长城导游词英文
长城导游词英文【1】
In the north of China， there lies a 6，700-kilometer-long (4，161-mile-long) ancient wall.
Now well-known as the Great Wall of China， it starts at the Jiayuguan Paof Gansu Province in the west and ends at the Shanhaiguan Paof Hebei Province in the east.
As one of the Eight Wonders in the world， the Great Wall of China has become the symbol of the Chinese nation and its culture.
Lots of beautiful legends and stories about the Great Wall took place following along the construction， and since that time these stories have spread around the country.
Those that happened during construction are abundant， such as Meng Jiangnu‘s story and the legend of the Jiayuguan Pass.
Meng Jiangnu‘s story is the most famous and widely spread of all the legends about the Great Wall.
The story happened during the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC).
It tells of how Meng Jiangnu‘s bitter weeping made a section of the Great Wall collapse.
Meng Jiangnu‘s husband Fan Qiliang was caught by federal officials and sent to build the Great Wall.
Meng Jiangnu heard nothing from him after his departure， so she set out to look for him.
Unfortunately， by the time she reached the great wall， she discovered that her husband had already died.
Hearing the bad news， she cried her heart out.
Her howl caused the collapse of a part of the Great Wall.
This story indicates that the Great Wall is the production of tens of thousands of Chinese commoners.
htmlAnother legend about the Jiayuguan Patells of a workman named Yi Kaizhan in the Ming Dynasty (1368BC-1644BC) who was proficient in arithmetic.
He calculated that it would need 99，999 bricks to build the Jiayuguan Pass.
The supervisor did not believe him and said if they miscalculated by even one brick， then all the workmen would be punished to do hard work for three years.
After the completion of the project， one brick was left behind the Xiwong city gate.
The supervisor was happy at the sight of the brick and ready to punish them.
However Yi Kaizhan said with deliberation that the brick was put there by a supernatural being to fix the wall.
A tiny move would cause the collapse of the wall.
Therefore the brick was kept there and never moved.
It can still be found there today on the tower of the Jiayuguan Pass.
In addition to the above-mentioned stories about the construction of the Great Wall， there are also plenty of stories about current scenic spots.
A famous one is the legend of the Beacon Tower.
This story happened during the Western Zhou Dynasty (11th century BC-711 BC).
King You had a queen named Bao Si， who was very pretty.
King You liked her very much， however Bao Si never smiled.
An official gave a suggestion that setting the beacon tower on fire would frighten the King‘s subjects， and might make the queen smile.
King You liked the idea.
The subjects were fooled and Bao Si smiled at the sight of the chaos.
Later enemies invaded Western Zhou， King You set the beacon tower on fire to ask for help.
No subjects came to help because they had been fooled once before.
Thus， King Zhou was killed by the enemy and Western Zhou came to an end.
Beautiful stories and legends about the Great Wall help to keep alive Chinese history and culture.
In each dynasty after the building of the Great Wall， many more stories were created and spread.
长城导游词英文【2】
My dear friends, first of all, congratulations on you will become a real "hero", because today we are going to be on the Beijing badaling Great Wall, really realize the artistic conception of "not a true man unless he comes to the Great Wall".
The Great Wall is the symbol of the Chinese nation, is the pride of Chinese people, this is the world's longest defensive in ancient buildings.
The earliest the Great Wall built in the spring and autumn period and the warring states period, after two thousand years, it throughout northern China, winding, grand thin, from space can use one of the wonders of the human eye can see two human.
Everyone knows that there are to sings: "the Great Wall Wan Lichang.
" How long is the Great Wall? Really have Wan Lichang? Only appeared in the history of China's one of the Great Wall?
The Great Wall in the history of China can be more than one, its length is different also.
As early as the Great Wall of qi in the spring and autumn period and the warring states period, according to the Great Wall of qi.
Then, a ChuChangCheng.
Later, yan, zhao, qin and other countries have also built the Great Wall, the minority nationalities in the north of defense.
But the length of the Great Wall is no more than one thousands of miles, so cannot be called "Great Wall".
The presence of a truly Great Wall in Chinese history after qin shi huang unified China.
In 221 BC, the qin dynasty destroyed the six countries and unified the world.
In order to be able to keep jiangshan, Jesus Christ, to the starting of the throne of the emperor qin shi huang sent prince ying fusu and general meng tien, north to the wall connection, reinforcement of all countries, and extended, thus formed in the history of China's first truly "Great Wall".
It stretches more than ten thousand, shi said qin wall.
In the han dynasty, the emperor on the one hand, general wei ch 'ing, huo qubing crusade against the huns, on the other hand sent zhang qian to the western regions, on the surrounding of the ethnic minority areas to take tough love.
Not only that, in order to "do not call ma degrees yinshan hu", not only reinforce the original qin wall, and built an article in the north of the former qin wall outside the Great Wall, the length of the Great Wall to nearly 2 miles.
The han Great Wall the Great Wall is the longest in the history of our country.
After the han, many dynasties have all completed the Great Wall, only two dynasties have not completed before the Ming dynasty Great Wall, you know what two dynasties?
History, practical yuan dynasty did not repair the Great Wall, the reason is that datang power is strong, the diplomatic success, WaiFan, Great Wall area of datang land on either side, so have not completed the Great Wall.
The yuan dynasty was founded Mongol dynasty, is a force to conquer the global powerhouse, is the largest country in the territory in the history of our country, who dare to make? Is coupled with the mongols from the north of the Great Wall in the central plains, why the outlet from building walls it?
The last time in the history of large-scale repair the Great Wall is the Ming dynasties, Ming emperor wrest power from the mongols, its capital in nanjing, in order to strengthen border, resist the Mongolian remnant, so after the succession sent general managed and four late emperor zhu di, north to build the Great Wall.
A total overhaul of Ming dynasty Great Wall 18 times, has lasted for more than 150 years, until you're done, this is the east of shanhaiguan, west to jiayuguan this Duan Ming the Great Wall, the total length of more than 12700, this is the Great Wall we said today.
Today, the Great Wall is no longer a military defensive measures, and join the people of the world become the bond of friendship.
In 1987, UNESCO listed in the catalog of world cultural heritage to the Great Wall.
长城导游词英文【3】
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We will visit the symbol of China's civilization-the Great Wall.
It is one of the famous, grand and splendid ancient construction wonders in the world.
It is just like a giant dragon in the northern part of China.
Construction of the Great Wall first began in the seventh century BC.
At that time it was also called Spring and Autumn Warring States Period.
The first wall that appeared in China was built by Kingdom Qi and Kingdom Chu.
At that time, the kingdoms in order to defend themselves against the infringing enemy from own territories for self-protection.
These high walls were the primitive type of the present day Great Wall.
In Chinese history, large-scale construction of the Great Wall was concentrated in three dynasties, they are Qin, Han and Ming dynasties.
In 221BC, Qin Shihuang unified China; he decided to link up all the separated high walls built by different kingdoms into the Great Wall.
The Qin Great Wall started from Lintao, Gansu Province in the west and ended in Liaodong, Liaoning Province in the east, over 500 kilometers long.
The second large-scale construction on the Great Wall was carried out during the Han Dynasty.
Apart from maintaining and utilizing the Qin Great Wall, they built an outer Great Wall about 500 kilometers to the north of the Qin Great Wall in order to ward off the Huns.
They also had the Great Wall ectended towards the west for another 5000 kilometers long.
The Han Great Wall started from Liaodong in the east to the Lop Nur Lake in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, with a total length of 10,000 kilometers.
The last large-scale project on the Great wall was carried out in the Ming Dynasty.
That is because the dethroned Mongol Yuan ruler still had the remnant forces and often made counterattack to Beijing, as well as the threats of newly raised ethnic tribe of “Nv Zhen”。 So started from the first year after Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty.
The whole project took more than 200 years to complete.
The total lenth of the Ming Great Wall was more than 6,000 kilometers from Yalu River in Liaoning Province in the east to Jiayuguan Pass in Gansu Province in the west.
It passes nine cities, provinces and autonomous regions of Liaoning, Hebei, Tianjin, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Ningxia and Gansu.
The Great Wall, we see today, in Beijing is mainly the Ming Grest Wall.
There was a 20-kilometer long valley named “Nankou, Juyongguan, Shangguan and Badaling”。 Juyongguan Pass was one of the important passes along the valley, and also one of the most famous passes of the Great Wall.
The name “Juyong” in Chinese means “a place of poor laborers”。
Today we will visit the Badaling Great Wall, it is about 75 kilometers northwest of Beijing, and it is the best-preserved part of the Great Wall.
Bada means in English “convenient transportation to all directions”。 It used to be more important than Juyong Pass in the defence of Beijing.
The Badaling Great Wall averages 7.
8 meters high, 6.
5meters wide at its base, and 5.
8 meters wide on the top, wide enough for five horses or ten soldiers walking abreast on the wall.
The highest point at Badaling is about 800-1,000 meters above the sea level.
Here at Badaling section is with single side battlements while the parapet is on the other side.
The outer of the wall is topped with crenellated battlements, which is about 2 meters high and with a square sized hole below for shouting arrows and also for keeping a watch over the enemy, while the parapets about 1 meter high is on the inner side.
Buildings on both sides of the wall at the commanding points, the top of the mountains or the turns are beacon towers.
The beacon towers were used for makong signal of warning messages when the enemy was sighted.
Fires were lit on the top of the beacon towers at night and the smoke signals in daytime.
And the number of the fire and smoke signals could signify the number of invading enemies.
The watch-towers are lovated at regular intervals on the Great Wall for watching over the invading enemy, and it is usually of two stories.
The ground floor was used to store weapons and had a number of window for archers.
The upper floor has battlements, peep-holes and appertures for archers.
Today the Great Wall has lost its signifivance in defending the enemy, but in ancient times the Great Wall was not noly a strong defensive project but also played a very important role in military, economy and served as a link in promoting harmonious relationship among the nationalities for the whole country.
Today, the Great Wall has become a famous tourist attraction in the world.
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