大足石刻英语导游词.doc

Hello everybody，may I get your attention please？I’m your local guide from rock carving travel agency. Today I will get you to Dazu rock carving. I’m so glade to do this and I’m always at your service.Ok first let me give a brief introduction of dazu rock carving. Dazu County was located in the southeast of the Chongqing municipality. It was found in first year of Qianyuan（建元） in Tang dynasty (758 a.d.)， The name of Dazu County which suggested that of harvest and abundance has a long history of more than 1240 years.The Dazu Rock Carvings started around 650 during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) and continued through the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty (1616-1911). Today, it is enjoys equal popularity with Dunhuang frescos壁画 and forms the trilogy（三部曲） with Yungang and Longmen Grottoes . And in 1999,it was listed as world cultural heritage by UNESCO.Go up to mount Omei, and go down to Baoding Shan. The spots of rock carvings at Baoding Shan, Beishan, Nan Shan, Shizhuanshan and Shimenshan have been tourist resorts since ancient times. 14 km away from Dazu County ,stone caring on Mount Baoding were created from 1179 to 1249 in the South Song Dynasty. The person in charge was Zhao Zhifeng,who was born in Xueliang township of?Dazu?County,several km away from mount Baoding.He became a monk when he was five, and moved to?the western?part of Sichuan Province to?learn Buddhism when he was 16.Then he returned home and had the Buddhism “Daochang”built under his care. He dedicated his following 70 years to this course until he passed away at eh age of 90,when the forest of statues was completed at a preliminary level.The?Buddha Bay we are seeing now is the?major?part of the stone carvings on mount Baoding.Baoding Shan, Which has come to be known as the Mountain of Efficacy{efikes} under Heaven world, receive tens of thousands of visitors and tourists on the 19th of the second month of each Chinese lunar year, the date said to be the birthday of Thousand-Armed Awalokitesvara. Thi