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清明节,这一天既是人民祭拜祖先、缅怀先人的宗亲节日,又是一个远足踏青节、亲近自然的好日子,下面是小编收集整理的关于介绍清明节的作文500字,欢迎阅读参考!

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关于介绍劳动节的由来的英语作文

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The international workers day, also known as May day, is celebrated on the first day on May. There are more than eighty countries celebrate this festival since 1889. People may know that the workers day is about having a rest on that day, but most of them dont know how this day comes from and the story behind it.

In the late of 18 century, the cruel capitalists in order to make more money, they demanded their employers to work all day, but only paid them with low salaries. In America, the workers had to work at least 14 hours a day, sometimes, they even worked as long as 18 hours. Due to the unfair payment, the works knew that they had to stand up and fight for their rights, or all of them will die young. Then the workers started to go on strike, demanded that the reasonable working hours should be 8 hours a day. However, the capitalists did not pay attention to the workers demand. The workers had to fight for their rights for themselves. On may 1st, 1886, the United States and Canadas worker unions got together to start the biggest strike. After that day, the law had passed the rules that the workers working hours would be 8 hours per day. This strike had made a different. The worker did not need to suffer from the long working hours with low payment.

The international workers day aims to memorize the spirit of brave and show our honor to the former workers. Because they had make great contribution to todays happiness.

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篇1:介绍的春节英语作文

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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.

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篇2:自我介绍英语

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My name is xxx. I am graduate from ________ senior high school and major in ________. There are ________ people in my family. My father works in a computer company. And my mother is a housewife. I am the youngest one in my family.

In my spare time, I like to read novels. I think reading could enlarge my knowledge. As for novels, I could imagine whatever I like such as a well-known scientist or a kung-fu master. In addition to reading, I also like to play PC games. A lot of grownups think playing PC games hinders the students from learning. But I think PC games could motivate me to learn something such as English or Japanese.

My favorite course is English because I think it is interesting to say one thing via different sounds. I wish my English could be improved in the next four years and be able to speak fluent English in the future.

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篇3:英语求职信自我介绍

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My name is xx, a postgraduate student from Tianjin University, and will get my master degree in March 2007.

Id like to summarize myself from 3 aspects:

First, Im an excellent learner. In my sophomore year, I passed the entrance examination to the Excellent Student Program in Tianjin University and was recommended as the postgraduate student with special courses, and then I joined the IBM Center in Tianjin University. After finishing my undergraduate courses, my GPA was 3.8 out of 4.5.

Second, Im an excellent problem-solver. During the last 4 years, I have finished 5 projects, including the Hydraulic Engineering Project Management System, and so on. And I took part in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling in 2003 and won the second prize in Tianjin region.

Last, Im an excellent team player. Ive been serving as the monitor for 6 years and team leader for 2 years. And besides taking more responsibilities, I also placed great emphasis on teamwork, in order to meet the teams goal.

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篇4:介绍端午节由来的英语作文

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The Dragon Boat Festival is one of three major Chinese holidays, along with the Spring and Moon Festivals. Of the three, it is possibly the oldest, dating back to the Warring States Period in 227 B.C. The festival commemorates Qu Yuan, a minister in the service of the Chu Emperor. Despairing over corruption at court, Qu threw himself into a river. Townspeople jumped into their boats and tried in vain to save him. Then, hoping to distract hungry fish from his body, the people scattered rice on the water.

端午节与春节和中秋节并列为中国三大节日。这三个节日中,它可能是最古老的一个,可以追溯到公元前227年的战国时代。这个节日是为了纪念楚国的大夫屈原,他因为对朝廷的腐朽****感到绝望而投河自尽。镇上的人纷纷冲上船去救他,却没有成功。后来大家把米撒到水里,希望把饥饿的鱼群从他的躯体边引开。

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篇5:介绍济南天气英语

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The autumn wind swept the Jinan, with a layer of dark yellow and Zhu Hong. The autumn wind is invisible. You cant touch it, but you can only feel it sings in a fine voice. With the autumn leaves roll up, they seem to have become a light dancing girl, finger toward the sky, whirling and dancing, skirt flying in the air, not what can let them stop

To release a shake with small shadow, accompanied by breeze floor is a dead leaf, golden leaves! It fell, the golden autumn, also come.

The autumn wind swept the Jinan, with a layer of dark yellow and Zhu Hong. The autumn wind is invisible. You cant touch it, but you can only feel it sings in a fine voice. With the autumn leaves roll up, they seem to have become a light dancing girl, finger toward the sky, whirling and dancing, skirt flying in the air, not what can let them stop. The world seems to have disappeared, from the beginning to the end that only the autumn wind and the autumn leaves are dancing.

Jinan spring and summer sun, while the winter sun is early hidden, ending is also very bad. The sky is a gray, and it is more deep compared to the other. After a long time, the rain fell. The sky seemed to sink, but the air became much lighter. Look at the sky, a layer of light green, from it to the next day, from it to the ground, slowly rendering on rice paper.

The autumn rain in Jinan is said to come.

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篇6:写人的英语介绍朋友introducefriends

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Ann is one of my friends. She is my classmate. She always dress in blue. I don’t known whether is because of her that my favorite color is blue. She is cute and naive. Our teachers always praise her in front of the class for her excellent study and great personality. I like stay with her. So does she. She likes drawing pictures. To be a painter in the future is her dream. I know she will realize her dream on day.

安是我其中一个朋友。她是我的同学。她总是穿蓝色的衣服。我不知道是否是因为她,我最喜欢的颜色是蓝色。她很可爱也很单纯。我们老师总是在全班面前表扬她,因为他优异的学习和良好的性格。我喜欢和她待在一起。她也喜欢和我待在一起。她喜欢画画。她的梦想是将来成为一个画家。我知道总有一天她可以实现她的梦想。

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篇7:初三学生英语自我介绍

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Hello, Everybody! I am very glad to stand here to give you my introduction. I am from Liangbing Middle School. I am studying in Class 1,Grade 7. I love my hometown Liangbing because it’s a very beautiful town.

I have many hobbies, such as reading books, listening to music, surfing the Internet and traveling. But listening to music is my favorite. I like pop music best. My idol are Jay. I am a lively girl. I like making friends and chatting with them. I can play the Chinese Kungfu. I passed all ten levels when I was in Grade 5.However, because of the busy study, I don’t have any free time to practise it. What a pity!I am good at Math and English and I like English better. In my opinion, it’s very easy and fun to learn and use English and this contest is a great chance for me to learn English from others. My saying is god help those who help themselves and I will never give up during my course of learning.

Now, after listening to my introduction, do you know me well?

That’s all. Thank you!

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篇8:英语作文介绍老师

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Miss Wang is very tall and thin. She is about 1.7 meters  tall. She has long fair hair. She has big eyes and a small mouth. She looks very pretty.

Miss Wang is also a friendly teacher. She is kind to us and she gets on well with everyone. I like her very much. Miss Wangs favourite colour is pink and she likes pink things too. I think Miss Wang has many hobbies. She likes reading,running and playing tennis.

She thinks" Health is the first", so she likes doing sports. She won the first prize in the English speech competition last term.

[英语作文介绍老师

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篇9:介绍自己的英语

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My name is Lin Zhenghao Fen Lin in the primary school class two, grade three, 11 years old this year.

My short hair, thick eyebrows below a pair of bright eyes, small nose with a below can speak to the mouth, is neither tall nor short, the biggest advantage is that I love reading.

I read a lot, such as: "Sherlock Holmes", "hundred thousand whys", in the life science... Every time I come to the fan inside, a book cant hear sounds. One time when you eat at noon, I sat on the sofa reading a book, the mother call I eat, Im reading a book, have no reaction to come over, the result is mother big scold a meal, also said that I am a "nerd". When going to sleep every night, I always habitually picked up a book to see, the voice of mother upstairs, I didnt find, was mother caught, I have to pick up a book, go to sleep.

While my mother was called several times, but I also learn a lot about the knowledge, in the book, I was impressed the Sherlock Holmes smart, be "hundred thousand whys" is brought into various scientific world, also in the life science study to a lot of life common sense...

My weakness is careless, I didnt out many exams because of careless, I have a math word problems without parentheses, the results for six points, ninety-four points. On the way of this Ma Hucheng I grew up.

This is what I -- Lin Zhenghao, do a love reading and careless boy.

我叫林正昊,在洋汾林小学三年级二班学习,今年11岁。

我的头发短短的,粗粗的眉毛下面长着一双明亮的眼睛,不大不小的鼻子下面长着一张能说会到的嘴巴,个子不高不矮,我最大的优点是爱看书。

我看的书很多,比如:《福尔摩斯探案集》、《十万个为什么》、《生活中的科学》……我每次一看起书来就迷在里面,听不到各种声音。有一次中午吃饭的时候,我坐在沙发上看书,妈妈叫我吃饭了,我在看书,没反应过来,结果被妈妈大骂一顿,还说我是“书呆子”。每晚临睡的时候,我都总是习惯性地拿起书来看,妈妈上楼的声音,我没发觉,结果被妈妈抓个正着,我只好收拾书,去睡觉。

虽然我被妈妈大骂几次,但我也学习到很多知识,在书中我被福尔摩斯的精明折服了,被《十万个为什么》带进千奇百怪科学世界,也在《生活中的科学》中学习到许多生活常识……

我的缺点是做事马虎,我许多考试是因为马虎没有满分,我有一次数学应用题没有加括号,结果扣了六分,考了九十四分。为此马虎成我成长路上的绊脚石。

这就是我——林正昊,一个爱看书又做事马虎的男孩。

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篇10:参加英语大赛的自我介绍

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Good afternoon, everyone! My name is wjh. I am 12 years old. Now I’m a student in Xitan School. The school is a little far from my home, so I uaually get up early and go to school by bike. My favorite subject in school is English, because it’s very interesting. I like Chinese too. My teachers are kind and fun. I like them. I have many friends at school and we usually study and play together. On weekends, I usually go shopping with my mother, sometimes I climb moutains with my father. I love my parents very much and they love me.

I like eating fruits and vegetables, because I want to be healthy. Fish is my favorite food. It’s yummy. In four seasons, I like winter best. Because I like playing with snow. I made a beautiful snowman with my parents last year. I was very happy. I hope it will snow this year too.

I have a dog. His name is Xixi. He is very smart and lovely. I like playing with him. I think I am a happy girl. I often smile and I’m very friendly. I hope you like me. Thank you!

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篇11:介绍秋天的田野英语

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Autumn field is very beautiful.

The field of autumn is golden. You see, that golden rice spike golden yellow, the breeze blowing, like a group of children dancing in the fields between the beautiful dance, has been slowly falling yellow leaves, like a butterfly in congratulations on the harvest Of the season.

Autumn field is harvest, hardworking. Look, the farmer uncle is harvesting has matured laughing rice, the amount of sweat is flowing down the cheeks, dripping in their hands on the rice ears, drops in front of them on the land, this is Is not "hoe Wo day when the afternoon, sweat drops under the soil, who knows the plate of Chinese food, grain are hard," the true portrayal of their side of the harvest while feeling the joy of harvest. Evening autumn with the slightest chill, the birds have been back to the nest, but they did not feel a little tired, but the spirit of doubling.

The field of autumn is full of poetic, only a beautiful picture. Looking at the field of autumn, I seem to think that this is a picture of rice in this painting. I am proud and proud to bring you laughter.

This is the field of autumn, full of harvest, joy and hard-working autumn field!

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篇12:关于自我介绍是英语

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Hello, my name is Kong Shiqi. I’m 12 years old. I like spring best. Because It’s always windy and warm. I wear my new T-shirt. I like to go hiking and fly kites. The sky is very blue. The M要My Saturdayleaves are very small and green.

Today is Saturday, the weather is very cool and windy. I wear my T-shirt. I get up at 8:00 in the morning. I eat breakfast at 8:30. At 10 o’clock, I nill go to Xinhua bookstore. It’s near the hospital. How can I get to Xinhua bookstore?

1、 Start from my home, it’s near the Chengshi plaza(广场).

2、 Take the No.11 bus.

3、 Get off at the cinema.

4、 Turn right at the traffic light. There are three lights: red, yellow and green. Red means“Stop”. Yellow means“Wait”.Green means“Go”. In China, drivers drive on the right side of the road. We must remember the traffic rules.

5、 Walk east for five minutes.

6、 Find the white building on the left.

The Xinhua bookstore is opposit to the white building.

The road is too long.

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篇13:求职自我介绍英语版

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Good afternoon .I am of great hornor to stand here and introduce myself to you .First of all ,my english name is ...and my chinese name is ..If you are going to have a job interview ,you must say much things which can show your willness to this job ,such as ,it is my long cherished dream to be ...and I am eager to get an opportunity to do...and then give some examples which can give evidence to .then you can say something about your hobbies .and it is best that the hobbies have something to do with the job.

What is more important is do not forget to communicate with the interviewee,keeping a smile and keeping your talks interesting and funny can contribute to the success.

I hope you will give them a wonderful speech .Good luck to you !

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篇14:介绍自己的英语作文

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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?

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篇15:介绍剪纸的英语作文

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导语:扬州是中国剪纸流行最早的地区之一,早在唐代,扬州已有剪纸迎春的风俗。下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文,欢迎阅读与借鉴,谢谢!

When early spring festival, many local people like sticking each kind of paper-cut on windows .Not only the paper-cut window decoration has contrasted the jubilation festive atmosphere, moreover has also brought beautiful enjoyment for the people.

The paper-cut is one kind of extremely popular art. Because it mostly is pastes on the window, therefore people general name it “the paper-cut window decoration”. The paper-cut window decoration usually with the color red and it content rich, like the cultivation, the spinning and weaving, fishing, tend sheep, feed hogs, raise chickens and so on.

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春节的时候,许多当地人喜欢在窗户上贴各种剪纸,剪纸窗花不仅烘托了喜庆的喜庆气氛,而且给人们带来了美丽的享受。

剪纸是一种非常流行的艺术。因为它大多是贴在窗户上的,所以人们一般称之为“窗花”。剪纸窗花通常以红色和红色为主,内容丰富,如养殖、纺织、垂钓、放羊、喂猪、养鸡等。

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篇16:关于自我介绍是英语

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If you come to Xi’an, you can’t miss the Terra Cotta Warriors. The Terra Cotta Warriors museum is in Lin Tong. It very special because it is one of the eigh wonders of the world.

If you go to Lintong and visit the Terra Cotta Warriors ,you cant’t miss the Qin Ling Mountain, also. You can see lots of plants and animals in the mountain. They are so beautiful.

If you have enough time, you can go to the Bell Tower, too .The Bell Tower have three floors. It is surrounded by the City Wall. There is a big bell in the tower. Walking down the sidewalk, you can see the Drum Tower and Muslim Street. On the Muslim Street, there are lots of delicious food, such as cold rice noodles, Chinese hamburgers ,

Paomoand so on. These foods can be found in all parts of Xian. My favourite food is Chinese hamburgers.

This is Xi’an. I love it very much.

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篇17:酒店面试自我介绍英语

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good morning/afternoon everyone! it is my honor to be here and i really appreciate you offer me the chance of interview .now i will introduce myself first .my name is……from xiangfan in hubei province.

im an honest, responsible, and warm-hearted person. i can adapt different environments quickly .second i like this kind of field very much and i take it as my career .till now i have one year experience in this field. as a 21 years man, id like to experience more to enrich myself and then it can help me to laid good foundation for my future career .there is no use doing what we love ,we must love we do just like the field. at the same time, i am really proud of myself applying for this job. i hope you can give me a chance and i will try my best to do it better.

finally , i hope your hotel can become the best one among hotel industry。

thanks for your time.

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篇18:求职英语自我介绍例

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I am a third year master major in automation at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China. With tremendous interest in Industrial Engineering, I am writing to apply for acceptance into your Ph.D. graduate program.

Education background

In 1995, I entered the Nanjing University of Science & Technology (NUST) -- widely considered one of the China’s best engineering schools. During the following undergraduate study, my academic records kept distinguished among the whole department. I was granted First Class Prize every semester, and my overall GPA(89.5/100) ranked No.1 among 113 students. In 1999, I got the privilege to enter the graduate program waived of the admission test. I selected the Shanghai Jiao Tong University to continue my study for its best reputation on Combinatorial Optimization and Network Scheduling where my research interest lies.

At the period of my graduate study, my overall GPA(3.77/4.0) ranked top 5% in the department. In the second semester, I became teacher assistant that is given to talented and matured students only. This year, I won the Acer Scholarship as the one and only candidate in my department, which is the ultimate accolade for distinguished students endowed by my university. Presently, I am preparing my graduation thesis and trying for the honor of Excellent Graduation Thesis.

Research experience and academic activity

When a sophomore, I joined the Association of AI Enthusiast and began to narrow down my interest for my future research. In 1997, I participated in simulation tool development for the scheduling system in Prof. Wang’s lab. With the tool of OpenGL and Matlab, I designed a simulation program for transportation scheduling system. It is now widely used by different research groups in NUST. In 1998, I assumed and fulfilled a sewage analysis & dispose project for Nanjing sewage treatment plant. This was my first practice to convert a laboratory idea to a commercial product.

In 1999, I joined the distinguished Professor Yu-Geng Xis research group aiming at Network flow problem solving and Heuristic algorithm research. Soon I was engaged in the FuDan Gene Database Design. My duty was to pick up the useful information among different kinds of gene matching format. Through the comparison and analysis for many heuristic algorithms, I introduced an improved evolutionary algorithm -- Multi-population Genetic Algorithm. By dividing a whole population into several sub-populations, this improved algorithm can effectively prevent GA from local convergence and promote various evolutionary orientations. It proved more efficiently than SGA in experiments, too. In the second semester, I joined the workshop-scheduling research in Shanghai Heavy Duty Tyre plant. The scheduling was designed for the rubber-making process that covered not only discrete but also continuous circumstances. To make a balance point between optimization quality and time cost, I proposed a Dynamic Layered Scheduling method based on hybrid Petri Nets. The practical application showed that the average makespan was shortened by a large scale. I also publicized two papers in core journals with this idea. Recently, I am doing research in the Composite Predict of the Electrical Power system assisted with the technology of Data Mining for Bao Steel. I try to combine the Decision Tree with Receding Optimization to provide a new solution for the Composite Predictive Problem. This project is now under construction.

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篇19:2024年最新介绍清明风俗的英语作文

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Tomb-sweeping Day is a Chinese Folk Festival is an important traditional festival, eight important "(spring, summer, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid Autumn Festival, the winter solstice and, in one of the new years Eve). Tomb-sweeping Day general in April 5th of the Gregorian calendar, but the festival is very long, there are ten days before and eight days after ten days before the ten days after the two claims, the nearly twenty days are Tomb-sweeping Day.

The origin of Tomb-sweeping Day, reportedly began in the ancient emperor "Muji", later folk also follow, in this day worship graves, ancient lineage and become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation. Originally, the cold food festival and Tomb-sweeping Day are two different festivals, to the Tang Dynasty, the days of grave worship as the cold food festival. The festival is on the right day of the one hundred and five day after the winter solstice, about two days before Qingming, because of similar, so the Ching Ming and cold food into day.

Tomb-sweeping Day customs, pay attention to the fire, grave, as well as spring outing swinging Cuju, playing polo Liu inserted......

This is the origin and customs of the Ching Ming festival.

清明节是我国民间重要的传统节日,是重要的“八节”(上元、清明、立夏、端午、中元、中秋、冬至和除夕)之一

清明节一般在公历的四月五日,但其节期很长,有十日前八日后和十日前十日后两种说法,这近二十天内均属清明节。

清明节的起源,据传始于古代帝王将相“墓祭”之礼,后来民间亦相仿效,于此日祭祖扫墓,历代沿袭而成为中华民族一种固定的风俗2017介绍清明节的作文英语版英语写作。本来,寒食节与清明节是两个不同的节日,到了唐朝,将祭拜扫墓的日子定为寒食节。寒食节的正确日子是在冬至后一百零五天,约在清明前后,因两者日子相近,所以便将清明与寒食合并为一日。

清明节的风俗,讲究禁火、扫墓,还有踏青、荡秋千、蹴鞠、打马球、插柳……

这就是清明节的起源和习俗。

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The first day is for the welcoming of the deities of the heavens and earth, officially beginning at midnight. Many people, especially Buddhists, abstain from meat consumption on the first day because it is believed that this will ensure longevity for them. Some consider lighting fires and using knives to be bad luck on New Years Day, so all food to be consumed is cooked the day before. For Buddhists, the first day is also the birthday of Maitreya Bodhisattva (better known as the more familiar Budai Luohan), the Buddha-to-be. People also abstain from killing animals.

Most importantly, the first day of Chinese New Year is a time when families visit the oldest and most senior members of their extended family, usually their parents, grandparents or great-grandparents.

Some families may invite a lion dance troupe as a symbolic ritual to usher in the Lunar New Year as well as to evict bad spirits from the premises. Members of the family who are married also give red packets containing cash to junior members of the family, mostly children and teenagers.

While fireworks and firecrackers are traditionally very popular, some regions have banned them due to concerns over fire hazards, which have resulted in increased number of fires around New Years and challenged municipal fire departments work capacity. For this reason, various city governments (e.g., Hong Kong, and Beijing, for a number of years) issued bans over fireworks and firecrackers in certain premises of the city. As a substitute, large-scale fireworks have been launched by governments in cities like Hong Kong to offer citizens the experience.

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