英语平遥古城.ppt

The Ancient City of Pingyao
The wall is ten meters high, 6163 meters around, and three to five meters wide at the top. While the west, north and east walls are straight, the southern one curves, forming a rough square. The northern and southern walls have one gate each, the eastern and western walls, two each. Each gate has a barbican entrance with an inner and an outer door and had a tower above it, three of which have been rebuilt. Each gate used to have a drawbridge to cross the moat, which today is outside three sides of the city and is more than meters deep and meters wide.
Pingyao City Wall
Unique traditional residences
In Pingyao Ancient City are many traditional residences mercial courtyards, 3797 of which are protected and more than 400 of which are intact. These traditional residences are the carriers of history culture, which are valuable for studying its history, folk customs, architecture, and art, and still serve as homes of local people. They e the architectural cultural heritage, which are protected and utilized today.
Carved Gate
Museum of Ancient Residences
The ancient residences not only reflect the level of ancient architecture and the fashion of residences of the time, but they also demonstrate ancient policies, economies, philosophies, ethics, art and customs. These old houses and ruined walls show people how the local people lived in years past.
乔家大院始建于清乾隆二十年(公元1765),以后经过两次扩建和一次增修。第一次看见大院的人都会惊叹它的规模与壮丽雄伟;然而,很少人知道,大院的价值还不到乔家资产的百分之一。
The Qiao’s pound was first built in 1756 in the Qing Dynasty and renovated twice and enlarged once. When people first saw pound, they were astonished to find that plex was so large and magnificent; however, few knew that the value of pound was less than one percent of the family's (fortune) asset
Brick Carving 砖雕
Wood Carving 木雕
由李鸿章(1832-1901,清朝光绪年间的著名将军)亲自书写的“仁周义溥”。当清军与外国侵略者抗争时,乔家向朝廷捐助40万两银子建战舰,李鸿章题词推崇他们的爱国精神。
The tablet 'ren zhou yi fu' displays the handwriting of Li Hongzhang (1832-1901, a fa