都江堰景区导游词英文版.doc

读万卷书 行万里路 The Explanation of Dujiangyan Scenic Area Hello friends, welcome to Dujiangyan. I am so happy to meet you all here and be your tour guide. You can call me ***. As you may know, Dujiangyan Irrigation System and Mt Qingcheng were listed on the World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO on Nov. 29th, 2000. Maybe you’ve noticed there is a big stone with 7 Chinese characters on it—“世界遗产都江堰”, which means “the world heritage Dujiangyan”. The entire scenic area consists of 3 parts: Lidui Park, where we are now; Dujiangyan Irrigation Project which was built about 2000 years ago and is composed of three parts: the Fish-Mouth Water Diversion Embankment, the Feishayan Spillway, and the Bottleneck Water Inlet; and Erwang Temple, which was built to commemorate Li Bing and his son, who led the people to build Dujiangyan Irrigation Project. Well, we’ll probably take 1hour and a half to 2 hours for the whole visit. The park where we are now is named Lidui Park. During China’s Song and Qing Dynasties, it was a private garden owned by the rich and powerful families. So the ordinary people were forbidden to get in. And it was opened to the public by the gov. since 1931. That’s why now we can see here are so many bonsais (or miniascape) on each side of the road. These bonsais are the ID cards of gardens with Sichuan style. You can see those trees, little but with very beautiful figure and shape. Many of them, esp. the gingko tree, the crape myrtle, and nanmu, are over 200 years old. As Dujiangyan is situated in the interior subtropical zone, the average temperature here is about 15.2 degrees centigrade annually. So it’s suitable for most of the plants to grow here. On the left side of the road, there are some trees in brown which seem without bark. Those are the crape myrtle trees. In Daoism, it is believed crape myrtle can bring people good luck. So it’s not surprising to see such trees in many Daoist temples. And there are indeed two very old crape myrtle in the temple we will soo