Five Old Street五大道英文导游词Good morning, everyone, it’s my honor to be your tour guide at the Five Old Street. I stand here just represent our travel agency to welcome all of you. My name is XXX. Our driver Mr. Zhao has full driving experience. We’ll do ou r best to make all of you feel comfortable and safe. If you have some problems during the trip, you can just ask me. Here, I wish everyone have a nice trip! First, I would like to give you a brief overview of the Residence of the Five Old Street.In fact, the area includes six roads; they are Chengdu road, Chongqi road, Changde road, Dali road, Munan road, and Machang road. Why do people call it “five grand roads”? The reason is that people just obey the saying provided by official. The area is famous for its western style architectures, especially the elitist people live in the houses. During the 20th to 30th of the last century, there were 2 presidents, 7 premiers and many officials, as well as so many famous educationist, experts and generals lived in there.The Five Old Street are developed because of the history of foreign settlement in Tianjin. From 1860 to 1903, 9 foreign countries set up their settlements in the area by military force and unequal treaties. After that, they constructed so many buildings in their own styles. Several styles of building appeared in the area, likes Baroque, Rococo, Classical, Roman and so on. It’s really an “exposition of architectures from thousands countries”.Now, we are arriving at the Five Old Street. Everyone please pay attention to your luggage and take with your precious goods together. Our carriage’s number is Jin A2345. Please close the windows which are nearby you. Ok, please get off in order. Thank you very much.The place we are standing is Chongqing road. Look at the building in front of us. This modern building is called “Minyuan Stadium”. It’s designed by the Austrian architect Gailing. It’s a landmark of Tianjin, and it represents a period time of football of Tianjin. Minyuan Stadium has 86 years old,and was reconstructed in June 23th 2012.Please follow me. O ur next stop is the museum of modern Tj and the world. It’s founded by Tj’s famous writer Liu Hangying. The whole exhibition is divided into three parts: the first hundred of modern china, Tianjin’s history of concession and the architectures on Five Old Street. Ok, let’s go into it and have a look.After visiting the museum, we now come to the Qing Palace, which is the former residence of prince of Qing--Zaizhen. He came to Tianjin with the last emperor of China—Puyi. When Zaizhen firstly saw the building, he was very fond of it. So he got the residence by exchanging several houses with the imperial general Xiaodezhang.Coming inside, we see a group of steps. There are totally 17 and half steps. Let me tell you the special implication of the steps. In ancient china, the number “9” symbolically means the sun, and 99 is the extreme number of the sun, which could only be applied by the emperor. Xiaodezhangwanted to build it into 18 steps, but for fear to be criticized by the emperor. So he just built it 17.5 steps. Xiaodezhang want to express that his position is under the emperor but over thousands of other people. Let’s look at the main building. There are 94 rooms in original, but when Zaizhen moved in, he added 8 rooms. Now please follow me to the back garden. It’s small, but we can see all kinds of things inside, rockeries, little bridges, passageways, pavilions and so forth.Now let’s go on our visit. We are now arrived at “Yueweixian” restaurant. People in Tj call it “Gedalou” (lumping building in English), because it has lots of lumps on the wall surface. This restaurant has over 4,000 culture relics from different periods in Chinese history. Among the relics you may find the imperial edict of emperor Daoguang in Qing dynasty. Various stone carvings and ancient weapons which could trace back to Spring and Autumn period, Qin and Han dynasty. Therefore, Yueweixian is also known as “the edible museum” and has been included in Guinness record.Ok, in the following time you can visit on your own, and we’ll meet at the entrance at 4:00. Please pay attention to safety, do not be late.Well, our travel here is coming to an end; I appreciate your support and cooperation of my work. Finally, I wish you good health. Thank you! （Well,everyone is here,and our tour will come to an end. I’m so happy to be with you today. Thank you for your cooperation. Wish you a safe journey back.）。