英文导游词广东丹霞山

The World Geology Park-The Danxia MountainLacated in the northeast of Shaoguan city in guangdong Province,the Danxia Mountain is 45 kiometers away from downtown Shaoguan.The Danxia Mountain Area was originally a huge inland basin 25,000,000 years ago.There was severe uplifting of the area around the basin which resulted in the development of the deep red bed on the basin after the accumulation of a mass of detrital matter.The red bed was gradually eroded because of the earth's crust uplifting.Then,the running water undercuts the corrosion,then formed the present Danxia Mountain.Set off the green trees,clear water and blue sky,the red rocks and red cliffs are as if they were the rosy cloud in the sky,therefore,people name it The Rosy Cloud Mountain that is the Danxia Maountain in Chinese,In the 1930s,Professor Chen Guoda of Sun Yat-sen University,having make deep researches to the Danxia Mountain and the red stone mountains in south China,he named the rosy rock landform as Danxia Landfrom,which was soon admitted and adopted by the academe.Since then all the landform consisting of rosy rock and with features of red cliff and stratum are acknowledged as Danxia landform.There are Danxia landform in every continent except Antarctica such as Geat Canyon in USA and Saxons in Germany,of its type,the Shaoguan Danxia Mountian is the one with largest area,the most typical characteristics,the richest landform and the most beautiful scenery.With an area of nearly 319 square kilometers,the Danxia Scenic Area contains more than 600 stone pillars and small,making it as it were a ruby carving garden,so the mountain has earned the reputation of Chinese Redstone Park.And in the year of 1995,Danxai Mountain was approved to be the national geological nature protection zone by the State Council and which was in the year of 2000 authorized the United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization for the world geology park.【山门the gate of the Danxia Mountain】Now we have come to the gate of the Danxia Mountian,It is built by red sandstones from the Danxia Mountian.Look at those Chinese characters,they are the name of the park,China Red Stond Park. The two characters Danxia over the gate are inscribed by Guan Shanyue who is a Chinese famous calligraphy painter.Well ,now along this stone path we are going to climb to the highest peak in the Danxia Mountain range-the zhanglao peak which is 408 meters above the see level.【群象过江和玉女拦江elephants cosing a river and a young girl blocking a river】We are now getting into the central scenic spot of the Danxia Mountain.The Danxia Mountain lists the first among the four well-known mountains in Guangdong Province and its unique natural scene brings people endless imaginations.Well everybodyplease look at the peaks on the other side of the jinjiang river ,those peaks look like elephants crossing the river and are walking towardsus.With the trunks,the ivories ears and eyes they are alike elephants not only in appearance but also in manners.So it is called Elephants crossing the river.Please look to the right,the hill over there is like a young girl who is having a sound sleep.It shaped in a natural proportion with a clear adumbration from the right to the left,from her head extending to her neck,to her breasts and to her abdomen.Therefore it is named a sleeping beauty or a young girl blocking a river.【阳元山the angyuan moutain】This mountain is called the yangyuan Mountain that is a male mountain which is 28 meters high and 7 meters in diameters as it is just alike male genitals stone,hence its name,according to geologists'studies showed that it belongs to the yangyuan stone column is part of the cliff.Thanks to the superlative craftsmanship of nature,it is separated from the cliff well before about 300 thousand year and created its unique shape today.In the old times,people wish to be prosperous in the male member in the family and the male descendent would ever last.So the Yangyuan stone is frequently worshiped by people.【阴元石yinyuan stone】As we have just seen Yangyuan stone,now we have come to the stone called Yinyuan stone it resembles the female genitalia,It has formed its shape for 10 thousand years.God created Adam and Eva in the Garden of Eden while nature created this couple stones in the Danxia Mountain.How supernatural the universe is!【锦石岩the jinshi cave】This grotto is called Jinshi cave,there is Buddhist temple inside with Qianfo Palace Guanyin Palace and Daxiong Palace ect. among which Guanyin palace cave is the large one which is 30 meters deep and 4 meters high.It can hold nearly a hundred of people to vist and worship at one time,there are 32 Guangyin carved in the cave with differnt vivid appearance and various expressions and manners.There is stone wall in the Daxiong palace looks like a dragon whose color becomes different owing the different seasons,it changes to light green in spring,dark green in summer,oilvine in autumn,but it is brown and yellown in winter.So it is called chameleon.How does this supernatural phenomenon come into being?There is a lower alga growing in the cave which has high water absorption.When climate is humid,it will grow bloomy withdark color as it absorbs abundant water.While it is dry,it grows brown and yellown.The Cliffside outside is carved with two characters.jinyan cave which is inscribed by zhao erlai in southern song Dynasty.so it is the earlist cliffs by climbing the cliff in Danxai Mountain.【别传寺the biechuan temple】The Biechuan Temple is established in the first year of the region of Emperor Kangxi Qing Dynasty and it earned high reputation at that times,so it is one of top three Buddhist temples in the north of Canton area.Entering the gate,we can see a lot of stone carving on the rosy red cliff among them the two characters Danxia carving is about five or six feet with fine calligraphy which was written by Wang Ling from central China in Qing Dynasty.The four charcters Biechuan Temple over the gate is inscribed by Li Hanwei who was the chairman of Guangdong Province in the period of Republic of China.The structure of Biechuan Temple is similar with other Buddhist temples there in a Heavenly King Hall,a bell and drum-tower,a Daxiong Palace and a Guanyin Shrine etc.Now,you have half an hour free time,and then we are going to get together at the gate of the temple after half an hour and go down the mountain along the way we came up.Finally,we are going to board a boat at the dock to have a boat trip on the jinjaing river,Everyone can enjoy the beautiful scene on either side along the river.。