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1、广东(gung dng)概况英文导游词的范文Guangdong Province, bordering on the South China Sea, is located in the southernmost of Chinas mainland. It adjoins Fujian Province on the east, Jiangxi and Hunan provinces on the north and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on the west, with Hong Kong and Macou lying to its sout
2、h respectively on the east and west banks of the Pearl River estury. It covers an area of about 180,000 square kilometers of land and 420,000 square kilometers of sea with a total population of 94,500,000.Located on the subtropical zone, Guangdong enjoys a mild climate and a rich rainfall, with an a
3、verage annual temperate of 22.3 centigrade and a rainfall of 1,700 mm.With Guangzhou as its capital, Guangdong Province now has jurisdiction over 21 prefecture-level cities, among which Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Shantou are the three earliestEconomic Special Zones opened to the outside world. Four prefec
4、tural cities-Chaozhou, Meizhou, Foshan and Zhaoqin-enjoy a reputation of “National Historical and Cultural City”.Moreover, there are still 19 cities or counties that have been awarded with the honorable title of “National Excellent Tourism City”.During the Pre-Qin period, Guangdong area was inhabite
5、d by the NanYue ethnic people. Qin unified South China in 219 A.D. and set up Guilin, Xiangjun and Nanhai prefectures. Todays Guangzhou is where the Nanhai Prefecture was located.At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasy, a former Qin commanding general, Zhao Tuo by name, founded the first local st
6、ate in the presentday Guangdong area, the Kingdom of Nanyue, thus promoting the fusion between the Han and the Yue ethnics and accelerating the social, economic and cultural progress in South China. Under the Wu Kingdom of the Three Kingdoms period, the region to the north of Hepu was named Guangzho
7、u, which ruled the Nanhai, Changwu and Yulin prefectures. Hence, the name of “Guangzhou” came into being. At that time, Chinas foreign trade channel starting from Panyu was established, which is the origin of the Maritime Silk Road.In Ming Dynasty, Guangdong became one of the 13 provinces. The early
8、 Qing Dynasty inherited Mings system and set up Guangdong Province. The name of “Guangdong” was officially adopted. The government of Qing established Guangdong Customs in Guangzhou, which is the first official establishment of customs in the history of our country. The late Qing Dynasty witnessed t
9、he birth of national capitalism and national industry, and the “Westernization Movement” in which the Chinese people learned from the West in search of a road of wealth and power. With Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao as the leading exponents, the Bourgeois reformists wrote books to disseminate their id
10、eas and popularize their reformist thoughts, which weregradually developed into a political practice, and eventually led to a capitalist reform movement. Guangdong is also the original place of Chinas modern revolution. Sun Yat-sen from Xiangshan county led and founded the first bourgeois political
11、party in China: the Tong MengHui(Revolutionary League). He led the Huanghua Gang Uprising, the Law-Protecting Movement and also successfully achieved the First Cooperation of the Communist Party and the Kuomintang. Sun Yat-sen was honored as “the Forerunner of Democratic Revolution” and “Father of t
12、he Republic of China”.Since the 11010s, Guangdong, a place propitious for giving birth to great men, was the first province to open to the outside world and quickly became one of the most economicallydeveloped regions in China, with an average per capita GDP exceeding 4000 US dollars. Peoples living
13、 standard for the time reached the comparatively well-off level. Guangzhou Trade Fairs, established in 1957 and held in every April and October, is known as the “NO.1 Exhibition of China”.The Pearl River Delta today has attained fruitful attainments. It has entered a new era of vigorous development.
14、In the long process of historical development, the unique Lingnan(the area covering Guangdong and Guangxi) culture has formed after the exchange, clash, and fusion of various cultures. In Guangdong Province, there exist three groups of people: Guangfu, Chao-shan, Kakka, which are corresponding to Gu
15、angfu culture, Chao-shan culture and Kakka culture respectively. The Guangfu group appeared the earliest, which lives in the Pearl River Delta and some other counties and cities in the middle and west part of Guangdong Province. The Kakka group can best reflect the fusion and transformation between
16、Lingnan culture and Central Plain culture. It is distributed mainly over Meizhou region. The Kakkas have inherited the fine tradition from the Central Plain culture, such as practicing frugality, self-esteem and self-reliance, showing respect to teachers and attaching great importance to education. The Chao-shan group mainly lives in Chaozhou and Shantou. Chao-shan people are adventurous, innovative and ingenious. The significant featu
