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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
01.About 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-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.
03.Gulangyu 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.
04.Gulangyu 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 Xiamen's colonial past, Gulangyu is famous for its architecture and for being home to China's 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 nation's 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, it's 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, it's a quite cool place in hot summer. At the foot of the rock, there's the Memorial Hall to honor the national Hero Zheng Chenggong.
Today, Gulangyu is listed as one of the nation's 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 today's 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 world's 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
frequently. On October 23 of 1986, at the 23rd Session of the Standing Committee of the 8th Municipal People's Congress it was decided that the egret be the City Bird of Xiamen.
06.City Flower-Bougainvillea glabra 厦门市市花三角梅英文介绍
The City Flower was decided by the Standing Committee of the Eighth People's Congress of Xiamen City on October 23, 1986 in its 20th conference. The scientific name of the flower is Bougain Villeasp. It is an evergreen clamber bush or a hanging down shrub, which belongs to the category of bougain of the
bongainvillea family. It is a wood nature liana. The nature of its leaves has the luster. Its flower is small and blooms on the top. The flower usually grows in
clusters in the bud plate. The three big bud plates are very distinctive, constructing a major object sight for enjoying. In ancient times, it was called "Nine Layers of Vine". It is called "Leaves Tiny Flower" and "Triangular Flower" in North China and it was called "Bougain" as translated in sound from English in Hongkong. It was originally planted in Brazil of South America and it is a long time since it was imported and planted in China in 1972.
It has a great number of varieties, and large amount of colors. It has the nurture color of red, orange, yellow, white and purple, and it has the shape of single petal flower, double petal flower and mottled plate flower etc. It couples hardness with softness, and it is simple and unadorned. It is easy to plant and possesses such variety of colors, so it can be used to make potted landscape. As a result, to use the Triangular Shaped Plum Blossom as the city flower, to plant it broadly and to take care of it will not only afforest and beautify Xiamen, but also better show the style and features of Xiamen, the character of Xiamen people and the rapid Development of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone.
07. Nanputuo Temple厦门南普陀英文介绍
Situated at the foot of Wulao Peak on the southern end of Xiamen is nanputuo Temple. The temple's Heavenly King Hall, the main prayer hall, the Hall of Great Compassion and the Shrine of Buddhist Scriptures are all graced with painted brackets.
The temple was first built during the Tang Dynasty (618-907). And rebuilt during the
Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), it is now an imposing multi-layered trapezoidal structure that overlooks the sea. The Shrine of Buddhist Scriptures houses a huge collection of Buddhist cultural relics, including a Burmese jade carving of the Buddha and many important
Buddhist literature. It is one of the sacred places of Buddhism in Southern Fujian. Inside the temple there are the Heaven King's Hall, the Daxiong Hall, the Great Compassion Hall, all of which are built in an exquisite and grand style.
Enshrined in these halls are the statues of Maitreya, Sanshi Reverend Buddha,
Thousand-handed Guanyin (Bodhisattva), Four Kings of Heaven, and the eighteen arhats. Although all are serious and solemn in appearance, each is distinctly different from
another. The temple attracts a large number of pilgrims at home and abroad. The excellent craftsmanship of the Thousand-handed Guanyin is marked by its thousand hands and thousand eyes and glistening golden color.
As to the Pavilion where Buddhist scriptures are kept, it has a rich collection of the
historical articles of Buddhism. such as classics, statues of Buddhas, bronze bells from the Song Dynasty, calligraphic works and paintings from the ancient times. Among them,
"Intriguing Lotus Scripture" written in blood in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and the statue of Guanyin in white porcelain, a masterpiece of He Chaosong, are most valuable.
In the temple are preserved many inscriptions, among which the stone inscriptions written by Chen Di and Sheng Yourong in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and the one on a stone stele written by Emperor of the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty are most famous. Behind the temple, inscribed on the wall of a rock is a large word "Buddha" which is 4.66 metres in height and 3.33 metres in width. And farther behind, high up on the mountain stands a screen of five peaks coloured by green trees and bamboos and marked by serene valleys and rocks of pleasing shapes. They are called "Five Old Gentlemen Reaching the Clouds," and are one of the eight grand sights of Xiamen. Coming to the top, you not only have a view of the mountain undulating in the wind, but also the view of the sea surging in the distance.
Behind Nanputuo Temple, inscribed on the wall of a rock is a large word "Buddha" which is 4.66 metres in height and 3.33 metres in width. And farther behind, high up on the
mountain stands a screen of five peaks coloured by green trees and bamboos and marked by serene valleys and rocks of pleasing shapes. They are called "Five Old Gentlemen Reaching the Clouds," and are one of the eight grand sights of Xiamen.
Look from far, the five peaks wreathed by clouds are just like five old men with white beard and hair who have experienced enough swift changes of the world and are looking far into the vast sea. Coming to the top, you not only have a view of the mountain undulating in the wind, but also the view of the sea surging in the distance.
08.Jimei Tourist Area 集美旅游景点英文介绍
Jimei is a suburb of Xiamen City connected to xiamen Island by a 2,212-metre long granite causeway. Jimei is also the residence of Mr. Tan Kah-kee, a famous
overseas Chinese philanthropist. Encircled by the sea on three sides, the town is known for its magnificent buildings combining western and oriental styles and picture-postcard sceneries. As a tourist site, Jimei has the following attractions to offer: Jimei School Village, Aoyuan (Turtle Garden), Returnees' Hall, Xiamen Bridge and Wanbao Hill Sightseeing Farms.
Jimei School Village is a general name for all schools and cultural institutions here. It was built by Mr.Tan Kah-kee in 1913. After decades of development, the village now covers a floor space area of over 100,000 square kilometers and there are more than 10,000 students in it. The higher learning institutions are Xiamen Aquatic Products College, Jimei Navigation College, and Jimei Finance and Economy Institute and Business
Administration College, etc. There are also secondary specialized schools, middle schools, primary schools, kindergartens and nurseries schools in the village. In addition to the schools metioned above, one may find here auditoriums, swimming pools, stadiums,
篇二：英文版的厦门介绍
Xiamen is one of the most important ports and one of the most popular tourist destinations in China.over 30 yeas ago,Xiamen became a special economic zone and it play the full potential meant by that name.now,Xiamen is known for been one of China’s livable cities,the recipient of the 2004 UN-Habitat Scroll of Honor Award and winner of the China Model City for Social Development award for three consecutive time with the highest scoring.Xiamen is located in the subtropical Pacific coast of southeast of China,a short distance from Taiwan over the Taiwan Strait.with an annual mean temperature of 21 degrees Celsius.Xiamen is comfortable in all four seasons.Xiamen is proud of it’s beautiful environment..40.4% of it’s urban area is green space .The sea ,the stretching beaches ,the hills,the wild egrets and the flourishing plants and flowers combine to make Xiamen an enchangting coastal capital.Xiamen not only has a long history,it is also a melting port of the East and West cultures where traditions and modernity live side by side.Gulanyu Island,the most well known tourist attraction of Xiamen,is named Piano Island or Music Island,Xiamen is the hometown of the Gezi Opera and Nanyin Opera.the Nanyin Opera is a millennium old art form carrying ancients Chinese features.buildings with mixed Chinese and Western architectural styles strew the city.Lacquer thread sculpture,a local folk art craft,live through centries and is still popular today.with a wide variety of tea, the interesting local ways of tea brewing and numerous type of cuisines,Xiamen is a place to taste the best of life.Xiamen is open to new idears and as a result,it has become one of China’s most competitive cities.It’s economic strength finds only finf a few competitors in the country.the extentive land air and sea transport capacity,the abundance of human resources,the business-frendly investment policies and the well-functioning public services help establish Xiamen’s strong image as city on the fast rising pace.Xiamen port is the 7th largest port in China where over a hundred million tons of cargo is handed every year ang its container throughput is the 19tn largest in the word.Xiamen international airport is the 5th largest airport in China in terms of international arrivals and dpartures.to meet the future demands,Xiamen has embarked on building a new airport with a designed passenger capacity of 75 million.Xiamen is so easily accessible through shipping routes,air routes,freeways and railways that is has become the transportation hub on the southeast coast of China.in November 2011,China City Development Academy issued the Evaluation of Chinese Cities on Comprehensive Development in which Xiamen ranked first for its well-balanced development.
篇三：厦门景点英文介绍
1.厦门大学介绍：
Xiamen University, located in Xiamen, Fujian province, is the first university in China founded by overseas Chinese. Before 1949, it was originally known as the University of Amoy. The university is one of many comprehensive universities directly administered by the Chinese Ministry of Education. In 1995 it was included in the list of the "211" Project for the state key construction; in 2000 it became one of China’s higher-level universities designated for the state key construction of the 985 Project.
2.厦门中山路介绍： Zhongshan road, is the oldest commerce street in Xiamen with crowds of people traveling everyday for its various commodities. Zhongshan Road is reflection of the prosper of Xiamen. In other words, Zhongshan Road is the spokesman of Xiamen and the pride of Xiamen residents.
3.珍珠湾介绍：
Xiamen Pearl Beach is a local beach and the number of tourists here is not that large. The scenery here is really fantastic and you can have a chance to closely enjoy the sunshine on the beach. Many couple will choose to take their wedding photo here. 4.曾厝垵介绍：It used to be a fishing village. Later as the tourism increased the consumption, the residents in the village started to build houses at their own will. Thus a mussy architectural style here came into being which now however becomes its characteristic. Different from the noisy in the urban district, here all you can feel is nothing but purity and peace.
5.鼓浪屿
Gulangyu Island once named Yuansha continent and Yuansha zi, gained its current name in Ming Dynasty, because the Sea Cave, to the southwest of the sea, was lapped against by tides, with noise seemingly coming from striking drums. Because of history, the buildings of various styles home and abroad, gathered and persevered well here, has the name of "Gallery of World Architecture ". The small island, also the fertile soil for music, from which there are many famous people. It has got the beautiful name of "The island of music" and "The village of music", for it has the largest number of pianos.
6.海底世界
Xiamen underwater world has novel facilities novel and modern equipment. The most prominent is the facilities of subsea tunnel. Subsea tunnel is 80 meters long, 1.5 meters wide. Steppin into the tunnel and standing in the way of electric scooter, u can see the concave on both sides of the fish pond. Passengers without diving into the underwater world can swim with fish, watching all sides around the world of fish. The stream never stops flowing. You can see that the ferocious sharks with sharp teeth passes by , big fish glides from the top of your head, and divers’ performances of feeding and so on.
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