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1.The Lotus Mountain is one of the new Eight Sights of the Goat City in Panyu District of Guangzhou about 20 kilometers away from the city.In the mountain area, there is a well-preserved ancient quarry dating back 2000 years, a pagoda built during the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty, an old castle constructed during the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty and a newly set-up Guanyin Statue which is the tallest of its kind in the world.2.The Lotus Mountain comprises 48 red-rock hills.The red sandstone here,with its high density and fine grains,is a kind of good material.So, as far back as the 2nd century BC during the Western Han Dynasty,people had started quarrying stones here for construction.3.The Lotus Pagoda is 50 meters high and was built at the highest point of the main peak.Therefore,in the past, it often served as a navigation mark for the ships that sailed upstream from the Lingding Ocean along the Pearl River to Guangzhou.4.In Chinese Buddhism, Guanyin has 36 incarnations.Before the Tang Dynasty, it used to appear as a male and was gradually changed into female afterwards.She looks sedate and kind.With a magic vase and a willow branch in her hands,she has supernatural power to bring the dead back to life.5.By the side of the statue is the Guanyin Pavilion.It was completed on Oct.20th.1997, that is , Sept.19th in Chinese lunar calendar,the birthday of Guanyin.Inside the Pavilion, there are 1000 small Guanyin statues of jade.wood.bronze and coloured porcelain—a fact that makes it worthy of the name Thousand Buddha Pavilion.6.At the northeast end of theLotus Mountain stands an old castle,built at the third year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty(AD1664).It was a barracks for the Qing army and was a supplementary part of the defense system at the Pearl River estuary set up by the Qing government during the Opium War.7.In the 19th century, China was in an era when its feudal social system was on the wane while the Western capitalist countries(especially Britain)were at the best of times when they enjoyed a rapid industrial development.8.The Chen Family Temple, also called Chen Clan Academy, was also a school for children of the Chen Families.In 1959,it was converted into the Guangzhou Folk Art Museum,for the temple structure itself is a comprehensive expreion of the exquisite Guangdong folk arts and crafts.9.Covering a ground space of 15,000 square meters, with a floor space of 6,400 square meters, the Chen Family Temple was built in the traditional Chinese architectural style.10.On the wall on the either side of the main entrance is a picture carved on bricks,depicting different stories from Chinese historical novels.They are regarded as representative works of the exquisite Guangdong brick-carving.11,The stone drums at the main entrance are a symbol of social status of the Chen family.In the feudal society ofthe Qing Dynasty,people could place a pair of drums in front of their house only when someone in their family had been conferred an academic degree of(or higher than)“jinshi’,a title given to succeful candidates in the imperial examination.12.The two portraits on the door-leaves are door-gods.Original door-gods were two legendary gods,Shentu and Yulei, who, it is said, were able to catch ghosts and protect a house from evil spirits.13.Look at this picture.A hen and some chicks are walking leisurely looking for food under the shade of the big leaves of a banana tree.The chickens here are not portrayed just for chickens’sake but are likened to the present generations of the family.Also, the big leaves of the banana tree are compared to the great property or great wealth created by past generations, because the Chinese words for “big leaf” and the words for “great property” or “great wealth”are homophones of each other.14.At the tops of the balusters are carved several kinds of fruit that abound in South China:peach,star-fruit,papaya and so on.They are symbolic offerings to the Chen family’s ancestors.15.Here is the rear hall of the temple and was the place where the Chen people worshiped their ancestors.On the shrine there used to be tablets of their ancestors,which were arranged in the order of seniority in the family.The one at the top was “Emperor Shun”,who was believed to be the remote ancestor of the Chen family.16.It covers an area of about 30,000 square meters.Its exhibits include physical objects,historical pictures,diagrams and three grand scenes.Chinese people’s fighting against opium over 150 years ago is played here again vividly.This site reminds people of the war which shocked the world at that time.17.With great efforts, 1,150,000 kilograms of opium was seized from British people on the sea in this town.From June 3rd to 25th,1839, Lin Zexu destroyed all the confiscated opium here in public.This worldwide-astonishing event is called Destruction of Opium in Humen.It marks the beginning of the modern history of China.18.It took 20 days to destroy all of the forfeited opium.This action gave a meage to the world that Chinese had the determination to ban opium and opium trade, to fight
against foreign invasions.19.The construction area of this exhibition building is 2,400 square meters.On the first floor is the theme about Lin Zexu’s ban on opium and some historical facts related to the Opium War.This theme is subdivided into eight parts.20.The exhibits on the 2nd floor tell us a complete story of the Opium War in an acceible way.They use not only pictures and physical objects,but also war settings,terrain models on sand and soil.What’s more, acoustic, opticand electronc techniques are employed to bring vividne to the exhibits.21.Loyal Horse Monument is an important antique in this exhibition hall.A touching story about it is what I am eager to share with you.22.Opium War Museum has a collection of more than 3000 pieces of relics.Among them, 13 pieces including “Cannons Used in the War” are listed as national A-level cultural relics.All the exhibits on display witne the Chinese resistance to foreign insults and invasions during that period.23.For celebrating his birthday at the 26th year ofKaiyuan in Tang Dynasty, emperor Xuanzong ordered that each of the 81 states and counties in the country should choose a big temple to be named after reign title, Kaiyuan, so Lifeng Temple in Chaozhou was renamed Kaiyuan Temple.24.Kaiyuan Temple is a quadrangle in palace style,currently covering an area of 17,000 square meters.As one of the four most famous temples in Guangdong Province and thee largest of its kind in east Guangdong region.Kaiyuan Temple was listed as the key cultural relic protection units by the State Council in July,2001.25.Jingang Hall was built in Ming Dynasty.There are two Jingangs in the hall and they are it’s guardian spirits.They are called as “Heng” and “Ha” generals by the folk.26.Built in Song Dynasty, the hall of Heavenly King is the only existing Xieshan-styled-roof structure left over from the Song Dynasty and so is highly valued in architecture.27.Legend has it that it was just under the Bodhi tree that Sakyamuni attained his great awakening after practicing meditation for 7 days and nights, and became Buddha.28.On the west and east sides of the Daxiong Bao Dian are the 18 arhats.According to sutra, they will never have their afterlife and remain in the earthly world to preach for the Buddha.29.To the north of the Daxiong Bao Dian is the Scripture House, keeping a lot of costful cultural relics of the temple collected for more than 1000 years..30.Here is the statue of Guan-yin, the Godde of Mercy.In this miserable earthly world, Guan-yin is widely respected and has a large number of believers.
