南京景点英语导游词范文(精选3篇)

1、南京景点英语导游词范文（精选3 篇）南京景点英语导游词1Nowwe are on the way to theLinggu Temple Park. On our right there is a fishingterrace with beige glazed tiles built in 1937. It wasa monument toDr. Sun Yatsenfrom theNationalMilitaryAcademy, which was founded by Dr. Sun Yatsen in 1924.LingguTemple liesabout one and a half

2、kilometersto the eastof Dr. Sun Yatsens Mausoleum. Itwas calledJiangshanTemple intheancienttimesand itsoriginalsitewas inDulongfuatthe footofthePurpleMountain.However,intheearlydaysofthe MingDynasty(1368-1644),Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang chose thatplace tobuild his tomb, thus the temple had to be moved an

3、drebuilt at the present site and was renamed as theLinggu Temple withan inscription“The FirstBuddhistForest “ at the entrance to the mountain. Inside theentrance there is a secluded footpath with thousandsof pine trees, verdant and luxuriant, so it is calledthe“Valleyof SpiritDeep inPines ” .Itisone

4、 of the48 attractions in Nanjing.Insidethe templethereistheBeamless Hallbuiltin 1381 intheMing dynasty.The hall,53.8meterslong,37.85 meterswide and 22 meters high,was builtentirelyof bricksand stonesfrom top tobottom withouta pieceof wood. There are nine overlapping ridges and threedagobas decoratin

5、gthetopridges.Insize,theBeamless Hall stands first and foremost of its kind inChina. It was built more than 200 years earlier thanthe other five of the same kind in the other areas:Xiangtong Temple at Wutai Mountain; Yongzuo Temple inTaiyuan,Shanxi Province;Wannian Templeon ErmeiMountaininSichuan;Ka

6、iyuanTempleinShzhouandLongchang Temple in Jurong County. It far surpassesthem all in solidity and magnificence. No wonder it isconsidereda masterpieceof Chinese stone-brickbuildings.The difficultyinvolvedin itsconstructionand the complexity of techniques adopted testify the wisdom of the architectur

7、al technology of the time in China.Beyond the Beamless Hall are the Wind-through-pines Pavilion and a nine-storeyed, oversixty-meter-high octagonal pagoda, with a corridor encircled by stone rails on each storey. Inside thepagoda a spiral staircase winds to the top through the nine stories. When one

8、 gets to the top story and gaze into the distance, one can get a view of the entiremausoleum area.南京景点英语导游词2The 600-year-oldMing Tomb,lying at the southern foot of the Purple Mountain, isthe tomb for Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of theMing Dynasty from 1368 to 1398.Born intoa poorpeasantfamilyin

9、 Fengyang County,AnhuiProvincein1328,Zhu Yuanzhang losthis parentsin his childhood and became a monk at Huangjue Temple.In 1352, he joinedthe Red Turban Army led by Guo Zixin.He married Guo Zixin s adopteddaughterand became thecommanding generallater.Zhu YuanzhangtookoverNanjing in 1356 and made it

10、the capital in 1368 whenhe conquered the rest parts of China and establishedthe Ming Dynasty.Zhu Yuanzhang began to have his tomb built in 1381when his wife died. The empress was buried in the tombin 1383. But Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang diedin 1398 and wasburied here in the same year.Now we are reaching

11、the tomb gate, known as GrandGolden Gate. Ming Tomb is divided into two parts. Thefirstpart is fromHorse DismountingArch Gate toLinxinGate,1800 meterslong,servingas the tomb avenue. Thesecond part is the tomb itself. There was originally a grand red wall, 22.5 kilometers long, enclosing thewhole tom

12、b area. The tomb complex was very large withmany splendidbuildings.100000 pineswere plantedand1000deerraisedinside.Unfortunately,thislargegroupof buildingswas ruinedduring the wartime,oncebetween the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the other timewhen Taiping Peasant Army was suppressed by the QingDynast

13、y army. Allthe wooden structureswere destroyed.However we can still see the exquisite stone carvingsfromthe stonebases and imaginehow itlooked like600years ago.At theHorse DismountingArch Gate,theinscriptioncan be seen “Allthe officialsmust dismount fromtheirhorsebacks here ” . This shows the absolu

14、te dignity ofEmperor Zhu Yuanzhang at that time.Here we are at the square city, also called thestonetablethouse. Itstopisgone butthesurroundingwallsand fourarchwaysarestillremaining,justlikea castle.The Great Ming Dynasty Wonderful Achievementsand Merits Tablet, 8.78 meters high, built in 1413 bythe

15、 third emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is the highestancient tablet in Nanjing. There are altogether 2746Chinese characterson the tablet,which praiseEmperorZhu Yuanzhang for his deeds and merits by his fourth son who made himself the third emperor of the MingDynasty.Why did Zhu Di, the third emperor er

16、ect this stonetablet? Zhu Yuanzhang had 26 sons. His first son diedin 1392, so his first grandson, then 16, was nominatedto be the successor to Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. In 1398,22-year-oldZhu Yunwen became thesecond emperor afterhisgrandfathers death.However his uncleZhu Di wasthen in Beijing and foun

17、d some excuse to launch a waragainsthim.The four-year-longwarended withtheunclesvictory.Zhu Di grabbed the power and became thethirdemperor.WhenZhuDipraisedEmperorZhuYuanzhang,hewasactuallypraisinghimself.Originally,Zhu Diplanned tohave a 72-meter-highstone tabletcarvedoutofYangshan hillinthe easter

18、nsuburb of Nanjing. Since it was too heavy to be moved,he gave up his plan and had this small one made.The stone animal under the tablet looks like atortoise. It is actually the first son of the dragon,well known for its strength. Its name is Bi Xi and heisalwaysputtheretocarryimperialtablets.Accord

19、ing to thelegend,when thestonetabletwascarved, the chief mason could hardly have it mount onthe back of Bi Xi because itwas tooheavy.He was veryworried and did not know what to do. One day he had adream, in which he was told that only when the tabletand Bi Xi did not see each other, he would make th

20、emounting possible. Clever as he was, he covered Bi Xiwith mud and pushed the tablet onto the back of Bi Xias you can see now.When we pass the imperial bridge, we can see thesacred path lined with 24 animals. There are six kindsof animals, one pair standing and the other kneeling.The standingpairisw

21、orkingand the kneelingresting.Theywork on twoshifts.Thesignificance oftheseanimalsisto showthe countrys power and emperorsinfluence,todriveaway theevilspiritsand guardthetomb. The first 2 pairs of animals are lions, king ofthe beats. The second 2 pairs of animals are called BiXie,amythicalanimal,sug

22、gestingjustice.Thefollowing pairs of animals include camels, elephants,unicorns and horses. The camel is known as boat in thedesert and symbol of prosperity. Each elephant weighs80 tons and symbolizes peace. The unicorn representsgood luck while Horse loyalty.You may wonder how these heavy stone ani

23、mals weremoved to this place. The fact is in the cold winter,workers splashed water on the ground and pushed thestoneanimalstothepresentlocationson thefreezingice.Two 6.25 meter-high stone pillars serve as altarsforthesacrificialofferings.The sacred avenue makesa right turn here just because the Plu

24、m Blossom Hillstands in the way. The hill is the tomb for Sun Quan,thefirstemperor ofEastern WuKingdom. WhenMing Tombwas constructed, some people suggested that Sun Quanstomb should be moved away. But Emperor Zhu Yuanzhangcommented that Sun Quan was a good fellow and shouldstay. This showed the empe

25、ror s modesty. Among the 8stone figures, four are ministers and the other arewarriors.When we cross the imperial bridge and walk a shortdistance, we reachthe tomb itself.The archgate,imperialstone tabletpavilion,thegrand hall,squarecity, grand terrace, treasure city, treasure top areall on the north

26、-south axis, a typical layout of theancient Chinese architecture.The arch gate has 5 doorways, with yellow glazedtiles, red walls and doors. But this gate was rebuiltin 1999.In the stone tablet pavilion built in early QingDynasty, we can see an inscription by Emperor Kang Xi,thesecond emperor of Qin

27、g Dynasty,“Running thestateas prosperously as Tang and Song Dynasties”. SinceQing rulerswere Manchurians,EmperorKangxiwasworried that the Han people wouldnt follow him. Thisstone tablet indicated Emperor Kang Xis desire to bepeacefulwiththeHans. He made 6 tripsdown tosouthernChina from Beijing and v

28、isited Ming Tomb for 5 times.This tablet was erected here in 1699 during his thirdvisit. We can tell from this tablet that Emperor KangXi was no wonder a great emperor.The tomb is at the foot of Purple Mountain. It hasnot been excavatedbecause ofthetechnicalreasonsofpreservation.The tomb sitewas sel

29、ectedby Zhu Yuanzhang himself.Howeverthere had beena Buddhisttemple here.ZhuYuangzhang paced up and down and looked upseteach timewhen he was here. The wise abbot in the temple felt itand suggested to the emperor that the temple should bemoved because histeachertoldhim so in hisdream. Theemperorwas

30、happy when he heard thisand had the templerebuilt to the east of his tomb.南京景点英语导游词 3The imposing citywall,ashigh as a five-story building, is the good impressionof the visitors to Nanjing.The building of the wall began in 1366, ordered byZhu Yuanzhang who, two years later, founded the MingDynasty (

31、1368-1644). More than 200,000 people workedon the project and many of them died before the wallwas completed in 1368.The wallwas 33.678kilometersincircumferenceand14.21 meters high on average. It was the longest citywall in the world and the city enclosed by it remainedthe worlds largest until the 1

32、7thcentury.In order to guarantee the quality of the wall, ZhuYuanzhang had tightcontrol overthemakingofallbricks.Thebrickmakers andtheofficialswereresponsibleforoverseeing thequality.Incase a brickwas found not up to the standard, all of them weresupposed to be punished.Differentfromthe square-shapedcitywallsofmostancientChinesecities,Nanjingswallfollowedthenatural terrain and was built on a foundation of hugerocks.The brickswere cemented inwith a mortaroflimemixed withtungoiland glutinousricegruel.Many partsof the wall are still in good condition.The cityw