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1、总统府英文导游词hello everyone:now we will visit the famous tourist site in nanjingthe presidential palace and understand its history.the presidential palace is located at 292 changjiang road. up to now it is over six hundred years old. it was constructed as the marquis guides residence and then prince hans
2、 residence in the early years of the ming dynasty. it successively became the official residences of liangjiang viceroys in the qing dynasty. the emperors kangxi and qianlong often used here as their temporary dwelling palace when they made inspection tours of south china.during the period of the ta
3、iping heavenly kingdom, hong xiuquan erected a large-scale heavenly kings palace in the pound of the liangjiang viceroys official residence.on 1 january 1912, dr sun yat-sen was sworn in as the provisional president here. it successively became the official residence of the jiangsu military governor
4、s, the vice-presidents office and so forth in the following fifteen years. in 1927, the nanjing nationalist government was established and here became the offices of it. after the occupation of nanjing by japanese troops in december 1937, the offices of the nationalist government served in turn as t
5、he headquarters of the 16th division of japanese troop. on 23 april 1949, nanjing was liberated. the peoples liberation army occupied the presidential palace on 24 april.the scenic area of the presidential palace covers a space of 80000 square meters.the presidential palaceit prises three pieces of
6、scenery: the former nationalist government and the presidential government in the center; the former provisional president sun yat-sens office building, the office of the secretary general, the west garden and the general staff headquarters in the west; the executive yuan, the tao shu and lin zexu m
7、emorial temple, stable and the exhibition of the material on the liangjiang viceroys official residence in the east.the presidential palace has a heave historical culture, unique historical materials and beautiful natural environment with classical constructions. now it was opened to the world as th
8、e nanjing museum of modern chinese history.now, please follow me to visit the presidential palace.opposite to the gate of the palace across the street is the screen wall. built in 1930, the gate tower is a two-storeyed building with three arch-gates in an imitation of ancient rome style. it used to
9、be the guardroom during the period of the republic of china.the palace of heavenly king, surrounded by the two walls, is found right at the entrance of the gate. the area within the outer wall was called “the city of sun”， while that within the main inner wall was called “the city of the golden drag
10、on”.there were many grand buildings within the two walls. on both sides of the main hall were gardens. the palace is newly restored, including the study, throne and imperial harem. in addition, the history of taiping heavenly kingdom is on exhibition here.the plex in the east of the count was the ya
11、men of governor general of multi-province. yamen is the government office in feudal china.the building is the presidential palace. the first floor was the office of secretariat. the second floor was the presidents, vice presidents office and the secretary-generals office. the third floor was the sta
12、te conference hall, in which the most important meetings were held once two weeks.after visiting here, please e with me to continue to visit the western side of the presidential residence.xuyuan garden is located at the western side of the presidential residence. xuyuan garden was first built for ch
13、en li as his mansion in the ming dynasty, some 600 years ago. in 1404, the succeeded emperor zhu di made his second son zhu gaoxu the prince of han. as the prince stuck to stay in nanjing and lived here, the garden had been called xu (yuan) garden since that time.xuyuanthe garden covers an area of 1
14、.4 hectares, consisting of 3 parts-a small courtyard in front of the garden, he east part with a rocky hill, and the east with a vase-like water pond.the courtyard is a bit small, but yet well worth seeing because its the only passage to the west garden. the outer gate of the yard used to be the pla
15、ce for sedan chair carriers taking the load off their shoulders for rest. on the lintel of the gate is inland a carved brick with two chinese characters “xuyuan”.when tourists go out of the moon gate, they e to the main body of the west garden. the rocky is the first attraction when visitors enter t
16、he main body of the garden from the yard. in a chinese garden, a rocky hill, which is made of the rocks washed in taihu lake, is an artistic imitation of the nature to indicate the harmony between human and the nature.tongyin hallnortheast to the rockery is tongyin hall. as tongyin is similar to qinyin in sound, which is the sound of ancient chinese music instrument, tongyin implies the connot
