陈列馆英语讲解词

中国甲午战争博物院陈列馆讲解词

Good Morning, Ladies and gentlemen,

Welcome to the Exhibition Hall of the Museum of Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. The exhibition hall covers a floor area of ten thousand square meters and its building area of is about 8,800 square meters. This is a comprehensive exhibition hall that fully displays the history of Sino-Japanese War.

The building, designed by the Professor Peng Yigang, master architectural designer of China, creatively combines the main building, which signifies the vessel of the North Marine Navy, and the statue of a high-ranking military officer of the navy. The exhibition hall is praised as “the Chinese classical building during the 20th century“.

The cast iron sculpture in the middle of the square, named as the soul of the sea,is the model of the vessel wreckage of the North Marine Navy. The exhibition hall has two levels, drawing a whole picture of the Sino-Japanese War with abundant cultural relic and historical material and data, and it is an important base for patriotic education.

The relief sculpture on the peripheral part of the exhibition hall, called never forget the history of the Sino-Japanese War, displays the relative important figures and battles though artistic means, thus it has a strong sense of expression. Then, let’s get into the hall and get to know the history of this period.

Ladies and gentlemen, we will then visit the Sino facts show, called National Grief of 1894-1895.

The sequence hall

The bow-like sequence hall integrates with the sedimentary rocks background, which has a heavy sense of history.

The failure of the Sino-Japanese War not only causes serious disaster to China, but also awakens the Chinese people. Just as what Liang Qicao, a famous politician in Modern Times of China, said before, “It is the Sino-Japanese War that awakens us who still indulge in the dream of the Celestial Empire.”Next, we will focus on the whole process of the War.

China is an ocean power but the humiliation of modern china also starts from the collapse of coast defense. After the Opium War, the Qing Government realized the importance of building a modernized navy, and this also marks the beginning of the coast defense construction of modern China. Figures in the pictures are all the representatives of the Westernization Movement during Qing Dynasty. They claimed to learn advanced Western technology. Yi Xin, Prince Gong, the representative of the Westernization Movement in the central government, supported local representatives, such as Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang and Zhang Zhidong, to build the modernized military industry.

The Westernization Movement prospers the military industry and military education of modern China. In the middle of 19th century, the breechloaders