“廣東省”中英雙語(yǔ)簡(jiǎn)介

廣東省

A Glimpse of the Province

(本省簡(jiǎn)介)

Guangdong Province, whose shortened name is “Yue”， is a coastal province in southeast Mainland China, which borders Fujian Province in the east and Guizhou Province in the west. It is located on the 20°12' to 25°31' northern latitude, while its eastern longitude is between 109°45' to 117°20'. The whole province contains 21 municipalities, including 2 vice-provincial cities (Guangzhou and Shenzhen)， and 19 locally administered ones.

Tourism Resources

Guangdong's advantageous geography and superior scenery attracts large numbers of tourists. The Zhaoqing Seven Star Crag combines the beauty of Guilin's karst hills and Hangzhou's west Lake. Guangdong's four most famous mountains are Danxia Mountain in the northern part of the province, Xiqiao Mountain in Nanhai City, Luofu Mountain in Boluo county, and Dinghu Mountain in Zhaoqing.

Visitors to Guangzhou's Grand world Scenic Park can appreciate and see the world in miniature. Those who step into the Folk Culture Village will learn about the colorful customs of the different Chinese people. Guangdong's long coastline boasts many outstanding beaches and places to bathe and swim. Finally, the province has hot springs and resorts where people can relax and engage in leisure activities.

Visitors can go to inner city and suburban Cantonese restaurants and teahouses to taste authentic Cantonese cuisine. They can go also to street corner stalls and fill up on tasty snacks to get an even better appreciation of Guangdong food. And visitors to the villages and towns on the Pearl River Delta (also called “Zhusanjiao”) will appreciate this area's unique “bridge, flowing water and resident” culture and directly experience Lingnan culture.

Other distinctive folk customs and landmarks display the Lingnan life style. These include the chaoshan area's“Tower Burning” tradition, Puzhai's “Fire Dragon Dance” in Fengshun County, and the famous Southern Lion Dance. All of these things express the Cantonese people's deep love of life.

Food Specialties

Guangdong cuisine is called as Cantonese cuisine. It gradually absorbed the ingredients and cooking techniques of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, as well as Jing, Chuan and Lu cuisine. It is now one of the four most famous Chinese cuisines and people in Guangdong commonly say,(‘Eat in Guangzhou, taste in Chaozhou“. According to local regions and their different tastes, Cantonese cuisine consists Guangzhou, Chaozhou, and Dongjiang, or Hakka style food. Guangzhou cuisine is famous for its wide range of fine ingredients, excellent cooking techniques, and diversity and change. Chaozhou cuisine has a delicate elegance, while Hakka food (Dongjiang cuisine) is known for original taste and flavors. Classic Cantonese dishes include braise, pigeon, roast-suckling pig, plain chicken, marinated meat combinations, honey-stewed barbecued pork, burned goose, stewed mixed vegetables, and various country dishes.

Guangdong's snacks mainly originated in the Lingnan culture and became famous after being handed down for many years as part of this culture's traditional flavor. Four different methods-steaming, pan-frying, frying, and boiling-are used to cook Guangdong snacks. Moreover, these snacks are divided into six categories. One is fried food made with rice, noodles and other grains that is full of different lavors.The second category consists of teamed foods mainly using rice and noodles, but ometimes other grains, and this material can be ether fermented or non-fermented. Rice noodles,which are made using both rice and flour, are mainly boiled. There are also many varieties of gruel, which is usually named after its ingredients and flavor. The third category consists of sweets, or different sorts of sweet snacks. These snacks do not include millet cakes and pudding and mainly use plant roots, stems and stalks, flowers and fruit, as well as eggs and milk. The final category might be called omnivorous”, as it uses a variety of ingredients, is cooked in diverse styles, and is very cheap. Particularly famous examples of this cuisine include the Tortilla lotus-paste steamed stuffed bun, water Chestnut Cake, Run Jiau Rice Cake, Honeycomb Dried Taro Chip, Crab Spawn Flattery Dumplings, Pellicle Steamed Fresh Shrimp Dumplings, Steamed dumplings with the dough gathered at the top, Rice noodles, Lotus Leaf Rice, Luxurious Pork Congee, and Tingzai Porridge.

Recommended Attractions

Danxia Mountain is located in the 54 kilometers northeast of Shaoguan, 9 kilometers from Renhua County. It is one of Guangdong's four famous mountains-the other three are Luofu, Xiqiao and Dinghu Mountains-and is 408 meters high. This scenic spot has three layers or zones. The upper zone provides visitors with views of Zhanglao, Hailuo and Baozhu peaks. The middle layer is mainly known for Biechuan Temple, while the mountain's lower zone has the Conch, Daming, Snow, YVanxiu, Fanzhao as well as Caoxuan Grottos.

The Former Residence of Dr. Sun Yat-sen is a brick timberwork building with two stories and is a fusion of Chinese and western architectural styles. Its main structure was built with funds provided by Sun Yat-sen's older brother and its construction was overseen by Sun in 1892. It uses different valuable ultural objects and displays pictures to system at cally describe Mr. Sun's life experiences. Following 1996-1997, the residence has served as a national middle and primary school patriotic educational demonstration base. It has also been listed as a key protected cultural site by the State Council.

Splendid China is one of China's richest, most vivid and complete miniature scenic and historical mages site. Splendid China covers an area of 30,000 square meters and its displays cover Chinese history, culture, art, ancient architecture and folk customs. Nearly 100 displays are arranged here according to a Chinese regional map. These depict famous scenery from China and its history in miniature. The Chinese Folk Culture Village, which covers an area of more than 200,000 square meters, located next to Splendid China. It is China's first large-scale cultural tourist attraction and displays different folk art, customs and folk architectures, including 25 villages of 22 nationalities built according to1:1 proportion. Some 25 villages and 56 different ethnological customs are showcased here, so village has been honored as the “China Folk museum”。

廣東省，簡(jiǎn)稱粵，是中華人民共和國(guó)大陸南端的一個(gè)省份，陸域東起饒平縣大埕鎮(zhèn)的閩粵省西至廉江市高橋鎮(zhèn)的粵桂省界，南自雷州半島徐聞縣的最南端，北達(dá)樂(lè)昌縣上旗頭村的最北省界;介于北緯20° 12'~ 25° 31’，東經(jīng)109° 45' ~117°20‘之間。全省轄21個(gè)省轄市，其中副省級(jí)城市2個(gè)(廣州、深圳)，地級(jí)市1 9個(gè)。

旅游資源

由于地理位置上的優(yōu)勢(shì)，廣東省的山水風(fēng)光吸引著眾人的目光。肇慶七星巖，擁有桂林山之美，杭州水之秀;粵北的丹霞山、南海的西樵山、博羅的羅浮山和肇慶的鼎湖山是廣東的四大名山。

到遍布城鄉(xiāng)的粵式茶樓酒家品嘗正宗的粵菜，到街頭排檔去“漫吃”風(fēng)味小食，體會(huì)“食在廣東”的內(nèi)涵;到珠江三角洲的鄉(xiāng)村小鎮(zhèn)去體味“小橋流水人家”的水鄉(xiāng)風(fēng)情，都能體驗(yàn)到嶺南的風(fēng)俗。

別具特色的民俗更是展現(xiàn)了嶺南人的生活風(fēng)貌。潮汕地區(qū)的燒塔，豐順的埔寨火龍，還有那著名的南派舞獅，無(wú)不表迭了廣東人對(duì)生活的熱愛(ài)。

特色餐飲

廣東菜稱為“粵菜”，明清時(shí)期粵菜逐步吸取了京、川、魯、蘇等菜系的烹飪?cè)虾图夹g(shù)，一躍成為中國(guó)四大名菜系之一，正所謂“食在廣州，味在潮州”。按照地區(qū)和口味的不同，粵菜分為廣州菜、潮州菜和東江菜(即客家菜)三大類。廣州菜用料廣博，選料精細(xì)，技藝精良，善于變化，品種多樣。潮州菜以精致典雅著稱，客家菜則以原汁原味見(jiàn)長(zhǎng)。粵菜中的經(jīng)典有紅燒乳鴿、燒乳豬、白切雞、鹵水拼盤(pán)、護(hù)國(guó)菜、蜜汁叉燒、深井燒鵝、羅漢齋等。

主要推薦景點(diǎn)

丹霞山位于韶關(guān)市東北54公里處，距仁化縣城9公里，是廣東四大名山之一(其余三座名山是羅浮山、西樵山、鼎湖山)，海拔408米，風(fēng)景區(qū)可劃分為上中下三層。上層景區(qū)有長(zhǎng)老峰、海螺峰、寶珠峰;中層景區(qū)以別傳寺為主要景點(diǎn);下有海螺巖、大明巖。雪巖、晚秀巖、返照巖、草懸?guī)r等巖洞。

孫中山故居是一座融合中、西方建筑特點(diǎn)的兩層磚木結(jié)構(gòu)樓房，其主體建筑是1892年由孫中山的大哥孫眉出資、孫中山主持修建的。孫中山故居以各種珍貴的文物、圖片等系統(tǒng)地介紹了孫中山先生的生平事跡，于1996年至1997年先后被公布為全國(guó)中小學(xué)愛(ài)國(guó)主義教育基地、全國(guó)愛(ài)國(guó)主義教育示范基地，并被國(guó)務(wù)院列為全國(guó)重點(diǎn)文物保護(hù)單位。

錦繡中華是一座中國(guó)歷史、文化、藝術(shù)、古代建筑和民族風(fēng)情的最豐富、最生動(dòng)、最全面的實(shí)景微縮景區(qū)，面積33萬(wàn)平方米。景區(qū)中，近百處景致按照中國(guó)區(qū)域版圖分布，是中國(guó)自然風(fēng)光與人文歷史精粹的縮影。

與錦繡中華僅一墻之隔的是中國(guó)民俗文化村，它占地20多萬(wàn)平方米，是中國(guó)第一個(gè)薈萃各民族民間藝術(shù)、民俗風(fēng)情和民居建筑于一園的大型文化旅游景區(qū)。內(nèi)含22個(gè)民族的25個(gè)村寨，均按1：1比例建成。中國(guó)民俗文化村以“二十五個(gè)村寨五十族風(fēng)情”的豐厚意蘊(yùn)贏得丁“中國(guó)民俗博物館”的美譽(yù)。