My Junior High School

Yesterday afternoon, I passed by the junior high school which I had studied in for 3 years.

I saw a chalkboard placed in front of the school gate, and some students’ names were sketched on it. I surely knew they were the students who had been late for school in the morning. I really feared this chalkboard 8 years ago.

It also reminded me of my life in this school. I always argued with my deskmate about insignificant things, and sometimes we even fought with each other. Today, I don’t know where he is.

When I was a student in it, I had some friends. Unfortunately, one of them died from a traffic accident 3 years ago. My comfort is the knowledge that others are living their lives in happiness.

No doubt, the school is much more beautiful than that in the old days, and I don’t remember some of my teachers’ names, however, I find that I am much familiar with the school camp. It makes me puzzled if I still study in it.

In retrospect, there were happiness and pains. We went through all of them, and then grew into adults.

A Pretty Girl

When I passed by a primary school, I saw lots of children were playing on the playground. I took out my camera and wanted to take some photos of them. Suddenly, a pretty girl appeared in front of my lens with a happy smile. She reminded me of my own childhood. ^_^

Xixi National Wetland Park

Xixi National Wetland Park（西溪国家湿地公园）located in the west of Hangzhou, it is the first national wetland park in China. It consists of urban wetland, farming wetland and cultural wetland.

City Flower: Sweet Osmanthus

Autumn is a golden season in Hangzhou, because sweet osmanthus trees are in blossom. You can smell sweet fragrance of the flowers everywhere in this city, and the flowers are also used to make tea, soup, wine, etc.

Burp

Today morning, I learned an English word ”burp”, then I have burped whole day. How magic the word is!

National Water Lily Exhibition

The 20th National Water Lily Exhibition was held in Hangzhou on June 18,2006, and closed at the end of July.

Dragon Well Tea

Dragon Well Tea（龙井茶） has a long history, the first record of it can be found in Classic of Tea（《茶经》）, the first book on tea in the world which is written by Lu Yu（陆羽）, a tea expert in the Tang Dynasty（唐朝）.

Dragon Well Tea was first planted in the Tianzhu Temple（天竺） and the Lingyin Temple（灵隐） in Hangzhou. The tea was given the name of “Dragon Well” in the Song Dynasty（宋朝）, and the name was spread in the Yuan Dynasty（元朝）. In the Qing Dynasty（清朝）, the Emperor Qianlong（乾隆）visited to Hangzhou and designated 18 teas as royal teas（御茶）. After that, Dragon Well Tea began to be the most famous tea in China.

Dragon Well Tea is well known for its four special features: green color, fragrant aroma, nice taste and pretty appearance（色绿、香郁、味醇、形美）. The tea produced in spring is the best, and you can imagine that the price of it is certainly on the high side.

Hangzhou Culture

Now, I’d like to tell you something about my hometown, Hangzhou（杭州）.

Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang province（浙江）, and has an area of 16847 square kilometers. It lies at the mouth of the Qiantang River（钱塘江）and has a population of 6 million. The city has existed for more than 4700 years. It is one of the seven ancient capitals in China.The city flower is sweet osmanthus, and the city tree is camphor tree.

Hangzhou is known for West Lake（西湖）, pure silk, Dragon Well Tea（龙井茶） and charming girls. It is reputed as “Southern Watery Region”（江南水乡）and “Heaven on Earth”（人间天堂）. Marco Polo,the Italian traveler in the 13th century said “Hangzhou is the most splendid and luxurious city in the world”. Also there is a famous ancient proverb in China reads like this: “In heaven there is paradise, on earth there are Suzhou and Hangzhou（上有天堂，下有苏杭）.”

Besides the scenery, as a main historical culture city,there are quite some places of historical interests in Hangzhou. Let me put them in details.

Cyber Love

This evening, I read the terrible result of cyber love on newspapers: A young girl was raped by her online friend.

Obviously, in my parents 's eyes, cyber love is a ridiculous thing. I agreed with this advice before, but now I'm not quite sure about it.

I have made a lot of good friends through the line. We have the same hobbies, or major in the same specialty. They are all very friendly and enjoy in helping each other. I really can't imagine if they are bad.

One of my friends is such a guy: strict, mature, reliable, and no doubt he is a learned person. We met each other online three or four years ago. I don't want to admit I’ve fallen for him, but I have got to say there are some magic things of him interest me. Although I don't know his true name, age, appearance and specific job. Tell me, am I mad?

Well, I am a sensible girl, I know there are too many unreal things on the Internet, and won't vanish into cyberspace. But that doesn't mean finding an online boyfriend is impossible to me. Will I? Nobody can tell. Neither do I. ^_^

The Shawshank Redemption

Maybe sometimes what we lack is hope, or the courage for hope. Like Red in The Shawshank Redemption, he hadn’t believed that one was able to tunnel through a wall with a rock hammer and crawl through a 500-yard long foul drain until Andy did.

I prefer the words in the letter that Andy wrote to Red: Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

At the end of the movie, what moves me is not the good conclusion but Red’s four more hopes. It means he has been free indeed.

Jasmine Flowers

Some jasmine flowers, planted by myself. ^_^

Beauty Is in Your Heart

When I was climbing the high mountain, I saw a blind man with a stick in his hand walking toward us slowly. I was puzzled, what he could see on such a high mountain? Splendid clouds or fragrant flowers? Didn’t he is wasting his energy?

My teacher smiled when I told him this story, he said: "Now, let me tell you another story. A respectable teacher of mine finished his book on aesthetics when he was in prison. Apparently, there was no beautiful scenery,even no freedom. So you know,mouth,nose,ears,hands and feet are extremely enough for a sensible blind man to feel the beauty in the world. Even if one day you lose all of them, don't forget you still possess your own heart.When beauty is in your heart, something else is useless."

That was the most beautiful lesson I have ever learned.

My University Life

My university life blew away in the blink of an eye, just left these pics and sweet memories……

Cold……

The weather gets cold all of a sudden. It makes me feel like drinking an icy-cold water. Does someone only can feel the temperature of himself in this way?

Self Introduction

It's my first time to be here, and also my first time to try to set up a blog in English.

I'm a Chinese girl, 23 years old now, and was born in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhangjiang Province.

I'm interested in literature, photography, and good at swimming.

I'll very pleased if you would like to make friends with me!