英语周报2016-2017学年高二外研版选修七：Module 5 教

Module 5 Ethnic Culture I．模块教学目标
II. 目标语言
III. 教材分析与教材重组
1.教材分析
本模块以Ethnic Culture为话题，以听、说、读、写等多种方式谈论了我
国云南省纳西等少数民族的秀美风光和传统文化。

我国是一个多民族的国家，而云南省又是是我国少数民族最多的省份。

丽江地区是一块神奇、美丽而宁静的土地。

通过本模块的教学不仅要让学生了解风景秀丽，历史古老，民风淳朴，文化灿烂的丽江，更重要的是培养学生热爱祖国大好河山，热爱各族人民，奋发努力，刻苦学习，建设我们伟大中华的高尚情操。

1.1INTRODUCTION Vocabulary and speaking 以小组交流的方式来完成三个任
务性的活动。

一是介绍你所了解的云南省；二是描述图中傣族女子的着
装；三是说出你所知道的云南少数民族的情况。

1.2READING AND VOCABULARY（1）READING部分以一个大学刚毕业的名叫
SIMON WAKEFIELD的日记形式真实的记述了他对云南美丽的丽江地区大
研古城的美好印象。

这里有圣洁的玉龙雪山，滔滔的金沙江，古朴，典
雅，幽静的纳西风格的民居鳞次梯比，清清的溪流穿城过巷，一座座小
桥如彩虹横跨小溪，排排垂柳在清风中摇弋。

无数小巷弯弯曲曲，纵横
交错，晃若迷宫。

古城中店铺林立，各式商品琳琅满目，尤其是那晶亮
闪光的各式铜器及花样翻新，款式新颖的各色皮革时装，吸引着众多的
游客。

更为令人难于忘怀的是哪深邃悠扬享誉世界的纳西古乐！怎不令
人留恋忘返。

1.3GRAMMER（1）（v-ed form as adverbials）通过相关的语法练习，旨在使
学生学习理解运用过去分词作状语的用法。

1.4SPEAKING部分要求学生通过小组讨论，表述他们所学过的丽江和纳西族，
并表达自己的观点。

在理解课文的前提提高同学们的语言表达能力。

1.5 VOCABULARY AND LISTENING该部分有三项任务：Task 1 小组合作问答；
Task 2听一个去西双版纳的旅游的对话而后排序；Task 3 再听，验证判断是否正确。

遵循听力能力培养的规律，提高学生听力水平。

1.6 GRAMMER（2）（Phrasal verbs）旨在使学生理解运用几组短语动词。

1.7 EVERYDAY ENGLISH让学生通过完成对话来学习有关日常用语。

1.8 SPEAKING AND FUNCTION (Ways of asking for more information) 设计了三
个任务性活动，以小组合作方式来学习征求更多信息的各种表达。

1.9 READING AND VOCABULARY（2）让学生了解我国另一个少数民族白族（the
Bai ethnic group）丰富学生有关少数民族的知识，巩固有关词汇。

1.10 WRITNG 根据提供的信息写一篇有关我国少数民族基诺族的短文，学会
运用有关民族文化的词汇和表达。

1.11 READING PRACTICE提供一篇阅读材料并配了七个练习。

1.12 CULTURE CORNER 是一篇有关北美的印第安人和澳大利亚的土著人简
介，有助于学生的知识面的拓宽和相关词汇的扩充，使学生对有关民族的词汇和表达更熟悉。

1.13 TASK 通过对各种信息源的查找资料作好准备，让同学们在小组讨论的
基础上，写出自己感兴趣的一个少数民族的概况。

1.14 MODULE FILE 部分简要总结了本模块所学的重点词汇、短语、语法、重
要句型及日常用语。

2.教材重组
2.1口语课将INTRODUCTION、SPEAKING 和EVERYDAY ENGLISH三部分形成
一节口语课。

因学生不熟悉该话题，故第一课时给学生充分索积有关材料之后，激活相关话题词汇和信息，进行有效的口语训练为阅读课，积累话题词汇和有关知识。

2.2阅读课READING AND VOCABULARY (1) 和(2)两部分整合为一体，设计成
一节阅读课。

2.3 听说课将教材中的LISTENING AND VOCABULARY、SPEAKING AND
FUNCTION和WORKBOOK中Listening a整合为一节听说课。

2.4 综合课（1）将READING PRACTICE 和CULTURAL CORNER二者整合而成第
一节综合课。

2.5综合课（2）把WRITING 和TASK 与WORKBOOK 中的Reading and Writing
整合为第二节综合课。

3. 课程设计与课时分配（经教材分析，本模块可分为六课时完成）
1st Period Speaking
2nd Period Reading
3rd Period Listening & speaking
4th Period Extensive Reading
5th Period Writing
IV．分课时教案
The First Period Speaking
Teaching goals教学目标
1. Target language目标语言
a. 重点词汇和短语
ethnic minority, border, capital, province, region, share, Tibet, rainforest, diverse, belt, brightly-coloured, costume, native, silver, tasty, apparently, gorgeous
b. 重点句式
What do you reckon …
I guess …
How come …
2. Ability goals能力目标
Enable the students to talk about the province of Yuannan.
3. Learning ability goals学能目标
Help the students learn how to talk about Yuannan.
Teaching important points教学重点
Teach the students to learn more about Yunnan.
Teaching difficult points教学难点
How to help the students to set off an animated discussion about the topic. Teaching methods教学方法
A map of China, discussion and pair work.
Teaching aids教具准备
A computer and a projector
Teaching procedure and ways教学过程与方式
Step I Lead-in
Teacher goes into the classroom with a mysterious smile.
T: Boys and girls. I am very glad to tell you a good piece of news. Can you guess what it is? (Stop for a moment) You can’t guess it! Next week we are going to make a social investigation for a week.
S: Really? Great! But where are we going? What are we going to investigate? Do we have to write findings report?
Show a map of China to the whole class and ask some students to find the target place.
T: OK. Next week we are going to make a social investigation about ethnic culture. And now you must know where we should go. Right. We are going to Yunnan. Why are we going to Yunnan to make this investigation? Can you guess?
S: Because Yuanan is the home to 25 ethnic minorities, most diverse region of China. T: Right. So we are going to Yunnan. Now you should make some preparation for this investigation.
Step II Introduction
Let the students look at the map of China and then ask some questions.
T: Boys and girls! Who can tell me where Yunnan Province is?
S: Yunnan Province is in the southwest of China.
T: Do you know the meaning of the name of Yunnan?
S: Yunnan means beautiful clouds in the south. How wonderful the name is.
Let the students look at the information on page 57. Then let them work in pairs.
S1: Geographical Location and Administrative Area Division
Yunnan borders on Guizhou province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the east, Sichuan province in the north, Tibetan Autonomous Region in the northwest, Myanmar in the west and Laos, Vietnam in the south. Geographically, Yunnan is connected with the rest of the Asian Continent in the north and faces the Southeast Asian Peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean in the south. Because of its geographical location, the Southeast monsoon and Southwest monsoon as well as weather conditions in the Tibetan Plateau affect Yunnan. As a result, Yunnan has a diversified natural environment.
Of the 4060-kilometer border Yunnan shares with its neighboring countries, the Sino-Myanmar section runs 1997 kilometers, Sino-Laotian section 710 kilometers and the Sino-Vietnamese section 1353 kilometers. Along this borderline there are
8 prefectures and ethnic minority autonomous prefectures and 26 border cities
and counties. Yunnan has long been a gateway of China to countries in Southeast Asia. There are over 20 roads leading to these countries. People of 15 ethnic groups in China and their folks of the same ethnic origin in other countries live respective on each sides of the border. Yunnan lies in close vicinity to Thailand, Cambodia, Bangladesh and India.
Yunnan ranks the 8th in the whole country in terms of its territory which is 394000 square kilometers (1864.8 kilometers from the east to the west and 900 kilometers from the south to the north), covering 4.1 % of the whole territory of China. Of the total area of the province, about 84% are rugged mountains, 10 are
highland and hills and 6% is lowland and valleys. While Yunnan is at an average elevation of about 2000 meters, the elevation reaches 6740 meters at the highest in contrast with an elevation of 76.4 meters at the lowest.
Altogether Yunnan Province has 17 prefectures and cities, 127 counties(towns), among which are 8 ethnic minority autonomous prefectures(Chuxiong Yi Nationality Autonomous Prefecture, Honghe Hani and Yi Nationality autonomous Prefecture, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Nationality Prefecture, Xishuangbanna Thai Nationality Autonomous Prefecture, Dali Baizu Nationality Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Thai and Jingpo Nationality Autonomous Prefecture, Nujiang Lisu Nationality Autonomous Prefecture, Diqing Tibetan Nationality Autonomous Prefecture), 7 prefectures (Zhaotong, Qujing, Yuxi, Simao, Baoshan, Lijiang, Lincang), and two cities directly under the jurisdiction of the provincial government (Kunming and Dongchuan). There are 8 prefectures and 27 counties bordering on foreign countries.
S2: Population and Ethnic Groups
By the end of 1996, the total population in Yunnan Province had reached 40.41 million. Yunnan has an ethnic minority population of more than 13.6 million-the second largest in China next to Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is one of the three provinces(Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou) in China whose ethnic minority population exceeds 10 million. Of the 55 minority groups in China, 51 inhabit in Yunnan. There are 25 ethnic minority groups living in compact communities, and their respective population 5000. Of these minority groups 15 are indigenous to Yunnan, ranking the first place in China in terms of the number of indigenous ethnic minority groups, namely the Bai, the Hani, the Thai, the Lisu, the Wa, the Lahu, the Naxi, the Jingpo, the Bulang, the Pumi, the Nu, the De'ang, the Dulong and the Jinuo. Yunnan is a land of ethnic diversity. As its ethnic policies set by the State are vigorously implemented in the province, its people of different groups live and work happily and harmoniously together, ensuring ethnic unity and social stability
on this frontier land.
It is reported that the population of Yunnan is approximately 42 million in 2003. There are 25 registered minorities, including the Zhuang, Hui, Yi, Miao, Tibetans, Mongols, Yao, Bai, Hani, Dai, Lisu, Lahu, Wa, Naxi, Jingpo, Bulang, Pumi, Nu, Achang, Benglong, Jinuo, and Dulong. By the end of 1996, the population of Yunnan reached 40,415,000, of whom the Han took up 66.82 percent with a total population of 25,882,000; ethnic minorities took up 33.18 percent with a total population of 12,853,000. Among the 16 sub-provincial prefectures, Qujing has the largest population and Diqing the smallest.
S3: Mineral Resources
Known as the "Kingdom of Nonferrous Metals", Yunnan boasts huge reserves of various minerals. Of 142 minerals already discovered, the reserve of 92 kinds have been proved, distributing in over 1274 mines. The reserve of 54 minerals are listed among China's top ten biggest reserves. Yunnan's superiority of minerals stands on the reserves of nonferrous metals: the reserves of aluminum, lead, zinc and tin are the biggest in China, the reserve of copper and nickel are in the third place.
Yunnan also abounds in other mineral resources: it has rich reserves of iron, manganese, titanium, chromium and vanadium among other ferrous metals; of noble metals and rare metals, the reserves of indium, thallium and cadmium are in the first place in Chine; its reserves of silver, germanium and platinum are in the second place in the whole country. As for energy resources, its coal reserves are in the seventh place in China; and for industrial chemicals, it is the tenth in the country in reserves of phosphorus, salt, manganese, solvate, iron pyrite, calcium carbide and serpentine. Based on nonferrous metals, mining industry in Yunnan flourishes with substantial development in mining, ore dressing and smelting industries, making Yunnan an important production base of tin, copper, lead, zinc and phosphorus in China.
S4: Biological Resources
Known as the "Kingdom of Flora", Yunnan boasts the biggest variety of plants in China. Almost all the species of plants that grow in tropical, subtropical, temperate, and even frigid zones can be found in Yunnan. Of the approximately 30000 species of higher plants in the whole country Yunnan claims 274 families, 2076 genuses and 17000 species among which approximately 10000 are tropical and subtropical plants, 2000 are medicinal herbs and 400 are spices from 69 families.
In addition, there are 2100 species of ornamental plants of which over 1500 are floriferous and quite a few of them are rare species, indigenous only to Yunnan.
Because of its unique climate and geographical environment, Yunnan is home to wide variety of wild animals: this marvelous fauna kingdom breeds and multiplies animals of various species living in frigid, temperate and tropical climates including 1737 species of vertebrate, 10000 species of insects. Among the vertebrates there are 300 species of beasts, 793 species of birds, 143 species of reptiles, 102 species of amphibians and 366 species of freshwater fish. In fish category, 5 families, 40 genuses and 249 species are indigenous to Yunnan. For the animals and birds, 46 species are listed as state-protected like golden monkey, Asian elephant and 154 species as under second-grade protection. In Yunnan, various rare animals and plants are carefully protected and rationally utilized. Tobacco, rubber, tea, sugar cane, medicinal herbs and tropical fruits are produced on a large-scale. Flower, coffee and spices production are on the rise.
S5: Energy resources
Yunnan abounds in energy resources. The prospect for developing hydro-power looks extremely good. Covering six water systems, Yunnan has over 600 rivers and lakes which provide an annual water supply of 222.2 billion cubic meters and an estimated hydropower reserve of 103.64 million kilowatts which is capable of generation 394.45 KWH of electricity annually. In the development of its hydro-power resource, Yunnan has many advantages, including:(a) there are high possibilities of setting up large-sized as well as giant hydro-power stations;(b)
there is a high rate of success in identifying projects since there is and ample room for selection; (c) the construction scale of reservoirs are relatively small with limited inundating areas resulting in higher technological and economical indicators. The development of Yunnan's abundant hydropower resources is progressing as planned. Built on the Lancang River with an installed capacity of
1.25 million kilowatts, the Manwan Hydropower Station is now in operation.
Construction is under way for the 1.35 million kilowatt Dachaoshan Power Station.
In addition, Yunnan also boasts great prospects for the development and utilization of light energy, wind power and geothermal energy. With its coal reserve ranking the ninth biggest in China, Yunnan is one of the major coal producers in south China.
S6: Economic and Social Developm ent
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and in particular since the adoption of the policy of reform and opening up, Yunnan has under gone rapid economic and social development. Along with the successful implementation of three Five-Year Plans, Yunnan has gone through great changes and substantially increased its economic strength.With an economic growth rate of about 10 % for over 10 consecutive years, Yunnan's GDP reached 147 billion Yuan in 1996 to jump to the 17th place in China from its 22nd place in 1980. Infrastructures like energy, telecommunication and transportation continue to improve and there is marked acceleration in the industrialization process. During the Eighth Five-Year Plan period(1991-1995), the gross value of industrial output grew at an average rate of 13.7 % annually effecting and increase of 8 percentage point in GDP of the whole province. A rational distribution of the economy is taking shape with the readjustment of industrial structure and the emergence of some new backbone industries. Agriculture continues to grow, consolidating and reinforcing its position as the foundation of the economy. Sustainable development in rural
economy has brought about continuous bumper harvests which reached 12.46 million tons in 1996.
Yunnan is opening up to Southeast Asia and to the world, guided by the opening-up policy of the Central Government and with Southwest China as its support, Kunming city as its center and the open border cities as its frontier.
Foreign trade is booming in Yunnan. By the year 1996, the total volume of Yunnan's imports and exports had reached 2.059 billion U.S. dollars. By then, there were 1450 foreign-invested enterprises which attracted 850 million U.S.
dollars of actual foreign investment. For 4 consecutive years since 1993, Yunnan Province has successfully hosted the China Kunming Export Commodities Fair in cooperation with other provinces in Southwest China. With strengthened Lancang-Mekong Subregional economic cooperation, Yunnan province is becoming a gateway and frontier of Southwest China to the outside world.
Alongside the burgeoning economy, living standards and the quality of life have been substantially improved for people of all ethnic nationalities in Yunnan with continued development in education, science and culture. There are now over 170 scientific research institutes and a group of high-level scientific researchers in Yunnan, and there are now 26 institutes of higher learning and 27000 primary and middle schools. Students in these universities(schools) reach 6 million. 97.4%of the children in the province go to school at school age. There are now over 6400 health institutions of various kinds of which 1540 are located in rural areas, providing intensive medical and health care for most people in Yunnan.
Yunnan is emerging from a poor, backward frontier province into a well-to-do province in China. Yunnan is well-posed for the advent of the 21st century.
S7: About Capital city – Kunmimg
Kunming city is the provincial capital of Yunnan Province, which has an area of
15.6 thousand square kilometers and a population of 3.6 million.
Kunming is situated at the high plateau of the eastern part of Yunnan Province. To the south is the biggest Dian Lake of Yunnan Province. It belongs to the subtropical plateau monsoon climatic zone; the annual average temperature is 14.7 and the yearly precipitation, 1024 mm. It is rich in phosphorus, salt mine and quartz and other such mineral resources as mirabilite, iron, bauxite, copper, coal, etc; it is also rich in ground water and geothermal energy resources.
In the field of industries, priority is given to the development of machinery, metallurgy, textile and building materials, among which the industries of smelting nonferrous metals and tobacco processing form one of the main production basis of their kinds in China. The productions of machine tool, optical instruments and meters, electrical machinery, cigarette, phosphorus, phosphate fertilizer, the melting of lead, copper and zinc have captured an important share in the domestic market.
In agriculture, paddy rice, oil, flue-cured tobacco, sugar cane, fruits, sericulture and live pigs are produced in abundance. Fresh water fishery is cultivated in the Dian Lake.
Kunming City has a good transport service in traffic and has been linked with more than 30 cities, domestic and abroad, by air.
Kunming City is China's famous historic cultural city. Because it is evergreen everywhere like spring all the year round with flowers blooming everywhere, the city is known as "City of Spring" or "City of Flowers". It is indeed a well-known site for sightseeing and a summer resort. The Dian Lake and the Stone Forest are the two State Major places of historic interest and scenic beauty.
S8: Climate
Yunnan has a diverse climate, embracing temperate, tropical and rigid zones in one province. Kunming, the capital city, is marked by a pleasant spring weather which prevails year round while it is also notable for the abrupt change into winter
weather caused by rain. Dali's climate is somewhat similar to that of Kunming. Lijiang has a rather cold climate whereas Xishuangbanna is rather hot for most of the year.
S9: History
Yunnan is one of the crasles of life on the earth. The discovery in Chengjiang County in 1994 of the Maotianshan Zoolites of the early Cambrian Period, which were about 5.3 hundred million years ago, is regarded in the international paleobiological world as one of the most amazing discoveries of the 20th century. Yunnan is one of the important birthplaces of human beings. Since 1956 this has been proved by the discoveries of Lama anthropoid fossils in Kaiyuan (14 million years ago), in Lufeng (8 million years ago), and in Hudie in Yuanmou (about 3-4 million years ago). The pithecanthropus discovered in Yunnan in 1965 (1.7 million years ago) is up to now the earliest fossil of human beings in both China and Asia, thus indicating the beginning of Chinese history.
These materials are just only for teachers’ ref erence.
Step III Describing what the Dai women wear
Help the students deal with Activity 2. Describe what the Dai women wear.
T: Do you know something about the Dai Ethnic Group
S: Dai minority people is the biggest ethnic minority group in locality, has a population of around 300000, accounts for 35% of total in Xishuangbanna. They live in most basin and plain areas in the prefecture. Dai people believe in Hinayana Buddhism and animism.The Dai is an ethnic group with a long history. Their ancestors were one tribe of the Baiyue people. The Dai people were addressed differently in different periods of time. They call themselves “Dai”. “Dai" means "people who ardently love freedom and peace".WATER-SPLASHING FESTIVAL is New Year Day of Dai people, the most important festival of them. Different from our New Year, they celebrate it in June, Dai people have their own calendar, their June is our April. Water-splashing Festival lasts 3 days, from April 13th to 15th. T: Who can describe what the Dai women are wearing?
S: Dai Ethnic women often wear short coats with tight sleeves and broad skirts, like
peacocks showing their tails. These clothes, beautiful and colorful, maybe the most beautiful in the world, outlined their slim figures completely. Their underwears are usually multi-colored or red-colored, and their coats, with fronts or bisect fronts, usually light yellow, light green, snow white, sky blue, etc, are often short and tight with round collar and narrow sleeves. Some of them are even made of flesh-colored materials which are hardly to recognize if you don’t take a good look. The front and back sect of the coats are waist long with a silver sash bound around the short-sleeved shirt and the narrow opening of the broad skirt over the lower part of the body. The dresses of Dai ethnic women fully show the beauty of waistline, breast and hip of females, which give people a natural, graceful, elegant kind of bearing.傣族妇女的穿着打扮，是全世界最美丽的，它就像孔雀开屏一样，五彩缤纷，美不胜收，令人叹为观止。

傣族妇女一般喜欢穿着窄袖短衣和统裙，把他们那修长苗条的身材充分展示出来。

上面穿一件百色或绯色内衣，外面是紧身短上衣，圆颈窄袖，有大襟，也有对襟，有淡黄、浅绿、雪白、天蓝等多种色彩。

有不少人还喜欢用肉色就料缝制，若不仔细看，还看不出袖管，前后衣襟刚好齐腰，紧紧裹住身子，再用一根银腰带系着短袖衫和统裙口，下着长至脚背的统裙，腰身纤巧细小，下摆宽大。

傣族妇女的这种装束，充分展示了女性的胸、腰、臀“三围”之美，加上所采用的布料轻柔，鲜艳明快，会给人一种婀娜多姿，潇洒飘逸的感觉。

T: Who can tell me more about it?
S: The Dai women's clothes have a variety of styles. In the Xishuangbanna area, women often wear white, sky-blue or pink tight underwear with Jewel-collared short skirt outside, with buttons on the front or on the right. The shirt has long and slim sleeves which wrap on the arms tightly. It is thin and narrow at the waist, exposing part of skin at the lower back. The lower clothes are usually a tight skirt, which is long and can even reach the feet. This kind of clothes well reveals the beautiful figure of the Dai women. Many Dai women wear a silk girdle around their waists. It is said to be very precious, because it is passed down by mothers from generation to generation. The girdle is actually a love token. If a girl gives the silver girdle to a young man, it means she has fallen in love with him. The Dai
women are particular about their hair style. They wind their long hair into a bun on the top of the head, and fix it with only a beautiful crescent-moon-shaped comb.
Step IV Activity 3
Help the students to do Activity 3 on page 57 in pairs. Let them say what they know about the ethnic minorities in Yunnan. Step II S2 (Population and ethnic groups) can be referred to.
Step V SPEAKING
About Lijiang
Tell the students more about Lijiang and the Naxi people. Help them do SPEAKING on page 61. Show the following on the screen.
T: In our class who have been to Lijiang? Can you tell us something about it? Nobody in our class? Now let me introduce Lijiang to you. Please look at the screen. Show the following on the screen.
If you are the first time here in Lijiang Ancient Town, the bridges, rivers and houses probably make you think you have come to the southern part of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. In fact, however, it is on the plateau of 2,400 meters high.
At the center of the ancient town of Lijiang is the Square Street. It’s said to be shaped as a seal of a prefect, symbolizing an omnipresent power. In fact, the street is a marketing square developed from an open－air fair in the countryside. In the past, the bronze wares, Tibetan knives and Yunnan tea carried here by trains of horses from the ancient tea－and－horse road and Yunnan tea were exchanged with other things in this place or transferred from here to the other places.
For thousands of years, trains of horses from north and south had experienced arduous journeys along the lofty ridges and towering mountains in southwest China. So a famous tea－and－horse road in the Chinese history was formed under the horses’ hoofs.
The ancient town of Lijiang is surrounded with mountains. So it is hard to get to.
However, as recorded in the historical archives, it had been a thriving trading place as early as in the Yuan Dynasty.
On the spotted-stone street are the tracks over thousands of years. There would be no the thriving scene in the history of the ancient street without the trains of horses coming and going.
The ancient street stretches out with the Square Street as its center. Starting from the Song Dynasty, the Naxi people had begun to build their settlement in here. They had built streets and houses along the natural course of the river.
“The arrangement of the ancient streets in Lijiang is different from that of Beijing. It’s not in a regular and square shape. It’s based on the natural cond itions. The streets make a good use of the rivers and topography. The arrangement’s effective. The main streets are connected to the river. So every household can enjoy enough water. Thus, a harmonious relationship has been formed between nature and human beings,” said Xie Ninggao, professor of Urban Environment Department of Peking University.
In the ancient town of Lijiang there is a “street-washing” activity every once in a while. The so-called “street-washing” is to open the water gate to the Wester n River of the Square Street. Then the river water makes use of the physical momentum and flows along the streets so that every household can clean the street with brooms.
The Ancient Street of Lijiang also enjoys a reputation of not dusty in drought and nor muddy on a rainy day.
Walking along the Ancient Street of Lijiang, you will never lose your way if only you can find the Jade-dragon Snow Mountain in the north. Although bordered to the snow mountain, the inner climate of the town is as warm as spring. And the arrangement of the spotted-stone bricks should not be ignored, it plays a role of road mark.
“If you see three stone-paved roads before you, just go ahead according to your direction. You’ll never reach a dead end and backtrack. The road represents a culture of road mark,” said Li Afan, vice-director of Lijiang Bureau of Town Construction.
Today, people in this place not only can enjoy the antique style of the
architectures in the Ming and Qing Dynasties but also can sense the cultural spirit of multiple nationalities such as Han, Tibet and Naxi. The ordinary streets have reflected the wisdom of the Naxi people and their pursuit of a happy life.
In 1997, the ancient town of Lijiang was included in the list of the world cultural heritage approved by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which makes it a common wealth of the entire mankind.
T: If you come here, you can also visit the Tiger Leaping, the first bend of Yangtze River and Yulong Snow Mountain. Now I think you must know something about Lijiang. Work in pairs to discuss the two questions. If you went to Lijiang, what would you do and how long would you stay?
S1:If I went there, I’d stay in the old town, of course, and I’d attend to the performance of the Naxi Orchestra, like Simon Wakefield, and listen to the Naxi Ancient Music.
S2:If I went there, I’d stay in the old town, of course, and I’d walk along the tiny cobbled streets, like Simon Wakefield, and watch the Naxi women doing business. S3:If I went there, I’d stay in the old town, of course, and I’d walk along the three rivers which run through the city, like Simon Wakefield, and listen to the sound of rushing water.
S4: If I went there, I’d stay in the old town, of course, and I’d visit the Tiger Leaping Gorge, a dream place for adventurers. The Tiger Leaping Gorge with a drop of 3000 metres is believed to be the world’s deepest canyon.
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T: What parts of the Naxi culture sound most interesting in your opinion? Say why.
S1: I think it’s fascinating that the Naxi Ancient Music is famous all over the world.
That’s very unusual.
S2: I think it’s fascinating that the Naxi language is the only hieroglyphic language still in use. That is over 1,000 years old.
S3: I think it’s fascinating t hat the Naxi believe that they came from a creature called Tabu, who helped them hatch from magic eggs. That’s an interesting story.
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