佛山英文名

佛山，简称禅，广东省省辖市，位于广东省中部，地处珠三角腹地，毗邻港澳，东接广州，南邻中山。佛山与广州地缘相连、历史相承、文化同源。是“广佛都市圈”、“广佛肇经济圈”、“珠江-西江经济带”的重要组成部分，全国先进制造业基地、广东重要的制造业中心，在广东省经济发展中处于领先地位。1佛山是国家级历史文化名城23，历史上是中国天下四聚、四大名镇之一，是中国龙舟龙狮文化名城，4也是粤剧的发源地，岭南文化分支广府文化发源地和兴盛地之一，崇文尚武彰显佛山精神。佛山原名季华乡，“肇迹于晋，得名于唐”，唐贞观二年（公元628年），因在城内塔坡岗挖掘出三尊佛像，以为是佛家之地，遂立石榜改季华乡为“佛山”，迄今有1387年的城市得名史。1佛山现辖禅城区、南海区、顺德区、高明区和三水区，全市总面积3797.72平方公里，常住人口735.06万人，其中户籍人口385.61万人。12015年，佛山实现地区生产总值8010亿元，人均地区生产总值突破10万元，跻身高收入城市行列。5佛山享有全国文明城市、世界美食之都、品牌之都、最具浪漫城市等美誉。

Foshan, which "was founded in Jin Dynasty and was given the name in Tang Dynasty ", is a famous cultural city with a long history. As early as in Qinand Han dynasties, this was already a considerable inhabiting village of people engaging in agriculture and fishery. At the Zhenguang Second Year of Tang Dynasty (A.D. 628), three Buddhist figurines were dug out at Tapogang in the city, hence the city was named'Foshan' In the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty, Foshan was already famous for handicraft, commerce and culture, which was an important trade port inSouthern China. In the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, it evolved into an economically developed town in Lingnan area, which together with HankouTown in Hubei, Jingde Town in Jiangxi and Zhuxian Town in Henan were listed as Four Famous Towns in China. It was also the biggestcommodities terminal, listed as one of the ¡°Four Terminals¡± (Beijing in North, Foshan in South, Suzhou in East and Hankou in West). After establishment of the People¡¯s Republic of China, the Foshan City (Chancheng District) was set up on January 12, 1951. In 1958, the FoshanAdministrative Region was established, governing 3 cities of Foshan, Jiangmen and Shiji and 13 counties like Zhongshan. In 1970 Foshan Adminis-trative Region was renamed Foshan Prefecture, governing 14 counties (cities); In June 1983 the system of City Leading County (City) was imple-mented. Since 1985, the area under administration was totally transferred into the Pearl River Delta Economic Open Zone. Foshan mainly has the natural sources of pot clay, rocks, glass sand, rare metals and pool fishes, rice, sugar cane and various fruits and flowers etc. Foshan was one of the ancient famous cities, well known at home and abroad for its handicraft industry. The exquisite folk-arts have a long history,which is said to start from Ming Dynasty, famous for its local styles. Foshan folk arts have unique features. Tens of artistic items like paper-cut, binding item, color lantern, Qiuse (including paper puff, sculpture, engraving,sticky brick and casting products), wood New Year pictures and paintings and handwritings, are made with the techniques of cutting,engraving, puffing, sculpting, casting, painting and sticking. The Foshan folk arts are popular among people for its local styles. Foshan Folk Arts Research Association, established in 1956, is an organization dedicated to researching, inheriting and developing the traditional arts inFoshan. The traditional Foshan folk arts are inherited and developed here. It ever received the Party and State leaders, foreign chiefs of state, govern-ment delegation, famous persons and artists for visiting and cultural and artistic exchange, who have given high evaluation to its achievements. For years, Foshan Folk Arts Research Association has held artistic shows of different forms and scales in Australia, America, Europe, African,South-east Asia, Hong Kong-Macao-Taiwan Region, partial domestic provinces and cities and different areas in Guangdong. It has also sent technolog-ists to the United States, Japan, Australia, Holland, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Macao to hold circuit artistic seminars or artistic performances. In the ceremony of celebrating Hong Kong Back to China in1997, the Foshan Folk Arts Research Association designed and made the largest color binding flower boat (16m long, 5m wide and 10m high) in thehistory and other color lanterns and color dragons etc, which become the focus in the ceremony of Hong Kong Back to China with intense folkfeatures. The color dragon designed and made by this Association was listed into Guinness World Record. For celebrating the arrival of the year 2000, the Hong Kong SAR Government held the large lantern show named ¡°Flying Dragon Celebrating Millennium¡±,where more than 2000 sets of color lanterns were designed and made by our Association, of which the flying dragon was 280m long, 14m high, occup-ying 4800 square meters, which was listed into Guinness World Record as the largest lantern in the world. In the Spring Festival 2000, the Guangzhou Municipal Government held the large lantern joint performance named ¡°New Millennium Flying DragonCelebration in Pearl River¡± at the Pearl River in Guangzhou. For this activity, the Foshan Folk Arts Research Association designed and made 38 colorbinding boats (each 16m long, 5m wide and 5m high), floating on Pearl River for 5km, praised by the media as the tour de force in the whole historyof the Pearl River. In Foshan traditional lantern color binding artistic articles, there are three items listed into Guinness World Record. The Foshan Folk Arts Research Association is an open unit, with an artistic item exhibiting mall of more than 1600 square meters, wherecolorful Foshan folk artistic items and the traditional artistic items from other areas in the country are exhibited for the domestic and overseas visitors.Here the visitors may also appreciate the performance of techniques for making Foshan folk artist items. It brings artistic enjoyment to the visitors toenhance the cultural and artistic exchange and the friendships between the people from different countries in the world.