The Great Wall
The Great Wall runs across North China like a huge dragon, It winds its way from west to east, across deserts, over mountains, through valleys till at last it reaches the sea. It's the longest wall on the earth, also one of the wonders in the world.
The Great Wall has a history of more than 2000 years. The first part was built during the Spring and Autumn Period. All the walls were joined up in Qin Dynasty.All tile work was done by hand. Thousands of people died while building the wall.Thus the Great Wall came into existence.
Since then, it has been rebuilt and repaired many times. Now the Great Wall,the admiration of the world, has taken on a new look. It's visited by large numbers of people from all parts'of the'country and the world.
長城
長城，像壹條巨龍橫亙華北地區，它穿過沙漠，越過高山，跨過山谷，由西到東蜿蜒曲折，最後到達大海。它是地球上最長的墻，也是世界奇跡之子。
長城有2000多年的歷史。它開始修建於春秋時期。秦朝時，所有的城墻聯結在壹起。所有工作都是用手完成的，成千上萬的人在修建長城時死去。長城就是這樣出現的。
目前為止，長城重修多次。現在的長城面貌壹新，迎接來角全國和全世界各地的遊客。
用壹篇英文短文來介紹壹下，西安的名勝和名人
Qinshihuang's Mausoleum and Terra-cotta Army 秦始皇陵兵馬俑
Qinshihuang's Mausoleum is located in Lintong District, 35 kilometers east of Xi'an, capital of Shanxi Province. Construction of the mausoleum lasted 38 years and involved over 700000 workers. Over the years, a total of 50000 important cultural relics have been unearthed. In 1980, two bronze painted horse-drawn chariots were unearthed.They are the largest and most complete bronze chariots and horses discovered so far. In 1974, farmers who were digging a well about 1.5 kilometers east of Qinshihuang's Mausoleum discovered three vaults containing Qinshihuang's Buried Legion. The largest of the three vaults contains 6000 life-size terra-cotta warriors and horses. The collection of warriors is often dubbed the "eighth wonder of the world."
秦始皇陵位於陜西省西安市以東35公裏的臨潼區。皇陵的建造耗時38年，總用工超過70萬人。在過去的這些年裏，***出土了5萬多件重要的文化遺物。1980年，發掘了兩個青銅馬車，它是至今發現的規模最大，保存最完整的銅馬車。1974年，村民們在陵墓以東3裏地處打井時，發現了三個秦始皇俑坑。三個俑坑中最大的壹個裏有6000個實體大小的秦始皇兵馬俑。秦俑被譽為世界第八大奇跡。
故宮英文介紹
This is the Palace Museum, also known as the Purple Forbidden City. It is the largest and most well reserved imperial residence in China today. Under Ming Emperor , construction began in 1406. It took 14 years to build the Forbidden City.
The red and yellow used on the palace walls and roofs are also symbolic. Red represents happiness, good fortune and wealth. Yellow is the color of the earth on the Loess Plateau, the original home of the Chinese people. Yellow became an imperial color during the Tang dynasty, when only members of the royal family were allowed to wear it and use it in their architecture.
The Forbidden City is rectangular in shape. It is 960 meters long from north to south and 750 meters wide from east west. It has 9900 rooms under a total roof area 150000 square meters. A 52-meter-wide-moat encircles a 9.9 _meter- high wall which encloses the complex.
It is believed that the Palace Museum got its name from astronomy folklore. The ancient astronomers divided the constellations into groups and centered them around the Ziwei Yuan. The constellation containing the North Star was called the Constellation of Heavenly God and star itself was called the purple palace.
The Forbidden City is divided into an outer and an inner count. We are now standing on the southernmost part of the outer count. In front of us lies the Gate of supreme Harmony. The gate is guarded by a pair of bronze lions, symbolizing imperial power and dignity. The lions were the most exquisite and biggest of its kind. The one on the east playing with a ball is a male, and ball is said to represent state unity. The other one is a female. Underneath one of its fore claws is a cub that is considered to be a symbol of perpetual imperial succession.
The Forbidden City consists of an outer count and an inner enclosure. The outer count yard covers a vast space lying between the Meridian Gate and the Gate of Heavenly Purity. The “three big halls” of Supreme Harmony, Complete Harmony and Preserving Harmony constitute the center of this building group. The great three halls are built on a spacious “H”-shaped,8-meter-high, triple marble terrace. Each level of the triple terrace is taller than the on below and all are encircled by marble balustrades carved with dragon and phoenix designs.
This area is called the Hall of Supreme Harmony Square, which covers a total of 30000 square meters. Without a single tree or plant growing here, this place inspires visitors to feel its solemnity and grandeur. In the middle of the square there is carriageway that was reserved for the Emperor. On both sides of the road the ground bricks were laid in a special way seven layers lengthwise and eight layers crosswise,making up fifteen layers in all.