article 4: huangshans commentaries 300 words

Tourists friends, everybody! Welcome to the world heritage - huangshan scenic area. Very glad to be a tour guide! My name is Tian Huicong, everybody call me field guide.

As the saying goes: "its return from mountain, mount huangshan return from yue." Huangshan pines, rocks, sea of clouds, hot spring, snow "five greats" famous Chinese and foreign. Today I will give everyone focuses on huangshan pines.

Everyone see, huangshan pine trees can survive in rock seam, strong vitality. Their shapes, the intricacies of: black tiger, African, come loose loose knot, welcoming pine and so on, a lot of pine trees because they shape the name! Huangshan welcoming pine is one of the famous scenic spot, shape is special, its central trunk out of the two lateral branch of up to 7.6 meters exhibition to the front, like a hospitable host, waved his arms, warmly welcome guests from home and abroad to visit huangshan, become the symbol of the Chinese people warm hospitality. Later we can over there to take photos, as a souvenir.

The wonders of huangshan said also said not over, see also not enough. Now, please enjoy to enjoy the beautiful scenery of huangshan! Please dont throw the peel and in play and food packaging bags, not to a dangerous place.

I wish you all have fun!

各位贵宾，大家好!欢迎来到世界文化遗产明显陵参观游览!

我是您们的导游员(讲解员) ，下面将由我陪同大家一起游览并做讲解，希望在我们的共同努力下，一起去领略这个全人类共同财富的神韵和它背后的神奇故事。

在进入陵区游览前，我先就明显陵向大家做一个大致的介绍：

显陵，是明朝恭睿献皇帝朱佑元与皇后蒋氏的合葬墓，始建于 1519 年，至今已有近五百年的历史了。早在 1988 年就被国务院列为国家级重点文物保护单位， 20xx 年底，显陵申报世界文化遗产获得成功，被录入联合国《世界遗产名录》，成为世界人民共同的财富。世界遗产目前全世界共有 500 多处，中国仅 30 处，属文化遗产的仅 21 处，湖北仅 2 处，即武当山和显陵，全国 32 个省市大部分一处都没有。

我刚才讲显陵是明朝恭睿献皇帝朱佑元陵墓，稍懂一点中国历史的人一定是想骂我了，明朝那里有过叫朱佑元的皇帝了?那我要说了，你知道的没错，我讲得也没错，不仅明朝没有，中国历史上也没有。因为中国历史上在编的皇帝的确没有这个人，因为他是中国历史上，也是世界历史上唯一一个在死后被追认皇帝的人，这也是显陵的奇特之处。尽管朱佑元生前没有当过皇帝，而在他死后被他儿子，后来当了皇帝的明朝嘉靖皇帝朱厚璁不仅追认为皇帝，而且还为他建造了中国历史上最大的皇陵。为了让显陵的规模超过中国历代皇陵，嘉靖皇帝在位 40 余年，动用了国库 40 余年的库银，几万名劳力建设了 40 多年，才建成今天的规模。它也是世界上建设周期最长的皇陵，也是全世界规模最大的皇陵之一。

显陵，是中国最早被联合国评为世界文化遗产的皇陵，而大家熟悉的明孝陵、十三陵都是在显陵成为世界文化遗产的四年后作为明清皇陵的扩充项目列入的，这主要是因为显陵有着明显的优势。首先，它完整地保留和体现了封建礼制，起着承上启下的作用，并影响到清代帝陵形制，他是明代帝陵最杰出的代表，它本身具有其它帝陵不同的独特之处：其中一陵两冢，为历代帝陵绝无仅有!中国没有，全世界也没有第二座!金瓶型外罗城、九曲回环的御河、龙形神道、圆形内外明塘也是其它帝陵绝对没有的。其次，显陵的建筑是利用中国风水理论“陵墓多与山水相称”的原则，将山水作为陵墓的有机组成部分，统一布局。建筑依山就势，错落有致，构成了一项建筑艺术与环境美学相结合的天才杰作。更重要的是，显陵的修筑是明嘉靖初年的重大历史事件“大礼仪之争”的产物。

显陵有这样多的奇特之处都符合联合国有关世界遗产的相关标准，连联合国世界遗产专家让路易先生都感到惊叹，说显陵真是一个“神奇的明显陵”。我不知道，大家游览完显陵后会有什么感想!会有什么的评价!好，各位，现在你们已经踏上明朝皇家陵地，请保持肃静，由我把大家带回到明朝……

首先我们看到的这块石碑叫“下马碑”，上刻“官员人等在此下马”八个大字，为嘉靖年间宰相严嵩手写，在我国封建社会，帝王的尊严是至高无上的，陵区被视为神圣的禁区，不仅老百姓不能随便出入，即使是朝廷命官到此谒陵，也必须在此下马，这块碑在当时具有法律作用，违者将受到严惩，同时，它是显陵重要的标志性建筑。

各位贵宾，我们面前的这座单檐山式建筑，叫新红门，穿过这座门我们就正式进入陵区了。显陵工程浩大，前后用了四十年的时间，占地面积 183.13 公顷，相当于 300 个足球场那么大，整个显陵由内外两道城墙环护，大家看，连接这新红门的城墙叫外罗城，墙高 6.5 米，厚 1.9 米。周长 3600 多米，红墙黄瓦，蜿蜒于山峦起伏中，雄伟壮观，大家所看到的这样大的外罗城当时在建陵的之后，各地官员从全国各地，各州、府、县上至东北。下至云贵，从一砖、一瓦、一石都向这里进献。每一块砖、一块瓦都有完整标明拉来自何处，可见工程之浩大。从空中俯瞰，外罗城为“金瓶”形状，“金瓶”在风水术在中认为不仅能饶气护生，而且是神仙所佩之法器。其寓意神圣吉祥。同时蜿蜒的城墙顺山势起伏，避免了建筑外在的生硬感，使之与自然环境更加和谐。显陵外罗城是明代帝陵之首创!其后的明清陵寝均沿袭了这一做法。

穿过新红门大家会发现依中国古建筑之规制，所有主要建筑均在中轴线为中心在两边展开，而新红门却偏离了中轴线，这是为什么?请大家带者这个疑问随我继续游览。

在我们的左手边大家看到的这个水塘叫外明塘，因处风水术中外明堂的位置(这个堂是厅堂的堂)故名。明堂是风水理论中的重要概念，原指陵区开阔的空地，要宽阔忌狭窄，宜山长发展之计。外明塘上接陵区九曲河出水，下通沧浪湖入水，它破墙而出，使外罗城有 90 米的缺口，说起这个缺口还有一段有意思的典故呢：据说当年嘉靖皇帝为了给自己的父母修建陵寝，耗资巨大，然国库银两短缺，拿不出如此多的款项，当朝的奸相严嵩便出计让各地知府出资筑陵，此计一出，全国各地迫于皇威相继筹措不等银两，唯云南和贵州两府因地处边远穷困地区，未能及时筹措到足够的款项，导致延误大工，后被嘉靖皇帝贬官严办，当时的设计师就决定在这一空缺段修一口明塘与两边的外罗城相连。而这一空缺段也就留下了缺—云南，少—贵州的说法。至今钟祥人仍将独缺什么说成缺—云南少—贵州。

由外明塘连接着这弯曲的御河叫“九曲河”，它沿着进入陵区的神道拐了九个弯，故名。沿河建了五道并列三座单孔桥，九曲河与五道桥，附会“至尊”的含义。象征着皇权的至高无上。由于设计巧妙，弯曲的河水将陵区地面分割为几个不同的区域，恰到好处地发挥了自然要素山、水、树木的空间限定作用。“石蕴玉而山辉，水怀环而川媚”，由于九曲河的营建，使周围的环境顾盼生辉。虽然明代各陵都非常重视陵区的排水、泄洪，开挖或利用天然河流形成御河，然而显陵的九曲河以其排水系统的完善，体现风水理论之完善，又与其他明陵有显著的区别，成为神奇显陵的重要特点。

各位贵宾，这弯曲的九曲河让您能产生怎样的想象呢?对，龙!它正像一条弯曲腾挪的水龙游弋在青山绿水的陵区，给显陵增添了鲜活的灵气。

请大家看这座御桥，它的通体都是由名贵的汉白玉石料建造，桥面两边的白玉栏杆，有栏板 72 块，望柱 72 根，所有栏板上都掏空到成净瓶如意方形，桥之间的两边望柱是火煸形柱头，而两边侧桥的望柱是素方形的柱头，中间桥的望柱是子母狮蹲于柱头，非常独特，两头的栏板上雕的是一种怪兽，我们叫它靠山兽。整个御桥建造华丽，雕刻艺术精美，远远望去，十分雄伟壮观，有人说可与天安门前的金水桥媲美。桥面是当年筑陵原遗存下来的，而桥护栏毁于文革，现在大家看到的护栏是 1998 年照愿样修复的。

我们现在进入的是旧红门，旧红门建于明嘉靖三年( 1524 年)，它早于新红门 15 年建成，是显陵的第二道门户，也是显陵的中轴线的正门，在门旁的建筑墙上，我们可以看到世界文化遗产的标志。标志的外沿是一个圆形，代表地球与大自然，中间的方形代表人类创造的文明，方形和圆形的相连寓意着人类与自然的和谐关系，同时圆形环护着方形又有对人类文明应予以保护的意思。各位贵宾，我们在游览显陵的同时，也请大家注意对显陵环境的爱护，您的文明举止就是对显陵这个世界文化遗产最好的保护。谢谢大家!

这里是御碑楼，其主要作用是置放“御制睿功圣德碑”的，故又叫睿功圣德碑楼。碑文为嘉靖皇帝亲自书写，内容主要是为其父歌功颂德，其碑首为四条高浮雕首尾交错、头部下垂的蛟龙，碑座是一个昂首远眺的海龟似的神兽，是用一块石料琢成，趴卧在刻满海波漩流的水盘之上。这只类似的神兽叫赑屃。传说龙生九子，皆不成龙，各有所好，赑屃就是龙的其中一子，它天生喜文善水长寿，尤其最喜负重。这碑身重 20 吨，它可不是任何一个帝王都可以自行树立的，凡后世帝王有失国之尺地寸土者，不得立此碑。因此这种碑是为表彰其“丰功伟绩”，树立此碑即是显示墓主显赫的身份和高贵的地位。可惜的是，此碑在文革期间被红卫兵造反派砸断，碑身即断裂成现在的几块，而整个碑楼的木制结构则毁于明末兵火。

大家请看神道两边这两根高大的石柱，叫望柱。它是皇权的象征，也是仪仗的开始标志。相传东边的一柱为“望君出”，西边的一柱为“望君归”。“望君出”呼唤着帝王要走出九重深宫，去体察世间民情;“望君归”呼唤着帝王在宫外不要过多的流连，要及时回来处理朝政。它们反映了天下百姓对“圣明天子”的渴望。

望柱后面的这些石雕叫石像生。它是皇权仪卫的缩影。在明代，凡是举行大典的时候，除文武百官及军队仪仗队排列两侧外还将人工驯养的狮子、大象等动物装在笼子里，放在街道两旁，以壮皇威。待皇帝死后，也需要相同的排场，所以就在陵前设置了石像生。这种做法最早开始于秦汉时期，此后历代皇帝、重臣沿用不衰，只是数量和取像不尽相同。

前面的第一对是狮子，狮是百兽之王，显示着皇帝的雄风与威严。

第二叫獬豸，又叫独角兽，它是传说中的饿一种异兽，能辨别是非邪正，把它放在陵前，起着扶正辟邪的作用。

第三对是骆驼，第四对是大象，一个来自北方沙漠，一个来自南方丛林，代表着皇权统治的版图之广，“普天之下，莫非王土”。第五、第六对是麒麟，传说中的太平、祥瑞之兽，代表吉祥，放在陵前有粉饰太平，为帝王歌功颂德之意。第七、第八对是马，古人的坐骑，皇帝仪仗中不可缺少的部分。这后面四对文臣、武将象征帝王驾前的文武百官。各位朋友，你们知道怎样辨别这些文臣、武将的官职大小吗?先看武将，持短剑者官职较高，再看文臣，官帽护耳者官职较高。

请大家注意看：所有这些石像生连同底座均是由一整块石头雕刻而成。那么如此之大的石料又是怎样从远处的深山运来的呢?相传采用的是“旱船拽运”的方法，即沿运石道路每隔一里在地下凿一深井，冬天到来时将水打出泼在路面，将巨石沿水面拖行。可以想象，为修建此陵，众多劳役们要付出多少血汗啊!另外沿途我们可看到很多墙砖上都刻着地名，这也说明显陵的每一片砖瓦都来自全国各地，工程之浩大，调动人力物力之众多，由此可见一斑!

现在我们大家面前的这座牌坊式建筑叫棂星门，又叫龙凤门。由六天柱三门四壁组成，门之间两侧由石、砖、琉璃件构成的仿木建筑，每根石柱上雕有独角兽一只，额柱上均装饰有支云头和火焰宝珠，故此门又叫“火焰牌坊”。相传此门是仿神话中的南天门所建，经过此门，帝王的灵魂就上了天堂。各位朋友，让我们也穿过此门进如一个新的世界吧!

穿过棂星门后请大家注意我们前面的这段神道，它不是直的，而是湾的，这又是显陵的一个神奇之处了。显陵在神道处理上与明代诸陵不同，在陵区中部，砌了一条弯曲的神道，如同一条蜿蜒前行的龙，这便是“龙鳞神道”。显陵是明代帝陵中唯一整体保留龙鳞神道做法的陵墓。大家请看这中间铺筑的石板谓之“龙脊”，两侧以鹅卵石填充，谓之“龙鳞”，外边再以牙子石收束，总称为“龙鳞道”，这种做法既能满足陵寝建筑的功能需求，又经济可行，充分显示了匠人的智慧。

跨过御河上的第五座桥，我们前面的这座圆形池塘叫“内明塘”，为一人工开掘的池塘，内明塘的建置为明代其它帝陵所没有的，仅显陵一孤例。它直径 33 米，水深约 4 米。没有水源与外界相通，却大旱不干涸，大雨不外溢。水位始终保持在一固定的高度，这一现象自显陵始建至今近 500 年均未变化。据专家考证，其塘底为铜铸锅底状，水位之所以能长期稳定，可能与锅沿暗藏排水系统与陵区的地下水系巧妙衔接有关，如此即保持了一个完整的水位平衡。大家所看到的内明塘和我们在进门前的外明塘，不仅是历代帝陵没有的，它还有一奇特功能，就是在白天塘中有太阳，晚上塘中有月亮，加上当时为建显陵，嘉靖皇帝钦定有“唯我皇考，若日月之照临，光于四方，显于西土”的字句，所以这内明塘、外明塘还有引日月进塘，让日月同辉的用意。另据传，进入宝城地宫的入口即藏在水下，你们相信吗?

绕过内明塘，我们现在来到的陵恩门，显陵分为内外两城，这陵恩门即是内城紫金城的正门，请大家注意看这大门两侧各有一堵墙，叫影壁。影壁在古建筑中主要起屏障和装饰作用，可以建在大门的前后方。也可建在大门两侧，建在大门两侧的主要为增添大门的气势，这陵恩门两侧的精美琉璃影壁是明代其它各帝陵所没有的!它为琉璃仿木形式。正面是琼花图案，据说琼花代表草木旺盛，国家繁华。背面为双龙图案，有藏龙卧虎之意。

请大家看这幅汉白玉浮雕，它叫云龙丹陛。据专家认定，这快丹陛在历代帝陵中实属罕见!除了慈禧太后的陵区中有凤在上的云龙丹陛外，其余均为龙在上、凤在下，而显陵这块却为龙凤并列，凤头在上、龙头在下很独特。为什么呢?因为嘉靖皇帝进京即位时才 14 岁，他巩固地位，自立体系，母亲给了他巨大的精神支持。所以嘉靖皇帝对他的母亲非常尊敬，他有今天的地位，他的母亲是功不可没的。这块云龙丹陛也正式反映了嘉靖皇帝对母亲的敬仰之情。

进入陵恩门，我们来到的是陵恩殿，也就是人们一般所称的大殿，主要是供奉嘉靖皇帝父母神位的地方，也是举行上陵、祭祀活动重要的场所。可惜的是，整个大殿毁于明末李自成农民起义军的军火，现在仅存石基，但我们能据此感觉到整个大殿的雄伟。据说修建大殿前，嘉靖皇帝下旨仿故宫金銮殿修建，这是殿堂内木柱的石基座，它直径竟达 1.06 米，两人合抱都不能交手，而这些梁柱及殿内其他木结构使用的均是来自四川、湖广一带深山密林中的珍贵树种金丝楠木，可以想象当时的大殿是多么的富丽堂皇啊!

在大殿的两侧各有配殿五间，这些配殿主要是在举行祭祀活动时供奉神牌、存放祭祀品及咒语念经的地方。

陵恩殿后面的这个门叫陵寝门，这陵寝门只供帝、后、妃们进入，其他王公大臣们是不得入内的，陵寝门后还有一道二柱门，大家看这两根很高大的石柱上刻有一只獬豸，虎视眈眈，守卫着陵寝。二柱门后面正中就是石五供，石五供是专供帝、后、妃们祭祀谒陵的供台，由一个香炉，两个烛台，两个花瓶组成，均由青白石雕琢而成，请大家看这石香炉的炉顶，雕刻着海波、云、龙面纹，非常精美。据说，这石香炉只有后来的皇帝谒陵时才能开启炉顶使用，显陵每年都要举行数次规模不等的祭祀活动，其中尤以清明、中元( 7 月 15 日)和冬至为最盛，称三大祭。

各位贵宾，这座雄伟高大的城楼式建筑，叫方城明楼，上挂“显陵”两个大字，它是整个陵寝的标志性建筑，是专为供奉“圣号碑”而修建的。其实显陵原叫“献陵”，因当年兴王朱佑元四后溢号为“献”，其忘坟即称为“献陵”嘉靖三年三月，朱厚璁以武力平息大礼仪之争后，为他的父亲钦定陵号为“显陵”，“显陵显者，光也书泰，誓之词曰：唯我皇考，若日月之照临，光于四方，显于西土。”意思是他父亲德配天地，圣功显赫，应让普天之下都知道，并象日月一样永寸万年。由此可见朱厚璁为推尊私亲，实施“嘉靖新政”而费尽了心思。明楼木体结构于明末毁于李自成农民起义军兵火，仅存残垣断壁，现在的明楼是 1990 年修复的。

我们现在来到的这个小院落，俗称哑巴院，这里四全陵神道的起点，也是终止点。 这个小院看起来并没有什么奇特之处，实际上却隐藏着巨大的玄机：这座琉璃影壁表面上起着美化装饰作用，更重要的是它遮挡着地宫的入口。院内的神道下面是进入地宫的斜坡墓道，昔日帝后的棺椁就是从这个斜坡慢慢送入地宫的。我国历代封建帝王都实行厚葬，正所谓“厚葬以明孝”，死后还把大量珍奇异宝葬入地宫，因此帝王们最担心的就是陵寝被盗。能不能有效防止地宫被盗，这地宫入口的保密就显得至关重要，所以小院工程所用的工匠都是哑巴，他们白天休息，夜间施工，上 下工的路上都蒙着眼睛，使他们不识路途，不知道这里的地点，完工后，把他们遣送到人烟稀少的边远地区居住，因这个院子是由哑巴修的，所以叫哑巴院。当然这只是传说，还有待专家的考证。

好，现在请大家随我一起参观显陵最具有特色，也是中外陵墓史上绝无仅有的奇观，那就是一陵两冢!何为一陵两冢?就是一座陵园内有两座墓冢。那么为什么其他陵墓无此现象而独显陵有呢?这还要从墓主前后身份变化说起：明正德 14 年也就是 1519 年，墓主朱佑元因病去世，当时他只是一个潘王，依封建礼制，他的陵墓即按潘王的规制建造，我们现在看到的这个前墓冢，既是当年兴献王朱佑元死后的坟墓。

1521 年朱厚璁登基成了嘉靖皇帝之后，追封其父也就是朱佑元为“献皇帝”，并一度想将其父的陵寝迁往北京，与其他已故明皇帝葬在一起，这一想法遭到了大臣们的反对，因而未迁，嘉靖 17 年( 1539 年) 12 月，嘉靖皇帝的母亲章圣皇太后在北京病故。为了给母亲寻找“吉壤”，嘉靖帝于次年 2 月南巡承天府(即钟祥市)，在拜谒了其父新献帝的陵墓后，他认为这是一片难得的风水宝地，便决定将其母亲的灵柩由京城送至钟祥显陵与父亲合葬。但经检查发现，显停放父棺椁的地宫已经进水，且较小。于是嘉靖便命工部在其父原有的墓冢后面重新修建一座新地宫以供放其父母的灵柩。这样就形成了由最初的单冢潘王坟经嘉靖帝在位几十年的不断扩建，变成一座规模宏大的前后双冢帝王陵。

我们现在看到的这座巨大的墓冢叫宝城，从空中看就像一个巨大的哑铃。前宝城是椭圆形，东西宽 112 米，南北长 125 米，就是最早停放新献王灵柩的地方(现供奉大量的随葬品)，而后宝城为正圆形，直径 110 米，下面的地宫中即停放嘉靖帝父母的棺椁。

我们现在停留的这个地方叫瑶台，它将前后两座宝城连接在一起。瑶台在神话传说中是神仙聚会的地方。而前后宝城以瑶台想连接寓意人的灵魂已进入仙境。两座宝城修建的时间相隔 19 年。在我过古代有个传统习俗，那就是人死了以后是不能见天日的。于是，新地宫建成后，在旧地宫与新地宫之间修建了一条通道，并筑成瑶台。当年嘉靖皇帝的父亲与母亲合葬时，其父亲朱佑元的棺椁就是从瑶台下的通道运到了新地宫。可以说， 瑶台在显陵的地位是至关重要的。

显陵自修建至今已近 500 年了，期间经历数次劫难。其中最大上的一次即明代末年李自成农民起义。 1643 年冬，李自成大军攻陷承天府(即钟祥)，拆毁朱家的家庙，并欲挖掘显陵地宫。据说正准备开挖前地宫时，恰遇 雷电交加。有迷信思想的李自成心有疑惧，未敢动土，便放火烧毁陵内所有木制结构的建筑作罢。如今科学探测证明显陵地宫保存完好，从未被盗过，这也从侧面反映了此地民风纯朴，相信将来的某一天，显陵地宫开启时定能引起全世界的注目。

显陵宝城的修筑凝聚当时先进的科学思想，请大家注意看在环形的宝城城墙上每隔一段距离都会有一个用汉白玉雕琢而成的龙头。龙头自颈部至龙嘴是相通的，所有龙头都是面朝宝城外侧。这就是显陵独特的排水系统。每逢下雨时，积聚的雨水通过龙头嘴的管道排出宝城外，以便环道干爽和减少坟冢的积水量。我们今天家里用的水龙头其叫法即源于此。除排水这一实用性外，威武凶悍的龙头也显示了皇权的至高无上，不可侵犯。同时，建造者们也是借此物之威力保卫亡灵。

各位贵宾，请随我一起登上方城明楼。

请大家看这块碑，它高 5 米，宽 1.2 米，碑身字体“大明恭睿献皇帝之陵”为嘉靖皇帝亲笔书写。这块碑具有特殊意义，它是整个显陵的名片，对显陵申报世界文化遗产并最终获得通过起了重要的作用，大家看整个碑文的两边均遭到毁坏，唯有这块碑文完好，也无断裂，这不能不说是冥冥之中的天意啊!

让我们来感受一下显陵的恢宏与神奇吧!请大家放目远望，自新红门至陵寝的这条弯曲的龙鳞神道，恰似一条旱龙，龙尾三摆，龙颈三曲，煞是鲜活。新红门与旧红门不在一条中轴线上不正式显示出了龙尾摆动的生气吗?再看九曲河，穿插于旱龙左右尤如一条水龙蜿蜒潜行，与旱龙在内明塘外交汇，形成二龙戏珠之妙。而内明糖则依风水理论“龙气见风则散，遇水则止”。具有藏风聚气、界止龙气流失，象征明代山水永固之意。此水陆二龙的设计，使整个显陵倍具生机与活力!

请大家在看整个陵区的大环境：依据古代风水学“负阴抱阳”、“背山面水”的原则，在这广阔的区域内所有的山体、水系、林木植都被作为陵寝的构成要素来统一布局和安排，以陵区后部的松林山为祖山作为陵寝的构成要素来统一布局和安排建筑，九曲河弯延其间，前面的天子岗为屏山，构成了前朱雀、后玄武、左青龙、右白虎的完美风水格局，形成了人文景观和自然景观的高度和谐统一。显陵不愧为古代建筑与环境美学相结合的天然杰作!

显陵的修建，是中国封建时代对灵魂信仰的集中体现，凝聚着明代中后期的政治思想、道德观念和审美趣味。同时，这种动用国家力量建造的陵墓，也反映了当时的经济状况、科学技术水平和营造工艺水平，是中国丧葬艺术的最高表现形式和建筑典范。

各位贵宾，在你们参观完显陵后，是否也会像联合国世界遗产专家让·路易先生那样发出同样的赞叹呢?当然，依显陵之博大，孕藏的文化历史之丰富，是在这短短时间内无法全部了解清楚的，加之我才疏学浅，知识有限，很多地方讲解尚有欠缺。为此，我将加倍努力，争取掌握更多有关显陵的知识，届时，欢迎大家再次来显陵参观游览，我也将为大家再次来显陵参观游览，我也将为大家献上更加精彩的解说。谢谢大家!祝各位旅途愉快!

各位游客朋友，今天我们要去游览的是恭王府。恭王府位于北京市西城区前海西街，是清代规模最大的一座王府，先后作为大贪官和珅、庆亲王永璘的宅邸，后被赐予恭亲王奕诉，由此得名恭王府，并沿用至今。恭王府历经了清王朝由鼎盛至衰亡的历史进程，故有“一座恭王府，半部清代史”的说法。“月牙河绕宅如龙蟠，西山远望如虎踞”，这是史书上对恭王府的描述。就其选址而言，它占据京城绝佳的位置。古人修宅建园很注重风水，北京据说有两条龙脉，一是土龙，即故宫的龙脉;二是水龙，指后海和北海一线，而恭王府正好在后海和北海之间的连接线上，即龙脉上，因此风水非常好。古人以水为财，在恭王府内“处处见水”，最大的湖心亭的水，是从玉泉湖引进来的，而且只内人不外流，因此更符合风水学敛财的说法。王府正殿，俗称“银安殿”，是王府内举行重要礼节性活动的场所，在殿内中心位置摆放一组屏风和亲王的宝座，与故宫的金銮殿相对应。银安殿是按照当时严格的清廷建筑规制、王府建筑中的最高规格屋顶歇山顶修复而成的。屋顶覆盖绿色琉璃筒瓦、屋脊上绿色琉璃吻兽，配殿屋顶为灰筒瓦，那是明示亲王的地位。20xx年，恭王府景区被评为国家AAAAA级旅游景区。

各位游客朋友，请看这是多福轩，俗称“藤萝院”，是王府的穿堂客厅，主要用于主人日常接待来客、亲友或前来回禀公事的下属，兼用作存放皇帝送来的礼物。“多福轩”匾为咸丰皇帝所题，意为幸福很多的殿堂。殿内正中悬挂“同德延禧”匾额，意在告诫主人：你与皇帝同德才能延禧(禧：吉祥如意、福寿绵长)。

各位朋友请看，这里是东路建筑中最大的一处，也是最后一进院落，正房名“乐道堂”。室内梁上至今保存了200多年前清中期包褓锦地彩画和凤凰主题彩画，表明和珅时期这里曾是公主的居所，到了恭亲王时期这里是王爷的居室，现在室内按恭亲王居住时的原样陈列。“乐道堂”的匾额是道光帝亲笔所书赐给奕圻的，“安身乐道”表达了一位父亲希望儿子顺心如意、幸福吉祥的美好心愿。各位请看，这是嘉乐堂，是和珅当年的堂号。“嘉乐堂”匾相传是乾隆赐给和珅的，恭亲王时期改为“神殿”，即王府举行萨满教祭祀活动的地方。

各位游客朋友，府邸西路的四合院较中、东路更为精致，主体建筑为德光室和锡晋斋，此路建筑初为和珅的住所。“葆光室”在和珅和庆王时期据推测应为客厅之类，在恭亲王时期，是一处比多福轩更为私密的客厅，能来这里的应该都是王爷的至亲好友。各位朋友请看，我们身后这栋青灰色建筑，叫后罩楼，它是恭王府中的第一绝，所谓“绝”是指其长度为各清代王府建筑规制中后罩楼之最，且楼的后沿墙上层有形状各异的砖雕什锦窗44扇。此楼为两层，每层45间，两层共计90间，拐角处有10多间未计在内，全长150多米，是国内王府类建筑最长的楼，被形容为“九十九间半”。

各位游客朋友，我们眼前的恭王府花园正门就是第二绝，造型采用舒展流畅的西洋风格，真不愧是建筑中的精品。它仿圆明园的大法海圆门制，由于圆明园已在1860年时被英法联军烧毁，所以这道门是流传至今保存最完好的汉白玉石拱门，因为两边的转花纹和花窗很有西洋建筑的味道，所以叫西洋门，是花园的第二位主人一恭亲王奕沂时期建的，恭亲王是洋务运动的倡导者之一，他希望通过学习西方国家先进技术来拯救清王朝。

各位游客朋友，现在我们看到的这座大戏楼是恭王府的第三绝，它是我国现存独一无二的全封闭式大戏楼。在清廷档案中，戏楼均称为“大戏房”。恭王府大戏楼，建于同治年间，是恭亲王及其亲友看戏的场所，建筑面积685平方米，可容纳200多人，高大宏伟，气势不凡。其建筑形式有三大特点：一是采用三卷勾连搭全封闭式结构，整个大戏楼是纯木结构，利用木质榫卯技术(抗震)。由于南北方气候的差异，纯木结构的建筑在北方历经一百余年至今保存完好是非常少见的。由于建筑结构的合理，使大楼具备良好的音响效果。楼内不装扩音设备，完全凭借演员的本色发音，音色纯正自然。二是大戏楼上上下下绘满了倒垂的藤萝，因为紫藤开的花一串一串的，象征子孙兴旺的意思。坐在戏楼里看戏，就像坐在紫藤下看戏，四季如春，以此验证了我们一进西洋门所看到的四个字“秀悒恒春”，永远像春天一样的美丽。三是大戏楼地面全部采用京砖漫地(后经修复过)。

各位游客：

你们好，欢迎你们来到北京旅游，我是你们的导游__。

恭王府花园为位于恭王府后的一独具特色的花园，又名萃锦园，位于柳荫街甲14号，建于1777年，据考证是在明代旧园上重修的。全园占地面积2.8万平方米，有古建筑31处。恭亲王为重建花园调集百名能工巧匠，增置山石林木，彩画斑斓，融江南园林艺术与北方建筑格局为一体，汇西洋建筑及中国古典园林建筑为一园，建成后曾为京师百座王府之冠，是北京现存王府园林艺术的精华所在，堪称"什刹海的明珠"。其中园中的西洋门、御书"福"字碑、室内大戏楼并称恭王府"三绝"。某些红学家认为此园可能是曹雪芹笔下《红楼梦》中大观园的原型。

王府是北京规模最大、保存最完整的清代王府，位于什刹海西北角，前海西街17号，现为全国重点文物保护单位。恭王府始建于十八世纪末，早期为乾隆年间大学士和珅宅第，嘉庆四年(公元1799年)和珅获罪，宅第被没收赐与庆郡王，咸丰元年(公元1851年)改赐给恭亲王爱新觉罗·奕?。

清代王府有严格的规制，规定亲王府有大门五间，正殿七间，后殿五间，后寝七间，左右有配殿，形成多进四合院，不少府邸有后花园。但许多王府经历沧桑，早已面目全非，只有恭王府是北京现存最完整、布置最精的一座清代王府。著名学者侯仁之先生称之为"一座恭王府，半部清代史"。

恭王府分为平行的东、中、西三路，是世界最大的四合院。中路的三座建筑是府邸的主体，一是大殿，二是后殿，三是延楼，延楼东西长一百六十米，有四十余间房屋。东路和西路各有三个院落，和中路建筑遥相呼应。王府的最后部分是花园，二十多个景区各不相同。

恭王府花园在造园手法上既有中轴线，也有对称手法。全园分为中路、东路、西路三路，成多个院落。中轴上依次是园门、飞来峰、蝠池、安善堂、方池、假山、邀月台、绿天小隐、蝠厅。中路建筑和山水基本对称，东、西两路只是山体对称，建筑不对称。整个园林由六条山龙围合:南面、东面、西面各有两山，中路后部有一山为中龙。

Each passenger:

Everybody is good! Today, you are my beautiful west lake tour guide: Fang Zifang (write your own name!) . Lets start with slowly as the ship started to move, to visit the beautiful west lake!

The west lake is located in: the west of hangzhou city, zhejiang province. The west lake of the water area of 4.37 square kilometers, 15 kilometers lakeshore circumference, level are 2.27 meters deep, the deepest in 5 meters.

First of all, we came to the orioles singing, the willows is nanshan scenic city nearest a park, it is also one of the west lake old ten views. Willow is a main feature in the park. Look at both sides, gathered here the spring of 500 strains of willows, the weeping willow, with ones lot, the willow tree, on both sides of the various, very good-looking, south park inclined rod bending branches of that kind of, in the breeze, the yaw, like a drunken beauty, known as the "drunken liu"

Now, we came to the legend of the white niang son met xu xian the broken bridge. Broken bridge, today is located in the bai causeway eastern end. Many sizes in the ancient west lake bridge, it is most famous. Everyone looked down, below is the sparkling lake, the lake is the sunlight, like many gold sprinkled on the lake, very beautiful! Attention, do not litter, can take pictures here, rest now.

Well, today is here, finally I wish you all: have a good journey, goodbye!

各位游客：

大家好，我是你们的导游，小李。

下面我要给大家讲讲天坛的传说，现在大家抬头看一下这就是美丽的天坛，从远出看是个八角形宝塔。

天坛是王屋的主峰，高峰耸寺深古纵横，一峰突起，万峰臣伏，唯我独尊，从南向北看中间高，两边低，好似屋顶像王者之屋，称王屋山。天坛原名叫琼林台，因皇帝在山顶设坛祭天，后人为了纪念，该为天坛。为了纪念皇帝老师华盖对皇帝指点，把天坛峰前的山叫华盖峰。

我们走过天坛，又来到了望景寺，这里可以这人观赏天坛的风景。

天坛是世界文化遗产，国家5A级旅游景区，全国重点文明保护单位。于北京正阳门，东南方自，为明清两朝皇帝祭天，求雨和祈，寿年专用祭坛，是世界上现在规模最大，最完美的古代祭天建筑群。总面积273平方米。1920xx年作为公园正式对外开放。

坛为三层圆形石台，坛区占地20万余平方米。因此;明清时期北京的天坛与历朝代郊坛有一脉相承的渊源。

天地坛遂改称为天坛。消沿明制，天坛一称沿用至今。从乾隆八年1743年起，对天坛建筑进行了多次修理，天坛终于形成了南北两坛，规制严谨的盛郎风貌。

天坛到处有美丽的风景，说也说不尽，希望你有机会细细游赏。

Little meng thanks everybodys all the way support to my job andunderstands that also in here.

Hope that everybody gets chance to come to Dalian again, small Meng and mylocation (所在)__ travel service will be that you provide (提供)the service usingmore well.

Wish everybodys returning journey all smooth God-speed finally!

Hello, everyone. Welcome to our travel agency. My name is Zhang Chengxuan.Please call me Zhang Daohao. We are about to arrive at our destination. Let meintroduce our terminal, Longmen Grottoes. Longmen Grottoes, located in LuoyangCity, Henan Province, is a milestone of grotto art in China. There are two hugeGrottoes: Dongshan grottoes and Xishan grottoes.

The most spectacular one is Xishan grottoes Here we are. Tourists, pleasefollow me. Dont lose me. Look, thats Xishan grottoes. Its very beautiful.Lets go this way first. Its called Qianxi temple. Why is it called thisstrange name? Qianxi temple is named for its continuous stream of water. Themain Buddha in this one is Bodhisattva, with two disciples, two Bodhisattvas,two heavenly kings and so on. Lets go further Now, our place is called Binyangcave, also known as Binyang three caves, which are North cave and middle cave.South hole, three holes.

Next, we went to Fengxian Temple, the most famous place in LongmenGrottoes. Lushenafo is the most famous. He is more than ten feet tall. He isreally the best.

Finally, I would like to remind you not to damage cultural relics. Litter,goodbye!

Hello, everyone. Welcome to Lushan. My name is Qiu. You can call me Qiuguide. Its a great honor to be your guide. Let me show you the charm of LushanMountain.

Lushan Mountain is located in the south of Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Provincein Central China, bordering on the Yangtze River and Panyang Lake in the north.The total area of the whole mountain forest is 302 square kilometers. It is longfrom north to South and narrow from east to west. There are more than 90 peaksin the whole mountain. The highest peak is dahanyang peak, 14734 meters abovesea level. There are many valleys, caves and streams scattered among the peaks,and the topography is complex. Lushan Mountain is famous for its wonderful,beautiful, dangerous and majestic scenery in the world. It has 12 scenic spots,37 scenic spots and 230 scenic spots. Lushan has long been a legend of the landof immortals.

Lushan Mountain is a famous mountain for thousands of years, whichintegrates Hill scenery, Wei Hua, religion, education and politics. It is thecradle of Chinese landscape poetry. Since ancient times, countless scholars havevisited Lushan Mountain, leaving more than 4000 poems and songs for them. Whenwe come to Donglin temple, I begin to introduce: Huiyuan, a famous monk of PudaiDynasty (334-416 A.D.), established Donglin temple in the mountains, created thePure Land Sect in Buddhism, and made Lushan an an important religious resort infeudal China. Bailudong academy, which remains today, is the central institutionof education in ancient China. The Mount Lu also features architecturalmasterpieces of various styles, including the Rome style and brothers stylechurches, the Byzantine architecture that combines the eastern and Western artforms, and the Japanese architecture and Islamic temple. Lushan Mountain notonly has beautiful natural scenery, but also has rich and splendid culturalconnotation. Then we swam the hero slope, the plant circle`

Tourists, todays tour is over. Thank you for visiting the worldheritage.

Fairyland penglai pavilion is located in the city of the northern littoral danya mountain, with the yueyang tower, yellow crane tower, tengwang pavilion, and known as "Chinas four famous towers", we already put it as a trip to yantai to must-see, when we boarded the one thousand pavilion, at the same time of enjoying fairy wind chaton, also deeply felt its magical and mysterious and great courage.

When it comes to its magic, always let a person full of praise. At the foot of the mountain to appreciate penglai pavilion, danya mountain first, with clear water HaoMang set each other off, attic at the top, as if inlaid in the trees even ladies eye, in the commanding position next to the lighthouse, majestic, like soldiers to protect penglai pavilion, is standing majestically on the cliffs. Surrounded by a wall of lists of the majestic mountains, spectacular, is really a beautiful picture of XianGe dives. Looking down from the penglai pavilion, the ever changing under the cliff, great tide, atop the, wide, not only can let a person feel the sea vast, good luck can also see a mirage of the world wonders.

Tour guide told us that most of penglai mirage in June each year, sometimes appear in the summer and fall, for a long time, a few hours, short a few minutes, is not seeking to be, it is a pity that we failed to see the spectacle. Impressive and shelter pavilion, it is in the west side of penglai pavilion, windowless, linhai side doors open. Tour guide told us that the outside the wind again big, the interior is also stagnated but because of the high north of the wall to the halfway up the pavilion, the wall of the outer wall with arc, when the north wind blow to the curved walls will rise sharply, flying over the roof to the south. Unfortunately we have no same prepared a box of matches to try.

各位游客，大家好，

我是你们今天的导游员，我叫____，我来自于___旅行社，很高兴能为大家服务，也希望我的服务能给大家带来轻松和愉快。在我右手边的是我们的司机王师傅，他已经有了多年驾龄，所以大家尽可放心，尽情欣赏窗外美丽的风景和倾听由我给你带来的热心讲解。今天我带大家游览的是最有扬州风情特色的烟花古巷。现在距离我们的目的地东关街还有一段距离，下面由我来简要介绍一下我们的历史古城扬州。

扬州是一个会让人产生自豪感的城市，它的历史可以向上追溯2500年。这座千年古城屡经风云变幻，汉代的兴盛，隋唐的繁盛，明清的鼎盛，使这座古城体现出了无限的魅力。今日的扬州更是风采依旧。它是国务院首批历史文化名城、中国优秀旅游城市，04年获得中国人居环境奖，06年获得“联合国人居奖城市”。头顶这么多美丽的光环，扬州的秀美景色一定让各位不虚此行，来了就不想走了!

扬州的好吃的好玩的好看的，不用我多说，很多早已久负盛名了。先说玩的，扬州的景点很多，如诗如画的瘦西湖、晚清第一名园“何园”、四大名园之一的个园等等。扬州还有很多特色美食，像大家所熟悉的扬州炒饭、大煮干丝、富春包子等等，这些足可以让您在扬州期间大饱口福!“早上皮包水，晚上水包皮”这是对扬州百姓生活的最生动概括，另外，扬州还有“三把刀”，分别是理发刀、修脚刀、菜刀，这不仅是指扬州的刀口好，而是还反映了扬州三大服务业的繁盛。也就是说，这三把刀背后还代表了三大服务业，分别是：理发刀代表的是理发美容业，修脚刀代表的是修脚沐浴业，厨刀代表的是餐饮服务业。“到扬州，吃得好，玩得好，还要享受剃头洗个澡”，这已经成为近三百年来到扬州享受生活的典型写照。

每个城市都有自己最美的侧面，扬州的古巷也可以算是扬州最美的侧面了，扬州人常说：“巷连巷，巷通巷，大巷里面套小巷。”东西南北，横竖曲折，在扬州十几平方公里的老城区里就有500多条巷子。而巷子的大小是不能用长短，而是要用深浅来衡量的。于是也就有了“酒香不怕巷子深”的说法。在繁华似锦的扬州历史上，巷子的深浅也是门户高低的象征，幽幽的巷子尽头必隐藏着庭院深深的富商名贾之家。

Tourists friends:

You are good, welcome you to the north sea park visit tour.

Beihai park is located in the center of Beijing, is my garden extant most glorious, preserves one of most complete imperial garden, it has a history of nearly one thousand years

The development of the north sea garden started in liao dynasty, jin again on the foundation of liao dynasty start-up Yu Dading nineteen years (1179 years) to build great size too ning palace. So the kremlin lineage imperial gardens in China "a pool of three mountains" regulation, and move the bian city gen yue palace garden of taihu in jade island. To yuan four years (1267 years), back Kublai Khan etheric ning GongQiongHua island as the center construction, mostly jade island and the lake is classified as emperor, givennames longevity hill, too fluid pool in the eighteenth year of yongle (1420) Ming dynasty formally moved the capital Beijing, longevity hill, too fluid pool become YuYuan west of the Forbidden City, according to the west. In the Ming dynasty toward the south to develop the surface of the water, forming the pattern of the three sea. From the west in the Ming dynasty, qing dynasty qianlong period to massive rebuilding of the north sea, laid the scale and structure of ever since. After the xinhai revolution in 1925, the north sea park opening to the outside world. After new China was founded in 1949, the party and the government of the north sea park, attention to the protection of the huge sum of money to repair, in 1961 published by the state council as one of the first batch of dominated key cultural relics protection units.

The north sea is the art of Chinese historical gardens masterpiece. Dominated covers an area of 69 hectares, including the water of 39 hectares), is mainly composed of jade island, east and north shore scenic spot jade verdant trees on the island, the house has, pavilions, strewn at random have send, white tower stands a mountain, as the symbol of the park and around the weeping willows with city which lent, great rooms, original zhai, meditation, fast snow hall, the five dragon pavilions and the nine dragon screen, small buddhist paradise, and many other famous attractions, the north sea garden upholds hong kuo momentum of the north gardens and jiangnan private garden charm gracefuls and restrained is varied, and with the magnificent imperial palaces and religious temple solemn, diversity and one integrated mass, is the treasure of the Chinese garden art. The north sea is located in the northwest of Beijing the imperial palace, is the size of the existing in our country has a long history, magnificent ancient imperial palaces. Known as the world "XianShanQiongGe" here was the liao, jin, yuan, Ming and qing dynasty five dynasties royal "detached palace YuYuan Ming and qing dynasties, the north sea with China, the south China sea called the three hoi ching qianlong year large-scale expansion, the existing building is then built more, basically is the pattern of the now.

Beihai district can be divided into the jade island, TuanCheng, four north sea on the east and the north part of the center of the jade island is dominated, architecture, landscape on the island heavy and complicated and changeful, in eastern north sea surface is given priority to with the buddhist architecture, YongAnSi, enlightenment temple, tower, from bottom to top, strewn at random discretion, notably the towering pagoda is the most eye-catching; Such as floor of west yue heart temple, igawa clouds series construction is given priority to, otherwise read ancient building, ripple hall, double rainbow pavilions and many rockery tunnel, corridors, winding path construction, etc.

Many buildings on both sides of the north east, north, each has its own characteristics, there are original, city of lent, great and small buddhist paradise PuJian, meditation, such as five dragon pavilions and the nine dragon screen YuanZhongYuan and buddhist temple building north hainan to edgewater TuanCheng, standing in yongan bridge connected to the jade island; TuanCheng construction according to the central axis symmetry layout, main chengguang temple is located in the central, large scale, modelling is exquisite. Beihai park covers an area of 68 hectares, of which the surface of the water of 39 hectares total view of the north sea dominated architectural layout, the monastery as the center, take jade island as the main body of landscape in all directions. The top of the hill stands the white dagoba, built in the qing shunzhi eight years (in 1651), such as books and mantle around inside the lama DianGe is linked together, forming ZhongXingPengYue north shore of east lake, there are several yards, temple building near the lake if the five dragon pavilions like gone with the wind, constitutes the north sea and a unique landscape. Is located in the north shore of the nine dragon screen is majestic, for Chinas one of only three nine dragon screen "fangshan" to business in the garden of the qing dynasty palace is famous for its food.

Jingdezhen ceramics is famous all over the world, and it is the place ofofficial kilns in history.

During the period of the Republic of China, it was once known as the fourfamous towns in China together with Foshan in Guangdong, Hankou in Hubei andZhuxian in Henan.

The following is the Jingdezhen ancient kiln tour guide, welcome toreference! Jingdezhen ancient kiln tour guide 1 welcome to here! I am yourguide, my name is x, you can call me small X.

In order to facilitate your visit, let me first introduce you.

The first stop to Jingdezhen is to see the ancient kiln.

The ancient kiln is the first ancient kiln in Jingdezhen. Its interior isvery large and complex.

Pottery can be made in ancient kilns.

The old disc is rotated, on which you can make bottles by hand, and then itis ready after 3 days of firing at 1600 degrees.

You can also draw all kinds of pictures on the pottery, and you can drawany pattern you like.

In order to attract tourists, bands are also arranged here to playporcelain musical instruments, including flute, bell, Qin, erhu, etc. the soundis crisp and pleasant, which is very beautiful.

Inside the exhibition is also worth seeing, although it is a replica, butit still makes people feel good-looking, the coolest is the 108 Water Margincharacters porcelain, just like the real one.

At the pottery bar, I touched the clay with my hand. It was cold andcomfortable.

I made one myself with the help of my master.

Its good to see my work.

Dear tourists, welcome to Jingdezhen ancient kiln factory. Im your guide __.

Now I will use my time on the road to tell you something aboutceramics.

As the saying goes: people take food as their heaven, and food needsutensils. It can be seen that ceramics are closely related to humancivilization.

We humans invented pottery as early as 5000 or 6000 years ago, andporcelain was developed on the basis of pottery.

Porcelain is more delicate than pottery.

Smooth.

Hard.

The firing temperature is also higher. Another point is that porcelain ismade from porcelain ore, while pottery is made from clay.

Another explanation of China is that porcelain is as famous as Chinaabroad.

And the most representative porcelain is in Jingdezhen, which is known asthe capital of porcelain. Even Jingdezhen is the origin of porcelain.

In ancient times, because Jingdezhen was located in the south of ChangjiangRiver, it was called Changnan town. Later, it was called Xinping town andFuliang town.

It was not until the Northern Song Dynasty that Zhao Heng, Emperor Zhenzongof the Song Dynasty, decided that Zhongying celadon was imperial porcelainbecause he saw the place of origin of the celadon. Every batch of porcelain madeby the craftsmen was marked with "Jingde year system", so the imperial courtcalled the place of origin of this kind of porcelain "Jingdezhen".

The porcelain that Jingdezhen people are proud of is "blue and whiteporcelain, exquisite porcelain, pastel porcelain, colored glaze and thin bodyporcelain.

They are as white as jade, as bright as a mirror, as loud as a chime, andas thin as paper.

Well, now we have come to fulonggang in the West urban area. This ancientbuilding, which is covered by trees, is the ancient kiln porcelain factory weare going to visit today. As far as I know, there is only one such porcelainfactory in the world.

Who knows why it is called "ancient kiln porcelain factory"? Because thisfactory uses the method of Jingdezhen Ming and Qing Dynasties to make porcelain.The porcelain making process, tools, workshops and kilns are ancient, and theproducts are mostly antique, so it is called.

Next, please follow me in.

Entering this blank room, you can see that the ancient porcelain makingworkshop is composed of four parts: the main room, the chamber, the mud room andthe inner courtyard. The main room and the chamber match in North and south, andthey are parallel. The mud room is located in the west, and the middle is arectangular inner courtyard.

Among them, the main body of the green house is the main room, facingsouth, with sufficient lighting. All the workshops for the production ofporcelain are completed here. The windlass is the main equipment for theproduction of porcelain, and the warehouse is the place for storing rawmaterials.

The mud room is filled with refined mud, and the inner courtyard is anatural dry place for porcelain. In the middle of the inner courtyard, there isa sun rack pond, which is the most important equipment in the ancient workshop,and it is very ingenious. Who knows its beauty? Its beauty is that the pool andsun pool make use of the space and reduce the land occupation.

Come and see this master. He is putting a ball of mud on the head of thepulley. His hands are touching each other. With the rotation of the wheel, therudiment of a bowl appears. This is "making billet, commonly known as drawingbillet".

Lets see here again. The master is concentrating on spinning, drawing thefirst batch to a certain extent, and then using a knife on the pulley car to cutit into the required batch, commonly known as "spinning" or "sharpening". Ofcourse, the technological process of the ancient kiln porcelain factory alsoincludes painting porcelain, glazing and entering the kiln. Look at thesemasters painting porcelain here. Lets see how long it takes to draw a bowl.Yes, it takes only 10 seconds, The bowl is full of colorful camellia.

Lets go this way. Lets take a look at the kiln house that turns theporcelain body into porcelain. Firing porcelain in the kiln house depends on thepractice of workers, strict labor combination and fine division of labor.

There is a technical director in the kiln, who is called "masterBozhuang".

When it comes to Ba, Master Zhuang cant talk about Tong Bin.

He was a famous master of bazhuang in Wanli period. He was highly skilled,upright and respected by kiln workers.

At that time, he was ordered to make the extra large blue and white dragonVAT. Tong Bin and the porcelain workers tried every means to make it, but itfailed many times. Seeing that the delivery date was approaching, it was hard todisobey the emperors orders. For the sake of the life of the porcelain workers,he jumped into a raging fire at the critical moment of the firing processagain.

Its strange to say that he really succeeded this time. People say that itwas because Tong Bin showed his spirit. Later, people named him "fenghuoxian".Its about the story of Master Zhuang - Tong Bin jumping in the kiln.

Master Ba Zhuang is the chief person in charge of the wood kiln firingprocess. He is responsible for all kinds of technical problems in the firingprocess. When the porcelain is ready to be cooked but not yet ripe, the time tostop firing is the most critical. If the firing time is too long, the porcelainwill burn yellow or even fall into the kiln. If the firing time is too short,the porcelain will not be cooked again. At this time, master Ba Zhuangs eyesare completely relied on.

Ladies and gentlemen, thats the end of todays tour. I hope I can guideyou later.

thank you!!

In order to facilitate your visit, let me first introduce you.

Jingdezhen is a famous porcelain capital at home and abroad. Together withFoshan, Hankou and Zhuxian, it is also known as the four famous towns in China.It is one of the 24 famous historical and cultural cities in China and a class aopen city announced by the State Council.

It has jurisdiction over one city, one county and two districts, namelyLeping City, Fuliang County, Zhushan district and Changjiang District, coveringan area of 5256 square kilometers.

Jingdezhen is an important part of Poyang Lake Ecological Economic Zone,and also an important national landscape ecological historical and culturalcity.

Jingdezhen has a high level of economic development, and has acceleratedits rise since 20__. It is estimated that by 20__, the per capita GDP willexceed US $10000, basically realizing modernization.

Jingdezhen has a long history of porcelain making, fine quality ofporcelain products and great influence on foreign countries. "Porcelain capital"has become the pronoun of Jingdezhen.

By 20__, Jingdezhen has won the title of Chinas excellent tourist city,National Ecological Garden City, national civilized and healthy city, andadvanced city of Jiangxi Province in building a civilized city. It not only madea zero breakthrough in such records in Jiangxi Province, but also became thefourth consecutive champion in such assessment in Jiangxi Province.

On September 26, 1985, the Eighth Peoples Congress of Jingdezhen city ofthe peoples Republic of China approved the selection of camphor tree asJingdezhen city tree and Camellia as Jingdezhen city flower.

The ancient kiln porcelain factory is the production area of ancientceramics, which vividly represents the whole process of Jingdezhen ancientceramic production technology.

Here are six ancient buildings, which are precious examples of ancientindustrial buildings in China.

Each group of embryo square is like a closed Sanhe courtyard or quadrangle,which is composed of three or four buildings open to the courtyard.

In the embryo room, the workers use the traditional hand-made porcelaintechnology to make the visitors marvel.

There is also a simple and tall Town kiln in the factory.

The kiln uses pine wood as fuel.

The kiln is 18 meters long. It is in the shape of goose egg, big in thefront and small in the back. A thin-walled chimney about 21 meters high is builtat the tail.

This is the result of the ancient architectural craftsmans skillful use ofthe center of gravity and curved shape of curved wood to erect and erect beams.It can be said that it has unique ingenuity and is also a great spectacle in thehistory of Chinese architecture.

各位贵宾，我们面前的这座单檐山式建筑，叫新红门，穿过这座门我们就正式进入陵区了。显陵工程浩大，前后用了四十年的时间，占地面积 183.13公顷，相当于 300 个足球场那么大，整个显陵由内外两道城墙环护，大家看，连接这新红门的城墙叫外罗城，墙高 6.5 米，厚 1.9 米。周长 3600多米，红墙黄瓦，蜿蜒于山峦起伏中，雄伟壮观，大家所看到的这样大的外罗城当时在建陵的之后，各地官员从全国各地，各州、府、县上至东北。下至云贵，从一砖、一瓦、一石都向这里进献。每一块砖、一块瓦都有完整标明拉来自何处，可见工程之浩大。从空中俯瞰，外罗城为“金瓶”形状，“金瓶”在风水术在中认为不仅能饶气护生，而且是神仙所佩之法器。其寓意神圣吉祥。同时蜿蜒的城墙顺山势起伏，避免了建筑外在的生硬感，使之与自然环境更加和谐。显陵外罗城是明代帝陵之首创!其后的明清陵寝均沿袭了这一做法。

穿过新红门大家会发现依中国古建筑之规制，所有主要建筑均在中轴线为中心在两边展开，而新红门却偏离了中轴线，这是为什么?请大家带者这个疑问随我继续游览。

在我们的左手边大家看到的这个水塘叫外明塘，因处风水术中外明堂的位置(这个堂是厅堂的堂)故名。明堂是风水理论中的重要概念，原指陵区开阔的空地，要宽阔忌狭窄，宜山长发展之计。外明塘上接陵区九曲河出水，下通沧浪湖入水，它破墙而出，使外罗城有90米的缺口，说起这个缺口还有一段有意思的典故呢：据说当年嘉靖皇帝为了给自己的父母修建陵寝，耗资巨大，然国库银两短缺，拿不出如此多的款项，当朝的奸相严嵩便出计让各地知府出资筑陵，此计一出，全国各地迫于皇威相继筹措不等银两，唯云南和贵州两府因地处边远穷困地区，未能及时筹措到足够的款项，导致延误大工，后被嘉靖皇帝贬官严办，当时的设计师就决定在这一空缺段修一口明塘与两边的外罗城相连。而这一空缺段也就留下了缺—云南，少—贵州的说法。至今钟祥人仍将独缺什么说成缺—云南少—贵州。

Everybody is good! Now we came to the headwaters of the Yangtze river three gorges, it is divided into the qutang gorge, wu gorge and xiling. The sons of li bai in the three gorges once wrote "the early onset treasure", then the poem is widely circulated, people also full of love, for the three gorges today let us to go to the beautiful three gorges.

In the three gorges, just have to say this mountain here, it has the majestic mount tai, huangshan has completed, have the beauty of the fragrant hills. Now we look, on both sides is the continuous mountains, deftly will keep out the sun; The outline of darkness in zhongshan. It is said that only in the midday and midnight to see the sun and the moon. Upon the high mountain, towering old trees, jagged. Mountain stream between hanging a white satin, jet whipping, we can feel the face is covered with layers of water vapor. In the mountains, the lush jungle, river boat, does not have a poetic.

The quiet of the three gorges water without the west lake, also no turbidity of the Yangtze river, is various. The summer, the river water rose, will be a hillock blackish green jade river is an organic whole repeatedly, if in the spring and winter, heres another amorous feelings! Ok, I not much said, or listening to the sounds of virtual, seeing is believing, you to witness the most beautiful of the three gorges together!

Andy scenic area located at the side of the east suburb of kunming mingfeng, 8 km away from downtown, built during Ming wanli, the Ming chongzhen decade (1637) bronze moved struck binchuan chicken foot mountain, the qing emperor kangxi 10 years (1671), the day the king wu sangui reconstruction of the existing building double-hipped roof mountain type zhenwu bronze, bronze weighing 250 tons, is Chinas largest copper architecture, it than the Summer Palace in Beijing mirage of the longevity hill intact; Than the wudang mountain in hubei large hall, is one of the largest pure copper temple, Chinas existing tongdian temple in the hot sun yi yi is unripe brightness, dazzling, so people called the mirage, is key protected cultural relics in China.

Andy has more than 380 years since ding building, the existing fengshan mirage, is Wu Sanjia rebuilt at the beginning of the qing dynasty. There were "on the beam, the qing emperor kangxi 10 years, were the big lv, ten door day, the day prince wu sangui worship", etc. Wu sangui after the peasant uprising, rate of division into ju kunming, reconstruction of mirage. Can be seen on the mirage girders now ", the qing emperor kangxi 10 years, were the major of ji lu month (October) 6, day prince wu sangui to build "the copper. The inside of the Buddha, signboards, beams, level, doors and Windows, panlong, decoration and so on are made of bronze. Andy, floor, the steps of the railings are unique marble build by laying bricks or stones. The whole house majestic, beautiful and easy.

Who lived in qing dynasty, taihe palace BingXian frequently met earthquake, but the award-winning repairs. Is one of the largest disaster in the cultural revolution. House collapse, statues destroyed, taihe palace, desolate and review. Until 1999, in order to meet the kunming world expo, has carried on the comprehensive renovation to taihe palace. Taihe palace, experienced the vicissitudes of life, really few emperor wudi hing scrap.

Andy tianmen

Started from the foothills to meet fairy bridge, a doors, two doors, three doors, to as high as 1000 meters above the platform, at present is a castle type buildings, towers, the crenel walls, a taihe palace in the city, embedded on the door of the gate "lingxingmeng" three gold, couplets on the door "on GuLongFei, unique unique brainpower-computer; east Lin Zhu dance, half green cloud".

Andy

The door that can see existing Andy - the largest pure copper temple in China. Its beams stone, rock ridge, treasure roof cornices, plaques couplets, sweets statues, bottle furnace ware, etc., all with bronze, weighing two hundred tons. Temple is 6.7 meters high, 6.2 meters wide and deep, the house body vertical cylindrical root, temple wall for 36 pieces of carve patterns or designs on woodwork lattice and fang Mosaic, casting is careful, the complex structure. House for gold statues statue, 5 for zhenwu sovereigns, lateral plastic serviceable, two will be lined with fire and water. Bronze sitting on high marble Dan pursuit, is enclosed by two layers of stone railings, glittering, like a golden treasure house. Under the temple steps two shi ting, left another one to 10 m high DiaoDou lever, seven stars black flag rising stem. Flag, flag, flag also use bronze. Copper flag for the triangle, fangs, flag around twenty BaSu, top with the sun; Six star flag in the big dipper, the entire copper flag are hollow out Mosaic; Highlighted carved with "all is well, the good crop weather, peaceful country and safe people" 12 copper character.

The clock tower

Andy scenic area topped with three layers of 36 wing Angle of 29 meters high tower, the third floor of the dome, hanging by the Ming yongle (1432) 21 years great 3-ton bell, bell, 3.5 meters high, caliber 6.7 meters circumference, 14 tonnes, to yunnans largest antique clock, the clock is original suspension in kunming city beautiful appearance of xuanhua upstairs, 1953 towers to the ancient building park, close to the "mirage" park again.

Botanical garden landscape

Andy has 500 acres of the clock tower botanical garden landscape, has been built tea garden, azalea garden, magnolia, rose garden, WenShi District ten park, introduction of more than 20xx kinds of garden plants. Andy area is a combination of humanities landscape, natural landscape features of tourist attractions. In behind the side, there are thick folded more than two strains of camellia one individual plant and crape myrtle, legend has it for the kind of the Ming dynasty, before and after the Spring Festival every year, thousands of camellia flowers in full bloom, bonus as fire.

Outside the temple built with walls, gates, battlements. The city on the floor.

Zhuhai, is a kind of charming scenery, blue sea, blue sky, islands, harbour, like a with modern seaside big garden. Beautiful natural environment, rich human landscape, beautiful city construction, made in zhuhai.

Zhuhai is full of green trees, grass and flowers. Hits the lush tall trees bring cool and refreshing, after the grass green carpet for people on the road shop; And yellow flowers dotted with zhuhai, zhuhai to weave a beautiful garlands. The sky is always blue, the sea is blue forever.

After 18 years of the construction of the zhuhai, now has become a shinning pearl of the south China sea.

"Go to zhuhai, zhuhai!" With a whoop of joy, in this hot day, we embarked on a trip to zhuhai.

Zhuhai, the blue of the sky is very clear like a brush, we hide in wood green under the tree, is at the foot of the green green grass. Blowing straight a gust of wind, blowing didnt the heat of summer, looked at the sparkling sea, make us feel refreshed. Watching the island green trees, I was impressed by the beautiful zhuhai.

In couples road on the sea, there is a use granite carved sculpture - zhuhai fisher girl, its a Shared the 70 parts. A symbol of the pursuit of light giving jewelry. She draped in fishing nets, hands held high with a bright beads.

Walk on the way couples, looking at fisher girl sculpture, play games on the grass, very comfortable.

Go to use on the beach at the seaside, the sea to the feet, I dug a few small pool of water, but water poured rushed. The harshness of the sun beach tan iron. Water a blunt, the heat are separated on the beach. We walk on the water, feel is not hot. Fine sand rushed to the feet, and turned into a "slippers". The waves again blunt, "slippers" was missing.

Zhuhai is very beautiful, everywhere is mountain, water everywhere. This beautiful scenery let me linger.

Package park formerly hatosy park, located in the south ring road of hefei old one ring, wuhu road need riverfront. Park is mainly composed of bao temple, cemetery of the wind pavilion, zhuang, etc. Dominated by the most authoritative, the most detailed historical data display, cultural relics exhibition and figure show to the world of the born and bred, in KaiFengFu etiquette bao of an emperor of the song dynasty, to be honest and clean, not afraid of power, law enforcement and stalwart, impartial and incorruptible personality charm. To commemorate the one thousand anniversary of baogong involved in hatosy park to planning and construction on the basis of the original culture of baogong involved, hereinafter referred to as "package park", in addition to the bao temple, cemetery, also a new sky court, bao memorial, benediction, such as square, the water fountain.

The entire scenic area solemn and beautiful environment; The water ripples, yacht ripples; Weeping willows on both sides of the Chinese Taiwan and JiaMu luxuriantly green, it is a good place for people to pay their respects sages, ornamental tour. Hatosy park because bao temple, cemetery and is famous for its cool breeze pavilion.

Legend hatosy lotus root is not silk, hatosy due to water pollution, however, havent see out of the lotus root. Hatosy park as the representative of the historical and cultural landscape in the ring park, belong to the important a ring park, covers an area of 30.5 hectares, including the water 15 hectares. Its basic flat terrain in southern, northern due to break down the original city, so by huancheng south road on the waterfront in slope topography distribution.

Package scenic park has built-in bao temple, cemetery wind pavilion, zhuang, etc. Hatosy green willows along lines, pu lotus, handle hatosy rippling in the middle, there is a long and narrow island, lush green trees into the shadow of knife, argue HuaMuJi doo-yan, with a piece of bamboo shade, looming a white wall park, simple and elegant antique buildings, is one of the famous scenic spots and historical sites of the hefei - BaoXiaoSu male shrine. Bao, min, word ren (999-1062), northern song dynasty yu, hefei LuZhou (now anhui) person. Saint five years (1027), zheng jinshi and, by the court appointed integrated magistrate of a county.

Because of its high parents in weak, need to serve, no any longer serve. Xie parents, just as long county magistrate of a county. Afterwards BaoZhengRen DuanZhou (zhaoqing) know what county, "DE bao on sung history biography" said it "has a good government", get promoted three years later, after successive monitoring platform, three division of the judge; Jingdong, shaanxi, hebei road transport; Three department agreement, know about the court; Ying states, yangzhou, LuZhou, chizhou, jiangning, KaiFengFu magistrate and three department, finally, a council officer to agreement and pawn, confer posthumously does history. In bao bao temple was built in Ming jiajing years reading channel fragrant flower piers built at a young age, bao temple main hall sits eight feet tall statue of baogong involved, dynasty, mahan, get, yan-fang stand on both sides, and there are three Zha bibcock, tiger, dog; Both sides wing cemetery unearthed cultural relics on display package, including the family precepts and exhibits such as pao family tree. Temple east hexagonal pavilion has a well, legend corrupt officials drank Wells have a headache, so the name "CV 23". Hatosy southeast covers an area of 3 hectares of conifers, is the cemetery bao and his wife and children.

In the tranquil little village of Wuzhen, the light hangs over the Dong ShiRiver in a soft summer pallour, as though the clouds are making a deliberateeffort to protect the residents from sunburn. Along the river, a select group ofday-trippers enjoy a cruise aboard a pole-steered barge. Im highly privilegedto be visiting the very last of Chinas ancient "water towns" to be opened tovisitors.

When the authorities opened the 1,300 year old riverine settlement ofWuzhen to visitors in early 20__, they were determined to avoid the tacky mix oftourist restaurants and kitsch souvenir shops that has swamped other estuarytowns such as Zhouzhuang (which also lies in the Yangtze River delta). Wuzhensold buildings, an architectural symphony of stone, wood and tiles, have beenpreserved rather than restored, and lovingly maintained rather than tarted up.The result is a place that is a sheer joy to explore on foot.

Wuzhen is still a living town, where daily life goes on life goes on as ithas for the last thousand or so years. Coppersmiths, wood-carver andsilk-spinners work at their age-old crafts. Bicycle rickshaw drivers exchangestories as they wait for passengers. People cart water, cook meals, and tendtheir gardens, each flower-plot the size of a postage stamp.

The townsfolk of Wuzhen gather in the town square around mid-day - talking,smoking or playing mah-jongg. They seem laidback and contented. Most of all,they seem to enjoy observing the passing parade, which provides a constantsource of amusement. I started to wonder whether it was the town or the strangeforeign visitors like myself that was the main attraction. Western visitors arestill a rarity here.

Wuzhen lies in the far north-east of Zhejiang province, about 90 minutes byroad from Shanghai. The name "water town" is especially apt; besides lying onthe Grand Canal, the settlement is completely encircled by two rivers - the DongShi and a smaller tributary, which meet at a T-junction. No matter where youstand, water provides the backdrop, the raison dêtre of the whole town.

About 250 families used to live in the old quarter of Wuzhen. However,following the "restoration" of the town, many townsfolk have been moved out tothe "new" Wuzhen, an attractively landscaped but otherwise characterlessapartment block 15 km down the road towards Shanghai. Those who remain aremainly the elderly and craftspeople. While I was assured that there is nothingto stop new residents moving into the old town, young people nowadays seemstrangely absent.

The old wooden shops of Wuzhen look ageless and immovable, as though theirtimbers have totally defied the ravages of time. At first, one suspects that thecustodians of the town have tried to cover up the decomposing processes ofnature. But look more closely and you find slow rot setting in around the basesof the doorframes, and splinters breaking away from the lintels. What littlerestoration has been done is so inconspicuous as to be totally indistinguishablefrom the original.

All the buildings in Wuzhen are in Ming or Qing Dynasty style. One palatialestablishment is the "Double Happiness" Marriage Shrine. Twin hearts are joinedin a nouveau-Chinese character in gilt upon a flaming crimson background,presumably depicting the inseparability of marriage - perhaps the Chinese knowsomething that we Westerners dont.

Wuzhen also has some unique attractions, including Yu Liuliangs Coin andPaper Money Exhibition. Nearby (would you believe) stands a Pawnshop Museum, asif to prove that usury is universal. (Maybe fortunately, Wuzhen has the onlysuch establishment Ive ever come across). I tried looking for a Qing DynastyDVD player in the pawnshop, but was sadly disappointed.

No fewer than eight stone bridges cross the Dong Shi River, the grandest ofthem being the Fengyuan Double Bridge. The bridge is separated into two parts bya wooden sluice gate. Cyclists carry their bikes across the high arches of thebridges, which are designed to let boats pass underneath without difficulty.

Back in the main square, the elders are still hanging out. On the villagestage, a performance of Peking Opera is underway. Across the square, a masterpuppeteer entertains visitors with a shadow-play of the type known in Java aswayang kulit. But while the Javanese version of shadow puppetry is subtle andrefined, the Wuzhen style has the protagonists attacking each other with theferocity of tigers.

Whether by accident or design, this town seems to have been dropped intoits watery setting by a master town planner from another galaxy. A more perfectlocation for a settlement would be difficult to find. It is fervently to behoped that tourism will augment rather than destroy the unique ambiance ofWuzhen.