西湖景点介绍中文版英文版.docx

西湖景点介绍中文版英文版中文版西湖，位于浙江省杭州市西面，是中国大陆首批国家重点风景名胜区和中国十大风景名胜之一。它是中国大陆主要的观赏性淡水湖泊之一，也是现今世界遗产名录中少数几个和中国唯一一个湖泊类文化遗产。西湖三面环山，面积约6.39平方千米，东西宽约2.8千米，南北长约3.2千米，绕湖一周近15千米。湖中被孤山、白堤、苏堤、杨公堤分隔，按面积大小分别为外西湖、西里湖、北里湖、小南湖及岳湖等五片水面，苏堤、白堤越过湖面，小瀛洲、湖心亭、阮公墩三个小岛鼎立于外西湖湖心，夕照山的雷峰塔与宝石山的保俶塔隔湖相映，由此形成了“一山、二塔、三岛、三堤、五湖的基本格局。2000多年前，西湖还是钱塘江的一部分，由于泥沙淤积，在西湖南北两山一一吴山和宝石山山麓逐渐形成沙嘴，此后两沙嘴逐渐靠拢，最终毗连在一起成为沙洲，在沙洲西侧形成了一个内湖，即为西湖，此时大约为秦汉时期。张岱西湖梦寻记载：“大石佛寺，考旧史，秦始皇东游入海，缆舟于此石上J此处所言大石佛寺，即位于西湖北侧的宝石山下，尚有“秦始皇缆舟石"之景。2011年6月24日在法国巴黎举办的第35届世界遗产大会上，“杭州西湖文化景观正式列入世界文化遗产名录。英文版WestLake,westofHangzhouCityinZhejiangProvince,isoneofthefirstnationalkeyscenicspotsinmainlandChinaandoneofthetoptenscenicspotsinChina.ItisoneofthemainornamentalfreshwaterlakesinmainlandChina,anditisalsooneofthefewlakesintheWorldHeritageListandtheonlyoneinChina.Surroundedbymountainsonthreesides,theWestLakecoversanareaofabout6.39squarekilometers,withawidthofabout2.8kilometersfromeasttowestandalengthofabout3.2kilometersfromnorthtosouth.ThelakeisdividedbyGuShan,BaiDi,SuDiandYangGongDi,whicharedividedintofivewaterareasaccordingtotheirsize,namelyWaihuLake,XiliLake,BeiliLake,XiaonanLakeandYueLake.SuDiandBaiDicrossthelake,whilethreeislands,XiaoyingzhouzHuxinTingandRuangongDunzstandinthecenteroftheWaihuLake,andtheLeifengPagodaofXizhaoMountainandBaoshuPagodaofBaoshuMountainareoppositeeachotheracrossthelake.Thusformedthebasicpatternof"onemountain,twotowers,threeislands,threedikesandfivelakes".Morethan2,000yearsago,theWestLakewasstillapartoftheQiantangRiver.DuetothedepositionofsiltzsandspitsgraduallyformedatthefoothillsofthetwohillstothenorthandsouthoftheWestLake-WushanMountainandBaoshiMountain.Afterthat,thetwospitsgraduallycametogetherandeventuallyjoinedtogethertoformasandbar.ItisrecordedinZhangDai,s"SearchingforaDreaminWestLake"that"theBigStoneBuddhistTemple,examiningtheoldhistory,theEmperorofQinShihuangswameastintotheseaandsailedhisboatonthisstone."HeretheBigStoneBuddhistTempleislocatedinthenorthsideoftheWestLakeunderthegemMountain,thereisa"QinShiHuang'sboatstone"scene.OnJune24z2011zatthe35thWorldHeritageConferenceinParis,France,"HangzhouWestLakeCulturalLandscape"wasofficiallyinscribedontheWorldCulturalHeritagelist.