介绍天津我的家乡的英语论文.doc

My name is Su Ying ,I am from China and my hometown is Tianjin.This is a famous city in China .Tianjin is located along the west coast of the Bohai Gulf, looking out to the provinces Shandong and Liaoning across those waters, bordered by Beijing 120 kilometres (75 mi) to the northwest, and except for the east, is surrounded on all sides by Hebei. With a latitude ranging from 38 34 to 40 15 N, and longitude ranging from 116 43 to 118 04 E, the total area is 11,860.63 km2 (4,579.41 sq mi). There is 153 km (95 mi) of coastline and 1,137.48 km (706.80 mi) of land border.12 It lies at the northern end of the Grand Canal of China, which connects with the Yellow River and Yangtze River. The municipality is generally flat, and swampy near the coast, but hilly in the far north, where the Yan Mountains intrude into northern Tianjin. The highest point in the municipality is Jiuding Peak in Ji County on the northern border with Hebei, at an altitude of 1,078.5 m (3,538 ft).Tianjin is one of the most prosperous business areas as well as a distribution center for goods and materials in North China. Tianjin is a famous historical city. The best known scenic spots and historical sites include Ning Garden, Tianhou Temple （Temple of Heavenly Empress）, Dule Temple in Ji county, The Great Wall at the Huangya Pass, the Panshan scenery area etc. The one of most important street named Acient cultural street .Tianjin Ancient Cultural Street is located in the Nankai District of the Tianjin Municipality and was formally opened in 1986. It is located on the west bank of the Haihe River, with Tianhou Palace as its geographical center. Tianjin Ancient Cultural Street begins at Gongbei Avenue in the north, and ends at Gongnan Avenue in the south, being 0.36 miles long and 16 feet wide. Although essentially a business street, Tianjin Ancient Cultural Street attracts tourists who come to see its special architectural styles, admire its classic cultural features, buy various folk crafts, and sample the delicious local Tianjin snacks. Above all, as visitors walk along the street, they will be particularly impressed by the splendid replica classical architecture in the folk style of the Qing Dynasty Standing at the center of Tianjin Ancient Cultural Street, Tianhou Palace, originally built in 1326, is one of only three Mazu Temples in the world (the other two are Fujian Mazu Temple and Beigang Chaotian Temple on Taiwan Island). Tianhou Palace is now the Folk-custom Museum of Tianjin and displays many folk crafts and cultural relics of ancient times. Yuhuang Cabinet (Yuhuang Ge) is the only building that was built during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) in Tianjin, and is the oldest structure in the street. From the top of the two-floor Cabinet, visitors have a birds-eye view of the whole street. Another building, Tong Qingli (ancient residential houses), built in 1913 and lying to the east of the cultural street, is the largest architectural edifice that combines both eastern and western architectural elements. People from Tianjin speak theTianjin dialectofMandarin, from which it is derived. Despite its proximity to Beijing, the Tianjin dialect sounds quite different from theBeijing dialect, which provides the basis forPutonghua, the official spoken language of the Peoples Republic of China. Tianjin is a respected home base ofBeijing opera, one of the most prestigious forms ofChinese opera. Tianjin is famous for its stand up comedy and comedians includingGuo DegangandMa Sanli.Ma Sanli, an ethnicHuiand longtime resident of Tianjin, is renowned for hisxiangsheng, a hugely popular form of Chinese entertainment similar to comedy. Ma Sanli delivered some of hisxiangshengin theTianjin dialect. Tianjin, along with Beijing, is a center for the art of xiangsheng. Yangliuqing(Green Willows), a town about 15km (9.3mi) west of Tianjins urban area and the seat ofXiqing District, is famous for its popularChinese New Year-themed, traditional-style, colourfulwash paintings. Tianjin is also famous forZhangs clay figurineswhich are a type of colourful figurine depicting a variety of vivid characters, and TianjinsWeis kites, which can be folded to a fraction of their full sizes, are noted for portability. On September 28, 2015, theJuilliard Schoolof music andperforming artsinNew York Cityannounced a major expansion into Tianjin, its first such full-scale foray outside the United States, with plans to offer amasters degreeprogram. Yangliuqing (Green Willows), a town about 15 km (9.3 mi) west of Tianjins urban area and the seat of Xiqing District, is famous for its popular Chinese New Year-themed, traditional-style, colourful wash paintings . Tianjin is also famous for Zhangs clay figurines which are a type of colourful figurine depicting a variety of vivid characters, and Tianjins Weis kites, which can be folded to a fraction of their full sizes, are noted for portability. On September 28, 2015, the Juilliard School of music and performing arts in New York City announced a major expansion into Tianjin, its first such full-scale foray outside the United States, with plans to offer a masters degree program. 17th century depiction of Tianjin.There are diverse viewpoints for the origin of the name, Tianjin. One version states that Tianjin as a word initially appeared in the poems of Qu Yuan, a famous patriotic poet of Chu State in the Warring States period. In his masterpiece Li Sao, there is a verse, ”At dawn, departing from the Port of thine Heaven” . Another view is that Tianjin also used to be a name of constellation in the Chinese traditional astronomical system as recorded in the Astronomy Record in the Book of Sui. A third view states that Tianjin was reco