初三年级关于雾霾英语作文【经典20篇】

When it comes to haze, I believe many people hate it to the bone and sigh

when talking about it. No, just a few sunny days, Monday morning gave us a big

"surprise".

In the morning, as soon as I stepped out of the door, I was stunned by the

scene in front of me: the sky seemed to be covered by a gray cloth, and the

pedestrians, roadside plants and cars on the road were also dyed gray.

Everything is covered with a layer of ash. Walking on the street, the visibility

is less than 100 meters. Under the influence of haze, the original clear scene

becomes extremely blurred. Even the bright colors of the traffic lights seem to

be in a trance.

At school, the situation has not changed, and low temperature is of no use.

The red flag is flying in the middle of the air. The soft and beautiful

movements are slightly slow due to the influence of the dust around. Because in

haze days, many small particles will be inhaled, and the oxygen content in the

air will be reduced, which is not suitable for sports, so the physical education

class in the morning has also been cancelled. I dont know if I should be happy

or worried.

Haze days, its really annoying!

春季运动会已经过去，但那壮观的场面，矫健的步伐和令人骄傲、自豪的奖牌，让我难以忘记。

这天天气暖和，青青草地，长长跑道，跑步的人非常多。我参加女子800米，800米可是耐力比赛，时间快到了，我迫不及待的来到等候室……叫到我的名字了，大家排好队伍大步走向场地。

轮到我们了，我自信地走到起跑线上，不停拉伸，只听裁判一声令下“各就各位，”大家陆续停止拉伸，走向起跑线开始准备。我一只脚抵着线，双手撑在两边，另一只脚跪在地上，眼睛盯着前方。预备“嘭”一声枪响，我双脚一蹬，轻轻迈出一步，然后一步紧跟一步，像一只灵活的小兔子。可是还是被夹在中间，这时我忽然听见内心有一个声音在抗议：“你可是运动健将，不应该夹在中间。”我暗自使劲，猛一加力，超过了许多人，冲到前三名。

自信的我又不甘于局限在现在的名次了，“我想要当第一名!”心里的声音叫嚣着。于是我向外道超越，现在轮到我遥遥领先了。对手们被我远远甩在后面……不知不觉一圈跑完了，开始第二圈了。此时观众台热闹起来了，加油声不绝于耳，听见加油声，我热血沸腾，正想冲刺，可脚像灌了铅似的，跑得越来越慢，仿佛听见了对手的呼吸声了。我心想：“加油，我可是运动健将，没有什么可以挡住我陈弈彤的脚步。”想到这里，我的眼前出现了一幅幅从小到大自己克服困难的画面，我的脚好像轻松了许多，步伐也更快了，我和对手之间的距离渐渐远了。

离终点越来越近，我调整呼吸，200米、150米、140米……最后剩100米了，我咬紧牙关，闭上双眼，时间似乎静止了，跑道上只有我在飞奔，我的手臂不停摆动，努力向前跨大步。随着一片欢呼声，慢慢睁开双眼，我成功把第一名收入囊中。这才缓过神来，“我是第一名!”所有疲劳顿时烟消云散，我心里只有欢呼、自豪……

胜利，永远属于坚持、向前、努力的人，只要我们拼尽全力，不管输赢，大家都支持你!

Yesterday, we had a discussion. the topic is. What is my dream? Every one has his dream. Some want to be teachers,others want to be scientists. My dream is to become a doctor.

My friends asked me why. I told them my story. When I was a small boy I was very weak. Once I was terribly iii. I had a high fever. My parents sent me to the hospital but the doctors could do nothing for me. then my parents heard there was a very good doctor in another town. they took me there. I was saved.

A good doctor can save people s lives. From then on I decided to become a doctor. I know it is not easy to be a doctor.But I am determined to study hard. I am sure my dream will come true.

Today, our teacher told us a story on the newspaper. She told us that there was a famous university student whose family is very poor and faraway, but he studied very hard and then went to the big city for study. One day, his mother brought some homemade food to him. But he thought his mother will let him lose face, so he pretended he didnt know his mother. I felt ashamed for him and felt ridiculous about the face problem. Its meaningless. People should lay down their face, live the way they are, dont live in others eyes. Just be yourself, you will be happier.

今天，我们老师给我们讲了一个报纸上的故事。她告诉我们，有一个名牌大学的学生的家庭很穷，也很偏远，但他学习很努力，之后他就去了大城市学习。有一天，他的母亲给他带来一些自己家做的食物。他却认为他的母亲会让他丢脸，所以他假装不认识他的母亲。我为他感到很羞愧，也觉得这面子问题真的很可笑。毫无意义!人们应该放下面子，活出自我，不要活在别人的眼里。做你自己，你会更快乐的。

你于五一前夕 4 月 28 日上午九点钟，与全班同学一起到学校附近的公园参加一次公益劳动( voluntary labour )，全班分成了三组。你在第三组。请你用日记的形式写一篇短文。

劳动任务安排

参考词汇： litter 果皮纸屑等废弃物

注意：

1. 短文必须写出提示及表格所列出的全部内容。

2. 词数 100 左右。

3. 日记的格式已为你写好。

参考范文：

April 28th Saturday Fine

It was Saturday， just before May Day. My classmates and I went to the park nearby， we didnt go there for amusement but took part in voluntary labor.

We got there at 9：00. We were divided into three groups and then began working. The students in Group One planted trees and watered flowers. The task for Group Two was collecting the litter left about by tourists and cleaning the benches. The group I was in got to the Childrens Playground and wiped all the equipment clean. We worked very hard. At 11：00， when all the work was finished up， all my classmates met again. Although everyone was in a sweat， yet we felt happy because we had done good job.

[关于初三英语满分作文：voluntary labour

Recently, the topic of air pollution has again aroused more and more attention since pollution haze, a kind of weather, has appeared increasing frequently in our cities. Just as the picture showed, when pollution haze comes, the whole city was covered with suspended particles which can breath into our body causing heavy problem to our health.

Due to the bad effect from pollution haze, a green and clear environment, rather than anything else, turns to be an important role and a urgent issue in our daily lives. Meanwhile we just live in only an earth, if we didn’t try to protect our common hometown, we would have no place to settle.

Thus, we should take effective measures to rebuild our beautiful environment of the cities from now on.

In my opinion, law and regulations should be enforced by the government and authorities to control the emission of polluting gas. To ourselves, we should enhance the awareness of environment protection and choose a green lifestyle to make contribution to our earth day from day

I like to do all kinds of sports, in the morning, I will do some jogging

and in the evening, sometime I will go to the gym with my friends. My favorite

sport is playing tennis, tennis brings my life so much happiness, I can watch

the match while talking to my friends happily. To do the sport will improve my

health and make me catch up with the time.

When I was small, one day, when I went home after school, I felt bored and

opened the TV, then I saw the tennis match. Two beautiful girls were playing

intensively, the game was so excellent, I couldn’t move my eye away from the

match. From then on, I started to fall in love with tennis, I watched many

matches and got to know more about the game.

Tennis sport is the combination of power and asthetics. The tennis players

dress the beautiful clothes and their power make the ball fly quickly. The other

tennis players will return the tennis ball with their rightly power. The game is

so wonderful, if we watch the match alive.

There is no doubt that I am a big fan of the tennis sport. I find so much

fun from it, it enriches my life.

她是一个很平凡的人。一张白皙而以俏丽的脸上；两道细溜溜的眉毛；一双小而有神眼睛，薄薄的嘴唇，常常挂着恬静的微笑。她个子不高，站在我们中间像是我们的一员。

她是一个很幽默，可爱的人。一次她在黑板上画了一只猴子，指着画，请了一个开小差的同学问她这是什么。她一慌之下把monkey说成了lizard。陆老师瞪大眼睛，装出一脸狐疑，轻声地问：“同学们，你们看到过像这种品种的lizard吗？下面一阵哄堂大笑。老师及时纠正说：“这是monkey，以后上课要认真听。”

有一次，有位同学上课在开小差，陆老师轻轻地走过去，拍拍他的肩膀说：“革命尚未成功，同志仍需努力啊！”小朋友有错误时，陆老师从不正面批评而是用巧妙的语言给予提醒。

在她的英语课上总是充满了欢声笑语，我们也越来越喜欢英语了！

Youth has been praised by many people. They believe that it is the most

precious time of ones lifetime, because youth stands for young age and energy.

So we should cherish youth and do whatever we like. In my opinion, when we are

young, the first thing we need to do is to fight for our future. So we spend a

lot of time studying and gain much knowledge. The store of knowledge helps us

solve all kinds of problems. When we have enough ability, we are no longer

afraid of meeting difficulties. The second thing we need to do is to broaden our

vision. As we are young and full of energy, it is the best time to see more

scenery. Dont wait for retirement to explore the world. What we see will make

us mature and stronger. Lets enjoy the beautiful youth.

Todays weather is strange, or cloudy day in the morning. At 6 o clock in the afternoon, the sky grew up a thin layer of fog, hangs over the mountains in the distance. I thought it was the night hazy sky. Every five minutes, when I once again fell on the window overlooking the distance, accidentally found Windows with a few more granular small water droplets, watches, each a small water droplets containing a small black dust particles, I found it strange. To look into the distance, the tall buildings as if tied strips on soft white gauze, neon lights adorn the ribbons grew more viable. Car passing by on the parking lot also opens the fog lamps, shoot the light like a beam of a root, is able to bear or endure look. It was getting dark, the window to set more and more water, slowly, the small water droplets to suck more and more big. Everything is so quiet beautiful outside the window, I cant help but have also been deeply attracted...

Just as I was intoxicated at the time of, a flash of lightning flashed across the sky, accompanied by thunder and lightning, heavy rain pouring down. The rain slapping on the glass, the dust is washed clean. Just the fog, has also been blown without a shadow. Hey, is this natural written in fog phenomenon? I dug out a thick "hundred thousand whys" in the home, ha, finally found - yes, this is the fog! It is because of the air suspension with a lot of smoke, dust and other particles in the presence of water vapour forms turbid phenomenon, make the line of sight fuzzy and lead to reduced visibility. Its no wonder that Windows have conspicuous particles, originally you were part of the dust in the air in!

Because now the air pollution is more serious, so the fog haze weather, the more the greater the damage. Sometimes is cant open the car, the plane cant come down. To reduce the fog weather, we have to protect the environment, planting a variety of grass, improve air quality, for the benefit of mankind.

今天的天气真奇怪，早晨还是多云的天。到了下午6点钟左右，天边渐渐泛起一层薄薄的雾气，笼罩着远处的山头。我还以为是夜色朦胧了天边。隔了五分钟，当我再次伏在窗边眺望远方时，意外地发现窗玻璃上多了一些颗粒状的小水珠，细细端详，每一颗小水珠里都包含着一团小小的黑色灰尘微粒，我好生奇怪。再放眼往远处看，高大的楼房仿佛系上了一条条轻柔的白纱，霓虹灯点缀的彩带也越发缥缈起来;停车场上过往的车子也开启了雾灯，射出的灯光如同一根根光柱，很耐看。天渐渐暗了下来，窗上的水珠越集越多，慢慢地，小水珠吮吸得越来越大。窗外的一切是那么的静谧美好，我不禁也被深深吸引了……

正当我陶醉之时，一道闪电划过天空，伴随着雷电，大雨倾盆而下。雨水拍打着玻璃，尘土也被冲刷得干干净净。刚刚的雾蔼，也被吹得没有了影子。咦，这不就是自然书上所说的雾霾现象吗?我翻出家里一本厚厚的《十万个为什么》，哈，终于找到了——对，这就是雾霾!它是因为空气中悬浮着大量的烟、尘等微粒遇到水气而形成的混浊现象，使视线模糊并导致能见度下降。怪不得窗玻璃上有星星点点的微粒，原来是空气中的灰尘在作怪啊!

因为现在空气污染越严重，所以雾霾天气就越多，危害也就越大。有时会使汽车不能开，飞机不能降落。要减少雾霾天气，我们必须要保护环境，多植树多种草，提高空气质量，为人类造福。

I have many friends, but Jim is one of my best friends. He is not handsome, but kind-hearted. We know each other at primary school. He was the tallest in our class at that time. He is good at study and playing basketball, while bad at playing table tennis. Everytime he has delicious food, he will give it to me. Moreover, whenever I feel sad, he will play with me and comfort me. However, he is not spoilt me. For example, everytime I meet difficulties in study, I would like to copy his, but no matter what I say, he never give his homework to me to copy. Instead he teaches how to do it. All in all, no matter what difficulties I meet, he will help me. It is him make me realize that a friend in need is a friend indeed.

我有很多朋友，不过吉姆是我最好的朋友之一。他长得不帅，但是很善良。我们在小学的时候就互相认识了。那时，他是我们班里最高的。他的学习成绩很好。他很擅长打篮球但是乒乓球却打得很烂。每次有好吃的他都让给我吃。而且每次我不开心的时候他都会陪我玩，安慰我。但是他并不宠溺我，比如说，在做作业的时候我遇到不懂的就总想抄他的，那个时候不管我怎么求他，他从来都没给我抄过作业，而是教我如何去写。总之不管我遇到什么困难，他都会帮助我。他让我明白了患难见真情。

Today, my parents took me to my grandfather’s home.I talked with my grandfather for a little while and then I played with my brothers and sisters.

After a while, my elderly brother suggested going to the park and having a rest.“That’s a good idea. ” I said.Then we prepared for the outing.However, after lunch, the sky turned dark and rained heavily.Therefore, our plan was an impossible due to the bad weather.How pity it was!All the afternoon, we could only have fun in house.

We played cards, watched TV and played computer games.We were happy, but we still hoped that we can go out next time.

今天，我父母带我到爷爷家。我和爷爷聊了一会天然后我就和兄弟姐妹们玩。

过了一会，我的哥哥提议去公园然后休息。“好主意”我说。接着我们就为外出做准备。但是，吃过午饭，天空变得黑暗还下起了大雨。因此，我们的计划因为坏天气泡汤了。太可惜了!整个下午我们只能在家里玩。

我们打牌，看电视，玩游戏。我们和开心，但是还是希望下次能够出去玩。

During the 15 days from New Year’s Eve to Lantern Festival, Beijing was affected by smog for more than half the time, because of which people suffered a lot. On the road people drove slowly because they could not see clearly. People also suffered from many illnesses caused by smog.

The smog in Beijing has been caused by many factors, in which the increase of cars in the city area plays an important role. The cars send off a lot of poisonous gases, which in turn adds to the already serious air pollution.

In my opinion, the number of cars should be limited. We should call on the people to use more public transport. Only in this way can we expect to have more sunny days.

在15天从除夕到元宵节,中国受到烟雾超过一半的时间,因为人们遭受了很多。在路上人慢慢开车,因为他们无法看得清楚。人也患有许多疾病引起的烟雾。

北京的烟雾是由许多因素造成的,增加的汽车在城市地区扮演重要的角色。汽车发送了大量的有毒气体,进而增加了已经严重的空气污染。

在我看来,汽车的数量应该是有限的。我们应该呼吁人们多使用公共交通工具。只有用这种方法我们才能期望有更多的晴天。

Christmas Day-December 25-which celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, the founder of the Christian religion, is the biggest and best-loved holiday in the Christian World.

According to the Bible, the holy book of Christians, God decided to allow his only son, Jesus Christ, to be born to a human mother and live on earth so that people could understand God better and learn to love God and each other more. "Christmas"- meaning "celebration of Christ "- honors the time when Jesus was born to a young Jewish woman Mary.

Mary was engaged to be married to Joseph, a carpenter, but before they came together, she was found to be with child. Because Joseph, her husband, was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.

But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."

Although the exact date of the birth of Jesus nearly 2,000 years ago is not known, the calendar on the supposed date divides all time into B.C. (Before Christ )and A.D. ( a Latin phrase, Anno Domini, "in the year of our Lord.") For the first 300 years, Jesus birthday was celebrated on different dates. Finally, in the year 354, church leaders chose December 25 as his birthday.

I likeChristmas, it is just like our spring festival.

Maybe the spring festival is much more important and interesting than christmas, but i like christmas day better. Because we can spend time with our friends and classmates during christmas. When it is snowy,

Christmas becomes much more lovely, just like in fairytales. I can imagine i am in a fairytale, the girl who sold the matches is my friend, the ugly duck becoming more and more beautiful and so on. What a beautiful place! So we can also call christmas “snowy lovely day.”

On christmas day, shops are red and green. There are so many christmas cards, christmas hats, christmas dolls and many colourful things. So shops look very beautiful. We can give a card or a doll to our friends and say “merry christmas.” By the way, i think studying can also become much more interesting.

In the present society, with the exploration of human needs, pursuit and desire, human beings have pushed the life together. But most people can not follow the evolution of the joint, will feel the pressure of life, to the life of the roll!

Dont always want to finish much more work than you can do, because one day, you will feel depressed because of less work done than planned. Only to increase your own pressure. You should try to improve this situation now. Relying on your own ability to complete the workload, so that you will not be disappointed by the completion of the work that is less than the plan. People should hold this kind of mentality: do one thing no matter what, because of difficult to achieve perfection, in the work, to show their talent, to play their own potential, not because of the existence of self humble causal work.

In the final analysis, in the final analysis is to survive, in order to meet the needs of life! That is to meet the desires of the individual!

I think all the origin is a place of "common human heart"! It can dilute the evolution and sublimation of all of you! What do you think of it, what is it! Oh, can make you a lifetime of pain, also can let the happy life! As long as we do it, how to live through share it, how to drive it, only you can clear direction, you need to test your life infiltration surrounding environment to identify and travel!

If you have to accept the truth, what has happened cant be changed. No matter what you do wrong, you turn it into a small thing, hehe, relative to life is just a small thing. Let it be the story of the past, it can also be a lesson to remember! But you must remember that the unfortunate story must not be allowed to play again. Do not weigh anything to life, everything is a thing of life, life is not brought, death does not go. Its not worth doing that, only you know the best. For things to take it up and put it down, can take temporary setbacks. Looking for a best balance point to carry to scratch your heart, with the "lost" to do the balance! You will lose, lose win, gain and loss, loss is too lazy to human survival interlocking protocol is! You can never keep off the saturation state, is a new idea, the pursuit of!

You cant be too greedy, everything is just a passing traveller. A flower world, you have to take its process, use it to dilute your life for a period of time, it can not be two days in the world is the same. You have to know that everything will have the precious and unreflux time of your life, and dont have too much demand, and you cant overdo yourself too much. All things have a moderate, more than moderate you will be troubled by the outside world, natural will become a load! To learn "know Stop" "contentment". How to release pressure, relieve pressure, and more importantly, how to relieve pressure, alleviate the need for a certain process, everything is how you do it, so as to ease the pressure in your heart. Other people are only the role of guidance, so you do what you like, what you should do!

今天我起床的时候，看见窗外什么也没有，全白了。我以为我看错了，穿好衣服到外面看的时候，才发现我没有看错，真的全白了。我知道，这不是好事，这是雾霾。

新闻30分说，这几天严重的雾霾天气已经创下历史记录了，对人体的健康有很大的伤害。于是，南京市教育局下发了通知，要求全市的幼儿园，中小学生停课在家。我很担心，担心这种天气会一直持续下去。我看新闻了解到雾霾形成的原因很多，而最重要的是汽车尾气的排放，近年来城市的汽车越来越多，排放的尾气也越来越多，还有一个重要的因素，工业排放废气也很多。所以我提议我们要做到以下几点：1。能不开车就不开车，最近的汽车尾气很浓呀，呛的我直咳嗽。如果不远就骑自行车或步行吧。2。大家都要有环保意识，可以用环保袋，工业要少排放有害气体，大家要保护环境……雾霾天气我们在家也要做一些防护措施，可以吃一些保护身体的东西，比如：萝卜，胡萝卜有很强的排毒作用，还可以补肝，补内脏，是PM2。5的对手。还有百合，它可以清肺排毒，还可以锻炼身体，排汗解毒。

我们大家都要行动起来，让雾霾尽快离开我们。

老子说过：“天下莫弱柔于水。”但我以为不然，在我心里，水是浩瀚的，是坚韧的，是勇敢的。

水是浩瀚无边的，他波澜壮阔，海纳百川。他能容纳天下间一切万物。当狂风忽起时，水波澎湃，更显出他的广袤无垠，他的浩瀚无边。水波排山倒海、雷霆万钧般地翻波涌浪，使天地与他一同咆哮，像千军万马飞扬而过。水花如碎玉般溅开去，激起无数朵玉花，如倾盆大雨，洒向海岸。浩瀚无边地水，包容了一切……

水是坚韧不拔地，一滴水是渺小无比的，但经过他无数次坚韧的努力，终于将水滴穿石。河边的磐石般坚不可催的，他蔑视水的弱小，但水不会气馁，他回日复一日，年复一年的冲向轻视他的磐石，尽管磐石硬他百倍。时光如梭，岁月的车轮飞速的旋转。坚韧不拔的水依然一次次地冲向顽石，他终于成功了——曾经不可一世地磐石被冲刷成了圆滑的鹅卵石。在坚韧的水的面前，再坚韧的石头也低下了头……

水是勇敢的，他不惧怕任何事物。寒冷与水是一对永远的宿敌，但勇敢的水在寒冷面前却更加坚强，因为水变成了冰，他比原来坚硬了百倍。越冷，他就越坚强。在变为冰的过程中，水勇敢的减小了自己的密度，使自己变得更加强壮，与寒冷抗争到底……

我要像水一样，浩瀚无边，心胸宽阔;我要像水一样，坚韧不拔，毅力顽强;我要像水一样，勇敢无畏，战胜一切。

We couldn t believe that it was a village. The buildings for the farmers were very beautiful, the streets were very clean and there were many flowers in front of the houses. In the middle of the village there was a school with a wonderful building and a large playground. All the children in the village study there.

The farmers got richer by planting vegetables and raising silkworms. In their houses there were colour TV sets, fridges,washing machines, new furniture and even motorbikes. All these showed the farmers life was getting better and better.

The great changes had attracted foreigners. Today some of them would come to visit it. We were happy for the farmers. We hope the farmers will be richer and happier.

My name is Tom Lee. I am fourteen. I study at No. 4 ICT School, not a very big school. There are about six hundred students in my school. There is only one building in our school, but we have a very big playground. There are ten computer labs and one library in the building, and there are many computer books in the library. We often go there in the afternoon.

我的名字是汤姆李。我十四岁。我在第二通信学校学习，不是非常大的一个学校。在我学校大约有六百名学生。我们学校只有一栋楼，但是我们有一个非常大的操场。在楼里面有十间电脑室和一个图书馆，图书馆里也有很多计算机的书籍。我们经常在下午去那里。

We are busy every day. We have four classes in the morning, and two in the afternoon.

我们每天都很忙。我们上午有四节课，下午两节。

ICT is my favorite subject and our ICT teachers are very patient and helpful. I am good at ICT, but bad in history.

通信是我最喜欢的学科而且我们学学校的通信老师是很有耐心也很乐于助人的。我的通信学得很好，但是历史则学得不好。

People native to urban Beijing speak the Beijing dialect, which belongs to

the Mandarin subdivision of spoken Chinese. Beijing dialect is the basis for

Standard Mandarin, the language used in the Peoples Republic of China, the

Republic of China on Taiwan, and Singapore. Rural areas of Beijing Municipality

have their own dialects akin to those of Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing

Municipality.

Beijing Opera, or Peking Opera (Jingju), is well-known throughout the

national capital. Commonly lauded as one of the highest achievements of Chinese

culture, Beijing Opera is performed through a combination of song, spoken

dialogue, and codified action sequences, such as gestures, movement, fighting

and acrobatics. Much of Beijing Opera is carried out in an archaic stage dialect

quite different from modern Standard Mandarin and from the Beijing dialect; this

makes the dialogue somewhat hard to understand, and the problem is compounded if

one is not familiar with Chinese. As a result, modern theaters often have

electronic titles in Chinese and English.

A hutong in eastern Beijing near Dongsishitiao. In this March 2003 photo

the left side was still standing, but it has since given way to new

construction.The Siheyuan is a traditional architectural style of Beijing. A

siheyuan consists of a square housing compound, with rooms enclosing a central

courtyard. This courtyard often contains a pomegranate or other type of tree, as

well as potted flowers or a fish tank. Siheyuans line Hutongs , or alleys, which

connect the interior of Beijings old city. They are usually straight and run

east-to-west so that doorways can face north and south for Feng Shui reasons.

They vary in width — some are very narrow, enough for only a few pedestrians to

pass through at a time.

Once ubiquitous in Beijing, siheyuans and hutongs are now rapidly

disappearing, as entire city blocks of hutongs are leveled and replaced with

high-rise buildings. Residents of the hutongs are entitled to apartments in the

new buildings of at least the same size as their former residences. Many

complain, however, that the traditional sense of community and street life of

the hutongs cannot be replaced. Some particularly historic or picturesque

hutongs are being preserved and restored by the government, especially for the

2008 Olympics. One such example can be seen at Nanchizi.

Mandarin cuisine is the local style of cooking in Beijing. Peking Roast

Duck is perhaps the most well-known dish. The Manhan Quanxi ("Manchu-Han Chinese

full banquet") is a traditional banquet originally intended for the

ethnic-Manchu emperors of the Qing Dynasty; it remains very prestigious and

expensive.

Teahouses are also common in Beijing. Chinese tea comes in many varieties

and some rather expensive types of Chinese tea are said to cure an ailing body

extraordinarily well.

The Jingtailan is a cloisonné metalworking technique and tradition

originating from Beijing, and one of the most revered traditional crafts in

China. Beijing lacquerware is well known for the patterns and images carved into

its surface.

The Fuling Jiabing is a traditional Beijing snack food, a pancake (bing)

resembling a flat disk with filling, made from fu ling (Poria cocos (Schw.)

Wolf, or "tuckahoe"), an ingredient common in traditional Chinese medicine.