北京故宮的英語導游詞

　　作為一名默默奉獻的導游，編寫導游詞是必不可少的，導游詞是講解當地的`基本情況，介紹風土人情的文章。那么寫導游詞需要注意哪些問題呢？下面是小編精心整理的北京故宮的英語導游詞，歡迎閱讀，希望大家能夠喜歡。

　　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 in1406. it took14years 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 of23successive emperors until1911when qing emperor puyi was forced to abdicate the throne .in1987, 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 is960 meters long from north to south and750 meter wide from east west. it has9,900 rooms under a total roof area150,000 square meters .a52-meter-wide-moat encircles a -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.

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