肇庆英语介绍zhaoqing-introduction

The city of Ink stone, Zhaoqing

Ladies and Gentlemen, i t’s my great honor to have a choice and give you a brief introduction of my hometown, Zhaoqing. Every one knows Gzuangdong province, but only a little knows there has a city named Zhaoqing. Actually Zhaoqing is more developed than before. So today I will show you around my beatuful hometown.

Well, to start with, I will show you some pictures about my hometown. There is musical fountain, the night scene, the memorial arch and so on. After looked these pictures, I assured that you were curious of my hometown.

The overview of Zhaoqing:

Zhaoqing city is located in the mid-west of Guangdong province. Its total area is 15000 square kilometers，and the population is 405 million people. It has a subtropical climate. Zhaoqing city is 100 kilometers from Guangzhou, more than 200 kilometers away from Shenzhen, 180 kilometers from Macau. It has a convenient transportation. Zhaoqing city is known to its ink stone. All of us speak Cantonese.

Zhaoqing is the Lingnan famous County where has a long history, and it is a birthplace of indigenous culture of Lingnan. Actually, it named Duanzhou, but last a King named it Zhaoqing Fu, then it named Zhaoqing till now. Zhaoqing has a brilliant history and culture. And it had been a political, economic and cultural center. Zhaoqing Xijiang River has always been the political center. Obviously, Zhaoqing is an excellent tourist history city, which has 1000 years tourism history.

From the foregoing, you must know more about Zhaoqing than before. Then, I will show about more sights in the next.

Scenic resorts:

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2）T he Memorial Arch, was built in November 1958, which is a landmark building in Zhaoqing city. It is 12 meters high, 17.5 meters wide. It rides north to south.

The three words “七星岩” is written by Zhude. When you look into the memorial arch, you can find an entertainment square. The square covers 2.83 million kilometers. There has a musical fountain in the square, which is the largest musical fountain in the Guangdong. So the combination of the memorial arch, the square and the musical fountain catered for people’s mentality about reminiscence, fantasy and return to nature.

3）Q ixingyan scenery, which is 4 kilometers away from the downtown, consists of five lakes, six hillocks, seven rocks and eight holes. Its total area is 8.23 square kilometers. Seven different forms of limestone stacks standing lake, the Big Dipper layout of the shape of the sky, named Qixingyan. Seven different forms of limestone stacks standing lake, the Big Dipper layout of the shape of the sky, named "Qixingyan." Wind Langzhong named Rock, yuping rock, stone chamber

rock, Tianzhu Rock, Toad Rock, the Arab-Israeli rock slope. Lake Qixingyan five or six posts, seven rocks, composed of eight holes. In the hole, there are many carve stone in the rocks, and it has a name of millennium poetry gallery. It has been called fairyland and the first spectacle in lingnan.

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5）D inghu Mountain, is the first of four famous mountains in Lingnan, which is 18 kilometers away from the downtown, and covers 1133 hectares. It has the other name is the the emerald of tropic of cancer, because the place across the tropic of cancer is desert. It became the first nature in our country, and known for their special research value at and at abroad. Dinghu Mountain has been the famous Buddhist Shrine since the Tang Dynasty. Look at the sketch map of Dinghu mountain, you can find something you are interested. The whole scenery consists of more than dozen peaks such as dinghu, jilong, fuhu. And its original forest area is more than 4000 hectares, and 2000 kinds of wild plants. It is very famous for its tripod. There are many tripods in Dinghu mountain. Tripod is a symbol of Chinese ancient culture. It always means peace and unity.

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7）T he Song City Wall, is located in the downtown, with 2800 meters long. It was built in Song Dynasty. What its height is about 6.5 to 10 meters and its weight is about 8.5to 18 meters. It goes through about 953 years, and now you still can find many old bricks in this city wall. It was named of small Great Wall, and the first brick building in Guangdong province. Actually, it has been repaired abou 20 times, but the wall and the gate never changed. It likes showing us about what Zhaoqing went through in the past.

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9）M eian, is located in the west of Zhaoqing city. And now, it is a museum. It was built BC996. Meian is named of plum flower. Meian is one of the oldest wooden buidings in Guangdong province and it is very famous for its construction. It still has several main buildings like Liuzu Temple, Daxiongbaodian, shanmen and so on. Meian Temple reserved the Song D ynasty’s building construction. It was named of millennium temple.

10）Baogong Temple, is about 10 meters away from downtown. There has a saying goes, Baogong worked at the Duanzhou (now is Zhaoqing) for 3 years, and when he left, he carried nothing. As we all known, Baogong is a very honesty people. Many people love him very much. In order to memorize the great man, people built this temple. The Baogong Temple covers 11500 square meters. The Baogong temple attracted many tourists.

11）Deqing Panlong Gorge, is another famous scenery but not in the downtown.

Deqing is under the rule of Zhaoqing. Deqing town is mother dragon’s hometown.

Its Panglong Gorge touring region occupies over 2000 hectares，its central area is 650 hectares. Panglong gorge is long, deep with lots green plants, and is abundant of water all the time. Why the gorge is named “Panglong”? The mother dragon has 5 sons，the youngest son is very naughty and often makes his mother angry.

One day mother dragon is furious to her little son, she sent her little naughty boy