new year has been began A new year has been began for three month. Three mothes is a long time or a short time. You can do many things during this time. But I don't use it well. I should start myself life from the begging and be more seriously. Everyday is a new begnning and I must spend it meaningfully.

The Origin of Chinese New Year (1) The beginning of the Chinese Lunar Year is known as Spring Festival. It is the most ceremonious and traditional festival and also a symbol of unity and prosperity. According to records, that Chinese people celebrated Spring Festival has a history of four thousand years and it was played by Yun Shun. One day in two thousand years BC, Shun got the Emperor and led his people to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people thought this day as a beginning of the year and the first day of the first month. It is said that the origin of the Lunar New Year and later called it as Spring Festival. However, Chinese New Year's date is not consitent: Xia Dynasty used the MengChun for the first month--January, Shang Dynasty used the twelfth lunar month(December) for the first month, QinShiHuang used the October for the first month after his unifying other six states, the eariler time of Han Dynasty followed the Qin calendar. One emperor-Liu Che felt messy about the calendar, then ordered the secretory and Si Ma Qian made the 'solar calendar' providing for the first lunar year was the first month of one year and the first day of the first month was the New Year's Day. Since then, China used the lunar calendar until Qing Dynasty and lasted for over 2080 years.

I'm Young Everyone has his young time. Everyone has many beautiful memories to worth recalling. Maybe he now is thinking about those memories made by his friends or families or himself. Youth is a quite colorful and important stage in our life. You are healthy and beautiful and attractive. You can do everything that you want whether it's right or wrong. You are dynamic and hoprful. Everything is going so well. But youth will be gone in a flash if you don't pay enough attention on it. I think nobody is willing to regret his youth time that spending meaninglessly. So people who is young should spend his everyday meaningful. The more important point is that we should listen more from the older people when they give our advices. Young people don't have much experince and experience is so vital to us. There is a provbe in China that you'll suffer losses when not listening to the older people's suggestion. I'll become smart girl and spend meaningful everyday in my youth time.

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Weather of Changchun City Changchun City, in Jilin Province which located in the northeast part of China. It is a beautful city. But there are like only two seasons: it's summer and winter. The time of spring and autumn is very short. You can feel it only a little days. Just like when winter ends, summer is coming; when summer ends, winter is coming. And there is not hot in summer and you can enjoy the gentle breeze. You can take a walk in the dust with bursts of cool. Or you can eat some barbecue with beer at the open-air restaurant. It is so comfortable. I am fond of that feeling. In winter, you can fully experience the coldness. Now the temperature here is -20degree to -29degree in the daytime and in night it is lower than in daytime. Of course it sonws serval times and the ground is covered with sonw. All white is around me. That scence is so beautiful. You can make a snowman. I have been here for six years. I seem to have been used to this weather and gradually liked it. The feature of Changchun's weather: very short time of spring and autumn, the coolness of summer and the coldness of winter.

First notebook entry: Introducing myself It'svery pleased for me to come here to make new friends. I'm from China and you can call me English name--Margaret. I am a lively girl and positive to life. I'm interested in English and I choose it as my major during my college time. I learn it for four years but I don't feel I get some progress, especially in oral English. I want to make my oral English fluent. Maybe after some time I will learn Japanese.