北京概况英文导游词北京概况英文导游词北京概况英文导游词【1】Good morning everybody! First of all, on behalf of XXX I welcome your visit to Beijing, China’s capital city.My name’s XXX and our driver XXX.Don’t hesitate to ask us if you had any questions or suggestions.Thanks.The airport you just saw is called Capital International Airport located near the Tianzhu Village of Shunyi District, some 20 kms northeast of downtown, first built in 1956.Beijing is at the northern part of North China Plain, an alluvial plain made by water and earth of the mountains in its west millions of years ago.Its northwest is higher than the southeast, simply dozens of meters above the sea level on the average.Beijing has a continental monsoon climate, with clear four seasons.Very dry, windy and dusty in spring.Pretty hot and rainy in summer.Fine and windy in autumn.Very cold anddry in winter with strong winds very often.Normally, in winter we have northwest winds,in summer southeast.It’s coldest in Jan.-Feb., hottest Jul.-Aug.The extreme temperatures can be as high as 43.5℃ and low -27.4℃.Beijing has a history of about 3000 years, including 800 years as the capitals of five dynasties.At the earliest, the area was called Beijing Bay where we find the earliest states Yan and Ji.In history, Beijing was named “YOU”,“You Capital”,“You State”,“Yan”,“Yanjing”,“Zhongdu”,“Dadu”,“Beiping Fu”,“Beiping”,“Beijing”and etc.The birthplace of downtown Beijing was around Guanganmen,Xuanwu District,Southern part of the city.A political,culture and business center of China nowadays, Beijing is both traditional and modern.The key words about Beijing include Hutong, courtyard houses, Beijing Opera,Qianmen,Wangfujing,Xidan,Temple Fairs,The Forbidden City,Tiananmen,Great Wall,Summer Palace,Temple of Heaven,Beijing Roast Duck,Mutton Hot Pot and so on.The city trees are Chinese scholar tree and arborvitae.China rose and chrysantheman the city flowers.Till the end of 2010, the permanent population of Beijing is about 19 million of which 18 million being the Han nationality, with foreigners of over 100 thousand mainly in Chaoyang and Haidian districts.The 3 most populous districts are Chaoyang,Haidian and Fengtai.External population is about 7 million.One out of every 3 people is a guy from outside Beijing and every family has 2.45 people.The majority of Beijingers are open-minded,comprehensive,warm-hearted,fond of talking about politics while lazy,cunning,particular over an easy life and good at “Capital Curse”(New B or Sha B).Compared with other provinces, Beijing Hukou(Beijing Registered Permanent Residence) is quite precious.Now Beijing has a well-developed public transportation system, so is the subway.And currently we have some 5 million motor vehicles in Beijing, so very crowded with heavy airand noise pollution.In the west, cars dodge people,while in China just the opposite.In China there’s a very high percentage of “Wild Animals” that do not abide by traffic rules or line up or queue.So, take care.北京概况英文导游词【2】Yonghegong (The Lama Temple) is a famous lamasery located in the northeastern part of the old city of Beijing.It was a palatial residence built in 1694 by Qing Emperor Kangxi for his fourth son, Prince Yongzheng who later succeeded to the throne.This magnificent temple consists of five main buildings lying on the?north-south axis, with annex halls standing on both sides.The temple is listed by the Chinese Government as one of the important historical monuments under special preservation.After the death of his father, Emperor Yongzheng moved to the Forbidden City.The compound was closed to ordinary people and was renamed yonghegong (the Palace of Harmony).Green roof tiles were replaced by yellow ones to suit a monarch's home.In 1744 his successor Emperor Qianlong converted the palace into a lamasery.Several renovations?have been carried out since 1949.The temple has taken on a new look and was reopened to the public in 1981.It is now not only a functional lama temple, but also a tourist attraction.Of interest to visitors in the Lama Temple are the 18-metre-high Maitreya statue engraved from a 26-metre-long white sandal-wood log, "the Five hundred Arhats Hill" made of gold, silver, copper, iron and tin, and the niche carved out of nanmu (this kind of Phoebe nanmu can give off a unusual scent reputed to repel mosquitoes in summer).These three objects are accredited as the three matchlemasterpieces in the Lama Temple.and the Xihua Gate(Gate of military Prowess) to the north, and the Xihua Gate(Western Flowery Gate )to the west ,the Donghua (Eastern Flowery Gate) to the east.Manpower and materials throughout the country were used to build the Forbidden City.A total of 230,000 artisans and one million laborers were employed.Marble was quarried from fangshan Country Mount Pan in Jixian County in Hebei Province.Granite was quarried in Quyang County in Hebei Province.Paving blocks were fired in kilns in Suzhou in southern China.Bricks and scarlet pigmentation used on the palatial walls came from linqing in Shandong Province .Timber was cut ,processed and hauled from the northwestern and southern regions.The structure in front of us is the Meridian Gate.It is the main entrance to the forbidden City.It is also knows as Wufenglou(Five-Phoenix Tower).Ming emperors held lavish banquets here on the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar year in hornor of their counties .They also used this place for punishing officals by flogging them with sticks.Qing emperors used this building to announce the beginning of the new year.Qing Emperor Qianglong changed the original name of this announcement ceremony from ban li(announcement of calendar)to ban shou(announcement of new moon )to avoid coincidental association with another Emperor` s name, Hongli, which was considered a taboo at that time.Qing Dynasty emperors also used this place to hold audience and for other important ceremonies.For example,when the imperial army returned victoriously from the battlefield ,it was here that the Emperor presided over the ceremony to accept prisoners of war.(After entering the Meridian Gate and standing in front of the Five Marble Bridges on Golden Water River)now we are inside the Forbidden City.Before we start our tour, I would like to briefly introduce you to the architectural patterns befour us .To complete this solemn, magnificent and palatial complex, a variety of buildings were arranged on a north-south axis, and 8-kilometer-long invisible line that has become an inseparablepart of the City of Beijing.The Forbidden City covers roughly one –third of this central axis.Most of the important building in the Forbidden City weree arranged along this line.The design and arrangement of the palaces reflect the solemn dignity of the royal court and rigidly –stratified feudal system.The Forbidden City is divided into an outer and an inner count.We are now standing on the southernmost part of the outer count.In front of us lies the Gate of supreme Harmony .The gate is guarded by a pair of bronze lions ,symbolizing imperial power and dignity.The lions were the most exquisite and biggest of its kind.The one on the east playing with a ball is a male, and ball is said to represent state unity.The other one is a female.Undern。
