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1、黄帝陵英文导游词黄帝陵good morning, ladies and gentlemen. today we are going to visit the yellow emperor mausoleum, known as the first chinese mausoleum. the tomb places at qiaoshan, huang ling, yanan, china. the yellow emperor mausoleum area was archaeologically proved to be a primitive clan settlement, for u
2、nearthing pottery and stone tools with evident yangshao culture features. it is one of the key historical site under state protection of china.in order for everyone to have a profound understanding about the yellow emperor mausoleum, i will introduce huangdi first. huangdi is a legendary chinese sov
3、ereign and cultural hero who is considered in chinese mythology to be the ancestor of all han chinese, one of the legendary five emperors. according to ancient records, huangdi was the son of shao dian, the grandson of fu xi. his name was gongsun. because he resided in the xuanyuan hill, he was refe
4、rred to as xuanyuan. for advocating agricultural production, he was also known as huangdi. huangdi has been credited with the invention of the principles of traditional chinese medicine, the huangdi neijing (inner canon of huangdi).the legend of his victory in the war against emperor chi you at the
5、battle of zhuolu is seen as the establishment of the han chinese nationality. (黄帝)we are now in the xuanyuan square. here is the starting point of worshiping the mausoleum. the xuanyuan square ground used natural pebbles from qinling range, a total of 5000 pieces which represents 5000 years long his
6、tory of the chinese nation. in front of us was printing pool. legend has it that the pool was huangdis pen washing place. printing pool came from river zu which is regarded as the ancestor of the river. when night es, there will be a beautiful landscape above the river.(印池)now, we are through the br
7、idge xuanyuan. the bridge used granite stones, and it was known as the the first modern chinese stone bridge. the path links xuanyuan bridge and temple courtyard has 95 steps, representing huangdis lofty status. ascend the stairs, we can see a broad square. in recent years, rituals mostly are held h
8、ere. now please look back at the xuanyuan square again, i believe you can feel the grand、solemn and primitive ambience. (轩辕桥)xuanyuan temple is located in the north of zu water. please follow me into the holy place. it is said that the ancient temple,which aimed to worship the yellow emperor ,was or
9、iginally built at the west foot of bridege hill in the han dynasty.but in the song dynasty,it had been moved here . consisting of four yards,the temple has doors of hisarchitectural style of han dynasty,decorated with hip rooftops , white walls and black glazed tiles.so it looks tall and terrifying,
10、simple and splendid. and the three chinese characters of xuanyuanmiao was written by mr jiang dingwen.(轩辕庙) entering the gate of xuanyuan temple , we can see a towering cypress is greeting us on our left hand. the old tree is about 4700 years old. legend has it that the cypress was personally plante
11、d by huangdi. in 1982, the british forestry experts, including peel came here after examining 27 countries of the world. they exclaimed that this cypress was the father of world cypresses. in 1998, the tree was identified as one of chinese one hundred fomous trees.(黄帝手植柏)this pavilion is called ston
12、e pavilion. there are four steles. the first stele on the right is a inscription written by sun yat-sen when he was the temporary president of r.o.c. the second one was wrntten by chiang kai-shek in 1942. on the left side, the first stele was written by chairman mao in 1937 when the kuomintang and t
13、he munist party worshiped huangdi together. the second stele on the left side was written by deng xiaoping(碑亭)leaving the pavilion and continuing to walk in, we can see an engraved block on the left side. the stone engraved with a pair of huge huangdi footprints. it is said that there are three pair
14、s of huangdi footprints. one pair is in henan, another is in shandong, and the last one is here. according to local people, if someone hits the big toe with a coin across the fence, he will be lucky.(青石块)there is a cypress in left front of xuanyuan. every year before the tomb-sweeping day, the tree
15、hole will overflow juice like a teardrop. after the tomb-sweeping day, juice stops overflowing. because of this, the cypress is known as the most unusual one among all cypresses.(古柏)now, the architecture in front of us is xuanyuan palace. the palace was built in ming dynasty. going into the hall, th
16、e demirelief huangdi statue came into our view. the icon of our nations ancestor is based on the picture of the east temple hanwu beam and was enlarged and sealed upon the approval of state administration of cultural heritage. the new ancestor worship hall was built in XX and lies in the north of xuan yuan temple. on the tomb-sweeping day of XX, for the first time the national etiquette ebo ceremony was held here. huangdi temple inherits han t
