关于介绍七夕节的英语作文【汇总20篇】

I am an ordinary girl with soft and smooth hair on her head. Liu Haijian has to pull her hair up like an innocent, gentle and lovely fairy. Round cheeks with delicate facial features with a glib mouth a high nose; a sharp chin, the sides of the head has a pair of ears". There is that I am a happy girl, either at home or at school, parents, classmates, friends and teachers are called me "happy". I feel a great deal of pride and joy for this name.

My character is variable and weird. It is a change, and no one can understand my character (including my parents). If you are not careful with angry tone to contradict me, or foul language to insult me, scold me. Im sure that even a moment ago I was joking with you, but after a moment I will be furious to refute you, then go away in the fly into a rage, not you. But after an hour, I will take the initiative to go and you may, at the time of the bowl, I will put what happened an hour ago like eraser typos as erased and forgotten. If you ask me, Ill say, "cut it!" Trifle, never mind."

Hee! Is my character unpredictable? Its not hard, as long as you know everything about me and get along with me. Its as easy to catch my character as you eat, and find me a close - up girl.

I have a party on my eleven birthday, many friends give me the present. There is a doll, a pen, a music box, a notebook, a book and a flower. My faverite present is the flower. The flower is very beautiful. Its colour is red. I like to smell it. I put it in a bottle of water. My mother says it is a rose. I can plant it in the pot. I water the flower everyday. I wish it can be beautiful forever.

I have two good friends. Theyre Zhang Ping and Jim. Zhang Ping is 12. Jim is three years older than her. Hes 15.

Jim is heavier than Zhang Ping. Hes 60 kilograms. Jim is taller than her. Hes 162cm. Zhang Ping is a Chinese girl. She lives in Xinhui. Jim is a Canadian boy. He lives in Guangzhou now. Zhang Ping likes red. Her favorite sport is badminton.

Jim likes blue. His favorite sport is swimming. I like them very much.

Hi, My name is Jay, Im from the beautiful ancient city of Kaifeng. As you can see, I am a very casual girl, and a lot of people here, like 18-year-old, I love a lot, I love guitar, love to sing love dancing, very fond of English, I am very love to watch "Prison Break", like the actor micheal clever wit I like making friends, and hope you will be able to and I have become good friends, I think I will, and you get along with.Hello, everyone, please allow me to introduce myself with a minute let you know me, know me and accept me. I come from Shandong, xxx, 20-year-old, my hometown Qilu earth gave me a straightforward character, and yet steady, and later the city of Nanjing travel long distances to school.As one saying goes: "Ten years out of sharpening sharp, sword-jun to knowledge only pending." Zaikuzailei, I am willing to try, "eat life of hardship, Fang Wei Ren Exalted", in later school life, I will definitely be one to make their own efforts, but had a substantial significance of post-secondary life. Student life in the future please give more concern, a simple self-introduction is completed, thank you!

A Letter to My Dear Father

Dear father,

This Sunday is Father’s Day. I am very happy. I’m writing a letter for you now. But my classmates are playing games.

Today is rainy. Please take care. Do you know? My study is good. There fore, don’t worry about my study. I have a good news to tell you. I have won the second award at the piano competition. Are you happy ?

On the weekend, I usually go hiking on the Song Shan Lake. We are very happy. But after we walk for a long time, we feel a little tired. When the sun goes down, we return home. I like going hiking. What about you?

Happy Father’s Day to you!

Yours

Shiqi

My new deskmate is a boy of sixteen. His name is Zhang Gao. He is 1.8 meters tall. His strongly-built body and sun-tanned skin make him look like a sportsman. He has two big dark eyes under a pair of thick eyebows. It seems that they are always smiling at you. Compared with my yellow hair, his hair is black and thick. He speaks a little bit fast but very clearly. However, he likes to gesture from time to time while hes talking. He has a dream of becoming a famous actor one day. I believe his dream will come true because of his handsome face and well-developed figure.

我的新同桌是一个16岁的男孩。他叫张高，身高一米八。结实的身材、晒黑的皮肤使他看起来像运动员。他浓浓的眉毛下有一双又黑又大的眼睛，似乎总是在对人微笑。与我的黄头发相比，他有一头浓密的黑发。他的语速有点快，但相当清楚，只是他说话时爱打手势。他的理想是当一名演员，我想他英俊的长相和匀称的身材定会让他好梦成真。

Good morning,my dear teachers,my dear professors.i am very glad to be here for your interview.my name is song yonghao, i come from luoyang,a very beautiful aicent city.my undergratuade period will be accomplished in changan university in july ,20xx;and now,i am trying my best for obtaining a key to tongji university.

Generally speaking ,i am a hard working student especially do the thing i am interested in. i will try my best to finish it no matter how difficult it is. when i was sophomore, i found web design very interesting, so i learned it very hard . to weaver a homepage for myself, i stayed with my pesonel computer for half a month.,and i am the first one in my class who own his home

page. forthermore,i am a person with great perserverence. during the days preparing for the first examination,i insist on running every day, no matter what the weather was like.and just owning to this,i could concentrate on my study and succeeded in the end.

Well ,in my spare time ,i like basketball, tennis and chinese chess. also english is my favorate.i often go to english corner to practise my oral english on every thursday,and write compositions to improve my witten ability .but i know my english is not good enough ,i will continue studying.

Ok, that is all,thank you for your attention. n be soon turned into products in all of the modern industry. Four years’ university education gives me a lot of things to learn,a lot of chances to try,and a lot of practices to improve myself.It teaches me not only what to study and ho-w to think,but also to see the importance of practical ability (such as doing expriment as much as possible). In the university life,i have made many good friends.They help me improve my study and research ability, do ererything just like a man,and often give me good example to follow. Besides what i have introduced myself above,i also have many interests in my spare time.I like playing football,which is an effective way i

think to improve my body health,and it can teach me how to join in a group and deal with other people.Drawing and writing is another favor to me.

Above all,I choose the major in order to broad my view in biology scince,and enhance my research ability.I will do my best to join the new group and be good at postgraduate study.

Hello,this is Li Chunfei.I graduated from Xian siyuan University and majored in accounting.Its a pleasure to meet you.Be patient with me,Im a little bit nervous.

I was once a poor student of English, and it was my biggest headache and trouble maker.

I got sick and tired of learning boring grammar rules and lifeless words. But through hard work

in practicing speaking English and breaking away from the traditional grammar games, I found myself a totally different and exciting new world.Id like toshare my learning techniques with my students of future and be their friend.

Education has always been the most important thing in my life,and English is in my free/spare time.(English is my favorite subject.)So educating young people is

the most important thing I do with my life!Lets work together to lift the English education of China to a higher level.We can do it.

Thank you for your valuable time.

[应聘英语教师自我介绍

I like dancing very much. I learn to dance from four years old. Until now,

there are already nine years. I take part in many activities, because I think I

want to perform in front of people. I have a good dance teacher. She dances very

well. She is strict with me. Once I make mistakes, she points it out directly. I

learn a lot from her. Now, we are good friends. She always encourages me. I

think dance is good to me. I make many dancing friends. And it’s good way to

build my body.

Hello,everyone!

I was fortunate to 200 * years in September admitted to the University of ad specialty XX. From 200 * to 200 *, from East Campus to Dushu Lake Campus. In the Soviet four years, brought me a lot of heritage and memory. Four years passed away, when they graduate, should be for the life of four years in the Ivory Tower to learn to do an interview self-introduction.

In four years, I quite seriously in learning, performance is also better, every year the school received a scholarship in the class have been able to maintain in the top five. Particularly in the specialized courses concerned, as far as possible to learn good use. Actively participate in various advertising competitions, and won the National College Advertising Art Competition Third Prize of Jiangsu Division. Both peacetime operations, or papers, or exams, can seriously hope the best. If you would like to say that four years in learning what the greatest regret is that English, formerly in high school Ive had a nice English, but into the university, I slack on the English language, and not spend too much time to learn , resulting in the test to graduate have not been 6.

In social practice, I think my experience was very abundant. 200 * in the second half, I have to do internship in an advertising agency planning work, although the beginning of what will not, very hard, very tired, but when I as a Fan Meeting planners and executors of the stage and flowers after child communication band, when I write advertising effectiveness measurement companies Ina ceramic gain customer acceptance of the report, when I see their planned ceremony, opening ceremony of the successful implementation of the time, when I designed the LOGO when used by businesses When I work independently in the scene when the road show, I was happy. With my own efforts to complete a task. Internship in advertising, I learned a lot of things can not go to school books, contact with clients across industries, while also working in the printing industry, media, service organizations and other rituals have a certain understanding for the future able to adapt quickly to lay the foundation for work.

Prior to this, McDonalds, I also worked part-time, bitter, tired, but that time has given me a lot of fun. Learn a lot. I begun to taste the hardships of life and make money easily. McDonalds as a world-class enterprises, it has a strict standard of staff training system and working mechanism. Work at McDonalds, on the one hand I learned such a big company product promotion, teamwork, customer service, quality assurance and so should learn the rules and regulations and successful experiences, on the other hand, deal with all kinds of customers, but also enhance the my ability to communicate with others, in addition, work has worked hard my hard-working spirit.

In addition, in terms of ideology, I also actively move closer to the party, on the one hand, to strengthen its own ideological and moral construction, to arm themselves ideologically; on the other hand, in the spirit of serving the people, adhere to help others, serve the community members of the strict demands on themselves. Finally the beginning of the glorious junior joined the Chinese Communist Party, and successfully turned positive after one year.

Four years in college, I know a lot of friends, they gave me a lot of help, let me learn a lot, this is college, in addition to expertise outside of an additional valuable asset.

In short, four years of school life, whether professional or social knowledge about, or people skills, have learned a lot I can say that four years of my life the most significant period of time, my ideal life and the pursuit of life during this period to determine their own career planning for a new life also have a new goal. I will continue to work closer to success!

Thank you!

关于城市介绍高中英语作文篇1

The city of hangzhou lies in the southeast of china and faces the east sea. it is famous for its beautiful west lake with a long history.whenever you come to this modern city you will see many parks and some places of interest around the west lake. during the holidays or festivals or at the weekends, people like boating on the water or walking on the paths of the woods or sitting on the ground to have a picnic. what a good time they have! since the politics of the reforming and opening were carried out by the government of hangzhou, plenty of tall buildings have been set up and great changes have taken place in this city.

杭州位于中国的东南，东临东海，以美丽的西湖而闻名于世。无论你什么时候去杭州，都会看到许多公园和名胜古迹环绕着西湖。节假日人们喜欢在西湖上荡浆，在小树林里漫步，或者坐在地上野炊，度过愉快的时光。自改革开放以来，杭州发生了巨大变化，许多高楼大厦拔地而起，呈现出新面貌。

关于城市介绍高中英语作文篇2

Beijing is an ancient city with a long history. Back in 3000 years ago in Zhou dynasty, Beijing, which was called Ji at the moment, had been named capital of Yan. Thereafter, Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasty all made Beijing their capital. Therefore, Beijing was famous for "Capital of a thousand years".

The long history leaves Beijing precious cultural treasure. Winding for several kilometers in Beijing area, the Great Wall is the only man-made structure that could been seen in the space. The Summer Palace is a classic composition of ancient royal gardens, and the Forbidden City is the largest royal palaces in the world. Tiantan is where the emperor used to fete their ancestors, and also the soul of Chinese ancient constructions. The four sites above has been confirmed world cultural heritage by UNESCO. However, the best representatives for Beijing are the vanishing Hutongs and square courtyards. Through hundreds of years, they have become symbol of Beijings life. Tiananmen square being still brilliant today with cloverleaf junctions and skyscrapers everywhere, the old-timey scene and modern culture are combined to present a brand new visage of Beijing.

As Beijing has been confirmed home city of Olympics 2008, the spirit of "green Olympics, scientific Olympics and humanized Olympic" will surely bring more and more changes to Beijing, promote the development of sports and Olympics in China as well as in the world, and strengthen the friendly communications between Chinese and foreign people.

拿到英语试题不知道从哪里下手吗?那么下面这套英语写作流程对你会有一定的帮助。

一.审题。

拿到题目后，手中拿铅笔，手脑眼嘴并用，开始审题。看题目的要求是什么，要点是什么，特殊要求是什么。譬如你是叫李华，还是随便一个名字? 要议论文还是记叙文?对分几段写有无要求?等等。诸如此类的硬性要求信息，都最好用铅笔划下来，以免出错，也许你一开始会记得，可随着时间的流逝，你会不会因紧张而遗忘这些信息呢?还是小心为妙。边看最好边张嘴默读，这样就不会遗漏或忽略任何一个字了。

二.草稿。

有的同学怕出错，全文都打草稿再誊写，我姑且认为不太可取，毕竟考场时间宝贵，即使我有四十分钟时间写作文也不敢贸然这么做，更何况考场时我们留给作文的时间往往一再被压缩。有的同学不打草稿，我认为更不太可取。一来容易出错，二来边写边想思维不连贯，即使思维连贯也无法审词酌句，展现自己最好的一面，容易后悔。

草稿怎么打?

1.结构就是你打算分几段写，每段都写什么?哪段转哪段承哪段起合?心里都要是有谱的。

2.关键词：结构拟定后，迅速在草稿纸上写下自己这篇作文可能用到的一些关键词。包括一些漂亮的词和自己可能会忘记的词。主要是动词和名词。

譬如一省作文题： 假设你的名字是李华，亚洲冬季运动会将在你居住的地方举办，现招募志愿者。你希望成为志愿者。申请信的格式已经写好了，你直接写内容就可以。你的个人情况：年龄性别学历，个人条件。英语好，爱好体育，擅长交际，乐于助人。承诺提供最佳服务。

关键词就是学历、爱好、擅长、乐于、承诺，和你对这篇作文初步构思时想到的一些词。先把这些词(指词的英文表达)写在纸上。有一些词的拼写，譬如学历，可能你本身就记得不是特别清楚，这时一定要在开始写作文前先把它写下来，以免一会因干扰而遗忘。

可能看到聪明这个关键词时，你最初写下的往往是clever，再仔细想想，你是不是又想到了smart,deligient好多词，挑个漂亮和合适的用吧。再比如转折，你写了but，这会再想想，是不是又有一堆表示转折的词在你脑里打转呢?挑一个吧。千万别用but.

3.句式：词写下来了，其实你构建这篇作文的建筑材料就到位了，下步就是要把它们盖成漂亮的作文。先用最普通的陈述句把它们在头脑中过一遍，然后看看都能改成什么句式。能不能把一句陈述句改成问句?能不能用上一个双重否定句?能不能用一个主语从句套定语从句的长句?能不能用一个插入语?等等。把你高中三年的英语积累展示出来。在草稿纸上同样标注。

三.正式写。

这样的草稿打完后，就要快快写了。注意，英语作文的卷面简直太重要了，一定要把字写整齐，写大。没有把握的词和句子不用。别忘了遵守你最初用铅笔划下的题目的规定。

四.检查。

注意，最最重要的一步来了。尽管很小心，可是我们写英语作文还是会犯下很多错误。单词拼写的，大小写的，等等。这些错误会极大破坏我们在阅卷老师心目中的形象，一定要坚决誓死消灭。即使时间再紧，请务必留下1——2分钟检查作文的时间，消除隐性错误。

需要说明的是，英语的开头和结尾是最关键的，尤其是开头。基本上，不跑题，遵守题目要求，一个漂亮的开头，一个还过得去的结尾，2-3个高级词汇，1-2个漂亮的句子，加上整齐的字迹，作文的分就不会低了哦。所以，精心为你的作文想个漂亮的开头吧。

My name is Liu Tingling, 13 years old this year, I am 1.55 meters tall. Curved eyebrows, nose, lip drift of peach, laughing always show bright and clean bright teeth.

I have a weakness, is timid. Remember once in class, the teacher to ask questions, I will answer, but cant put up your hands to speak, the teacher suddenly called my name, I was nervous slowly stood up, I dont like others that answer a colourful, but answer with the voice of incoherent speech as small as ants, evasive, in the teachers encouragement, I finally had finished, the teacher said to me: "the answer is very good, if the voice again a bit bigger, it would be better." The teacher say that finish, the following Im not nervous. Look at the way my timidity.

As the growth of the age, timid faults slowly changed, I began to like gouache. Every weekend I will get a pen drawing, I find myself wanting to be able to become a great artist. By the way, I have an advantage, it is like reading a book. If I am idle have no matter to do, I will pick up a book, sitting on the sofa reading a book. Over time, accumulate over a long period, now I am learning more and more good.

Timid is my character, drawing and reading is my hobby, my friends, what do you think of me?

我叫刘婷玲，今年13岁了，我身高1.55米。弯弯的眉毛，鼻子端正，唇似绽桃，笑的时候总露出光洁闪亮的牙齿。

我有一个缺点，就是胆小。记得有一次上课，老师提问，我明明会回答，可是不敢举手发言，老师突然叫我的名字，我当时很紧张慢慢的站起来，我不像别人那绘声绘色的回答，而是用语无伦次像蚂蚁那么小的声音回答，吞吞吐吐，在老师的鼓励下，我终于说完了，老师对我说：“回答的很好，如果声音再大一点，那会更好的。”老师说完，着下子我才不紧张些。瞧我那胆小的样子。

随着年龄的增长，胆小的缺点慢慢的改了，我开始喜欢水粉画了。每当双休日我都会拿起笔画画，我多么希望自己能够当上一名伟大的艺术家。对了，我还有一个优点，就是喜欢看书。如果我闲着没事做，我都会拿起一本书，坐在沙发上看书。天长日久，日积月累，我现在学习越来越好了。

胆小是我的性格，画画和看书是我的爱好，朋友们，你们觉得我怎么样呢?

My name is __________ . I am from ______________ . There are _______________ people in my family. My father works in a computer company. He is a computer engineer. My mother works in a international trade company. She is also a busy woman. I have a older sister and a younger brother. My sister is a junior in National Taiwan University. She majors in English. My brother is an elementary school student. He is 8 years old.

Because of my father, I love surfing the Internet very much. I play the on-line game for about 2 hours every day. I wish I could be a computer program designer in the future. And that is why I am applying for the electronics program in your school.

Hello，everyone！Nice to meet you！ My name is .I come from . junior middle school .I like English very much。 Usually， I listen to some English music. I think that English is very useful in the future so I study hard at it。 I have many friends . We help each other in the study and life。I love them very much. Thank you very much.

Dear Sir/Madam:

My name is ××× , and I will graduate from Xian FanYi University in the year 2015, My major is secretary in English department.

It’s my great pleasure to have this opportunity to improve our mutual understanding. During the three –year college study, I tried my best to learn all kinds of knowledge, and weigh the hard work of my teachers and myself; I have mastered English listening, speaking, writing and reading skills.

Moreover, I have a good command of business English and the basic theory, public relationship of secretary. Meanwhile, in order to enlarge my knowledge, I always read some newspapers and magazines about business and trade, and I used to do some representative of business in my spare time. At the same time, I learnt computer skills during my summer vacation, and now Im familiar with Office 2007. It is my three –year college life that makes me form my life attitude. Also my three-year college life that makes me rich in knowledge, and its also my three-year college life that makes me form my life attitude. Honesty, Trust, Diligence is principle of how to be a man.

As a college graduate, I believe "where there is a will, there is a way", and I will try my best to do a good job in my business. So I sincerely hope that I can make a position in your company so that I can serve for the company in the future.

Yours faithfully,

[求职用英语自我介绍

导语：每个人都有自己的书包，你能给我们介绍你的书包吗?下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的相关优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

I have a good friend. Her name is school bag. She is a very beautiful girl. Look! There is a picture on her face. It’s a picture of a lovely girl. She wears a red coat. There are some books, some copybooks and a pencil case in her tummy. From Monday to Friday, I go to school with her. She helps me a lot. And I like her very much.

【参考翻译】

我有一个好朋友。她的名字叫书包。她是一个非常美丽的女孩。看!她脸上有一幅画。这是一个可爱的女孩的照片。她穿着一件红色的外套。有一些书，一些字帖和一个铅笔盒在她的肚子里。从周一到周五，我和她一起去学校。她帮助我很多，我非常喜欢她。

相关标签: 朋友Friend

Hello, my name is wang yan, a high heart can meet all of you, for me, is more stubborn, I decided that things will never change, unless you are right I was wrong.

Early in the morning, standing in front of the mirror, look in the mirror in the familiar face, feel oneself was a child, but I was in junior, is no longer a child.

Think of every little bit of good friends, unconsciously tears just climbed up the face, yeah! And did six years of his close friend, to this, that separate is separate, there must be many. But whats the use? Time is not to say stop. I still face the reality!

I am very forgetful, once, I cant find my shoes, anyway by mother remind later discovered I wash the shoes, on the outside. You said I am not forgetful forgetfulness.

I like the teachers help, but Im very careless, often counterproductive. Once the teacher asked me to help him finish his writing board, as a result, I listen to the blackboard writing all wipe up, the teacher without saying anything hard writing blackboard writing brush. The teacher got red in the face. Funny you say is not funny.

I am such a person, to welcome you all to find my friends! Im very good friends but oh ~ ~

一个十二岁的女孩，高高的个子，瓜子型的脸上镶嵌着一对大眼睛，长长的睫毛显得大眼睛十分灵动，不仅如此，她还遗传妈妈，双眼皮宽宽的，但是她也像妈妈一样戴上了眼镜。她有宽宽的脑门，鼻子下面是一张能说会道的嘴巴。你猜出这是谁了吗?其实，这就是我!

我在学校是一个乖巧听话，令老师喜欢的孩子，谁会相信这样一个女孩回到家就摇身一变，成了顽皮，又带着无理取闹的丫头了，但这却是事实。

在家里，我和妈妈吵吵闹闹是常有的事，因为互不服气。有一次，我和妈妈去参加她朋友的婚礼，当时下了雨，天气较凉，但我依然想穿着裙子去，妈妈不肯，为了这事，我们吵了起来。“可以穿，坐车去又不冷!”“不可能，你想感冒吗?”妈妈瞪着我，眼睛像葡萄一样大，我则毫不示弱，昂着头像小斗鸡似的，吵个不停。最后妈妈要发怒了，我一看，赶紧妥协，撇着嘴，带着满腔不情愿说：“不穿，行了吧。”这就是我，双面性格的我。

在学校担任班长职务的我，当然要开班会了。我清了清嗓子，走上讲台，开始了首次班会。

“同学们，我们今天来学习中学生日常行为规范……”我有条不紊的进行着班会，这可都要靠我平时积累的生活和六年在校的经验，而且还有我良好的语言表达能力。我按老师说的，提问同学，举例说明等等。要知道，现在我能站在台上大胆发言，是因为小学时担任过许多活动的主持人，充分锻炼了自己，所以我有信心开好班会。在老师的总结和同学们的掌声中我走下了讲台，顺利结束了班会。这就是我，自信勇敢的我。

每个星期天，我都不会错过科技频道《自然传奇》这个节目。有时看得入迷，妈妈叫我两三次我都没有听见。我喜欢它是因为它能告诉我自然界的许多知识，比如蚂蚁筑巢，各种蜘蛛如何捕食，植物的很多特点等等。而我最大的梦想，注意不是理想，就是去全球动植物最丰富的亚马逊丛林历险。这就是我，热爱自然的我。

这就是我，有双面性格的我;这就是我，自信勇敢的我;这就是我，热爱自然的我，你们了解我了吗?

Good morning，ladies and gentlemen. I am Leo from Guangzhou Zhengxin International School. I am a sunny boy. My family love me and I love them too. My mom works very hard every day. She comes home very late in the evening. Do you know how to help the parents at home? Let me tell you about that.

女士们先生们早上好，我来自广州正心国际学校，我是阳光男孩，我们全家都很爱我，我也很爱他们，每天爸爸妈妈工作都很努力，晚上都很晚下班，你知道如何在家中去帮助妈妈吗？让我告诉你

Usually my dad cooks for us. Sometimes I help my dad to wash the vegetables. Sometimes I set the table. I always wash the dishes when we finish eating. After I finish my homework I often water the flowers. I also look after my pet fish. I feed the fish before I go to bed.

有时我爸爸会给我们煮饭，那我也会，帮助我爸爸去洗菜，摆餐具，饭后我总是习惯去洗碗，写玩作业后我会主动去浇花，以及在睡觉之前我会去喂鱼。

I really enjoy helping my parents at home. Do you think I am a helpful boy? I think so! Thank you! 我很喜欢帮助爸爸妈妈去做事，你觉得我是一个好帮手吗？我想我是！谢谢！

Hello ！welcome to the special Chinese new years edition of discovering China. Im Alina Li and Im Ben Hedges, and today well be taking you through some of the most important traditions of Chinese new year and historical background. We will look at some of the legends behind Chinese new year and how to celebrate it. Here in the US and Chinese across the world.

The Chinese have specific way to celebrate their new year. If you walk down the street in Chinatown during Chinese New Year, you see a variety of ancient traditions such as red banners, firecrackers and lion dance performances, streets are filled with lively celebration.

However, legend has said that the new year has not always been a time of festivity. An Asian Chinese story told a chilly start to this festive holiday, it begins with an ancient Chinese beast called Nian.

Every New Year Nian would rise from swelling in the sea to ravage Chinese village in livestock and hurting people. The villages soon found out from a wise gray-haired old man that the only way to scare the beast away was to set off firecrackers and light lamps and to hang red banners on each door. As the story goes, this was the beginning of a tradition that would last thousands of years.

So this story leads to the creation of many of other traditions for celebrating Chinese New Year. lets take a look at some of these traditions.

Xiamen is an island city with a rich and dramatic history,replete with pirates,rebel leaders,and European merchants.Now linked to mainland Fujian by a causeway,Xiamen retains a strong international flavor.Known in the West as Amoy,Xiamen has a long history as a port city,and later became a center of British trade in the 19th century.Their foreign settlements,later taken over by Japanese invaders at the start of World War II,were established on the nearby small Gulangyu Island.Many of the old treaty-port and colonial buildings in Western styles survive.Xiamen was declared one of China’s first Special Economic Zones in the early 1980’s,taking advantage of the city’s heritage as a trading center and the proximity to Taiwan.Today Xiamen is one of China’s most attractive and best-maintained resort cities.Xiamen was founded in 1394 at the beginning of the Ming dynasty as a center of defense against coastal pirates.Its prosperity was due to its deepwater sheltered harbor,that supplanted nearby Quanzhou,the port that had been the center of the maritime trade with the Indies.

厦门是一个岛屿城市有丰富的和戏剧性的历史,充满了海盗,反对派领导人和欧洲商人。现在与大陆福建铜锣,厦门保留了强大的国际风味。在西方被称为厦门、厦门历史悠久的港口城市,后来成为英国在19世纪贸易中心。外国定居,后来被日本侵略者在第二次世界大战的开始,是建立在附近的小的鼓浪屿。西部的许多旧条约口岸和殖民建筑风格生存。厦门宣布中国首个经济特区之一,在1980年代早期,利用城市的遗产作为一个贸易中心和接近台湾。今天厦门是中国最有吸引力的和最好的度假胜地的城市之一。厦门成立于1394年年初明朝作为防御中心沿海海盗。它的繁荣是由于深水庇护港附近取代泉州港,西印度群岛的海上贸易的中心。