2011新版吉林省英语导游证资格考试专用导游词之吉林雾凇Jilin RimeJILIN RIMEHello everybody! Welcome to Jilin. Now we are going to enjoy the wonderful scenery of Jilin rime.Jilin rime with its poetic and picturesque beauty of “spring in winter”, together with other three landscapes: Qiantang River tidal bore; Sunrise of Mount Tai; Cloud of Mount Huang, is named as one of the four meteorological wonders of China. In the dead of winter, the northern China was depressed, however, you would see a miraculous and beautiful landscape when entering Jilin City. Looking along the bank of Songhua River, you will see a grand sight of frost and snow on the branches of pines and willows, like a cluster of silver, or rows of snow spoondrift. That’s the wonder named “Rime”.The rime is gener ally called “Shu gua”, It’s fog and water vapor turn into ice with either particle or crystal shape. The construction of particle rime is tight, while crystal is loose. And the former one turn into small ice cubes while the latter turn into large slices. Jilin rime falls into the crystal shape. It will take into shape with vapor at the temperature lower than -25℃ and in the wind less than grade 3. Only in this condition can the rime involve. The unique condition in Jilin city is perfect for the rime.Fengman Hydronic Power Station is 15 kilometers up to the Songhua River, whose average depth is 70 meters. In the dead of winter, its water keeps its temperature at about 4℃. It never freezes after running several tens of kilometers across the city with its vast thermic energy. The vast amount of water steam vaporizes from the unfrozen river, meets the cold air, forming the pattern of miraculous log and floating and perfusing, when natural condition is appropriate, it turns into crystal fog on the branches of pines and willows on either bank of the river, thus the world-renowned rime takes into shape.Jilin comes into winter every mid-November, at the same time, the rime appears, especially the years with large amount of snow and cold weather.China is the first country to record rime in the world. For thousands of years, ancient Chinese have had many names and praises of rime such as “Shu Jia” according to the <Spring And Autumn” or “Shu Jie” namely “Wu Song” at the present time. “Wu Song” first appeared in th e book <Zi Lin>, written by Lv Chen in Song Dynasty. It means “Cold air makes ice, disappear when it meets sunshine. People in ShanDong call it Wu Song.” The most mysterious name is “Meng Song”, which recorded in <Huang Shi Ri Chao>, means “Gift sent in dream”.People may feel air is very fresh when they are viewing rime. It is because the rime has ability of freshening air. There is a lot of dust in the air, and rime can absorb them. Therefore, rime is not only beautiful, but also a natural air cleaner.When the rime appears, the scene of Songhua River looks like a fairyland. In 1991, the former president of China, Jiang Zemin can’t help writing a poem when he saw the wonder:Jilin City deserves her fame,For her willows dressed in rime.They look like jade and silver,Standing on the bank of the Songhua River.In 1998, he wrote another poem to praise the rime.The process of viewing rime can be divided into three periods: viewing night fog, hanging ice branch morning, and falling icy flower at the noon.“Viewing night fog” means to enjoy the beautiful scenery of fog on the eve before the rime forms. Plume of fog appears in the Songhua River at about ten o’clock at night, and becomes bigger and thicker, fluttering to both sides constantly. The rime i s also called “Shu Gua” or “ice flower”. It’s fog and water vapor turn into ice with either particle or crystal shape. It is always attached to the branches, wires or prominent parts of buildings. It is consist of numerous small ice globules or ice crystals, and always white or milky. The rime can be divided into two kinds: needle rime or granular rime. In the smog, cold and windy days, it often forms rime.“Hanging ice branches in the morning” is to get up early to view the fog glaze. Trees on both sides become silver overnight. It’s really magnificent. Rime is quite common in nature, why that in Jilin City is so famous? It’s because the thickness of the rime here can reach 40mm to 60mm while the usual one is only 5mm to 10mm. The local observational data indicates that the rime in Jilin is the thickest, and has the minimum density and loosest structure. The plush-shaped and crystalline rime is the rarest kind of the rimes.“Falling icy flower at noon” describes the rimes falling off from the trees. At around ten o’clock in the morning, the rime begins to cast off one flake after another, and then continues to fall in strings. When sun shines upon the pieces, it will become a colorful snow curtains.My dear friends, I’ll introduce another good place for viewing the rime besides Jilin City. It’s the Rime Island. The island is 35 kilometers north to Jilin City along the Songhua River. Around the island, there are many century-old elms and willows. The rimes here are more unsophisticated and natural than those in the city. Now you can take photos and walk around. Enjoy yourselves!。