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1(Narration)(National ) Dafeng Natural Reserves for David-deersHello, everyone! Welcome to Dafeng, the native place of the David-deers.Here we are in Dafeng Natural Reserves for David-deers, it is located in the tidal land, 53 km. southeast of Dafeng.David-deer is, called animal with 4 semblances, belonging to the deer family in the class of mammals, asit has branched antlers like a deer, a face like a horse, a body like a donkey, and hooves like a calf. It is 2 meters long, over 1 meter tall, with light brown hair which looks darker on the back and lighter on the belly, with a tail hanging down to the hooves. It is docile in nature, feeding on vegetation. Actually, it is a kind of special local animal in China, with the wild ones being extinct in the world.It is recorded in NATURAL SCIENCE written by Zhang Hua in Western Jin Dynasty: There once livedthousands of elks in groups in Hailing, bordering the sea and linking the Yangtze River, which tallies with thearchaeological study. In Dafeng, the fossils of David-deers have been found in 12 places, thats to say, Dafengused to be one of the habitats of David-deers. Some 2000 years ago, the reproduction rate of David-deersreached the acme. People used to domesticate and hunt David-deers and eat the venison just as popular as weare now raising pigs and eating pork.David-deer prefers, by nature, living in the salted marsh, feeding on grass, taking wet land as the habitatto generate its offspring.Once branches of David-deers family lived along the Yangtze River banks. But, with the expansion ofhuman habitation, the animals habitat was rapidly lessening. Herds of David-deers migrated eastward alongthe north bank of Yangtze to the sea. God blessed the species. It was in the tidal land made up of the alluvialsand and soil from Yangtze and Haihe rivers that the David-deers found a refuge and settled down in the newliving place. However, good days wouldnt last long for the animal. Even in the the soft alluvial soil soonappeared human trace, people set up stoves to boil salt and encircled the reclaimed land with seawalls forfarming, so the last sanctuary for the animal were gradually occupied by human beings.By the Song Dynasty, the wild David-deers had been extinct in the world, except a few domesticatedones were left and kept in the royal garden. In 1865, a French missionary, called Ervin David, rode a donkeyto the Royal Nanhaitzi Garden in Beijing, for he was told that in the garden were kept a special kind of animal,called four semblances. By bribing the clerk of the garden, he succeeded in doing a dirty business. He handedin ten dollars through a hole in a wall, in turn, he got a skull of the deers from within, and handing in anotherten dollars, he got 2 pieces of the deers skin. Two years later, David published an article, On the Discovery ofthe New Species, which made an instant sensation in the world of animal science. So a far-fetched exoticname was given to the animal.In 1900, allied troops of the 8 nations conquered Beijing and the last existing David-deers were takenabroad just as the captives in a cold rainy night. From then on, no trace of the animal was ever found in the 9.6million sq. km. of the land.Being not accustomed to the climate in the alien land, the David-deers, once hundreds of thousand innumber, were almost extinct in the world. In the early 20th century, only 18 David-deers were left, all kept inan Englishmans manor. The owner of the manor was afraid that the chaos of the war would make the speciestotally extinct like dinosaur from the earth. So he took a wise measure to bring the last existing David-deers toNorth America and other European countries.In 1980s, the World Animal Fund and UN Nature & Natural Protection Union initiated to bringDavid-deers to the native place so as to restore the wild species. The Ministry of Forestry organized specialistsfrom home and abroad to make an on-site investigation from Liaoning to Guangxi and concluded that the tidalland bordering the Yellow Sea, in southeast Dafeng, would be the most ideal living place for the David-deers.In the October of 1986, Dafeng Natural Reserves for the Wild David-deers was founded. On August 14 of thesame year, 39 David-deers were, given gratuitously by London Zoo, transported in a special truck to thereserves.Friends, knowing the vitality and tragic history of David-deers, now you may be interested in the livingof the animals. Please, follow me to the reserves.Here above the gate are 5 big characters, standing for Dafeng David-deers Park, written by Mr. FeiXiao-tong, a famous scholar and social elite. 300 meters from the gate is a round circle, 30 meters in diameter,on its center stands the statue of a 3-deers family, around which are another 4 statues of the horse, calf, donkeyand deer to give people a better understanding of the semblances between David-deers and the 4 differentZeon PDF Driver T.tw2animals.Now we are in the Exhibition Room, it shows the distribution, life procedures and nature of David-deers.And here in the room are exhibited samples of David-deers and some other wild lives. To go southward, wellcome to a small cinema, where the video information tapes, like Return of David-deers, Native Place ofDavid-deers, etc. are to be shown for the visitors. Out of the cinema, turning right, a short walk will take us tothe domestication ground, where we can see the David-deers.Actually, the wild David-deers, in the real sense, have been extinct in the world. The existing ones,totaled about 2000, are all raised in parks or zoos. So it is of great importance to restore the nature of thedomesticated David-deers, for which Dafeng Natural Reserves has taken positive measures to raise theanimals in the natural environment. To make the David-deers accustomed to the natural environment, theresearch workers have worked hard to overcome the difficulties one after another. Till now , the number of theDavid-deers had increased to1169.,occupying one half of national and one third of the world.As far as theproliferation and survival rate of the David-deers are concerned, it takes the top place in the world.David-deers are herbivorous animals. In summer, they usually take damp marsh as the habitat to avoidthe heat and keep from the insectss bite. They can stand up with the cold winter, with the temperature down tominus 15 18 . They are, living in groups, docile, timid, and good at running. The body hair changes twice ayear, which looks brown in summer and dark grey brown in winter. The body of the stag is, about 250 kg,larger than that of the doe, it grows antlers which change around the New Years Day every year. The doe hasno antler and mates between May to July every year, and with a period of pregnancy of 270 290 days, givesbirth to one deer-ling a time. The new-born deer is, 9 15 kg., hiding in the grass, with brown fetal hair spottedwith large white-red colors. With a breast-fed period of 4 7 months, the young deers can follow the group acouple weeks after birth, and the spots on the body will disappear at one month old. The doe is, about 140 160kg., matured in sex at 2 years old and bodily matured at 3 years old. A stag is matured in sex at 3 years old,and grown-up at 4 years old, with the branches of the antlers increasing with the age and finalized in shape at5 years old. The stags, when in rut, will knock the ground with the pierced things on the sharp antlers to ventthe restless mood, fighting fiercely against one another, anyone who get the up-hand all over the others will bethe king to dominate the does. The does usually fight against one another for the habitat, what is different fromthe fight by the stags is that the does, standing on the hind legs, kick each other with the front legs. AndDavid-deers have developed the particular glands in the front eye-sockets, which will, when being in fight,frightened or mating, open to give off a kind of odor, which is, beyond mans smell, to be sensed among thedeers.Apart from the David-deers, there live a large number of the wild animals, over 30 species of animals areunder the Class I or Class II protection, like the red-crowned cranes, white-necked cranes, swans, white-tailedvultures, river-deers, etc.Now we are in Guanlu Pagoda. Actually, it was, not listed in the original plan of the reserves, constructedby accident. To dig a well to get drinking water for people and animal in the reserves, a water tower wasneeded to build over the well to store water, which would look rather awkward in the beautiful environment,so a conception was worked out to build a pagoda instead of a water tower. In the ancient Chinese culture, apagoda was so built as to dominate the local land and water, the stories of which should be in odd number. Butthis pagoda has 8 stories, with the 5th floor storing water and all the other floors available to the sightseers.And in the reserves there are a man-made hunting ground, a zoo, a peacock park, and a fishing pool open tothe visitors.Thats all for my narration.Thank you for your attention.English Version Written by Shi Chun-yang 施春阳The Foreign Affairs Office of Yancheng Municipal Peoples Government(Narration)(National) Yancheng Natural Reserves for the Rare BirdsHello, everyone.Here we are in Yancheng Natural Reserves for the Rare Birds. It was, approved by Jiangsu ProvincialPeoples Government, founded in November of 1983, and in 1992, it was, approved by the State Council,Zeon PDF Driver T.tw3upgraded as National Reserves and established as UNASCO Yancheng Biological Reserves, and listed inWorld Biological Reserves Network and brought into East Asia Cranes Reserves Network.AUDIO & VEDIO ROOM Here in the room, we can get the information of the reserves with the help ofthe audio & video tapes, pictures and samples.There are quite a number of birds in the reserves, with the red-crowned cranes under the major protection.A red-crowned crane is, precious as a giant panda, so named as it has a piece of red feather like a crown on itstop. There exist now only about 2000 wild red-crowned cranes in the world, around 1000 of which fly to thereserves for winter every year.Yancheng National Reserves for the Rare Birds is the largest coastal reserves, it stretches over the tidalland in Dongtai, Dafeng, Sheyang, Binhai and Xiangshui, covering some 580 km. of the coastal line, with atotal space of about 453,000 ha., centering around 17,4000 ha. of the reclaimed land between Xinyang Portand Doulong Port.In the tidal land, are living 450 kinds of plants, 379 kinds of birds, 45 kinds of amphibians, 281 kinds offishes and 47 kinds of mammals, among which are 12 kinds of the wild lives under the Class I protection, likethe red-crowned cranes, white cranes, storks, wild ducks, sea-gulls, bustard vultures, etc., and 67 kinds of thewild lives are under the Class II protection. In addition, the tidal land yields over 50,000 tons of reed,1,000,000 tons of aquatic produces, and about 300 tons of clam worms each year.The reserves is the resting place for the birds migrating from Northeast Asia to Australia, and it is also animportant habitat for waterfowls to live through winter. Every year over 3,000,000 various birds migrate byway of Yancheng. It is one of the places which reserve and provide refuge for quite a few living species on thebrink of extinction, and 229 kinds of birds living in the reserves are listed in the Red-covered Book of theEndangering Species by World Natural Reserves Protection Union.OSTRICH GARDENS 2 ostrich gardens have been built up in the reserves, one is near WanhetingPagoda, another is by Xinyang Town. Over 200 ostriches, originated from Africa, are raised in the gardens.Any visitor who has an interest to enjoy an ostrich ride may have a try. Actually, its a courageous sport,requiring both valor and skill, for the rider has nothing but the long neck to hold on in the ride.DAVID-DEERS GARDEN This reserves is a paradise, not only for the red-crowned cranes but also forthe David-deers, which are introduced from the abroad. Every Autumn, a large stretches of the salt-wortgrowing up like pieces of the rosy clouds, with the strong David-deers galloping among the salt-wort againstthe background of the white expanse of the tidal land, thats really beautiful. And in the reserves also lives akind of rare animals, called long-teeth deers, or, river-deers, totaled about 1000. It is big as a dog, with 2 longteeth and beautiful color-spotted fur, but with no horns. A river-deer runs so fast that people can seldom catcha sight of it. The natural enemy for the river-deers is the badger, which looks like a small panda. It is acarnivore, good at digging holes.CRANE GIRL TOMB 2 km. northeast to Wanheting Pagoda is a pine forest, lush and green, amongwhich lies a large tomb of the Crane Girl, Xu Xiu-juan, who gave up her life for saving the rare birds. Xu was,born in 1964, of Man nationality. She was awarded as the Model Tourist Worker for training cranes. At 21,she entered Northeast Forestry University, at which she studied so hard that within one year and half shefinished all the courses. In 1986, she was employed to domesticate the red-crowned cranes in the reserves, andshe succeeded in hatching the cranes by artificial incubation the same year. She contributed a lot to solve thedifficult problem to make it possible for the red-crowned cranes in the reserves not to migrate every year. OnSept.16,1987, Xu, looking for the lost swan for 2 days in the white expanse of the tidal land, gave up heryoung life in crossing a river. To memorize her heroic deeds, 2 statues of Xu was made in the reserves, one isstanding in front of the office building, another is set at the entrance of the reserves. And a TV opera, CraneSoul, is created to reproduce her short life of glamour, its theme song, A True Story, with the beautiful melody,touching people deep in the heart, is resounded on both banks of the Yangtze.RISING-SUN ON YELLOW SEA It is the best time to see the spectacular of the sun rising from theYellow Sea in Xing-yang Port on the 8th and 23d every lunar month, when a high tide appears in the earlymorning. At dawn, day breaks with a strip of light skimming over the surface of the sea, turning from delicatered to scarlet. Above the tide, a red spot appears with the rosy cloud, which is, in turn, getting larger andbrighter, shaping like an egg yolk with a delicate yellow color pervading in, that is the early rising sun. Soon,it rises high above in the sky, shining over the world.BEACH DISCO To their hearts content, the visitors can aboard a ship sailing on the sea. When the tideZeon PDF Driver T.tw4ebbs, they can, taking off the shoes, dance disco on the soft beach, its a particular pleasure. The so-calledbeach disco is to tread on the beach to seek shellfish. The beach is so soft and flat, which is spotted withnumerous small holes, in each hole lives a shellfish. When man stamps lightly around the hole, the shellfishwill emerges form the sand. Actually, there is much fun, making visitors enjoy themselves so much as toforget to go home.So much for my narration.Relic Left By Gentleman ShiShi Nai An MuseumThe museum in memory of Shi Nai An, the author of masterpiece Water Margin , is located at theBai Ju town, Da Feng City. It is of humanistic memorial facility, which was built as the originalappearance of ancestral hall of family name Shi in Qing Dynasty. The museum buildings have uniquestyle, type of three rows and two wing-rooms, simple, elegant and refined as the building appearance ofDynasty Ming and Qing. In the yard, there are flourish flowers and trees, the winding path leads to asecluded quiet place, the great white marble statue of Gentleman Shi Nai An stands among flowers,pieces of ancient stone tablets for famous persons, all those show sits deep-connotation culturalbackground. Outside the yard, there are great trees and shades, the dense reeds standing on the riveraround, several sails in the far, all those give us a vivid water conception.Golden Beach and Precious MiluDa Feng National Reserves for David DeerThe reserves are located at the wet-land on the beach of the Yellow Sea within Da Feng City in themiddle of Jiangsu Province. Till now, it is the biggest and best reserves for wild David deer in the world,thanks to the beautiful natural environment without traces of human beings within more than 80 squarekilometers. In the land of trees, there are David deer and rare animals here and there, which forms a greatand primitive natural landscape painting. When Chinese and Foreign tourists stand on the top ofdeer-looking tower , the splendid boundless beach scenery is in their view.Charm of Xixi Ancient TownTaishan Temple in Dongtai CityTaishan temple is located at the south of Yanxi River to the west suburb of Dongtai City, the greatpalaces under Disheng Bridge, and the lofty Tang Hai Chun Tower stand far apart facing each other,which forms the ancient building-group like the style of Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty. It is a uniquewell-reserved millennial ancient temple in Yanfu land. Many kind-hearted people come here to worshipand sightsee every year.Taishan Temple was built during Jiading Period in Song Dynasty, covering 39000 square meters, 99and a half halls and houses. The buildings are magnificent, four main halls, Tianwang (emperor) hall,Dongyue hall, Dizang hall, Azure Cloud hall (Bixiagong); the statue of Water God, the goddess ofTaishan Bixiayuanjun, was enshrined and worshipped. The two wing-rooms a