12-10-12 To commemorate my father's centenaries birthday, my elder brother, who lives in Yun Gui Plateau, and I went back to meet our sisters in hometown last July. Undoubtedly, this family reunion had brought tremendous excitement and happiness to our 5 sep...

12-09-28 The seasons on earth are forever changing, In spring, you left some flowers and said goodbye, Not intending to return to share sighs of fall! Now, even the cloudy yellow leaves are all fallen, It left vast gray skies lonely. How can you stand the co...

12-09-26 I was nine when my father first sent me flowers. I had been taking tapdancing（踢踏舞） lessons for six months, and the school was giving its yearly recital. As an excited member of the beginners' chorus line, I was aware of my lowly status. So it w...

12-08-14 Once upon a time there was a good old woman who lived in a little house. She had in her garden a bed of beautiful trumpet（喇叭状的） lilies. One night she was wakened by the sounds of sweet singing and of babies laughing. She looked out at the wind...

12-08-07 The last flock of pigeons have also gone out of sight after doing their final circling in the soft breeze, the sound of their whistles barely audible. They are hastening back to their warm wooden dovecote（鸽房） earlier than usual perhaps because t...

12-06-14 On the outskirts of a town in England nestles a nice cottage with a large garden where there lives an old and aged man. The old man is seen pruning（修剪） , watering or fertilizing his flowers all the time. The garden where bees and butterflies dan...

11-12-30 In the Southern and Northern Dynasties(420-589), in the reign of king Wu of Liang, there was a monk called Master Yun Guang who was a very accomplished（有技巧的） preacher. Once he explained the sutra（佛经，箴言） so proformdly and subtly that the...

10-09-25 Contrary to a thousand face cream（面霜，雪花膏） adverts, the secret of fertility might not be eternal（永恒的，不朽的） youth. Research by the ecologist Dr. Carlos Herrera, a Professor of Research at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientfi...

10-09-06 Widespread reports of a decline in the population of bees and other flower-visiting animals have aroused fear and speculation（推测，思索） that pollination（授粉） is also likely on the decline. A recent University of Toronto study provides the fir...

10-06-05 Red ones mean passion and romance, yellow ones speak of friendship, and pink can express your thanks. 红玫瑰代表热情和浪漫，黄玫瑰象征友谊，粉玫瑰则表达谢意。 Bloomin' marvellous: Rainbow roses are non-artificial flowers also known as the happy rose...