本书主要介绍了以老北京风情为表现对象的泥塑作品，本书语言流畅，京腔京韵，所收录的泥塑作品描绘了老北京人的衣食住行，涉及出行、娱乐、商业、文化等方方面面。通过阅读本书可以使读者身临其境的感受老北京人的精神面貌和风俗习惯。

Many guidebooks have appeared in Chinese dedicated to Hangzhou ,the city of Heaven described by Marco Polo.now,added to those is Hangzhou ,the first English guidebook of its kind in china .Thiook has fie outstanding features.作者简介： Chen Gang waorn and educated in Hangzhou ,To date,he is the only Tour Guide Extraordinaire in East China's Zhjiang Province,and the only professor in January 1982 from the English Language and Literatrre Department of Zhejiang University,he began to serve as an Engling-speaking guideinterpreter,and later as manaer of the EuroAmerican Department of china Travel servie,he is author of West Lake Poerics,chief translator of A Trip to Mountains and Rivers in Zhejing province ,one o the few oficial translators of the Macmillan Encyclopedia ,and theses on couplets have been featrred in national and provincial academic publiations.

Beijing yesterday waright with all kinds of colors, the yesterday life of Beijinger were also multicolored. The photoring uack to the familiar alleys, the disappearing life, those warm faces, and those happy days with soul and dreams.

本书图文并茂地介绍了老北京的风土人情。作者以精湛的画艺为我们再现了老北京街头巷尾的一个个场景。作者还以诙谐的文字帮助我们了解图中所表现的老北京的风俗习惯。这是一份非常难得的历史资料。可供文化研究人员参考，也可供广大读者阅读、体会。 本书适合于文化爱好者、普通读者。

在甘肃省的版图上，位于黄河以西、祁连山脉与蒙古高原南缘隆起的北山之间，有一条长约一千公里，宽约数十里至百里的狭长地带，这就是的“河西走廊”。从这里往西，经过中亚，可以和南亚、西亚乃至整个欧洲联系起来。历史上，它曾是中西贸易最主要的通道，这条通道，被称为“丝绸之路”，它对世界文明的发展作出过重大贡献。敦煌，就处在河西走廊最西端。 1900年，一个偶然的机会，有一个叫王圆篆的道士，在敦煌莫高窟的一个洞窟里发现了数万卷经卷及文书。这位道士根本没有想到，他的这一发现，使敦煌这个从13世纪以后逐渐衰落的文明都市，再度引起全世界的广泛瞩目。

北京历代帝王庙始建于明代嘉靖九年（1530），清代断续沿用，距今已有470多年的历史。现为全国重点文物保护单位。它是明、清两朝祭祀三皇五帝、历代帝王和功臣名将的一座皇家庙宇，入祀中国史前时期的祖先人物三后五帝以及夏、商、周、汉、唐、宋、元、明等历代杰出帝王188位，功臣名将80位。 历代帝王庙的祭祀活动为国家祭祀，每年春秋两季举行。据文献记载，从明嘉靖十一年（1532）到清末（1911）的380年间，北京历代帝王庙共举行过662次祭祀大典达16次，其中，雍正帝5次、乾隆帝6次到历代帝王庙祭拜。

China Panorama is intended for the use by internationalstudents ing to China to study the required course "ChinaPanorama". As well as reading material for all of those studyingChinese as a second language， thiook is the top choice forlearning Chinese culture and motivating students' interest. Thisbook introduces topics such as Chinese geography， culture， history，international relations and the development of the nation. Readers will find they are inspired， challenged and provided withcultural facts throughout the learning process. In the practicesections， lots of thought provoking and practical exercises areset， encouraging intermunication between book and readers，teacher and students. It achieves the perfect match of culturalawareness and students needs.