旅游英语景点介绍—韶山 Shaoshan

　　【简介】韶山市位于中国湖南省中部，湘潭、宁乡、湘乡3县市交界处，是湘潭市代管的一个县级市。韶山地处于处于湘潭市市区以西，北、东与宁乡县麻山乡、朱石桥乡、三仙坳乡毗连，东南与湘潭县良湖乡、楠竹山镇接界，南与湘乡市龙洞乡、白田镇、金石镇接壤，西与湘乡市白田、金石镇相邻。韶山市面积为247.3平方千米，辖3个镇、4个乡，市政府驻清溪镇。韶山经过韶山人民半个多世纪的艰苦创业，已由一个偏僻落后的山村，发展成为经济实力不断增长，教育、科技、文化、卫生水平普遍提高的县级市。韶山是中国各族人民的伟大领袖毛泽东的故乡，也是他青少年时期生活、学习、劳动和从事革命活动的地方，是全国著名革命纪念地、国家重点风景名胜区、全国爱国主义教育基地、中国优秀旅游城市。

Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen!

Today, we will go and visit Shaoshan, the hometown of Chairman Mao. Shaoshan is a small mountain village about 100km southwest of Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, with some fairly beautiful scenery and a once typically Hunan village atmosphere, Shaoshan has been irreparably changed by history. On the 26th December 1893, a baby was born in a little house in this village, to a relatively wealthy peasant couple. The child was to grow up to become China’s Great Helmsman, Chairman Mao Zedong, and it was in this region that he spent his childhood and youth, attending school and helping his father with his work.

As the hometown of the great man of the generation, now Shaoshan is one of the important tourist zones in Hunan province. The major tourist sites including the Former residence of Chairman Mao, Memorial Hall of Mao Zedong, Water-dripping Cave and Steles Forest of Mao’s Poems，and so on.

The former residence of Chairman Mao is the most interesting site. Entered through a courtyard, the house is of a sunny yellow, mud brick walls, with a nicely thatched roof, and is found on a wooded hillside, above some lush paddy fields. There are 13 and one half rooms in the Former residence, which include one and half central room, a kitchen, a dining room, three family bedrooms and a guest room. Within the rooms are various personal effects of Mao and his parents, as well as photos from Mao’s life.

This is the central room, used by two families: Mao’s family and their neighbor. So we said that there is only one half of the central room belongs to Mao’s family. And this is there kitchen, where Chairman Mao often helped his mother doing some housework in his childhood. Go through the kitchen was Chairman Mao’s parent’s bedroom, there are two photos of Chairman Mao’s parents on the inner wall, and it was in this room where Chairman Mao was born.

The Dripping Water Cave, about 3 km northwest of the village, is a very popular destination, possibly because of the fact that Mao allegedly spent 11 days here in the early days of the Cultural Revolution Years (1966-76), contemplating the unknown.