峡口三游洞.ppt

Scenic Spot around the Entrance of Xiling Gorge Opening The scenic spot where we are going to visit lies around the entrance of Xiling Gorge. You know, Xiling Gorge is the longest gorge of Three Gorges and famous for its dangerous and spectacular location. Therefore, today you can not only overlook the magnificent view of Xiling Gorge， but enjoy the beautiful scenery of the scenic spots on the entrance of Xiling Gorge. The site is only 8km away from the Yichang downtown. It covers an area of 142 km2, east to the Gezhouba Dam and west to the Three Gorges Dam, usually called “the gate of three gorges, the throat of Sichuan and Hubei”. 三峡门户，川鄂咽喉 The whole site consists of： Sanyou cave 三游洞 Leizu Temple 嫘祖庙 Taohua Cun (The Peach Blossom Park) 桃花村 The Baima Cave 白马洞 The Happy Vallley 快乐谷 The Longquan Cave 龙泉洞 The Xialaoxi Stream 下牢溪 The Xianrenxi Ecotourism Site 仙人溪生态旅游区 Brief Introduction 1. Sanyou Cave （Three Visitors Cave）, in the sheer cliff at the northern side of Xiling Gorge, 7 kilometers away from Yichang, offers possible the best cave scenery in the Three Gorges area. The Cave is at least 500--600 million years old. So it’s a famous scenic spot in Yichang, as well as key historic and cultural site under government protection. 三游洞简介 三游洞摩崖Cliffside Inscriptions ，简称三游洞，位于湖北省宜昌市西北7公里的长江边的山崖上，它背靠长江三峡的西陵峡口，面临下牢溪，洞奇景异，山水秀丽，是湖北省著名名胜古迹， 2006年5月25日，宜昌市三游洞摩崖被列入第六批全国重点文物保护单位。 夷陵有夷山，夷山多名洞。 三游最著名，喧传至唐宋。 In 819 D.C., Yuanhe 19th year of the Tang Dynasty, the great poet Bai Juyi and his younger brother came cross another great poet Yuan Zhen. The three visited the cave together and they played there for the whole night. They thought that there was no place better than this fairy cave. Then Bai Juyi wrote the Preface to the cave: “Since the three of us are the first to visit this cave, I name it Three Visitors Cave.” “以吾三人始游，故为三游洞” Thus the cave gained the name after the three poet travele