北京十三陵英语导游词

北京十三陵英语导游词1

Now you have come to Changping District, the outer suburb of Beijing. What you are about to enter is the Ming Tombs scenic area. During this time, I will explain the historical background and explanation of the Ming Tombs.

Zhu Di, the emperor of Yongle in Ming Dynasty, sent some geomantic warlocks to Beijing in 1407 to choose "auspicious soil", which is actually auspicious land to build a mausoleum. At that time, these people looked for many places, but they were not successful. At first, they chose tujiaying, which was not in their mouth. However, the emperors surname was Zhu, who had the same pronunciation as pig, and made a taboo. Then I chose Yangshan mountain in the southwest of Changping, but there is a village called "langkouyu" behind it. Isnt that more dangerous? Later I chose Yanjiatai in the west of Beijing, which has the same pronunciation as "Yanjia", which is very unlucky. Finally, it was not until the seventh year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty that the present Tianshou mausoleum area was selected. There are Mangshan, Huyu, Longshan and Tianshou mountains around it. This is exactly the

location of the four gods in the Yin Yang and five elements, that is, the East Green Dragon, the west white tiger, the South rosefinch, the North Xuanwu, and the Wenyu River. It is really a geomantic treasure land. From this we can see how much energy it took for the emperor to build a mausoleum for himself.

After that, the construction of Changling began, and it was finally completed after four years. The emperors of Ming dynasty built mausoleums here one after another. Moreover, from the construction of Changling in 1409 to the end of Ming Dynasty in 1644, the construction of Ming Tombs never stopped. In this area of 40 square kilometers, 13 emperors, 23 queens, many concubines and princes of the Ming Dynasty were buried. However, it did not survive completely. After the Qing soldiers entered the pass, in order to revenge the Jin people, they destroyed the ancestral Tomb of the Qing Taizu, so they burned it here.

Later, in the 50th year of Qianlong, in order to win over the Han people, they ordered to repair the mausoleum area. After the founding of the peoples Republic of China, large-scale development was carried out here, and the Changling, Dingling and Zhaoling tombs were opened, among which the underground palace of Dingling has been excavated. Now it has become a key scenic spot

in China, and is the most well preserved tomb group with the largest number of emperors buried in the world.

Now you may be thinking: isnt there sixteen emperors in the Ming Dynasty? Why are there only thirteen emperors mausoleums here? In fact, the reason is very simple. Because Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, built his capital in Nanjing, his mausoleum is in Nanjing, that is, Ming Xiaoling; Jianwen emperor, the second emperor of Ming Dynasty, was seized the throne by Zhu Di, and his remains are unknown, so there is no mausoleum here; At the time of Yingzong, the seventh emperor of Ming Dynasty, he was once encouraged by Wang Zhen, a eunuch, to lead the army to fight personally. Later, he was captured by the Wasi army at Tu Tu fort in Huailai, Hebei Province. This event is called "the change of Tu". A country cant be without a monarch, so his brother was canonized as emperor Jingtai. Later, Yingzongs "change of seizing the throne" was staged, so there was no Jingtai in the Ming Tombs Emperors mausoleum, he was buried in the western suburbs of jinshankou as a prince. In this way, everyone must understand why it is called the Ming Tombs.

Now you can see this stone archway along the way, which is the symbol of the mausoleum area. It was made during the Jiajing

period. The archway is 5 rooms, 6 columns and 11 floors. It is 14 meters high and 28.86 meters wide. It is the largest and most exquisite stone archway preserved in China. The patterns and decorations on it are also cloud dragon patterns, reflecting the characteristics of royal architecture.

Dagongmen is the main gate of the mausoleum area, also known as dahongmen. The gate is southward and has three holes. Inside the gate is the mausoleum area. On both sides of the gate are inscriptions of "officials waiting to dismount here", because at that time, it was stipulated that these people had to walk into the mausoleum area, otherwise they would be punished. Moreover, this is also a forbidden area. Its not a place where ordinary people can enter at will. The serious problem is that they have to be beheaded. When you enter this gate, you will enter the Shinto that runs through the north and south of the mausoleum and directly leads to the gate of Changling mausoleum. The Shinto of the Ming Dynasty is also the longest in the imperial mausoleum built in China. In fact, its main function is to let the emperors soul pass through, with a total length of 7 kilometers.

As we walk, we can see a stele Pavilion in front of us. This pavilion is a building with double eaves on the top of Xieshan