厦门作文之厦门旅游英文作文

厦门旅游英文作文

【篇一：厦门英语导游必备：美丽厦门英文介绍全集】

美丽厦门之英文介绍

美丽厦门之英文介绍大全集（一）

01:

厦门英文介绍

about xiamen

02:

厦门八大景八小景

tour xamen

03:

鼓浪屿英文介绍

1 gulangyu island

04:

鼓浪屿英文介绍

2 gulangyu island

05:

厦门市市鸟白鹭

city bird- egrets

06:

厦门市市花三角梅英文介绍

city flower- bougainvillea glabra

07:

厦门南普陀英文介绍

nanputuo temple

08:

集美旅游景点英文介绍

jimei tourist area

09:

同安旅游景点英文介绍

tong’an tourist area

xiamen

厦门英文介绍

xiamen is an island city with a rich and dramatic history,

replete with pirates, rebel leaders, and european merchants.

now linked to mainland fujian by a causeway, xiamen retains a

strong international flavor. known in the west as amoy, xiamen

has a long history as a port city, and later became a center of

british trade in the 19th century. their foreign settlements, later

taken over by japanese invaders at the start of world war ii,

were established on the nearby small gulangyu island. many of

the old treaty-port and colonial buildings in western styles

survive. xiamen was declared one of china’s first special

economic zones in the

early 1980’s, taking advantage of the

city’s heritage as a trading center and the proximity to taiwan.

today xiamen is one of china’s most attractive and best

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maintained resort cities.

xiamen was founded in 1394 at the beginning of the ming

dynasty as a center of defense against coastal pirates. its

prosperity was due to its deepwater sheltered harbor, that

supplanted nearby quanzhou, the port that had been the center

of the maritime trade with the indies.

in the mid-17th century, xiamen and gulangyu island became a

stronghold of zheng chenggong, known in the west as koxinga,

a ming loyalist who held out against the manchu invaders until

being driven to taiwan. born in japan to a chinese pirate father

and a japanese mother, zheng became allied with holdout ming

princes in the south who hoped for a restoration. he built up a

resistance force of some 7,000 junks and a mixed force of

three- quarters of a million troops and pirates. in 1661 he drove

the dutch from taiwan and set up another base there, before

his death in 1662.

after the opium wars xiamen became one of the first treaty

ports to be opened to foreign trade and settlement following

the treaty of nanjing in 1842. gulangyu island was transformed

into an international settlement, where many victorian and

neoclassical style buildings still survive. the city’s prosperity

was due both to trade and to wealth sent back by xiamen’s

substantial emigrant community of overseas chinese.

prosperity returned to xiamen in the early 1980’s when xiamen

was designated one of

the four special economic zones (sezs).

02. tour xiamen (

旅游厦门，八大景八小景

)

xiamen is a well-known tourist port city in the southeast coast

of china. it is one of the cleanest cities of china, the garden

cities of china, the national environmental protection model

cities, and the best sightseeing cities in china. not only being

wealthy with travel resources, xiamen has also temperate

weather, fast and convenient transport and communication,

and complete travel establishments. in the old times, there

were eight major landscapes and eight minor

landscapes landscapes beyond landscapes in xiamen and

altogether 24 scenic spots were included in the three general

terms. some of the 24 sights, such as wonderland of gulang,

five old gentlemen reaching the clouds, watching suise on

hongji summit, night moon by tiger brook, white deer spurting

smoke, still can be traced today.

by reorganizing old landscapes and developing new sceneries,

xiamen has formed five main tourist areas-- gulangyu island

tourist area, nanputuo temple tourist area, wangshi rock

tourist area, huangcuo tourist area and jimei tourist area.

beside its richful travel resources and pleasant weather,

xiamen also provides fast and convenient transportation and

communication, and complete travel

establishments. all makes xiamen one of the most suitable

cities for investors and tourists in china.

yu island

鼓浪屿英文介绍

1

a ten-minute ferry ride off the southwest side of xiamen, the 2

square km (3/4 sq. mile) gulangyu island (island of blown

waves) was the center for foreign

communities who settled here after 1842. many built western-

style mansions,

churches, warehouses, and government buildings which still

survive. sunlight rock (riguang yan) dominates the island from

its modest 93-meter height. the island includes a statue of

koxinga and a koxinga museum (koxinga bowuguan), which

documents the career of that pirate turned resistance leader.

the xiamen museum (xiamen bowuguan) includes more than a

thousand exhibits, including porcelain and jade collections. on

the southern shore of the island is the shuzhuang garden,

which once belonged to a taiwanese businessman who moved

to the island after the japanese took over taiwan in 1895.

yu island

鼓浪屿英文介绍

2

gulangyu, separated from xiamen by the 500-metre-wide egret

river, with an area of 1.77 square kilometres, enjoys a lauditory

title garden on the sea. the original name of the islet was yuan

zhou zi. in the ming dynasty it was renamed gulang, meaning

drum waves, because the holes in the southwestern reefs hit

by the waves make sounds like the drum beating.

overlapping peaks foil the blue water, white clouds, green

trees and bright flowers.

the air in the islet is fresh. the entire place is free from any

sorts of vehicles and is particularly quiet. all these render an

atmosphere of a fairyland.

the roar of the waves breaks on the rocks. impressive

melodies surrounding and lingering on this island make

famous for its piano- laden past. as a place of residence for

westerners during xiamens colonial past, gulangyu is famous

for its architecture and for being home to chinas largest piano

museum. it is known as the piano island because

people here love the piano. as early as 1913, students in

schools run by foreigners started learning the piano. the

enthusiasm for music later spread to more ordinary people on

the island. many piano families have since then come into

being and produced accomplished musicians. and the number

of the pianos possessed is in the leading place in the nation,

though there is only a population of 20,000 people.

no tourist can afford to miss one attraction located on the

island -- the nations largest piano museum. divided into two

exhibition halls, the museum guides

visitors through a vivid history of the instrument with displays

and illustrations. all different types of pianos such as miniature

pianos, automatic pianos, accordion pianos and round-shaped

pianos, are on display.

the architecture in the islet varies greatly in style, chinese and

foreign. thus the islet has a laudatory title the world

architecture museum covered in green all the year round, its

charming, elegant, secluded and serene. a great variety of

villas stand shrouded by lush wood resembling numerous

jadeites embellished upon a piece of verdant silk brocade.

hundreds of flowers grown on the riguang rock (sunlight rock)

vie with one another for beauty. with the caressing sea breeze,

its a quite cool place in hot summer. at the foot of the rock,

theres the memorial hall to honor the national hero zheng

chenggong.

today, gulangyu is listed as one of the nations major scenic

spots. the main sites of interest here include the sunlit rock,

shuzhuang park, gangzihou bathing beach and memorial hall

to zheng chenggong, which are visited annually by millions of

people from all parts of the country and the world. for people

living in the hustle and bustle of todays metropolis, citizens on

this island seem to live in a paradise with a relaxing, healthy

and placid lifestyle. find more in our detailed introduction of

the major attractions in gulangyu tourist area.

05. city bird-egrets

厦门市市鸟白鹭

egrets are the worlds rare birds. they belong to heron family of

bird class. xiamen boasts small egrets, middle egrets, large

egrets, chinese egrets and gray egrets, which dwell are the

only five types of herons ever seen in china. people choose to

call them egrets (bailu in chinese) collectively because they,

except the gray egrets, which have dark gray body-feathers,

have beautiful snow-white feathers. the small and midium-

sized egrets are of the largest numbers and are seen more