黄鹤楼英语导游词
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my city----wuhan. I’m working for
China International Travel
Agency. My name is Yan lei. I’m always ready to serve you. If you
have any questions, just let me know. I hope you’ll be satisfied with
my service and that you’ll enjoy yourself during your
visition.
Today, we will visit Yellow Crane Tower. I think it is the best
attraction with a long history in Wuhan, even in China. And that some of
you may know there are two similar attractions ,that is, Yueyang Tower
and Tengwang Tower. But Yellow Crane Tower has been given the great fame
of No.1 tower in all the landscapes.
So ,you must be curious about why it is so popular. Does anyone know
something about it? Yes ,it has a long history .and many famous people
wrote a lot of poetries. especially those poetries written by Libai. the
complexity of the building structure and roof shape .This makes Yellow
crane tower special,
Also ,there are some stories about it. Legend has it that in Wuchang,
there used to be a wine shop opened by a young man named Xin. One day, a
Taoist priest, in gratitude for free wine, drew a magic crane on the
wall of the shop and instructed it to dance whenever it heard clapping.
Thousands of people came to see the spectacle and the wine shop was
always full of guests. After 10 years, the Taoist priest revisited the wine shop. He played the flute and then rode on the crane to the sky. In
memory of the supernatural encounter and the priest, the shop owner
built a tower and named it Yellow Crane Tower. Maybe you have heard
other versions of stories,
According to records, the tower was first built in 223 A.D during
the Three Kingdoms period (220-280). After completion, the tower served
as a gathering place for celebrities and poets to party and compose
poetry. It was estimated that up to the Tongzhi Reign of the Qing
dynasty, as many as 300 poems about the tower had been found in
historical literature. Cui Hao, a famous poet during the Tang dynasty
(618-907), made the tower well known throughout China with his poem
"Yellow Crane Tower". It is said that there are more than10000 poetries
about Yellow Crane Tower in total.
Although destroyed many times in successive dynasties, the tower was
rebuilt time and again until 100 years ago when it was, for the last
time, reduced to ashes. The present tower is a complete reconstruction
and is the result of four years of work beginning in 1981. Where the old
tower was only 15 meters wide, the ground floor of the new structure was
increased to 20 meters wide. The tower, 51.4 meters high, is five-storied with yellow tiles and red pillars, overlapping ridges and
interlocking
Now, let’s go into it to see how it looks.
(四楼) The fourth floor is a place of cultural activities, display
of contemporary paintings of famous impromptu tour of the floor, for, where a specially prepared four treasures, you are bound to love it and
enjoy it.
(二楼)We see, displayed on the second floor in the Yuan, Ming and
Qing Tang and Song
dynasties and modern model of the six spot. Their respective
representatives of the Office of the architectural style of their era.
You see, the Tang Dynasty Yellow Crane Tower, the city connected to the
first floor and outside to see only two layers, the overall structure of
relatively simple and rough, giving a powerful sense of simplicity. The
floor, take a look at the Song Dynasty, by the House, and Taiwan,
Hennessy, Gallery four parts, each looking重檐, FeiDa four open,
displaying
the delicate Jun Yi of the Song Dynasty style. The form of a
continuation of the Yuan Dynasty the Song Dynasty style, the Ming
Dynasty are still two floors. We see here there are some cloth or
something like that pont, you know that this is what is the use of it?
Yes, this is our parasols used by ancient people. See the spot here, the
Qing dynasty, which at three, the first canopy layer 12 represents the
12 hour day, the second canopy layer 12, on behalf of 12 months a year,
the third layer 24 canopies are 24 solar terms on behalf of one year. To
the Chinese traditional culture into the astronomical calendar which is
the most magic of it, it is regrettable that in the summer of 1884,
Emperor Guangxu is ten years, it has been destroyed雷火. Finally, is
now one of the Yellow Crane Tower, it is essential to the Qing Dynasty Yellow Crane Tower,
rebuilt in 1984, losing both the traditional spot of the unique design
of the floor, past a more than magnificent.
