In the year 1893 James Hilton described an eternally peaceful and quiet place among mountains in the East―― ShangriLa in one of his novels for the first time In the novel Lost Horizon an English diplomat Conway and his brother Gorge scattered the English citizens and helped them leave the dangerous
region On their way home their plane was hijacked and fell down into the mountain in the Tibetan region Some lucky survivors were taken to Shangrila where Conway found lots of fantastic things in such a state founded nearly 200 years ago in which the local people lived up to more than one hundred years old and lived peacefully and
harmoniously with the other people animals and everything here The place was called ShangriLa by the local folks
James Hilton located ShangriLa in a mysterious valley which was surrounded by snowcapped mountains near where there were snowclad peaks blue lakes broad grassy marshlands and lamaseries Buddhist nunneries mosques Catholic Church the human beings and the nature were in perfect harmony severa
l religions and varies of nationalities exited at the same time the temples looked splendid in green and golden though people contacted the outer world by caravan for a long time many foreign experts and scholars had come here to investigate and remained much relics……
Obviously that is not only a beautiful scenery but also a kind of artistic conception
北京长城英文导游词 ・岳阳楼英文导游辞 ・重庆英文导游词 ・西藏英文导游词
With the novel and the film coming out ShangriLa became very famous in western countries Later a Chinese named Guo Huonian used the name of this place and set up ShangriLa Hotel Group which has become one of the most successful hotel group in the world
At the same time people didn’t give up looking for the legendary ShangriLa Up to the end of this century they finally have found――
After inspecting and proving on many aspects people found that Diqing Prefecture the only Tibetan region in Yunnan China has striking similarity with what’s described in the tale regarding either on natural scenery or people’s way of living Therefore the name of DiqingǎShangriLa spreads worldwide
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