开平碉楼导游词英文 开平碉楼导游词（英文） 开平碉楼，位于广东省江门市下辖的开平市境内，是中国乡土建筑的.一个特别类型，我下面为大家整理关于开平碉楼的英文导游词，欢迎阅读参考： Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Kaiping. Kaiping city is located in the southwestern part of the Pearl River Delta. It is 101 km away from Guangzhou in the northeast. Kaiping is one of the renowned homes to overseas Chinese. It is famous for the multifunctional houses with their own style. Shall I spare a few minutes to give a brief background of these constructions? Yes. Ok. Chinese people, especially overseas Chinese, have long been known to have a strong homesick complex. Many of them sent their savings back home. Quite a lot returned to hometown to buy a piece of land, build their own house and get married. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, they started to build multi-storied, defensive houses called Diaolou. Do you have any ideas why they made their houses in that way? Here come two main reasons. One is that floods frequently struck this city as it was in a relatively low-lying place. The other is that the city used to have bad social order. Those returned overseas Chinese or those who had relatives abroad were pretty well-off. They suffered a lot from the rampant bandits or gangsters. Diaolou, or watchtower, to put it in the other way, was constructed to solve the aforementioned two problems. A combination of Chinese and exotic architectural styles is one of the features of this kind of building. Diaolou in Kaiping appeared on a large scale. The total number of buildings reached 3,300 in its peak time. Nowadays, the number of registered houses is 1,833. Diaolou is well recognized. Some titles were awarded to it. One is Classic Works Representing the Culture of Overseas Chinese. The second is Showcase of Worlds Architectural Art. Diaolou are inscribed upon the list of the National Protection Cultural Relics by the State Council of China. On June 28th, 2007, Kaiping Diaolou and Villages were inscribed on the UNESCOs World Heritage List, and it is the first heritage from Guangdong. [Architectural Style of Kaiping Diaolou] Kaiping Diaolou enjoys its diversity in function, building materials and styles. When we talk about it function, buildings of this kind take three forms. Firstly, they are residential towers built by individual rich families and used as fortified residences. Secondly, they are communal towers built by several families and used as temporary refuge. Thirdly, they are vigil towers used for time telling and neighborhood security watch. Four kinds of building materials have been used. They are mainly stone, pise, brick or concrete. As I just mentioned, Kaiping people had migrated to live in different parts of the world. Those returned overseas Chinese brought back home exotic ideas and applied them to village house building. This is reflected in the architectural styles of Diaolou. Their watchtowers not only boast ancient Greek and Roman flavors, but also blend Gothic, Ialamic, Baroque and Rococo styles. These buildings feature the harmonious integration of varying foreign architecture patterns and the preference of the house owners. I have been talking quite a lot about the diversity of these watchtowers in terms of function, building materials and architectural style. What is their shared part, then? Do you still remember the problems the local rich people suffered hundreds of years ago? Yes. Good; No. Oh, no. To fulfill its function to defend against bandits, all the watchtowers have narrow iron doors, small steel windows, and solid walls with embrasures. In some watchtowers, hornworks, locally called swallow nests, thrust outward on the four corners of the top floor. Those swallow nests exert omni-directional control over the surrounding areas. On the top floor of the watchtowers often stand observation posts, equipped with primitive firearms, electric generators, sirens, searchlights, stones, gongs and other defensive devices. From their similar looks and styles, we may say that those watchtowers were mainly used to guard against bandits attack. Kaiping watchtowers have played different roles in different historical periods. In the later stage of Chinas War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, some were used as military strongholds. The most famous one was South Watchtower in Tengjiao Village, Chican Town. In the 1920s and 1930s, Kaiping Diaolou were served as secret sites for the Chinese Communist Party to take up underground revolutionary activities. The most renowned two were Shilou and Zhongshanlou. With my long-winded introduction to Diaolou, I am now guiding you to see watchtower clusters. One thing I have to point out is that they differ quite a lot in styles, as towers of this kind were built in different periods of time. [Diaolou Clusters in Zili Village] A showcase of Diaolou Clusters i。