abridge vt.
to make...shortened; to reduce the length of (a written work) by condensing or rewriting; to curtail; to diminish; to deprive of (privileges, rights, etc.)
1. This story must be abridged.
2. He's currently abridged his long story.
3. The play was abridged for TV.
4. The new dictionary is abridged from the old one.
5. He decided to abridge his stay here after he received a letter from home.
an abridged version
abridge/condense a written work
Thursday, November 5, 2009
an abrasive voice
abrasive adj.
1. causing abrasion; grating; rough
The surface of the new table was so abrasive.
2. irritating in manner or personality; causing tension or annoyance; sharply disagreeable; rigorous
He has an abrasive way of treating people.
If you criticize Peter, he will become very abrasve.
an abrasive character
an abrasive manner
an abrasive behavior
1. causing abrasion; grating; rough
The surface of the new table was so abrasive.
2. irritating in manner or personality; causing tension or annoyance; sharply disagreeable; rigorous
He has an abrasive way of treating people.
If you criticize Peter, he will become very abrasve.
an abrasive character
an abrasive manner
an abrasive behavior
in a fair and aboveboard way
aboveboard adj.
without concealment or deception; honest; straightforward
His part in the affair was quite open and aboveboard.
I didn't have to bribe anyone; it was all open and aboveboard.
abreast adv.
alongside each other and facing in the same direction; up to date (with); fully convrsant (with)
They lined up six abreast.
The girls came down the street two abreast.
without concealment or deception; honest; straightforward
His part in the affair was quite open and aboveboard.
I didn't have to bribe anyone; it was all open and aboveboard.
abreast adv.
alongside each other and facing in the same direction; up to date (with); fully convrsant (with)
They lined up six abreast.
The girls came down the street two abreast.
abound in/with sth.
abound vi.
1. to exist or occur in abundance; be plentiful
Apples abound here all the year round.
Questions abound as to the reasons for the president's decision.
2. to be plentifully supplied (with); teem (with)
Natural resources abound in our country.
The river abound with lots of fish.
1. to exist or occur in abundance; be plentiful
Apples abound here all the year round.
Questions abound as to the reasons for the president's decision.
2. to be plentifully supplied (with); teem (with)
Natural resources abound in our country.
The river abound with lots of fish.
abort plans for sth.
abort v.
1. to undergo or cause (a woman) to undergo the termination of pregnancy before the fetus is viable
The doctor had to abort the baby.
2. to fail to come to completion; go wrong; to stop the development of; to cause to be abandoned
The boss decided to abort the plans for this corporate takeover.
He had to abort the trip because of his bad illness.
3. (of a space flight, military operation, etc.) to fail or terminate prematurely; (of an organism or part of an organism) to fail to develop into the mature form
The captain instructed them to abort the mission.
The rocket flight had to be aborted because of difficulties with computer.
1. to undergo or cause (a woman) to undergo the termination of pregnancy before the fetus is viable
The doctor had to abort the baby.
2. to fail to come to completion; go wrong; to stop the development of; to cause to be abandoned
The boss decided to abort the plans for this corporate takeover.
He had to abort the trip because of his bad illness.
3. (of a space flight, military operation, etc.) to fail or terminate prematurely; (of an organism or part of an organism) to fail to develop into the mature form
The captain instructed them to abort the mission.
The rocket flight had to be aborted because of difficulties with computer.
(sth.)be abominable to sb.
abominable adj.
1. offensive; loathsome; detestable
People denounced their abominable treatment of prisoners.
Your behaviour are abominable to me.
Their cruel treatment of criminals was abominable.
2. very bad; unpleasant, or inferior
The sanitary conditions in this restaurant are abominable.
The weather in winter is abominable.
an abominable affair
abominable workmanship
abominable tortures
1. offensive; loathsome; detestable
People denounced their abominable treatment of prisoners.
Your behaviour are abominable to me.
Their cruel treatment of criminals was abominable.
2. very bad; unpleasant, or inferior
The sanitary conditions in this restaurant are abominable.
The weather in winter is abominable.
an abominable affair
abominable workmanship
abominable tortures
abolish slavery
abolish vt.
to do away with (laww, regulations, customs, etc); to pur an end to; to get rid of
1. Do abolish this kind of bad evil.
2. Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th certury in America and in Russia.
3. The government was forced to abolish exorbitant taxes on some goods and miscellaneous levies.
aboriginal adj.
existing in a place from the earliest known period; indigenous;
They managed to wipe out the entire aboriginal population.
to do away with (laww, regulations, customs, etc); to pur an end to; to get rid of
1. Do abolish this kind of bad evil.
2. Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th certury in America and in Russia.
3. The government was forced to abolish exorbitant taxes on some goods and miscellaneous levies.
aboriginal adj.
existing in a place from the earliest known period; indigenous;
They managed to wipe out the entire aboriginal population.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
be ablaze with anger
ablaze adj.
1. on fire; burning
The whole builing was soom ablaze after the attack.
By the time firefighters were called, the house was well ablaze.
2. brightly illuminated
The main street was ablaze with lights in the evening.
It was springtime and the slopes were ablaze with almond blossoms.
3. emotionally aroused
His face was ablaze with anger.
Her distorted face was ablaze with rage.
1. on fire; burning
The whole builing was soom ablaze after the attack.
By the time firefighters were called, the house was well ablaze.
2. brightly illuminated
The main street was ablaze with lights in the evening.
It was springtime and the slopes were ablaze with almond blossoms.
3. emotionally aroused
His face was ablaze with anger.
Her distorted face was ablaze with rage.
abject poverty
abject adj.
1. utterly wretched or hopeless; miserable;
This policy has turned out to be an abject failur.
Their attempt ended in abject failure.
The thought of working nights fills me with abject horror.
2. forlorn; dejected
The most abject slaves joined in the revolt.
3. indicating humiliation; submissive
an abject apology
in an abject way
4. contemptible; despicable; servile
What an abject performance!
an abject liar
1. utterly wretched or hopeless; miserable;
This policy has turned out to be an abject failur.
Their attempt ended in abject failure.
The thought of working nights fills me with abject horror.
2. forlorn; dejected
The most abject slaves joined in the revolt.
3. indicating humiliation; submissive
an abject apology
in an abject way
4. contemptible; despicable; servile
What an abject performance!
an abject liar
an abiding love of sth.
abiding adj.: permanent; enduring; unceasing; imperishable
1. I'm tired of your abiding complaints.
2. He had an abiding love of the English countryside.
3. My abiding memory of our first meeting is of a girl too shy to talk.
an abiding friendship
an abiding befief/truth
an abiding act
an abiding love of music
1. I'm tired of your abiding complaints.
2. He had an abiding love of the English countryside.
3. My abiding memory of our first meeting is of a girl too shy to talk.
an abiding friendship
an abiding befief/truth
an abiding act
an abiding love of music
abide by one's promise
abide vt. vi.
1. to tolerate; put up with; to accept or submit to; suffer;
She can't abide watching horror films.
How can you abide his rudeness of such a person?
2. to comply with; remain faithful to
Please feel assured that we will abide by our promise.
3. to await in expectation
He'll abide his time.
4. to withstand or sustain; endure
The brave soldiers abode several onslaughts of the fierce enemy.
5. to dwell
They abode in a remote mountainous village.
The child abode with his grandparents for two years.
to abide the court's decision
to abide the onslaught
to abide by the contract
to abide by laws
to abide by one's promise
1. to tolerate; put up with; to accept or submit to; suffer;
She can't abide watching horror films.
How can you abide his rudeness of such a person?
2. to comply with; remain faithful to
Please feel assured that we will abide by our promise.
3. to await in expectation
He'll abide his time.
4. to withstand or sustain; endure
The brave soldiers abode several onslaughts of the fierce enemy.
5. to dwell
They abode in a remote mountainous village.
The child abode with his grandparents for two years.
to abide the court's decision
to abide the onslaught
to abide by the contract
to abide by laws
to abide by one's promise
abhor to do (sth.)
abhor vt.
to detest or loathe vehemently; find...repugnant; reject or despise
I abhor to tell lies.
They abhor all forms of racial discrimination.
Most people abhor crualty to children.
to detest or loathe vehemently; find...repugnant; reject or despise
I abhor to tell lies.
They abhor all forms of racial discrimination.
Most people abhor crualty to children.
on an aberrant course
aberrant adj.
1. deviating from the normal or usual type, as certain animals from the group in which they are classified.
The rocket is on an aberrant course.
It reflects the aberrant personality of some American politicians hostile to China's development and becoming powerful.
2. behaving in an abnormal or untypical way
That student is always having some aberrant behaviors.
3. deviating from truth, morality, etc
1. deviating from the normal or usual type, as certain animals from the group in which they are classified.
The rocket is on an aberrant course.
It reflects the aberrant personality of some American politicians hostile to China's development and becoming powerful.
2. behaving in an abnormal or untypical way
That student is always having some aberrant behaviors.
3. deviating from truth, morality, etc
abduct and hold sb. to ransom
abduct vt.
to remove (a person) by force or cunning against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; kidnap
1. The police think the boy has been abducted.
2. Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted.
3. The robber abducted the heiress and held her to ransom.
to remove (a person) by force or cunning against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; kidnap
1. The police think the boy has been abducted.
2. Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted.
3. The robber abducted the heiress and held her to ransom.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
abdicate one's responsibility
abdicate v.
to renounce(a throne or power) as monarchs or emperors especially formally; to give up (rights, responsibilities, duties or obligations)
1. The old must abdicate the new.
2. If the King didn't abdicate then, he would have to be dethroned.
3. Yuan Shikai forced the emperor to abdicate and hand over power to him.
abdicate one's responsibilities
abdicate the office
abbey n.
a building inhabited by a community of monks or nuns governed by an abbot or abbess
abdomen n. abdominal adj.
belly; the region of the body of vertebrate that contains the viscera other than the heart and lungs. In mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm.
to renounce(a throne or power) as monarchs or emperors especially formally; to give up (rights, responsibilities, duties or obligations)
1. The old must abdicate the new.
2. If the King didn't abdicate then, he would have to be dethroned.
3. Yuan Shikai forced the emperor to abdicate and hand over power to him.
abdicate one's responsibilities
abdicate the office
abbey n.
a building inhabited by a community of monks or nuns governed by an abbot or abbess
abdomen n. abdominal adj.
belly; the region of the body of vertebrate that contains the viscera other than the heart and lungs. In mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm.
abbreviate sth. to
abbreviate vt.
1. to shorten (a word or phrase) by contraction or omission of some letters or words
We had better abbreviate it to ABC.
2. to shorten (a speech or piece of writing) by omitting sections, paraphrasing, etc.
I don't believe it will be necessary to abbreviate any of them, but leave the first paragraph out, which is just a greeting.
abbreviation n.
Fax is the abbreviation of Facsimile.
1. to shorten (a word or phrase) by contraction or omission of some letters or words
We had better abbreviate it to ABC.
2. to shorten (a speech or piece of writing) by omitting sections, paraphrasing, etc.
I don't believe it will be necessary to abbreviate any of them, but leave the first paragraph out, which is just a greeting.
abbreviation n.
Fax is the abbreviation of Facsimile.
abate smoke nuisance
abate v.
1. to make(wind,pain etc.)less or become less in amount, intensity, degree, etc.
The ship sailed when the storm abated.
She felt that his pain was abating.
2. to remove, suppress, or terminate (a harm or a nuisance)
The government is trying to abate the smoke nuisance in the big cities.
We must do a bit of effort to abate the noise pollution around us.
3. to suspend or extinguish(a claim or action), to annul (a writ)
The board of directors abated the strict rules.
4. to make (a writ or a legal action, etc.) null and void, to do away with or put an edn to
5. to subtract or deduct (a price etc.)
1. to make(wind,pain etc.)less or become less in amount, intensity, degree, etc.
The ship sailed when the storm abated.
She felt that his pain was abating.
2. to remove, suppress, or terminate (a harm or a nuisance)
The government is trying to abate the smoke nuisance in the big cities.
We must do a bit of effort to abate the noise pollution around us.
3. to suspend or extinguish(a claim or action), to annul (a writ)
The board of directors abated the strict rules.
4. to make (a writ or a legal action, etc.) null and void, to do away with or put an edn to
5. to subtract or deduct (a price etc.)
Sunday, November 1, 2009
abase oneself by doing (sth.)
abase vt.:
1. make...humble or embarrassed
Betraying his close friend abased himself among his friends.
2. make status or identity etc. reduced
Nobody doesn't refuse to abase himself in the presence of other.
He would not abase himself by showing any fear.
The boss was not willing to abase himself before the staff.
abase n.: belittling, humility or humiliation; or one who abases others.
1. make...humble or embarrassed
Betraying his close friend abased himself among his friends.
2. make status or identity etc. reduced
Nobody doesn't refuse to abase himself in the presence of other.
He would not abase himself by showing any fear.
The boss was not willing to abase himself before the staff.
abase n.: belittling, humility or humiliation; or one who abases others.
Don't abandon yourself to despair!
abandon vt.:
1. get rid of, throw away
The car was badly damaged, so he abandoned it over there.
2. leave...alone/behind, make sb./sth. unwanted
I'm sorry I abandoned you like that.
She abandoned her family and went off with another guy.
3. give up, stop doing sth.
We will never abandon our principles.
They abandoned their journey schedule temporarily.
4. stop, make...no more/longer
5. get into, be addicted in, wallow in (some feeling)
abandon n.: indulgence, turning sb. loose
All the class were shouting and cheering with abandon.
with abandon
abandoner n. one who abandons or gives sth.up easily.
1. get rid of, throw away
The car was badly damaged, so he abandoned it over there.
2. leave...alone/behind, make sb./sth. unwanted
I'm sorry I abandoned you like that.
She abandoned her family and went off with another guy.
3. give up, stop doing sth.
We will never abandon our principles.
They abandoned their journey schedule temporarily.
4. stop, make...no more/longer
5. get into, be addicted in, wallow in (some feeling)
abandon n.: indulgence, turning sb. loose
All the class were shouting and cheering with abandon.
with abandon
abandoner n. one who abandons or gives sth.up easily.
The Draft of Teaching Demonstration
Good afternoon, gentlemen.I am No.2. It is my great honor to be here to present my topic. Today I will talk about Global Warming in Unit from Book 6.
(The analysis of teaching material:)
This is a reading passage. It plays a very important part in this unit. By studying this passage, students can improve their reading skills and comprehensive ability.
My Teaching aims are as follows:
1. Knowledge aim is to understand the main idea of the text.
2. Ability aim is to retell the text in their own words.
3. Emotional aim is to know something more about the function of the topic.
And my Teaching focus is how to understand the text better, and teaching difficulty is to use your own words to retell the text.
(About the students:
1. The studnets have known something about the functions of topic from internet.
2. They don't often use English to express themselves and communicate with others.
3. Some students are not active in the class because they are afraid of making mistakes.)
During the reading practice, I'll use the following Teaching methods: double activities teaching method, question-and-answer teaching method, task-based teaching method and cooperation-study teaching method.
(In this period, I'll use 3 Studying ways: one is learning how to be a successful reader, another is learning how to get information, and the other is learn how to retell a passage.)
My Teaching aids are a computer, a projector and a tape recorder.
Now next are Teaching procedures:
Step 1 is warming up.
I will ge the students to talk about something about Global Warming to activate their interests.
Step 2 is pre-reading.
Discuss some questions before taking up the reading passage.
Its purpose is to improve the students' speaking ability and expression ability through free discussion.
Step 3 is fast reading.
In this step, I will ge them to read the passage quickly to catch the general idea and get a brief impression of this topic. By doing this, I will practise the students for fast reading skills.
Step 4 is careful reading.
The students are required to focus on the whole text much more carefully this time paragraph by paragraph and answer the questions. The purpose si to practise the students for the skills of scanning nad to lead the students ot find out the very important facts and detailed imformation. And furthemore to help the students understand the text and smooth away the difficulties all by themselves.
Step 5 is post-reading.
For the students to understnad the passage better, I will get the studnets to answer three questions to further develop the students' reading abilities and deal with the fifficulties.
Step 6 is discussion.
In this step, the students willb e asked to have a discussion in groups of eight. By doing so, I direct the students to activate their language that they have learned. Then invite some group members to report their work to the whoel class to make them overcome their shyness and stimulate them to speak in public. I think the ability to use English is the most importnat. I will the students some presents because of their excellent perormances, thus enhancing their aqareness of using English.
Step 7 is summary.
In this step, I will ask two of the students to retell the text in their own words so that they can revise what they will have learnt in the class.
Step 8 is homework.
The last step is also very important to help the students consolidate what they they will have learnt in this lesson.
This is my teaching design. That's all. Thank you all for your listening. Have a good day.
(Blackboard design
Unit 4 Global Warming
Topic sentences:
Para1:
Para2:
Discuss some questions:
1.
2.
Comments: Check the students through arragning some practice, and let them discuss the feeling of learning this lesson, in this way, the students can know what they have mastered. )
(The analysis of teaching material:)
This is a reading passage. It plays a very important part in this unit. By studying this passage, students can improve their reading skills and comprehensive ability.
My Teaching aims are as follows:
1. Knowledge aim is to understand the main idea of the text.
2. Ability aim is to retell the text in their own words.
3. Emotional aim is to know something more about the function of the topic.
And my Teaching focus is how to understand the text better, and teaching difficulty is to use your own words to retell the text.
(About the students:
1. The studnets have known something about the functions of topic from internet.
2. They don't often use English to express themselves and communicate with others.
3. Some students are not active in the class because they are afraid of making mistakes.)
During the reading practice, I'll use the following Teaching methods: double activities teaching method, question-and-answer teaching method, task-based teaching method and cooperation-study teaching method.
(In this period, I'll use 3 Studying ways: one is learning how to be a successful reader, another is learning how to get information, and the other is learn how to retell a passage.)
My Teaching aids are a computer, a projector and a tape recorder.
Now next are Teaching procedures:
Step 1 is warming up.
I will ge the students to talk about something about Global Warming to activate their interests.
Step 2 is pre-reading.
Discuss some questions before taking up the reading passage.
Its purpose is to improve the students' speaking ability and expression ability through free discussion.
Step 3 is fast reading.
In this step, I will ge them to read the passage quickly to catch the general idea and get a brief impression of this topic. By doing this, I will practise the students for fast reading skills.
Step 4 is careful reading.
The students are required to focus on the whole text much more carefully this time paragraph by paragraph and answer the questions. The purpose si to practise the students for the skills of scanning nad to lead the students ot find out the very important facts and detailed imformation. And furthemore to help the students understand the text and smooth away the difficulties all by themselves.
Step 5 is post-reading.
For the students to understnad the passage better, I will get the studnets to answer three questions to further develop the students' reading abilities and deal with the fifficulties.
Step 6 is discussion.
In this step, the students willb e asked to have a discussion in groups of eight. By doing so, I direct the students to activate their language that they have learned. Then invite some group members to report their work to the whoel class to make them overcome their shyness and stimulate them to speak in public. I think the ability to use English is the most importnat. I will the students some presents because of their excellent perormances, thus enhancing their aqareness of using English.
Step 7 is summary.
In this step, I will ask two of the students to retell the text in their own words so that they can revise what they will have learnt in the class.
Step 8 is homework.
The last step is also very important to help the students consolidate what they they will have learnt in this lesson.
This is my teaching design. That's all. Thank you all for your listening. Have a good day.
(Blackboard design
Unit 4 Global Warming
Topic sentences:
Para1:
Para2:
Discuss some questions:
1.
2.
Comments: Check the students through arragning some practice, and let them discuss the feeling of learning this lesson, in this way, the students can know what they have mastered. )
10,000 Metres!
Today it is cloudy with a little cold. So I changed thick clothes.
Although there were only several people exercising on the playground, I was very happy and excited in high spirits.
In order to have another new feeling, I decided to run 10,000 metres this morning, and I made it with not very difficulty.
My new feeling is as follows: I got into a muddle, with my legs soft, my scalp tingling, ears fevering, eyes astringent, and my whole body heating.
It was a long time before I had this new feeling. I am feeling the experience and enjoying it all day.
This is another happiness and I will enjoy it forever.
Although there were only several people exercising on the playground, I was very happy and excited in high spirits.
In order to have another new feeling, I decided to run 10,000 metres this morning, and I made it with not very difficulty.
My new feeling is as follows: I got into a muddle, with my legs soft, my scalp tingling, ears fevering, eyes astringent, and my whole body heating.
It was a long time before I had this new feeling. I am feeling the experience and enjoying it all day.
This is another happiness and I will enjoy it forever.
Conduct the Demonstration Performance
Saturday was a rainy day with a little cold breeze.
According to the schedule, the teachers from senior middle schools conducted the performances in the afternoon. And I was No.2 after No.1 Sun Hua.
The topic is Unit 4 Global Warming from Book 6. I felt that I performed well but it was not the best that I had expected because of the nervousness at the beginning and the end of the performance.
That my teacher, who was one of the judges, said "Very good!" made me very pleased. Leaving my book to Ma, I went home but not with a high spirit. I don't know why it was that I didn't show too much happiness. At that very time, it didn't rain and I was also very quiet and peaceful.
No matter however it is, I finished my great task and was another very important experience for me and my teaching career. No matter what result it is, I have tried my best to make it. This is the most important for me, not the result of it.
During Saturday evening, I was very relaxed these days.
According to the schedule, the teachers from senior middle schools conducted the performances in the afternoon. And I was No.2 after No.1 Sun Hua.
The topic is Unit 4 Global Warming from Book 6. I felt that I performed well but it was not the best that I had expected because of the nervousness at the beginning and the end of the performance.
That my teacher, who was one of the judges, said "Very good!" made me very pleased. Leaving my book to Ma, I went home but not with a high spirit. I don't know why it was that I didn't show too much happiness. At that very time, it didn't rain and I was also very quiet and peaceful.
No matter however it is, I finished my great task and was another very important experience for me and my teaching career. No matter what result it is, I have tried my best to make it. This is the most important for me, not the result of it.
During Saturday evening, I was very relaxed these days.
Practise Reciting the Draft
I was always practising reciting the draft from Thursday evening to Saturday morning. I spared all the time and all the energy and all the concetration and all the attention to practise reciting the draft emailed from Cao, another close fried.
In order not to interfere with my daughter in the evening, I had to go to our kitchen to do some reciting and practicing until deep into the night every time. Lying in bed, I was always thinking of the words of the draft, and recited them in silent avoiding waking up my wife of sound sleep. I slept into the dream imperceptibly.
Early on the Saturday morning, I woke up at 5.oo but I didn't get up, just lying there and practising reciting the words in a low voice. I didn't remember how many times I practised before the daybreak.
In order not to interfere with my daughter in the evening, I had to go to our kitchen to do some reciting and practicing until deep into the night every time. Lying in bed, I was always thinking of the words of the draft, and recited them in silent avoiding waking up my wife of sound sleep. I slept into the dream imperceptibly.
Early on the Saturday morning, I woke up at 5.oo but I didn't get up, just lying there and practising reciting the words in a low voice. I didn't remember how many times I practised before the daybreak.
A Very Special Day
October 28, Wednesday, is vvvvvery special day for me forever because I made a vvvvvery special task agaist my own will, but I had to do that because life is not always what you want it to make. Perhaps it is the cruel reality everybody must be brave to be faced with whether you are content or not.
That morning before I left home to go to work, I told my wife that I would and had to send it out that day, she nodded that she ageed to my decision.
All the whole day I didn't find appropriate time to conduct my decision to send it out. At the thought of sending it out, I felt my blood quicken in my body with a very high temperature. In actual fact, I wanted very much to sent it out, but I was also very afraid of going to send it out. This is the real person that he is always living in the fierce contradiction.
As evening came near, my blood quickened with my speedy hearbeat. That evening after two self-study, I returned to my baseroom to prepare myself to do my great task. I hesitated several minutes before I made the telephone call to ensure that there was somebody at home at that very time. GGGGGreat! Hostess at home!
But she said the host didn't stay at home so she refused me to come to her home. Without her notice I went to her home directly and bravely and desperately with the victorious faith in my mind.
Six knocks before the door opened, I went inside but she didn't politely greet me to sit down, and insisted that the host not come home until two or three days later, adding that she didn't dare to be in charge of this matter. Although she declined my intention with courtesy, I persisted in putting it into her arms fiercely, arbitrarily and brutally.
Throwing it out to her, quick as a flash, I flew away down the stairs like a lightening, with a deep fear that someone would happen to see all that had happened. Arriving at the end of stairs, I felt very relaxed and refreshed with a looooong sigh. I was very proud to find that I was myself a real brave person and also could make a little difference.
I was very excited to return home in triumph, with my blood quickening fastest almost to blow out my body. I sat down on the sofa and took several deep breaths to cool down my boiling blood.
That night I slept very well, smiling in the dream.
That morning before I left home to go to work, I told my wife that I would and had to send it out that day, she nodded that she ageed to my decision.
All the whole day I didn't find appropriate time to conduct my decision to send it out. At the thought of sending it out, I felt my blood quicken in my body with a very high temperature. In actual fact, I wanted very much to sent it out, but I was also very afraid of going to send it out. This is the real person that he is always living in the fierce contradiction.
As evening came near, my blood quickened with my speedy hearbeat. That evening after two self-study, I returned to my baseroom to prepare myself to do my great task. I hesitated several minutes before I made the telephone call to ensure that there was somebody at home at that very time. GGGGGreat! Hostess at home!
But she said the host didn't stay at home so she refused me to come to her home. Without her notice I went to her home directly and bravely and desperately with the victorious faith in my mind.
Six knocks before the door opened, I went inside but she didn't politely greet me to sit down, and insisted that the host not come home until two or three days later, adding that she didn't dare to be in charge of this matter. Although she declined my intention with courtesy, I persisted in putting it into her arms fiercely, arbitrarily and brutally.
Throwing it out to her, quick as a flash, I flew away down the stairs like a lightening, with a deep fear that someone would happen to see all that had happened. Arriving at the end of stairs, I felt very relaxed and refreshed with a looooong sigh. I was very proud to find that I was myself a real brave person and also could make a little difference.
I was very excited to return home in triumph, with my blood quickening fastest almost to blow out my body. I sat down on the sofa and took several deep breaths to cool down my boiling blood.
That night I slept very well, smiling in the dream.
Fill in the Full Forms
That was Friday morning last week October 23. We didn't do anything except prepare for the form filling.
First we went to Mrs. Hou's to fetch our certicificates and then went to the school factory to copy our certificates. And last we returned to our office and fill in the two forms, after which we turned them in to Mr.Zhuo.
What I handed in the certificates were as follows: a county certificate of outstanding teachers, two municipal award for outstanding teaching achievements, an open class certificate and two provincial theses.
After that, I prepared very well for the afternoon lesson in the office. That evening I made a telephone call to Mr.Song for much more advice and asked him for a piece of reading-teaching draft. He was very happy to help me.
First we went to Mrs. Hou's to fetch our certicificates and then went to the school factory to copy our certificates. And last we returned to our office and fill in the two forms, after which we turned them in to Mr.Zhuo.
What I handed in the certificates were as follows: a county certificate of outstanding teachers, two municipal award for outstanding teaching achievements, an open class certificate and two provincial theses.
After that, I prepared very well for the afternoon lesson in the office. That evening I made a telephone call to Mr.Song for much more advice and asked him for a piece of reading-teaching draft. He was very happy to help me.
Exciting Good News
That was Thursday evening last week, October 22. After I came back from the sixth floor, I was told that our county Board of Education would conduct a county-level expert teachers appraisal.
That was a very goooood piece of news for me. I, together with my close friend and classmate and colleague decided to participate in this appraisal activity, trying to get more certificates for our advanced-teachers' assessment of middle schools.
Eerybody had to hand in no more than six certicificates since July 2004 that you think could show the maximum of your varity of performances in teaching achievements, educational honors, lesson-conducting competitions or open-class domenstrations, teaching scientific researches, teaching treatises or works, and so on.
I thought it was very easy for me to prepare the six certificates. So I was vvvvvery excited coming back and told my wife this good news. She was very confident of me, encouraging me to do it well.
That evening I made two telephone calls to Mr.Wu and Mr. Ma for their advice.
That was a very goooood piece of news for me. I, together with my close friend and classmate and colleague decided to participate in this appraisal activity, trying to get more certificates for our advanced-teachers' assessment of middle schools.
Eerybody had to hand in no more than six certicificates since July 2004 that you think could show the maximum of your varity of performances in teaching achievements, educational honors, lesson-conducting competitions or open-class domenstrations, teaching scientific researches, teaching treatises or works, and so on.
I thought it was very easy for me to prepare the six certificates. So I was vvvvvery excited coming back and told my wife this good news. She was very confident of me, encouraging me to do it well.
That evening I made two telephone calls to Mr.Wu and Mr. Ma for their advice.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Mid-autumn Festival Poem
Shui Diao Ge Tou
by Su Shi
Will a moon so bright ever arise again?
Drink a cupful of wine and ask of the shy,
I don't know where the palace gate of Heaven is,
Or even the year in which tonight slips by.
I want to return riding the whirlwind! But I
Feel afraid that this heaven of jasper and jade
Lets in the cold, its palaces rear so high.
I shall get up and dance with my own shadow.
From life endured among men how far a cry!
Pound the red pavilion
Slanting through the lattices
Onto every wakeful eye,
Moon, why should you bear a grudge, O why
Insist in time of separation so to fill the sky?
Men know joy and sorrow, parting and reunion;
While the moon waxes and wanes.
Perfection was never easily come by.
Though miles apart, could men but live forever
Dreaming they shared this moonlight together!
by Su Shi
Will a moon so bright ever arise again?
Drink a cupful of wine and ask of the shy,
I don't know where the palace gate of Heaven is,
Or even the year in which tonight slips by.
I want to return riding the whirlwind! But I
Feel afraid that this heaven of jasper and jade
Lets in the cold, its palaces rear so high.
I shall get up and dance with my own shadow.
From life endured among men how far a cry!
Pound the red pavilion
Slanting through the lattices
Onto every wakeful eye,
Moon, why should you bear a grudge, O why
Insist in time of separation so to fill the sky?
Men know joy and sorrow, parting and reunion;
While the moon waxes and wanes.
Perfection was never easily come by.
Though miles apart, could men but live forever
Dreaming they shared this moonlight together!
Monday, October 5, 2009
I Want to Smile
As the saying goes, smile and everything will be okay. Simple as it si, smiles can make a magnificent difference, driving the sadness away and equipping us with an optimistic mind capable of coping wiht all the griefs and obstacles in our way. I want to smile, so as to beautify my world as well as others' in a magic way.
I'd like to smile at my parents and friends, comforting them and bringing fantastic pleasure. By smiliing at my dear fellows, I can reveal the message taht no matter what happens, I'm always here for you.
It occurs tome that when I smile a myself, I build up my confidence and win a positive attitude that helps me go through the hardships.
In a word, I want to msile, delivering happiness everywhere. I'd appreciate it if you accept my application, devoting myself to making the world a happier and warmer heaven.
(by Zhuo Yue)
I'd like to smile at my parents and friends, comforting them and bringing fantastic pleasure. By smiliing at my dear fellows, I can reveal the message taht no matter what happens, I'm always here for you.
It occurs tome that when I smile a myself, I build up my confidence and win a positive attitude that helps me go through the hardships.
In a word, I want to msile, delivering happiness everywhere. I'd appreciate it if you accept my application, devoting myself to making the world a happier and warmer heaven.
(by Zhuo Yue)
I Want to Smile
If you are a house, smile is your window. It brings you more sunshime and makes you inderstood more clearly by the people who stand outside the house. So everyone should accept smile as an important part of his life.
Smile at your parents, and it shows your thankfulness to them. So happy will they be that they shed tears when they learn that you have grown up. Smiling is so powerful that it can lose all your families in gratitude.
Smile at your friends. and it shows your admiration to them. Friedns are shadow that always companies you. Although the sun can't shine everywhere, your friends can walk you to the sunshine. smiling can strengthen your friendship and makes you live a colourful life.
(by Liu Fei)
Smile at yourself, and it cna bring more confidence even when you are faving difficulties.
Smile at your parents, and it shows your thankfulness to them. So happy will they be that they shed tears when they learn that you have grown up. Smiling is so powerful that it can lose all your families in gratitude.
Smile at your friends. and it shows your admiration to them. Friedns are shadow that always companies you. Although the sun can't shine everywhere, your friends can walk you to the sunshine. smiling can strengthen your friendship and makes you live a colourful life.
(by Liu Fei)
Smile at yourself, and it cna bring more confidence even when you are faving difficulties.
I Want to Smile
A saying goes that smiling everyday keeps the doctor away. Only when you smile can you live a satisfyingly happy life. So I want to smile.
I wnat to smile at my parents, who bring me up and teahc me life lessons. Sometimes just a sincere smile instead of flattery words can wanrm their hearts like the sunshine. I want ot smile at my friends, who share tears and laughters wiht me. Sometimes just a sweet smile instead of an unpoyal look can create a life-long friendship like the spring rain. I want to smile at myself, too. Sometimes just a simple smile can give you a full spring even after you hve accidentally missed a beautiful flower.
In a word, however hard life is and whatever will happen, I prefer to smile rather than regret for what is gone.
(by Du Jingwen)
I wnat to smile at my parents, who bring me up and teahc me life lessons. Sometimes just a sincere smile instead of flattery words can wanrm their hearts like the sunshine. I want ot smile at my friends, who share tears and laughters wiht me. Sometimes just a sweet smile instead of an unpoyal look can create a life-long friendship like the spring rain. I want to smile at myself, too. Sometimes just a simple smile can give you a full spring even after you hve accidentally missed a beautiful flower.
In a word, however hard life is and whatever will happen, I prefer to smile rather than regret for what is gone.
(by Du Jingwen)
I Want to Smile
When weatlth is lost, mothing is lost. When health is lost, something is lost. When smile is lost, all is lost. No wonder many people consider smiling a viratl way to their daily life, for smiling ahve large quantities of advantages such as promoting communication, expressing kindness and decreasing limitations between lauguages. So I want to smile.
I am eager to smile at my parents nad my friends. By similing, we can solve our unhappiness between us with ease and develip our relationship into equality.
I'd like to smile at myself. I can ignore the depressive and own the courage to get around all the obstactes lying in my way to future wiht a smile.
In a word, with smiling having so many advantages, I want to smile. I enjoy smiling and even I'd like to face my life with a big smile.
(by Su Hao)
I am eager to smile at my parents nad my friends. By similing, we can solve our unhappiness between us with ease and develip our relationship into equality.
I'd like to smile at myself. I can ignore the depressive and own the courage to get around all the obstactes lying in my way to future wiht a smile.
In a word, with smiling having so many advantages, I want to smile. I enjoy smiling and even I'd like to face my life with a big smile.
(by Su Hao)
Legends of Mid-autumn Festival (III)
The legends of Mid-autumn Festival are very rich, some fairy tales widespread such as Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang cutting laurels and the Jade Rabbit pounding medicine.
Mooncake Uprising
According to legend, eating mooncakes on the Mid-autumn Festival night began in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, Large quantities of poor people in the Central Plains uprose against the Yuan Dynasty owing to not bearing its cruel ruling. Zhu Yuanzhang was prepared to revolt against the Yuan imperial court by uniting separate resistance forces.
But because imperial soldiers searched everywhere very tightly and fiercely, it was so difficult for them the convey the uprising message to each force army. Military counselor Liu Bowen came up with a good ploy that a piece of paper with "Lunar August 15 Night Uprising" on it was hidden inside into the pancakes and then separately sent them to the rebels of various areas, which informed them of the immediate response to the uprising of the August 15 night.
That day all uprising armies volunteered to respond to the planned rebels just like a little fire burning up the plain. Soon Yu Da led his army to attack the Yuan capital Da Du(Great Capital) and captured it, so the uprising succeeded in their great victory.
The good news spread here and there, and the emperor was very happy and in a hurry gave the oral instruction that all the generals and soldiers of the whole city celebrated the gorgeous victory with the whole people,and he rewarded the pancakes acting as the passer of the secret transmission as largesses to his courtiers and people.
After that, the mooncades were made more and more delicate and dainty and much more delicious in various kinds and in different sizes as high quality gifts. Since then, it has been in popular spread that people have eaten mooncakes on the nights of Mid-autumn festival.
Mooncake Uprising
According to legend, eating mooncakes on the Mid-autumn Festival night began in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, Large quantities of poor people in the Central Plains uprose against the Yuan Dynasty owing to not bearing its cruel ruling. Zhu Yuanzhang was prepared to revolt against the Yuan imperial court by uniting separate resistance forces.
But because imperial soldiers searched everywhere very tightly and fiercely, it was so difficult for them the convey the uprising message to each force army. Military counselor Liu Bowen came up with a good ploy that a piece of paper with "Lunar August 15 Night Uprising" on it was hidden inside into the pancakes and then separately sent them to the rebels of various areas, which informed them of the immediate response to the uprising of the August 15 night.
That day all uprising armies volunteered to respond to the planned rebels just like a little fire burning up the plain. Soon Yu Da led his army to attack the Yuan capital Da Du(Great Capital) and captured it, so the uprising succeeded in their great victory.
The good news spread here and there, and the emperor was very happy and in a hurry gave the oral instruction that all the generals and soldiers of the whole city celebrated the gorgeous victory with the whole people,and he rewarded the pancakes acting as the passer of the secret transmission as largesses to his courtiers and people.
After that, the mooncades were made more and more delicate and dainty and much more delicious in various kinds and in different sizes as high quality gifts. Since then, it has been in popular spread that people have eaten mooncakes on the nights of Mid-autumn festival.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Legends of Mid-autumn Festival (II)
The legends of Mid-autumn Festival are very rich, some fairy tales widespread such as Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang cutting laurels and the Jade Rabbit pounding medicine.
Wu Gang Cutting Laurels
According to legend, lush and luxuriant grew the large laurel in front of the Guanghan Palace on the moon, which was high up to more than 500 dekametres. A man under the tree was cutting it for many many years.
But each time he finished one stroke, the cutting recovered itself right away, so the tree could not be chopped down for tens of thousands of years.
It is said that the man chopping the tree was Wu Gang from Xihe in the Han Dynasty.
Once he followed an supernatural being to learn Tao to become immortal, but reaching Heaven, he made a mistake and was exiled to the cold moon where he did the unpleasant and uninteresting drudgery in vain every day in order to show him a necessary punishment.
Wu Gang Cutting Laurels
According to legend, lush and luxuriant grew the large laurel in front of the Guanghan Palace on the moon, which was high up to more than 500 dekametres. A man under the tree was cutting it for many many years.
But each time he finished one stroke, the cutting recovered itself right away, so the tree could not be chopped down for tens of thousands of years.
It is said that the man chopping the tree was Wu Gang from Xihe in the Han Dynasty.
Once he followed an supernatural being to learn Tao to become immortal, but reaching Heaven, he made a mistake and was exiled to the cold moon where he did the unpleasant and uninteresting drudgery in vain every day in order to show him a necessary punishment.
Legends of Mid-autumn Festival (I)
The legends of Mid-autumn Festival are very rich, some fairy tales widespread such as Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang cutting laurels and the Jade Rabbit pounding medicine.
Chang'e Flying to the Moon
According to legend, in ancient time there were ten suns in the high sky at the same time, withering the crops in the fields, people living in hardship. Then a hero named Hou Yi was very strong and had an extraordinarily enormous strength with great sympathy for hard-suffering people. So he went aboard the peak of the Kunlun Mountain, exalted his strength, pulled his mighty bow and at a stretch shot nine of the suns, and he strictly ordered the last sun that it should rise and set on time every day to benefit the people all over the earh.
So Hou Yi was so highly respected and admired by the ancient people then that he married a kind and beautiful wife by the name of Chang'e. Hou Yi hung around with his wife all day long in addition to teaching people skills and hunting for food. People admired the talented guy and beautiful lady.
Many ambitious young men and compatriots came to him to learn from him with great admire for his great talents. Among them was a malicious guy named Peng Meng.
One day, Hou Yi went to the Kunlun Mountains to visit some friends and seek Tao, when he encountered the Queen Mother who by accident passed it there. He asked the Queen Mother for a package of everlasting elixir of life, a kind of medicine agaist death. It is said that whoever ate the drug of this kind could right away fly to Heaven and become immortal. However, Hou Yi could not bear leaving his wife behind, and temporarily had to hand the drug to Chang'e for a good hiding. Unfortunately when she was putting the drug into her dresser box, what she did was seen by the malicious guy who wanted to secretly eat it and become immortal by himself.
Three days later, Hou Yi went out hunting along with his believers and apprentices. Peng Meng pretended to fall ill and stayed at home with bad malice. Immediately Hou Yi left, Peng seaked into Hou Yi's backyard holding a sword in his hand, and forced Chang'e to hand the drug over to him. Chang'e knew she was not a strong rival to her enemy. In that critical moment, she, decisive, opened the dresser box and swallowed the drug in a flash. Instantly Chang'e swallowed the drug, her body immediately flew up off the ground, out of the window and up into the sky. As Chang'e worried about her husband, then she flew up to the moon and became immortal there.
In the evening, Hou Yi returned home, and her maids cried him what had happened that day. Hou Yi was so surprised and angry that he pulled out his sword and wanted to kill the bad guy but he had fled earlier before Hou Yi came to him. Hou Yi was very angrily crying, distraught, with great grief and distress inside. He looked up to the vast sky, calling the name of his beloved wife, when he was amazied to find that the moon that night was extraordinarily bright and clear and round and there seemed to be a shaking figure especially like Chang'e's. So he was very desperate to go chasing the moon, but when he went forward three steps, the moon went backward three steps, while when he went backward three steps, the moon went forward three steps. No matter how hard he tried, he failed to get forward closer to the moon.
Having nothing to do with great desperation but also with greater yearning for his beloved wife, he had to order his people to go to Chang'e favorite backyard where the incense table was set up with her favorite honey and fresh fruits on it to offer sacrifice and respect to Chang'e attached to him in the remote moon. As soon as people heard everything about Chang'e immortality, they at once placed their incense tables in the moonlight to pray for good luck and well-being from nice and kind Chang'e.
Since then, the custom widely spread into the folk that people offer sacrifice to the moon on the night of the Mid-autumn Festival.
Chang'e Flying to the Moon
According to legend, in ancient time there were ten suns in the high sky at the same time, withering the crops in the fields, people living in hardship. Then a hero named Hou Yi was very strong and had an extraordinarily enormous strength with great sympathy for hard-suffering people. So he went aboard the peak of the Kunlun Mountain, exalted his strength, pulled his mighty bow and at a stretch shot nine of the suns, and he strictly ordered the last sun that it should rise and set on time every day to benefit the people all over the earh.
So Hou Yi was so highly respected and admired by the ancient people then that he married a kind and beautiful wife by the name of Chang'e. Hou Yi hung around with his wife all day long in addition to teaching people skills and hunting for food. People admired the talented guy and beautiful lady.
Many ambitious young men and compatriots came to him to learn from him with great admire for his great talents. Among them was a malicious guy named Peng Meng.
One day, Hou Yi went to the Kunlun Mountains to visit some friends and seek Tao, when he encountered the Queen Mother who by accident passed it there. He asked the Queen Mother for a package of everlasting elixir of life, a kind of medicine agaist death. It is said that whoever ate the drug of this kind could right away fly to Heaven and become immortal. However, Hou Yi could not bear leaving his wife behind, and temporarily had to hand the drug to Chang'e for a good hiding. Unfortunately when she was putting the drug into her dresser box, what she did was seen by the malicious guy who wanted to secretly eat it and become immortal by himself.
Three days later, Hou Yi went out hunting along with his believers and apprentices. Peng Meng pretended to fall ill and stayed at home with bad malice. Immediately Hou Yi left, Peng seaked into Hou Yi's backyard holding a sword in his hand, and forced Chang'e to hand the drug over to him. Chang'e knew she was not a strong rival to her enemy. In that critical moment, she, decisive, opened the dresser box and swallowed the drug in a flash. Instantly Chang'e swallowed the drug, her body immediately flew up off the ground, out of the window and up into the sky. As Chang'e worried about her husband, then she flew up to the moon and became immortal there.
In the evening, Hou Yi returned home, and her maids cried him what had happened that day. Hou Yi was so surprised and angry that he pulled out his sword and wanted to kill the bad guy but he had fled earlier before Hou Yi came to him. Hou Yi was very angrily crying, distraught, with great grief and distress inside. He looked up to the vast sky, calling the name of his beloved wife, when he was amazied to find that the moon that night was extraordinarily bright and clear and round and there seemed to be a shaking figure especially like Chang'e's. So he was very desperate to go chasing the moon, but when he went forward three steps, the moon went backward three steps, while when he went backward three steps, the moon went forward three steps. No matter how hard he tried, he failed to get forward closer to the moon.
Having nothing to do with great desperation but also with greater yearning for his beloved wife, he had to order his people to go to Chang'e favorite backyard where the incense table was set up with her favorite honey and fresh fruits on it to offer sacrifice and respect to Chang'e attached to him in the remote moon. As soon as people heard everything about Chang'e immortality, they at once placed their incense tables in the moonlight to pray for good luck and well-being from nice and kind Chang'e.
Since then, the custom widely spread into the folk that people offer sacrifice to the moon on the night of the Mid-autumn Festival.
Mid-Autumn Festival Origin
Lunar Augutst 15 each year is the traditional Mid-autumn Festival. This period of time is the middle autumn of each autumn of the year, so it is called mid-autumn. In our lunar calendar, one year is divided into four seasons. Each season includes three periods known as Meng, Zhong and Ji, so mid-autumn is also called Zhong autumn. The full moon on the night of lunar August 15 is much brighter and clearer than any other time, which is known as "Moon evening" or "August Festival".
This evening, people always look up to the clear and round moon as bright as jade high in the vast and enchanting sky, with the white and soft light everywhere in heaven and world. It naturally makes people to look forward to family reunion. And in particular the soft light set off an tack of intense feeling of homesickness deep inside. Therefore, this festival is also known as "Reunion Festival".
The Mid-autumn Festival has a long history just like other traditional festivala that were slowly developed. In our ancient folk appeared a practice custom named Qiu Mu Xi Yue, which means worshiping goddess of the moon at the late end of autumn. Our ancient emperors had the strict ritual that they would honored the god of the sun in spring and worshiped the goddess of the moon in autumn. The word mid-autumn was found in the record appearing in the Zhou Li or Zhou Ritual as early as the Zhou Dynasty. In Zhou period, Ying Han or welcoming the coming winter months and Ji Yue or venerating the goddess of the moon were both held when the Mid-autumn nights came here.
A large incense table was set up in the courtyard with many offerings on it such as the mooncakes, watermelon, apples, dates, plums, grapes and something like these. Among them were definitely included the mooncakes and watermelon. Besides, watermelon must have been cut into lotus-like shapes. In the moonlight, the statue of the moon would be placed in the direction of the bright moon with high candles and incenses burning, and the whole family worshiped the moon by turns. And then head housewife cut the mooncake representing family reunion. The hostess must keep in mind the exact number of the whole family before she began to cut the mooncake because she could not cut it more and not less, and must ensure each piece of the mooncake was of the same size.
Later, nobles and literatus followed suit. On the night of the Mid-autumn Festival, facing the clearly bright moon, they passionately watched and enjoyed it, worshiping and paying tribute to the round moon to express their feelings inside. Then this practice custom spread and was passed down on to the folk, forming a traditional activity. The ancient people paid greater stress to and more attention on this practice until the Tang Dynasty, when the Mid-autumn Festival was established a fixed festival. "August 15 Mid-autumn Festival" was recorded in Taizong Record of Tang History.
In the Tang Dynasty, during the Mid-autumn Festival, watching and enjoying the bright full moon prevailed, together with playing some sports related to the moon. On the night of it in the capital Bianjing, now known as the Kaifeng City, of the Northern Song Dynasty, everybody in the whole city, without regard to rich or poor, must wear adult clothes, burned incenses, worshiped the moon with a good wish and praying for the bless from the goddess of the moon.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, people presented mooncakes as gifts among them, representing the meaning of reunion. In some places, the activities were held such as grass-dragon dancing and building pagodas and so on. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the customs of the Mid-autumn Festival were much more prevalent with varieties of more traditional practices appearing here and there. So the festival was prevalent in the Song Dynasty, and in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it grew as famous as the New Year's Day and became one of our major festivals.
According to legend, a very ugly girl named Wuyan, piously worshiped the moon during her childhood, so when she grew up, she was chose into the imperial palace owing to her outstanding morality. But she was not bestowed favor on by the emperor. When enjoying himself and the moon some year, the emperor saw her in the moonlight, feeling her outstandingly beautiful, and right then, he made her his queen.
So after that, it continued forever that people worshiped the full moon on the night of the Mid-autumn Festival. The goddess Chang'e housing the moon palace was noted for her unmatched beauty, so maidens worshiped the moon with a wonderful wish that they also could have Chang'e's beauty and bight moon-like face.
Today, the custom of playing sports in the moonlight is far from more prevalent than the past, but setting up a feast to enjoy the full round moon continues prevalently. People hold the wineglass up to the moon to celebrate a better life or wish distant relatives and friends good health and happiness sharing the beauty of the moonlight, though a thousand mile.
This evening, people always look up to the clear and round moon as bright as jade high in the vast and enchanting sky, with the white and soft light everywhere in heaven and world. It naturally makes people to look forward to family reunion. And in particular the soft light set off an tack of intense feeling of homesickness deep inside. Therefore, this festival is also known as "Reunion Festival".
The Mid-autumn Festival has a long history just like other traditional festivala that were slowly developed. In our ancient folk appeared a practice custom named Qiu Mu Xi Yue, which means worshiping goddess of the moon at the late end of autumn. Our ancient emperors had the strict ritual that they would honored the god of the sun in spring and worshiped the goddess of the moon in autumn. The word mid-autumn was found in the record appearing in the Zhou Li or Zhou Ritual as early as the Zhou Dynasty. In Zhou period, Ying Han or welcoming the coming winter months and Ji Yue or venerating the goddess of the moon were both held when the Mid-autumn nights came here.
A large incense table was set up in the courtyard with many offerings on it such as the mooncakes, watermelon, apples, dates, plums, grapes and something like these. Among them were definitely included the mooncakes and watermelon. Besides, watermelon must have been cut into lotus-like shapes. In the moonlight, the statue of the moon would be placed in the direction of the bright moon with high candles and incenses burning, and the whole family worshiped the moon by turns. And then head housewife cut the mooncake representing family reunion. The hostess must keep in mind the exact number of the whole family before she began to cut the mooncake because she could not cut it more and not less, and must ensure each piece of the mooncake was of the same size.
Later, nobles and literatus followed suit. On the night of the Mid-autumn Festival, facing the clearly bright moon, they passionately watched and enjoyed it, worshiping and paying tribute to the round moon to express their feelings inside. Then this practice custom spread and was passed down on to the folk, forming a traditional activity. The ancient people paid greater stress to and more attention on this practice until the Tang Dynasty, when the Mid-autumn Festival was established a fixed festival. "August 15 Mid-autumn Festival" was recorded in Taizong Record of Tang History.
In the Tang Dynasty, during the Mid-autumn Festival, watching and enjoying the bright full moon prevailed, together with playing some sports related to the moon. On the night of it in the capital Bianjing, now known as the Kaifeng City, of the Northern Song Dynasty, everybody in the whole city, without regard to rich or poor, must wear adult clothes, burned incenses, worshiped the moon with a good wish and praying for the bless from the goddess of the moon.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, people presented mooncakes as gifts among them, representing the meaning of reunion. In some places, the activities were held such as grass-dragon dancing and building pagodas and so on. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the customs of the Mid-autumn Festival were much more prevalent with varieties of more traditional practices appearing here and there. So the festival was prevalent in the Song Dynasty, and in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it grew as famous as the New Year's Day and became one of our major festivals.
According to legend, a very ugly girl named Wuyan, piously worshiped the moon during her childhood, so when she grew up, she was chose into the imperial palace owing to her outstanding morality. But she was not bestowed favor on by the emperor. When enjoying himself and the moon some year, the emperor saw her in the moonlight, feeling her outstandingly beautiful, and right then, he made her his queen.
So after that, it continued forever that people worshiped the full moon on the night of the Mid-autumn Festival. The goddess Chang'e housing the moon palace was noted for her unmatched beauty, so maidens worshiped the moon with a wonderful wish that they also could have Chang'e's beauty and bight moon-like face.
Today, the custom of playing sports in the moonlight is far from more prevalent than the past, but setting up a feast to enjoy the full round moon continues prevalently. People hold the wineglass up to the moon to celebrate a better life or wish distant relatives and friends good health and happiness sharing the beauty of the moonlight, though a thousand mile.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Happy Mid-autumn Festival!
Today is October 3, 2009, Chinese lunar August 15, known as China's traditional festival: Mid-August Festival.
The first period of class is English this afternoon. After finishing it, I returned home in a great hurry, and made it ready to go home with my loving daughter to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival at my parents' home. Because wife had to work on the night shift, we had to go home without her.
First, we went to the Furong supermarket by riding my wife's electric bike, where we bought some apples worth about 37 yuan and some other snack my daughter likes best. We paid over 80 yuan for what we bought.
When we arrived home, we found my father with my nephew was waiting for us at the gate of their house. We were immediately seated to have our family reunion dinner because before we got there, my father had prepared everything for the great traditional festival. We had a very very pleasant reunion dinner, happy with smile and laughter.
During the dinner, mother told us a good piece of news that the loving mother dog gave birth to six punnies four days ago. That made my daughter and my nephew very excited and right now after they ate, they each had two punnies in their arms to play with them, very happy and with great delight.
And my nephew will come to my house after his morning writing practice. His timetable is as follows: he attends school at 8 am and class is over at 11 sharp am; he comes back at 1:30 pm and comes home at 4:30 pm. So I must remind me of the timeatable to pick him up by bike.
After dinner, mother accidentally talked about Angang, the son of my first sister. She is not satisfied with what he did during his part-job outside. His bad behavior made his parents very sad and unhappy.
After some chatting with my mother, we went back home as soon as dark fell. And at this time, the moon was rising in the high sky, bright and round and pleasing.
Owing to the traditional family reunion, there were few people moving on the road, so we talked and rode happily in high spirits inside although I felt a little cool outside, due to which my daughter played a good joke on me not taking thick clothes with me in advance like her.
Before 7 am, we arrived home safe and sound. We are very happy to have a pleasant and delicious family reunion dinner together with my parents and my brother along with his happy family.
Faithfully I bless all the people under the sun with happy Mid-autumn Festival.
The first period of class is English this afternoon. After finishing it, I returned home in a great hurry, and made it ready to go home with my loving daughter to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival at my parents' home. Because wife had to work on the night shift, we had to go home without her.
First, we went to the Furong supermarket by riding my wife's electric bike, where we bought some apples worth about 37 yuan and some other snack my daughter likes best. We paid over 80 yuan for what we bought.
When we arrived home, we found my father with my nephew was waiting for us at the gate of their house. We were immediately seated to have our family reunion dinner because before we got there, my father had prepared everything for the great traditional festival. We had a very very pleasant reunion dinner, happy with smile and laughter.
During the dinner, mother told us a good piece of news that the loving mother dog gave birth to six punnies four days ago. That made my daughter and my nephew very excited and right now after they ate, they each had two punnies in their arms to play with them, very happy and with great delight.
And my nephew will come to my house after his morning writing practice. His timetable is as follows: he attends school at 8 am and class is over at 11 sharp am; he comes back at 1:30 pm and comes home at 4:30 pm. So I must remind me of the timeatable to pick him up by bike.
After dinner, mother accidentally talked about Angang, the son of my first sister. She is not satisfied with what he did during his part-job outside. His bad behavior made his parents very sad and unhappy.
After some chatting with my mother, we went back home as soon as dark fell. And at this time, the moon was rising in the high sky, bright and round and pleasing.
Owing to the traditional family reunion, there were few people moving on the road, so we talked and rode happily in high spirits inside although I felt a little cool outside, due to which my daughter played a good joke on me not taking thick clothes with me in advance like her.
Before 7 am, we arrived home safe and sound. We are very happy to have a pleasant and delicious family reunion dinner together with my parents and my brother along with his happy family.
Faithfully I bless all the people under the sun with happy Mid-autumn Festival.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Rio wins bid to host 2016 Olympic Games
Yesterday evening Rio wan the bid to host 2016 Olympic Games at openhagen, the capital of Denmark.
COPENHAGEN, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Rio de Janeiro of Brazil was chosen here on Friday by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
IOC President Jacques Rogge made the announcement after three rounds of votes by nearly more than 90 IOC members.
The Brazilian city won the bid after beating rivals Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid.
Chicago was eliminated in the first round of vote as it got the least number of votes among 94 valid votes.
The American city was expected to have a tight race with Rio by the media here, but ended up the first loser.
Tokyo of Japan was squeezed out in the second round of vote with the least number of ballots among 95 valid votes with one abstention.
As many as 106 IOC members as of September 2009, but nationals of the countries of candidate cities are not allowed to vote unless their candidates are eliminated.
In the first round, Madrid won 28 votes, followed by Rio with 26, Tokyo 20 and Chicago 18. In the second round, Rio was on the top with 46, followed by Madrid with 24, Tokyo 20.
Rio won the campaign in the last round after netting 66 votes against Madrid's 32.
The Rio bid team played economy and geography cards in its final presentation to win the bid.
In a passionate speech, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula daSilva told IOC members that his country is experiencing a "magical moment" of economic development.
Silva, known as Lula, made a strong urge to the voters to choose Rio as the host of a Games.
"I ask for your support and vision. Rio is ready. If you give us this chance, you will not regret," he appealed, saying that the Brazilian people were full of "passion, energy and creativity".
He also stressed that Brazil and South America have never hosted an Olympic Games.
"It is time to address this imbalance," he urged. "I honestly believe it is Brazil's time. Among the countries that today compete to host the Games, we are the only one that has never had this honor."
"For others it will be just one more Games," he noted, "For us, it will be an unparallel opportunity."
"It will boost the self-esteem of Brazilians" , "consolidate recent achievements" and "inspire new ones".
He said the bid was not only Brazil's, but also South America's, "bid of a continent with almost 400 million men and women and around 180 million youngsters".
After praising the IOC for its contributions in modernizing the Olympic Games, introducing new sports and new technology, Lula said that "the opportunity is to expand the Olympic Games to new continents."
South America and Africa are the two continents that have never hosted an Olympic Games, the largest sports event on earth.
Officials of the Rio team detailed construction plans and public security plans of Rio, assuring the voters that the fast developing economy and ensured safety would guarantee a successful Olympic Games.
Brazil has gone all out to win the bid, mobilizing sports stars such as football legend Pele, and famed sports officials, such as FIFA's Honorary President Joao Havelange.
Havelange called IOC members for support to Rio, welcoming them to go to Rio in 2016 to celebrate his 100th birthday.
The reason for Madrid to last to the third voting round lied mainly in former IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch's emotional appealing.
He asked the 100-plus IOC members at the end of Madrid's final presentation to consider his age and give the chance to Madrid to host the 2016 Games.
"Dear colleagues, I know that I am very near the end on my time. I am, as you know, 89 years old," he said peacefully.
"May I ask you to consider granting my country the honor and also the duty to organize the games and Paralympics in 2016."
COPENHAGEN, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Rio de Janeiro of Brazil was chosen here on Friday by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
IOC President Jacques Rogge made the announcement after three rounds of votes by nearly more than 90 IOC members.
The Brazilian city won the bid after beating rivals Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid.
Chicago was eliminated in the first round of vote as it got the least number of votes among 94 valid votes.
The American city was expected to have a tight race with Rio by the media here, but ended up the first loser.
Tokyo of Japan was squeezed out in the second round of vote with the least number of ballots among 95 valid votes with one abstention.
As many as 106 IOC members as of September 2009, but nationals of the countries of candidate cities are not allowed to vote unless their candidates are eliminated.
In the first round, Madrid won 28 votes, followed by Rio with 26, Tokyo 20 and Chicago 18. In the second round, Rio was on the top with 46, followed by Madrid with 24, Tokyo 20.
Rio won the campaign in the last round after netting 66 votes against Madrid's 32.
The Rio bid team played economy and geography cards in its final presentation to win the bid.
In a passionate speech, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula daSilva told IOC members that his country is experiencing a "magical moment" of economic development.
Silva, known as Lula, made a strong urge to the voters to choose Rio as the host of a Games.
"I ask for your support and vision. Rio is ready. If you give us this chance, you will not regret," he appealed, saying that the Brazilian people were full of "passion, energy and creativity".
He also stressed that Brazil and South America have never hosted an Olympic Games.
"It is time to address this imbalance," he urged. "I honestly believe it is Brazil's time. Among the countries that today compete to host the Games, we are the only one that has never had this honor."
"For others it will be just one more Games," he noted, "For us, it will be an unparallel opportunity."
"It will boost the self-esteem of Brazilians" , "consolidate recent achievements" and "inspire new ones".
He said the bid was not only Brazil's, but also South America's, "bid of a continent with almost 400 million men and women and around 180 million youngsters".
After praising the IOC for its contributions in modernizing the Olympic Games, introducing new sports and new technology, Lula said that "the opportunity is to expand the Olympic Games to new continents."
South America and Africa are the two continents that have never hosted an Olympic Games, the largest sports event on earth.
Officials of the Rio team detailed construction plans and public security plans of Rio, assuring the voters that the fast developing economy and ensured safety would guarantee a successful Olympic Games.
Brazil has gone all out to win the bid, mobilizing sports stars such as football legend Pele, and famed sports officials, such as FIFA's Honorary President Joao Havelange.
Havelange called IOC members for support to Rio, welcoming them to go to Rio in 2016 to celebrate his 100th birthday.
The reason for Madrid to last to the third voting round lied mainly in former IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch's emotional appealing.
He asked the 100-plus IOC members at the end of Madrid's final presentation to consider his age and give the chance to Madrid to host the 2016 Games.
"Dear colleagues, I know that I am very near the end on my time. I am, as you know, 89 years old," he said peacefully.
"May I ask you to consider granting my country the honor and also the duty to organize the games and Paralympics in 2016."
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Voices from over the world!
Happy 60th birthday, great China! I cannot feel any more proud after watching the grand parad just a while ago from cctv.com here in Australia. It was brilliant from every aspect!
Love you & long live China!
A very Happy 60th National Day.
Many more to come.
May Peace,Success & Happiness might prevail through all the years to come.
God Bless all !!!!!
Happy 60th Birthday, Motherland!
Proud to be a Chinese. I love you, my dearest motherland. The Chinese people truly have rised up. Best wish.
Best wish and congratulations on the 60th anniversary of the founding of People's Republic of China from a Chinese American. I am proud to be witness of my beloved ancestral country marching on to world stage as a super power. Dearest motherland, wish you the very best and prosperity. You made me proud.
I am delighted to be here to witness the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China's founding, but I wish I could partake in (any) celebration rather than stay at home in front my television.
I'm very happy to see China progressing & I on behalf of all Pakistanis living in China congratulate China on this special day of 60th anniversary. Pakistan is always a good friend of China & Long Live Pak-China Friendship.
The Europe China Foundation sincerely congratulates the people and the Government of the P.R. China, with its 60th Anniversary of the Republic. The last few years, China has shown the world to be an open an harmonious society.
Its impressive economic growth - despite the financial problems in the rest of the world - has our deepest respect. We hope to continue and increase our cooperation and friendship with the National Chinese Government and several local Governments. The future looks promissing and we are looking forward to deepen our relationship.
Birthday China on your 60th anniversary! Chairman Mao rightly said "The Chinese people have stood up!" May China and the Chinese people continue its peaceful development and become a beacon of hope to all still developing nations and peoples. May China continue to live in peace and harmony with itself and with all other peoples in the world. Long live China and the Chinese peoples everywhere.
Love you & long live China!
A very Happy 60th National Day.
Many more to come.
May Peace,Success & Happiness might prevail through all the years to come.
God Bless all !!!!!
Happy 60th Birthday, Motherland!
Proud to be a Chinese. I love you, my dearest motherland. The Chinese people truly have rised up. Best wish.
Best wish and congratulations on the 60th anniversary of the founding of People's Republic of China from a Chinese American. I am proud to be witness of my beloved ancestral country marching on to world stage as a super power. Dearest motherland, wish you the very best and prosperity. You made me proud.
I am delighted to be here to witness the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China's founding, but I wish I could partake in (any) celebration rather than stay at home in front my television.
I'm very happy to see China progressing & I on behalf of all Pakistanis living in China congratulate China on this special day of 60th anniversary. Pakistan is always a good friend of China & Long Live Pak-China Friendship.
The Europe China Foundation sincerely congratulates the people and the Government of the P.R. China, with its 60th Anniversary of the Republic. The last few years, China has shown the world to be an open an harmonious society.
Its impressive economic growth - despite the financial problems in the rest of the world - has our deepest respect. We hope to continue and increase our cooperation and friendship with the National Chinese Government and several local Governments. The future looks promissing and we are looking forward to deepen our relationship.
Birthday China on your 60th anniversary! Chairman Mao rightly said "The Chinese people have stood up!" May China and the Chinese people continue its peaceful development and become a beacon of hope to all still developing nations and peoples. May China continue to live in peace and harmony with itself and with all other peoples in the world. Long live China and the Chinese peoples everywhere.
Grand National Day Celebration!
Liu announced the start of the ceremony.
Beijing municipal secretary, Liu Qi announed the beginning of the celebration of the 60th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China. The soldiers shot 60 cannons, and then the national flag was raised with all the people present singing together the national anthem March of the Volunteers.
Hu addressed the people.
At 10 am sharp, the celebration ceremony began. President Hu Jintao, to Chinese state and military leader addressed the whole people present, the military band of 2,000 hushing their instruments and Tiananmen Square falling into silence. Present also are former president Jiang Zemin, top legislator Wu Bangguo, Premier Wen Jiabao and some other officials flanking Hu.
President said we Chinese people should be proud and confident of our nation's developments over the past sixty years. And then he stressed we China would continue the reforms and opening-up policy to ensure the development of China, socialism and Marxism. China will adhere strongly to our own form of socialism as it enter the future and will also continue assuring the progress that has been made in the last six decades.
Finally he also took some time to honor and respect our revolutionary pioneers, who have made great contributions to realizing national independence and liberation of our great county and great people.
President Hu was optimistic, from the past, to the present and into the future, about the strength, unity and prosperity of our people. We all Chinese people are full of confidence in the bright prospects of the great rejuvenation of our great nation. "Look forward to the future. We envision wide prospects for the future of China," he said.
Hu reviewed the troops.
After his speech, he walked down the Tiananmen Rostrum and was carried by a black open-roof Red Flag sedan to review our defense forces which will stage a massive parade.
Along the newly widened Chang'an Avenue stood tens of thousands ot soldiers in full-dress brand new uniforms, together with ranks of camouflaged tanks and missiles, and waited to be inspected, which stretches some three kilometres and involves about 8,000 military personnel.
President Hu wore a high-collared Mao suit and saluted troops through a microphone with "Greetings, comrades!","Comrades, you are working hard!" The soldiers replied loudly with "Greetings, leader!","We serve the people!"
The grand military parade started.
First fourteen phalanxes on feet came into the stage one by one which are composed of the army, navy, air force and the Second Artillery Force of the PLA, the People's Armed Police Force and reserved force and the young mysterious Special Force which made their debut for this inspections.
And then a total of 30 phalanxes in wheeled transport in turn displayed more more 50 types of new weapon systems manusfactured on our own, including the newest model of intercontinental nuclear-capable ballistic missiles.
Some other cutting-edge weaponry included our new generation of tanks, sophisticated radar, airborne early warning and control aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and satellite communication devices.
All the weapons in the inspection are made in our own country. More than 150 jet-fighters, bombers, helicopters and other aricrafts in 12 echelons flew over the square, packed with some 200,000 people at home and abroad.
This parade is set to show our newest weaponry and enchanced defense strength. This is the 14th parade since the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949. (The other 13 parades took place in 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954 ,1955, 1956, 1957 ,1958, 1959, 1984 and in 1999.)
Followed the mass denstrations.
Following the grand military parade, the mass procession came into the stage at around 11:20 am in 35 formations withe different themes. But the same theme is to express our desire for national unity and reunificationa and rejuvenation.
About 8,500 people joined the formations unfolding achievements of our country, turing the Tiananmen Square into a sea of colourful flowers.
A gorgeous float with colossal Chinese characters "tuan jie fen jin", or "march in unity", marched from east to west along the Chang'an Avenue, leading the parade into the theme of national unity. The 34 floats forming the array"Splendid China" eulogized the great changes in our country during the past 60 years and expressed the desire for national unity and reunification of our great country.
Decorated with landmarks of the 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and Hong Kong, Maco and Taiwan, the 34 floats focused on economic achievements while highlighting local characteristics.
The five floats from the autonomous regions offered a distinctive flavor of ethnic minority groups with dancers dressed in ethnic costumes toeing and heeling it to the music making solidarity and prosperity stand out.
Special floats featuring Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions highlighted their city landmarks and their return to the motherland. Our government resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997 and Macao in 1999.
The float representing Taiwan drew applause and cheers when it pulled into Tiananmen Square. It featured the Taipei 101 Tower model, colorful local fruits and other landmarks. A Taiwan compatriot, who has been engaged in mainland-Taiwan exchanges for 20 years, said we should lay aside our historical grudge and look forward together because of our same skin color and the same bloodline.
With a long feud after the civil war 60 ago, the mainland and Taiwan have been cementing ties in recent years. We are very glad to see financial coperation, disaster relief donations and exchanges between people across the straits, in addition to the breakthroughs in transport links.
Finally tens of thousands of children entered the stage with lots of colorful balloons in their hands and in front of the Tiananmen Rostrum flew the balloons to the high blue sky, making the celebration culminate exciting and encouragingly.
The whole process of celebration lasted two and a half hours. It is really a big success to inspire our spirits and light our morale. We are so proud of our great country and our great people.
Beijing municipal secretary, Liu Qi announed the beginning of the celebration of the 60th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China. The soldiers shot 60 cannons, and then the national flag was raised with all the people present singing together the national anthem March of the Volunteers.
Hu addressed the people.
At 10 am sharp, the celebration ceremony began. President Hu Jintao, to Chinese state and military leader addressed the whole people present, the military band of 2,000 hushing their instruments and Tiananmen Square falling into silence. Present also are former president Jiang Zemin, top legislator Wu Bangguo, Premier Wen Jiabao and some other officials flanking Hu.
President said we Chinese people should be proud and confident of our nation's developments over the past sixty years. And then he stressed we China would continue the reforms and opening-up policy to ensure the development of China, socialism and Marxism. China will adhere strongly to our own form of socialism as it enter the future and will also continue assuring the progress that has been made in the last six decades.
Finally he also took some time to honor and respect our revolutionary pioneers, who have made great contributions to realizing national independence and liberation of our great county and great people.
President Hu was optimistic, from the past, to the present and into the future, about the strength, unity and prosperity of our people. We all Chinese people are full of confidence in the bright prospects of the great rejuvenation of our great nation. "Look forward to the future. We envision wide prospects for the future of China," he said.
Hu reviewed the troops.
After his speech, he walked down the Tiananmen Rostrum and was carried by a black open-roof Red Flag sedan to review our defense forces which will stage a massive parade.
Along the newly widened Chang'an Avenue stood tens of thousands ot soldiers in full-dress brand new uniforms, together with ranks of camouflaged tanks and missiles, and waited to be inspected, which stretches some three kilometres and involves about 8,000 military personnel.
President Hu wore a high-collared Mao suit and saluted troops through a microphone with "Greetings, comrades!","Comrades, you are working hard!" The soldiers replied loudly with "Greetings, leader!","We serve the people!"
The grand military parade started.
First fourteen phalanxes on feet came into the stage one by one which are composed of the army, navy, air force and the Second Artillery Force of the PLA, the People's Armed Police Force and reserved force and the young mysterious Special Force which made their debut for this inspections.
And then a total of 30 phalanxes in wheeled transport in turn displayed more more 50 types of new weapon systems manusfactured on our own, including the newest model of intercontinental nuclear-capable ballistic missiles.
Some other cutting-edge weaponry included our new generation of tanks, sophisticated radar, airborne early warning and control aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and satellite communication devices.
All the weapons in the inspection are made in our own country. More than 150 jet-fighters, bombers, helicopters and other aricrafts in 12 echelons flew over the square, packed with some 200,000 people at home and abroad.
This parade is set to show our newest weaponry and enchanced defense strength. This is the 14th parade since the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949. (The other 13 parades took place in 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954 ,1955, 1956, 1957 ,1958, 1959, 1984 and in 1999.)
Followed the mass denstrations.
Following the grand military parade, the mass procession came into the stage at around 11:20 am in 35 formations withe different themes. But the same theme is to express our desire for national unity and reunificationa and rejuvenation.
About 8,500 people joined the formations unfolding achievements of our country, turing the Tiananmen Square into a sea of colourful flowers.
A gorgeous float with colossal Chinese characters "tuan jie fen jin", or "march in unity", marched from east to west along the Chang'an Avenue, leading the parade into the theme of national unity. The 34 floats forming the array"Splendid China" eulogized the great changes in our country during the past 60 years and expressed the desire for national unity and reunification of our great country.
Decorated with landmarks of the 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and Hong Kong, Maco and Taiwan, the 34 floats focused on economic achievements while highlighting local characteristics.
The five floats from the autonomous regions offered a distinctive flavor of ethnic minority groups with dancers dressed in ethnic costumes toeing and heeling it to the music making solidarity and prosperity stand out.
Special floats featuring Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions highlighted their city landmarks and their return to the motherland. Our government resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997 and Macao in 1999.
The float representing Taiwan drew applause and cheers when it pulled into Tiananmen Square. It featured the Taipei 101 Tower model, colorful local fruits and other landmarks. A Taiwan compatriot, who has been engaged in mainland-Taiwan exchanges for 20 years, said we should lay aside our historical grudge and look forward together because of our same skin color and the same bloodline.
With a long feud after the civil war 60 ago, the mainland and Taiwan have been cementing ties in recent years. We are very glad to see financial coperation, disaster relief donations and exchanges between people across the straits, in addition to the breakthroughs in transport links.
Finally tens of thousands of children entered the stage with lots of colorful balloons in their hands and in front of the Tiananmen Rostrum flew the balloons to the high blue sky, making the celebration culminate exciting and encouragingly.
The whole process of celebration lasted two and a half hours. It is really a big success to inspire our spirits and light our morale. We are so proud of our great country and our great people.
Happy Birthday,Motherland!
Today is October 1st, the National Day of our great country! We all have an 8-day holiday for this great moment. I got up early to the playground for my morning exercise of each day. But I'm really deeply feeling today is so differently unique.
Cloudless, breeze grently blowing my face, everything seem so equivelently beautiful. And I am particularly excited to see everything around me is full of another different tenderness because today is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the great People's Repulic of China. With this in mind, I am again feeling the popular song ever-lingering in my mind: "Today is your birthday, my country. This morning, I fly a group of white pigeons. ..."
I am humming this exciting song, feeling paritcularly happy with relaxing gaits, and facing the rising sun walking to the playground full of energy, looking with tenderness at every tree and bush of the school.
This morning I find only several women and students exercsing there and here. But this doesn't have any impact on the nice and terrific feeling. As usual, I easily and pleasedly finish my 10 laps of 4,ooo metres, and then walk 2 laps around the playground, shedding a lot of sweat and feeling especially cool.
And then I climb the small hill behind the basketball playground and enjoy myself extremely delightedly. After eating breakfast with my daughter, I am expecting the coming National Day military parade eagerly and nerously.
Cloudless, breeze grently blowing my face, everything seem so equivelently beautiful. And I am particularly excited to see everything around me is full of another different tenderness because today is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the great People's Repulic of China. With this in mind, I am again feeling the popular song ever-lingering in my mind: "Today is your birthday, my country. This morning, I fly a group of white pigeons. ..."
I am humming this exciting song, feeling paritcularly happy with relaxing gaits, and facing the rising sun walking to the playground full of energy, looking with tenderness at every tree and bush of the school.
This morning I find only several women and students exercsing there and here. But this doesn't have any impact on the nice and terrific feeling. As usual, I easily and pleasedly finish my 10 laps of 4,ooo metres, and then walk 2 laps around the playground, shedding a lot of sweat and feeling especially cool.
And then I climb the small hill behind the basketball playground and enjoy myself extremely delightedly. After eating breakfast with my daughter, I am expecting the coming National Day military parade eagerly and nerously.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Great incredible personal honor
August 22nd of the year 2009 is a memorable day worth bearing in mind forever for me, an average teacher, who has been working 19 years for our great eduational undertakings.
That afternoon, leader of senior 3 telephoned me to fill out the form of county outstanding teacher at the school office at 9 the next morning. During the whole afternoon, I was very excited owing to that incredible honor of people's teachers.
It was so unbelievably amazing and fantastic that I couldn't sleep much better though I didn't tell my wife about it because of quarrelling with each other which was so fierce that we each hit a door glass, which frightened my daughter eating to cry. I am very very sorry for that.
In order to acknowledge his kindness and great care, wife bought an English dictionary the same as my daughter's and a Fulong shopper card worth 500 RMB yuan yesterday afternoon, and asked me to thank him but I couldn't find any chance to accomplish this great and hard task yesterday evening.
This morning, I found there was nobody in his office and I was brave to enter the room and put the dictionary in his desk drawer quickly and hurriedly and nervously, and fortunately, nobody noticed my steal-like clumsy behavior, but actually I was very wretched inside and unable to believe that it is me that has finished this great feat of my whole own life since ever.
And this is really the first brave experience of my life and I am even proud of myself for this fantastic feat which is very extremely surprising.
And after I came home at about 10:30 this morning, I telephoned him about it and he also thanked me for that English dictionary. This afternoon, he came across me and wanted to stop me to give back the shopper card but I immediately ran away and did not leave him any chance to finish it.
SSSSSoooooo, I am the last winner, a real man winner. I believe that nothing is impossible to make it.
That afternoon, leader of senior 3 telephoned me to fill out the form of county outstanding teacher at the school office at 9 the next morning. During the whole afternoon, I was very excited owing to that incredible honor of people's teachers.
It was so unbelievably amazing and fantastic that I couldn't sleep much better though I didn't tell my wife about it because of quarrelling with each other which was so fierce that we each hit a door glass, which frightened my daughter eating to cry. I am very very sorry for that.
In order to acknowledge his kindness and great care, wife bought an English dictionary the same as my daughter's and a Fulong shopper card worth 500 RMB yuan yesterday afternoon, and asked me to thank him but I couldn't find any chance to accomplish this great and hard task yesterday evening.
This morning, I found there was nobody in his office and I was brave to enter the room and put the dictionary in his desk drawer quickly and hurriedly and nervously, and fortunately, nobody noticed my steal-like clumsy behavior, but actually I was very wretched inside and unable to believe that it is me that has finished this great feat of my whole own life since ever.
And this is really the first brave experience of my life and I am even proud of myself for this fantastic feat which is very extremely surprising.
And after I came home at about 10:30 this morning, I telephoned him about it and he also thanked me for that English dictionary. This afternoon, he came across me and wanted to stop me to give back the shopper card but I immediately ran away and did not leave him any chance to finish it.
SSSSSoooooo, I am the last winner, a real man winner. I believe that nothing is impossible to make it.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
The Wisdom of Giving Up
During these days, I've found that a lovelorn netizen is suffering from the past feelings,interwined. Here I'd like to tell this netizen that we will surely futher know and understand a lot of things only after we have indeed experienced them. Only when you have a painful feeling, then can you know how to learn to protect youself; also only after you are so silly, then can you understand how to persist and give up timely.
During this process of attaining and losing, we slowly learn to know ourselves deeply and completely. As a matter of fact, life does really not need these unreasonal and unnecessary attachment, nothing so precious for us not to let go.
Learn to give up, and you will evidently find that life itself will be so easier.
Speaking of emotional choices, many people experiencing suffering of emotions can think they have missed a certain period of life, which in fact is not always true. Some so-called losses only mean that we can do nothing just like a turtle on its back and are unable to control the future of ouw own.
Take some girls for example who are eager to achieve their own aspirations of life and dream, they often try to make their gaols true by using the most primitive and also most effective way to retain men of wealth. They have resulted in keeping men aside without his heart inside, hurting themselves at last. We can find such one thing after another around us.
Never be upset and regretful after something has happened, lying awake and tossing youself throughout the night. Remain silent when you are wandering and wondering and when you are indecisive because silence is also a kind of option and wisdom. I like the lyrics that read: "If you go back to the past, all will be repeated." Subject to many factors, the hero of story turns left at one time and then turn right at other time.
The accepted practice many people follow is to be a frog to become a prince, retreating in order to proceed, but unfortunately some of people are really giving up. But what we really want to give up is only our broken emtions, not our own, on the contrary, we should constantly enrich ourselves.
Just like a girl descriped by an article from Reader, she scarred emotionally on the love way, but each obstacle made her much more courageous and grew much braver than ever because she always continuously enriched herself after each frustration and setbacks. This time she learned to play the piano just for her love and next time she again tried to improve English and so on. All she did evantually enhanced herself in everything, most importantly in emotion. And in the end she became an elegant woman that she wanted to be.
Often reading these words, I will be touched inside, and admire them from inside bottom of my heart on account of their courage and strength.
Any man who learns to give up is a real man of wisdom only because giving up means another choice and not complete retreat forever not only in emotion but in our daily work. So it applies to everything.
During this process of attaining and losing, we slowly learn to know ourselves deeply and completely. As a matter of fact, life does really not need these unreasonal and unnecessary attachment, nothing so precious for us not to let go.
Learn to give up, and you will evidently find that life itself will be so easier.
Speaking of emotional choices, many people experiencing suffering of emotions can think they have missed a certain period of life, which in fact is not always true. Some so-called losses only mean that we can do nothing just like a turtle on its back and are unable to control the future of ouw own.
Take some girls for example who are eager to achieve their own aspirations of life and dream, they often try to make their gaols true by using the most primitive and also most effective way to retain men of wealth. They have resulted in keeping men aside without his heart inside, hurting themselves at last. We can find such one thing after another around us.
Never be upset and regretful after something has happened, lying awake and tossing youself throughout the night. Remain silent when you are wandering and wondering and when you are indecisive because silence is also a kind of option and wisdom. I like the lyrics that read: "If you go back to the past, all will be repeated." Subject to many factors, the hero of story turns left at one time and then turn right at other time.
The accepted practice many people follow is to be a frog to become a prince, retreating in order to proceed, but unfortunately some of people are really giving up. But what we really want to give up is only our broken emtions, not our own, on the contrary, we should constantly enrich ourselves.
Just like a girl descriped by an article from Reader, she scarred emotionally on the love way, but each obstacle made her much more courageous and grew much braver than ever because she always continuously enriched herself after each frustration and setbacks. This time she learned to play the piano just for her love and next time she again tried to improve English and so on. All she did evantually enhanced herself in everything, most importantly in emotion. And in the end she became an elegant woman that she wanted to be.
Often reading these words, I will be touched inside, and admire them from inside bottom of my heart on account of their courage and strength.
Any man who learns to give up is a real man of wisdom only because giving up means another choice and not complete retreat forever not only in emotion but in our daily work. So it applies to everything.
Haircut Event
At the beginning of the new school year, my daughter's school found itself a new headmaster, who is said to have originally worked as Headmaster of the Fifth Secondary School and is a proficient figure moving to and fro the back-and-white society.
As the saying goes, a new broom sweeps clean. So some of new school rules have been made to facilitate his unique displays which are different from the former headmaster, mainly including different educational concepts, different ideas of management and different working styles, at the same time, giving all the teachers and students a big surprising awe to smooth his future way of office.
His first fire is to require all the teachers can not be late for the faculty meeting, as well as switch off all mobile phones. Any person who is late must be fined 50 RMB yuan at the spot.
His second fire is to force all the teachers to be on the scene on time in the flag-raising ceremony of each Monday morning and the great gatherings of teachers and students.
His third fire is that all students, whoever you are, are not allowed to have long hair, including long-hair-loving girls, and not equipped with a variety of light accessories. This arbitrary and unreasonable rule immediately and quickly aroused fierce outrage and resistance from the girls of the whole school.
The non-people-oriented rule is very very hard and harsh, and the girls'voice and resistance is very very weak and powerless without any satisfactory results.
Poor girls ah! Unfortunate kids ah! They are and will all the victims of society of no law rules, and under autocratic style of leadership without any voice sounded. This is also a very good microcosm of the whole society.
Among of them is my loving daughter. Since she saw the famous singer Tian Chen, she has not only loved her songs but also likes his hair style--beautiful long hair. And she kept her precious long hair until Friday evening. She was sad when she came back for the barber's shop with her mother, with her cut hair in her hand.
This is as it is, and when we can not change it, it is wise for us to bravely accept it. This is, I think, the true and active attitude.
As the saying goes, a new broom sweeps clean. So some of new school rules have been made to facilitate his unique displays which are different from the former headmaster, mainly including different educational concepts, different ideas of management and different working styles, at the same time, giving all the teachers and students a big surprising awe to smooth his future way of office.
His first fire is to require all the teachers can not be late for the faculty meeting, as well as switch off all mobile phones. Any person who is late must be fined 50 RMB yuan at the spot.
His second fire is to force all the teachers to be on the scene on time in the flag-raising ceremony of each Monday morning and the great gatherings of teachers and students.
His third fire is that all students, whoever you are, are not allowed to have long hair, including long-hair-loving girls, and not equipped with a variety of light accessories. This arbitrary and unreasonable rule immediately and quickly aroused fierce outrage and resistance from the girls of the whole school.
The non-people-oriented rule is very very hard and harsh, and the girls'voice and resistance is very very weak and powerless without any satisfactory results.
Poor girls ah! Unfortunate kids ah! They are and will all the victims of society of no law rules, and under autocratic style of leadership without any voice sounded. This is also a very good microcosm of the whole society.
Among of them is my loving daughter. Since she saw the famous singer Tian Chen, she has not only loved her songs but also likes his hair style--beautiful long hair. And she kept her precious long hair until Friday evening. She was sad when she came back for the barber's shop with her mother, with her cut hair in her hand.
This is as it is, and when we can not change it, it is wise for us to bravely accept it. This is, I think, the true and active attitude.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Hail for the sports wears
Monday of the last week was a really pleasant day of all wonderful ones because today we the whole staff received our long-foward-looking sports wears that our so-called nice and worthy headmaster had promised us for not more than a week.
Although the headmaster is not a real man to make his promise come in practice and use because he has seldom been willing to keep his word and everybody likes to call him a so-many-promise-but-break-more little man, it is beyond our expectations that we were really able to have found his promise in force,and so everybody has been that excited to fly in the air for many many days since Monday.
To tell you the actual truth, our headmaster is good and open man in character, but he is really poor and low in the school management. We are all agreed that he is not a bad basketball player and much better at it than his real competence in school mangement.
Therefore, the school staff were and are all smiling emotionally, elated, excited and in high spirits, delightedly spreading the news all over the school. And some people were moved too hard to describe their feelings in almost full tears.
People wish each other good happiness and are all comfirmed that this colourful move will certainly find its glorious place and leave an indelible impression in the great school history. This move not only has a far-reaching historical significance, but more extremely practical significance.
At the vitally critical moment, with his principal office term to be expired, he has really given the whole staff a good and big surprise not to bear in not time, which fully embodies his modern people-oriented educational thoughts and concepts, in addition to his foresight, future vision together with sympathizing and caring for his subordinates. He is always anxious before staff are, and think future before staff do. He is really indeed of a modern sense of leadership and a good headmaster of modern art of leadership.
I strongly wish our good principal would leave happily, and all the teachers along with students will never never never forget you, never forget you, because your sportwears will warm our hearts to the deep inside forever and always will.
Although the headmaster is not a real man to make his promise come in practice and use because he has seldom been willing to keep his word and everybody likes to call him a so-many-promise-but-break-more little man, it is beyond our expectations that we were really able to have found his promise in force,and so everybody has been that excited to fly in the air for many many days since Monday.
To tell you the actual truth, our headmaster is good and open man in character, but he is really poor and low in the school management. We are all agreed that he is not a bad basketball player and much better at it than his real competence in school mangement.
Therefore, the school staff were and are all smiling emotionally, elated, excited and in high spirits, delightedly spreading the news all over the school. And some people were moved too hard to describe their feelings in almost full tears.
People wish each other good happiness and are all comfirmed that this colourful move will certainly find its glorious place and leave an indelible impression in the great school history. This move not only has a far-reaching historical significance, but more extremely practical significance.
At the vitally critical moment, with his principal office term to be expired, he has really given the whole staff a good and big surprise not to bear in not time, which fully embodies his modern people-oriented educational thoughts and concepts, in addition to his foresight, future vision together with sympathizing and caring for his subordinates. He is always anxious before staff are, and think future before staff do. He is really indeed of a modern sense of leadership and a good headmaster of modern art of leadership.
I strongly wish our good principal would leave happily, and all the teachers along with students will never never never forget you, never forget you, because your sportwears will warm our hearts to the deep inside forever and always will.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
The Development of Abacues
With the widespread use of abacues, people summed up many computational mnemonics to make the calculation speed faster.
This method of claculation with abacues is called zhuansuan in Chinese. By the Ming Dynasty, abacues had not only been used to carry out all kinds of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division operations, but also to calculate land areas and the sizes of a variety of things.
Because of its being simple and convenient and its mnemonics easy to remember, abacues were applied in ancient China wide and far, and therefore gradually spread abroad to Japan, Korea, India, the United States, Southeast Asia and other countriea and regions.
The emergence of abacus has been a major reform of calculating tools in the history of human beings. And even today when electronic calculators are prevalent in daily life, it is still playing its special and unique role.
In China, there are a great number of abacus masters in walks of life. The use of abacus can cultivate human thingking ability in addition to its easy operation because it needs a close cooperation of brain, eyes and hands, so it is also a good way to exercise and descipline human brain.
In 1996, IBM scientists have used 10 atoms to generate the world's smallest abacus.
This method of claculation with abacues is called zhuansuan in Chinese. By the Ming Dynasty, abacues had not only been used to carry out all kinds of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division operations, but also to calculate land areas and the sizes of a variety of things.
Because of its being simple and convenient and its mnemonics easy to remember, abacues were applied in ancient China wide and far, and therefore gradually spread abroad to Japan, Korea, India, the United States, Southeast Asia and other countriea and regions.
The emergence of abacus has been a major reform of calculating tools in the history of human beings. And even today when electronic calculators are prevalent in daily life, it is still playing its special and unique role.
In China, there are a great number of abacus masters in walks of life. The use of abacus can cultivate human thingking ability in addition to its easy operation because it needs a close cooperation of brain, eyes and hands, so it is also a good way to exercise and descipline human brain.
In 1996, IBM scientists have used 10 atoms to generate the world's smallest abacus.
The Origin of Abacues
Exactly when and where the abacus was invented has now not been inspected, which can be traced back as early as 600 BC, when China is said to have had suanban(calculating sheet). The modern abacus is said to have evolved from ancient chousuan, which was a kind of calculating methord to use bamboo sticks as bargaining chips to carry out calculation operations. The end of the Dang Dynasty saw the great improvement in chousuan multiplication and division, and during the Song Dynasty, there emerged the division mnemonics.
Ancient Chinese people strung 10 beads into a group, each group arranged well into a rectangular wooden frame, then fiffling with beads to and fro to carry out calculating operations. During the last years of th Eastern Han Dynasty, in his Shu Shu Ji Yi, Xu Yue recorded his teacher's, Liu Hong, visit to a hermit Mr. Tianmu, who explained and demonstrated 14 sorts of calculating methords, one of which was zhusuan(calculating using beads) very close to modern abacus. That ancient abacus had 5 movable beads of each string, the upper bead an equivalent of 5, but each bead of the lower four ones representing one.
Some historians believe that the name of abacus first appeared in Mr.Jingxiu's Collected Works, authored by Liu Yin(1249-1293), a Yuan dynasty scholar. We can easily find an abacus on a store counter in the famous Chinese paiting Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival by Zhang Zeduan, a noted painter from the Northern Song Dynasty. So as early as the Northern Song Dynasty or even before it, abacues were making the widespread use of it all over ancient China.
Ancient Chinese people strung 10 beads into a group, each group arranged well into a rectangular wooden frame, then fiffling with beads to and fro to carry out calculating operations. During the last years of th Eastern Han Dynasty, in his Shu Shu Ji Yi, Xu Yue recorded his teacher's, Liu Hong, visit to a hermit Mr. Tianmu, who explained and demonstrated 14 sorts of calculating methords, one of which was zhusuan(calculating using beads) very close to modern abacus. That ancient abacus had 5 movable beads of each string, the upper bead an equivalent of 5, but each bead of the lower four ones representing one.
Some historians believe that the name of abacus first appeared in Mr.Jingxiu's Collected Works, authored by Liu Yin(1249-1293), a Yuan dynasty scholar. We can easily find an abacus on a store counter in the famous Chinese paiting Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival by Zhang Zeduan, a noted painter from the Northern Song Dynasty. So as early as the Northern Song Dynasty or even before it, abacues were making the widespread use of it all over ancient China.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
The structure of Abacues
An abacus it the trditional Chinese calculation tool. It is one the most important inventions in ancient China, which is widely used worldwide before the advent of the Arabic numerals.
An abacus was invented by Chinese on the base of suanchou(counting chips)used in the ancient China in the long run.
In ancient times, people used to employ sticks to go on calculation. These small wooden sticks are called suanchou, so the calculation of this kind is named chousuan(calculation using suanchou). Later, with the development of modern production, the calculation of this kind was restricted very hard with small wooden sticks. So people invented a more advanced calculator--abacus.
An abacus si rectangular and surrounded by a wooden frame, with some small sticks fixed inside it, each stick wearing some beads. There is a big beam in the middle of the frame to divide the abacus into two parts. The upper half of each stick has two beads, each meaning five, while the lower half of each stick contains five beads, each representing one.
An abacus was invented by Chinese on the base of suanchou(counting chips)used in the ancient China in the long run.
In ancient times, people used to employ sticks to go on calculation. These small wooden sticks are called suanchou, so the calculation of this kind is named chousuan(calculation using suanchou). Later, with the development of modern production, the calculation of this kind was restricted very hard with small wooden sticks. So people invented a more advanced calculator--abacus.
An abacus si rectangular and surrounded by a wooden frame, with some small sticks fixed inside it, each stick wearing some beads. There is a big beam in the middle of the frame to divide the abacus into two parts. The upper half of each stick has two beads, each meaning five, while the lower half of each stick contains five beads, each representing one.
The earliest computational tool
An abacus, also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool used primarily by the easterns for performing arithmetic processes. Nowadays, abaci are often constructed as a wooden frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beads or small stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal.
The abacus was in use for centuries before the adoption of the written modern numeral system and is still widely used by merchants and clerks in China, Japan, Africa, India and elsewhere. The user of an abacus is called an abacist; he or she slides the beads of the abacus by hand.
The abacus was in use for centuries before the adoption of the written modern numeral system and is still widely used by merchants and clerks in China, Japan, Africa, India and elsewhere. The user of an abacus is called an abacist; he or she slides the beads of the abacus by hand.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Daughter coming back to school!
Today it is very sunny.
To my great delight, my daughter felt very well this morning, and she went to school delightedly. Seeing her come to herself, we are also extremely pleased. Her mother took her to the school gate, and then she went back to work.
Because there weren't any important lessons this afternoon, her mother took her to the hospital to have another injection immediately we had a rich and delicious lunch.
It is my biggest pleasure of today that my daughter felt very well and went back to school.
During this period of my daughter's being ill, my wife has made tremendous efforts and paid too much for it. I can find very easily that she has felt very tired and exhausted these two days. Not only does she go to work during the day, but she also cares for my sick daughter, and it is really hard for her.
My wife is a very good and dedicated nurse in work, and also a good hard-working mother in family. She has always touched me, so I am very proud of my devoted wife.
To my great delight, my daughter felt very well this morning, and she went to school delightedly. Seeing her come to herself, we are also extremely pleased. Her mother took her to the school gate, and then she went back to work.
Because there weren't any important lessons this afternoon, her mother took her to the hospital to have another injection immediately we had a rich and delicious lunch.
It is my biggest pleasure of today that my daughter felt very well and went back to school.
During this period of my daughter's being ill, my wife has made tremendous efforts and paid too much for it. I can find very easily that she has felt very tired and exhausted these two days. Not only does she go to work during the day, but she also cares for my sick daughter, and it is really hard for her.
My wife is a very good and dedicated nurse in work, and also a good hard-working mother in family. She has always touched me, so I am very proud of my devoted wife.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Daughter ill
Today it is very rainy!
Most unfortunately, my daughter is having a high fever!
Yesterday evening, she said that she didn't feel very well that morning, but she didn't think it very bad so she ignored it and didn't tell us parents because she is always a very strong girl which I am very proud of since ever. But last night her mother took her temperature of 39 degrees Celsius. So her mother did her some physical cooling the whole night so they didn't have a good sleep.However, during that time, I was sleeping very well and didn't do anything to help them so I am very guilty of my selfness.
So daughter wasn't able to go to school today, and she made five calls to her headteacher to ask for leave. This morning, wife took her to the hospital for the injection. They didn't come home back until half an hour I had prepared the lunch.
Daughter felt herself in a good state of mind and drank some bean juice. I was very glad that she did so well.
The whole afternoon she slept at home and in the evening she felt very well. After having supper with us, she practiced playing the piano a lot.
But coming back after the evening self-study, I found that she again had a fever and fell asleep. Her mother is looking at her. My poor girl.
But besides, this is not necessarily a bad thing because it is useful and helpful for her growth. Not only can it promote her personality, but can also cultivate the quality of her will. Take the bitter with the sweet, and life must be infinitely better.
Most unfortunately, my daughter is having a high fever!
Yesterday evening, she said that she didn't feel very well that morning, but she didn't think it very bad so she ignored it and didn't tell us parents because she is always a very strong girl which I am very proud of since ever. But last night her mother took her temperature of 39 degrees Celsius. So her mother did her some physical cooling the whole night so they didn't have a good sleep.However, during that time, I was sleeping very well and didn't do anything to help them so I am very guilty of my selfness.
So daughter wasn't able to go to school today, and she made five calls to her headteacher to ask for leave. This morning, wife took her to the hospital for the injection. They didn't come home back until half an hour I had prepared the lunch.
Daughter felt herself in a good state of mind and drank some bean juice. I was very glad that she did so well.
The whole afternoon she slept at home and in the evening she felt very well. After having supper with us, she practiced playing the piano a lot.
But coming back after the evening self-study, I found that she again had a fever and fell asleep. Her mother is looking at her. My poor girl.
But besides, this is not necessarily a bad thing because it is useful and helpful for her growth. Not only can it promote her personality, but can also cultivate the quality of her will. Take the bitter with the sweet, and life must be infinitely better.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
SSSSSorry for my own LLLLLaziness!!
After almost one whole year, today I've had access to my own English Garden.
From the very bottom of my inside, I am always unable to bear it any longer, but sometimes after that, I will come to the old way and forgot what I once promised myself.
Personally, this deadly shortcoming has caused me to suffer from setbacks in life, and I am vulnerable to give up or in in studies, and so cannot go all out in my teaching career.
Today,very cloudy, it is SSSSSundy with on extra lessons after the one-day-and-half month test. Feeling very good this morning, I ran 25 laps on the playground with a total of 10,000 metres.
BBBBBut after the running, I felt very tired and exausted all the day.
Althought very exausted, it is also a very different feeling for my so boring a monologue life.
SSSSSo, it is very necessay for us to try to feel different from the last day. The daily different feeling is vey good for one person's state of mind and spirit and physique.
From the very bottom of my inside, I am always unable to bear it any longer, but sometimes after that, I will come to the old way and forgot what I once promised myself.
Personally, this deadly shortcoming has caused me to suffer from setbacks in life, and I am vulnerable to give up or in in studies, and so cannot go all out in my teaching career.
Today,very cloudy, it is SSSSSundy with on extra lessons after the one-day-and-half month test. Feeling very good this morning, I ran 25 laps on the playground with a total of 10,000 metres.
BBBBBut after the running, I felt very tired and exausted all the day.
Althought very exausted, it is also a very different feeling for my so boring a monologue life.
SSSSSo, it is very necessay for us to try to feel different from the last day. The daily different feeling is vey good for one person's state of mind and spirit and physique.
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