西安钟鼓楼英文导游词

西安鼓楼始建于明洪武十三年（公元1380年），比钟楼的建造时间稍早。鼓楼建于高大的长方形台基之上，台基下辟有高和宽均为6米的南北向券洞。以下是西安钟鼓楼英文导游词，欢迎借鉴！

Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen:

Today we will have three places to visit—the Bell Tower the Drum Tower and the City Well. First we come to the Bell Tower.

The Bell Tower, a classical building with carved beams and painted rafters, has been served as the symbol of Xi’an. It stands in the center of the downtown area where the north street, the south street, the west street and the east street meet. And the tower house a huge bell which in ancient times was use to strike the time every morning. This is how the tower got its name. now it is an important historical monument in shaanxi Province.

The Bell tower was first built in Ying Xiang temple in 1384 during the Ming dynasty. It was moved to its present site in 1582 as a result of the city‘s expansion program.

Ladies and gentlemen, There is a story about the Bell Tower. It’s said that the first emperor of Ming dynasty , Zhu yuanzhang , he was born in a poor family. Both his parent died when he was young, and he had to live a hard life. Later, he went to a temple to become a monk. When he ascended the throne, he was afraid of being deposed by someone of “real dragon”. Therefore, he gave orders to build bell tower all over the county to repress the “dragon spirits”. Xi’an has been the imperial capital city since ancient times. So the “dragon spirits ” must be very strong here. That’s why the bell tower in Xi’an was not only built earlier, but also bigger than the other ones in the country. The base of the tower is 1,337.4 square meters in size, 8.6 meters high and 35.5 meters wide. It was laid with blue bricks all over. The whole building is 36 meters above ground. It is a brick-and –wood structure. The eaves are supported by colored “dou gong” a traditional structural system in which brackets are used to join columns and crossbeams, the use of dou gong made the whole building firm and beautiful.

Well, next we will visit the Drum Tower nearly.

The Drum Tower stands 500 meters to the northwest of the Bell Tower. It was built in 1380. There used to be a huge drum in the tower, which told the time at dark, and that is how the tower got its present name. Besides marking the time, the drum was also used to give warnings to people in times of war. The base of The Drum Tower is 1,924 square meters in size, and 34 meters in height. It was built with blue bricks. The Drum Tower has a rectangular shape and shows tier and the outside eaves are decorated with networks of wood arches.

At last, we will visit the famous city wall of Xi’an. The most complete and the best preserved city wall in china.

The city wall of Xi’an is an extension of the

prior Tang dynasty structure. It was stared in 1370 and finished in 1378 and has a rectangular –shaped construction. It is over 4 kilometers from the east to west and about 3 kilometers from the north to south. And the total length is 13.7 kilometers. It stands 12 meters high, 12-14 meters wide across the top and 15-18 meters thick at the button. On the top of the city wall, there is a rampart every 120 meters, which extends out from the main wall. The top of the rampart is at the same level as the top of the wall. The ramparts were built to allow soldiers to see those enemies who would try to climb up the wall. The distance between every two ramparts is just within the range of arrow shot from either side. This allowed soldiers to protect the entire wall without exposing themselves to the enemy. There are altogether 98 of them on the city wall and each has a sentry building on top of it.

There are four main gates of the city wall-one on each side-named the east gate, the west gate, south gate and north gate. The four gates of the city wall were the only way to go into and out of town. In Xi’an, each of the four gates consists of three gate towers. The main gate tower is called ZhengLou which is located on top of the main part of the city wall. It is the inner one and is also the main entrance to the city. Zha lou is the gate tower which a suspension bridge and located outside of the city wall. It’s used to lift and lower the suspension bridge. Jian lou is the arrow tower and located in between the Zhenglou and Zhaloutowers. There are square windows in the front and on the two sides to shoot arrows. Jianlou and Zhenglou are connected by walls and the encircled area is called Wongcheng in which soldiers could be stationed. From Wongcheng, there are also horse passages leading to the top of the wall. There are altogether eleven horse passages around the city.

A watch tower is located on each of the four corners of the wall. The one at the southwestern corner is round, probably after the model of the imperial city wall of the Tang dynasty. But the other three are square and are higher and larger than the sentry building on the ramparts. This shows the strategic importance of the corners of the city wall.

All right, we have finished visiting the famous city wall of Xi’an. Thank you.

西安鼓楼是所存在中国最大的鼓楼，位于西安城内西大街北院门的南端，东与钟楼相望。鼓楼始建于明太祖朱元璋洪武十三年，清康熙三十八年和清乾隆5年先后两次重修。楼上原有巨鼓一面，每日击鼓报时，故称“鼓楼”。

鼓楼横跨北院门大街之上。鼓楼和钟楼是一对孪生兄弟，相距仅半里，互相辉映，为古城增色。鼓楼是明洪武十三年（公元1380年）建成的，比当初的钟楼早建4年。楼基面积比钟楼楼基大738.55平方米，通高34米，雄杰秀丽不亚于钟楼。古时楼上悬挂一面

大鼓，傍晚时击鼓向全城居民报时，故称鼓楼

古时击钟报晨，击鼓报暮，因此有“晨钟暮鼓”之称。同时，夜间击鼓以报时，“三鼓”，就是“三更”，“五鼓”就是“五更”，一夜共报5次。明代的西安城周长11.9公里，面积是8.7平方公里，鼓楼地处西安城中部偏西南，为使鼓声能传遍全城，就必须建造高楼，设置大鼓。明、清两代，鼓楼周围大多是陕西行省、西安府署的各级衙门，这些衙门办公和四周的居民生活都离不开鼓声，鼓声亦成为当时人们最熟悉的悦耳之声了。李允宽所书写的“声闻于天”的匾额，画龙点睛，说明了鼓楼的实际意义。

现在楼内设有楼梯，登临楼上，凭栏便能眺望全城景色。西安鼓楼是城内明清建筑物的主要标志和代表之一。

从50年代开始，人民政府曾多次修缮鼓楼，90年代又贴金描彩，进行了大规模的维修，为进一步开发和利用文物资源，促进文化旅游事业的发展，恢复 “晨钟暮鼓”，1996年西安市决定重制鼓楼大鼓。重制的大鼓高1.8米，鼓面直径为2.83米，系用整张优质牛皮蒙制而成。鼓腹直径3.43米，重1.5 吨。上有泡钉1996个，寓意1996年制，加上4个铜环共2000年，象征公元2000年，催人奋进，跨入二十一世纪。该鼓声音洪亮、浑厚，重槌之下，十里可闻，是中国最大的鼓。在钟楼和鼓楼之间，开辟为钟鼓楼广场，绿草红花点缀其间，造型独特的声光喷泉不时变换，是古城人民休闲、娱乐的好去处。