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Good morning, ladies an dgentlemen.Welcome to Chinese history and culture village, a famous tourist village,xinghua village, which locates in northern Qiting town. It has a long history and is famous for the poem Qing Ming written by Du Mu in Tang Dynasty. Chen jichang, a famous sholar in northern Song Dynasty, gave up a good living and took his family here.Even the famous poet Su Dongpo in Song Dynasty had been the village several times and gave it high praise.Now what you see is the eastern gate,these th ree characters “xin hua cun”are written by Ms Li Xiaolin, CPPCC member and the CEO of China Power Investment Corporation. A prosperous commercial street “Dongpo Street ” will be built in the near future. We have sign a contract with the correspondents contractor,and the street will be compeleted at the end of December. The toilet was built to the nation AAA level spot ,it is a star-level toilet.This road we are taking is called “XingHua Road”,it is just “GangHuang old Road”,a famous traffic main artery in the ancient time. This place witness a deep friendship between Su dongpo and Chen jichang. In 1080, Su was banished to Huangzhou. One day, he followed DuMu’ track to lose the mood. When he went by Xinghua village, Chen jichang who lived a seclusive life here road a white horse to greet him. This is the famous historical allusion: 季常白马青盖迎东坡Now, Xinghua Lake is in front of you. It is a lake of 5.3 hectares of water surface,with storage capacity appraaching 5 million cubic meters. In the planning,it is an ideal place to meet the entertainment needs of tourists,such as water sports, fishing and so on. The road round xinghua lake is 1.2 kilometers. It is said that su dongpo always had a heart to heart talk with chen jichang along the road when he called on chen. So this lake is also called “fengyue lake ”Here we are in dumu square, is built in honour of dumu. In Emperor Wuzong of Tang 2nd year,dumu was banished to be provincial governor of Huangzhou. It is where dumu asked the way . Now we are rebuilding xinghua restaurant in the first place where the cowboy pointed. It allows accommodate 200 people dining and more than 100 people living at the same time.Now you can see xinghua torill. these three characters “xin hua cun”are written by Ms Li Xiaolin, CPPCC member and the CEO of China Power Investment Corporation. The First Azalea Culture Tourism Festival was celebrated in Xinhua Village of Macheng City,on April 24,2008.Ms Li Xiaolin,the CEO of China Power Investment Corporation,was present at the opening ceremony.At the entrance of the square,it is xinghua well.The clean and sweet spring keeps running all the year round. From time immerorial,villagers of xinghua always took glutinous rice with the spring for distinctive wine.The bridge we are stepping on is dongpo bridge,formerly known as qiting bridge. At that time, su dongpo often drank and admired the full moon here with chen jichang. Even he slept rough on the bridge when the dringking was at its height. So,in order to remember su, the offspring renamed dongpo bridge.The pond under the bridge, connected with the stream, is called free life pond. It is said that it was used for releasing lives by the monks and visitors.Ladies and gentlemen,we are now at Xinghua Old Temple. It was known formerly as Xinglin Temple.It was built by Ben Rong, a Buddhist, in early Tang Dynasty and destroyed in wars andreconstructed. It is said that Emperor QianLong was present in Xinghua Village along the Guanghuang Old Road in the tour of South China. Seeing the flowers of apricots and thinking of the able and virtuous men in history, he wrote four letters,Xinghua Gu Sha, cutted in a stone board ,which is hung on the door. Xinghua Old Temple has been known as the national temple since then.The incense has never ceased to burn in the temple. The existent temple was extended at the old site by wuzheng in 1993, a buddhist, president of the Buddhist Association of macheng city. He is one of the disciples of changming, the deceased abbot of guiyuan temple. The temple takes up an area of 4000-square- meter. The main building falls into two courts:front hall and back hall. Both sides are halls of the arhats. 500 vivid arhats are presented to you. Front hall sacrifices Maitreya Buddha and four heavenly kings,Sakyamuni, back halll sacrifices Ksitigarbha Buddha ,the thousand-Hand Bodnhisattvashe and the Eighteen Disciples of the Buddha. Here is a story about 18 arhats.There is a stele on the top of the Buddha Sakyamuni,with four characters “guanghuang sheng ji”, which were written by Y u Chenlong , praised as the 1st honest official of China by emperor Kangxi .On October 10th this year, we signed an investment agreement with United States Bright Bridge International Group Limited. 30 million will be carried out in the extension of Xinghua Old Temple,including Main Hall, Arhat Hall ,V egetarian Restaurant and so on. And we have invested yongle,the master of the Jiuyishan Royal Temple in Hunan.Now this is poem pond. The First Azalea Culture Tourism Festival was celebrated in Xinhua Village of Macheng City,on April 24,2008. Attracted by the beautiful village scene,Ms Li also improvised a poem.Tracked back to the Song dynasty, there was a pavilion built by Cheng Jichang. He and Su Dongpo often went there. They played chess and played the zither. They drank wine and sang poems. They discussed about the concepts and meanings of Buddhist scriptures. When Chen Jichang living a secluded life in Xinghua Village wore a square top hat, villagers did not recognize him and called him “Fang Shanzi” (meaning his top hat like a hill). So years later, people also call the pavilion “the pavilion of Fang Shan”. The formerly pavilion was destroyed in wars. Later, three willow trees grew beside the pavilion, two of which were entangled by vines, the other of which divided the two trees into branches. The trees interlock forever and people call these “entangled trees” or “interlocked trees”.All honorable guests, now we can see xinghua auditorium which was built in 1950s and equipped as an office for the villagers to handle affairs and now rebuilt as a clinic in Xinghua Village. The poem was written by ex-chairman Li Xiannian when he passed through Xinghua Village on the way to his hometown Hongan County. The poem is: passing through Xinghua Village on my way home/ where are Chen and Su that left behind us footsteps in the sands of time / outstanding figures were they/however, secluding themselves like hermits/ let us act in the glorious present, not withdraw from the reality.This is a small conference ro om and besides these are three offices. The article named “the biography of Fang Shanzi” hanging on the wall was written by Su Dongpo as a biography ofCheng Jichang. Just now I mentioned that villagers in Xinghua Village addressed Cheng as Fang Shanzi. This article recorded their life experience from the time they met and understood each other to the time when they became intimate friends. Su Dongpo seldom wrote biographies for others, but he placed this biography together with the biography of his father in the first page in his collective works of eleven biographies. From this story, we can see that Su Dongpo highly valued the friendship with Cheng.This room used for recreation and sports is very useful for customers and villagers. On the wall there are five poems written by Su. All the five poems described interesting episodes with Cheng Jichang when he stayed in Huanzhou County. The first was written when Su was demoted to Huangzhou County and on his way to Huangzhou visited Cheng for a five-day sojourn in January in 1080 of Northern Song Dynasty. The other three poems were written respectively when Su came to visit Cheng three times. The last one was written in gratitude for Cheng’s accompanying and seeing him off in Jiujiang a long distance from Huangzhou in April in the year 1084 of Northern Song Dynasty when Su left Huangzhou.Another poem in the name of “to Wu Deren and Chen Jichang”also conveys their profound friendship. It contains the following lines: how miserable the scholar of Longqiu (Chen Jic hang) is! / When Cheng was up talking about various things all night to me / suddenly heard his wife roaring like a lion/ with a sense of loss/ he dropped his cane. Because Qiting once was under an alias of Longqiu, Chen Jichang was styled “the scholar of Longqiu. The origin of the famous story “the lioness roars” in China derives from this poem. It said of one’s dominating wife in a temper. Chen’s wife Liu from the east of river in Qiting had a loud voice and was jokingly called “the lioness from the east of the river”. This story happened in the si tuation when Chen was up talking about various things all night with Su, paid no attention to Liu and Liu was angry and roared like a lioness. So Chen dropped his cane. Su teased Chen with this poem. so this is the origin of the story. Hubei Institute of Fine ArtsNow all my distinguished guests, this large conference capable of holding 160 people can also be used as a multi-functional auditorium installed with long-range education network which facilitates further development in Xinghua Village. The first two lines of the poem quoted by Su on the wall were written by Du Mu in his famous poem “QingMing”. The well-known poem by Tang Dynasty writer Du Mu tells of a sad scene in early April: "rains fall heavily as Qingming comes, and passers-by with lowered spirits go." Qingming Day, the traditional tomb-sweeping day, falls on April 4-6 each year. The last two lines written by Su were as follows: this day of last year/ along the Guanshan Road/ Plum Blossoms stand with drizzle, looking forlorn and miserable. Professor Zhu Juyi from Hubei Institute of Fine Arts drew two pictures as a gift sending to Xinghua Village. The first picture unfolds a scene that Du Mu asked a shepherd boy the way to Xinghua Village and the other reflects that Chen Jichang went angling looking very relaxed and leisurely when he lived a seclude life in Xinghua Village. This piece of calligraphy scroll named “No wine” was done by Y u Chenglong who was regarded as “the most honest and incorruptible officer” by the Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dyn asty, when he acceded to a governor ship in Qiting Town. This poem is: no money in my purse/ I would not drink Xinghua wine as usual/ abesetting temptation for me/ I did not sleep overnight. At that time Y u regarded Macheng Duck, Ehuang wine and soybean curd as three treasures in Xinghua Village. Ehuang wine was brewed with the spring water of Xinghua V illage. This poem clearly reflects not only good wine in Xinghua village but also Y u’s integrity and incorruptibility.Now, guests, the fields on our left are being planted with lots of peach trees, almond trees and ginkgo trees. Up till the present time, bases for growing these trees which take up a thousand mu of land have been set up across the village. On our right hand, thousands of almond trees will be planted and we can imagine how beautiful and joyous and fragrant the blossoms of almond trees will be in the future.The street we are now stepping foot on is called “Taolin Street”. This street is named for a well-known ballad which depicts a joyous scene in Xinghua Village: not far the tavern in Xinghua Village is/ luscious wine are being brewed/ a beauty is waiting in the tavern. There are 35 dwellings of Anhui Chinese home inherited from Ming and Qing Dynasies in the street, including two Joyous Farmer’s Houses and three supermarkets with characteristics. “Liu Y uanqiu” is a very interesting entertainment item here. Actually it is a swing that can hold six people. Now, guests, we can sit on the swing and enjoy the pleasure of moving up and down with six people. Have a try!In front of us is a scenic spot that delineates the orientation of the ecotourism, entitled “Tao Lin Shui Se” (meaning the beautiful scenery of the fishponds around the peach and almond trees) according to the name of Taolin Street. Three fishponds are surrounded by verdant trees and used for tourists’ angling and intoxicates tens of thousands of people in its arms with leisure and beauty. While Zhu Ziqing, who was a famous writer and wrote “Moonlight over the Lotus Pond”, feasted on the beautiful landscape in the full moonlight in Qing Hua garden, our tourists can also appreciate the charm of the scenery in Xinghua Village. Now we can have a visit to a pavilion called “San Hu Ting” in which portrays lots of animated pictures. It is said t hat Su always went angling, played chess and had heart-to-heart chat with Chen Jichang here every time he came to visit Chen in Xinghua Village. So people also call the lake as “Su’s Lake”. Opposite the lake is the fishing spot of Su. Now all the guests here can have the very opportunity go there and fish there like Su.Dear guests, we have already visited all the scenic spots in Xinghua Village. Since the further development of tourism in Xinghua Village is in full swing and the facilities of scenic spots are under construction, we, the people in Xinghua Village will continuously show warmly welcome to the comings of all the guests. Thank you!。