🎙️ Zhengyang Gate - English Dialogue Player

#1 🧒 Kid 🔁 循环

Welcome to Beijing Central Axis!

#2 👩 Mom 🔁 循环

Today is a special day. It's the 2nd anniversary of the Central Axis being inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Let's celebrate at Zhengyang Gate!

#3 🧒 Kid 🔁 循环

We've arrived at Zhengyang Gate. Wow, it's incredibly tall!

#4 👩 Mom 🔁 循环

Yes, it is. Do you know why it's called "Zhengyang"?

#5 🧒 Kid 🔁 循环

I know! It means "True Sun," representing uprightness and integrity.

#6 👩 Mom 🔁 循环

Exactly. It stands for uprightness. In the past, only the Emperor could walk through the central gate.

#7 🧒 Kid 🔁 循环

So, archers shot arrows from those tiny windows on all sides, right?

#8 👩 Mom 🔁 循环

That's right. This is why we call it the "Arrow Tower." And do you know a nursery rhyme about it?

#9 🧒 Kid 🔁 循环

I do! "Qianmen Louzi, ninety-nine feet high, Four gates, three bridges, five pai-lous. From here to Tongzhou, forty miles away!"

#10 👩 Mom 🔁 循环

Perfect! That "forty miles" in the rhyme leads all the way to Tongzhou, the northern end of the Grand Canal.

#11 👩 Mom 🔁 循环

Let's review today's keywords. They are: First: Arrow Tower. Second: Uprightness. Third: Nursery Rhyme.

#12 🔊 Both 🔁 循环

See you next time!

🎙️ Zhengyang Gate Dialogue

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