重庆的英文简介.ppt

Chongqing Chongqing was originally the capital of the State of Ba over three thousand years. The place was called Jiangzhou during the Western Han Dynasty. Later on, it was changed into Yuzhou during the Sui, Tang, Wudai and Northern Song Dynasties. Before long, the place was renamed once more as Gongzhou for a short period of time. By the time when Zhao Dun was conferred the title of Prince Gong, he stayed in this place. For the sake of celebration, he renamed the city of Gongzhou as Chongqing (Double Celebration) immediately after he had ascended the throne. This name remains all the same over the previous eight hundred years, though the scope of this city had sometimes had a little change Chongqing is subtropical（亚热带的）, hot in summer. Hence it had got the name “a furnace（火炉） city”. Meanwhile, Chongqing has also got the renown as a “mountain city” because of its buildings on hillsides and mountains surrounding the city. The climate in Chongqing is often cloudy and misty（有雾的）. As a consequence, it is also called “the fog city”. Moreover, since the average annual precipitation is about 1,000 millimeters, the scene of raining in night appears from time to time In the year of 1362, Ming Yuzhen, the leader of a peasant uprising army during the last period of the Yuan Dynasty, established the peasant regime（政权） of Daxia and assigned this city as its political center. In the year of 1937, soon after Nanjing was occupied by the Japanese invaders, the Kuomingtang government moved from Nanjing to Chongqing and designed the latter as its wartime capital. On account of its great contribution to the victory of the Second World War, on the map of China displayed in the great hall of the United Nations there appear merely the names of the following four cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Chongqing Ever since then, Chongqing has enjoyed chance of development for four times in succession. Being as the war-time capital of China, Chongqing began to develop into a modern indus