英语介绍西湖PPT.ppt

Please bring your camera Class1 A Journey West Lake Summarize: There is a paradise above, so are there Hangzhou and Suzhou below. The finest, most splendid city in the world…where so many pleasures may be found that one fancies oneself to be in the paradise. ------Marco Polo The lake is large, walkways are wide ,the causeways are long. The focus of the exceptionally beautiful city is West Lake The two man-made causeways that divide West Lake into parts The Bai Causeway 1.Lingering snow on the broken bridge 2. The Tale of White Snake 3.The Autumn Moon on a Calm Lake The Su Causeway 1.Spring Dawn at Su Causeway 2.Orioles Singing in the willows 3.The Three Pools Mirroring the Moon Scenic and poetic Lingering snow on the broken bridge At the north end of the causeway is the well-known Broken Bridge, so named because the bridge looks artistically broken in distance when winter snows first melt on the bridge. This was the very place where the hero and heroine met and fell in love, and later on got reunited after many hardships and difficulties. At the west end of the causeway is the Solitary Island. It was on this island that the China’s most traveled emperors of the last dynasty, Kangxi and Qianlong stayed as sightseers after a long distance sailing from Beijing ,through the Grand Canal to Hangzhou. A reviewing platform was built on the southern tip of the island for the emperors to watch the sunrise and the moonlight .Emperor Qianlong named the place The Autumn Moon on a Clam Lake Lined with weeping willow trees and peach flowers, crossed by six arched stone bridges , the Su Causeway is a landscape drawn by the painter and composed by the poet. West lake Su wrote a poem to name the lake after a