Good morning，everyone. It’s my pleasure to introduce my hometown，especially as the first to eat crab [kr?b]. Have you ever heard of the tower [?tau?]? Yes, it’s Yellow Crane [krein] Tower . (Chinese: 黄鹤楼). It is a famous and historic [his?t?rik] tower, and built in the year 223 AD. The tower is the landmark in Hubei province [?pr?vins]. Yes, I come from Hubei.

At first, I will give an overview [???v??vju:] of Hubei. Hubei province, with a

population of 60 million, is located [l???ke?t?d] in the middle reaches of the Yangtze river, and to the north of dongting lake, with Wuhan as the provincial [pr??v?n??l] capital[ ?k?pitl], and Qichun as my birthplace. Hubei covers an area of over 180,000 square kilometers with over 12 prefecture [?pri:fekt?u?] -level city, and 102 counties. It is well known as “a thoroughfare [?θ?:r???fe?] of 9 provinces(Chinese:九省通衢)”for its networks of transportation by air, water, highway and railway.

Hubei is the birthplace for Chu culture. Chu culture is a highly developed and unique

[ju:?ni:k] style regional culture in south china from the eastern Zhou period to the end of the Qin dynasty [?dain?sti]. it reaches a fairly high level in many aspects [??spekt] like bronze [br?nz] casting, handicraft [?h?ndi:?kr?ft] industry, porcelain [?p?:slin], music, literature [?lit?rit??] and painting, and so on.

Hubei, known as”the province with a thousand lakes”and “the land of fish and rice”, is one of the major areas in China to produce rice, cotton, oil and fish.

With its solid [?s?lid] industrial foundations, Hubei has a system of modern industry. Its main industries includes electricity, metallurgy [?metl??:d?i:], machinery,

electronic [?l?k?trɑn?k] information, and so on.The economy of Hubei province is in rapid development in recent years, and will obtain new opportunities [??p??tju:niti] in future..

Higher education level of Hubei province is in the front of whole country, the number of college students is 1.3 million, of which more than 1.05 million in wuhan.

When you come to a new city, maybe you are most concerned about the local [?l?uk?l] diet, so I focused on catering [?ke?t?r??] culture. Hubei cuisine [kw??zi:n]

composed[k?m?p?uz] of three kinds of local dishes from Wuhan, Jingzhou and Huangzhou. Hot-and-dry noodles is the best choice for breakfast in Wuhan.

Wuchang fish, that is produced in the vicinity [vi?siniti] of Wuchang, as early as 1,700 years ago in the Three Kingdoms period, has been well known in north-south river. Chairman Mao Zedong said, "Having had water in Changsha, now I am having fish in Wuchang". The famous poem was published, so Wuchang fish is even more famous in world.

At last, I will give an introduction about my birthplace.

Qichun County (Chinese: 蕲春县) is a county of Huanggang, Hubei.

Qichun County is the birthplace of famous herbalist [?h?:b?l?st] Li Shizhen, who was born and lived in Qizhou town, on the southern edge of the County, alongside the Yangtze River. In turn, Qichun is a major center of the herbal industry in China. Four local specialties [?spe??lti:] of Qichun are Ay Tsao, bamboo, turtle [?t?:tl] and snake, and they are called The four treasures in Qichun. They have good medicinal

[m??d?s?n?l] value in traditional Chinese medicine.

All of the above is my hometown.Thank you for your attention.

 

第二篇：小组presentation：东西方打招呼方式的不同演讲稿

Have you eaten?

You must be curious about what I’m talking about. I should normally say “Hello, Hi” or something else to greet you. And “Have you eaten” is a very traditional way to greet used by Chinese. Okay, this is the topic I’m going to talk about—The Greeting Ways Between China and Western Countries. I’m Liu XiaoJie. I come from ICS.

There are so many differences among countries. Of course, ways of greeting between China and western countries are totally different.

As I said, in China, if we meet a friend in the street, we are used to say: “Hi, have you eaten?”, or something like “Where have you been?”, “What are you going to do?” to show our consideration.

Let’s watch a video.

I think Chinese people say “have you eaten” is because that in the past, Chinese are really poor, people are always hungry, so the most important thing when people meet is asking whether he or she is full or not.

However, in the western countries, the questions above are just questions, not greeting at all. They may think you’re inviting them to dinner if you ask about their meals. Usually, they’ll just give each other a smile or greet with a “hi/hello”﹑”Good morning/afternoon/evening”, “what a fine day today” ,”how is everything going” to show their considerations. In most occasion, American nod head or wave hands to greet.

In social situations, the Western people have a few different ways to greet.

The most common is shaking hands. This is the most mainstream way. In

England and American, people usually shake hands for ceremony when they first meet. Not like the English people, Eastern Europeans always give a hug to each other when they first meet.

If met a woman, a man would kiss the back of the woman’s hand. This is a ceremonious greeting.

Most western people would give each other a big hug if he meets with a close friend

There are some tips you should know.

First, when you are shaking hands, hold your hands softly and don't take the invitation to the one who had high social status.

It’s very rude to hit somebody’s shoulders. Don't do this unless he is your close friend.

And the following tips may be very important for the gentlemen. If you want to kiss a girl’s hand you must know.

Your mouth can’t touch her hand. Don't kiss the hands which are in gloves. Don't kiss a girl’s hand in public.

Chinese usually scrape a bow to greet people in the old time. People should stand firmly first. Then encircle the hands in the front and shake the hands upper and lower.

There are much more interesting things about greeting, if you want to know more about greeting, you can come to me.

So, it’s the end of my speech. Thank you.