【篇一:重庆英文导游词】
重庆英文导游词
evening scenes of chongqing
  the red star pavilion in the pipasha park, the kansheng pavilion in the eling park, and a place called yikeshu on the nanshan mountain are vintage points for observing the nocturnal scenes of the mountain city of chongqing. at night the entire city is inundated in an ocean of lights, which form a colorful three-dimensional painting, with waves of the yangtze and jialing rivers glistening against the moonlit, star spangled sky.
  sites of the provisional capital
  chongqing figured importantly in modem chinese history. during the war of resistan
ce against japan, it was the provisional capital of china under the kuomintang rule from november 1937 to october 1945. vestiges of that period are still there in and around the city. these include the red crag village and 50 zengjiayan, as well as chiang kai-sheks mansion, guiyuan garden, linyuan garden, and the mansion kong, the embassies of various countries to china, as well as former residences of important politicians, generals and cultural figures.
martyrs mausoleum at mount gele
  the former headquarters, radio station and prison of the bureau of investigation and statistics of the military council (a colossal
secret service of the kuomintang) at the foot of the gele mountain in shapingba district have become the mausoleum for those who died a martyrs death there in chinas dark days. in the dying years of world war 11, it was the site of the sino0us institute for cooperation in special technology.
  dazu grottoes
  the dazu grottoes in the county of the same name is best known for the stone carvings on the baodingshan and beishan mountains, which are fine example of grotto sculpture in the late years of chinese feudalism. the sculptures, done in fastidious chisel work and gracious imagery, are marked by a new sculptural language that eschews religious taboos and espouses true life.
  yangtze rivers three gorges
【篇二:重庆英语导游词总结
engraved in the rock are 163 inscriptions and pictures, which include 114 hydrologic annotations, which give detailed records of water levels in the river over 1200 years, since the first year of the tang dynasty guangde era, 763; the assembled inscriptions and fish carvings, taken together, formed the longest such sequence in the world. one fish carving originally carved in the tang dynasty was re-carved at a moment of lowest water in 1685: modern measurements recorded the elevation of their eyes, 137.91 metres, almost the same as that of the zero point
of the modern water level gauge.
the fish carvings and hydrological inscriptions were virtually unknown in the west until the 1970s, when chinese experts presented photos of these two fish and hydrological data of fuling for the past 1,200 years at an international hydrological symposium held in the uk. the best-known of the fish carvings was a 2.8-metre carp, carved from a section of freestone. hundreds of poetical homages to the place were inscribed in rock faces, which have disappeared beneath the rising waters as the dam has been completed. in 2003, xinhua news agency, the peoples republics official press agency, headlined the on-line story, june 10, accident-maker reef no longer threatens yangtze navigation.
the inscriptions on the white crane ridge are on display in an underwater museum, which opened to the public on may 18, 2009
chongqing, china). the highlights of the rock grotto are found on mount baoding and mount beishan.
大足石刻导游词
the earliest carvings were begun in 650 ad during the early tang dynasty, but the main period of their creation began in the late 9th century, when wei junjing, prefect of changzhou, pioneered the carvings on mount beishan, and his example was followed after the collapse of the tang dynasty by local and gentry, monks and nuns, and ordinary people during the five dynasties and ten kingdoms period (907-65). in the 12th century, during the song dynasty, a buddhist monk named zhao zhifeng began work on the elaborate sculptures and carvings on mount baoding, dedicating 70 years of his life to the project.
off limits to visitors for many years, the carvings were opened to chinese travelers in 1961 and foreign visitors in 1980. until 1975 there was only a muddy path between the town of dazu and the main cluster of carvings. the isolation helped keep the art unharmed during the massive anti-religious vandalism of the cult
world.[citation needed] between the bridges lie the qinglong and shenying tiankengs which have a depth of 276–285 metres and a circumference of 300–522 metres.
three-storied hall dedicated to manjusri built during the reign of the xianfeng emperor (1850–1861), called the purple rain pavilion. in the year 1819, the nine-story pavilion was constructed adjacent to the cliff to aid people in getting to the top of the hill. prior to the construction of the pavilion, visitors to the temple were hoisted to the top using a system of chains. in 1956, three more stories were added at the top of the structure。at the base of the hill alongside the river bank is a row of merchant stalls which follows the path from the dock to the entrance of the pavilion.