Transcript Document 338885

Discover Quanzhou
1.General
Introduction
2.Places of Interest
3.Cultural Specialties
4.Delicacy
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1.General Introduction:
Quanzhou is an ancient city, located on the reach of Jin
River in the southeast of Fujian by the sea. It covers an
area of 11’015 square kilometers. The population is over
8 million in 2010. Quanzhou was known as the “Oriental
First Port” in Song Dynasty; it was also well-known as
the “City of Light” four years before Marco Polo
reached this mysterious continent. Quanzhou, the start
of the Maritime Silk Road, was a commercial and
cultural crossroads, a great melting pot, with people of
all nations and faiths living together peacefully----a true
light in that era.
1.General Introduction:
Local people speak a variant of Hokkien which is similar
to Amoy and Taiwanese. In Mandarin Chinese this
dialect is called "Minnan Hua", which can be translated
as "the language of South Fujian". It is essentially the
same dialect spoken in Xiamen and Zhangzhou, and it
bears little similarity with the official Chinese Mandarin.
People whose ancestry from Quanzhou city, now live
overseas, especially in southeast Asia, also speak
Hokkien at home most of time. Quanzhou is a timehonored city of civilization and a famous hometown for
numerous overseas Chinese and Taiwan compatriots.
2. Places of Interest：Tianhou Temple
2. Places of Interest：Tianhou Temple
2. Places of Interest：Zhongshan Street
Arcade
2. Places of Interest：Kaiyuan Temple
紫云屏
Depository of Buddhist Texts
大雄宝殿
Purple Clouds Screen
甘露戒坛
藏经阁
飞天
Great Buddhist Hall
Buddhist Angels
Ganlujie Altar/Sweet Dew Altar of
Precepts
2. Places of Interest：Kaiyuan Temple
据传说，桑园财主黄守恭
先生梦见有一位僧人向他
募地建寺，黄先生扔了一
片羊毛回答道：“如果桑
树会开出白色的莲花的话，
我就把地捐出去。”三天
后，满园桑树都开了雪白
的莲花。黄先生说：“这
真是奇妙！”，于是把地
捐了出去。
2. Places of Interest：Kaiyuan Temple
According to the legend, Mr. Huang Shougong,
owner of a mulberry field, dreamed that a Buddhist
monk asked him to donate the land for a temple.
Mr. Huang threw out a fleece. “I’ll donate the land
if this mulberry tree blossoms white lotus flowers.”
Three days later, white lotus flowers bloomed on the
mulberry tree. Mr. Huang said, “what a miracle!”
and donated the land to the temple.
2. Places of Interest：Kaiyuan Temple
The Twin Pagodas [pəˈgəudə]
They are the tallest stone towers in China.
The East Pagoda: 48.24m
The West Pagoda: 44.06m
The Twin Pagodas are the best preserved
stone pagodas in China. They were first built
of wood and stone, then brick, and later stone.
They have survived more than 1000 years of
earthquakes and tourists, thanks to their
Song Dynasty reconstruction, which took 22
years.
The East Pagoda (Zhen Guo ---- “nationprotecting” ), was built of wood in 670AD.
The West Pagoda (Ren Shou ---- “merit and
longevity”) was built in 916. All of the five
story structures are caved top to bottom with
vivid relief sculptures and worriors.
2. Places of Interest：Chengtian Temple
Chengtian Temple is one of Quanzhou’s three greatest
Buddhist Temples (the other two are Kaiyuan and
Chongfu). It was first built in the Tang Dynasty, and
renovated in the 30th year of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing
Dynasty.
2. Places of Interest：Chengtian Temple
大雄宝殿前有两口“放生池”，
池旁有两座“飞来塔”。关于这
两塔的来历，也有一段神话传说。
相传当年有一名台湾游方和尚双
手托着两座塔，四方化缘。一天，
双塔不翼而飞。后来佛祖托梦给
他，说他只有找到宝刹，找到真
正的立身之地，双塔方能回归。
后来，这位台湾的和尚到泉州找
到承天禅寺后，到该寺定居。不
久，果然双塔飞来，耸立在大雄
宝殿前，由此取名“飞来塔” 。
2. Places of Interest：Ashab Mosque
艾苏哈卜清净寺
mosque [mɔsk]
n. 清真寺 a building in which Muslims worship
Ashab is not only one of China’s ten most famous temples but also
one of Islam’s top ten holy places. The 2500 ㎡ Ashab Mosque was
built in 1009 AD; it was built of blue and white granite, and has a
Fengtian altar 奉天坛, Mingshan Chamber 明善堂, and Prayer
Hall 礼拜殿.
2. Places of Interest：Guandi Temple
Just east of Ashab Mosque is the ancient temple
dedicated to heroic generals Guan Yu and Yue Fei.
This “general” purpose temple seems to sprawl
forever, incense smoke wafting through the dark
recesses hosting other idols of 24 famous generals.
Cultural relics include Zhu Xi’s inscription,
“Righteousness”.
Sprawl:蔓延
Recess:壁龛
2. Places of Interest：Qingyuan Mountain
The Song Dynasty Old Stone Saint is China’s oldest
Taoist sculpture, and the largest (5.1m high by 7.3m
wide). Legend claims that if you rub his nose you’ll
live 120 years; rub his eye and you’ll reach 160. folks
used to say you’d die early if you rubbed his mouth,
but such down in the mouth talk didn’t exactly bolster
tourism, so now locals brightly mouth off, “rub mouth,
get good luck!” 1000 years of rubbing Lao Tzu the
wrong way was rubbing his nose away, so a few years
back they fenced him off and hired a guard so no one
else can take Lao Tzu for granite.
West Lake
Park
East Lake Park
China Fujian-Taiwan Relationship Museum
中国闽台缘博物馆
3. Cultural Specialties:
Porcelain;
Puppet show;
Tea;
Kongfu
瓷器与中国
有观点认为中国的英文“China”是来自瓷器“china”，而瓷器一名又是得
自“昌南”，即中国古代瓷器的主要产地之一。但事实正相反，英文中的
瓷器一词china是从中国一词China转化来的。不过这也从侧面说明了瓷器
与中国传统文化密不可分的关系。
现在英语国家通常将陶瓷器统称为“porcelain”，而“china”主要指精瓷，
如“fine china”、“bone china”。
Puppet show
The art evolved over the past two to three
thousand years and reached its peak in
Quanzhou, which has the only Chinese
puppets that boast their own musical
style performed on unique musical
instruments, with over 300 songs and
tunes written for the over 700 traditional
puppet shows. When operated by a
master puppeteer, 14 to 36 strings bring
the wooded folk to life as they strut and
fret with abandon across the stage.
Unlike western puppeteers, who work
mainly with the control, Chinese
puppeteers also manipulate groups of
strings with their fingers. The longer the
strings (up to 2 meters), the more difficult
to operate, but the more expensive the
puppets can become as they portray men
and women of all ages and professions---or even the spirits of wild animals.
Anxi Oolong Tea
Tie Guan Yin
Fujian has long been China’s tea
capital, and Quanzhou’s Anxi County
the chief source of Oolong tea, which
at one time was so precious in
Europe that only royalty drank it.
There are many legends about how
tea drinking came about. One says
that the Indian monk who introduced
Zen Buddhism to China around
530AD cut off his eyelids so he would
not fall asleep while meditating, and
where his eyelids fell, a plant with
leaves shaped like eyelids sprang up.
And as luck would have it, these
leaves, when brewed, created a
stimulating beverage that further
helped both the eyelidless master
and his pupils stay awake during
meditation.
Quanzhou S. Shaolin Temple
Quanzhou Southern Shaolin temple was built in the early
Tang Dynasty by Zhikong, a monk from the Songshan Shaolin
Temple up north. After the temple was destroyed in 1763 AD,
the Shaolin tradition continued to be taught in Congfu Temple,
but now that so many folks around the world are getting their
kicks out of Kongfu, the Shaolin temple was recently rebuilt.
Each year, thousands of Kungfu enthusiasts make pilgrimages
to this Mecca for martial arts enthusiasts.
Pilgrimage: a journey to a holy place for religious reasons
Mecca: a place that many people want to visit for a particular
reason
4. Delicacy
What traditional food in
Quanzhou do you like?
Do you know the English name
of them?
面线糊Noodles in Soup
肉粽 Zong zi
洪濑鸡爪
Hong Lai Chicken Claws
蚝仔煎Fried Oyster
土笋冻Frozen Siphon Worm
Turnip Cakes
Sweet dumplings
Wan Gao
Fried Spring Roll
deep-fried twisted dough sticks
soybean milk
Cu Rou (Fried
meat with vinegar)
For further information:
德化陶瓷http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcelain
安溪铁观音http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tieguanyin
泉州五祖拳http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_Arts
梨园戏http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liyuan_Opera
提线木偶http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppet_Show
南音/南管http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanguan_(music)
Thank you!!!