一篇介绍我的家庭的英语作文（汇集20篇）

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.

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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。

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I, a girl with short hair, under the care of parents, in full 11 years old

this year.

With 11 years of faults: a careless, harm to me the most bitter, he let me

with a full pass by, let me wrong a 39 + 26 addition topic; Let me see the plus

sign as a minus sign, the division sign as a multiplication sign; Let me

actually took the math book on Chinese classes; He even want me to write in

Chinese this math homework! Im fed up with him over the years, determined to put

him out of the "home".

In recent years, careless a whim, let me put the eye became nearly three

baidu nearsightedness, pestering glasses, became I was like peas and carrots

"good friends", this "thank you" even a careless.

But I have an advantage, can overcome careless one, that is a must, please

carefully miss determination, I must get rid of this term with the bad habit of

my 11!

In to talk about my study, I is not very good students in the class,

because my language result, combined with my memory is not very good, sometimes

language examination have words cant write, I be untouched, verse forgot, I when

the poet, read the topic not, Ill be imagine writer. English? Sometimes the

exam, my Chinese is good, why? Because I always can get pinyin instead of

English words, let the teacher in distress situation.

But I am naturally happy, often can give students bring happiness, if there

are students angry, I can in a minute let his mood by Yin clearing up!

Look, this is me, a advantages disadvantages coexist me.

我，一个短头发的女孩，在父母的精心呵护下，今年以满11岁了。

伴随了11年的缺点：粗心大意一家，害我害的最苦，他让我与一百分擦肩而过，让我错了一道39+26的加法计算题;让我把加号看成了减号，除号看成乘号;让我在语文课上竟然拿出数学书;他甚至还想让我把数学作业写在语文本上!我这些年受够了他的折磨，决心要把他赶出“家门”。

就在近几年，粗心大意一家心血来潮，让我把眼睛大意成了快三百度的近视眼，从此纠缠眼镜，便成了我形影不离的“好朋友”，这还要“谢谢”粗心大意一家。

但我有一个优点，可以治服粗心大意一家，那就是一颗一定要请来细心小姐的决心，我一定要在这学期改掉陪伴我11的坏毛病!

在来谈谈我的学习吧，我在班里不算很优秀的学生，因为我的语文成绩一般，加上我的记忆力不太好，有时语文考试遇到字不会写，我就当造字人，诗句忘了，我当诗人，阅读题不会了，我就当想象作家。英语呢?有时考试的时候，我的语文就好了，为什么呢?因为我的英语单词总能拿拼音代替，让老师哭笑不得。

但我天生快乐，常常能给同学们带来快乐，若有同学生气了，我能在一分钟之内让他的心情由阴转晴哟!

瞧，这就是我，一个缺点优点共存的我。

ChengDu is a wonderful place located in Sichuan province.This city is well decorated and designed which attrects lots of tourists every year.

Chengdu has large amounts of tourist spots such as Wangjiang Park,Dujiang Dam and so on.Such spots are all easy to get and they dont cost much.Whatmore ,with the rapidly developing economy,Chengdu has become an international metropolis.

Why not come to this amazing city to get a rest and have a look of these beautiful sceneries.Just cherish this hardly-get chance.Dont hestitate.

导语：《红楼梦》，中国古典四大名著之首，清代作家曹雪芹创作的章回体长篇小说，又名《石头记》《金玉缘》。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!

假定你是李华，你的笔友Chris中文学得很好，对中国历史文化很感兴趣。他来信让你推荐适合的中文读物。请根据下面的要求给他写一封回信。内容包括：

(1)推荐读物：《红楼梦》;(2)推荐理由：四大名著之一;中国传统文化的百科全书;(3)邀请他来中国体验文化。注意： 1. 词数100左右;2. 可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯;3.开头与已经为你写好;4. 参考词汇：《红楼梦》A Dream of Red Maisons;百科全书：encyclopedia

Hi，Chris

Glad to receive your letter where you mention that you are enthusiastic about Chinese culture and you want me to recommend you some related books, so I am writing to introduce my favorite book, A Dream of Red Maisons.

Firstly, this book is one of the Four Great Classical Novels and an encyclopedia of Chinese culture, in which you can see the rise and decline of a famous royal family and understand the complicated relationships between people from all walks and classes of life in ancient China. In addition to that, the writing style of Cao Xueqin, the author of this book, had a deep effect on writers of his times and later generation. It will be helpful for you to understand other books of the same type if you can fully understand this masterpiece.I am sure you will enjoy reading it.

I hope that you can come to China, and then I can show you around, visiting places of interest and you will know more about Chinese culture.

Looking forward to your arrival!

Yours

Li Hua

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嗨，克里斯

很高兴收到你的来信，你说你对中国文化的热情，你要我给你推荐一些相关的书籍，所以我写信介绍我最喜欢的书，红楼梦梅森。

首先，这本书是四大古典小说和中国文化的百科全书，在这里你可以看到的崛起和一个著名的王室衰落和了解中国古代各阶层和阶级的人们之间的复杂关系。除此之外，这本书的作者曹雪芹的写作风格对他的时代和后世产生了深远的影响。如果你能充分理解这本名著的话，对你理解其他类型的书很有帮助。

我希望你能来中国，然后我可以带你四处看看，参观名胜古迹，你会更多地了解中国文化。

期待你的到来!

你的

李华

good morning/afternoon/evening, my name is xxx. it is really a great honor to have this opportunity/chance to introduce myself.

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. furthermore,i am a person with great perserverence. during the days preparing for the colledge-entrance 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. and english is my favorate subject.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 hard.

ok, that is all,thank you for your attention.

I graduated from university since 2009, has been worked in xx company human resources department, the first post of the post is ahrspecialist, then the head of employee relations, at present is mainly responsible for compensation and benefits. Our company is xx groups regional sales headquarters in mainland China, the main products are laptop, tablet, all-in-one PC, mobile phone, motherboard, graphics CARDS, optical drive, display, etc.

My work has been more than five years, when I first got into the company, is engaged in the daily personnel work is the most basic, simple and tedious, but laid a solid foundation for future development. After a year of exercise, I began to contact the employee relations, from simple remove labor contract to the department of layoffs, and labor arbitration, court action, I have done in an orderly way. In the management of employee relations at the same time, I also management of employee benefits, is mainly responsible for social security fund, commercial insurance, etc. Since 2013, my supervisor is responsible for all salary welfare affairs in east China, updating the companys salary welfare system.

In the company of these five years, I various aspects ability have been greatly improved. Especially in human resource management, when I finished from implicitly, to combine theory with practice slowly, in a few years of work in gradually improve the ability of human resource management and application level, summarize, now basically has the following several aspects:

A, labor relations

From my job, I am independent completed a number of revision of the rules and regulations, including "employee handbook", "on a business trip abroad management method", "competent expatriate management method", "performance appraisal work method", "attendance system" and so on, which is the biggest achievement handbook revision in 2012, the whole revision process is long and arduous, which lasted for about three months, I consulted during 12333, labor law, refer to the various kinds of books, to ensure that the procedure legal and valid. Although very tedious, but it let me deeply understand the human resources work careful and meticulous, must not neglect any one link, at the same time also to exercise the ability of communication and coordination with all departments.

In addition to the revision of the rules and regulations, since I took office, were treated with a labor arbitration and the second court civil lawsuits, labor contract removes the countless cases, each time smoothly solve difficult labor dispute for the company, reducing the loss of company, maintain the good image of the enterprise. Carefully from the beginning, and then in an orderly way, in every process, I have accumulated their own practical experience, enrich their theoretical knowledge, the theory and practice together effectively, improve their professional quality.

Second, the pay and benefits

With the development of the company unceasingly, the increase of the turnover, found that the companys existing compensation system, there are many disadvantages according to the requirement of the headquarters in Taipei, we embarked on salary system reform, through to pay the companys research, learning their methodology, combined with the actual situation of the company, apply to the compensation system reform. Our jobs, skill levels, according to the staff to master degree, performance evaluation of personnel to reclassify such as grading, do personnel and post matching. Wait staff as new rank confirmed, and the pay company provides industry data at the time, to develop a new payroll, ensure company employees pay level is not lower than the industry level, make our company more competitive, at the same time have a greater incentive to employees. This adjustment is a large-scale reform, it involves human resource planning, recruitment, training, compensation, benefits, employee relations and so on various aspects, is a good learning opportunity for me, let me have a chance to review the companys compensation system, but also consolidated the knowledge of human resource management module, let the theory to practice, make full use of enriched my actual combat experience, also promoted the theoretical level, make oneself can in the field of human resources work more on a level.

Throughout more than 5 yearshrworking life, although I participated in the human resources related to the work, but found himself still have a lot to learn, in the work also deeply realize the various modules of human resources work is closely linked, so we in the usual work to learn not only to master the relevant laws and policies, and reasonable use in practice, it is human resources practitioners must do. Therefore, this time I enrolled in the training of human resources management division. Through the study of this period of time, not only help me to review the human resource, but also learned a lot from experienced teachersHRpractice operation skill, let me benefit a lot. In the future work, Ill learn the theoretical knowledge and their actual work better, better to do a good job in human resources management for enterprises to make their own contribution to the development.

Teachers Day, September 10th, is a national teachers festival in China. It is celebrated since 1985. It expresses respects to the labors and contributions of teachers to the Chinese society. The goal of Teachers Day is to form a social climate in which teachers are respected and knowledge is valued. The date of Teachers Day is set at the beginning of the school year in order to arouse teachers and students enthusiasm for their work, and give a good start to teaching and learning. On teachers Day, students usually send greeting cards with good wishes to their teachers to show their respect. In Taiwan Province, Teachers Day is celebrated on September 28 annually. Choosing this day is to celebrate the birth of Confucius for his great contribution to Chinese culture. In some other countries, Teachers Day is also celebrated. In the United States, this is on the first Tuesday in May. In India, Teachers Day is celebrated on September 5. In Vietnam, it is celebrated on November 20.

My house contain four people, having me the daddy respectively, my mama, my grandmother, also have me!

We live together very happy!But our occupations are all different.

My father does Department of Financial Analysis to do a finance work, my mother also does a finance work in the Department of Financial Analysis, so my house has 2 to compute a good person to hold!

My daddy is a work in samely the hospital with my mama!Still had me the grandmother to also work at the hospital before of, she is to be a nurse, however retired now!

Although my grandmother at ordinary times very overelaborate , very big doctor!But she also writes to think for our healthy bodies very much!But I be just an inside learn of student!My house is a happy family!

South is the province with the largest number of ethnic, apart from the Han, is inhabited by 26 people and the minority population of the province accounted for nearly one-third of the total population. Different nationalities have their own characteristics, so in Yunnan, you can enjoy the national and culture and nowhere else

Flowers of the town: Yunnan is known as "Kingdom of plants" said. Europe and the United States to cultivation of Rhododendron, Primula, camellia, orchid lily flowers, mostly from Yunnan, let alone the domestic cultivation of flowers. Yunnan eight flowers: camellias, azaleas, Magnolia, primrose, lily flower, gentian, Meconopsis, orchid. With Yunnan the four seasons such as spring weather, here is an ocean of flowers. Mountain bamboo forests, lush bamboo shoots.

Karst: Eastern Yunnan Guizhou Plateau, after two million years of erosion and weathering erosion, forming a unique magnificent primary karst landform, karst terrain, especially in the Lunan Stone Forest, Jiuxiang scenic area.

Tropical rain forest: Xishuangbanna is located in the northern regression line to the south edge of the tropical north, the tropical monsoon climate, year-round warm, sunny, rainy and humid is Tropic of cancer of the earth desert line with only a piece of green state, is Chinas tropical rain forest ecosystem preservation is the most complete, the most typical, area of the largest area, is now the earth on rare animal and plant gene pool, was hailed as one of the earths natural wonders.

I hold a Bachelor of Science in Nursing。 The course has provided me the formal training necessary to be a nurse。 Besides， I possess ten years of extensive experience ranging from Nursing Assistant to Nursing Supervisor at XYZ Hospital。 My responsibilities include patient assessment and staff development， as well as the coordination of other health care services such as dietary， food nutrition， physical therapy and pharmacy。

I believe my strong clinical background and experience make me a valuable asset to your hospital。 I would be pleased to attend an interview。

我认为科学的护理学学士学位。该课程为我提供了必要成为一名护士正规培训。此外，我拥有十多年的从护理助理护理主管在某某医院拥有丰富的经验。我的职责包括患者评估和员工发展，以及其他的卫生保健服务，如饮食，食品营养，理疗和药房的协调。

我相信我的强烈临床背景和经验，让我一个宝贵的资产，你的医院。我很高兴参加面试。

导语：九华山古称陵阳山、九子山，为“中国佛教四大名山”之一，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!

mount jiuhuait was a fine day in may. i took a bus to mount jiuhua. as the hus was passing half way through the mountain i saw a sea of green trees and bamboos. the trees were standing straight pointing upright to the sky. white louds floated in the blue air.

the bus zigzagged to the cable station. i got on the cahle car and soon i was in the air. the mountains and pavillions were underneath. then we came to the foot often king peak the highest among all peaks. the short cut ia steep and more difficult to climb. only the brave few took the path. following the guide i began climbing on all fours. it was a test of physique as well as courage.

our guide kept reminding ua of keeping away from looking at the scenes while climbing. the narrow steps in the mountain led ushigher and higher to the summit. stopping to take my breath i saw the candle like stones and the isolated pine against the sky above the mountain.

the climbing continued and i could not but think of the labouring people who braved the trail for us to follow. what wonderful work! at last we got to the summit. the squirrels were jumping in welcome. steam was rising up from the mountain below. standing above and looking down everything was in sight beneath me. it was magnificent and enlightening.

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那是五月的一个晴天，我乘车去九华山。当车行在半山腰时，我看到一片绿树和竹的海洋。树木直挺指向天空，而白云在蓝天上漂浮。

公共汽车沿着弯弯曲曲的山路开到了缆车站。登上缆车，很快就悬于空中。山和亭子都在脚下。然后，我们来到了十王峰下，这是九华山所有山峰中最高的一个。那条捷径很陡，十分难爬，只有少数勇敢者走这条路。跟着导游，我手脚并用爬了起来。这是体力和意志的考验。

导游不断提醒我们爬山不看景。山中狭窄的台阶引导我们步步登高。直到山顶。停下来喘气时，我看到蜡烛石和倚天独立的松树。

爬山在继续，我不由得想起盘山开道的劳动者。他们的劳动多么有意义啊!我们终于到了山顶。但见松鼠跳跃着欢迎我们的到来，云雾自山下腾涌而起。站在高处往下一看，一切尽收眼底。多么壮观，令人启迪。

导语：说到汕头，小编就想到汕头牛肉丸，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!

My hometown is a seashore city—— Shantou.

Shantou lands place motherland southeast coastal have unique natural and humanity environment.

It is a bridge town swim the silk feelings of son Su is fish for sea love.

Shantou is also a culture city literature origin flows out length has rich content. It have fed a tide of acting another generation people its culture is immortal.

Shantou is also beautiful meal Zhi it has the varied snack of delicious food tide Shan congou is more famous world.

Again besides Shan the environment with graceful head since attracting countless visitor this travel.

after entering the program of " 115 " Shan head is more dynasty the goal of modern seashore city disdain with great efforts.

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我的家乡 我的家乡是一座海滨城市--汕头。 汕头，地处祖国东南沿海，有着独特的自然和人文环境。

它是一个桥乡，游子的丝丝情愫，是鱼儿对海的依恋。 汕头更是个文化之都，文学渊源流长，内容丰富。它哺育了一代又一代的潮汕人民，其文化永垂不朽。

汕头也是个美食之都，它有多种多样的美味小吃，潮汕工夫茶更是闻名天下。 再加之，汕头优美的环境，吸引着无数游人来这旅游。

而且，进入“十一五”规划后，汕头更是朝着现代化海滨城市的目标不屑努力。 汕头，我可爱的家乡，它是个美丽的神化。我爱它!

The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China is called the "Ten thousand Ii Great Wall" in Chinese. In fact, it s more than 6 000 kilometres long. It winds its way from west to east, across deserts, over mountains, through valleys till at last it reaches the sea. It is one of the wonders of the world.

The Great Wall has a history of over twenty centuries. The first part of it was built during the Spring and Autumn Period. During the Warring States Period, more walls were put up to defend the borders of the different kingdoms. It was during the Qin Dynasty that the kingdom of Qin united the dif ferent parts into one empire. To keep the enemy out of his empire, Emperor Qin Shi Huang had all the walls joined up. Thus, the Great Wall came into being.

The Great Wall is wide enough at the top for five horses or ten men to walk side by side. Along the wall are watchtowers, where soldiers used to keep watch. Fires were lit on the the towers as a warning when the enemy came.

It was very difficult to build such a wall in the ancient days without any modern machines. All the work was done by hand. Thousands of men died and were buried under the wall they built. The Great Wall was made not only of stone and earth, but of the flesh and blood of millions of men.

Today the Great Wall has become a place of interest not only to the Chinese but to people from all over the world. Many of them have come to know the famous Chinese saying: "He who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man."

中国的长城

中国的万里长城被称为“万里长城”。事实上，它有6000多公里长。它蜿蜒地从西向东，穿过沙漠，越过高山，穿过山谷，直到最后到达大海。它是世界奇观之一。

长城有二十多个世纪的历史。它的第一部分是在春秋时期建造的。战国时期，有更多的城墙被用来保卫不同王国的边界。正是在秦朝，秦国把帝夫的发福部分统一为一个帝国。为了把敌人赶出他的帝国，秦始皇把所有的城墙连在一起。于是，长城诞生了。

长城的宽度足以让五匹马或十个人并排走。沿着墙的是瞭望塔，士兵们常常在那里守望。当敌人到来时，在塔上点燃了火作为警告。

在古代没有任何现代机器的情况下，很难建造这样一堵墙。所有的工作都是手工完成的。成千上万的人死了，被埋在他们建造的城墙下。长城不仅是由石头和泥土建成的，而且是几百万人的血肉所组成的。

今天，长城不仅对中国人，而且对来自世界各地的人都有兴趣。他们中的许多人都知道中国著名的谚语:“没有到达长城的人不是真正的人。”

Hello, everyone!My name is Winnie. Im a 15 years old girl. I live in the beautiful city of Rizhao.  Im an active, lovely, and clever girl. In the school my favorite subject is math. Perhaps someone thinks its difficult to study well. But I like it. I believe that if you try your best, everything can be done well.  also like sports very much. Such as, running, volleyball and so on. Im kind-hearted. If you need help, please come to me.I hope we can be good friends!  OK. This is me .A sunny girl.

Teachers Day

The Teachers Day will come soon.At first,I want to extend my greeting and best wishes to my dear teachers.

I still remember the year when I failed the collage entrance exmination.Iwas feeling lost,and no idea about what my life is going to be.My teachet came to me,and she said she understand how I felt inside now.She also told me its very common that students who are like me will go though a hard time. She told me that failure was a part of life, which was not the end but a new beginning. And she encouraged me to go back to the school to start a new. I was convinced in the end and decided to give another try.

Now Ive graduated from collage and got a very good job.I know all my success owns to my kind teacher. Ill work harder and never give up again.

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:"We hold these truths to be self-evident:that all men are created equal."

Mr.Kings dream of all men created equal is mine too.When I hear his speech,I come to know thatI have the same dream that people should work together and live together like brothers.Nobody will take advantage of others,with less work but more income.But no,Mr Kings dream remains as a dream even after so many decades since he left us.Look,people who have more houses want to keep them all for themselves,although there are so many people who do not even have a room to stay in.On the other hand,many people ,who have nothing,do not want to work harder to earn something on their own.They just complain that all men are not created equal.

So,if we look close at human beings,we will realize that Mr.Kings dream will be a dream for a long,long time.Still,I admire him because at least he has a great dream,which is leading many people to treat others better.

Hello，everyone！

My name is Winnie. Im a 15 years old girl.  I live in the beautiful city of Ganzhou.

Im an active，lovely and clever girl. In the school，my favourite subject is maths. Perhaps someone thinks its difficult to study well. But I like it. I belive that if you try your best，everything can be done well.

I also sports very much. Such as，running，volleyball and so on.

Im kind-hearted.  If you need help，please come to me .

I hope we can be good friends！

OK. This is me . A sunny girl.

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

Good morning，ladies and gentlements， Its my honor to be here today. My name is Ramos， I am from Southeast University. My major is Mechanical design. In the past three years， Im always the top ten students in my class. I have passed the CET4 and CET6 with a high scores and also won the first prize scholorship in 214. In the university Im not only studying hard and but also actively join a lot of activities. I once participated in the Model united nation and organized some useful activities like English Corner for students English learning. My life in university is very colorful and fruithful， it helps me gain knowledge and makes me become more communicative and cooperative through leaning and activities.

Whats more， I worked for Quanfeng Group as a intern overseascustomers quality engineer this summer. I learned a lot about quality control， quality assurance， quality standard like ISO and EU. Last but not least， I also learned al ot more from custmers and designing engineers.

You know the overseas cusomers quality engineer requires the person who have excellent communication skills and proficient English skills to work with our overseas customers and engineers. Although sometimes its hard to solve the disputes， but it really helps me to build up my communication skills ， capabilities and oral English.

I Love spring very much! when spring comes,many flowers come out,and all the trees become green! we can do a lot now ! Every day is funny,and this is very good ! we can fly the kites in the field and we also could playing outside on the ground! Its very beautiful outside! If we have a camera,we can take a lot of photos!

[介绍春天的英语作文

The Double Seventh Festival on the 7th day of the 7th lunarmonth is a traditional festival full of romance. It often goes into August in the Gregorian calendar.

This festival is in mid-summer when the weather is warm and the grass and trees reveal their luxuriousgreens. At night when the sky is dotted with stars and people can see the Milky Way spanning from the north to the south. On each bank of it is a bright star which see each other from afar. They are the Cowherd and Weaver Maid and about them there is a beautiful love story passed down from generation to generation.

Long long ago there was an honest and kind-hearted fellow named Niu Lang (Cowhand). His parents died when he was a child. Later he was driven out of his home by his sister-in-law. So he lived by himself herding cattle and farming. One day a fairy from heaven Zhi Nu (Weaver Maid) fell in love with him and came down secretly to earth and married him. The cowhandfarmed in the field and the Weaver Maid wove at home. They lived a happy life and gave birth to a boy and a girl. Unfortunately the God of Heaven soon found out the fact and ordered the Queen Mother of the Western Heavens to bring the Weaver Maid back.

With the help of celestial cattle the Cowhand flew to heaven with his son and daughter. At the time when he was about to catch up with his wife the Queen Mother took off one of her gold hairpins and made a stroke. One billowyriver appeared in front of the Cowhand. The Cowhand and Weaver Maid were separated on the two banks forever and could only feel their tears. Their loyaltyto love touched magpies so tens of thousands of magpies came to build a bridge for the Cowhand and Weaver Maid to meet each other. The Queen Mother was eventually moved and allowed them to meet each year on the 7th of the 7th lunar month. Hence their meeting date has been called "Qi Xi" (Double Seventh).

Scholars have shown the Double Seventh Festival originated from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD220). Historical documents from the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD371-420) mention the festival while records from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) depict the grand evening banquetof Emperor Taizong and his concubines. By the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1279-1368) dynasties special articles for the "Qi Xi" were seen being sold on markets in the capital. The bustling markets demonstrated the significance of the festival.

Today some traditional customs are still observed in ruralareas of China but have been weakened or diluted in urban cities. However the legend of the Cowhand and Weaver Maidhas taken root in the hearts of the people. In recent years in particular urban youths have celebrated it as Valentines Day in China. As a result owners of flower shops bars and stores are full of joy as they sell more commodities for love.