北京旅游英文导游词
北京旅游英文导游词[1]
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Welcome to the Great Wall.
Starting out in the east on the banks of the Yale River in Leaning Province, the Wall stretches westwards for 12,700 kilometers to Jiayuguan in the Gobi desert, thus known as the Ten Thousand Li Wall in China.
The Wall climbs up and down, twists and turns along the ridges of the Yanshan and Yinshan Mountain Chains through five provinces——Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu and two autonomous regions——Ningxia and Inner Mongolia, binding the northern China together.
Historical records trace the construction of the origin of the Wall to defensive fortification back to the year 656 B.C.
during the reign of King Cheng of the States of Chu.
Its construction continued throughout the Warring States period in the fifth Century B.C.
Walls, then, was built separately by these ducal states to ward off such harassments.
Later in 221 B.C.
The most extensive reinforcements and renovations were carried out in the Ming Dynasty (1368——1644) when altogether 18 lengthy stretches were reinforced with bricks and rocks.
it is mostly the Ming Dynasty Wall that visitors see today.
The Great Wall is divided into two sections, the east and west, with Shanxi Province as the dividing line.
The west part is a rammed earth construction, about 5.3 meters high on average.
In the eastern part, the core of the Wall is rammed earth as well, but the outer shell is reinforced with bricks and rocks.
The most imposing and best preserved sections of the Great Wall are at Badaling and Mutianyu, not far from Beijing and both are open to visitors.
The Wall of those sections is 7.8 meters high and 6.5 meters wide at its base, narrowing to 5.8 meters on the ramparts, wide enough for five horses to gallop abreast.
Two-storied watch-towers are built at approximately 400-meters internals.
The top stories of the watch-tower were designed for observing enemy movements, while the first was used for storing grain, fodder, military equipment and gunpowder as well as for quartering garrison soldiers.
The highest watch-tower at Badaling standing on a hill-top, is reached only after a steep climb, like "climbing a ladder to heaven".
There stand 14 major passes (Guan, in Chinese) at places of strategic importance along the Great Wall, the most important being Shanghaiguan and Jiayuguan.
Yet the most impressive one is Juyongguan, about 50 kilometers northwest of Beijing.
Known as "Tian Xia Di YI Guan" (The First PaUnder Heaven), Shanghaiguan Pais situated between two sheer cliffs forming a neck connecting north China with ……此处隐藏4424个字……
The ancient Chinese liken the warble of an oriole to beautiful songs and melodies, hence the name of the hall which used to be a theater.
Now the hall is one of the most famous restaurants in China, featuring imperial dishes and desserts.
It is a must for many foreign visitors to have lunch here when then come to Beijing.
More than one hundred heads of state worldwide have dined here and the late Premier Zhou Enlai has held banquets here in honor of state guests.
(Sightseers who want to try the restaurant can go boating after they eat.
Those who do not can go abroad right away.
Those who do not feel like taking the boat can stoll along the Long Corridor to the outside of the East Gate).
(Boating on Kunmin Lake)
we are now going to enjoy the lakeside scenery from a pleasure boat.
As a main part of the Summer Palace, Kunming Lake covers an area of 220 hectares, or three fourths of the combined space of this summer resort.
This natural lake is more than 3500 years old.
This lake was originally called Wengshan Lake.
In 1749 Emperor Qianlong ordered the construction of Qingyi Garden, the predecessor of the Summer Palace.
Involving nearly 10,000 laborers, the lake was expanded and turned into a peach-shaped reservoir, the first of its kind for Beijing.
From 1990 to 1991, the Beijing Municipal Government ordered the first dredging of the lake in 240 years .Involving 200,000 men and hundreds of dredgers and other tools, a total of 625,600 cubic meters of sludge was dredged and 205 bombs dropped by the Japanese during the Anti-Japanese War were removed.
The summer palace set a precedent for sightseeing by boat.
There used to be a large imperial flotilla, of which the “Kunming Merry Dragon” was the most famous.
It was destroyed by the Anglo-French allied forces in 1860.
To make the tour of the Summer Palace a more pleasant one, a large pleasure boat “Tai He ” (Supreme Harmony )was built.
This double –decked boat is 37.09 meters long,8,59 meters wide and 10.49 meters high.
It can travel at a speed of 9 kilometer per hour.
Small pleasure boats are also available to tourist.
Another major spot of interest on the Western causeway is Jingming (Bright View ) Hall.
Both its front and rear face the lake.
This structure also features three two- storeyed halls of varying heights.
Our tour is drawing to a close as we approach the shore.
Today we only visited the major scenic areas of the Summer Palace.
I have left other spot of interest for your next visit.
I will show you out through the East Gate.
I hope you enjoyed today` s tour.
Thank you .Good-bye and good luck.
