【正文】 tlemen, our destination has arrived, please carry your items withyou, and get down the bus one by one carefully. Then let?s visit it together.
ShaolinTemple
Well, ladies and gentlemen:
Here weare, Shaolin Temple, in the region of SongMountain, Dengfeng City, Henan Province, is reputedto be the Number One Templeunder Heaven. Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei dynasty , had the templebuilt to acmodate the Indian master Batuo ,ShaolinTemple means “temple in the thickforests of Shaoshi Mountain”. Shaolin Temple embraces many exciting attractions。First, please let me introduce myself to you .My name is Apple , I?llbe your local guide during your stay here ,This is Mr Zhang ,our driver ,He isconscientious and seasoned.(有責(zé)任心和經(jīng)驗(yàn))。all the constructions in the park were of typical Song Style with an adoptionof some modern technology. So when you walking in to the park, you?ll find youthrough time and space to the Song Dynasty.
Now ladies and gentlemen, our destination hasarrived, please carry your items with you, and get down the bus one by onecarefully. Then let?s visit the dreaming park together and enjoy the classicalatmosphere.
Park withUp the River on chingming Festival
Wele to the Park with Up the River on ChingmingFestival, After seeing the grand Opening ceremony, please follow me .Iwill take you to an ancient Kaifeng of a thousand years ago.
Walking into the gate ,the first sight we see isthe threebysixteenmeter hug relief on a screen wall. In front of which thereis a big statue of Zhang Zeduan, the well known Northern Song painter with hisfamous scroll painting in his hands, titled A Deep Love for Dongjing, as asymbol
Of greetings and weles to visitors,
Now let me give a brife introduction about thefamous painter and his great scroll painting, Zhang zeduan was called Zhengdao,was born in present Shandong Province in the Northern Song Dynasty and died inSouthern Song .His was travelling to Kaifeng to study when he was young, andwas acplished in painting. He had once served as a painter in the paintingstudio of the Imperial Academy.
While the famous painting UP the River on QingmingFestival is really a mirror to the flourish and prosperity of the capital city Kaifeng in the NorthernSong Dynasty. It describes all kinds of people and objects,they were reflectedvividly .from which we can see the whole Northern Song ,So it is really animportant evidence for historicans and scholars in the study and research ofpolitics , economy , culture ,science, architecture, military defenses and thesociety in the Northern Song Dynasty.
The park covers an area of about of 8 functional parts including the areas of hotels ,folk custoe, food street, culture andentertainment , flowers and birds, bustling capital, shopping plots andprehensive service based on the scroll are so much interestingthings for you to see in the park. You can go through the rainbow bridge, mountthe city gate. have a visit to the Hongfu Monastery, go shoppong in the silkstore, have a stay in an ancient post house, have a taste of seasonable food inthe restaurant of ancient style, and so on. you can also visit a traditionalweave room ,enjoy the popular acrobatics and other folk arts like the new yearpainting house, papercut .local kite and puffedsugarfigures,etc.
Now, let?s first go to the Rainbow Bridgewhich was wellknown in the northern song dynasty. As one of the 10 famousancient bridges in China,it was a woodenstructured bridge built in 1050 AD, playing a very importantrole both land and waterborne transportation. While it was destroyed inwarfare. the present Rainbow Bridge was set up 1998pletely following the original pattern and style in painting. It?s a singlearched bridge, 25 meters long and 5 meters wide, with 2 ornamental columns, and2 ninemeter high vertical shafts on both sides, on top of the shafts is a dogvaneformed by a plate with a white crane standing on. The crane can be turned withwind and tells the direction of the wind when it points to a certain positionof the crossed wooden bar. The river under the bridge was BianRiver, which was originated from theancient Luo Riverin Luoyang. Theriver was a most important and bsiest water artery for transportation fromnorth to south in the North Song Dynasty, it linked the three big river ,theyellow river ,the Yangse River, and the Huai had brought so manyadvantages to the development of the North Song Dynasty, boats and vessels busyat carryong foods and grains sailed from south to north day and night ,so agreat number of hotels ,restaurants, shops were built densely along the banks,which brought more benefits to the capital city
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