花山谜窟英语

花山谜窟英语

花山谜窟

Huashan Mysterious Grottoes

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Good morning. Welcome to Huashan Mysterious Grottoes. This scenic area is situated between Tunxi District and Shexian County, and it covers an area of 81 square kilometers. Within the area, there are abundance of tourism resources, such as mountains, creeks, grottoes, cliff-carvings and temples. It is an important national scenic area.

This area features large grottoes. Up till now, 36 grottoes have been discovered, and 5 of them are open to public. According to archaeologists, these grottoes have experienced a history of 1,700 years at least. Their magnificence, exquisiteness, and mysteries make them a

unique sight across the country.

On one hand, these grottoes are old, because in these grottoes, people have found fossils of dinosaurs’footprints, and plant fossils as old as 150 million years. And, there is some pottery china and ironware. One the other hand, they are still young, they are not open to public until 28 September, 2000. But they are lucky as well. On 20 May, 2001, President Jiang Zemin inspected it then-called “Ancient Huizhou Grottoes”. Because of all the mysteries circulating about the grottoes, President Jiang bestowed the present name, “Huashan Mysterious Grottoes”on them. Besides, Mr President spoke highly of the grottoes, saying it was really a treasure full of excellence and mysteries. Therefore, all of you, my friends are welcome to solve these puzzles.

As you know, altogether 36 grottoes are discovered now, within the 7 square kilometers area of Huashan.

What will strike you more is the inside of these grottoes, because the internal space is enormous, and because they are peculiarly and scientifically designed. One of them boasts of an area of 120,000 square kilometers, a depth of 170 meters and a height of 20 meters. It is firmly supported by 26 stone pillars, all of which, shaping like boots, point at

the entrance, although they are standing everywhere in the grotto. Apart from this, the slope inside the grotto can give you a larger surprise. About 100 meters into the grotto, there suddenly appears a 30 meters slope of 45 degrees. The traces of chisels on the slope are clear, straight and even. But how come? That is because the mountain itself also has a slope of 45 degrees. At this place, if people did not change the direction of chiseling, the mountain would be chiseled open from inside. In this way, the two slopes are parallel to each other. But the question is: with ancient backward technology, how could people measure so accurately the degree of the incline as well as where to start and stop chiseling.

Another mystery lies in the use or purpose of them. Opinions on this greatly vary. Mainly, several speculations are popular, for example, the theory of “quarry”, the theory of “troops shelter”, the theory of “holy cave of Taoism”and

so on. But none of them are really convincing.

Therefore, many tourists speculate they are works by aliens. As we know, 30 degrees of northern altitude is a mysterious line. Along this line are