北京各景点英文介绍（课堂PPT）

1、1National Stadium 2 Affectionately known as Birds Nest, it is situated in Olympic Green Village, It was designed as the main stadium of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The Olympic events of track and field, football, weight throw and discus were held there. Since October, 2008, after the Olympics ended,

2、 it has been opened as a tourist attraction.3Design Idea They just exposed the steel structures entirely and let them become the most natural appearance. The form of the stadium looks like a big nest which embraces human beings. 4The Design Advantages In it, the designs of everything are humanistic.

3、 The bowl-like stands zone surrounds the court. No matter where the spectator is seated, the whole game can be seen without any visual obstruction. The stadium adopted the electro-acoustic public-address system. It makes the index of voice definition reaches 0.6. This number assures that all the aud

4、ience can hear the broadcast very clearly.5The Birds Nest in the night6Tourists can not only visit the Olympic venue, but also go skiing in winter7Beijing Aquatics Stadium 8 Located on the west side of Landscape Avenue in the Olympic Green and to the west of Birds Nest, it contains the official 2008

5、 Olympics swimming facility. It measures 177 meters long, 177meters wide, and 30 meters high. It owns 17,000 seats, including the 11,000 temporary seats and 6,000 permanent seats. 9Design Idea Designed by Chinese and Australian, it is the first building in the world built upon the soap bubble theory

6、, and sports a polyhedral steel-framed structure. 10 The design combines modern technologies with Chinese traditional values. In tradition, Chinese conceptualized a square Earth and a round Heaven, and this formed the designs central theme. Moreover, the cube shape dominates ancient urban buildings.

7、 Its design is of traditional style to meet all its functional requirements. 11 It looks like a huge blue box, from which it takes its nickname: the Water Cube. It is blue in order to reflect sunlight. It shines in the sunlight like a pearl in water. From the inside, you may discover that the pneuma

8、tic cushions of all sizes are just like sea bubbles. Beijing Water Cube will also more beautiful.12 when the night comes. From inside the stadium, there look like show off their blue and white elegant color to the outside of the stadium. Visitors can see it from the outside, bright blue colors that

9、shine make Beijing Water Cube look more calm, quiet and cold when night comes.13 Two years after Beijing Olympic end, half of the stadium was built a water park that called Water Cube Water Park. Beijing Water Cube Water Park has also become the largest indoor water park in Asia. 14Beijing Hutong 15

10、 Many people say that the real culture of Beijing is the culture of the Hutong and Courtyards. How true that is. They attract more tourists from home and abroad than the high-rise buildings and large mansions. 16History of Beijing hutong In the past, Beijing was composed of hundreds of courtyards ar

11、ound the Forbidden City, and these lanes stretched out in all four directions, connecting the different kinds of courtyards in the city. Although originally formed in the Yuan Dynasty, the building of the these developed fast during the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the Yuan Dynasty, there were about

12、29 Hutongs, while in the Ming Dynasty, this number increased to 1,070. In the Qing Dynasty, it grew to 2,076. It is said that by 1949 there were as many as 3,250. But with the passage of time, and the requirement for city construction, the number of them has fallen dramatically. In 2003, only 1,500

13、were left, and now no more than 1,000 remain. Thus, protecting them is an urgent problem for modern people.17 The different Hutongs The longest one is the Dongjiaominxiang Hutong, with a total length of 6.5 kilometers. The shortest one is the Yichi Street, measuring about 25 meters. The most tortuou

14、s one is the Jiuwan Hutong ,with about 13 turns, and can easily make you lost. The narrowest is the Qianshi Hutong, measuring about 40 centimeters wide, so when two people meet, they must turn sideways to pass each other. The widest one is the Lingjing Hutong. The one with the longest history is the

15、 Sanmiaojie Hutong, whose construction can be traced back to the Liao Dynasty. 1819 Apart from those special modern-style shops, there are some more traditional shops scattered in the lanes, recording the history of Chinese life. In Mishi Hutong, a barbershop called Yunfeng Barbershop, has been open

16、 since 1989, and all the equipment in the shop was bought at that time, giving customers a feeling of traveling back in time.2021Forbidden City (Palace Museum ) Ancient Chinese Astronomers believed that the Purple Star (Polaris) was in the center of heaven and the Heavenly Emperor lived in the Purpl

17、e Palace. The Palace for the emperor on earth was so called the Purple City. It was forbidden to enter without special permission of the empeor. Hence its name The Purple Forbidden City, usually The Forbidden City.22 Now known as the Palace Museum, it is to the north of Tiananmen Square. Rectangular

18、 in shape, it is the worlds largest palace complex and covers 74 hectares. Surrounded by a 52-meter-wide moat and a 10-meter-high wall are more than 8,700 rooms. 23 Ancient Chinese people displayed their very considerable skills in building it. Take the grand red city wall for example. Since yellow

19、is the symbol of the royal family, it is the dominant color in it. Roofs are built with yellow glazed tiles; decorations in the palace are painted yellow; even the bricks on the ground are made yellow by a special process. 24 Nowadays, it is open to tourists from home and abroad. Splendid painted de

20、coration on these royal architectural wonders, the grand and deluxe halls, with their surprisingly magnificent treasures will certainly satisfy modern civilians.25Beihai Park26 With the Forbidden City and Jingshan Park to its east, Zhong Nan Hai to its south, Beihai Park is one of the oldest, larges

21、t and best-preserved ancient imperial gardens in China located in the city center. 27 This ancient garden, with over 1,000 years history, is not only a classic combination of the grandiosity of the northern gardens and the refinement of the southern gardens in China, but also a perfect integration of magnificent imperial palaces and solemn religious constructions. It covers an area of about 0.71 sq km (about 0.27 sq miles), more than half of which is taken up by the lake. In