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Of the mountains, only laoshan is by the sea to rise. Laoshan is a major mountain ranges of the shandong peninsula, pu top 1133 meters above sea level the highest peak,, the highest peak in Chinas coastline, with sea "the first famous mountains". It stands in the yellow sea, tall and majestic. Laoshan around the coastline of 87 kilometers, 18, coastal islands constitute the wonders of laoshan sea, mountain, hill sea color, light is the laoshan scenic features. Laoshan is also one of the worlds three major high-quality mineral water, underground water system center.

Laoshan mountain peak, there are huge too clear, Yang mouth, China building, clear stream, chessboard stone and north nine water seven large viewing area. Laoshan mountain is the famous Taoist mountains in our country, the most in the past, a concept of "jiugong eight seventy-two temples", the whole thousands of monks. The famous Taoist figures QiuChangChun, zhang sanfeng once in this order. The original Taoist temple mostly destroyed.

Preserved etheric qing dynasty palace of the scale is biggest, the longest history. The mountain, the mountain sea of light color. When you walk in laoshan bluestone paths, one side is blue sky, great tide; On the other side is the pine peak, the lush, you will be open-minded, qi shu shuang god. As a result, some say old laoshan is "the fairy curtilage, [mansion". Legend, the emperor qin shi huang had come to beg fairy, these activities, to the laoshan painted a layer of mysterious color.

Laoshan is a major mountain ranges of the shandong peninsula, pu top 1133 meters above sea level the highest peak. It stands in the yellow sea, tall and majestic. Mountain, the mountain sea of light color, is the laoshan scenic features. In the national famous mountains, only laoshan is by the sea to rise.

Laoshan district is located in mid-latitudes warm temperate zone monsoon climate area, adequate light resources, abundant heat, rainfall, mild humid, four seasons. Rizhao historical average of 2503.3 hours. Annual average temperature 12.1 ℃, the monthly average relative humidity of 72%.

Laoshan products rich in resources. World-famous laoshan mineral water, good water quality, contain a variety of minerals beneficial to human body, is the best water for brewing liquor and beverages. Which are found in their mouth bay of laoshan green stone, for stone treasures. Laoshan fist, yunfeng, dried milk cake is one of the vertical lai native products. Due to the unique "small jiangnan" of the climate and the growth of laoshan tea become a few drinks. Cold dew good peach, cherry varieties, known. The vast coastline provides unique favorable conditions for Marine fishing. Is rich in yellow croaker, sea cucumber, abalone, scallop, kelp, such as AGAR weed sea Jane delicious.

今年假期我与爸爸、妈妈一起来到湖北宜昌市，欣赏漂亮的世界奇迹——三峡大坝。

一路上，我既兴奋又期待，盼望着能早点见到这条“长江巨龙”。沿途的风景，让我的心也豁然明亮，片片绿叶在微风的韵律中，翩翩起舞，鸟儿的歌声在幽幽的绿丛中，阵阵回荡……就在我沉醉于这鸟语花香的时候，目的地三峡大坝终于到了。一下车，我便一马当先的登上了瞭望台。“哇!”看见了这只奇迹般的“巨龙”，我情不自禁的感叹起来。这条“巨龙”真是粗壮啊!看它那强劲的“身体”将滔滔洪水挡在身外，似珍珠、似宝石般的水滴洒落“身旁”，掀起一层又一层白花花的水雾， 让这条“巨龙”盘腾在仙境一般。这条“巨龙”真是伟大啊!看他身旁一杆杆听力的电线塔，通往千家万户的电源，似闪电、似雷鸣般的洪水拍打着“巨龙”，让着源源不断的电力，走进家家户户让这条龙“龙”身在神话一般。

这条“巨龙”，真是奇迹啊!看它的设计巧妙，看它的造就精细。花费了15年的灿烂光阴，凝聚了多少人的心血与汗水。让这条“巨龙”处在智慧与劳动结晶的光环下。

我爱你!永远不朽的世界奇迹——三峡大坝!

Dear visitors, everybody! Today is a great pleasure when you tour guide.Welcome to visit the Summer Palace, it is included in the "world heritage"imperial garden. Please tourists in visiting graffito of the scribble dontlitter, and destroy its beauty.

Lets look when we first came to the famous promenade, the pillars of thegreen paint, red paint of the rail, as the eye is not the end. The corridor isnot general, there are more than seven hundred meters long, divided into 273rooms, each of the cross on the sill have colorful paintings, painted figures,flowers and plants, landscape, the tourists, do you believe that? Thousands ofno two picture in the picture the same. It is no wonder that is referred to as:the worlds first gallery

Swim gallery, we came to the foot of the longevity hill, fellow tourists,you looked up and saw a three layer architecture of anise pyramid? Yes, that is,buddhist incense the rows of resplendent and magnificent palace, below is thecloud temple

Visitors, we boarded the longevity hill, standing in front of the Buddhaincense looking down, the Summer Palace, the landscape of the most in fundus.Look forward again, kunming lake quiet like a mirror, like a piece of jadegreen. Cruise ships, original in the lake slowly glides, almost leave no traces.Kunming lake is a quiet, tourists feel?

So we went down the mountain visit kunming lake. Look, kunming lake aroundlong embankment, the top there are several styles of different stone bridge,involves numerous weeping willows on both sides. Visitors walk through the longstone bridge, can go to the island to play. The stone bridge seventeen littletunnel, so called the marble seventeen-arch bridge which.

Tourists, trip to the Summer Palace, to the end, wish everyone have a goodtime.

Today everybody plays well? In fact, today we know only can be the tip ofthe iceberg, hope everybody has the opportunity to play again.

First of all, on behalf of all the staff of __ travel agency, I would liketo extend a warm welcome to you and thank you for your support and trust in ourtravel agency. My family name is X. please call me Xiao X. next to me is ourteam driver, master X. Master X has rich driving experience. I believe you willfeel comfortable and safe on the way. If you have any difficulties andrequirements during the journey, please put forward them in time, and I will trymy best to serve you. Here, I wish you a pleasant journey, happy to come andsatisfied to return.

The scenic spot we are going to visit today is the ancient culture street.The ancient culture street is a street with Tianhou palace as the center andTianjin local characteristics. It is located in gongnangong North Street, NankaiDistrict, where all kinds of handicrafts and cultural goods from Tianjin andeven all over the country are gathered. It attracts a large number of touristswith "Chinese flavor, Tianjin flavor, ancient flavor and cultural flavor". Sowhat about the ancient culture street? Lets make an evaluation after visitingit in person.

We have come to the parking lot of the scenic spot. Please remember thatour car number is __ and the license plate is ______. The car is parked on theleft side of the parking lot. We are still meeting here at 4 p.m. please lockthe window. Please take your valuables with you. Please get off.

First of all, we see an ancient archway with the word "Gushang art garden"written on it. "Gushang" is the old name of Tianjin, and "Yiyuan" means thebirthplace of culture, that is to say, it is the earliest birthplace of culturein Tianjin. On the back of this archway, you can also see two words - jinao.The meaning of "gold" is precious, while "Ao" is the allusion of "carp leapingover the dragons gate". It is said that the carp leaping over the dragons gatewill be reborn and become Ao. Ao is the embodiment of the dragon. It is saidthat there are golden Ao in the Haihe River in Tianjin. Since then, we will beprotected by golden Ao. After reading these two words, please have a look at thetwelve copper coins under our feet, which represent the heyday of China from theTang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. These copper coins, from small to large, meanthat after we walk through this street, we will have a lot of good fortune, andhope that our motherland will become rich and strong. After you have seen thecopper coin, continue to come here, lets go to the next stop tongqingli to havea look.

Now you follow me into tongqingli, which was built in 1920__ and is thelargest building complex of Chinese and Western style in Tianjin. After enteringthe gate, we can see four murals on the wall, which reflect the market cultureof Tianjin, including "civilized marriage", "walking on stilts", "dragon boat"and this "witty talk" here. When you come to this side of the Hutong, you cansee two large murals. One is the picture of Lu River in Tianjin on this side,which shows the prosperous sea scene of Tianjin at the mouth of the trigeminalriver. The other is the picture of young willows in that year - huangdamen,which describes the customs of the common people during the lunar new year.

Out of tongqingli, please follow me and take a look at the Jade EmperorPavilion, a Taoist temple with a history of 600 years. Yuhuangge is located onthe high side of the river. It is open and spacious. It is a good place to climbup and look far away. Therefore, every year on the Double Ninth Festival,Yuhuangge is unprecedentedly lively. In the rear of Yuhuangge, we also see ashrimp stone, which has a history of hundreds of millions of years and ispraised as "longevity stone" by the common people. We can touch the longevitystone and wish our friends a long life.

After walking through the shrimp stone, we are now in Tianyan square. Itgot its name because it was close to the place where Yan Fulao, a famous modernChinese translator, lived, and it was here that tianyanlun was translated intoChinese.

I dont know if you have noticed that there are a large number of coloredpaintings in the shops and under the eaves of the whole street. These paintingsare drawn in the order of historical events, with a total of more than 800. Thewest side is painted with four famous works, and the east side is legendarystories from Han Dynasty to Qing Dynasty. What we see now is the clay figurinezhangshijiadian, which has a history of more than 140 years. Now it has spreadto the fifth generation and has been recognized as one of the first nationalintangible heritage projects.

Well, now weve come to Tin Hau square. The famous Tin Hau palace islocated here. Before entering the Tin Hau palace, lets take a look at theflagpole in front of the mountain gate. It is said that when the flagpole wasfirst set up, on the one hand, it hung lights to guide the water boats going toand from sanchahekou, on the other hand, it served as a foil for the Tin Haupalace, which made the whole building complex appear to be in perfect disorderand extraordinary momentum. The theater opposite is the earliest open-air stagein Tianjin and also the earliest place for people to entertain themselves.

Now lets take a look at Tianhou palace. Built in Yuan Dynasty, Tianhoupalace is one of the three largest Tianhou palaces in the world. As we all know,most temples in our country face south, but the Queens palace faces west andEast. Why? Because we have to face the Haihe River, which leads to the BohaiSea. Facing the Haihe River means facing the sea, so that when it is notconvenient for the believers to go ashore, they can worship the queen on boardand pray for peace.

Now we come to the main hall, which is the place where empress dowager isworshipped. The one sitting in the middle is Tian Hou. Mazu, originally namedLin Mo, is a native of Meizhou, Fujian Province. She was born miraculous. She isfamiliar with the nature of water and often rescues ships at sea. Later, he wasworshipped as a God, and was granted the title of Tianfei and Tiantian.

We have come to the north entrance of the ancient culture street. Thepattern of the twelve zodiac animals is paved on the ground. It reflects thetraditional Chinese folk custom of "twelve zodiac animals" for thousands ofyears. It means that the ancient culture street is prosperous in people andmoney for twelve months a year, which echoes the pattern of copper coins pavedin the north entrance. Each of US tourists can step on the animal patterns thatare the same as our own, so that we can bring wealth and auspiciousness to ourfamilies. If you look at this archway again, the "clear snow" on the insiderefers to the scenery of early clear after snow and full of tourists. On theoutside is the word "hometown of Jinmen", which means that the area near theancient culture street is the center of Tianjin. Todays Tianjin is formed bythe gradual development of this area as the original center.

Well, we have finished visiting the main scenic spots. Next time, you canvisit freely, or buy some special products with Tianjin ancient flavor. Letsmeet in the parking lot at 4 pm. The license plate number is ______. Please payattention to your safety and dont be late.

Today, we have passed the 680 meter long ancient culture street to show youthe national characteristics of Tianjin Folk Customs. Our journey is over. Thankyou for your support and cooperation in my work. Please forgive me if there isany inadequacy or inadequate care in my service today. I also hope you can giveme more valuable opinions. I look forward to our next cooperation. Finally, Iwish you good health, smooth work, success and all the best!

Ladies and gentlemen

On this day, we will visit Huashan Mountain, which is known as "stone forlotus and cloud for platform". Huashan, also known as Taihua mountain, islocated in the south of Huayin City, 120 kilometers east of Xian city.

Huashan Mountain, known as Xiyue in ancient times, is one of the fivemountains in China. It is named Huashan Mountain because its peaks are naturallyarranged like flowers. In December 1992, Huishan was rated as one of the top 40scenic spots in China. Even friends who have never been to Huashan will learnabout the situation of Huashan from some funny myths and anecdotes, such as "aroad to Huashan since ancient times", "fairy palm of Huayue", "aloes splittingmountain to save mother", "Huashan discussing sword", and modern wisdom tocapture Huashan. These Beautiful myths and stories reflect peoples yearning andworship for Huashan since ancient times.

South China mountain overlooks the Yellow River in the north and QinlingMountains in the south. It is known as "Huashan ruli". The whole mountain hassimple lines, such as knife cutting and axe splitting. The unique peaks areabrupt and majestic. It is known as "the most dangerous mountain in theworld".

When it comes to strangeness, it is made up of a huge and complete piece ofgranite. The ancients said, "its not strange that there are no stones in themountain, its not strange that there are no pure stones." "Huashan is cut intofour directions, its width is ten li, its height is five thousand Ren, one stoneis also called" Daqi ". Huashan has five main peaks, among which the East, Westand South peaks are the highest, and the three peaks stand in opposition,"flying out of the clouds and falling into the Yellow River", known as "threepeaks outside the sky". When it comes to danger, the "Changkong plank road"erected in the air, the "Quanzhen rock" engraved on the overhanging rock, the"Yaozi turning over" with three sides of the air, the "Yaozi turning over" withconvex top and concave bottom, and the "qianchitong", "baichixia", "Laojunfurrow", "chaerya" and "canglongling" dug on the overhanging rock of the cliffare all extremely dangerous. "Huashan has been a road since ancient times.".There is only a north-south line of roads in the mountains, about 10 kilometerslong, winding and rugged. In many places, it can be said that "one man is incharge of the pass, ten thousand men are not allowed to open.".

Huashan not only has magnificent natural landscape, but also has richhistorical and cultural accumulation, and cultural landscape is everywhere.Along the way up and down the mountain and along the Valley Road, inscriptions,poems and stone carvings will make people linger.

My friends, what we are here now is yuquanyuan. It is said that because thespring water there is connected with the jade well on the top of the mountain,the water quality is pure and sweet, so it is called "yuquanyuan". It is theonly way to climb Mount Hua. It is said that it was built by Chen Tuan, ahermit. In the courtyard, the pavilions and corridors are zigzag, and thesprings are murmuring. It is a tourist attraction. Yuquan temple, together withthe Dongdao temple and Zhenyue palace that we will see later, are places forTaoist activities. Now there are 53 temples. Most of the buildings in thecourtyard were rebuilt in the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty.

Dear friends, we are now at the foot of Beifeng, one of the five peaks. Itis about 10 kilometers away from the mouth of Huashan Valley, which is thesource of water flow in Huashan valley. Please follow the direction of my fingerto see the trees. Maybe many people will know it. Yes, its the coca tree.There, the green trees float here, so it is called "qingkeping".

From qingkeping to huixinshi. The climbing road turns from a flat stoneroad to a narrow stone ladder cut on the cliff. Seeing the mountain roadcircling up, many tourists with weak will will turn their minds to look at themountain and sigh and come back in vain.

Friends, we have reached the north peak now. After the previous threepasses, I think you have a necessary understanding of Huashan insurance. Thenorth peak is named Yuntai peak, 1550 meters above sea level, where themountains are towering, hanging on three sides, majestic and unique, just like acloud, so it is named because it is just like a Yuntai. Its height is thelowest, but it has a very important geographical location. It is the pivot ofthe four peaks. The pavilion in front of us is called "military soul Pavilion",the name of which comes from the feature film "outwit Huashan".

Now we come to Zhongfeng. Zhongfeng is also called Yunv peak. It is saidthat in the spring and Autumn period, Xiao Shi, a hermit in Huashan, was good atplaying the flute. The beautiful sound of the flute won the admiration ofNongyu, the youngest daughter of Duke mu of Qin. She put down her luxurious andcomfortable life in the palace and lived in seclusion with Xiao Shi. Many yearslater, they became immortals and went away by the Phoenix. Many scenic spots onthe mountain also got their names. There are jade girl shampoo basin, sacrificetree, etc. Because of this beautiful love story, Huashan is endowed with someromance and gentleness after it is broad, solemn and deep.

After Zhongfeng, I will accompany you to Dongfeng.

Dongfeng, also known as Chaoyang peak, has a Chaoyang terrace at the top,which is the best place to watch the sunrise. Mountains are not high, butimmortals are famous. Huashan is said to be a place where many immortals live.Taoist fairyland. It is said that Zhao Kuangyin, the song Taizu, and Chen Tuan,the Huashan hermit, are in a lonely peak, where they play chess. Chen Tuan, alsoknown as Mr. Xiyi, was a virtuous man. After discussion, they decided to bet onHuashan. As a result, he lost to Chen Tuan. According to the pre-determinedconditions, Huashan became the Taoists Taoist center and would receive foodforever. On the East Cliff of Dongfeng, there is a natural pattern. You see, isit like a giant palm? This giant palm is more than 20 feet long. Its fivefingers are uneven, and its middle finger runs straight through the peak. Whenthe sun shines, its five fingers are like hanging on the picture. This is theso-called "Huayue fairy palm" which is the first of the eight scenic spots inGuanzhong. It is said that a long time ago, Huashan Mountain was connected withZhongtiao Mountain, and the right foot ascended to open Zhongtiao Mountain toopen a passage for the Yellow River. What we see now is the fingerprints left bythe fingers of the river god in tuohua mountain.

Nanfeng, also known as Luoyan peak, is the highest peak of HuashanMountain, with an altitude of 2160 meters. It is like a fairyland when you comethere. As the ancient poem says, "only the sky is above, and there is nomountain with Qi. When you look up, the red sun is near, and when you look down,the white clouds are low.". There are pine forests all around, mixed withcypresses, meandering for several miles, dense shade closed. At the moment, whatwe see in front of our eyes is the fourth danger "long empty stack fatigue".Changkong plank road is one of the most dangerous places in Huashan. Without thecourage and determination of others, I dare not travel. There is "taishangquan"at the top of the peak. The water in the pool is green and clear, which isinexhaustible all the year round. It is commonly known as "yangtianchi". Thereare many inscriptions on the cliff, most of which are inscribed by poets of Mingand Qing Dynasties and modern times. "Hua Shan Lun Jian" described in themartial arts novel biography of archery heroes probably happened in Nanfeng.

We are now coming to the essence of Huashan. Xifeng, also known as Lianhuapeak, gets its name from the big stone on the right side in front of Cuiyuntemple on the top of the peak. It looks like a lotus. The peak is extremelysteep, like a sword cutting, standing on a cliff. At the top of the peak is the"star picking platform". When you look down from the platform, you can see thevast Qinchuan River, the blue sky, the Wei and Luo rivers, and the Yellow River.Li Baiguan, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a beautiful poem after thisscene: "the west mountain is magnificent, and the Yellow River is like silk inthe sky.".

The huge stone we see at the moment is called "axe cleaving stone". Thestone body has a 0. There is a 66 meter wide crack. There is also a touchinglegend about this crack. The Virgin Mary, the youngest daughter of the JadeEmperor, fell in love with jindanxi, who was beaten down by the Jade Emperor,and married. Yang Jian, the God of Erlang, cursed his sister, the third VirginMary, for marrying a mortal, which violated the rule of heaven. So she put thethird Virgin Mary under the huge stone at the top of the West peak of HuashanMountain. Later, the third virgin gave birth to a son named Chenxiang. WhenChenxiang grew up, she came to Huashan Mountain and defeated Yang Jian. Sherescued her mother from the huge stone on her mothers body, and the wholefamily got together. This is where the myth of "splitting mountains to savemother" took place.

For hundreds of millions of years, the uncanny craftsmanship has created abreathtaking and magnificent natural landscape of Huashan. For thousands ofyears, the praise of scholars has accumulated rich cultural connotation ofHuashan. It can be said that Huashan is closely linked with Huaxia, which is thesymbol of the Chinese nation. From the legends and anecdotes about Huashan, wecan see that it is not only broad, tactful, elegant, deep and serious, but alsohumorous, witty, and even romantic and gentle. Isnt that the portrayal of ourChinese nation?

There, the tour of Huashan is coming to an end. I hope my explanation willleave you a perfect memory!!

Md palace, located in eastern henan already county, was built in the han,from began. 10 li away from Lao tze birthplace, Lao tze old age once lecturehere, after the people ride a green cattle under a immortal legend Lao zi inthis. Md intrauterine laojun units in the national key protected culturalrelics, was built in the tang dynasty tianbao for two years, 13 meters high, isan ancient big brick building, surrounded by 14 high altar form ancientbuildings.

Along the 33 ste”"ps”" into the old gentleman on the gate, is the mainhall, hard mountain qing dynasty architecture, inside each a partial temple. On13 Sabina chinensis tree green lush, cool wind blow gently, all the year roundflying birds singing. Below smooth haze, the lake a travelling Hui, pleasantscenery. Along the central axis of the entrance in the south about xu, and enjoythe temple, welcomed the xuan yuan temple, jubilee temple, pavilion, tao kiosks,teng YunGe, it faces, gossip, the door to all the wonderful memorial arch ofdragon of dike, hong tao yuan, etc. Because of laozi moral high honors, traveledthrough the ages the visitors an endless stream, Tang Gaozu tang gaozu, tangdynasty, the emperor Li Zhi Tang Xuansong lung-chi lee, Song Zhen Song Zhaohuan,was as well as the great writer su dongpo, ouyang xiu, etc have been here to orsacrifice to the ancestors, or inappropriate tour, leaving many immortal poemsglorious chapter.

游客们：这里有两口“第五泉”，一在东岸上，碑石上刻着“第五泉”三个大字;另一个在西侧池中，为雍正年间凿池时发现的，当时的人认为，这才是真正的第五泉，所以建亭于其上。大家都知道，在历史上被称作“天下第一泉”的有四个：江苏镇江中冷泉、江西庐山谷帘泉、北京玉泉、济南的趵突泉，而被称作天下第五泉的只有扬州一个。

在第五泉东面依墙筑着一块石碑，上刻“鹤冢”二字，顾名思义，这就是鹤的坟墓。大家对北宋诗人林和靖的逸事可能略知一二，传说他一生孤高自好，不娶不仕，隐居杭州孤山，喜欢种梅养鹤，有“梅妻鹤子”之说。光绪十九年，住持和尚星悟禅师在平山堂也养有两只鹤，极为珍爱，任凭双鹤戏耍自如。后来一只仙鹤患足疾而死，另一鹤悲痛欲绝，最后绝食而亡。星悟禅师深为感动，将双鹤埋葬在此，并立一石碑，上刻“鹤冢”。

各位游客，平山堂是欧阳修贬谪扬州太守时所建。可敬的是欧公不为世俗所羁，一到扬州，就爱上了蜀岗，于是在此建堂。史载，每到夏天，公务之余，他常带朋友来此饮酒赋诗，他们饮酒方式颇为特别，常叫从人去不远处的邵伯湖取荷花千余朵，分插百许盆，放在客人之间，然后让歌女取一花传客，依次摘其瓣，谁轮到最后一片则饮酒一杯，赋诗一首，往往到夜，载月而归，这就是当时的击鼓传花。大家注意看“风流宛在”的匾额，“流”字少了一点，“在”字又多了一点，大概是提醒大家做事要少一点风流，多一点实在吧。

当人们提起欧阳修时，必然会想到他的学生苏轼(苏东坡)。从平山堂往后走数米便是“谷林堂”，这是苏东坡56岁任扬州知府时为纪念欧阳修而建的，堂名取自他自己的诗句：“深谷下窈窕，高林合扶疏。”以诗的第一、二句的第二个字“谷”、“林”为堂名。

游客们：现在我们最后再去瞻仰栖灵塔。有寺庙的地方必有塔，人们常说：“救人一命，胜造七级浮屠”，浮屠是印度梵文中塔的别称。栖灵塔初建于隋文帝时，塔高九层，唐代著名诗人李白、刘长卿、刘禹锡、白居易等均曾登塔赋诗赞颂。可惜原塔在唐武宗时化为焦土。1980年鉴真大师塑像回扬州“探亲”，各界人士倡议重建栖灵塔。新建后的栖灵塔气势雄伟，成为大明寺的标志性景观。登上塔顶，扬州景观尽收眼底。

各位游客：大明寺从初建至今已有1500多年，这段历史饱经忧患，历尽沧桑，多次修葺，才有今日新貌，来之十分不易。大明寺既有美丽的湖光山色，又有古老的宗教寺庙，更有鉴真、欧阳修、苏东坡在此留下的历史印迹，观物赏景，融为一体，令人流连忘返。

女士们、先生们：

今天，我带领大家去故宫参观游览。故宫又称紫禁城，在北京城中心。占面积72万多平方米，宫殿有楼阁9900余间。是明、清两代皇帝的住所。城四周各设一门，南面的正门是午门，北门叫神武门，东门叫东华门，西门叫西华门。据说，造就故宫就召集了全国著名的工匠23万人左右，民夫100万人，由此可以知道故宫多少大，有多少壮观。故宫整个院落分为两大部分，即“前朝”和“后寝”。“前朝”是皇帝举行盛大典礼的地方，以太和殿、中和殿、保和殿及东西两侧的文华殿及武英殿为主。“后寝”是皇帝及后妃、未成年的子嗣们居住的地方，主要以乾清宫、交泰殿、坤宁宫及东西六宫为主。

大家请看，这座建筑物就是午门，午门又称五凤楼。明代，每年正月十五，午门都要悬挂灯赐食百官。到了清代，这个活动就取消了，此外，国家凡有征战凯旋时，皇帝都要在此接受献俘典礼，皇帝亲征也从午门出驾。关于戏曲舞台上“推出午门斩首”的说法，实际上是明代朝廷命官犯罪在午门廷杖，好，我们再往前走。

现在我们已来到了太和殿广场。这是铜香炉，这里一共有18 个，代表清朝18个省。东西两侧各有一只铜制的仙鹤和龟，是代表长寿的象征。看，现在展现在我们眼前的是太和殿，是整座紫禁城内级别最高的建筑，只有皇帝举行盛大典礼时才使用，象征皇权的至高无上，。太和殿俗称金銮殿，太和殿正面有12根大柱，东西约63米，高35米。整个大殿雕梁画栋，一条条巨龙蜿蜒盘旋在大红柱子上，这些龙姿态不一，刻画的栩栩如生。整个宫殿也非常豪华富贵。殿内有2米高的平台，上面雕刻着9条金龙的宝座。后面有金漆围屏，前面有御案。殿顶形式为最高等级的重檐庑殿顶，就连大殿正脊上的吻兽也是我国目前最大的，总之处处显示“第一”。

看完了太和殿，我们再来看中和殿。大家请看!中和殿是皇帝在大典前等待吉时、稍事休息的地方。下面，请大家跟我来一起参观当时的国宴厅--保和殿。各位朋友，这座大殿是故宫前朝三大殿中的最后一座大殿，叫保和殿。这座大殿被称为清代的国宴厅及科举考场。

现在我们来到了乾清宫，这是皇帝在紫禁城中居住和处理日常政事的地方。乾清宫分为中殿、东暖阁及西暖阁三个部分。正殿是皇帝处理日常政务、临时按见大臣的地方，殿中设有皇帝宝座及御案，正中挂着一块“正大光明”匾，那是清朝皇帝的祖训，作为治国、修身、平天下的基本准则。东、西暖阁是皇帝晚上住宿的地方。

现在请各位随我去参观交泰殿。各位请看，这座四角攒尖顶的大殿叫交泰殿，这座建筑是明清两朝皇后过生日时举行寿庆活动的地方。在大殿后墙匾额上有“无为”二字，那里是康熙皇帝的御笔，意思是希望后代能够以德制国，施以仁政，以图国家长治久安。

各位朋友，现在我们来到了紫禁城的后花园--御花园，这里是帝后们的休闲娱乐的场所。大家可以在此拍照留念。

由于时间关系，我们就先讲到这里，下面给大家2小时自由参观的时间，请大家不要在墙上乱涂乱画，保护文化遗产，希望大家玩的愉快。

Ladies and gentlemen:

Today, I guide you to visit the Forbidden City to visit. The Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, in the city center. A castle in the total area of more than 720xx0 square meters, the palace has more than 9900 rooms. As the residence of the Ming and qing dynasties emperor. Around each set one door, the front entrance to the south is the meridian gate, north gate called creature gate, east gate called DongHuaMen, Simon called xihua gate. Is said to bring up the palace called the national famous craftsmen around 230000, civilian worker 1 million people, this can know how big the Palace Museum, how many spectacular. The imperial palace the entire courtyard is divided into two parts, namely the "power" and "bed". "Power" is the place where the emperor held a grand ceremony, in taihe palace, zhonghe palace and Baohe Palace and mandarin house on either side of the things and the hall of martial valor. After the "bed" emperors and empresses, underage children where they live, mainly by the palace of heavenly purity, this temple, palace of earthly tranquility and natural things.

You see, the building is the meridian gate, the meridian gate is also called the five-phoenix towers. In the Ming dynasty, the fifteenth day of the year, meridian gate hanging lamp gives her food. This activity is cancelled in qing dynasty, in addition, every country in triumph, the emperor will be offered in this accept captive ceremony, the emperor personal expedition also out of the meridian gate drive. About drama stage "the launch of meridian gate beheaded", is actually in the Ming dynasty imperial court MingGuan crime in the meridian gate court beating, well, let us go forward again.

Now we have arrived at the hall of supreme harmony square. This is copper incense burner, a total of 18 here, on behalf of the qing dynastys 18 provinces. Things on both sides of each have a bronze crane and turtle, represents a symbol of longevity. Look, now show in front of us is the hall of supreme harmony, is the whole of the tallest buildings in the Forbidden City level, only use the emperor held a grand ceremony, a symbol of imperial power, supreme. The hall of supreme harmony commonly known as during, the hall of supreme harmony with 12 positive pillar of big, something about 63 meters, 35 meters high. The hall, with a dragon winding on bright red post, these dragons have different attitude, depicting the lifelike. Whole palace is also very luxurious riches and honour. Inside is 2 meters high platform, on which carved with nine dragon throne. Folding screen behind gold lacquer, in front of royal. Temple top form as the highest level of double-hipped roof hip roof top, even the ridge of the hall are shibi is also the biggest in China, the overall display "first" everywhere.

After reading the hall of supreme harmony, we look at zhonghe palace. You see! Zhonghe palace is the emperor before the ceremony waiting ji, take a break. Below, please come with me to visit the state banquet hall, Baohe Palace. My dear friends, this temple is the imperial palace imperial three the last in the main hall of the temple, called Baohe Palace. The hall is called the state banquet hall and the imperial examination in qing dynasty.

Now we came to the palace of heavenly purity, it is the emperor in the Forbidden City to live and handle daily politics. In the palace of heavenly purity is divided into the temple, east west NuanGe NuanGe and three parts. Main hall is the emperor to handle daily affairs, temporary according to see the minister, the temple with emperor to the throne and imperial, hanging in the middle of a "legitimate" plaque, it is qing dynasty emperors ZuXun, as a rule, the basic principles of cultivate ones morality, flat world. East, west NuanGe is the place where the emperor night accommodation.

Now please follow me to visit this temple. You look at the four corners to save peaked hall called tai temple, the building is the Ming and qing dynasties birthdays events held the queens birthday. On the horizontal board in the back wall of the hall there are "doing nothing" 2 words, there is the emperor kangxi YuBi, means hope children can be good for the system, the benevolent governance, to national security.

My dear friends, now we came to the garden of the Forbidden City, imperial garden, here is a place for after the emperors recreation. You can be in the pictures.

Due to time relationship, we first talked about here, the following 2 hours of free time to visit to you, please dont graffito of the scribble on the wall, the protection of cultural heritage, we hope you enjoy.

九华山英文导游词

九华山是中国佛教四大名山之一，首批国家重点风景名胜区。它为皖南斜列的三大山系(黄山、九华山、天目山——白际山系)之一。位于安徽省池州市东南境，西北隔长江与天柱山相望，东南越太平湖与黄山同辉，是安徽”两山一湖”(黄山、九华山、太平湖)黄金旅游区的北部主入口、主景区。下面是第一范文网带来的九华山英文的导游词，欢迎欣赏。

九华山英文导游词一：

Good morning! Ladies and gentlemen! Today, with such great joy, on behalf of Anhui Travel Agency. I’d like to extend our warm welcome to all of you, our distinguished guest from the other side of the Pacific. Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Li Xin and I work for Anhui Travel Agency .During your short stay in jiuhuashan, I’ll be your local guide. It’s my honor to be of your service. If you have any request, go ahead! I’ll try my best to help you and make your stay comfortable!

It’s my honor to be of your service. If you have any special interest, please let me know, and I highly appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

Ok, now we are heading for Mt.Jiuhua, which is known as one of the four Buddhist Mountains in China. It’s about 30 minutes’ bus ride. On the way you can enjoy the beautiful scenery and I’d like to give you a brief introduction about Mt.Jiuhua.

Mt.Jiuhua was originally known as Jiuzi (Nine-Peak) Mount. Li Bai, a famous Chinese poet over 1300 years ago wrote of the mountain: ”sailing on the Yangtze River, watching Mt.Jiuhua from after, green water falls from the sky, nine lotuses appear in the air.” This expresses the poet’s great admiration for Mt.Jiuhua. From then on, the mountain was renamed as Mt.Jiuhua.

Mt.Jiuhua covers more than 100 square kilometers in area, which has been known to have 99 peaks, and the main peak of the Shiwang Peak is 1342m above sea level. Mt.Jiuhua is full of waterfalls, streams, exotic-looking boulders, ancient caves, old pines and exuberant bamboo. With the richly variegated landscape, the ancient temples are tucked away amid the dense woods and the air reverberates with the tolling of the bells at dawn and dusk. Mt.Jiuhua is usually known as the No.1 Mountain of the southeast.

Ok, I have said too much about the Mt.Jiuhua, and I expect you have got a general idea about it. Seeing is Beliving. I’m sure you will learn a lot about Chinese culture and Buddhism after the visit, and you will also be impressed deeply by the wonderful scenery. Let’s get off the bus and bring your camera. I’ll show you around the scenic areas.

Look! So many monks, why? Yes, that’s it! Because Mt.Jiuhua is a Buddhist mountain. Especially on July 30th of Chinese Lunar is the birthday of Earch Buddha, and a great Buddhist ceremony is held on this day. Around that day every year, the mountain is the site of a temple fair. A large number of monks, nuns, pilgrims and visitors come to burn incense, chant and sacrifice food. The activities of each year are different. Though today is not the festival, we can also enjoy the beautiful scenery. They are: Sunrise at Tiantai Platform, Evening bell of Huacheng Temple, Sitting on East Stone with pleasure, Fairy mark of Tianzhu, Taoyan waterfall, clouds around lotus peak and Phoenix Pine.

Ok, here we are, this is Huacheng Temple of Jiuhua Street. It was the first and oldest of all the temples of Mt.Jiuhua. Over 1500 years ago, Monk Beidu built a simple temple here. Then after 300 years it was reconstructed and named Huacheng Temple.

You see it lies a round plaza. Look at the center! What do you see? Yeah! It is a crescent shaped lotus pond named “Crescent Moon Pond” you can go towards it, what do you see? It is believed that Monk Jin Qiaojue used to free captive fish. Ok, now I say some brief introduction about it and then you can go around it. We’ll gather here after one hour, ok? The temple consists of four parts: the lobby, the grand hall, the back hall and the Scripture Tower. The ground slopes up with each part and the whole layout is natural. The doors, windows, brackets, beams, columns, steps and the cornerstone are carved with exquisite designs. In the hall are preserved horizontal boards inscribed by emperor in ancient time.

Ok! Is everyone here? 1, 2, 3… Ok, now, let’s go to see the Phoenix Pine, in Minyuan Scenic Area. Phoenix Pine is over 1400 years old, and is one of the four decorative trees in Anhui Province.

After seeing Phoenix Pine, we’ll finish our travel, and on behalf of my company, my Chinese colleagues and myself, I’d like to take this opportunity to express my thanks for your consideration, understanding, tolerance and cooperation.

九华山英文导游词二：

Mount Jiuhua is one of the four sacred mountains of Chinese Buddhism. It is located in Qingyang County in Anhui province and is famous for its rich landscape and ancient temples.

Many of the mountain’s shrines and temples are dedicated to Ksitigarbha (known in Chinese as Dìzàng, Traditional Chinese: 地藏), who is a bodhisattva and protector of souls in hell according to Mahayana Buddhist tradition. Pious Buddhists often come to this popular attraction in Anhui to climb to Greater Tiantai peak, which is regarded as Jiuhuashan’s most important peak, although it is not the tallest.

History of Jiuhua Mountain

Jiuhu Mountain, known as a Buddhist wonderland and famous for its large number of temples and beautiful scenery, has been a resplendent pearl of Chinese cultural heritage.

Jiuhua Mountain was formed in the late Cenozoic Era, and Buddhism began in the Northern and Southern Dynasties (420-589) at the mountain. According to historical records, a monk named Fuhu built Fuhu Convent in 503; Monk Tanhao practised Buddhism here in 713; During 713-755, Jin Qiaojue, a Korean aristocrat, came to Jiuhua Mountain and lived in a stone cave at Dongya Peak. His hard practice moved the local people, and they contributed money to build a temple for him. In 781 the local official Zhang Yan presented a memorial to the emperor for the horizontal inscribed board "Huacheng". Upon Jin Qiaojue’s nirvana, it was said that the mountain roared, birds and monkeys cried, and the earth gave out fire and light. His body kept lively three years later, so he was respected as the Earth Buddha, wrapped with earth and has been preserved to present. Roushen Pagoda was built to revere him, and thus Jiuhua Mountain has become the place where Earth Buddhist rites are performed.

The history of Buddhism at Jiuhua Mountain can be divided into five periods: founded in the middle of Tang Dynasty ; decayed from the late Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties; slowly developed in the Song and Yuan Dynasties; and greatly developed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the Ming Dynasty, the emperors granted money to rebuild Huacheng Temple for three times and two emperors bestowed inscriptions. The number of temples and nunneries was over a hundred, and many monks and nuns came. It was listed as one of the four famous Buddhist mountains, besides Wutai Mountain, Emei Mountain, and Putuo Mountain.

颐和园的昆明湖景区主要包括昆明湖、东堤、西堤及湖中诸岛。

“昆明湖”名称源自汉武帝在长安城开凿昆明池操练水军的典故。汉武帝曾派使团前往身毒(今印度一带)，在昆明国的滇池被阻，于是决定兴兵讨伐。为一举征服昆明国，便在京城长安西南挖掘了巨大的昆明池，练习水战。乾隆皇帝借用此典故，将西湖改名为昆明湖，并也曾在昆明湖中操练水师，以标榜自己如同汉武帝一样，为治理国家的明君、开疆拓土的英主。

我先来给大家介绍一下东堤。东堤由南向北，主要景观依次为：绣漪桥、昆仑石碑、廓如亭、十七孔桥、铜牛、文昌阁、耶律楚材祠。

绣漪桥位于昆明湖与长河，东堤与西堤的交界处。清代帝后来颐和园时，经常从绣漪桥下进入昆明湖。为满足行船的要求，绣漪桥被建成高拱形单孔桥，北京人习惯称它为“罗锅桥”。

昆仑石碑共有两块，一块立于绣漪桥北面的堤岸边，一块立于铜牛北面的堤岸边，石碑四面镌刻着乾隆皇帝的御制诗。

廓如亭是我国古代园林中现存的最大的一座观景亭，建筑面积约300多平方米，由内外3圈24根圆柱与16根方柱支撑。在亭内观景，视野十分开阔，故名“廓如亭”。又因为它是八面重檐攒尖顶式样，故俗称“八方亭”。

十七孔桥东连廓如亭，西接南湖岛，全长150米，宽8米，仿北京金代卢沟桥而建。桥的栏杆望柱上精雕细刻着544只形态各异的小狮子，卢沟桥上只有485只，数量远远超过了卢沟桥。

铜牛位于廓如亭北面的堤岸边，为镇水之物。为了阐述建造铜牛的用意，乾隆皇帝特意撰写了一篇四言铭文《金牛铭》，用篆书铸在铜牛背上。以铜牛镇水源于大禹治水的典故。传说大禹每治理完一处水患，便铸造一只铜牛沉入河底，希望河道永固，永不泛滥。自唐代开始，改用铜牛置于堤岸边的形式镇水。

文昌阁是东堤最北端的建筑，建在高约10米的方形城关之上，是颐和园6座城关中最大的一座。阁内供奉铜铸文昌帝君坐像。文昌阁与万寿山西侧的宿云檐城关东西相对，一供文昌帝君，一供关羽，文东武西，寓意大清江山文武辅弼。

耶律楚材祠位于文昌阁东北，耶律楚材的祠堂和墓穴均在这里。耶律楚材为契丹贵族的后裔，是元代第一名相。光绪年间，在耶律楚材祠前建了颐和园电灯公所。

接下来我再给大家介绍一下西堤。西堤由北向南的主要景观依次为西堤六桥和景明楼。

界湖桥是西堤六桥中最北边的一座，位于昆明湖、西湖、与后湖的分界处，故名“界湖桥”。

界湖桥的南边是豳风桥。清漪园时期，此桥名为桑苧桥，光绪年间重建后，慈禧太后一是为了避咸丰皇帝的名讳，二是忌讳其发音如“丧主”，故改名“豳风桥”。“豳风”二字出自《诗经》中的《豳风 七月》，这首诗是描写西周时期豳地百姓耕田采桑场景的。豳风桥西面的耕织图中水乡泽国，男耕女织的生产生活场面与诗意相合。

豳风桥南是玉带桥。玉带桥为高拱形单孔桥，因形似玉带，故名“玉带桥”。桥身上东西两侧有乾隆皇帝亲笔撰写的对联和“玉带桥”三字。这里是去静明园的必经水路。

玉带桥南是镜桥。镜桥名称是借代唐代大诗人李白“两水夹明镜，双桥落彩虹”诗句的意境而得名。

镜桥南面是练桥。练桥名称出自南朝诗人谢眺的诗句“余霞散成绮，澄江静如练”。练是白色的丝织品，此处形容桥架在澄静如练的昆明湖水面上。

练桥的南面是柳桥。柳桥是西堤六桥中最南面的一座，名称出自唐代大诗人杜甫的诗句“柳桥晴有絮”。因西堤上遍植柳树，此桥掩映在柳浪之中，故名。

景明楼位于练桥和柳桥之间，建于乾隆年间，由主楼和两座配楼组成。景明楼的名称出自宋代文学家范仲淹的名著《岳阳楼记》中“至若春和景明，波澜不惊，上下天光，一碧万顷”之句，而建筑形式是按照元代画家赵子昂德名作《荷亭纳凉图》中的意境创造的。

最后，我来介绍一下湖中的岛屿。

文昌阁西北是由大小两岛组成的知春岛，知春亭建在大岛之上。亭名源自宋代大文豪苏东坡的诗中“春江水暖鸭先知”的意境。

南湖岛位于 十七孔桥西面，是昆明湖中最大的岛屿。岛上主要有南北两组建筑，南部是广润灵雨祠，俗称“龙王庙”，始建于明代。“广润”是宋真宗诏封西海龙王的封号，而昆明湖在明代有“西湖”之称，故将龙王庙命名为“广润祠”。乾隆皇帝80岁时，曾亲至这里祈雨，结果当晚大雨滂沱，第二天，乾隆皇帝又亲自来谢雨，并改名为“广润灵雨祠”。北部是涵虚堂，原名望蟾阁，乾隆年间仿黄鹤楼建造。嘉庆年间将3层的望蟾阁改为一层的涵虚堂，光绪年间，慈禧太后曾在这里效仿乾隆皇帝检阅水操战船和阵法演练。

凤凰墩位于昆明湖最南端的水域中，是仿黄埠墩而建的小岛。凤凰墩上原建有一座凤凰楼，楼顶上安装着一只镀金的铜凤凰，凤凰口中衔着一面风旗，可知风力大小和风向。凤凰墩与南湖岛南北相望，凤凰楼与龙王庙相对，寓意“龙凤呈祥”。

庐山英文导游词

庐山，又名匡山、匡庐，是中华十大名山之一，位于江西省九江市庐山区境内，九江县一东，星子县以西。，相对高度1200～1400米。最高峰为汉阳峰，海拔1474米，东偎婺源鄱阳湖，南靠南昌滕王阁，西邻京九大通脉，北枕滔滔长江。下面是关于庐山的英文导游词范文，欢迎大家阅读!

庐山英文导游词

Friends, to visit with everyone Xiufeng Lushan Mountain, the Scenic Xiufeng shared interest. Is a good time to do yo!

Throughout the ages here enjoy "the beauty of Lushan in Shannan, Shannan of the United States in the Xiufeng" argument. Xiufeng mountain, Xiufeng water, attitude happening, you do not want to be her infection, not as myself! Artful shape of the mountains here are the (Heming peak), crawling like turtle (turtle line peak), tangible, such as incense burners like (Hyangnobong), and days like Tu sword (swords peak), sister-phase Hees (her sister peak), women in the rest of the sleeping mountains ... ... and so on; in the mountain streams flow between these peaks, even Pentium out of the "waterf-alls three thousand feet," the Lushan Waterf-all. Green shows where the mountains, waterf-alls You beauty, lush forest, lake of Health enchanting, natural day become a competing show depicting the beauty of the peaks.

Xiufeng ancient Chinese life is to love the place fondly. Jiang Yan a gifted poet, "from the Tang Jianping Wang Lushan Hyangnobong" of the poem, awoke the world trend cents if the greedy people. World wide love Shen Ding, Huainan good Dan by. This peak is a phoenix crane, between the best fairy.

For a time, and the world of people here feel the love between the fairy world of fun. To the Southern Tang Dynasty, when the Southern Tang Emperor Li Jing in the Lord, doing the emperor had previously come here to buy the house was built in the mountain school. When the emperor after the master, it will be his study came from a place in the Xiufeng, gave the monastery the monks do. And given the temple name "to open the first Temple," which is probably Li Jing that the founding of his career here because of it pre-Xiang Zhao.

Opened the first temple was built in 951 AD after the year, personally selected the master Li Jing Shao Zong master monk at the time to open when the first temple abbot. In the Southern Tang Emperor in direct support of the Lord, open the first Buddhist Temple of Zen Buddhism from China to become a Green Cloud Gate were originally an important temple.

After the Ming and Qing period, the opening of the first Temple in the Lushan growing. Qing Emperor Kangxi, a good thing to open one after another from the first temple, the temples large-scale development of an unprecedented period. Chao Yuan monk from Emperor Kangxi year (AD 1692) to open the first Temple headed after contact with the outside world, increasing exchanges, will also be here to fairy charm to the world with a flood of people. Emperor Kangxi was a great yearning Xiufeng landscapes, were not allowed to visit. Yu Shu had his hand "Prajna Heart Sutra", Jiang Yans poem "From Deng Jianping Wang Lushan Hyangnobong" and given to open the first Temple, the comfort of mood from the Pat-miss.

Hello and welcome to the new century travel agency, to attend the trip tothe Summer Palace. I am your little wizard, my name is high you can call me thewizard.

I asked: "do you know about the Summer Palace?" Chorus of answer: "I dontknow." That I will tell you! The Summer Palace is the royal garden museum. Orbig palace in qing dynasty the emperor and his concubines, play is hisflowers.

Now we now we are entering the Summer Palace gate, everybody is veryexcited! Must be yes. Enter the door to the Summer Palace, around the hall intothe famous long corridor. I cant see the other end of the everybody does itfeel like to stand in the gallery! Must be yes. We planted there are thousandsof flowers and trees on either side of the Summer Palace. This didnt thank aflower, the flower opened again. The aisle has more than seven hundred meterslong, divided into a total of 273 rooms. Each cross between supervisor on acolorful painting, picture in picture lifelike characters, really want toimmediately jump out of the picture. Please follow up our team, dont gotlost.

Walk the promenade came to the foot of the longevity hill, this is thelongevity hill, we are going to the longevity hill and have a bullish on theirchildren (son), please dont run away. Up to the longevity hill into the incensepavilion, you can see the Summer Palace in fundus half scenery. Its reallybeautiful! The last time please visit freely, two hours, after the visit, pleaseset to the specified location, dont forget the time.

All collection, people came in. We set off to the kunming lake, the kunminglake, I already bought tickets. You can sit on a cruise ship touring kunminglake. Should visit the kunming lake to the island to play. The ship I called oneveryone to go to the island to play. The bridge is seventeen holes, hundreds ofpillar, the above are carved with different posture of small stone lionsadorable. Below is the free play time. Please gather at the gate after twohours.

Todays journey is over, I hope you come after the Summer Palace.

Henan, located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River incentral and eastern China, is called Henan because most of the area is locatedin the south of the Yellow River. In ancient times, in the middle and lowerreaches of the Yellow River, there were many rivers, dense forests and wildelephants. Henan was vividly described as the place where people led elephants.This is the origin of the pictograph "Yu" and the origin of Henan abbreviated as"Yu". Yugong, the book of history, divides the world into nine states. Yuzhou isone of the nine states in the world, so it is called central plains andZhongzhou.

famous scenery

There are three world cultural heritages in Henan: Longmen Grottoes, YinRuins and historical buildings in heaven and earth. There are 8 National 5Atourist attractions, including Shaolin Temple, Longmen Grottoes, Yuntai Mountainqingtianhe Shennong mountain, Qingming Shanghe garden, Yinxu, Baiyun Mountain,Yaoshan mountain Zhongyuan Buddha, Laojun Mountain Jiguan cave. There are fourworld geoparks: Songshan Mountain, Yuntai Mountain, Wangwu mountain Daimeimountain and Funiu Mountain. 15 national key scenic spots: Songshan Mountain,Luoyang Longmen Mountain, Jigong Mountain, Wangwu mountain, Yuntai Mountain,Yaoshan mountain, Linwu mountain, qingtianhe River, Shennong mountain, Tongbaimountain Huaiyuan, Zhengzhou Yellow River scenic spot.

Best travel time

Henan has a warm temperate subtropical and humid semi humid monsoonclimate. Generally, it is characterized by cold winter, less rain and snow,drought in spring, more sandstorm, hot summer, abundant rain and sufficientsunshine in autumn. The best time to travel is autumn.

regional distribution

Henan Province governs 18 provincial cities, including 17 prefecture levelcities, 1 city directly under the provincial government, 50 municipal districts,20 county-level cities and 88 counties.

History and culture

Henan, known as the Central Plains in ancient times, is the birthplace ofChinese civilization and the Chinese nation. It is the core area of Chinesehistory before Yuan Dynasty. Luoyang (the ancient capital of fifteen dynasties),Kaifeng (the ancient capital of seven dynasties), Shangqiu (the ancient capitalof Six Dynasties), Zhengzhou (the ancient capital of Five Dynasties) and Anyang(the ancient capital of two dynasties) are all famous ancient capitals forthousands of years. The Xia Dynasty successively established its capital nearXiayi (now Shangqiu), Erlitou (now Luoyang) and Yangcheng (now Zhengzhou). TheShang Dynasty established its capital in Bo (todays Shangqiu) and later movedto "Yin" (todays Anyang). During the 4000 years from Xia to Jin, there weremore than 10 dynasties, and more than 200 emperors established or moved theircapitals in Henan for more than 3200 years. During the period of civil strife inChina, Henan was the place where the heroes "fought for the Central Plains". Thename of "China" came from the country whose center was located in the CentralPlains.

恭亲王府内，有九千九百九十九只“蝙蝠”。这“蝙蝠”并不是真实的蝙蝠，而形似蝙蝠的建筑。和王申想让自己很幸福，便取“福”的谐音字“蝠”，建了九千九百九十九只“蝙蝠”。

进门后，首先映入眼帘的，便是一只硕大的“蝙蝠”。这是一只形似蝙蝠的池塘，名曰“福池”。池岸边随意错落着假山碎石。福池周围栽满了榆树，榆树的果、叶形似铜钱，每当铜钱般的果、叶掉入福池时，和王申就会笑哈哈：“天上掉下的钱，进入我的?聚宝盆?，地上的钱也是流入我和王申的囊袋中。”这话可真不假!

我们顺着福池潺潺流水走，便来一扇门前。这是一扇精美绝伦的西洋门，色彩鲜艳，做工精细。据说这也是他二十四条罪状之一。因为这一扇西洋门是仿造皇家园林——万寿园里的西洋门造的。

进了西洋门，绕过“送子观音”石雕，便是和王申家的戏园了。戏园前是一片花园，修剪整齐的灌木丛中开着些许花儿。《环珠格格》中“香妃戏蝶”这出戏就是在这里拍摄的。全北京城只有两处是满地青砖，一是故宫的太和殿，二便是和王申家的戏台了。因为青砖的扩音效果十分好，所以在戏台上唱戏不需要任何扩音工具，偌大的戏场人人都能听到音乐，能站在遍地青砖的戏台上为和王申等权贵大臣唱戏也是一种殊荣了。

Changsha, though not nearly as prosperous Hong Kong than atmosphere in Beijing, but still has her own beauty.

Changsha is a beautiful place, there are beautiful as pavilion, love late pavilion. At night, lights, like the stars in the sky, twinkle.

Changsha charactizing a fine spring, spring breeze blow gently. Sunshine in March, the flower is gorgeous. The flower azalea is indescribable.

Summer, known as the "four big stove" one of changsha is hot. Cicada hot straight called "cicadas, cicada," dog hot tongue, floppy chicken wings. No matter how the weather during the day, children come out to play, so they had a hot, cant help but to the sun.

Autumn, the leaves fall, the fruit is ripe, the farmer uncle smile red in the face. The wild goose south, ants and squirrels have in preparation for winter food.

Winter, heavy snow, the children can be happy, because you can snowball fights, make a snowman! Leaves a also have no, many small animals also for the winter. The children are in the warm home looking at the beautiful snow...

Changsha year the four seasons scenery attractive, no matter day or night, she is always a kind face.

Changsha snack is to let a person dazzling, stinky tofu, bean jelly, roast sweet potato, onion cakes, taste shrimp, sucking screw... Is numerous, even the saliva all cant help flow down.

Changsha tourist resort also has a lot of, such as: taiping street, small Simon, as pavilion, baisha ancient, yuelu academy, and so on some places of interest. But they speak well "nobodys perfect, gold without gather" changsha ointment is loop mirror is not good, can see garbage everywhere, air is polluted by a lot.

Changsha is our common home, when I grow up must see her construction better, become a more attractive city.

The Yellow Crane Tower is located at the top of Wuchang Snake Mountain onthe South Bank of the Yangtze River in Wuhan City, Hubei Province. It is closeto the Yangtze River. It is a national 5A tourist attraction and has been knownas "the first building of the worlds rivers and mountains" and "the worldspeerless scenery" since ancient times. Yellow Crane Tower is a landmark buildingin Wuhan. It is also known as "three famous scenic spots in Wuhan" together withQingchuan Pavilion and Guqin terrace.

The Yellow Crane Tower was built in 223 A.D. in the period of the ThreeKingdoms. During the period of the Three Kingdoms, it was just a "militarybuilding" in the corner of Xiakou city. After the Jin Dynasty destroyed theeastern Wu Dynasty, the three kingdoms were unified. With the development ofJiangxia City, the building gradually evolved into an ornamental building forofficials and businessmen. Tang Dynasty poet Cui Hao wrote the poem "YellowCrane Tower" and Li Bai wrote "Yellow Crane Tower to send Meng Haoran toGuangling". Scholars of all ages left many unique songs here, which made theYellow Crane Tower famous since ancient times.

The Yellow Crane Tower is located at the top of Sheshan mountain, 61.7meters above sea level. The trains of Beijing Guangzhou railway roar through thetower. The building is 5 stories high, with a total height of 51.4 meters and aconstruction area of 3219 square meters. The Yellow Crane Tower is internallysupported by 72 columns and externally extended by 60 angles. The roof iscovered with more than 100000 pieces of yellow glazed tiles

A number of auxiliary buildings, such as bronze Yellow Crane shape, statuepagoda, memorial archway, porch and pavilion, are cast outside the Yellow CraneTower to make the main building more magnificent. Around the main building,there are white cloud Pavilion, elephant pagoda, stele Gallery, Mountain Gateand other buildings. The whole building has a unique national style, emittingthe spirit, temperament and charm of traditional Chinese culture. It complementsthe Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge at the foot of Sheshan mountain, and you can havea panoramic view of the three towns of Wuhan when you climb the building.

Everybody is good! Welcome to sightseeing, as cabinet. I am a scenic docent of , hope that through my explanation, can let everybody to the ancient city of changsha and the massive historical culture as ancient pavilion has a preliminary understanding.

As cabinet are signs and symbols of the ancient city of changsha, changsha is the testimony of history and culture development, ancient times known as "xiaoxiang pavilion, qin and han dynasties city" reputation, as the national AAAA level scenic spots. Because its ley uplift, the auspicious trillion, it has been regarded as a geomantic precious place of changsha. Scenic area was built in 1924, is to protect the ancient city wall with a history of more than 2200 years and 2200 years of history of the ancient attic built in changsha first garden scenic spot.

First of all you see is "embalm wind pavilion" and "lun jian pool". "Cured" is a kind of vanilla, "kaori wind" namely "sweet wind"; Pavilion built in midsummer, pleasant fragrance, all around its name. Red rock cliff "Aaron as" two words, "Aaron" is the similar meaning, "learning" as the mirror, meaning is refers to the water as bright as a mirror. Words taizong account in the proposal making official Wei Zheng died, sadness of leaving "for copper mirror, can is the headgear; with history as a mirror, can know replaced; the looking-glass self, can know the gain and loss" of training, "Aaron as a".

As pavilion is the spirit of chu culture of changsha, changsha is the state council released the first batch of 24 cities in our country one of the famous historical and cultural city, heavenly heart pavilion is a symbol of changsha, witnessed the historical development and changes of the changsha. All the cities in the world history has a city into town, because of the history of the town and city, so the changsha city origin with long history, according to historical records as early as in the shifu, king "of the western zhou dynasty, the changsha city after thousands of years, dont move dont move, dont change, still thrive, a rare in todays cities. Changsha every construction project is likely to dig up a batch of rare and precious cultural relics, such as the western han dynasty mawangdui woman corpse, chow tai bronze ware, cooks floor bamboo slips of The Three Kingdoms, etc... Are legion.

Now you see this piece of strewn at random have the stone forest, is the "historical figures carved stone gallery" scenic area, it is time for us to draw the 33 hunan had outstanding contribution of historical figures, some of them was born in hunan, an official in hunan, including XiangJi 16 people. Yan emperor shen nung, tasted grass bouquet to benefit the people, he later because of eating a "flame grass" (also known as "graceful jessamine herb") plants and xie in hunan, emperor yandi mausoleum in our hunan ZhuZhou tianxinli; Zhu xi, Zhang Shi under the capital city of changsha yuelu academy lecture; Lee Fei, changsha (called tam states) year hunan conciliation, the late southern song dynasty, yuan soldiers in an attack on guarding city changsha 3 hopeless situation, bring the whole family 19th mouth people collective suicide, in order to show the valiant ones; Zeng guofan, hunan hunan assembly of people, the qing daoguang years one of the westernization movement leader, created the "xiang no of xiang army", was crazy to suppress the taiping rebels, after the defeat by twisting forces, but his way of life has always been talk of learning, by later generations, by income more complete works "once Wen Zhenggong; Wei yuan, from longhui, hunan, and puts forward "long skill with barbarians", the Lin zexu, supported by the 50 volumes "sealand disposition, known as the worlds first person, I opened my eyes XiangYin guo song-tao, hunan people, diplomat in the late qing dynasty, to the west in modern China sent the first permanent chiefs, during the missions (Singapore), access to public funds only pay to rent two, and said: "budget before the gentleman to remorse, unfavorable to blame others; hui is the gentleman to suicide, unfavorable in hopes to man", said.

Is engaging you see in front of the pavilion, there are "as whirlwind to heaven, to the party engaging" say, mean as natural began. Please note that the above couplet, top allied "day if sentient days also old," second line is "heart to the selfless heart wide". This is embedded word couplet, poem is orz. Did you see it, by the way, is the name of our scenic area "as", this couplet a cultivate ones morality philosophy in it.

Please look at the other side of the pavilion "chong DE", this plaque for Chiang kai-shek, "fresh call forth the past unforgettable a surprised noon dream, thousands of miles to see sunrise" according to legend for Chiang kai-shek, built for the 1946 memorial for those who died in the anti-japanese, also known as "the fierce pavilion". From September 1939 to December 1941, the Japanese aggressively attack changsha three times, in the ninth theater commander Sir Hsueh yueh as the main body of Chinas armed forces to take the back decisive battle "strategy, strive to resist. Three times in battle, the Japanese were losing from changsha. Changsha become resistance for five years in the history of world war ii hero city, become one of the main positive battlefield of the Chinese Anti-Japanese War stalemate. Because, as cabinet in changsha city high ground, have lost three times as one of the main platforms of our important department. Hero of changsha city undefeated to figure stands in front of the world, and majestic, magnificent ancient city wall, also became the pride of changsha people.

Now everyone viewed from the looks, is built in the Ming dynasty chongzhen years ago, has 400 years of history, as cabinet. Attic for a layer, when he first built qing qianlong built into two layers, in 1774 as a "ku" always read officer wang li degrees also made the repairing as pavilion "; As to the qing dynasty jiaqing years, your academy dean luo funding reconstruction, Ohio, south of the city is now everyone can see three layer, and increase the south and north two attached to the cabinet, make it more grand, magnificent; 14.6 meters high, is now the main pavilion two attached cabinet each 10 meters high, the entire attic imitation Ming and qing dynasties south garden architectural style, "not as pavilion, dont know the ancient changsha." Please follow me together pavilion to visit.

Main pavilion, a layer for the exhibition in one hundred, changsha, changsha one hundred history of the 20th century is shown. First of all, please see the heavenly heart pavilion overlooking a poem, the poem "tam states that" todays changsha. The poem are taken from the good county annals "(the original changsha, good two counties are divided into changsha, as pavilion is a good county), the author YuYi for Ming chongzhen years in Beijing took command, which can be concluded as cabinet as early as 400 years ago stand high above the city. Then take a look at the ancient changsha old topographic map, it is the long and narrow strip, changsha has a picture of a household name, popular pairs: "land and sea chau interstate system boat boat move motionless, as presently live pigeons fly cabinet did not fly", this amphibious continent is j, amphibious continent is about more than 5500 meters long, about 100 meters wide, is the changsha this special geographic landscape. Changsha geological structure on the basis of quartz sandstone, through all the year round external force, make a lot of sand and stone are gathered in the surface, thus changsha placenames origin in "long Fang Zhou, sandy land".

Main cabinet of the second floor has two large relief, one shows the late November 12, 1938, "Wen Xi fire", zhou enlai and then KMT chairman zhang zhizhong to attic inspect the scene of the disaster of hunan province, wuhan, the Japanese open the portal to southern China, Chiang kai-shek to defend the changsha lack of confidence; The order after the yueyang lost, zhang zhizhong in changsha "scorched earth" of the war of resistance against Japan, with their torches as cabinet, put a good carry of changsha city into a ruin, destroyed the city area of 90%, burned more than 3000 people, burns victims of nearly twenty thousand people, the city common people homeless, history says "Wen Xi fire", changsha which is listed as a world war ii one of the most serious city four great destruction. But less than three months, heroic unyielding changsha people and set up a small hut on the ruins of new changsha, with a burning desire to fight the Japanese again, make the Japanese admitted for the first time in all the way the successful cases of the Chinese people do not reproach. Second is shown in July 1930, the red headed by peng dehuai SanJunTuan armed attack changsha, in ShanTing victory stationed in the scene. Hunan liling people at that time li lisans adventurism authorized by the communist international, put forward the strategic thought of "armed to encircle the cities", after the general strength is too wide, the red army and take the initiative to leave changsha.

Why call this building as "pavilion"? According to ancient Chinese star like learning, heaven have 28 stars, including seven southern provinces as "the linnet", in its tail there is a main life "star" in changsha, and attic built after just on the "changsha star" in the sky, as it is the stars in the sky, therefore, formerly known as "star pavilion", is the star of stars, is the ancient worship god, stars "gv 10"; We all know that the ancients has always been advocating dao, original attic to worship the statue of Confucius, mencius and others, the moral "for Kong Mengchuan orthodoxy, for heaven and earth and heart", so the star of stars and change to the heart of the heart. Another story, the qing emperor kangxi years, emperor kangxi to changsha southern found changsha wooden house much more special, very easy to cause HuoHuan, to save the people in distress, and local officials in changsha, changsha is highest, feng shui, the best place to build such a disaster in the town of fire prevention, attic, said "the mind of" son of heaven. Written by scholars in the late qing dynasty Huang Zhaomei yunshan all eyes, all around of fireworks always concerned about "in the name of the union, better generalization for the cabinet in the first place.

Now you see, is the ancient city wall in changsha. In 202 BC, that is, the west five years, emperor gaozu Liu Bangjian han closed his eight major contributor to the king, the changsha Wang Wu rui, has formed ram changsha built the ancient city wall, according to the present 2200 years of history. In the Ming hongwu five years, that is, in 1372 AD, changsha command make Qiu Guang defence, content of the wall for masonry building, the purpose is to strengthen the defense, makes changsha is solid "citizen". Ming scored changsha yellow tiger rate army onishi, the wall had been destroyed; Qing shunzhi eleven years (AD 1654), seduction on the plains of hunan, in changsha, dismantle MingFan fu brick building the wall, to return to the old city walls. Two years qing xianfeng (1852 AD), the walls and damaged by taiping rebels, after successive hunan governor LuoBingZhang, Mao Hongbin repair reinforcement, such as design and additional battery around, the ancient city wall to a pattern of arch ring type in Minnesota. Original ancient city wall is 8.8 kilometers, the north and south long and narrow strip, in 1914, the kuomintang government in order to repair the ring road, retain only 251 meters at present this period survives, as an important witness of changsha history development.

Please look the direction of my finger, this is an important component of the ancient city wall in changsha - "around", also known as the barbican. As the name implies, named after the deep shaped like a half moon, is an ancient riot police, according to the place and the battery. It usually consists of two parts, the long-range artillery is placed above, the following placed close to Tom. In the city as well as storage of ammunition and food with warehouse and the secret to the outside, it are of great value to the research of ancient Chinese military fortifications. Interested friends can visit it.

Tourists friends, everybody in the official kilns are everywhere on the wall. The brick kiln with Ming and qing dynasties, which was the ancient brick factory brand, another is "responsibility" for the Great Wall brick sample.

Now watch, please "changsha fire" phantom imaging, said it was just introduced in 1938 "Wen Xi fire".

Occurs under the ancient city wall of the most famous battle, is "the duke guan war changsha". Chibi war, zhuge liang detachment of the will, and enterprising lingling, guiyang, wuling, changsha county. Guan yu at the gates in changsha war ShouJiang huang zhong, alternate admire: each a 50 rounds the first world war, regardless of the outcome; World war ii, the duke guan "knife meter" and huang zhong up, close the second brother to win and aboveboard, so put huang zhong; Three wars huang zhong cheat, go back to the GuanYuFang three arrows, the first two arrows to close the second brother, also Huang Zhongfang is empty of arrows, in return for first dont kill the grace of huang zhong only shot at guan yus head scarf, this time to turn off the second brother know huang zhong, frighten when hands are off, so today changsha and "fishing knife river". Back to changsha after the satrap han xuan yi huang zhong collaboration, will launch him beheaded. Saved huang zhong wei, han xuan, han xuan for wei, deliberately put the two boots the south and north two places, so today, changsha, and "south, north to take off the boots. Wei yan see through the trick, grasp its kill, the changsha has given "idle lake" (thorn Han Hu). After Wei Yanxian city; Huang zhong home anyway, guan yu, please visit to surrender.

To this end, the interpretation of good, I thank you for your support for my work, I wish you all a pleasant journey, bon voyage!

Everybody is good! I am a youth hostel Robert zou, you can call me small fang, but not the small fang in the village. Welcome to the world heritage of "lijiang ancient city".

Dear visitors, we have been in the beautiful ancient city, in front of the ancient city, you will see two large wind turbines turn happily in the water, the water inside will be measured, so please be careful. The windmill represents the symbol of the ancient city of. Here, let me introduce the lijiang ancient city, lijiang ancient city, 2400 meters above sea level, is the center of the lijiang naxi autonomous county, city, city formed in the late southern song dynasty, has a history of eight hundred years, the area of 3. 8 square kilometers, has about 30000 inhabitants, was listed as a world heritage site in 1997.

Is the center of the city square street, the ground is paved with multicolored, step will be clicked, no two sifang street inn central design is the same, you can also visit. Said so much, I still take you to a creek, everyone to see! This stream is put river lanterns. Put river lamp is a kind of old custom, it is said that every night dragon king to tour city, put a river light! However, please do not litter.

The tourists, lijiang ancient city is filled with the beauty of the people linger, said also said not, I hope you come again next time.

Paris seems to have always been a dream city. In the official web site, it is called "the city of light", the light in the western mind has always been an incarnation of god, perhaps Paris man think himself to be nearer to god. It is no wonder that xu zhimo was lamented: "must have been to Paris wont rare heaven." Also some people call it "Babylon", that is the American writer Fitzgeralds novel "the return to the king of Babylon," call of Paris -- a dream only luxury and pleasure. Perhaps no one can tell what is a city in Paris, but everyone is convinced that they spent in Paris is life the most unforgettable day.

Most visitors look forward to in our hearts, is an ancient and romantic Paris, the champs elysees, place DE la Concorde, along the Louvre, the arc DE triomphe perfect central axis began their trip. Indeed, Paris is a city of great history, places of interest here are enough to make people linger. With these classic sites and another in Paris, a full of the flavor of halfback and Bohemian Paris.

As long as ride the subway in Paris, can clearly feel that. Paris metro has a long history, some station has intact the original style, it looks like an antique museum, and some of the station is full of futuristic, like a science fiction world, such as la defence underground station. From a station on the ground, standing in front of you is the worlds unique exaggeration of "new" arc DE triomphe. In fact this is a can accommodate 5000 people, office building, its uniqueness is the can put the Notre Dame DE Paris in the door. It is interesting to note that the new is in the Louvre arc DE triomphe, champs elysees, place DE la Concorde, the central axis, arc DE triomphe wickedly from the arc DE triomphe, ambition is to break the perfect harmony.

So "renegade" by no means the only building in Paris. If the Louvre represents the ancient civilization of France, the pompidou center is a symbol of modern Paris. Here is the palace of avant-garde art, exhibited since the 20th century western various style of art. And the design of the center itself is also gives people a strong visual impact of the avant-garde

Architectural art. All the columns, stair, pipeline and so on used to deliberately hiding things are on the outside, the whole building seemed to be colorful pipe and reinforced with chemical factory. When the "monster" also had a criticism, but now it has with other classical architecture of Paris.

City of Paris is perhaps the most popular with foreigner, it almost became the "mecca" of literature and art, how many world famous artists and writers live here? Still asked how many havent been to Paris, calculation easier that way. After the middle of the 19th century, Paris is became an exile of the city. Here have a relaxed political atmosphere, students, scholars, artists of the counter culture trend, the so-called culture, so people choose to Paris to stray. 20 and 30 s of the 20th century, Paris brought together so many American writers, including Hemingway, Fitzgerald. This group of young people longing for a better life is impact of world war I have nowhere to hide, they can not stand, escape, they need to be artistic atmosphere, because they will continue to make a living by writing, at the same time they also cant throw senses and material comforts, they need to coffee, and need a woman

Wine, need to dance, and they escaped to Paris. Their only choice is Paris, also seems to be only Paris can tolerate this group has lucid, occasionally drunk young people. They are just passers-by in Paris, but it left a deep imprint in here. They let Paris eternal moment, also part of your life will always stay in Paris. Walk on the river Seine, sitting on the sidewalk cafes, a foreigner may understand the light blue and the city of Paris street complex. Here in the last century a "lost generation" left too many stray and sentimental, lingering until today. Walking in Paris when you never know what will leave it a little longer in the memory, is the arc DE triomphe or afternoon in an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee.

"Paris is more than a place, it has become a state of mind." No matter who you are, can be in the nostalgia and halfback, both quiet and noisy, internationalization and localization of the city to find your need a dose of antidote to the soul. In this sense, is best suited to foreigner stay in Paris. Appreciate the Mona Lisa, you can go to the Louvre also can go to the centre pompidou see Picasso. You can go to the Paris opera, also can go to the moulin rouge on the champs elysees; You can come to Paris to escape life, also can simply enjoy life here.

In fact, Paris everywhere all over the world. Perhaps you have never been to Paris, but youre probably in the city of your life a cafe called "left bank" linger; You dont have to out, you can enjoy from Paris (or claims) from Paris fashion products, can feel the "spring" in Paris. But when are you going to take a trip to Paris really?

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湖北三峡英文导游词

Good morning, ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to China! Welcome to Hubei Province!

Today I am very pleased to show you Three Gorges of Yangtze River.

At first I’ll have a brief introduction of Yangtze River, the Yangtze River, the biggest river in China, the third longest in the World, starts with the Tuotuo River at the Roof of the World -Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, takes in countless rivers, and flows eastward across the interior of China. With an overall length of more than 6,300 kilometers, the Yangtze River, next only to the Amazon and the Nile, is the third biggest river in the world and is a cradle that breeds the ancient civilization of the Chinese nation.

When the Yangtze River reaches the eastern Sichuan Basin in southwest China, it cuts through the Wushan Mountain. Here the river course suddenly narrows and the waters become turbulent. Sheer cliffs and steep mountains rise on either side, creating one of natures most fantastic sights. The Three Gorges---Qutang, wuxia and xiling----start just after Fengjie and end near Yichang, stretch about 200 kilometers. The Gorges vary from 300metres at their widest to less than 100 meters at their narrowest.

Qutang Gorge is the smallest and shortest Gorge, but grandest of the three. The Yangtze River, mighty and rapid here is suddenly contained like a thousand seas poured into one cup, as the Song Dynasty poet SU Tungpo described the spectacle. High on the both bank, at a place called Bellows Gorge, are a series of crevices. This area is said to have been the home of an ancient tribe whose custom was to place the coffins of their crevices, some containing bronze swords, armour and other artifacts, but the coffins are believed to date back as far as the Warring States Period (475bc----221BC)

Wu Gorge extends 40 kilometers along which the river snakes between based strange-shaped mountain peaks, each of which has a reputation based on a beautiful legend. The story of the 12 Peaks of Wushan goes like this: 12 nymphs once descended to enjoy themselves in the secular world. Finding how perilous Wushan Gorge was, they decided to stay there to protect ships. As time went by, they transformed themselves into 12 peaks. The Goddess Peak, the most graceful of the 12, is said to have been yaoji, the youngest daughter of the Queen mother of the Western Heaven .Goddess Peak stands out from the other peaks on the northern bank to be the first to greet the morning sun and the last to bid it farewell, hence its another name, Viewing the glow Peak. Seen at a distance, it resembles the silhouette of a beautiful young lady.

Down stream from the zigzagging Wuxia Gorge is Xiling Gorge which stretches 78 kilometers eastward and the cliffs on either side rise to just over 900 meters. Xiling Gorge is awesome with its dangerous rapids, shoals, reefs, sharp turns, billowy whirlpools. The water at one point is so turbulent that it seems to be boiling during the flood season. Xiling Gorge in the east consists of several small gorges. On the top of another is a rock that looks like a sword. On the crag of the north bank are two pieces of brown rock, which are named Bulls Liver and Horse Lung, whose shape they take. Next does the Lantern Shadow Gorge, which has four rocks, resemble Monk Xuan Zang and his three disciples---Monkey, Piggy and Sandy in the classic Chinese adventures of the four on their way to India to obtain Buddhist scriptures.

Around the last bend of Xiling Gorge stretches a vast plain. The river suddenly becomes wide here. Travelers on the Yangtze cruise may also visit many sites of historical and scenic interest along the river banks including the ruined of baidi Town and Precious Stone Village.

Everyone knows that the Yangtze Gorges are changing since the well-known Three Gorges Dam Project is being built at Sabdouping, Yichang, Hubei Province. The dam is 181 meters in height. Its construction investment comes up to 203.9 billion rmb, equals to 24.65 billion U.S. dollars. The installed power generation capacity is expected to be 18.2 million kilo watts. With the dam built, the flood in the Yangtze River valley will be controlled, navigation improved besides the economic benefits. Tourism will be little affected. Many cultural and historical relics are now being removed to a higher ground before the rise of the water level approaches.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the time has gone very quickly and your trip is drawing to a close. It’s a pity that you cannot stay here any longer. Please allow me, then, take this opportunity to thank you for your cooperation and understanding, and if you come back in the future, I hope to see you again and be your guide again.

北京故宫英文导游词

(In front of the meridian gate)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

I am pleased to serve as your guide today.

This is the palace museum; also know as the Purple Forbidden City. It is the largest and most well reserved imperial residence in China today. Under Ming Emperor Yongle, construction began in 1406. It took 14years to build the Forbidden City. The first ruler who actually lived here was Ming Emperor Zhudi. For five centuries thereafter, it continued to be the residence of23 successive emperors until 1911 when Qing Emperor Puyi was forced to abdicate the throne .In 1987, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization recognized the Forbidden City was a world cultural legacy.

It is believed that the Palace Museum, or Zi Jin Cheng (Purple Forbidden City), got its name from astronomy folklore, The ancient astronomers divided the constellations into groups and centered them around the Ziwei Yuan(North Star). The constellation containing the North Star was called the Constellation of Heavenly God and star itself was called the purple palace. Because the emperor was supposedly the son of the heavenly gods, his central and dominant position would be further highlighted the use of the word purple in the name of his residence. In folklore, the term ”an eastern purple cloud is drifting” became a metaphor for auspicious events after a purple cloud was seen drifting eastward immediately before the arrival of an ancient philosopher, LaoZi, to the Hanghu Pass. Here, purple is associated with auspicious developments. The word jin (forbidden) is self-explanatory as the imperial palace was heavily guarded and off-explanatory as the imperial palace was heavily guarded and off-limits to ordinary people.

The red and yellow used on the palace walls and roofs are also symbolic. Red represents happiness, good fortune and wealth. Yellow is the color of the earth on the Loess Plateau, the original home of the Chinese people. Yellow became an imperial color during the Tang dynasty, when only members of the royal family were allowed to wear it and use it in their architecture.

The Forbidden City is rectangular in shape. It is 960 meters long from north to south and 750 meter wide from east west. It has 9,900 rooms under a total roof area 150,000 square meters .A 52-meter-wide-moat encircles a 9.9-meter—high wall which encloses the complex. Octagon —shaped turrets rest on the four corners of the wall. There are four entrances into the city: the Meridian Gate to the south, the Shenwu Gate(Gate of Military Prowess) to the north, and the Xihua Gate(Gate of military Prowess) to the north, and the Xihua Gate(Western Flowery Gate )to the west ,the Donghua (Eastern Flowery Gate) to the east.

Manpower and materials throughout the country were used to build the Forbidden City. A total of 230,000 artisans and one million laborers were employed. Marble was quarried from fangshan Country Mount Pan in Jixian County in Hebei Province. Granite was quarried in Quyang County in Hebei Province. Paving blocks were fired in kilns in Suzhou in southern China. Bricks and scarlet pigmentation used on the palatial walls came from linqing in Shandong Province .Timber was cut ,processed and hauled from the northwestern and southern regions.

The structure in front of us is the Meridian Gate. It is the main entrance to the forbidden City. It is also knows as Wufenglou(Five-Phoenix Tower). Ming emperors held lavish banquets here on the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar year in hornor of their counties .They also used this place for punishing officals by flogging them with sticks.

Qing emperors used this building to announce the beginning of the new year. Qing Emperor Qianglong changed the original name of this announcement ceremony from ban li(announcement of calendar)to ban shou(announcement of new moon )to avoid coincidental association with another Emperor` s name, Hongli, which was considered a taboo at that time. Qing Dynasty emperors also used this place to hold audience and for other important ceremonies. For example,when the imperial army returned victoriously from the battlefield ,it was here that the Emperor presided over the ceremony to accept prisoners of war.

(After entering the Meridian Gate and standing in front of the Five Marble Bridges on Golden Water River)

now we are inside the Forbidden City.Before we start our tour, I would like to briefly introduce you to the architectural patterns befour us .To complete this solemn, magnificent and palatial complex, a variety of buildings were arranged on a north-south axis, and 8-kilometer-long invisible line that has become an inseparable part of the City of Beijing. The Forbidden City covers roughly one –third of this central axis. Most of the important building in the Forbidden City weree arranged along this line. The design and arrangement of the palaces reflect the solemn dignity of the royal court and rigidly –stratified feudal system.

The Forbidden City is divided into an outer and an inner count.We are now standing on the southernmost part of the outer count. In front of us lies the Gate of supreme Harmony .The gate is guarded by a pair of bronze lions ,symbolizing imperial power and dignity. The lions were the most exquisite and biggest of its kind. The one on the east playing with a ball is a male, and ball is said to represent state unity. The other one is a female. Underneath one of its fore claws is a cub that is considered to be a symbol of perpetual imperial succession. The winding brook before us is the Golden Water River. It functions both as decoration and fire control .The five bridges spanning the river represent the five virtues preached by Confucius :benevolence, righteousness, rites, intellence and fidelity. The river takes the shape of a bow and the north-south axis is its arrow. This was meant to show that the Emperors ruled the country on behalf of God.

(In front of the Gate of Supreme Harmony)

The Forbidden City consists of an outer countyard and an inner enclosure. The out count yard covers a vast space lying between the Meridian Gate and the Gate of Heavenly Purity. The “three big halls” of Supreme Harmony, Complete Harmony and Preserving Harmony constitute the center of this building group. Flanking them in bilateral symmetry are two groups of palaces: Wenhua (Prominent Scholars) and Wuying (Brave Warriors) . The three great halls are built on a spacious “H”-shaped, 8-meter-high, triple marble terrace, Each level of the triple terrace is taller than the on below and all are encircled by marble balustrades carved with dragon and phoenix designs. There are three carved stone staircases linking the three architectures .The hall of supreme Harmony is also the tallest and most exquisite ancient wooden-structured mansion in all of China. From the palace of Heavenly Purith northward is what is known as the inner court, which is also built in bilaterally symmetrical patterns. In the center are the Palace of Heavenly Purity, the Hall of Union and Peace and Palace of Earthly Tranquility, a place where the Emperors lived with their families and attended to state affairs. Flanking these structures are palaces and halls in which concubines and princes lived. There are also three botanical gardens within the inner count, namely, the imperial Garden, Caning garden and Quailing garden. An inner Golden Water River flows eastwardly within the inner court. The brook winds through three minor halls or palaces and leads out of the Forbidden City. It is spanned by the White Jade Bridge. The river is lined with winding, marble –carved balustrades. Most of the structures within the Forbidden City have yellow glazed tile roofs.

Aside from giving prominence to the north-south axis, other architectural methods were applied to make every group of palatial structures unique in terms of terraces, roofs, mythical monsters perching on the roofs and colored, drawing patterns. With these, the grand contour and different hierarchic spectrum of the complex were strengthened. Folklore has it that there are altogether 9,999 room-units in the Forbidden City. Since Paradise only has 10,000 rooms, the Son of Heaven on earth cut the number by half a room. It is also rumoured that this half –room is located to the west of the Wenyuange Pavilion (imperial library). As a matter of fact, although the Forbidden City has more than 9,000 room-units, this half-room is nonexistent .The Wenyuange Pavilion is a library where “Si Ku Quan Shu”- China `s first comprehensive anthology-was stored.

(After walking past the Gate of Supreme Harmony)

Ladies and Gentlemen, the great hall we are approaching is the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the biggest and tallest of its king in the Forbidden City. This structure covers a total building space of 2,377 square meters, and is know for its upturned, multiple counterpart eaves . The Hall of Supreme Harmony sits on a triple “H”-shaped marble terrace the is 8meters high and linked by staircases. The staircase on the ground floor has 21 steps while the middle and upper stairways each have 9.

The construction of the Hall of Supreme Harmony began in 1406. It burned down three times and was severely damaged once during a mutiny. The existing architecture was built during the Qing Dynasty. On the corners of the eaves a line of animal-nails were usually fastened to the tiles. These animal-nails were later replace with mythical animals to ward off evil spirits. There are altogether 9 such fasteners on top of this hall. The number nine was regarded by the ancients to be the largest numeral accessible to man and to which only the emperors were entitled.

There was a total of 24 successive emperors during the Ming and Qing dynasties who were enthroned here. The ball was also used for ceremonies which marked other great occasions: the Winter Solstice, The Chinese Lunar New Year, the Emperor` s birthday, conferral of the title of empress, the announcement of new laws and policies, and dispatches of generals to war .On such occasions, the Emperor would hold audience for his court officials and receive their tributes.

This area is called the Hall of Supreme Harmony Square, which covers a total of 30,000 square meters, Without a single tree or plant growing here, this place inspires visitors to feel its solemnity and grandeur. In the middle of the square there is a carriageway that was reserved for the Emperor. On both sides of the road the groud bricks were laid in a special way seven layers lengthwise and eight layers crosswise, making up fifteen layers in all. The purpose of this was to prevent anyone from tunneling his way into the palace. In the count yard there are iron vats for storing water to fight fires. In the whole complex there are altogher 308 water vats. In wintertime, charcoal was burned underneath the vats to keep the water from freezing .Why so vast a square? It was designed to impress people with the hall` s grandeur and vastness. Imagine the following scene. Under the clear blue sky, the yellow glazed tiles shimmered as the cloud-like layers of terrace, coupled with the curling veil of burning incense, transformed the hall of supreme Harmony into a fairyland. Whenever major ceremonies were held, the glazed, crane-shaped candleholders inside the hall would be it, and incense and pine branches burnt in front of the hall. When the Emperor appeared, drums were beaten and musical instrument played. Civilian officials and generals would kneel know in submission.

The last Qing emperor Puyi assumed the throne in 1908, at the age of three, His father carried him to the throne. At the start of the coronation, the sudden drum-beating and loud music caught the young emperor unprepared .He was so scared that he kept crying and shouting,”I don’t want to stay here. I want to go home.” His father tried to soothe him, saying, ”It` all soon be finished .It` all soon be finished ”The ministers present at the event considered this incident inauspicious. Coincidentally, the Qing dynasty collapsed three years later and there with concluded China `s feudal system that had lasted for more than 2,000 years.

(On the stone terrace of the Hall of Supreme Harmony)

This is a bronze incense burner. In it incense made of sandalwood would be burnt on important occasions. There are altogether 18 incense burners, representing all of the provinces under the rule of the Sing monarchs. On either side of the Hall, 4 bronze water-filled vats were placed in case of fire. Next to the terrace on either side, there is a bronze crane and tortoise, symbols of longevity. This copper-cast grain measure is called ”jialiang.” It served as the national standard during the Qing dynasty. It was meant to show that the imperial ruler were just and open to rectification. On the other side there is a stone sundial, an ancient timepiece. The jialiang and the sundial were probably meant to show what the Emperor represented: that he was the only person who should possess the standards of both measure and time.

In the very forefront of the Hall of Supreme Harmony , there are 12 scarlet , round pillars supporting the roof. The hall is 63 meters from east to west and 37 meters from north to south, It is 35 meters in height. In front of this architechture, there stands a triple terrace with five staircases leading up to the main entrance .It has 40 gold doors and 16 gold-key windows with colored drawings on the pillars and beams. In the middle of the hall, a throune carved with 9 dragons sits on a 2-meter-high platform. Behind the throne there is a golden screen and in front of it, there is a imperial desk . The flanks are decorated with elephants, Luduan(a legendary beast), cranes, and incense barrels. The elephant carries a vase on its back that holds five cereals(i. e. rice, two kinds of millet, wheat and beans),which was considered a symbol of prosperity. As ancient legend has it that luduan can travel 18,000 li (9,000 kilometers )in one day and knows all languages and dialects. Only to a wise adjust monarch will this beast be a guardian.

The Hall of Supreme Harmony is also popularly known as Jinluan Dian (gold bell hall or the throne hall). The floor of the hall is laid with bricks that turn it into a smooth, fine surface as if water has been sprinkled on it .The so-called golden brick, in fact, has nothing to do with gold. Reserved exclusively for the construction of the royal court, it was made in a secretive, and complex way, and, when struck, sounds like the clink of a gold bar. Each brick was worth the market price of one dan (or one hectoliter ) of rice.

The hall is supported by a total of 72 thick pillars .Of these, 6 are carved in dragon patterns and painted with gold and surround the throne. Above the very center of this hall there is a zaojing, or covered ceiling, which is one of the Specialities of China `s ancient architure. In the middle of the ceiling is a design of a dragon playing with a ball inlaid with peals. This copper ball, hollow inside and covered with mercury, is known as the Xuanyuan Mirror and is thought to be made Xuanyuan, a legendary monarch dating back to remote antiquity. The placing of the caisson above the throne is meant to suggest that all of China` s successive emperors are Zuanyuan` s descendants and hereditary heirs. Now you might have noticed that the Xuanyuan mirror is not directly above the throne. Why? It is rumored that Yuan Shikai, a self-acclaimed warlord-turned emperor moved the throne further back because he was afraid that the mirror might fall on him .In 1916 when Yuan Shikai became emperor, he removed the original throne with a Western-style, high-back chair. After the foundation of the People` s Republic of China in 1949 the throne was found in a shabby furniture warehouse. It repaired and returned to the hall.

(Leading the tourist to the bronze vats either on the east or the west)

the water vats in front of the palaces or house were called “menhai,” or sea before the door by the ancient Chinese. They believed that with a sea by the door, fire could not wreak havoc. The vats served both as a decoration and as a fire extinguisher. They were kept full of water all year round.

During the Qing Dynasty, they were altogether 308 vats in the palace enclosure. They were made of gilt bronze or iron. Of couse, the gilt bronze vats were of the best quality. When the allied forces (Britain, Germany, France, Russia, the United States, Italy, Japan and Austria) invaded Beijing in 1900 under the pretext of suppressing the Boxer Rebellion, the invaders ransacked the imperial compound and scraped and gold off the vats with their bayonets. During the Japanese occupation of Beijing, many vats were trucked away by the Japanese to be made into bullets .

(In front of the Hall of Complete Harmony)

The square architecture before us is called the Hall of Complete Harmony. It served as an antechamber. The Emperor came here to meet with his countiers and add his final touches to the prayers which would be read at the ancestral Temple. The seeds, snowers and prayer intended for spring sowing were also examined here. The two Qing sedan chairs here on display were used for traveling within the palace during the reign of Emperor Qianlong.

(In front of the hall f Preserving Harmony)

this is the Hall of Preserving Harmony. During the Qing Dynasty, banquets were held here on New Year` s eve in honour of Mongolian and Northwestern China` s xingjiang princes and ranking officials. The Emperor also dinned here with his new son-in-law on the wedding day. Imperial examinations were also held here once every three years. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were three levels of exams: the county and prefectural level, the provincial level and national level. The national exam was presided over by the emperor. The civil service exam in ancient China started during the Han Dynasty. It served the purpose of recruiting Confucian scholars to the ministers and high officials. During the Tang and Qing dynasties reinstituted and ancient system. Once every three years, three hundred scholars from all over the country came to Beijing and took exams for three day and night. This system was abolished in 1905.

(Behind the hall of preserving harmony)

this is the largest stone carving in the palace . It is 16.73 meters long, 3.07 meters wide and 1.7 meters thick .It weighs about 200 tons. The block was quarried in Fangshan County, roughly 70 kilometers away. To transport such a huge block to Beijing, laborers dug wells along the roadside half a kilometer apart, and used the groundwater to make a road of ice in the winter. Rolling blocks were used in the summer. In 1760, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty ordered the carving of the existing cloud and dragon design in place of the old one which dated back to the Ming Dynasty.

Note : From here, the tour can be conducted via three different routes: a western route(Route A), a central route (Route B) or an eastern route (Route C) .The commentary for each follows.

Route A

Ladies and Gentlemen:

You have seen the three main halls of the Forbidden City. Now I ` d like to show you around the hall of mental cultivation and the imperial garden . The hall of mental cultivation is situated is in the western part of the innermost enclosure and is symmetrical to Fengxian (enshrinement of forebears) Hall in the east. This hall was built during the Ming Dynasty. IT is a H-shaped structure consisting of an antechamber and a main building .The hall is surrounded by corridors. In front of the hall is the Office of Privy Council.

Before Emperor Kangxi of Qing the Dynasty came to power the Hall of Heavenly Purity served as the living quarter of the emperors. Emperor Yongzheng chose to live in this hall and attended to every day state affairs from here .For the sake of protecting cultural relics, this hall is not open to the public .You can have a look at the inside from the door. The central hall was the audience chamber where the emperor read memorials, granted audience to officials and summoned his minsters for consultation. The western chamber of the hall was where the emperor read reports and discussed military and political affairs. The hall consists of many inner rooms and is decorated with images of Buddha and miniature pagodas. On the screen wall there hangs a picture of two emperors in the Han costume. In a southern room there three rare calligraphic scrolls, hence the name of the room “Sanxitang” (Room of Three Rare Treasures) . The room on the eastern side is of historical interst because it was here that Empress Dowager Cixi usurped power and made decisions on behalf of the young emperor . A bamboo curtain was used to separate them .

Empress Dowage Cixi was born in 1835 in Lu` an Prefecture of shanxi province. She` s of Manchurian nationality and her father was a provincial governor from south China. When she was 17 years old ,she was selected to become a concubine of Emperor Xianfeng and moved into the Forbidden City. She gave birth to a son when she was 21years old and was made a concubine the following year. When the emperor passed away in the summer of 1861, her son ascended the throne and title of Cixi, meaning “Holy Mother” was conferred upon her and she became the Empress Dowager. In that same year Empress Dowager Cixi carried out a count coup d` etat and ruled behind the scenes with another empress dowager, Ci` an, for 48 years. She passed away in 1908 at the age of 73. It was in reference to this situation that the term “attending to state affairs behind a bamboo curtain” developed .In 1912 , Empress dowager Longyu declared the abdication of the last Qing emperor Puyi. They were allowed to remain in the Forbidden City for the next 13 years .The royal family was forced to move out permanently in 1924.

Behind the central hall were the living accommodation of 8 successive Qing emperors .Three of them actually passed away here. The side rooms flanking the hall were reserved for empresses and concubines. Now let` s continue with our tour. It will take us to the Hall of heavenly purity , the hall of union and peace ,the palace of earthly tranquility, and the imperial garden.

Route B

(Inside the Hall of heavenly Purity)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We are now entering the inner court. From the Gate of Heavenly Purity northward lies the inner court where the emperors and empresses once lived .The Hall of heavenly Purity is the central hall of the inner court ,and was completed during the Reign of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty. There are 10 pillars supporting the entire structure and the hall is 20 meters in height .In the center of the hall there a throne. Above it hangs a plaque with an inscription that reads “Be open and above-board,” written by Shenzhi,the first emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Beginning with Qianlong` s reign, the name of the successor to the throne was not publicly announced .instead, it was written on two pieces of paper, one to be kept on the emperor` s person throughout his reign, and the other placed in a small strongbox that was stored behind his plaque. The box was opened only after the emperor passed away. Altogether there where 4 emperors who ascended the throne in this way, namely Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daohuang and Xian feng.

The hall of heavenly purity was where the emperors lived during the Ming and Qing dynasties. According to tradition ,extravagant annual banquets were held here on New Year` s Eve in honour of royal family members. Foreign ambassadors were received here during the late-Qing period. Two important “one thousand old men` s feasts” of the Qing Dynasty were also held here. All the invitees had to be at least 65 years of age.

This hall was also used for mourning services.

(Inside the Palace of Union and Peace)

this hall sits between the Hall of heavenly Purity and the Palace of Earthly Tranquility, symbolizing the union of heaven and earth ,as well as national peace .It was first built in 1420 and reconstructed in 1798. The hall is square in shape ,and is smaller than the Hall of complete Harmony .You will see a plaque here inscribed with two Chinese characters, wu wei, which were handwritten by Emperor Qianglong. A throne sits in the middle of the hall with a screen behind it .Above the throne there hangs a caisson ,or covered ceiling. The emperor held birthday celebrations and other major events here.

In 1748 during Emperor Qianlong` s reign, 25 jade seals representing imperial authority were kept in this hall .No seals were allowed out of the room without the prior consent of the emperor. On each flack there is a water clock and a chiming clock.

(Inside the palace of earthly tranquility)

This used to be the central hall where successive Ming empresses lived. During the Qing dynasty, it was converted into a place where sacrifices and wedding ceremonies were held .The room on the western side was used for sacrifices and the room on the east was the seeding chamber.

Route C

Ladies and Gentlemen:

You have seen the three main halls of the Forbidden City. Now I` d like to show you around scenes of interest along the eastern route. The first is the Treasure Hall. This mansion is called the Hall of Imperial Zenith. This is where Sing Emperor Quailing lived after abdication. Nearly 1,000 artifacts and treasures are on display here, among which the Golden Hair Tower is one of the most famous. This tower is 1.53meters in height and its base is 0.53 meters in circumference .It was built under the order of Emperor Quailing to be used to collect fallen hair in commemoration of his mother. There is also a “Day harnessing Water Jade Hill ” on display here. Yu was a legendary monarch of the remote Ixia dynasty. Under his leadership, the people learned how to harness the Yellow River. This jade assemblage, 224 centimeters in height and 5 tons in weight, is the largest jade artwork in China. This mat was woven with peeled ivory. These artifacts are among China` s rarest treasures.

(In front of the Nine-Dragon Screen)

this is the Nine-Dragon Relief Screen .Erected in 1773,it is 3.5 meters in height and 29.4 meters in width. Underneath is a foundation made of marble .The surface of the screen is laid with a total of 270 colored, glazed tiles in the design of 9 dragons ,some rocky mountains ,clouds and the sea. It was meant to ward off evil spirits The ancient Chinese regarded 9 dragons, some rocky mountains, clouds and the sea. It was meant to ward off evil spirits .The ancient Chinese regarded 9 as the largest numeral and the dragon as a auspicious beast .The 9 dragons are different in color and posture and all are made of glazed tiles. Interestingly a piece of the third dragon from the left is made of wood. It is believe that when the Nine-dragon Screen was almost finished ,a piece of glazed tile was damaged .Emperor Qianlong was scheduled to inspect the work the following day .Using quick wits, the craftsman in question molded the missing piece with clay and sailed through the imperial inspection. Later ,he asked a carpenter to carve a wooden one to replace the one made of clay.

(Approaching the Imperial Garden)

Behind the Palace of Earthly Tranquility and trading the north-south axis is the imperial Garden. There are old trees, rare flowers and exotic rock formation in this garden .It cover a space of 11,700 square meters, or roughly 1.7 percent of the Forbidden City. Most of the structures in the garden are symmetrically arranged . However, each is different in terms of parrern and decoration. Woods clumps of bamboo screen off the garden and strengthens its deep and serene atmosphere.

There main structure of the Imperial Garden is the Qin` an Hall. Positioned in the central-northern part of the garden ,this hall is flanked by other halls and pavilions on the east and west. The hall sits on a marble pedestal. The Taoist deity of Zhenwu is enshrined here and emperor would pay homage here a quarterly basis. Taoist rites were held during the reign of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty. In front of the hall there is a cypress that is 400 years old .In all there are a dozen such rare trees in the garden, and most of them are cypresses or pines. To the northwest of the hall , there is the Yanhui(Sustaining Sunshine) Pavilion and to the northeast there lies the Duixiu (Accumulated Refinement )Hill. This Hill was built over the foundation of the long- pershed Guanhua (Admiring Flowers) Hall of the Ming Dynasty. It is 14 meters in height and made of al kinds of rocks quarried in jiang su province. At its base stand two nstone lions, each carrying a dragon shooting water 10 meters up into the air from its mouth. There are meandering paths leading to the hilltop. At the top of Duixiu Hill sits the Yujing (Imperial Viewing)Pavilion. Traditionally, On the day of the Double Ninth Festival (the ninth day of the ninth lunar month ), the emperor ,his consort, and his concubines would climb up to Yujing Pavilion to enjoy the scenery.

At the southeastern corner of the Garden is Jiangxue(Crimson Snowy) Verandah. Nearby to the southwest lies Yangxing Study (study of the cultivation of nature) .The yangxing study was used as a royal library during the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. The last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi once studied English there. In front of the Jiangxue Verandah some Chinese flowering crabapples grow. The structure got its name from the crabapples who blossoms trun from crimson to snowy white. In front of the Verandah, there grows a rare flower that was brought from henna Province under the order of Empress dowager Cixi. In the northest is Chizao Tang (Hall of Using Flowery Language), once used as a library where rare books were stored.

There are also specific pavilions symbolizing the four seasons .The halls of Wanchun and Qianqiu ,representing spring and autumn respectively ,are square in shape and are coupled with multiple eaves and bell-shape and are coupled with multiple eaves and bell-shaped ridges. The halls of Chengrui and Fubi,dedecated to winter and summer, are characterized by two verandahs and bridges at their bases .Paths were paved with colorful pebbles and arranged in 900 different designs.

The Imperial Garden can be accessed through the Qiong yuan (Jade Garden )West gate or the qiong yuan east gate. A third gate, the shunzhen(Obedience and Fidelity)Gate, opens to the north. Its doors are laid in glazed tiles and it was only used by the empress or concubines.

As our tour of the Forbidden City draws to a close, I hope that I have helped you understand why the Palace is a treasure of China and one of the cultural relics of the world. It is under the strict protection of the Chinese government. Since 1949 when the people` s Rupublic of China was founded, nearly one trillion RMB was spent on its restoration and refurbishment. The Forbidden City has undergone four major facelifts to date. Each year, the government earmarks a large sum to gather, sort and study cultural relics. The Palace now contains a total of 930,000cultural relics. Well, so much for today .Let` s go to reboard the coach. Thank you !

Dear tourists, we are going to Jiuhua Mountain right now. Lets listen toXiao Ke first. Ill give you a brief introduction, so that when we arrive, wecan visit more quickly.

Jiuhua Mountain, located in Qingyang County, South Anhui Province, is oneof the four famous Buddhist mountains in China. Liu Yuxi, a writer of the TangDynasty, praised Jiuhua Mountain after climbing it. He thought that the famousmountains in the world could not compete with Jiuhua Mountain. Li Bai went toMount Jiuhua three times. Jiuhua Mountain is characterized by beautifulmountains and numerous Buddhist temples.

To visit Jiuhua Mountain, you should first go to Jiuhua street, which isthe center of Jiuhua Mountain. Temples are mainly concentrated there, so it iscalled "Lotus Buddha kingdom". It is actually a village on the mountain. Besidestemples, there are shops, schools, hotels and farmhouses. Visitors can staythere and take it as a starting point to visit the scenic spots on themountain.

Huacheng temple on Jiuhua street is the oldest ancient temple of JinDynasty in Jiuhua Mountain. It is also the main temple of Jiuhua Mountain. Thearchitecture of the temple is arranged according to the mountain situation,reflecting the superb art of architectural design. In the temple, there is anancient clock which is more than ten feet high and weighs about 20__ Jin. It isexquisitely cast and has a loud voice. It is struck with a mallet. The solemnand clear sound of the bell reverberates in the valley, which often makes peoplefeel extraordinarily refined. "Huacheng evening clock" has become one of the"Jiuhua ten sceneries".

Jiuhua scenery is on the roof. Tiantai peak is the main peak of JiuhuaMountain, with an altitude of more than 1300 meters. There is a saying that "ifyou dont get on the roof, you dont come.". From the rooftop of Jiuhua street,about 15 Huali mountain road, along the road through many scenic spots. When youare out of breath and reach the top of the roof, the scenery in front of youwill make you open-minded and tired. All around the mountains crawling, lookingat Jiuhua street, only palm so big.

Well, here we are. We all get off the bus and follow Xiao Ke into thescenic spot. We must pay attention to our team flag. Dont fall behind or go tothe wrong team.