用英文介绍鱼尾狮一定要介绍完整（用英文）

用英文介绍鱼尾狮一定要介绍完整（用英文）
用英文介绍鱼尾狮
一定要介绍完整（用英文）

用英文介绍鱼尾狮一定要介绍完整（用英文）
The Merlion is a beautiful hybrid of a lion and a fish. Strong and lithe, its lion head alludes to the fabled beast that once roamed the ancient island state, while its fish body symbolizes Singapore's origin as a prosperous seaport.
First built as an eight metre tall sculpture in 1972, the Merlion was located at the mouth of the Singapore River. In 1996, this prominent icon of Singapore was reproduced, on a much larger scale, on Sentosa island.
Once inside the Merlion, visitors are enthralled by the interior. Themed as a sunken pirate ship submerged in subterranean rocks, the tower is laden with treasures and jewels left behind by Bugis pirates who once dominated the waters of Southeast Asia. The enigmatic atmosphere is complemented by sounds of crashing waves, howling winds, fog horns, and the cries of seagulls. To complete the underwater effects, visitors can peer through the breaks in the rockwork to view colourful tropical fishes and corals.

The merlion (Simplified Chinese: 鱼尾狮; Pinyin: Yúwěishī) is a statue with the head of a lion and the body of a fish. Its name comes from a portmanteau of mermaid and lion. The merlion was designed by F...

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The merlion (Simplified Chinese: 鱼尾狮; Pinyin: Yúwěishī) is a statue with the head of a lion and the body of a fish. Its name comes from a portmanteau of mermaid and lion. The merlion was designed by Fraser Brunner for the Singapore Tourism Board in 1964 and was used as its logo up to 1997. The Merlion continues to be its trademark symbol. It also appears frequently in STB-approved souvenirs.
Based on the Singapore Tourism Board's publicity campaign, the lion head and fish body of the creature recalls the story of the legendary Sang Nila Utama, who saw a lion while hunting on an island, en route to Malacca. The island eventually became the sea port of Temasek, a precursor to Singapore.
Merlion statue
The original Merlion statue stood at the opening of the Singapore River. The then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, officiated the installation ceremony of the Merlion statue on 15 September 1972. In 2002, the statue was relocated to its current site that fronts Marina Bay with the completion of the Esplanade Bridge in 1997. The statue measures 8.6 metres high and weighs 70 tonnes. A taller replica can be found on Sentosa Island. The Merlion statue on Marina Bay was built from cement fondue by the late Singapore craftsman, Lim Nang Seng.[1]
Other Merlion statues
There are five official Merlions in Singapore approved by the Singapore Tourism Board. These include the two at Merlion Park, one a smaller Merlion and the other the main Merlion (both by Lim Nang Seng in 1972).
Singapore
* Merlion Park on Marina Bay (2)
* Sentosa, which is a taller replica
* Mount Faber
* Tourism Court in Tanglin
Overseas
* Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan built by Masaru Yanagisawa.
* Shenzhen, China, on Window of the World.[2]
Events
* From 5 June 2006 till 10 July 2006, the Merlion at Merlion Park underwent a spruce-up. Visitors were greeted with illustrated hoardings and canvases covering the safety nettings. The illustrations were designed by Miel, an award-winning senior artist at The Straits Times.
The Merlion in art and popular culture
* Edwin Thumboo cemented the iconic status of the Merlion as a personification of Singapore with his poem Ulysses by the Merlion in 1979. Due to Thumboo's status as Singapore's unofficial poet laureate and the nationalistic mythmaking qualities of his poetry, future generations of Singaporean poets have struggled with the symbol of the Merlion, frequently taking an ironic, critical, or even hostile stand - and pointing out its artificiality and the refusal of ordinary Singaporeans to accept a tourist attraction as their national icon. The poem "attracted considerable attention among subsequent poets, who have all felt obliged to write their own Merlion (or anti-Merlion) poems, illustrating their anxiety of influence, as well as the continuing local fascination with the dialectic between a public and a private role for poets, which Thumboo (as Yeats before him, in the Irish context) has wanted to sustain as a fruitful rather than a tense relation between the personal and the public." Among the poems of this nature are "Merlign" by Alvin Pang and "Love Song for a Merlion" by Vernon Chan.
* The Merlion was featured - or not featured, depending on how you look at it - in the 2005 Venice Biennale in the work of artist Lim Tzay Chuen called "Mike". In his controversial work, he had proposed taking the sculpture in the Merlion Park to the Singapore Pavilion at the exhibition.[3] The request was refused by the authorities.
* The Merlion has appeared in a number of films and television series, becoming almost a visual cliché to Singapore as the Eiffel Tower is to Paris.
* It notably appeared in the anime Cowboy Bebop, where its appearance in an ancient home movie offered amnesiac bounty hunter Faye Valentine a clue to her true origins.
* A merlion can be seen on the Crest of the 8th Marine Regiment of the United States Marine Corps. [4]

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Merlion and small Merlion was standing in the waterfront Qiaobang the Merlion Park is a very popular tourist attractions. September 15, 1972, former Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew for t...

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Merlion and small Merlion was standing in the waterfront Qiaobang the Merlion Park is a very popular tourist attractions. September 15, 1972, former Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew for the ribbon-cutting opening ceremony. Like today's Merlion has been relocated to 120 metres from the site and the adjacent floating on the 1st of science.
8.6 metres high and weighing 70 tonnes, the Merlion late Singapore sculptor Lim Nang Seng (Lim Nang Seng), with concrete production. Another two metres high and weighing three tons of small Merlion is Mr Lim. The body was made of cement, ceramic surface coverage on the scale, and red eyes is a small cup.
Mr. Fraser Brunner is the basis of this record and design Merlion. Lion's Head is a symbol that the character of the lion, the symbol of the Merlion Temasek city.
Merlion homes with water as the theme, accompanied by lighting effects to create the Merlion floating in the ocean on the legislation vivid spectacular visual effects. Surrounding open space for outdoor performances by. Merlion connecting the ladder and stands not only enable visitors around the water, but also enable visitors to ladder sat on the floor.

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