北京故宫英文导游辞
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北京故宫英文导游辞
FORBIDDEN CITY(紫禁城)
(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 14years 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, Scientific 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 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 the 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 associated with
auspicious developments. The word jin (forbidden) is self-explanatory as the
imperial palace was heavily guarded and off-explanatory 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 happiness, good fortune and wealth. Yellow is the color of the
earth on the Loess Plateau, the original home of the Chinese people. Yellow
became an imperial color during the Tang dynasty, when only members of the
royal family were allowed to wear it and use it in their architecture.
The Forbidden City is rectangular in shape. It is 960 meters long from
north to south and 750 meter wide from east west. It has 9,900 rooms under a
total roof area 150,000 square meters .A 52-meter-wide-moat encircles a 9.9-
meter—high wall which encloses the complex. Octagon —shaped turrets rest on
the four corners of the wall. There are four entrances into the city: the
Meridian Gate to the south, the Shenwu Gate(Gate of Military Prowess) to the
north, and the Xihua Gate(Gate of military Prowess) to the north, and the
Xihua Gate(Western Flowery Gate )to the west ,the Donghua (Eastern Flowery
Gate) to the east.
Manpower and materials throughout the country were used to build the
Forbidden City. A total of 230,000 artisans and one million laborers were
employed. Marble was quarried from fangshan Country Mount Pan in Jixian County
in Hebei Province. Granite was quarried in Quyang County in Hebei Province.
Paving blocks were fired in kilns in Suzhou in southern China. Bricks and
scarlet pigmentation used on the palatial walls came from linqing in Shandong
Province .Timber was cut ,processed and hauled from the northwestern and
southern regions.
The structure in front of us is the Meridian Gate. It is the main entrance
to the forbidden City. It is also knows as Wufenglou(Five-Phoenix Tower). Ming
emperors held lavish banquets here on the 15th day of the first month of the
Chinese lunar year in hornor of their counties .They also used this place for
punishing officals by flogging them with sticks.
Qing emperors used this building to announce the beginning of the new
year. Qing Emperor Qianglong changed the original name of this announcement
ceremony from ban li(announcement of calendar)to ban shou(announcement of new
moon )to avoid coincidental association with another Emperor` s name, Hongli,
which was considered a taboo at that time. Qing Dynasty emperors also used
this place to hold audience and for other important ceremonies. For
example,when the imperial army returned victoriously from the battlefield ,it
was here that the Emperor presided over the ceremony to accept prisoners of
war.
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北京故宫英文导游辞 FORBIDDENCITY(紫禁城) (Infrontofthemeridiangate) LadiesandGentlemen: Iampleasedtoserveasyourguidetoday. Thisisthepalacemuseum;alsoknowasthePurpleForbiddenCity.ItisthelargestandmostwellreservedimperialresidenceinChinatoday.UnderMingEmperorYongle,constructionbeganin1406.Ittook14yearstobuil...
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