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1、成都英文导游词ladies and gentlemen:on behalf of our travel agency, i would like to extend a welcome to you.wish you have a pleasant stay in chengdu.there is a saying that “once you come to chengdu ,you do not want to leave ” which reveal the charming of this city.the splendid chengdu city is renowned for i
2、ts fertile land and agricultural wealth.it is the capital of sichuan province and the center of its economy culture ,politics and information. with many images, chengdu is a colorful and charming city. city of brocade,city of leisure and eden of the east are several of its widely spread names.accord
3、ing to historical records “chengdu was built into a city with one years effort. and then,it became the capital the next year. in chinese, chengdu literally means the becoming capital”.the total area of chengdu is about 12600 square kilometers, and the city proper occupies an area of 87 square kilome
4、ters.according to the recent population census,chengdus entire population was close to 11010 million,of which 1/6 live in the urban area lying in the eastern part of chengdu plain,chengdu is strategically situated in western part of the sichuan province by the mingjiang river. it extends about 166 k
5、ilometers from east to west about 192 kilometers from north to south.chengdu enjoys a generally subtropical and monsoon climate.therefore,warm and moist weather dominate most days of a year.the four seasons are clearly demarcated,the average annual temperature is around 16c ,while the rainfall is ab
6、out 1017.6million meters.topographically speaking, chengdu is high on the relief map in the northwest but low in the southeast.the highest elevation is 5364 meters and the lowest 387 meters.the average elevation of the city is 500 meters.36.4 percent of the land area of chengdu is occupied by plains
7、 while 63 percent is hilly lands and mountions.for the purpose of administration,chengdu is divided into 7 urban districts, and 12 suburban counties.the municipal peoples congress as the legislative body which enacts all the local laws and supervises their execution is the supreme organ through whic
8、h the citizens exercise their power.the municipal government of chengdu is the executive body of the highest organ of administration.the city flower is the hibiscus and the ginkgo tree is the city tree.chengdu is honored as a city of lights ,a sea of flowers, and a home of delicacies.in downtown are
9、a,long and wide avenues are dotted with green trees,and pretty flowers are flanked by high-building. chengdu is a beautiful city full of vigor and vitality.besides drinking tea in the local teahouse,and tasting local snacks in some special restaurants,one can either taste the typical sichuan cuisine
10、 local wine and find out some local special products like shu embroidery,bamboo-woven porcelain ware and lacquer ware,you would be pleased to immerse into the local chengdu peoples slow pace of live.the excavated remains from yangzi mount proved that there were human beings inhabited in chengdu as e
11、arly as the later stone agearound 4000-5000 years bc,in the news stone age,people began to live in a much lager scale area.their footprints can be found in chengdu including xinjin, chongzhou and many other counties.around 400 years bc,the king of the kaiming dynasty moved its capital to chengdu.sin
12、ce then,chengdu has been the capital of sichuan area for more than XX years. what is more, chengdu as a name for this city has never been changed.in 316 bc libing built the dujiangyan irrigation system.by the mid of the eastern han dynasty,the first public school in china was established by wen weng
13、, a magistrate to the shu prefecture.chengdu has been a city that many rebels fighting for during the war time. about 7 separated sovereigns were established when the central government was too weak to control this encircled mountainous area. in 24ad, chengjia state was established in chengdu bu gon
14、gsun shu.in 221 ad,the shuhan kingdom was built by liubei.in 907 ad,mangjian established the former shu state in chengdu.in 934ad, meng zhixiang established the later shu state in chengdu.in 1014ad li shun established the da shun state in chengdu.in 1644ad,zhang xianzhong had the daxi peasant sovere
15、ignty established in chengdu.as we known,that chengdu has been the formal name for this city since its born,there are also many given nicknames, which tells us the history of chengdu city in a special way. the first city in chengdu built in qin dynasty was nicknamed as “the tortoise city , for peopl
16、e followed a big tortoise crawling to build the wall.in the western han dynasty, with booming economy, chengdu was a highly famed for brocade. the silk and brocade was sold for the overseas. so,it was called“the city of brocade ”.as meng chang,the king of the shu state, ordered that the hibiscus planted along the city wall,which made the forty kilometers of the wall as beautiful as brocade, chengdu was known as “
