Drinking Alone Under the Moon——月下独酌 This Tang poetry, one of my favoritets, Drinking Alone Under the Moon is the great poet Li Po's poem. This poem perfectly described the author's mind, no one close to him at that night. Poetry shows poet's gloom in his heart, hence he took moom and his shadow as friends. Poet used rich imagination showing a complex emotions. It literally expressed the poet can really enjoy life, although in fact he had unlimited loneliness. The poem is fine and smooth and full of strange ideas, reflects his talent, aloof and proud, in a disappointment situation still broad-minded optimistic, seeming abandon and uninhibited character. 花间一壶酒，I and a pot of wine, among the flowers, 独酌无相亲。I drink alone, for no friends close to me. 举杯邀明月，Raising my cup, I asked the bright moon to have a drink with me, 对影成三人。She(the moon), my shadow and me make three drinking people. 月既不解饮，Alas, it is to be regretted that the moon is unable to drink, 影徒随我身。And my shadow tagged me vacantly. 暂伴月将影，But still for a while I have these friends, 行乐须及春。I should be to enjoy life in the beautiful spring scenery. 我歌月徘徊，I recite the poem, the moon with me, 我舞影零乱。I'm dancing, shadow whirling about with me. 醒时同交欢，Pursue pleasure while I am awake, 醉后各分散。When drunken I reel, our companionship ends. 永结无情游，But we’ll soon have a greeting without a goodbye, 相期邈云汉。At our next merry meeting away in the sky.

A Survey About Chinese Lovers Just now I read Randy's Self-introduction of italki. The description "...began to learn Chinese from my childhood" attracted me. His personal data shows that he is 69 now. It is conjectured that he studied Chinese began from the last century 50's, so far some 60 years. As far as I know, few foreigners interested in Chinese in those days except for ethnic Chinese or those who have special reasons. It is widely known in China that complex strokes, entangled polyphone and abstract meaning jointly constitute the main reason why modern Chinese characters, evolved from the hieroglyphic, is hard to learn. However, we know from various information sources that the amount of overseas Chinese learners increasing quickly year by year. Chinese Press are happy to see an emerging "mandarin fever" aboard and think of the origin of it is the result of China's rise. What is the cause of your Chinese Learning?

"Out" and "which" 1、Individual specimens of Allende are covered with a black, glassy crust that formed when their exteriors melted as they were slowed by Earth's atmosphere. When broken open, Allende stones are revealed to contain an assortment of small, distinctive objects, spherical or irregular in shape and embedded in a dark gray matrix (binding material), which were once constituents of the solar nebula—the interstellar cloud of gas and dust out of which our solar system was formed. 2、Inside Allende meteorites is a dark gray matrix that binds together small spherical or irregular objects formed from the interstellar cloud of gas and dust out of which the solar system was made. I can not understand the meaning of "Out of which” in the above two paragraphs, help me,please. Thanks.

What is the meaning of "slate"? The boys and girls with their books and slates go to school. What is "slates" means? Thanks.

What are the meaning od "by all that” and "then" in the follow sentence? God shows that he loves us by all that he has done for us. Should we not then love him? Thanks.

Tom has a big top. What is the meaning of "top" here? Thanks for your help.

The Tragedy of Family Planning Continues In an English composition I wrote last year mentioned a tragedy of the family planning policy that happened to my mother thirty years ago. However, this kind of tragedies continue even today. The Spring Festival this year I returned to my home village and heard an even more shocking story occured to one of my childhood play partners, Qiu Ju. Qiu Ju and I were neighbors. We often played games together. After marriage she first gave birth to a daughter. Because of the impact of the thought "Man is superior to woman" and the family planning laws allow, those firstborn daughter rural women in China usually were demanded by their husbands and parents-in-law to have a sencond children. So Qiu Ju had the second but also the last chance to give birth to a son. In order to ensure that the baby was a son, she was sent to the hospital to examination of fetal sex while she was already five months pregnant. If it was a daughter she would be asked to artificial abortion and pregnant again. In the past few years, she pregnant several times until last year she finally met the request of her husband's family. The baby was a very cute and smart little boy. However, her story was not over. One month after the infant born, Qiu Ju brought it back to her parents' house. Unfortunately, the baby died from suffocation while he was sucking breast at night after his mother fell asleep. Qiu Ju immediately kneeled in front of her father-in-law in the central room to beg for forgiveness as he arrived at Qiu Ju parents' house. I was certainly and completely shocked by this terrible news, not only because of the death of the baby but also because of the fate of Qiu Ju. The mother who lost her child should be comforted but poor Qiu Ju was not. What's worse is that I believe that there must be a lot of other Chinese women have the similar experience like Qiu Ju.

Institution of Burying the Living Burying the living with the dead is one of the ancient customs in Chinese history. It was both extremely cruel and barbaric. According to textual research, as early as in primitive society, after the death of the master of house, his descendants then would buried the tools, weapons and even the daily necessities the dead used along with him. Affected by such practices, to the slave society, slaves as a speak tool belong to the slave-owners, so when their master died, many slaves would be treated as a special tool and buried alive. In the course of time, this cruel way became a basic institution of slave society. Besides, at that time, people believed that after death they would go to another world - hell. So that they thought that the objects and people buried with the death could continue to serve the owner in the underworld. Shin Shi kyoutei, the first emperor of China, after his death, his successor buried a large number of the maids who served in Shin imperial palace and the craftsmen who constructed the mausoleum of his father. This is the largest number of burying alive in Chinese history. Because of the cruelty, the institution of burying the living was strongly opposed by people, so that it disappeared gradually. However, the way it disappeared was so long and winding until five hundred and more years ago the emperor Ming yingtsong ordered in his testament to permanent abolition of the institution of burying the living.