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1、长城英文介绍导游词故宫介绍导游词英文导语：明清的两代皇宫，也叫“紫禁城”。它始建于1406年，距今已有600年了。以下WTT为大家介绍故宫介绍导游词英文文章，欢送大家阅读参考!故宫介绍导游词英文1Lying at the center of Beijing， the Forbidden City， called Gu Gong， in Chinese， was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties.Now known as the Palace Museum， it is to the north of Tiananmen
2、 Square.Rectangular in shape， it is the worlds largest palace ple_ and covers 74 hectares.Surrounded by a si_ meter deep moat and a ten meter high wall are 9，999 buildings.The wall has a gate on each side.Opposite the Tiananmen Gate， to the north is the Gate of Devine Might (Shenwumen)， which faces
3、Jingshan Park.The distance between these two gates is 960 meters， while the distance between the gates in the east and west walls is 750 meters.There are unique and delicately structured towers on each of the four corners of the curtain wall.These afford views over both the palace and the city outsi
4、de.The Forbidden City is divided into two parts.The southern section， or the Outer Court was where the emperor e_ercised his supreme power over the nation.The northern section， or the Inner Court was where he lived with his royal family.Until 1924 when the last emperor of China was driven from the I
5、nner Court， fourteen emperors of the Ming dynasty and ten emperors of the Qing dynasty had reigned here.Having been the imperial palace for some five centuries， it houses numerous rare treasures and curiosities.Listed by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage Site in 1987， the Palace Museum is now one
6、of the most popular tourist attractions world wide.Construction of the palace ple_ began in 1407， the 5th year of the Yongle reign of the third emperor of the Ming dynasty.It was pleted fourteen years later in 1420.It was said that a million workers including one hundred thousand artisans were drive
7、n into the long-term hard labor.Stone needed was quarried from Fangshan， a suburb of Beijing.It was said a well was dug every fifty meters along the road in order to pour water onto the road in winter to slide huge stones on ice into the city.Huge amounts of timber and other materials were freighted
8、 from faraway provinces.Ancient Chinese people displayed their very considerable skills in building the Forbidden City.Take the grand red city wall for e_le.It has an 8.6 meters wide base reducing to 6.66 meters wide at the top.The angular shape of the wall totally frustrates attempts to climb it.Th
9、e bricks were made from white lime and glutinous rice while the cement is made from glutinous rice and egg whites.These incredible materials make the wall e_traordinarily strong.Since yellow is the symbol of the royal family， it is the dominant color in the Forbidden City.Roofs are built with yellow
10、 glazed tiles; decorations in the palace are painted yellow; even the bricks on the ground are made yellow by a special process.However， there is one e_ception.Wenyuange， the royal library， has a black roof.The reason is that it was believed black represented water then and could e_tinguish fire.Now
11、adays， the Forbidden City， or the Palace Museum is open to tourists from home and abroad.Splendid painted decoration on these royal architectural wonders， the grand and delu_e halls， with their surprisingly magnificent treasures will certainly satisfy “modern civilians”.故宫介绍导游词英文2FORBIDDEN CITY (紫禁城
12、)(In front of the meridian gate)Ladies and Gentlemen:I am pleased to serve as your guide today.This is the palace museum; also know as the Purple Forbidden City.It is the largest and most well reserved imperial residence in China today.Under Ming Emperor Yongle, construction began in 1406.It took 14
13、years to build the Forbidden City.The first ruler who actually lived here was Ming Emperor Zhudi.For five centuries thereafter, it continued to be the residence of23 successive emperors until 1911 when Qing Emperor Puyi was forced to abdicate the throne.In 1987, the United Nations Educational, Scien
14、tific and Cultural Organization recognized the Forbidden City was a world cultural legacy.It is believed that the Palace Museum, or Zi Jin Cheng (Purple Forbidden City), got its name from astronomy folklore, The ancient astronomers divided the constellations into groups and centered them around the
15、Ziwei Yuan (North Star) .The constellation containing the North Star was called the Constellation of Heavenly God and star itself was called the purple palace.Because the emperor was supposedly the son of the heavenly gods, his central and dominant position would be further highlighted the use of th
16、e word purple in the name of his residence.In folklore, the term “an eastern purple cloud is drifting” became a metaphor for auspicious events after a purple cloud was seen drifting eastward immediately before the arrival of an ancient philosopher, LaoZi, to the Hanghu Pass.Here, purple is associate
17、d with auspicious developments.The word jin (forbidden) is self-e_planatory as the imperial palace was heavily guarded and off-e_planatory as the imperial palace was heavily guarded and off-limits to ordinary people.The red and yellow used on the palace walls and roofs are also symbolic.Red represents happin第 6 页 共 6 页