About friendship——the story of "知音" My English teacher asked me to prepare a conversation, the topic is friendship. So I went through the books of my daughter's (it's acturally a book of her early education,she is two years old.:) )and got an idea.I will tell a story of "知音", I put it here to share it with people from all over the world. In ancient China, during the Spring and Autumn Period, that's almost about 2500 years ago. There was a nobleman living in Jin (one of the great states during the Spring and Autumn Period, a large and strong state occupying middle north China), his name is "Yu Bo Ya". He was a diplomatic officer of Jin, and also, he was really a skillful musician. He played Chinese zithers well, and he wrote a lot of melodies although few people could understand quite well. One day, he was on a diplomatic mission to Chu (another great state occupying the middle south China) in a boat. There was magnificent views along the river. He enjoyed the scene so much so he anchored the boat to have a rest. He brought out the zither and started to play. Splendid melodies filled in the air, he really enjoyed it even to notice a man stood just several yards away from him. He didn't realize his company until suddenly his string broken. The man seemed embarrassed: " Your majesty, I am so sorry, my name is Zhong Zi Qi. I am a woodcutter from a nearby village, and I just passed by but your music attracted me. " Yu Bo Ya, the nobleman was curious:" You understood my music? Tell me something about what I was playing." The man said respectfully:"Your majesty, from your music, I can see great mountains, I can feel the peaks, the valleys, what a splendid view!". Yu Bo Ya was happy:" I will played another melody for you, enjoy it". So he started, the man seemed really enjoying it till the end. Yu Bo Ya asked him " How about this one?". The woodcutter said:" I can see trickling streams gathering into a roaring river! This one is really impressive!" Yu Bo Ya was so happy, never before did he meet a person who could understand his songs so well, they talked a lot and became friends. After a whole night conversation, they must separate, Yu Bo Ya should continue his mission to Chu, Zhong Zi Qi should go back to his home to feed the family. So they made a deal to reunion at the same time next year at the same place. to be continued, in the comment. :)

About my daughter My daughter is just 2 years old. She is really cute and smart, she was born in 2010, and now she grows up a little. The first time I saw her was when she was bring out by the nurse, she looks so quiet and clean inside the arms of the nurse. Her eyebrows, her nose looked just like me. My heart was caught by her at that moment. When she was a little bit older, her mother took a lot of photos of her, she was really a good photographer. I use these photos as the wall paper of my laptop computer. One day, I had to make a presentation to some government officers, the head of these officers was a rigorous man, he was always saying bad things like:" This is wrong, I don't like it, or that's not suitable for this city", so I was a little nervous that day. When it's my turn to report, I plugged in the connecter, the projector showed the image from my laptop computer, there came out laughers from my audience, I was surprised, suddenly I realized that it was my daughter's image, the wallpaper of my computer. I was embarrassed:" Sorry, that's my daughter." I said. But this time, the head officer smiled to me:" She is very cute! Her age must be the same as my grand-daughter." Those words comforted me, so I started the presentation, and that day our design got approved. It was a surprising way that my daughter help me about my business. But I should say "thank you" to her, people hold the same passion no matter who they are, how much money they have, but love is always the same.

How to translate "心有多大，世界就有多大"? how to say that in English?

does anybody here like www.ted.com? see this lecture,it's amazing. hope you like it. http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_berry_animations_of_unseeable_biology.htmlyou can choose to show subtitles, it's really a good site to study english.

Happy Spring Festival to all guys! Everybody, just be happy,happy happy and happy again!

Incoming spring festival! Spring Festival is the celebration for Chinese lunar new year. The beginning of spring festival is from ancestor warship ceremony held by people lived in Yin and Shang dynasty (almost 3000~3600years ago). And later on, the ceremony gradually turns into a celebration for Chinese lunar new year. The spring festival means a new start, people hold a lot of activities to show their willingness for the new year. People will stick paper-cut to the windows, spring festival scrolls on the doors, firecracker for children, a rich dinner for the whole family at the new year eve, and also dragon dance show, and many amusement activities, it's really a Chinese carnival time. For Chinese, the Spring Festival is also a time to be with the family, so in China, when the spring festival approaches, everybody is running home. People will do whatever he/she can to get a train ticket, by now, the train is still the most reliable and cheapest transportation method for many people. So the greatest migration of people happens in the modern China railway stations of every cities. People also create a now word to describe the phenomenon "Chun Yun", that means great transport during Spring Festival. The Spring Festival gives me a lot of nice memories, a delicious fried prawn by mum, a pair of new shoes from papa, those memories are so sweat and warm. When I was young, we are poor. At that time, every ordinary Chinese family is poor, we don't have big houses, computers, cars ,ipad or cellphones , but we have fun, we children have the fun of waiting for the Spring Festival. Every Spring Festival, mum cook me a kind of salad of her own style, we didn't have salad juice, but mum used the yellow parts of eggs and add her secret ingredient to make me the world most delicious salad. I myself would eat a whole dish of that kind of salad, that's my mum made for me. And now,I already know that secret ingredient, it's only sesame oil , a little bit salt, and vinegar, and I can also make salad myself, but it's not the same taste in my memories, finally I realized someday that it's the waiting, the eager for Spring Festival to make the salad so unique and delicious. I really wish my daughter can have the fun of waiting for something. She is only two years old. And that's my impression of Spring Festival.

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Who can tell me why it doesn't update when i change my profile photo? is it a BUG of this site?