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The winter solstice
Winter solstice is a very important solar term time in the Chinese Lunar calendar.
Being a traditional holiday as well, it is still now celebrated quite often in many regions. Early during the Spring and Autumn period, 2500 odd years ago from now, the winter solstice was first determined as the a Chinese traditional solar term among the total 24 terms. In the Gregorian calendar, it is around Dec 22nd or 23rd.
Midwinter day is the very day in North hemisphere with the shortest day and longest night year-round. After it, daytime will become increasingly longer and the coldest clime time will invade all the places on the Northern part of the globe. We Chinese always call it "JinJiu", which means once Winter solstice comes, we will meet the coldest time ahead.
That conclusion is proved well founded. According to scientific results, on Winter solstice, a right angle is formed by the sun and the tropic of Carpricorn. Thus, the North hemisphere receives the least sunlight and the shortest day and longest night occur.
Ancient China did pay great attention to this holiday, regarding it as a big event. There was the saying that "Winter solstice holiday is greater than the spring festival". Nowadays, many regions still celebrate it as a big holiday. Northerners may have dumplings and raviolis that day while southerners may have dumplings made by rice and long noodles. Some places even have the tradition to offer sacrifices to the heaven and earth.THIS IS VERY GOOD WRITING. IN PRACTICE, 'FROM NOW' REALLY POINTS TO THE FUTURE RATHER THAN THE PAST.
AND IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE, WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE HOTTEST TIME OF THE YEAR WITH LONG DAYS...
0 votedDecember 21, 20121First notebook entry: Introducing myself
I am learning English, because my English class grade is not very good.
My native language is Chinese, and I groew up in China.
I like singing and danceing. I also like learning English.
Please help me improve my English.HERE YA GO.
OR YOU COULD SAY 'MY ENGLISH IS NOT VERY GOOD'
PAST TENSE: GREW.
I LIKE TO SING or I LIKE SINGING
IT'S YOUR ENGLISH THAT NEEDS IMPROVING, NOT THE WHOLE WORLD OF ENGLISH.
0 votedDecember 21, 20120English test.
Today, I have had an English test in school.
It's too hard for me, because my I don't know enough English words is not enough, so many questions I wcouldn't write the answer written, and I can't or choose the correct answer.STUDY HERE: NO TESTS, JUST ACCURATE ENGLISH CORRECTIONS!!!
0 votedDecember 21, 20121My Internship
As an intern in the psychiatry department, everyday for me is full of excitement, and warmth, as well as sadness, challenge and risk. In the This morning, a new patient was sent by ambulance. He was totally out of control. Going mad, he tried to attack the doctors and nurses. With eight people, this guy could be retained restrained finally. People seem to like resorting releasing their tightly-held emotions which cannot be released to through abnormal behaviors. That confuses me sometimes. What Iif nobody can understand me, . Will would I be out of my mind?
tightly held OR bound OR similar.
But some questions, Abby: do people like releasing their emotions like this? Or is this the only way they can release their emotions? And I don't understand your last two sentences [I know what they mean but I don;t know what you are trying to express]. Do you mean that if no one can understand you then you would perhaps behave like this man?
but this is very sophisticated english...
0 votedDecember 20, 20121the correction needs some corrections... [but this is sophisticated english...]
Foggy day with an obscure future of my love
It's a foggy day in Beijing, and as like i usually do, I hide inside my dormitory, trying to avoid the crowd and the external world. like i usually do.
He will never reply to to me again. I know that, I knew that, but what's wrong with my heart, it's filled with him. Everything he said and the way he smiles, why can't I get rid of all the those miserable memories.
It's not even an obscure view, it's dark and sightless.
Wish that some cannibal will would come and feed on me.0 votedDecember 19, 20120Hi Camille. This is pretty good and clearly understandable, but there are lots of mistakes too. Capital letters to start sentences, for proper names and for I [as below].
First notebook entry: Introducing myself
Hello! mMy name is cCamille, iI'm from cChile,. iI have great expectativestions about eEnglish lenguage,. iI'm kind of reserved; in my free time iI see watch videos, movies, listen to music, paint sometimes and go outside...
wWell now iI have a lot of free time cuz[!!] imI'm in on vacation, so im I'm very happy. nNext year iI will be studing in the univerity or maybe working, it all depends my test results...
aAbout my interest -- I i spend a lot of time in on youtube so if you noticed funny videos or good music share it ! ;)0 votedDecember 19, 20121A True Story (Part 1)
Have you ever heard an ancient Chinese story, called butterfly lovers? It is a legendary story describing a pair of young people who died for love . In that time, because of arranged marriage, everything anything might happen. Some people may not know what an arranged marriage is,; it means that marriage was arranged by parents, so young people couldn’t marry the one who they loved , and sometimes it even happened that a couple didn’t see each other before they got married. Most of them started 'dating' after marriage. For tThe lucky couples, they lived in peace with each other. The At this time divorce was blamed and laughed at discouraged and frowned upon by most of people, . Sso the unlucky ones who suffered all their life. It happened to my aunts, my father’s sisters. The story I am telling is not legend. It’s true.
( to be continued )good.
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