第一篇：麗江英文導(dǎo)游詞

導(dǎo)游詞是導(dǎo)游人員引導(dǎo)游客觀光游覽時(shí)的講解詞，是導(dǎo)游員同游客交流思想，向游客傳播文化知識(shí)的工具，也是應(yīng)用寫(xiě)作研究的文體之一。下面就是小編整理的麗江英文導(dǎo)游詞，一起來(lái)看一下吧。

麗江古城中英文導(dǎo)游詞范文1：

大家好!我是你們游覽麗江古城的導(dǎo)游。我很高興能與大家共渡這快樂(lè)時(shí)光!我姓*。大家可以叫我*導(dǎo)游。

請(qǐng)大家跟我來(lái)。這里是麗江古城。我先給大家簡(jiǎn)單介紹一下麗江古城。麗江古城又名大研鎮(zhèn)，坐落在麗江壩中部，稱為“保存最為完好的四大古城”之一。它是中國(guó)歷史文化名城中唯一沒(méi)有城墻的古城。麗江古城地處云貴高原，海拔2400余米，全城面積達(dá)3。8平方公里，自古就是遠(yuǎn)近聞名的集市和重鎮(zhèn)。古城現(xiàn)有居民6200多戶，25000余人。其中，納西族占總?cè)丝诮^大多數(shù)，有30%的居民仍在從事以銅銀器制作、皮毛皮革、紡織、釀造業(yè)為主的傳統(tǒng)手工業(yè)和商業(yè)活動(dòng)。

好了，現(xiàn)在大家跟我進(jìn)古城看看。

麗江古城是一座沒(méi)有城墻的古城，大研古城是一座具有濃烈人文氣息的小城。

麗江古城內(nèi)的街道依山傍水修建，鋪的大多都是紅色角礫巖，雨季不會(huì)泥濘、旱季也不會(huì)飛灰，石上花紋圖案自然雅致。看，光滑潔凈的青石板路、完全手工建造的土木結(jié)構(gòu)的房屋、無(wú)處不在的小橋流水。

前面就是古城中心的四方街了。這里工藝品琳瑯滿目。人氣興旺。來(lái)古城沒(méi)有不來(lái)四方街的。位于古城與新城交界處的大水車是麗江古城的標(biāo)志，古城大水車旁有一塊大屏幕，每日播放的歌曲即是古城最受歡迎最有特色的歌曲，其中《納西凈地》是較為出名的歌曲之一。現(xiàn)在給大家十分鐘拍個(gè)照吧，你一定感覺(jué)很好的!

在麗江古城區(qū)，修建有橋梁354座，其密度為平均每平方公里93座。橋梁的形制多種多樣，較著名的有鎖翠橋、大石橋……

古城內(nèi)的木府原為麗江世襲土司木氏的衙署。五鳳樓始建于明代萬(wàn)歷二十九年(公元1601年)，樓高20米。因其建筑形制酷似五只飛來(lái)的彩鳳，故名“五鳳樓”。這里還有白沙民居建筑、群束河民居建筑群……一會(huì)大家自由參觀吧。

麗江古城歷史悠久，古樸自然。城市布局錯(cuò)落有致，既具有山城風(fēng)貌，又富于水鄉(xiāng)韻味。麗江民居既融和了漢、白、彝、藏各民族精華，又有納西族的獨(dú)特風(fēng)采，很獨(dú)特吧!今天，我就給大家介紹到這里。祝大家旅愉快!再見(jiàn)!

Everybody is good!I am your tour of lijiang tour guide.I am very glad to be with you the happy time together!My name is zhang.You can call me a guide.Please come with me.Here is the old town of lijiang.I'll give you a brief introduction of lijiang.Lijiang also known as dayan town, is located in the middle of lijiang dam, known as “one of the most preserved ancient city of the big four”.It is the only ancient city without walls in China's famous historical and cultural city.Lijiang ancient city is located in the yunnan-guizhou plateau, 2400 meters above sea level, the area of the city 3.8 square kilometers, the ancient times is known fairs and towns.The ancient city of existing residents 6200 households, 25000 people.Among them, the naxi nationality for the vast majority of the population, 30% of the residents are still engaged in produced with copper, silver, fur, leather, textiles, brewing traditional handicraft industry and business activities.Ok, now you give me into the city to see.Lijiang is an ancient city without walls, dayan ancient city is a strong cultural atmosphere of the town.Lijiang ancient and the street of the city of mountain was built, mostly covered with red breccia, the rainy season will not muddy, also won't fly ash of the dry season, the stone patterns of natural elegance.Look, smooth and clean green flag road, completely hand-built civil housing structure, ubiquitous Bridges.Is in front of the old city center square street.Full of beautiful things in this arts and crafts.Sentiment towards prosperity.Shouldn't have come to city square street.Large water wheel on the border between ancient city and new city is the symbol of the ancient city of lijiang, near the ancient city of large water wheel has a large screen, daily broadcast songs is the special features of the most popular songs, including “naxi net to” is one of the more famous songs.Now let's take a picture give you ten minutes, you must feel good!

In lijiang ancient city, built 354 Bridges, the density of the average per 93 square kilometers.Shape, a variety of Bridges, a famous cui bridge, a lock in...Lijiang ancient town of mu's residence was hereditary wood's yamen toast.Five phoenix tower was built in the Ming dynasty wanli twenty-nine years(AD 1601), the building of which was 20 metres high.Because of its architectural form like five flying colourful feng, so the name “the five-phoenix towers”.There is white sand local-style dwelling houses building, a group of beam river residential buildings...For a moment you free for a visit.Lijiang has a long history, natural style.City layout strewn at random have send, already have mountain view, and abound of lasting appeal.Lijiang residence is harmony the han, bai, yi, Tibetan ethnic essence, and has a unique style of the naxi nationality, is very unique！！Today, I would like to introduce you to here.Wish everyone have a happy journey!Good bye!

麗江古城中英文導(dǎo)游詞范文2：

各位游客，大家好!我是大家的導(dǎo)游***，大家可以叫我小*。今天我要帶大家游玩的地方是云南省麗江市的麗江古城，我希望能陪伴大家度過(guò)愉快的一天。

麗江古城始建于宋末元初，又名大研鎮(zhèn)，是我國(guó)歷史文化名城中唯一沒(méi)有城墻的古城。其原因據(jù)說(shuō)是麗江古城的世襲者姓木，覺(jué)得古城加上城墻猶如“木”字加了框，即念“困”，頗不吉利，故麗江古城建成后就沒(méi)有城墻。古城現(xiàn)有居民6200多戶，25000余人，其中絕大多數(shù)為納西族。這里30%的居民從事紡織、制作銀器等傳統(tǒng)手工業(yè)，大家可以在游玩的過(guò)程中挑選幾件帶回家鄉(xiāng)，肯定是值得紀(jì)念的精美手工藝品。

現(xiàn)在我們已經(jīng)來(lái)到了麗江古城的入口處，大家看到入口處那寫(xiě)著“麗江古城”四個(gè)大字的牌子了嗎?我們可以在這里合影留念后，再繼續(xù)我們的旅程……

好，大家收拾好相機(jī)，檢查一下自己的隨身物品，我們繼續(xù)往前走。大家看，在麗江古城內(nèi)，我們隨處可以看到這樣滿是手工建造的土木結(jié)構(gòu)的房屋、無(wú)處不在的小橋流水、光滑潔凈的青石板路……看看我們的腳下，這些鋪著的石板都是紅色角礫巖，雨季不會(huì)泥濘、旱季也不會(huì)飛灰。看，石板上還有花紋呢，與整個(gè)古城環(huán)境相得益彰……

現(xiàn)在大家所處的位置就是麗江古城的中心——四方街了!從四方街往東一百米就是古城與新城的交界處，而且這里還有麗江古城最具特色的景觀，也是麗江古城標(biāo)志之一的大水車。

大家可以隨意欣賞風(fēng)景，拍照留念，細(xì)細(xì)品味這“東方威尼斯”般美麗的麗江古城吧!

Dear visitors, everybody!I am the guide from you He Re empty, you can call me ho.Today I want to take you visit the place is lijiang city of yunnan province lijiang ancient city, I hope I can accompany you a nice day.Lijiang ancient city was built in the early yuan dynasty, also known as dayan town, is China's famous historical and cultural city in the only ancient city without walls.Its reason is said to be the old town of lijiang hereditary surname wood, think of the ancient city with the wall as “wood” word box, which read “trapped”, quite unlucky, so after the completion of the old town of lijiang, there is no walls.The ancient city of existing residents 6200 households, more than 25000 people, mostly in the naxi.Here, 30% of the population engaged in textile, made of silver, and other traditional crafts, you can be in play in the process of choosing a few back to hometown, must be a memorable exquisite handicrafts.Now we've come to the entrance of the old town of lijiang, you see the entrance that reads “l(fā)ijiang” four characters of the brand? We can take a photo here after, to continue our journey...Good, you packed the camera, check your belongings, we continue to go forward., in lijiang ancient town, we can see that is full of manual of civil structure of the building, the ubiquitous Bridges, smooth and clean green flag road...Take a look at our feet, the spreading of the slab are red breccia, the rainy season will not muddy, also won't fly ash of the dry season.Look, SLATE and decorative pattern, and the whole city environment bring out the best in each other...Now everyone's position is the center of the ancient city of lijiang, square street!From the square street, one hundred meters to the east of ancient city and new town at the junction, lijiang ancient town, and there are the most distinctive landscape, large water wheel is one of the old town of lijiang sign.Everyone can enjoy the scenery, took photos, to savor the “Oriental Venice” beautiful lijiang!

第二篇：麗江英文導(dǎo)游詞

Welcome to Lijiang, this beautiful place.It’s my honor to be your guide.Today I will bring you to the Lijiang Dayan Town.Maybe you are more familiar with the name” the ancient town of Lijiang”.We will get there in a few minutes.So now I will give you a brief introduction of Lijiang.It is located in Lijing Prefecture in the Northwest of

Yunnan province.The population of Lijiang Prefecture is over 1 million involving 21 nationalities, for example, the Naxi, Yi, Lisu, Pumi,etc.And later you will see the houses of Naxi people in the ancient town.Lijiang Prefecture is the major developing tourist area of Yunnan Province.It contains beautiful natural scense, unique minority amorous

feelings, age-old minority cultures, and rich tourist resources.The scenic spots are mainly scattered in Lijiang County and Ninglang County.We can conclude them into:” two mountains, one town, one lake, one river, one culture and one folk custom.”.Two mountains refer to Yulong Snow

Mountains and Laojun Mountains, one town is Dayan Town, one lake refers to Lugu lake, one river is 金沙 river, one culture is Dongba Culture and one folk custom refers to the Moso people’s custom, which we call the “Aixa”.What does that mean? I will leave it to you to discover.Soyou see Lijiang, with its rich resources in plants and animals, the natural beauties and the amazing minority folk customs, attracts more and more tourists from home and abroad.Soon we will get the the Ancient town of Lijiang, it has a history of almost a thousand years.The scenes are unique and unconventional.It is one of the best-historical, cultural cities at the state level in China.It consists of three parts: 大研、白沙、束河.So why is it called Dayan? Because it is in the middle of Lijiang basin, and the Lijiang basin looks like a big inkstone, and in Chinese the pronunciation of that is “yan”.Ok, everyone, this is the entrance of the Dayan town.Maybe you have already notice the couple of the mill wheels over there.Besides it is the Chinese Characters written by Jiang Zeming.And there is a eye-catching pillar, we call it the “水龍”, which means the water dragon and indicates the wish to avoid the fire in the town.Let’s get inside and see.The Dayan town is famous in China for its old and simple architectural style and the elegant art for the lay-out of the town.In the town the 玉泉 river winds in many streams across the town and past all the houses.The roads here are parallel to the streams, and the door of each house is facing a stream.Whatever street and whatever lane you go in ,there is a small stream with small bridges across it here and there.As a saying has it : A house beside a stream with a small briage across it makes a wonderful scene which you can only find here.” That’s why we regard Dayan town to be the “Oriental Venice”.Here we are.In the center of the ancient town, here is the Sifang Street.It is a place for country fair trades.Since ancient times, Sifang Street has been a collecting and distributing center of all kinds of products with travelers and traders going and coming everywhere.On a market day people of different minorities in their unique costumes come here to do business and make the place crowed and noisy.If you spend a whole day here, you can experience the poetic changes here.In the morning, the street stretch its arms and woke up;in the midday, it becomes a busy man;When the night comes, the light is on, it changes into a dressed young lady;And at night it becomes quiet and fell asleep.Why the street has a name of “Sifang”? There are two kinds of explanation, one is that the ancient leader in Lijiang named it with a meaning of “spread his power around”, and the other is that “Sifang” in Chinese means four directions, and the street has people and goods from every area.Dayan Town is quite different from the other ancient towns in China, no town walls around it.Do you know why? That has something to do with the name of the governor of the town at the ancient time, before I tell you the reason, let’s visit the governor’s place first, later you will know why there is no wall here.

第三篇：1麗江英文導(dǎo)游詞

麗江古城導(dǎo)游詞

各位游客朋友們大家好，歡迎大家來(lái)到麗江古城參觀游覽。我是您此行的導(dǎo)游員。

Good morning, my dear friends, welcome to Lijiang ancient town.I am your tourist guide.麗江古城坐落在玉龍雪山下麗江壩子的中部，因四周青山環(huán)繞，城中碧水瀅瀅，宛如一方碧玉大硯而取名為“大研鎮(zhèn)”。古城始建于南宋后期，距今約有800年的歷史了，歷代均為滇西北的政治、軍事重鎮(zhèn)。

Lijiang ancient town is located on the foot of the Yulong snow mountain and in the middle of Lijiang basin.It is surrounded by green hills and filled with blue lakes, just likes a huge jade ink stone, which is “yan” in Chinese the pronunciation.So it was named “Dayan Town”.With long history of 800 years, the ancient town was originally built in the late Southern Song Dynasty and had the important political and military status in history.細(xì)心的朋友也許已經(jīng)發(fā)現(xiàn)，麗江古城是一座沒(méi)有城墻的古城，這是為什么呢？這是因?yàn)辂惤酪u統(tǒng)治者姓木，筑墻勢(shì)必如木字加框而成“困”字，所以木氏土司因忌諱而不設(shè)城墻。

My dear friends, maybe you have found that Lijiang ancient town has not the wall around it.Do you know why? Because the family name of the hereditary rulers in Lijiang was Chinese character “MU”.If the wall around the town was built and the rulers’ family lived in, it would like the Chinese character MU changing to the “KUN” with the meaning of being trapped.Because of this taboo, the wall was not built.古城布局以三山為屏、一水相連，以水為脈，順勢(shì)自然。玉河水在這里分為西河、中河和東河，河水在古城里再分成更多的支流，走街過(guò)巷，穿墻進(jìn)屋，形成家家流水，處處小橋的景觀。被譽(yù)為是“高原姑蘇”和“東方的威尼斯”。古城街道布局中“經(jīng)絡(luò)”設(shè)置和“曲、幽、窄、達(dá)”的風(fēng)格、錯(cuò)落有致的設(shè)計(jì)藝術(shù)在中國(guó)現(xiàn)存古城中是極為罕見(jiàn)的，于1997年被聯(lián)合國(guó)教科文組織列入世界文化遺產(chǎn)名錄。

The town is defended by three mountains and different parts of the town are linked by Yu Rivers.It is naturally laid out.The Yu River consists of West River, Middle River and East River.The rivers go through the streets, alleys and flow along the houses, forming more tributaries.The scenery of the small bridges over the flowing streams is known as “the Gu Su city on the plateau” and “Venice in the east”.The layout of body channels, the style of “winding, deep, narrow and convenient” and well-arranged design are rarely reserved in Chinese ancient town.It had been listed as the world culture heritage by the UNESCO in 1997.說(shuō)話間，我們就到了古城門(mén)口了，請(qǐng)大家隨我一起進(jìn)去參觀游覽吧！（也可以不要）

Ok, we are at the gate of the ancient town.Please follow me to visit in the town.

第四篇：麗江景點(diǎn)英文導(dǎo)游詞

麗江是我國(guó)著名的景點(diǎn)之一，每年都會(huì)吸引諸多國(guó)內(nèi)外的游客，那麗江景點(diǎn)英文導(dǎo)游詞應(yīng)該怎么說(shuō)呢？以下是小編整理的麗江景點(diǎn)英文導(dǎo)游詞，希望對(duì)你有幫助。

Hello, my fellow friends,Welcome to Lijiang---this beautiful place.It’s my great honor to be your guide.Today I will take you to the ancient town of Lijiang.A Brief Introduction to Lijiang

We will get there in a few minutes.So now I will give you a brief introduction to Lijiang.It is located in Lijing Prefecture in the Northwest of Yunnan province.The population of Lijiang Prefecture is over 1 million involving 21 nationalities, for example, the Naxi, Yi, Lisu, Pumi,etc.And later you will see the houses of Naxi people in the ancient town.LijiangPrefecture is the major tourist area of Yunnan Province.It contains beautiful natural resources, unique minority amorous feelings, age-old minority cultures, and rich tourist resources.The scenic spots are mainly scattered in Lijiang County and Ninglang County.We can conclude them into:” two mountains, one town, one lake, one river, one culture and one folk custom.”.Two mountains refer to Yulong Snow Mountains and Laojun Mountains, one town is Dayan Town, one lake refers to Lugu lake, one river is Jinsha river, one culture is Dongba Culture and one folk custom refers to the Moso people’s custom, which we call the “Aixa”.What does that mean? I will leave it to you to discover.So you see Lijiang, with its rich resources in plants and animals, the natural beauties and the amazing minority folk customs, attracting more and more tourists from home and abroad.Soon we will get the the Ancient town of Lijiang, it has a history of almost a thousand years.The scenes are unique and unconventional.It is one of the best historical, cultural cities at the state level in China.It consists of three parts: Dayan、Baisha、Shuhe.So why is it called Dayan? Because it is in the middle of Lijiang basin, and the Lijiang basin looks like a big inkstone, and in Chinese the pronunciation of that is “yan”.What’s more,it is also a unique city throughout China.Have you heard about it? Yeah,it is a city which has no walls.It expresses the open-minded character of Naxi people.TheEntrance

Ok, everyone, this is the entrance of the Dayan town.Maybe you have already notice the couple of the water wheels over there.Do you know the function of it ? It is used to transport water and to make use of hydropower to grind grains and crops.Besides it is the Chinese Characters written by Jiang Zeming.And there is an eye-catching pillar, we call it “Dragon Post”, which means the water dragon and indicates the wish to avoid the fire in the town.Let’s get inside and have a look.The Dayan town is famous in China for its old and simple architectural style and the elegant art for the lay-out of the town.In the town the Yuquan River winds in many streams across the town and past all the houses.The roads here are parallel to the streams, and the door of each house is facing a stream.Whatever street and whatever lane you go in ,there is a small stream with small bridges across it here and there.As a saying indicates : A house beside a stream with a small briage across it makes a wonderful scene which you can only find here.” That’s why we regard Dayan town to be the “Oriental Venice”.SifangStreet

Here we are.In the center of the ancient town, here is the Sifang Street.It is a place for country fair trades.Since ancient times, Sifang Street has been a collecting and distributing center of all kinds of products with travelers and traders going and coming everywhere.On a market day people of different minorities in their unique costumes come here to do business and make the place crowed and noisy.If you spend a whole day here, you can experience the poetic changes here.In the morning, the street stretch its arms and woke up;in the midday, it becomes a busy man;When the night comes, the light is on, it changes into a dressed young lady;And at night it becomes quiet and fell asleep.Why the street has a name of “Sifang”? There are two kinds of explanation, one is that the ancient leader in Lijiang named it with a meaning of “spread his power around”, and the other is that “Sifang” in Chinese means four directions, and the street has people and goods from every area.Do you know how do people clean the square? They create three wooden boards as a movable sluice in the western river.When the water overflows, it will remove the sluice, then the streets can be washed automatically.How wonderful!

KegongArchway

Now you can see the Kegong Archway.“Kegong” means achievements in imperial examinations.A question for you,do you know why do people construct the archway? It is used to commemorate three successful candidates in imperial exam at provincial level.What amazing is that they all came from the same family.So you can understand how much people care about the imperial exam.Ok, that’s all for my introduction, now you have 30 minutes to appreciate the nearby scenery, help yourselves!Please be careful and take your time!

第五篇：麗江古城的導(dǎo)游詞英文

麗江古城的導(dǎo)游詞英文

麗江古城的導(dǎo)游詞英文1

Dear visitors, everybody! I am the guide from you He Re empty, you can call me ho. Today I want to take you visit the place is lijiang city of yunnan province lijiang ancient city, I hope I can accompany you a nice day.

Lijiang ancient city was built in the early yuan dynasty, also known as dayan town, is China's famous historical and cultural city in the only ancient city without walls. Its reason is said to be the old town of lijiang hereditary surname wood, think of the ancient city with the wall as “wood” word box, which read “trapped”, quite unlucky, so after the completion of the old town of lijiang, there is no walls. The ancient city of existing residents 6200 households, more than 25000 people, mostly in the naxi. Here, 30% of the population engaged in textile, made of silver, and other traditional crafts, you can be in play in the process of choosing a few back to hometown, must be a memorable exquisite handicrafts.

Now we've come to the entrance of the old town of lijiang, you see the entrance that reads “l(fā)ijiang” four characters of the brand? We can take a photo here after, to continue our journey...

Good, you packed the camera, check your belongings, we continue to go forward. , in lijiang ancient town, we can see that is full of manual of civil structure of the building, the ubiquitous Bridges, smooth and clean green flag road... Take a look at our feet, the spreading of the slab are red breccia, the rainy season will not muddy, also won't fly ash of the dry season. Look, SLATE and decorative pattern, and the whole city environment bring out the best in each other...

Now everyone's position is the center of the ancient city of lijiang, square street! From the square street, one hundred meters to the east of ancient city and new town at the junction, lijiang ancient town, and there are the most distinctive landscape, large water wheel is one of the old town of lijiang sign.

Everyone can enjoy the scenery, took photos, to savor the “Oriental Venice” beautiful lijiang!

麗江古城的導(dǎo)游詞英文2

Hello everyone! Welcome everyone to visit and play in the ancient city of Lijiang known as the “World Heritage”.

With the lingering jade spring water, we came to the ancient city of Lijiang known as “Plateau Gusu” and “Oriental Venice”. The ancient city of Lijiang is also called Dayan Town. It is one of the four best preserved ancient cities and the only one without walls. why? It is said that the oldest surname of the ruler in Lijiang was “wood”. If the “wood” was framed, it became “sleepy”, so no wall was built for the ancient city.

An ancient city was formed in the late Southern Song Dynasty. It has a long cultural history of more than 800 years. It covers an area of 3.8 square kilometers and has a resident population of about 30,000 people. It became a national historical and cultural city in 1986, and was included in the world cultural heritage in . In addition to the characteristics of “l(fā)ittle bridges, flowing water, and others” in the ancient city of Lijiang, the ancient city of Lijiang is also unique in the location of the ancient city, the layout of streets and houses, and the Naxi houses.

Look! This is a pair of waterwheels. Some people call it a “son-mother waterwheel” and some people call it a “l(fā)over waterwheel”. At the bottom right of it is President Jiang Zemins inscription.

Look! The old Naxi man, wearing a traditional blue national costume and a red army cap, was taking a leisurely walk! Waving to us.

Cool! It turned out to be the spring water sprayed from the water dragon column behind him. The dragon is a pipe of water. The wooden buildings in the ancient city are most afraid of fire, but water can overcome the fire. This water dragon column indicates that the ancient city is not allowed to catch fire. For thousands of years, people here have guarded this beautiful ancient city. Visitors are also invited to take care of the ancient city, do not throw litter, and protect the environment.

There is also a special custom in the ancient city of Lijiang, that is to put river lights. It is said that the river lantern is an ancient custom. It is said that every night, the dragon king of Heilongtan will tour the ancient city along the river and put a river lantern, which not only protects the safety of the ancient city, but also enables himself and his family to be protected by the dragon king, and In the coming days, good luck and wishful thinking come true. After listening to this legend, lets quickly put a river lantern on and make a wish!

Now, we have come to the most famous street in Lijiang Old Town-Sifang Street. This square street is staggered like a cobweb, with one exit for each of southeast, northwest. The ground of the street is paved with colorful stones, and it is very strong. When you step on it with your feet, you will make a very clear sound. Sifang Street is very prosperous, and the inns on the street are not the same. If you go around the inn a few times, you will definitely know the difference between these inns.

Visitors, there are beautiful sceneries everywhere in Lijiang Old Town. I can’t say enough, I hope you will like these sceneries. Everyone is welcome to come again next time! Goodbye!

麗江古城的導(dǎo)游詞英文3

Hello, my fellow friends,Welcome to Lijiang--- this beautiful place. It’s my great honor to be your guide. Today I will take you to the ancient town of Lijiang.

A Brief Introduction to Lijiang

We will get there in a few minutes. So now I will give you a brief introduction to Lijiang. It is located in Lijing Prefecture in the Northwest of Yunnan province. The population of Lijiang Prefecture is over 1 million involving 21 nationalities, for example, the Naxi, Yi, Lisu, Pumi,etc. And later you will see the houses of Naxi people in the ancient town.

Lijiang Prefecture is the major tourist area of Yunnan Province. It contains beautiful natural resources, unique minority amorous feelings, age-old minority cultures, and rich tourist resources. The scenic spots are mainly scattered in Lijiang County and Ninglang County. We can conclude them into:” two mountains, one town, one lake, one river, one culture and one folk custom.”. Two mountains refer to Yulong Snow Mountains and Laojun Mountains, one town is Dayan Town, one lake refers to Lugu lake, one river is Jinsha river, one culture is Dongba Culture and one folk custom refers to the Moso people’s custom, which we call the “Aixa”. What does that mean? I will leave it to you to discover. So you see Lijiang, with its rich resources in plants and animals, the natural beauties and the amazing minority folk customs, attracting more and more tourists from home and abroad.

Soon we will get the the Ancient town of Lijiang, it has a history of almost a thousand years. The scenes are unique and unconventional. It is one of the best historical, cultural cities at the state level in China. It consists of three parts: Dayan、Baisha、Shuhe. So why is it called Dayan? Because it is in the middle of Lijiang basin, and the Lijiang basin looks like a big inkstone, and in Chinese the pronunciation of that is “yan”.

What’s more,it is also a unique city throughout China.Have you heard about it? Yeah,it is a city which has no walls.It expresses the open-minded character of Naxi people.

The Entrance

Ok, everyone, this is the entrance of the Dayan town. Maybe you have already notice the couple of the water wheels over there.Do you know the function of it ? It is used to transport water and to make use of hydropower to grind grains and crops.Besides it is the Chinese Characters written by Jiang Zeming. And there is an eye-catching pillar, we call it “Dragon Post”, which means the water dragon and indicates the wish to avoid the fire in the town.

Let’s get inside and have a look. The Dayan town is famous in China for its old and simple architectural style and the elegant art for the lay-out of the town. In the town the Yuquan River winds in many streams across the town and past all the houses. The roads here are parallel to the streams, and the door of each house is facing a stream. Whatever street and whatever lane you go in ,there is a small stream with small bridges across it here and there. As a saying indicates : A house beside a stream with a small briage across it makes a wonderful scene which you can only find here.” That’s why we regard Dayan town to be the “Oriental Venice”.

Sifang Street

Here we are. In the center of the ancient town, here is the Sifang Street. It is a place for country fair trades. Since ancient times, Sifang Street has been a collecting and distributing center of all kinds of products with travelers and traders going and coming everywhere. On a market day people of different minorities in their unique costumes come here to do business and make the place crowed and noisy. If you spend a whole day here, you can experience the poetic changes here. In the morning, the street stretch its arms and woke up; in the midday, it becomes a busy man; When the night comes, the light is on, it changes into a dressed young lady; And at night it becomes quiet and fell asleep.

Why the street has a name of “Sifang”? There are two kinds of explanation, one is that the ancient leader in Lijiang named it with a meaning of “spread his power around”, and the other is that “Sifang” in Chinese means four directions, and the street has people and goods from every area.

Do you know how do people clean the square? They create three wooden boards as a movable sluice in the western river.When the water overflows, it will remove the sluice, then the streets can be washed automatically. How wonderful!

Kegong Archway

Now you can see the Kegong Archway. “Kegong” means achievements in imperial examinations. A question for you,do you know why do people construct the archway? It is used to commemorate three successful candidates in imperial exam at provincial level .What amazing is that they all came from the same family. So you can understand how much people care about the imperial exam.

Ok, that’s all for my introduction, now you have 30 minutes to appreciate the nearby scenery, help yourselves ! Please be careful and take your time!