天子山英文导游词

天子山

Mt.Tianzi

Dear friends, good morning. Welcome you to Wulingyuan for sightseeing. Very pleased to be your tour guide. We are going

to visit the Nature Reserve of Mt.Tianzi, one of the scenic highlights in the Scenic Area of Wulingyuan, acclaimed as‘the Gem of Forests and Peak's.

Enjoying a favorable climate, Mt.Tianzi is picturesque in scenery, overlooking mountains and valleys in the distance. And the landform you are watching is called peculiar quartzose sandstone landform As demonstrated by science, three hundred and eighty million years ago, as the result of lash by sea waves, quartzose sandstone deposited over 500m thick on the sea floor. Later, this place became dry land after the strong rise by the new structure movement. When the land surface rose, with the action of flowing water, some small sands and stones were washed away. Besides, rocks collapsed under the action of gravity, and were washed slowly by rainfalls and streams. All these factors have made Zhangjiajie a rocky and woody landform of peculiar quartzose sandstone, which is composed of a series of pillars and peaks, square mountains and valleys.

Seeing this marvelous scenery, I believe you're all amazed at

this nature's masterpiece. So, le'ts go hiking in Mt.Tianzi and have a thrilling experience of ‘An Enlarged Bonsai', ‘A Minimized Shangri-La 'and ‘The Gem of Peaks and Forests'.

Okay, here we are at Shentangwan,the most mysterious spot in the scenic area of Wulingyuan. Why? Becase Shentangwan has nine levels of rock. Someone once ventured into the valley only to return when he was absolutely horrified on the fourth level of approximately 150meters deep, hearing howling winds accompanied by mournful shrills from the valley enshrouded in total darkness. In 1968, some PLA soldiers planed to cull glossy ganoderma and other rare medicinal herbs in the valley. Bearing guns and slings, they went down the valley. Again, they were forced back when they reached the sixth level. Even seen from there, the valley looked horrible and bottomless. They also saw with telescopes giant boas and other wild beasts in the valley. Since then,, Shentangwan has become a world of mysteries and no man has set foot in it.

Now here is “the Terrace for Mustering Officers”where, according to a legend, the Son of Heaven used to drill his mounted, infantry and navy soldiers. You may imagine how great the Son of Heaven was, mustering his officers and giving orders. Have a close look neat in its formation. Do they look

like soldiers, dignified and energetic, going on an expedition?

In front of us is the He Long Park, located in Yunqingyan east of Shijiayan. Planned in 1985. The park is the only cultural site on a big scale in Wulingyuan. The statue stands 6.5m high, weighing up to nine tons. It is the largest and heaviest of all the statues of the great people of China in the past hundred year.

Just a stone's throw from the back of the statue stands the Overlook of Yunqingyan where you can feast your eyes on the beautiful scenery of ‘the Stone Forest of the West Sea'. The West Sea refers figuratively to a sea of rocky mountains. Coming in sight row upon row of peaks, lofty and spectacular, stretching for miles.

Please look ahead. Not far away, charming peaks rising dramatically in uneven clusters. This is‘the Peak of the Royal Writing Brush', one of the ten tourism highlights in Wulinyuan. After his shameful defeat, he felt ashamed to see these writing brushes. Acting on the spur of the moment, he angrily tossed

the writing brushes into the valley. The moment the brushes landed, they were changed into a peak miraculously—The Peak of the Royal Writing Brush took shape. When veiled in myriad of rays of the rising sun on a sunny day, the peak shines out with