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PAGE  PAGE 20 西安碑林英文导游词 西安碑林 Good morning, Ladies and gentlemen. Today we are going to visit the treasure house of ancient calligraphy and stone carving art of China, the Museum of Forest of Stone Tablets, which is located at the site of Confucian temple in SanXue Street, Xi’an. This museum was set up in 1087 and it collected more than 3000 stone tablets from the Han dynasty through the Qing dynasty. The whole area consists of 3 parts: Confucian temple, exhibition of stone tablets and stone carvings.//总述 Here we can see this museum is very beautiful because it used the tradition Chinese courtyard style. So compared with other places, this museum is always quite peaceful and very silence. Now I’d like to take this temple as an example to talk a little bit about Confucian, the great philosopher, educationist, politician in feudal society. And he was highly respected by Chinese. In order to show the respect for him, all the Confucian temple have no gate facing south, as this one showing only the gate open to the east and west what we called the gate of righteousness and courtesy respectively. //简介孔子 Ok, now this way please. Inside this museum, we can see a wooden Memorial arch standing here; its Chinese name is “PaiLou”. It is set up to honor or commemorate a distinguished person; as we continue our walking, now we are on the bridge over pond in half circle which is special structure of Confucian temple, in the ancient time only those students who passed state examination would be allowed to pass here.//太和元气坊