Chinese Gods of Hell are fearsome but rarely regarded as evil or demonic. Instead, they are responsible for punishing the unvirtuous and sinful.
Before Lunar New Year's Day, people buy a lot of delicious food and clean their houses. On New Year's Eve (前夜), there is a big family dinner. They usually (通常) eat dumplings. After dinner, all the families stay up (熬夜) to welcome the New Year. On the first day of the ...
It is a “holiday” that falls on the same day as Black Friday. It is an international day of protest (抗议) to draw attention to the problem of over-consumption. What do you think of these holidaysChoose the best choice from A, B or C according to the passage.【1】What do people...
which takes place between April 4th and 6th every year, Chinese families visit the tombs of their ancestors to clean the gravesites. They also pray and make ritual offerings to them. Offerings typically include traditional food dishes and the burning of incense. ...
Rain falls from the sky, so the roads are slippery. We climb up from our falls. We resolve our own sorrows. We wipe our own tears. With captions reading, “They have long faded away,” the camera tilts down from the Guilin mountains to reveal the front of a shabby country house where...
The food in the small restaurant next to where I was staying was appalling and the beer was far too cold to drink. I got in to the damp bed and looked at my watch. It was 11pm: the last hour, of the last day of the last year of the decade. I fell asleep shivering, but ...
Next, the pair helps the grandmother make dumplings, and after that we see all the food that the family has prepared for their New Year’s dinner along with the meanings of certain foods. At the end of the book, we see the children participating in the last festival of the new year, ...
- All-time highest temperature: 110° F (Balcony Falls on July 15, 1954) - All-time lowest temperature: -30° F (Mount Lake Biological Station on Jan. 21, 1985) - All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 14.28 inches (Williamsburg 2 N on Sept. 16, 1999) ...
In a small town named Chimney Town, each resident has a chimney atop their head, from which yellow smoke emerges when they're happy and blue smoke when they're sad, painting the sky above the town in vibrant colors. One day, a bird egg accidentally falls into the chimney of a little ...
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