英文导游欢迎词（1） (1)

　　Good afternoon teacher!

　　May I start ?

　　Ladies and gentleman ! good morning !first on behalf of shanxi international travel service and myself welcome everyone come to shanxi province I’m very pleased to be your tour guide during your stay in shanxi province ,if you have just come to here I can show you around now please allow me introduce myself my name is li shicheng ,very interesting thing my name as similar a china famous emperor li shiming in tang dynasty ,if you afraid of forgetting my name ,I have a english name

　　Kevin lee ,your can call me Kevin ,sitting beside me is our driver Mr li ,he has more than ten year’s experience in driving so he will makes our trip a safe and pleasant one ,an old Chinese saying may express our hospitality:”

　　Isn't it a great pleasure to have friends coming from afar “.Mr li and I will do as much as we can to make your tour pleasant and enjoyable ,I hope that your visit to this ancient province will be a happy and memorable experience in your life .

　　Today we will be visiting xiantong temple in wutai mountain ,the temple is about 240 kilometers away from the urban area ,it will take us about four hours to get there .

　　Wutai mountain is located in the northeast part of xinzhou city shanxi province , wutai mountain is a national-level scenic spot area at nation level and a national class 4A tourist scenic spot area it is the highest mountain land in north china region ,with the north platform top being at an altitude of 3058m above sea level and called “roof ridge of north china”

　　Wutai mountain had its name because it has five main peaks with flat and broad platforms ,ranking first among the four main Buddhist famous mountains in china ,

　　Wutai mountain is a treasure-house of ancient architecture of china there four wood-strncture architectures of Tang Dynasty kept in shanxi province ,two are located in wutai mountains.

　　Today what we visit is xiantong temple ,xiantong temple is one of five main mediation places of wutai mountain ,it is one of five main mediation places of Wutai mountain .it is also the leader temple most worshipped in the Buddhist circle of Wutai mountain.it was initially built in the eleventh year of YongPing period ,East Han dynasty and has a history of nearly 2000 years from today . .since the peak of Posa top is very similar to the vulture peak of India it was named Lingjiu temple after the name of the mountain later Ming emperor of Han Dynasty added two characters “da fu”in Chinese. before “lingjiu temple ”so that the complete name of temple was dafu lingjiu temple . it finally was granted a horizontal board “large XianTong temple ”by Zhu Yuanhang,the taizu emperor of Ming Dynasty

　　[dragon and tiger tablet s]

　　there is no heaven king hall but only two pieces of stone tablets in XianTong temple ,the dragon and tiger tablets we see now .these two tablets have the implied meaning that dragon and tiger is guarding the gate and there is no need to trouble the four main heaven kings .

　　Now we could see there are 7 large halls which are arranged along the central axis in the sequence of Guanyin hall, large Wenshu hall , Daxiong precious hall , Beamless hall , thousand-alms-bowl Wenshu hall ,Bronze hall and Back high hall.what the important things we are going to visit is the three ancient architectures, they are pure wood-structure architecture daxiong precious hall, pure brick-structure one beamless hall , another is pure-bronze structure bronze hall.

　　Follow me to Guanyin hall , Guanyin means godness of mercy ,this hall situated in the end-line south of the whole temple ,so it is also called the south hall.

　　There are two tables between the two halls ,one is written by emperor kangxi in Qing dynasty ,another is one without letters.

　　Next hall is large wenshu hall ,wenshu is also named goodness of wisdom ,as I told you moment ago ,there are five peaks in witai mountain,

　　When we visit here ,it means that we had prayed different the goodness of wisdom of five peaks .

　　[daxiong precious hall]

　　Daxiong precious hall is one complete –wood –structure ,in the hall is worshipped the horizontal Buddha of the third generation . Daxiong was the honorific title of Sakyamuni, saying he was “a warrior fearing nothing ”it is the largest Daxiong precious hall in Xutai mountain ,it is also the place for holding grand Buddhist activities in the temple .