长城英文导游词

第 1 页 共 9 页 长城英文导游词长城英文导游词 篇一 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 during the 第 2 页 共 9 页 reign of King Cheng of the States of Chu Its construction continued throughout the Warring States period in the fifth Century Walls then was built separately by these ducal states to ward off such harassments Later in 221 The most extensive reinforcements and renovations were carried out in the Ming Dynasty 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 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 第 3 页 共 9 页 The Wall of those sections is meters high and meters wide at its base narrowing to 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 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 第 4 页 共 9 页 Known as Tian Xia Di YI Guan Shanghaiguan Pass is situated between two sheer cliffs forming a neck connecting north China with the northeast It had been therefore a key junction contested by all strategists and many famous battles were fought here It was the gate of Shanghaiguan that the Ming general Wu Sangui opened to the Manchu army to suppress the peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng and so surrendered the whole Ming empire to the Manchus leading to the foundation of the Qing Dynasty As a cultural heritage the Wall belongs not only to China but to the world The Venice charter says Historical and cultural architecture not only includes the individual architectural works but also the urban or rural environment that witnessed certain civilizations significant social developments or historical events The Great Wall is the 第 5 页 共 9 页 largest of such historical and cultural architecture and that is why it continues to be so attractive to people all over the world In 1987 the Wall was listed by UNESCO as a world cultural heritage site 篇二 In the north of China there lies a 6 700 kilometer long ancient wall Now well known as the Great Wall of China it starts at the Jiayuguan Pass of Gansu Province in the west and ends at the Shanhaiguan Pass of Hebei Province in the east As one of the Eight Wonders in the world the Great Wall of China has become the symbol of the Chinese nation and its culture Another legend about the Jiayuguan Pass tells of a workman named Yi Kaizhan in the Ming Dynasty who was proficient in arithmetic He calculated that it would need 99 999 bricks 第 6 页 共 9 页 to build the Jiayuguan Pass The supervisor did not believe him and said if they miscalculated by even one brick then all the workmen would be punished to do hard work for three years After the completion of the project one brick was left behind the Xiwong city gate The supervisor was happy at the sight of the brick and ready to punish them However Yi Kaizhan said with deliberation that the brick was put there by a supernatural being to fix the wall A tiny move would cause the collapse of the wall Therefore the brick was kept there and never moved It can still be found there today on the tower of the Jiayuguan Pass In addition to the above mentioned stories about the construction of the Great Wall there are also plenty of stories about current scenic spots A famous one is the legend of the Beacon Tower This story happened during the Western Zhou Dynasty King You had a 第 7 页 共 9 页 queen named Bao Si who was very pretty King You liked her very much however Bao Si never smiled An official gave a suggestion that setting the beacon tower on fire would frighten the King s subjects and might make the queen smile King You liked the idea The subjects were fooled and Bao Si smiled at the sight of the chaos Later enemies invaded Western Zhou King You set the beacon tower on fire to ask for help No subjects came to help because they had been fooled once before Thus King Zhou was killed by the enemy and Western Zhou came to an end Beautiful stories and legends about the Great Wall help to keep alive Chinese history and culture In each dynasty after the building of the Great Wall many more stories were created and spread 篇三 第 8 页 共 9 页 Hello everyone Today we ll visit Suizhong Jiumenkou Waterborne Great Wall which is the first world cultural helitage in Northeast is the hometown of the first chinese astronaut 杨 利伟 There is a plaque on the western Gate which writes The First Pass of Jingdong that can be compared with The First Pass Under Heaven Now please follow me to get off the to bring your s visit together The Great Wall spends 4 years in restorin