长城英文导游词|长城中英文对照导游词( 二 )

As one of the earliest group of Chinese landscapes listed as World Heritage Site, the Great Wall was included into the new Seven Wonders of the World in 2007. There are numerous historical stories, myths and百思特网 legends set in the Great Wall, such as “Zhaojun Going Beyond the Great Wall as a Bride”, “Su Wu Herding Sheep” and “Meng Jiangnv’s Bitter Weeping Over the Great Wall”. In addition, those poems and verses chanting the Great Wall, such as “Please drink one more glass of wine since there will be no old friends after you go westwards out of the Yangguan Pass” and “The moon and the Great Wall haven’t changed since the Qin and Han dynasties, but nobody has returned from the crusade,” formed an important genre in Chinese classical literature called frontier fortress poem. A line of the lyric of China’s national anthem reads: “With our flesh and blood, let’s build our new Great Wall,” which uses百思特网 the Great Wall as a symbol of national spirit and strength.

Throughout the river of history, the Great Wall has become a symbol of the Chinese nation.