丽江导游词英文.doc

PAGE  PAGE 35 丽江导游词英文 The Ancient Town of Lijiang Ladies and gentleman: I am very pleased to serve as your tour guide. Today we are going to visit the ancient town of Lijiangbefore we get there, I?d like to give you a brief introduction to it. Located in northwest of YN province, Lijiang is about 580 kilometers away from KM with an average elevation of 2400 meters. The population of Lijiang is about 1.12 million. Among which the population of Naxi the main nationality here, is 260000.so how about the surroundings of Lijiang. Located in the north of Lijiang town, the Yulong snow mountains is the southernmost modern marine glaciers in the temperate zone of the north hemisphere. the other famous scenic spots around Lijiang are the Laojunshan mountain, Lugu lake and the Tiger Leaping Gorge which are also very famous and attracted many tourists. The famous characteristics of Naxi culture are the 3 living fossils, they arethe character fossil. Created in Tang Dynasty, the Dongba character was regarded as the only existing hieroglyph; and the music fossil, the Naxi ancient music, later we will fully appreciate the beauty and mystery of the music, I will give you more details; and the third fossil is the human society fossil, the Mosuo matriarchal family.Most Mosuo people living near the Lugu lake still practice their ?walking marriage? custom. At night the man comes to the woman?s house and return to his house in the morning, so they live separately. Women manage the households and yield works, play a more important role than men in family life.