玛雅文化实地考察报告(英文)分析.docx

2015 Yucatan Trip ReportOverview of Yucatan TripThe state of Yucatan is located in Southeastern Mexico, which is the major component of Maya region. Specially, it has its own government. We started our field trip from Merida, and made a tour around archaeological sitesto Uxmal, Izamal and Chichen Itza, among which Uxmal and Chichen Itza are the main ruling and ceremonial sites of Maya region. After that, we went to Cancun, a famous tourist city situated along the coast in southeastern Mexico. City Tour in MeridaMerida is the cultural, financial and political capital city as well as the largest city of Yucatan peninsula. It is famous for its rich Mayan history and culture as well as some of other remarkable Mexican archaeological sites, which makes it one of the most important tourist cities in Mexico. Thought back to the history of Merida, we know that it was once a Colonial city, making it have a mixed culture of both local Mayan custom as well as Spanish one. As we walked around the street in Merida, we can see a lot of catholic buildings, which are mostly influenced by prehispanic style as well as some European style such as French. Typically, they organized their traditional town in a Spanish style. Standing in the main street, there is the governors’ palace on one side, and some Catholic Church buildings on the opposite, which is considered to be an organization form that can protect the city. The picture on the left is a famous structure in Merida, the Merida Cathedral. According to our teacher, the cathedral was built on the top of one of the ruined Mayan city. The Spanish rushed in the Mayan city and forced Maya as slaves to build a new religious center in the center of the city for them, which makes the Cathedral look exactly a Spanish style. It is a Catholic Church that built by Mayas, which makes it still remain some typical characteristics of the local custom. For instance, it was highly decorated with beautiful lights all along its walls ad roofs. What