谁有宁波英文简介?要有介绍景点的!别走题了

谁有宁波英文简介?
要有介绍景点的!别走题了

Ningbo is home to the 7,000-year-old Hemudu Neolithic Culture. It has China’s existing oldest private library. It boasts Legend of Butterfly Lovers, cloth dragon (Fenghua), Pingdiao Opera (Ninghai) and cinnabar and gold lacquer wood carving, which have been listed in China’s first batch of Intangible Cultural Heritage Catalog. This place is home to the East Zhejiang School in Ming and Qing Dynasties. It has been in the forefront of modern China’s Westernization Movement Reform after the Opium War and the foreland where western and Chinese Cultures meet.
It is often said that country thrives with the efforts by its people, and a city becomes famous because of its culture. Today, on this land with long history of culture and prosperous economy, the drive of building of a cultural city has been started, to carry on the fine tradition of being a famous historical and cultural city.
From Dynasties of Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing to Modern Times
Ningbo is like a museum without walls, where historical and cultural relics are found everywhere. It boasts 22 items of cultural relics under the protection of the state. The number will increase to 296 if all the cultural relics under the protection of the state, Zhejiang province and Ningbo city are included. To take the less than 1-km-long West Zhongshan Road for example, along its two sides from the west end to the east, it presents the cultural landscape ranging from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties to today.
The Tang Tower, standing on the pavement of the Xiaowen Street, was built in the 4th year of Xiantong Reign (863 A.D.). The tower demonstrates the rational spirit of Mingzhou (now called Ningbo) people in the Tang Dynasty and their pursuit of beauty. In the south of West Zhongshan Road, there is a stone pavilion in the northeast corner of the Moon Lake, lower than the road level. It is named ‘Tablet Pavilion in the Water’. A big Chinese Character ‘Ping’ is written on the tablet. This pavilion was built in the South Song Dynasty for monitoring of the water level. It was used to prevent flood, waterlog and drought. This is the first ancient hydrological station that has ever been found in the country.
On the other side of West Zhongshan Road, there is the only remains of a large-scale warehouse of an ancient local city in the country, namely the Yongfeng Warehouse Site of the Yuan Dynasty. It was discovered at the end of 2002. It covers an area of 9,600 M2. Altogether, more than 800 cultural relics of the Song and Yuan Dynasties were excavated, which indicates Ningbo ’s status in transportation and trade with the outside world in history.
The former residence houses of the Fan’s built in Ming Dynasty pose harmoniously with the Tang Tower and Drum Tower one street apart. The residence houses are of local house style, built more than 400 years ago, whose owner, by the name of Fan Yinai, was a descendant of Fan Zhongyan, a famous official in North Song Dynasty.
The Drum Tower standing on Zhenming Road, opposite to the Zhongshan Road, which was the north-south axial line of the ancient city, was rebuilt during the Xianfeng Reign of the Qing Dynasty. It used to be the south gate of the inner-city built by the mayor of Mingzhou in the first year of Changqing Reign in Tang Dynasty (A.D.821). It was destroyed and rebuilt many times in history. The Drum Tower symbolizes the formal establishment of Ningbo city and has witnessed the vicissitudes of the city.
Eastward from the Drum Tower and not far away is the three-river confluence, the heart of the city. Ningbo’s mother river Yaojiang River running from Hemudu, a place with 7,000-year culture joins the Fenghua River in downtown Ningbo It eventually flows to the East China Sea. Around the three-river confluence, there stands Qianye (Banking) Guild Hall. It was a place where people of the financial industry met and did business. It is the only completely preserved architecture of private banking industry in China. There is also Qing’an Guild Hall built in the 3rd year of Xianfeng Reign in the Qing Dynasty (1853 A.D.). It was the entertainment venue for ship owners and workers sailing to Liaoning, Hebei and Shangdong Provinces, and the hall enshrines a Matsu statute, the goddess of the sea. There is a Catholic church built in the 11th year of Tongzhi Reign in the Qing Dynasty (1872 A.D.). It marked Ningbo being one of the ‘Five Treaty Ports’ during the Opium War. The north bank of the Yongjiang River used to be the residence area of foreigners and is now called the Old Bund, which dated back to a period earlier than the famous Shanghai Bund.
A City of Books and Scholars in the South
The 100-km-long Yaojiang River has nurtured generations of talents. Both Wang Yangming, the creator of Yangming School well known overseas, and Huang Zongxi, the originator of East Zhejiang School, have left deep traces in China’s history of philosophy and thoughts. As an old proverb goes, there is ‘the Tianyi Pavilion Museum in the city and the Baiyun Village outside the city’. Ningbo people are proud of these two places, because the Baiyun Village is the prominent place for East Zhejing Academics and the historical site for East Zhejiang School. Besides, it was the venue where Huang Zongxi lectured for the longest period in Ningbo and spread his influence. The Tianyi Pavilion, where Huang Zongxi read books, still remains standing today. The Tianyi Pavilion, which was built in 1561 by Fan Qin, is the oldest private library still existing in China, as well as the oldest library in Asia and one of the three oldest private libraries in the world. That is why Ningbo enjoys the reputation of a city of books in the South.
The descendants of the Fan’s Family attached great importance to education. For more than 400 years, Tianyi Pavilion has preserved the tradition of being a ‘place of education’. Both Tianyi Pavilion and its neighboring Qin's Ancestral Temple once ran schools, the former ran private schools called ‘Si Shu’ and the latter ran primary schools. Therefore Ningbo people have long formed the tradition of valuing education. Since ancient times, numerous personages were brought up in Ningbo, including high officials, rich businessmen, notable scholars, ethnic heroes and scientists, etc.
Ningbo city has also produced many states-people. For example, as early as in South Song Dynasty, 3 prime ministers came from the Shi’s There have emerged a great many literary figures, like Zhang Xiaoxiang, Wu Wenying, Wan Sitong, Quan Zuwang in the ancient times and Rou Shi, Yinfu, Wanren in the contemporary era, and Yu Qiuyu, Fen Jicai in modern times. There are national heroes such as Qian Sule and Zhang Cangshui, and revolutionary martyrs like Wang Kun, Li Min are. In the field of science and technology, the number of academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering from Ningbo has risen to 93, which is No.1 among all the cities in China. In the art circle, Ningbo has Sha Menghai, the master in the calligraphy world, Pan Tianshou, the master of traditional Chinese painting, Zhou Xinfang, the famous Peking Opera singer, etc. Stephen Chow (famous Hongkong film actor) and famous cello player Yo-Yo Ma also like to call themselves “ Ningbonese”.
Cultural and Sports Events
Tianyi Pavilion used to be the spiritual home of Ningbo people. Nowadays, the cultural life in Ningbo is becoming even more colorful. In recent years, Ningbo has completed its public culture and sports service system. A 15-minute cultural activity circle with many cultural and sports facilities has been set up in the central urban areas. The three-river cultural corridor gives a panorama view of the cultural city. Typical cultural leisure areas such as the Old Bund, City Exhibition Hall, Art Museum, Music Hall, Grand Theatre, Time Square, Riverside Park, together with Ningbo City of Books, Ningbo Museum, Ningbo Merchants Museum, Wantou Leisure Tourist Area, Mass Art Activity Center and all kinds of water-sports facilities which are under construction or expansion combine perfectly with the historical sites. The city has finished 3,000 fitness roads. Over 70% of administrative villages have set up sports facilities, which to the largest extent spur people’s enthusiasm for sports. The village culture, community culture, enterprise culture, campus culture in the city are rapidly developing.
With the first-class cultural and sports facilities Ningbo has hosted a large number of activities of classic art, festivals, contests and sports games, such as the 3rd China International Competition for Singers, which has now settled down in Ningbo, the 9th China International Children’s Film Festival, The 1st Popular Music Contest of The 6th China Golden Bell Award for Music, The 9th China Drama Festival & The 12th BeSeTo Drama Festival, and main-venue activities for the 2006 “Spring Brings You a Poem”.
Last year, Ningbo held totally 23 international and domestic matches or contests such as International Women’s Volleyball Tournament, the finals of Women's World Volleyball Grand Prix, Dongqian Lake World Invitation Race of Dragon Boat, National Boxing Championship, the preliminary trampoline contest of The 6th National City Sports Meeting, the home games of Bayi men's and women’s basketball teams, etc. What more, after the Chinese women’s volleyball team chose Ningbo as its training base in the year before last, another 3 national teams chose Ningbo as their training base last year. They are Chinese Table Tennis Training Base in Beilun District, Chinese International Chess Training Base in Yinzhou District and Chinese Sepak Takraw Training Base in Zheda Ningbo Institute of Technology. Chinese Women’s Volleyball Team will continue to take Beilun District as its home court during 2009 to 2012. The team’s main international matches during the next round of Olympic period will take place there.
Flourishing Literature
Ningbo’s literary creation has maintained a sound momentum of development. Outstanding literary works are increasing year by yea. Over 100 masterpieces have been awarded national permanent literary prizes and the individual awards have been won for over 20 person times. Many breakthrough achievements have been made, such as winning prizes of Best Works Award, Wenhua Award (for professional theatrical artworks), China Broadcasting and TV Award, Lu Xun Literature Award and Galaxy Award, etc.
In the chart of Chinese Novels 2006, the saga novel Love is Guilty by the Ningboese writer Ai Wei ranks No.2. In the appraisal of The 4th Lu Xun Literature Award, the author and poet Rong Rong was awarded National Excellent Poetry Anthology Award with his poetry anthology See. China’s Romany, the theoretical work on folk custom written by Wang Jing was awarded the first prize of Chinese folk art Shanhua Prize. The broadcasting play directed and broadcasted by Xin Xueli of Ningbo Radio won national prizes for several times. After being awarded National Golden Mike Award, Xin Xueli was awarded Changjiang River Taofen Prize, which is the highest prize in journalistic circle. She became the first journalist in Zhejiang Province to win the prize.
TV Series Creation is the strong point of Ningbo’s literary creation. Since the ‘10th Five-Year-Plan’ period, 2 TV Series have won Best Works Award, 5 won National Feitian Award for TV Series, 6 have won Provincial Feitian Award and Peony Award, 3 have been broadcast in CCTV. The annual production of TV series in Ningbo has numbered over 100 episodes.