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1、介绍厦门的英语作文5篇篇一：厦门英语导游必备：漂亮厦门英文介绍全集漂亮厦门之英文介绍漂亮厦门之英文介绍大全集（一）01: 厦门英文介绍 About Xiamen02: 厦门八大景八小景 Tour Xamen03: 鼓浪屿英文介绍1 Gulangyu Island04: 鼓浪屿英文介绍2 Gulangyu Island05: 厦门市市鸟白鹭City Bird-Egrets06: 厦门市市花三角梅英文介绍City Flower-Bougainvillea glabra07: 厦门南普陀英文介绍 Nanputuo Temple08: 集美旅游景点英文介绍 Jimei Tourist Area09:
2、同安旅游景点英文介绍 Tongan Tourist Area01.About Xiamen厦门英文介绍Xiamen is an island city with a rich and dramatic history, replete with pirates, rebel leaders, and European merchants. Now linked to mainland Fujian by a causeway, Xiamen retains a strong international flavor. Known in the West as Amoy, Xiamen has
3、a long history as a port city, and later became a center of British trade in the 19th century. Their foreign settlements, later taken over by Japanese invaders at the start of World War II, were established on the nearby small Gulangyu Island. Many of the old treaty-port and colonial buildings in We
4、stern styles survive. Xiamen was declared one of Chinas first Special Economic Zones in the early 1980s, taking advantage of the citys heritage as a trading center and the proximity to Taiwan. Today Xiamen is one of Chinas most attractive and best-maintained resort cities.Xiamen was founded in 1394
5、at the beginning of the Ming dynasty as a center of defense against coastal pirates. Its prosperity was due to its deepwater sheltered harbor, that supplanted nearby Quanzhou, the port that had been the center of the maritime trade with the Indies.In the mid-17th century, Xiamen and Gulangyu Island
6、became a stronghold of Zheng Chenggong, known in the West as Koxinga, a Ming loyalist who held out against the Manchu invaders until being driven to Taiwan. Born in Japan to a Chinese pirate father and a Japanese mother, Zheng became allied with holdout Ming princes in the south who hoped for a rest
7、oration. He built up a resistance force of some 7,000 junks and a mixed force of three-quarters of a million troops and pirates. In 1661 he drove the Dutch from Taiwan and set up another base there, before his death in 1662.After the Opium Wars Xiamen became one of the first treaty ports to be opene
8、d to foreign trade and settlement following the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842. Gulangyu Island was transformed into an international settlement, where many Victorian and Neoclassical style buildings still survive. The citys prosperity was due both to trade and to wealth sent back by Xiamens substantial
9、emigrant community of overseas Chinese.Prosperity returned to Xiamen in the early 1980s when Xiamen was designated one ofthe four Special Economic Zones (SEZs).02. Tour Xiamen (旅游厦门，八大景八小景)Xiamen is a well-known tourist port city in the Southeast coast of China. It is one of the Cleanest Cities of C
10、hina, the Garden Cities of China, the National Environmental Protection Model Cities, and the best sightseeing cities in China. Not only being wealthy with travel resources, Xiamen has also temperate weather, fast and convenient transport and communication, and complete travel establishments. In the
11、 old times, there were Eight Major Landscapes and Eight MinorLandscapes Landscapes Beyond Landscapes in Xiamen and altogether 24 scenic spots were included in the three general terms. Some of the 24 sights, such as Wonderland of Gulang, Five Old Gentlemen Reaching the Clouds, Watching Suise on Hongj
12、i Summit, Night Moon by Tiger Brook, White Deer Spurting Smoke, still can be traced today.By reorganizing old landscapes and developing new sceneries, Xiamen has formed five main Tourist areas- Gulangyu Island Tourist Area, Nanputuo Temple Tourist Area, Wangshi Rock Tourist Area, Huangcuo Tourist Ar
13、ea and Jimei Tourist Area. Beside its richful travel resources and pleasant weather, Xiamen also provides fast and convenient transportation and communication, and complete travelestablishments. All makes Xiamen one of the most suitable cities for investors and tourists in China.03.Gulangyu Island 鼓
14、浪屿英文介绍1A ten-minute ferry ride off the southwest side of Xiamen, the 2 square km (3/4 sq. mile) Gulangyu Island (Island of Blown Waves) was the center for foreigncommunities who settled here after 1842. Many built Western-style mansions,churches, warehouses, and government buildings which still surv
15、ive. Sunlight Rock (Riguang Yan) dominates the island from its modest 93-meter height. The island includes a statue of Koxinga and a Koxinga Museum (Koxinga bowuguan), which documents the career of that pirate turned resistance leader. The Xiamen Museum (Xiamen Bowuguan) includes more than a thousan
16、d exhibits, including porcelain and jade collections. On the southern shore of the island is the Shuzhuang Garden, which once belonged to a Taiwanese businessman who moved to the island after the Japanese took over Taiwan in 1895.04.Gulangyu Island 鼓浪屿英文介绍2Gulangyu, separated from Xiamen by the 500-
17、metre-wide Egret River, with an area of 1.77 square kilometres, enjoys a lauditory title Garden on the Sea. The original name of the islet was Yuan Zhou Zi. In the Ming Dynasty it was renamed Gulang, meaning drum waves, because the holes in the southwestern reefs hit by the waves make sounds like th
18、e drum beating.Overlapping peaks foil the blue water, white clouds, green trees and bright flowers.The air in the islet is fresh. The entire place is free from any sorts of vehicles and is particularly quiet. All these render an atmosphere of a fairyland.The roar of the waves breaks on the rocks. Im
19、pressive melodies surrounding and lingering on this island make famous for its piano-laden past. As a place of residence forWesterners during Xiamens colonial past, Gulangyu is famous for its architecture and for being home to Chinas largest piano museum. It is known as the piano island becausepeopl
20、e here love the piano. As early as 1913, students in schools run by foreigners started learning the piano. The enthusiasm for music later spread to more ordinary people on the island. Many piano families have since then come into being and produced accomplished musicians. And the number of the piano
21、s possessed is in the leading place in the nation, though there is only a population of 20,000 people.No tourist can afford to miss one attraction located on the island - the nations largest piano museum. Divided into two exhibition halls, the museum guidesvisitors through a vivid history of the ins
22、trument with displays and illustrations. All different types of pianos such as miniature pianos, automatic pianos, accordion pianos and round-shaped pianos, are on display.The architecture in the islet varies greatly in style, Chinese and foreign. Thus the islet has a laudatory title the World Archi
23、tecture Museum Covered in green all the year round, its charming, elegant, secluded and serene. A great variety of villas stand shrouded by lush wood resembling numerous jadeites embellished upon a piece of verdant silk brocade. Hundreds of flowers grown on the Riguang Rock (Sunlight Rock) vie with
24、one another for beauty. With the caressing sea breeze, its a quite cool place in hot summer. At the foot of the rock, theres the Memorial Hall to honor the national Hero Zheng Chenggong.Today, Gulangyu is listed as one of the nations major scenic spots. The main sites of interest here include the Su
25、nlit Rock, Shuzhuang Park, Gangzihou Bathing Beach and Memorial Hall to Zheng Chenggong, which are visited annually by millions of people from all parts of the country and the world. For people living in the hustle and bustle of todays metropolis, citizens on this island seem to live in a paradise w
26、ith a relaxing, healthy and placid lifestyle. Find more in our detailed introduction of the major attractions in Gulangyu Tourist Area.05. City Bird-Egrets 厦门市市鸟白鹭Egrets are the worlds rare birds. They belong to heron family of bird class. Xiamen boasts small egrets, middle egrets, large egrets, Chi
27、nese egrets and gray egrets, which dwell are the only five types of herons ever seen in China. People choose to call them egrets (Bailu in Chinese) collectively because they, except the gray egrets, which have dark gray body-feathers, have beautiful snow-white feathers. The small and midium-sized eg
28、rets are of the largest numbers and are seen morefrequently. On October 23 of 1986, at the 23rd Session of the Standing Committee of the 8th Municipal Peoples Congress it was decided that the egret be the City Bird of Xiamen.06.City Flower-Bougainvillea glabra 厦门市市花三角梅英文介绍The City Flower was decided
29、 by the Standing Committee of the Eighth Peoples Congress of Xiamen City on October 23, 1986 in its 20th conference. The scientific name of the flower is Bougain Villeasp. It is an evergreen clamber bush or a hanging down shrub, which belongs to the category of bougain of thebongainvillea family. It
30、 is a wood nature liana. The nature of its leaves has the luster. Its flower is small and blooms on the top. The flower usually grows inclusters in the bud plate. The three big bud plates are very distinctive, constructing a major object sight for enjoying. In ancient times, it was called Nine Layer
31、s of Vine. It is called Leaves Tiny Flower and Triangular Flower in North China and it was called Bougain as translated in sound from English in Hongkong. It was originally planted in Brazil of South America and it is a long time since it was imported and planted in China in 1972.It has a great numb
32、er of varieties, and large amount of colors. It has the nurture color of red, orange, yellow, white and purple, and it has the shape of single petal flower, double petal flower and mottled plate flower etc. It couples hardness with softness, and it is simple and unadorned. It is easy to plant and po
33、ssesses such variety of colors, so it can be used to make potted landscape. As a result, to use the Triangular Shaped Plum Blossom as the city flower, to plant it broadly and to take care of it will not only afforest and beautify Xiamen, but also better show the style and features of Xiamen, the cha
34、racter of Xiamen people and the rapid Development of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone.07. Nanputuo Temple厦门南普陀英文介绍Situated at the foot of Wulao Peak on the southern end of Xiamen is nanputuo Temple. The temples Heavenly King Hall, the main prayer hall, the Hall of Great Compassion and the Shrine of
35、Buddhist Scriptures are all graced with painted brackets.The temple was first built during the Tang Dynasty (618-907). And rebuilt during theQing Dynasty (1644-1911), it is now an imposing multi-layered trapezoidal structure that overlooks the sea. The Shrine of Buddhist Scriptures houses a huge col
36、lection of Buddhist cultural relics, including a Burmese jade carving of the Buddha and many importantBuddhist literature. It is one of the sacred places of Buddhism in Southern Fujian. Inside the temple there are the Heaven Kings Hall, the Daxiong Hall, the Great Compassion Hall, all of which are b
37、uilt in an exquisite and grand style.Enshrined in these halls are the statues of Maitreya, Sanshi Reverend Buddha,Thousand-handed Guanyin (Bodhisattva), Four Kings of Heaven, and the eighteen arhats. Although all are serious and solemn in appearance, each is distinctly different fromanother. The tem
38、ple attracts a large number of pilgrims at home and abroad. The excellent craftsmanship of the Thousand-handed Guanyin is marked by its thousand hands and thousand eyes and glistening golden color.As to the Pavilion where Buddhist scriptures are kept, it has a rich collection of thehistorical articl
39、es of Buddhism. such as classics, statues of Buddhas, bronze bells from the Song Dynasty, calligraphic works and paintings from the ancient times. Among them,Intriguing Lotus Scripture written in blood in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and the statue of Guanyin in white porcelain, a masterpiec
40、e of He Chaosong, are most valuable.In the temple are preserved many inscriptions, among which the stone inscriptions written by Chen Di and Sheng Yourong in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and the one on a stone stele written by Emperor of the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty are most famous.
41、 Behind the temple, inscribed on the wall of a rock is a large word Buddha which is 4.66 metres in height and 3.33 metres in width. And farther behind, high up on the mountain stands a screen of five peaks coloured by green trees and bamboos and marked by serene valleys and rocks of pleasing shapes.
42、 They are called Five Old Gentlemen Reaching the Clouds, and are one of the eight grand sights of Xiamen. Coming to the top, you not only have a view of the mountain undulating in the wind, but also the view of the sea surging in the distance.Behind Nanputuo Temple, inscribed on the wall of a rock i
43、s a large word Buddha which is 4.66 metres in height and 3.33 metres in width. And farther behind, high up on themountain stands a screen of five peaks coloured by green trees and bamboos and marked by serene valleys and rocks of pleasing shapes. They are called Five Old Gentlemen Reaching the Cloud
44、s, and are one of the eight grand sights of Xiamen.Look from far, the five peaks wreathed by clouds are just like five old men with white beard and hair who have experienced enough swift changes of the world and are looking far into the vast sea. Coming to the top, you not only have a view of the mo
45、untain undulating in the wind, but also the view of the sea surging in the distance.08.Jimei Tourist Area 集美旅游景点英文介绍Jimei is a suburb of Xiamen City connected to xiamen Island by a 2,212-metre long granite causeway. Jimei is also the residence of Mr. Tan Kah-kee, a famousoverseas Chinese philanthrop
46、ist. Encircled by the sea on three sides, the town is known for its magnificent buildings combining western and oriental styles and picture-postcard sceneries. As a tourist site, Jimei has the following attractions to offer: Jimei School Village, Aoyuan (Turtle Garden), Returnees Hall, Xiamen Bridge
47、 and Wanbao Hill Sightseeing Farms.Jimei School Village is a general name for all schools and cultural institutions here. It was built by Mr.Tan Kah-kee in 1913. After decades of development, the village now covers a floor space area of over 100,000 square kilometers and there are more than 10,000 s
48、tudents in it. The higher learning institutions are Xiamen Aquatic Products College, Jimei Navigation College, and Jimei Finance and Economy Institute and BusinessAdministration College, etc. There are also secondary specialized schools, middle schools, primary schools, kindergartens and nurseries s
49、chools in the village. In addition to the schools metioned above, one may find here auditoriums, swimming pools, stadiums,篇二：英文版的厦门介绍Xiamen is one of the most important ports and one of the most popular tourist destinations in China.over 30 yeas ago,Xiamen became a special economic zone and it play the full potential meant by that name.now,Xiamen is known for been one of Chinas livable cities,the recipient of the 2004 UN-Habitat Scroll of Honor