TheStarCityChangsha星城长沙.pptxVIP

The Star City ---ChangshaThe?Star?City-Changsha??Situated?in?the?river?valley?along?the?lower?part?of?Xiang?River,?Changsha?is?the?capital?city?of?Hunan?province.?The?recorded?history?of?Changsha?can? be?traced?back?3000?years.?长沙市隶属湖南省，湖南省省会，简称长，地处湖南省东部偏北，湘江下游和湘浏盆地西缘，是全国两型社会建设综合配套改革试验区核心城市，国家十二五规划确定的重点开发区域，湖南省的政治、经济、文化、科教和商贸中心。长沙是楚文明和湘楚文化的发源地，有3000年悠久的历史文化，约有2400年建城史，在春秋战国时期始建城，属楚国。因屈原和贾谊的影响而被称为“屈贾之乡”。长沙又称“楚汉名城”，马王堆汉墓和走马楼简牍等重要文物的出土反映其深厚的楚文化以及湖湘文化底蕴，位于岳麓山下的岳麓书院为湖南文化教育的象征。历史上涌现众多名人，留下众多的历史文化遗迹，成为首批国家历史文化名城。The Star City ---ChangshaTourist Attractions Mount Yuelucovers a total area of 8 square kilometers with its highest peak 297 meters above sea level. Yuelu Academy Yuelu Academy as is known to all that Yuelu Academy is one of the four most prestigious academies over the last 1000 years in China.It has been a famous institution of higher learning as well as a centre of academic activities and cultures since it was formally set up in the ninth year of the Kai Bao Reign of the Northern Song Dynasty (976). Yuelu Academy, surviving the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, was converted into Hunan Institute of Higher Learning in 1903, and Hunan Normal College, Hunan Public Polytechnic School in succession, and was finally named Hunan University in 1926. The Academy has witnessed a history of more than one thousand years without a break, so it is called a “one-thousand-year-old academy”.Well,you may see the couplet hanging on the two sides of the doorway .It reads “The Kingdom of Chu, the unique home of talents; the Academy of Yuelu, the very cradle of all”(惟楚有材，于斯为盛), a quotation which acknowledges the greatness of Yuelu Academy, and points to the historical fact that Yuelu Academy has been considered by many the cradle of the great people of Hunan province.Lushan TempleThe temple is locatde on the side of the mountain.It was built in A.D.268 and later destroyed and rebuilt several times.It was last rebuilt in the 1980s.Yunlu PalaceYunlu Palace, located on the summit of