乌镇西栅英文导游词.docx

1、乌镇西栅英文导游词 乌镇西栅英文导游词导语：乌镇西栅是一个景区，西栅（zh）位于浙北桐乡市杭嘉湖平原上的乌镇，以原汁原味的水乡风貌和千年积淀的文化底蕴成为江南古镇中的佼佼者，是一个5a级景区。下面是乌镇西栅英文导游词。欢迎阅读！in the tranquil little village of wuzhen, the light hangs over the dong shi river in a soft summer pallour, as though the clouds are making a deliberate effort to protect the residents f

2、rom sunburn. along the river, a select group of day-trippers enjoy a cruise aboard a pole-steered barge. i'm highly privileged to be visiting the very last of china's ancient water towns to be opened to visitors.when the authorities opened the 1,300 year old riverine settlement of wuzhen to

3、visitors in early 2001, they were determined to avoid the tacky mix of tourist restaurants and kitsch souvenir shops that has swamped other estuary towns such as zhouzhuang (which also lies in the yangtze river delta). wuzhen's old buildings, an architectural symphony of stone, wood and tiles, h

4、ave been preserved rather than restored, and lovingly maintained rather than tarted up. the result is a place that is a sheer joy to explore on foot.wuzhen is still a living town, where daily life goes on life goes on as it has for the last thousand or so years. coppersmiths, wood-carver and silk-sp

5、inners work at their age-old crafts. bicycle rickshaw drivers exchange stories as they wait for passengers. people cart water, cook meals, and tend their gardens, each flower-plot the size of a postage stamp.the townsfolk of wuzhen gather in the town square around mid-day - talking, smoking or playi

6、ng mah-jongg. they seem laidback and contented. most of all, they seem to enjoy observing the passing parade, which provides a constant source of amusement. i started to wonder whether it was the town or the strange foreign visitors like myself that was the main attraction. western visitors are stil

7、l a rarity here.wuzhen lies in the far north-east of zhejiang province, about 90 minutes by road from shanghai. the name water town is especially apt; besides lying on the grand canal, the settlement is completely encircled by two rivers - the dong shi and a smaller tributary, which meet at a t-junc

8、tion. no matter where you stand, water provides the backdrop, the raison d'tre of the whole town.about 250 families used to live in the old quarter of wuzhen. however, following the restoration of the town, many townsfolk have been moved out to the new wuzhen, an attractively landscaped but othe

9、rwise characterless apartment block 15 km down the road towards shanghai. those who remain are mainly the elderly and craftspeople. while i was assured that there is nothing to stop new residents moving into the old town, young people nowadays seem strangely absent.the old wooden shops of wuzhen loo

10、k ageless and immovable, as though their timbers have totally defied the ravages of time. at first, one suspects that the custodians of the town have tried to cover up the decomposing processes of nature. but look more closely and you find slow rot setting in around the bases of the doorframes, and

11、splinters breaking away from the lintels. what little restoration has been done is so inconspicuous as to be totally indistinguishable from the original.all the buildings in wuzhen are in ming or qing dynasty style. one palatial establishment is the double happiness marriage shrine. twin hearts are

12、joined in a nouveau-chinese character in gilt upon a flaming crimson background, presumably depicting the inseparability of marriage - perhaps the chinese know something that we westerners don't.wuzhen also has some unique attractions, including yu liuliang's coin and paper money exhibition.

13、 nearby (would you believe) stands a pawnshop museum, as if to prove that usury is universal. (maybe fortunately, wuzhen has the only such establishment i've ever come across). i tried looking for a qing dynasty dvd player in the pawnshop, but was sadly disappointed.no fewer than eight stone bri

14、dges cross the dong shi river, the grandest of them being the fengyuan double bridge. the bridge is separated into two parts by a wooden sluice gate. cyclists carry their bikes across the high arches of the bridges, which are designed to let boats pass underneath without difficulty.back in the main

15、square, the elders are still hanging out. on the village stage, a performance of peking opera is underway. across the square, a master puppeteer entertains visitors with a shadow-play of the type known in java as wayang kulit. but while the javanese version of shadow puppetry is subtle and refined,

16、the wuzhen style has the protagonists attacking each other with the ferocity of tigers.whether by accident or design, this town seems to have been dropped into its watery setting by a master town planner from another galaxy. a more perfect location for a settlement would be difficult to find. it is

17、fervently to be hoped that tourism will augment rather than destroy the unique ambiance of wuzhen.my friends, everybody! i am a tour guide, suhang, wuzhen west gate by i explain for you.now we come to is relative to the eastern gate development late west gate of the scenic area, compared with the ea

18、st gate of the traditional tourism way, west gate scenic area is more of a preference for leisure vacation, so the west gate in addition to preserve the old blocks of original, modern service home stay home much more special, this is the west gate of distinguishing features. wuzhen is a waterfront t

19、own in zhejiang province, is located in the north of tongxiang city hangjiahu plain, is located in the north of zhejiang, and neighboring jiangsu province, was at the boundary of two provinces three province and seven counties. during the spring and autumn period, wuzhen is wu jiang cross-border, wu

20、 guoceng troops in the case of yue, said wu xu-gou at that time. wuzhen, was first appeared in salty tang 13 years. southern song dynasty jiading years, by a city river is divided into two town, black hexi to wuzhen, hedong for green town, after the liberation, a general designation of wuzhen. given

21、 wuzhen has plenty of protection and restoration of classical ming and qing dynasties buildings remain, wuzhen town protection after a phase of the successful operation, began to gradually more deeper to the planning of second phase of west gate, begin from 2003, start the provincial key projects wu

22、zhen town protection of second phase (west gate scenic area), heavily invest one billion yuan to wuzhen west gate implementation of protection and development, protection scope of the project nearly 3.4 square kilometers, more than three times the east gate scenic spot. wuzhen west gate is a kind of

23、 modern culture in accordance with the idea to build the town, apparently after elaborate design and construction. is typical of the jiangnan water, but apparently is the result of history life and higher than life. it like jiangnan town, but apparently ideal or cultural imagination of jiangnan town

24、. is more beautiful, but not in those days there was a time of wuzhen. wuzhen, wuzhen has been lost in should is a supposed wuzhen. now everyone follow me in and have a look!into the west gate by ferry. ferries are specially for carrying passengers, on a regular basis by the fixed location to fixed

25、location of water transportation. there are a lot of people are asking, now there is the human ferry boat we now experience is the best answer.once the wuzhen, is common by ferry. at that time was out of water, to the town, the palace or farther afield, to cross the river several times, is a river,

26、is a grand canal, again is a great river. the ancient jiangnan water is the main transport ships, to be out of town is a very not easy thing. but it was also because of the traffic inconvenience, to save, simple folkway and ancient buildings. now, the bridge has already replaced the ferry boat, but

27、it cannot replace the ferry leaves the sort of aftertaste. today we are going to feel this human ferries in water flow to the river, quietly watching dancing ripples, accompanied by the boatman a company with a paddle, enjoy this one thousand years of cultural customs.friends, here is a large worksh

28、op manual environmental protection printing and dyeing drying, tall shelves to hang a lot of blue calico, especially spectacular, it is said that the size of the dyehouse, grade and popularity and are related to the dry reed, whose hanging rod, high drying rack and liangtai, who is a large house, do

29、n't want to miss the pictures feel oh, no wonder people, beautiful scenery and historic sites can see less, but this printing dyeing blue cloth must touch more. blue calico, this most common cloth, really throughout jiangnan girl's life, they are the most beautiful jiangnan girl life complex

30、. touch, your picture, let's do one wuzhen blue calico girl!chinese people using pigment dyeing of blue grass, can be traced back to the spring and autumn period and the warring states period. warring states later period the great thinkers of xunzi, see green blue grass the transformation proces

31、s of pigment and dye by yellow green, the process of change from green to blue, change again green, issued a green, apply to the blue, and green on blue sigh, as described later than previous ages quotes shine on you and is better than blue. by the indigo dye developed into the blue dye technique, t

32、he dye by big color such as green, azure is the main color of chinese traditional clothes.blue calico development in tang and song dynasty, the ming and qing dynasties was at its peak. when the ming dynasty royal has taimei bureau, basically monopolized the taimei, until the qing dynasty, the folk d

33、yeing house began to emerge. legend has a surname mei guy accidentally fell and fell in the mud, clothes into the yellow color, how doesn't wash off, but when people saw loved, and then he told his story to a surname ge's good friend. later they are specialized in the cloth dyed yellow, there is a very