南京中山陵英文导游词

南京中山陵英文导游词My dear friends ,when you come to a city, you probably want to visit the most fam ous scenic spots of special interest. Nanjing has many place of historic interests and has been capital for six mmended him that his place is good for fengshui, because it faces the plain and is backed up by green mountains as its protective screen. On March 31, 1912 Mr. Un resigned as a political compromise for the sake of the union of the N orth China and the South China. One day of the early April, he went hunting with Hu Hanmin around the Piety Tomb of Ming Dynasty. They took a rest in the place wehre the Mausoleum is located now. Mr. Sun looked around and said ly the best representative of these boulevards. Along both sides of the ers long and dozens of meters wide. The whole design of the mausoleum gives prominence to Chinese traditional style, grand, solemn and specific. In order to embody the greatness of Mr. Sun, the Mausoleum followed the exampl e of ancient mausoleums and was built against mountains and the coffin chamber was placed at the top of the mountain that is 160 meters high. In addition, the pla nts of the Mausoleum are symmetric, which make it feel more solemn. Now, pleaselook forward to the north, along the hillside ,situate the mausoleum Gate, the Stel e Pavilion, the Memorial Hall and the coffin chamber right behind. The pines,cypress es, ginkgoes and maples on the both sides of the road represent Mr. Sun` s revolu tionary spirit and lofty quality. They take the place of statues and stone beasts whi ch usually flanked the sacred road in ancient times. Among the trees, cedar is one of the ing. Now, although the circumstances have changed,the two holes always remind Chinese people not to forget the national humiliation. Not far away, there are two bronze dings in ancient style. They are presented by Mr. Sun` s son Sun Ke and his family. Ascending the steps, now we have reached the top of the platform. Here we ca n have a bird-view of what it is in the distance. The Memorial Hall is the half way up to the mountain and there are altogether 392 steps covered if you count from t he archway of Fraternity. The vertical distance is 70 meters but the plane distance i s 700 meters. If you count the steps from the Stele Pavilion, the number of steps i s 290. In order to avoid monotone ,the architect divided the 392 steps into 10 part s and every part has a platform and there are totally 10 such platforms. More marv elous, if you look up from the bottom, you can see that the steps extend to the to p without stop and you cant see any platform. But if you look down from the top, you only see the platforms. The number of the steps, 392, is not a random numbe r, it implied the number of Chinese population at that time-392 million. Now we are in front of the Memorial Hall and the coffin Chamber. They are the major parts of the Mausoleum. The construction of these two building was supervis ed then by Lu Yanzhi, the gift young designer. If is when he was doing these two building he died of cancer. So when the later generation mention him they would o ften say, he whole structure i s a blend of the East and the West, representing the well blended doctrine of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. In the middle is the sitting statue of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in a robe. It is 4.6 meters high and the bottom is 2.1 meters wide. It was sculpted by the famous French sc ulptor Paul Arinsky whose native country is Poland . He was entrusted by the com mittee of Dr. Sun Yat-sen` s Funeral for sculpting it. He chose the Italian marble a s the material for the statue . In 1930, the sculpture was sent to the Mausoleum fr om Paris. Its total cost was 1.5 million francs. The sic relief below are pictures depi cting Mr. Sun` s life and revolutionary activities. Passing through the Hall, we have come to the Coffin Chamber. There are two doors that you need to get through. The outer door consists of two American-made safety door leafs which are made of copper. The nails on them and the mysteriou s beasts on the copper loops are typical of traditional Chinese. The horizontal inscri ption board was engraved with Sun` s coffin was sent to Pukou from Beijing by Jinpu Railway, and on June 1 it reached the Mausoleum. Aft er the Grand Ceremony of Feng` an, the coffin and the remains were put into the pit and used cement to concrete it .The bottom of the tomb is granite. Under the c opper coffin, there is a specially made wooden pad and enclosing the coffin is a we ll-sealed crystal box. After the breakout of the Resistance War against Japan, KMT government planed to transport the remains to Chongqing and at the end of the lib eration war, Chang Kai-shek planed to transport it to Taiwan this time. Because it was not a easy job to take the coffin out and the work might do damage to the r emains as well, this plan was fiercely attacked by the engineering field and the left wing of the KMT. At last Chang gave up the plan. So the remains have stayed he re safely up to today. Passing through the door in the back wall of the square outside you will arrive a t the Mausoleum Park. The back wall of the park is a