九华山英文导游词

九华山英文导游词九华山英文导游词 good morning! ladies and gentlemen! today, with such great joy, on behalf of anhui travel agency. id 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, ill be your local guide. its my honor to be of your service. if you have any request, go ahead! ill try my best to help you and make your stay comfortable! its 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 , which is known as one of the four buddhist mountains in china. its about 30 minutes bus ride. on the way you can enjoy the beautiful scenery and id like to give you a brief introduction about was originally known as jiuzi (ninepeak) mount. li bai, a famous chinese poet over 1300 years ago wrote of the mountain: ”sailing on the yangtze river, watching from after, green water falls from the sky, nine lotuses appear in the air.” this expresses the poets great admiration for from then on, the mountain was renamed as 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. is full of waterfalls, streams, exoticlooking 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. is usually known as the mountain of the southeast. ok, i have said too much about the , and i expect you have got a general idea about it. seeing is beliving. im 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. lets get off the bus and bring your camera. ill show you around the scenic areas. look! so many monks, why yes, thats it! because 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 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. well 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, lets 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, wel