抚顺雷锋memorial hall 雷锋纪念馆 英文导游词

抚顺雷锋memorial hall

This hall is situated in the No.61 of east heping road, wanghua district in fushun city. Founded in 1964, and was rebuilt in 1969, 1992, and 2002. Cover an area of 99,900sm. It was divided into 6 sections.

First we’ll visit the condoling area. It is in the northeast of the hall, consist of the plaza, statue and tomb of leifeng. Cover an area of 3,500sm. Those pine tree surrounded it symbolize the spirit of leifeng would last forever, while the flowers send people’s miss for him. The plaza covers 2000sm, it can hole about 3000peole, the statue is 5m tall placed on a pedestal of 3m high, it covers 340sm. Leifeng was in cotton uniforms with the anthology of 毛泽东in his hand, the submachine gun was carried on his back, it shows a positive feeling to people. The tomb is a trapezoid architecture, 3.3m long, 2.1m wide and 0.6m tall. Cover an area of 310sm. It is made by granite. Leifeng’s body was laying quietly in it. In front of the tomb, there is a wreath made by white marble, behind the tomb, there is a stele made of granite, 6m long and 2.1m high, the golden characters is written by 舒同，the articles behind it tell the story of leifeng.

The second is the exhibition area, this is the main part of this hall, consist of the road, stele, and story gallery. The road is 70m long, with 22 5-pointed stars made by red granite and 22 dairy monuments made by black granite, the number 22 symbolize the 22-year life of leifeng. The monument stands on the axle of the hall, 13.4m tall, with dedication written by chair man mao which means that we should learn from comrade leifeng, declaim that the spirit of leifeng will last forever. The story gallery is 2650sm in size, the area structure is 4800sm, it is a two stories building and faced south. The wall outside is decorated by grey granite, the style of it is simple and modern. The characters in front of the hall is written by 江泽民in 1990. this gallery present leifeng’s experience in his precious life. It now has became the base to develop and research the story of leifeng. The exhibition area is 2283sm, exhibited 239 pieces of photos, 115 objects, 165 documents of him. The exhibition line is 420m. this gallery used modern technology to present it and the gallery is divided into main hall, deputy hall, video hall and multi-functional hall. The first floor present the ordinary and great life of leifeng according to subject and annalistic. Leifeng is named 曹正兴, born in a poor peasant family on December 18th in 1940 in hunan province, after the founding of new china he went to school under the care of the communist and the government, after the graduation of primary school, he began to work, later on, he participate in socialist construction in different places and have been awarded for his contributions a lot of times, in 1960, he joined the army and later became a member of the communist party. On oct.15th in 1962 he was died on his post. This orderly hall is consist of the bronze statue, the white marble statue and the music played as its background. Leifeng once said that our life is limited but the work to service the people is limitless, he would devote his limited life into the limitless work to serve the people. The paintings on the wall bring leifeng in front of us. The dairy carving in the gallery is 16m long, all made by bronze. This epitome is the cottage of leifeng when he is still a child. This set of scenes showed leifeng being a cat skinner, present his passion to his work. This scene showed he is reading the anthology of 毛泽东, he treat the works of 毛泽东as the food and weapon. The painting showed he being a volunteer of train attendant, he did a lot of good things for people when he was on his business trip on the train. The multi-media showed leifeng’s daily life. In the second floor, there exhibited some photos and dedication of the great leaders, such as 毛泽东，邓小平，周恩来and so on. These are some materials when the whole nation and some foreigners learn from leifeng. This is a prospectus of the west point military school with leifeng’s photo on it. Leifeng’s spirit is not expanded in our country but also in the world. The third one is the monument district, this place is in the west of the gallery, it stenches from west to east, more than 300m long, it integrated the art of calligraphy, carving, architecture and garden together, Constitute the beautiful landscape of leifeng culture. There are 22 hear stones, symbolize the 22 years in leifeng’s life, these stones were transported from a National Nature Reserve in fushun. There are about 7 poems of leifeng and 15 poems praise him. The calligraphy here are written by some famous calligrapher. This is the sculpture area, there are different styles of sculpture located here, the bronze one is quite kind and lively, the steel one is modern, the granite one is quite solemn and the white marble one is holy. In the middle of the plaza, it stands the sculpture of leifeng with the young pioneers. The sculpture eternity is made up of two parts, one is the granite sculpture of leifeng with his hand on the car, another is the bronze carving about learning from leifeng with the song about it on the side. The studying sculpture of leifeng present leifeng’s seriously study spirit to us. The passionate youth is just like a flag swing in the trees. Youth Education Activities Area This area is located in the west of the hall, consist of fountain, lake, bridge, theater, and rock climbing. The fountain covers an area of 700sm, with 1483 burner caps, consist of maze, time tunnel and interaction of spring. The fountain is surrounded by castle, you can play the hide and seek game in it and this game is quite favored by kids. The lake covers an area of 2500sm, with 1683cubic meter of water, the bridge across it is also a entertainment, you can play music on it as the railings are just like the strings. The theater is 405sm in size, it can hold 100 people. The rock climbing is in the northwest of the hall, 18m long and 9m high, after climb on the top of it, you can enjoy the overview of it.

This hall now has become a national Patriotism Education Demonstration Base, Youth Education Center, and the 4-A class tourist attraction. When he died, he left nothing, there is only 100yuan of accounts left in the bank, but as to the spirit, the wealth he left could not be measured. We should learn from him and develop it.