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The Shao-lin Monastery

Ok, ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please? Well, I see, everyone of you is in pretty good shape today, right? I guess maybe you had sweet dreams last night. And now, let me tell you a good news, that is today we are going to visit a famous tourist attraction which you have been expecting for a long time. That is The Shao-lin Monastery.

First let me give you some general ideas. The shaolin monastery was first completed in 495, during the reign of Northern Wei Dynasty. In 527, Bodhidharma, the disciple of Sakyamuni of the 28th generation came here to practice Zen creed. As it was concealed in the thick woods of the shaoshi hill, it was given the name Shaolin Monastery meaning “temple in the woods of Shaoshi Hill”. A s you know, the shaolin monastery is widely known not only for its ancient and mysterious Buddhist culture, but also for its martial arts, that is Kungfu in Chinese, which enjoys a tradition of some 2000 years. So that’s the saying “Chinese Kungfu taking the first place under the heaven” and “the best kungfu originating from shaolin monastery.” In the year 2000, the temple sightseeing zone was designated to be one of the AAAA-grade tourist attraction of China by the National Tourism Administration.

Ok, lad ies and gentlemen, we’re now approaching the scenic area of the shaolin monastery. Please take your valuable things along with you and get ready to get off the bus.

Well, here we are! Now we’re standing in front of the Front Gate Hall. Please look up at the plaque hanging above the lintel, and you’ll find the plaque bears three Chinese characters, Shaolin Si, the name of the tempel. This is said to be handwritten by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. This work is very precious because the emperor seldom wrote. Ok please follow me.

Just now, we have visited the Front Gate Hall, steles, ginkgos, and the Hall of the Heavenly Kings, and now, we are just in the principal hall in the temple, the Hall of Mahavira. This hall is enshrined with three main Buddhas in the central part. They are Sakyamuni Buddha sitting in the middle and Pharmacist Buddha of the Eastern Glazed World and Amitabha Buddha from the Western Paradise sitting on both sides. Along the gable walls, sit 18 Buddhist Arhats, who were enlightened Buddhist monks.

On both sides in front of the Hall of Mahavira, stand the Bell Tower and the Drum Tower symmetrically. They were rebuilt in 1994 used to report hours for the temple. Normally the bell is used in the morning, while the drum, in the afternoon, hence the saying “morning bell and afternoon drum”. In front of the Bell Tower is the stele called “the Stele of Li Shimin” telling the story about how the monks from the Shaolin Monastery rescued Prince Li Shimin from being pursued and attacked by Wang Shichong during the late Sui Dynasty. Li Shimin, who later became the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty wrote the inscriptions on the stele personally,and left with a signature of Shi min on the stele.

Ok please come with me, we are going to the next hall.

So now, the pavilion in front of us, not like the Zangjing ge and the Abbot’s rooms we visited just now, enjoys a moving story. It’s named Dharma’s Pavilion or Lixue Pavilion, that is “Standing in the snow” in English. It says: After Boddhi Dharma came to China, many Chinese Buddhist believers wanted to be his followers, and Shengguang was the most prominent of all of them. He always followed him whenever and wherever he went and served Dharma whole -heartedly. But Dharma didn’t agree to accept Shengguang as a di sciple. Shengguang didn’t loose heart and became even more steadfast. On a snowy night, he begged as usual with Budhidharma outside, standing in the knee-high snow. The master set forward a prerequisite: he would not meet his demand unless it would snow in red flakes. Shengguang drew out the sword and cut off his left arm and stained the snowy ground. Bodhidharma was so moved that he passed his mantle, alms bowl and musical instruments on to Shengguang and gave him a Buddhist name of Huike. He was regarded as the secend founder of the Zen sect. Emperor Qianlong wrote a phrase on a plaque in commemoration.

Alright everyone, now we are in the last hall, Pilu Hall, also called a Thousand Buddha Hall. It’s also the largest structure of the Shaolin Monastery. Th is is just the highlights of the sightseeing zone. So until now, the visit in the Shaolin Monastery is almost over. I think you may have some questions about the temple, or you want to take some photos. So, please do remember, you have half an hour. After half an hour we will gather at the Front Gate Hall, and make sure you’ll be there on time. And then we are going to the Pagoda Forest.

THANK YOU!

The longmen grottoes Good morning ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please? From your smiling faces, I know that you may have sweet dreams last night, right? Ok, I have some news even exciting, that is, today we’re going to visit the Longmen Grottoes, which you have been expecting for a long time. So now let me give you a general introduction first.

Around 13 km south of Luoyang, there are two picturesque hills confronting each other with the Yi River flowing northward between them, connected by an arched stone bridge resembling a natural gate tower. This is the right place named Longmen, where the well-known Longmen Grottoes is located. The grottoes, which earn the fame of one of the Three Treasure Houses of Stone Sculpture in China, were created over 1500 years age. The Longmen Grottoes was first known in the year 493 AD, when Emperor Xiaowen moved his capital to Luoyang from Datong, Shannxi Province, which marked the initiation of development and expanse of Buddhism in Central China. It prolongs for 1000 meters from north to south. According to the statistics conducted in recent years, there are 2300 caves and niches with over 100000 Buddhist figures. In addition, more than 2800 tablet inscriptions and some 40 Buddhist pagodas were

preserved in or out of the caves.

Now, we’ve got to the grottoes. Please get off the bus.

Here is the Qianxi Temple. It was built in the early Tang Dynasty around 640 AD. It has altogether 7 Buddhist statues inside, of which, Buddha Amitabha is sitting in the central with 2of his favorite disciples, 2 Bodhisattvas, and 2 Heavenly Kings.

Please come with me. Now we are in front of the Bin yang Caves. The Bin yang Caves consist 3 large caves, the North, the Middle and the South caves. The Mid and the South Bin yang Caves were built under Emperor Xuanwu for practicing the merits and virtues for his diseased parents, late Emperor Xiaowen and late Empress Dowager Wenzhao in 500 AD. While the North Bin yang cave was added for the late Emperor Xuanwu by a eunuch in the palace named Liu Tang in 508AD.

In the West Hill of Longmen, there are several “the most” caves to feast your eyes. Just now, we visited the Ten-thousand Buddha Cave with 15000 Buddhist images, which has the most Buddha images, and the Lotus Cave with 2cm-high Buddha images, which are the tiniest Buddha images. And now, we’ve come to another “most”, the Fengxian Temple. So what highlights can we see here? I’ll you.

One day in 655AD, Empress Dowager Wu Zetian cried in the palace. Emperor Gaozong asked her why she was so unhappy. She said: “Do you think I am beautiful?” the Emperor answered: “Of course, you are the most beautiful lady under heaven!” the Empress said: “but sooner of later I would be ugly. Beauty cannot last long.” The Emperor Gaozong at once made the best artist in the palace paint a beautiful portrait of Empress Wu. But she still cried, she said: “the portrait is beautiful, but after hundreds of years, it will rot and disappear.” The Emperor Gaozong suddenly saw the light. He issued an edict that a stone statue must be carved at once. Hearing this edict, Empress Wu was so pleased that she donated 20000 strings of cash coins for her cosmetics and also attended the consecration of the chief Buddha when the construction was thoroughly completed in order to shortening the time of the project. So the main Buddha Losana was carved according to Empress Wu’s appearance. That is the legend. Now we see, the Buddha Losana is 17.14m high with its head 4m, each ear 1.9m, and flanked by 2 symmetrical disciples, Bodhisattvas, Heavenly Kings, and Great Men of Strength on both sides. The chief Buddha gives you an impression of dignified manner, magnificent looking, wise, farsighted and kind nature. Looking around the overall arrangement, we would rather say that the Fengxian Temple is a scene of a grand imperial court than a spot of Buddhism. Generally speaking, the Fengxian Temple is the most magnificent and artistic among all the shrines of the Tang Dynasty and as well as an example of success in integrating politics with Buddhism in ancient China.

Ok everyone, now you can take photos here. Or you can ask questions that you don’t understand. After 15 minutes we will gather right here. See you then

Longmen Grottoes tourguide word

Hello, Confucius said, has the friend to come from the distantplace, delight. Today, I am precisely have this kind of feelings toreceive fellow friends the arrival.

Luoyang, is the historical famous city which the Chinese and foreignis well-known. She has glorious historical, bright cultural and themultitudinous cultural relic historical site. In order to cause fellowguests at Luoyang period can has the further

understanding to thisancient city historical culture and the historical site, is riding ina carriage the scenic spot visit on the way, I Luoyang's history andthe Longmen Grottoes approximate situation, will make the simpleintroduction to everybody. Luoyang is located west Henan Province, theYellow River middle reaches Nanan.

Because of is situated at northshore the Luohe river to acquire fame, Italy is positive for the Luoriver water.

Luoyang in the history once was the city which the multitudinousdynasty founds a capital, is known to be "nine faces the ancientcapital". In this more than 1,000 years historical perpetual flow,Luoyang once the long time took Chinese the politics, cultural, theeconomical center. Today, we visit the world famous Longmen

Grottoesthen are one of multitudinous cultural relic historical sites.

The Longmen Grottoes, in the Luoyang Nanjiao's Dragon Gate mountainpass place, are apart from the urban district 12.5 kilometers, too and19 years opens cutting from Northern Wei Dynasty, up to now some morethan 1,500 years history, it with the Dunhuang Mogao Caves, the Datongcloud hillock rock cave, together has composed our country famousthree big rock caves art treasure house.

Dragon Gate, in the Spring and Autumn Period Warring States timecalled "Iraq Xiangshan (Dongshan) (Xishan) the thing confrontswith Longmen Mountain, the Iraqi water from the average, has formed agrand gate Latter because is in the Sui and Tang dynasties empiresouth, also calls Dragon Gate.

So-called "rock cave", is the hole which opens cutting on the cliffcliff is straight, perhaps natural forms the pit hole, with hides orstores food and the thing. As early as in primitive society, thepeople have used the natural pit hole description zoomorphism and thelife scene, however by the phenomenon appears and the

placewhich as the buddhist, the clergy worships buddha and leads a piouslife, actually is starts Buddhism after ancient India to appear.

As a result of wooded mountain lonesome and quiet, mystical, rock cavewarm in winter and cool in summer, the rock cave uses the templeconvenience according to Shan Diaozao which the bricks and stonesbuilds to be more durable than, therefore appeared the collectionbuilding, the drawing, the vulture in ancient India has

chiselled artto accomplish This kind of art, does missionarywork the activity along with the clergy to spread to our country theborder area and the inland, with our country national characteristicsand the traditional each kind of artistic technique style fusionconnection, becomes our country one kind of unique carving, thecolored drawing on pottery craft. We must look today the LongmenGrottoes are one of in our country multitudinous temple grouptreasures.

The Longmen Grottoes group carving, the advantage which said besidesfront, but also has the noticeable natural condition. The Iraqi waterboth banks cliff all belonged to the Paleozoic Era cambrian period andthe Ordovician discipline lime rock layer. Its lithical hard, thestructure is close, not suitably makes decent and the big area suits very much to the artistic statue, compares with other granulatedsubstance rocks, has is suitable for preserved the advantage.

After Luoyang Longmen Grottoes opening cutting is continues Gansu theDunhuang rock cave, the Shanxi Datong's cloud hillock rock cave anlarge-scale group which opens cutting by the imperialfamily, constructs to Northern Wei Dynasty too with the year,successively has been through repeatedly the Eastern Wei

Dynasty,Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Northern ZhouDynasty, Sui and Tang dynasties, five generations delays until theQing Dynasty. Around more than 400 years. Large-scale, effectivenessbuilds calculates roughly about for 150 years, separately appears inNorthern Wei Dynasty (occupies for more than 40 years) (toapproximately compose about for 110 years) with Sui and Tang dynastiesthe time. The Longmen Grottoes niche for a statue ofBuddha, the statue spread all over along Iraqi water both banks in theDragon Gate thing two mountains on, the north and south longamount to 1 kilometer.

Fellow friends, we approximately use 1.5 - 2 hours time at the LongmenGrottoes visit, in this, our each minute may see to 1,000 大大小小images of Buddha. According to 1962 Dragon Gate preservation ofcultural relics statistics, two mountains extant holes niche more than2,100. Size statue 100,000, pagoda 40, statue prefatory remarksinscribed text approximately more than 2,870 blocks. Statue byNorthern

Wei Dynasty (Eastern Wei Dynasty, Northern Qi Dynasty), Sui,Tang primarily. Northern Wei Dynasty approximately composes about 30%,Sui and Tang dynasties account for about 60%. The Longmen Grottoesbiggest statue for presents first temple Lu Shenei the Buddha. TheLongmen Grottoes group, the majority of

centralisms in Iraqi waterWest bank on, including 7 large-scale caverns. Because of theDragon Gate Dongshan's rock layer compared to Xishan's thin, theinconvenient vulture chisels the large-scale statue. In the LongmenGrottoes, the Northern Wei Dynasty time cavern has representatively isin the ancient positive hole, Binyang the hole, the lotus flower holeand so on. The Sui 代作 representative is south Binyang the hole.The Tang Dynasty has the representative cavern to include: Dives norththe brook temple, Binyang the hole, Wan Fudong, presents first thetemple and so on. The Longmen Grottoes statue, not only is all previous dynastiesworking people and the artist infinite wisdom and the blood and sweatcrystallization, also is rare and beautiful flowers which externalcultural and our country culture union becomes. These carving is undertaking for god Buddha and the king statue mission,

actuallyboldly broke through the religion and the Confucianism "the ritual"the fetter. Melted the massive real life in the carving process,living has displayed each kind of character statue touching scene. Ifjoyful, gentle, dignified, acts with constraint, the pain, down totook to high immeasurable control Buddha dignified solemn

andrespectful, coerces waits on the person and reverently provides forthe person to be tranquil, does not have one is not the artists to thereality "the person" the profound observation, unifies the expressionmeans using the realism and the

romanticism, performs highly tosummarize the centralized result. Really it may be said is true tolife which the Buddha and the person displays in carving art

general,lifelike. But forms in one's mind the layout integrity, imposingmanner

concentrating on, overall solid powerful, disposition changediverse, facial expression vivid lifelike, the clothes grain linesmooth is exquisite and so on, was in 1100 in the artistic practicetradition foundation, the massive models external culture, the

resultwhich in the technique, the style the careful creation, the massiveinnovations, the breakthrough tradition, sedulously managed. The richtalent ancient times artisan and the carving design artist, facing thebare sheer precipice, was utilizing simple chiselling, carved the sopalatial magnificent careful community image of Buddha, this

inat that time the productive forces and under the production toolextremely backward condition, truly made one sigh for

The Longmen Grottoes look like richly colorful, the comprehensive bigmuseum, for research and so on our country history, religion, culture,art, medicine, has provided the extremely precious material.

Good, fellow friends, we arrived the Longmen Grottoes, now askseverybody to alight, walks with me, visits the rock cave. In in thevisit rock cave process, I give fellow friends to explain several maincaverns with emphasis which the Longmen Grottoes plants

Hello everyone. Today I will show you around White Horse Temple.

White Horse Temple is located 12 km away from Luoyang City. Established by the Han Dynasty in 68 AD when Buddhism started to spread, this temple is believed to be the first Buddhist temple built by the government in China. According to historical records, Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 - 220 AD) once sent his minister on a diplomatic mission to western region to learn about Buddhism. After finishing study, they came back with two eminent Indian dignitary monks - She

Moteng and Zhu Falan, and a white horse carried the sutra and the figure of Buddha. In order to memorialize the contribution of the white horse, Emperor Ming has bulit the the temple and named it White Horse Temple.White Horse Temple was regarded as the "originating court" and the "cradle of Chinese Buddhism" by the Buddhist

disciples. Since its establishment, White Horse Temple has experienced vicissitudes of centuries. It was rebuilt for several times, in which the restoration during the reign of Emperor Wu Zetian was especially notable in its large scale.

Today's White Horse Temple is a rectangle courtyard facing south. The gate of the White Horse Temple was built in Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644) and it is three arches side by side. Covering a total area of 40, 000 square meters, the temple mainly consists of Tianwang Hall, Great Buddha Hall, Daxiong Hall, Jieyin Hall, Qingliang Terrace and Pilu Pavilion, which are all distributing along the north-south central axis

Luoyang lies in the west of Henan Province,crossing two banks of middle reach of Yellow River and is one of the first historical cities recognized by the Council of State and famous ancient capital of some dynasties.it covers 8 counties,1 city and 6 districts with 1.5 rnillion population and total 152 thousand k㎡,of which,the urban area is 544km2.Luoyang, used to be a well-known city with long history,is nowadays an energetic and charming city.

Luoyang is a saint city in respect of the historical and cuitural background.it is one of the first historical cities recognized by the Council of State,and one of seven famous ancient capitals,which had been the capitalof 13 dynasties, including the Xia Dynasty,Shang Dynasty,Eastern Zhou Dynasty,Eastern Han Dynasty,Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty With more than 4000 years city history and over 1500 years of capital history,Luoyang is a city once to be the earliest capital,most dynasties experienced and longest history.it is also one of the key origins of China'S civilization,and for instance,the long lasting Heluo culture representing with the MAP OF THE YELLOW RlVER AND BOOK OF THE LUO RlVER,origin of Taoist school,primary

propogadadizing place of Buddhism,and flourishing place of Confucian school.

Meanwhile,some important ancient scientific and technical inventions are made in Luoyang,like papefmaking technique, printing technique,seismoscope and armillary sphere,etc.whi1e some ancient politicans,ideologists,scientists and litterateurs have made great achievements enabling them eave their names in history,such as Ban Gu,Du Pu,Bai Juyi and Sima Guang.At the same time,Luoyang is a1so the origin of

surname of the Chinese nation,and is so becoming one of the hot spot of the domestic and oversea Chinese to search for their ancestors.ln the brilliant Twenty-Five Dynasties History,Luoyang had been mentioned for 3549 times,averaging one time every less than 8700 words.it could be said that Luoyang is a miniature of China’s ancient history.

Luoyang is a famous and excellent tourism city with 21state-level key heritage sites,and more than 640 other level key heritage sites,including over 400 thousand pieces of unearthed relics being found.Longmen Grottoes is one of three prominent grottoes in China and has been listed as the world cuituralheritage;Bairna Temple is the first royaiternple buiit after the Bud dhism is brought into China and is called as the origin of Buddhism and ancestor house;Tianzijialiu Museum,Guanlin,Han Emperor Guangwu Mausoleum,and the heritages as the capital of Xia Dynasty,Shang Dynasty,Zhou Dynasty,Han Dynasty, Wei Dynasty,Sui and Tang Dynasty are all scattered in this city.These heritages make this city more splendid end show the essence of history.Now,the Silk Road and Great Canal is applying for the world cultural heritage.Luoyang has graceful mountains and river and beautiful natural scenes,among which,there are more than 2Ostate or province levelnatural scenes,1 Class 5-A spots, 10Class 4-A spots,and 9Class 3-A spots.The five urban forest parks

of LongmenShan,ZhouShan,QiShan, Xiaolangdi and Sui &Tang Dynasty Heritage set each other off beautiful,while four rivers,Yihe River,Luohe River,Chanhe River and Jianhe River cross here.ln particular,the 16km long Luopu Park crosses the city creating a fantastic scene like a picture besetting in the center of the city.The

Nanhu music spring in new zone has many world top crowns,such as the longest digital control spring-369m,largest coverage comprehensive water landscaping work 120thousand ㎡,first hightech water shape design,most precise digital control positioning system,and the longest and highest frequency conversion array.

This spring is an integral of water,light,power,color and appreciation value,further perfecting the urban area of Luoyang.The over 300k㎡water coverage of Xiaolangdi Reservoir of Yellow River shows the beautiful lake,splendid mountains and scattered islands.BaiyunShan Mountain in Songxian County is awarded as one of the top ten beautiful places in China.Xin’andaimeiShan Mountain is listed as the world nature park.Except those,the Longyuwan Bay,as the forest oxygen bar,JiguanShan solution cavity,named as the First Cavity of North China,Chongdugou Canal,called river town of North China,Shenlingzai village,town of bamboo are also the wonderful spots for the traveling in Luoyang.You can enjoy spectacular mountains,birds singing and flow fragrance.These large-scale,high taste nature scenes form the basis of the landscape garden city,which will enable the tourism become the most potential industry of Luoyang along with the precious historical and cuitural background.

Luoyang is also a city of peony,which has over 1500years history in planting and the peony here is well-known since the ancient.Now,there are nearly thousand varieties of peony in Luoyang with more than 30thousand mu planting and viewing area,forming the pattern that peony’s successive blossoming in urban,suburb and southern mountain area.

Luoyang is the city with the most complete varieties,best flower nature and

up-to-date planting technology.ln April every year,the blossoming of peony overflows the city and decorates Luoyang like paradise.Until now,we have successfully held 24 sessions of Peony Fair,which has become a namecard of Luoyang so that the world may know Luoyang further.

Luoyang has sound environment for tourism and convenient traffic facilities,which lies in the middle of China since the ancient and is called as the hinterland of nine provinces and thoroughfare of ten provinces.Luoyang is the important traffic hinge in

the middle and western area,the key pivot of Eurasian Continental Bridge,and the eastern start of the ancient Silk Road,where is the interjunction of

Lianyungang-Lanzhou and Jiaozuo-ZhiCheng Trunk Railways,and five expressways including Lianyungang-Huocherlgand Erlianhaote-Guangzhou etc.,and the cross of city ring expressway and trunk roads in southern mountain area-Luoyang Airport is Class Ⅱairport with best obstruction clearance criteria in China,covering the domestic and overseas airlines such as Luoyang to Hong Kong,Beijing,Shanghai ,Qingdao ,Chongqing or Guangzhou.

Now,there are 63 star level hotels,including 29 of which is above 3-star;there are 109 travel agencies and 9 of them are international agencies.

Over recent Years,we have made great effort in carrying out the strategy of Flourishing Luoyang in respect of lndustry, Tourism and Science &Education,and

achieved high increase in the overall economic strength. ln 2006,the total productive value and total financial income reached up to RMB133billion and RMB15.45billion respectively.The tourism had received 28million visitors, 30.5% increase comparing to the last year,among which, 210 thousand are domestic visitors,representing 52.7% increase.ln that year,the total revenue of tourism industry was

RMB13.6billion,increasing 29.8%,including USD67million foreign exchange,an increase of 59.4%.We,in particular,depend on our blessed tourism resource and try our best to build the tourism brand of Thousand Years Emperor Capital,Peony City,Start Point of Silk Road and Brilliant LuoYang Scene,and construct the most livable city of China.To this end,LuoYang has been successively awarded China's Excellent Tourism City,National Garden City,National Advanced City in Making Civilized City,Most Charming City of China,Favorite Chinese Tourism City by European Tourists or

like,and become one of important destinations for the historical and cultural travel and the holiday travel.

As described by the great historian Sima Guang in North Song Dynasty History of ancient China is all shown in Luoyang. The centuries-old history and brilliar1t cultural background gives the splendid history of Luoyang,and the dramatic changing Luoyang in nowadays is unfolding her glamour and elegance to the world.Luoyang wil1 look forward to your presence with the wonderful environment and quality service for experiencing the history and culture,enjoy the enchanting scene and peony and jointly create the brilliant future