一篇介绍长城的英语作文(精品20篇)

"I now declare the rules of the game: a man hides a few things, and a few others go and hide them," said the town. We drew a lot and finally decided to hide three coke bottle caps from our cousin. The cousin pushed us out of the room and hid things by herself... After a while, the cousin came out with a smile and said, "hide it, you cant find it!" We swarmed in, and I thought: the easiest place to hide is probably the most secluded place. So, I will seriously every corner to find it again, did not, in the look at the kid sister, drill under the bed, their tails on the outside, groping hands in it, no, she just want to stand up, "alas!" The little sister cried, and she cried, and she stood up under the bed and hit the bed.

So she stopped the game. Ah! One less opponent, but the cousin is also difficult to deal with, see her in the closet to each piece of clothing to turn over, wow! Not yet! But where exactly? I glanced around, and then I noticed a shiny object behind the curtain.

I pulled the curtain aside. Coke bottle caps! I was happy to jump three feet high, my cousin saw, a look of unconvinced. But shes picking up speed. Look for it here. I made haste, and under the bed and then watch out of the reach of little younger sister, and I found a coke bottle caps, my heart even more excited to get up, then I have found in a book under the last bottle. "Shout! It took me a lot of work! I sighed and said, my cousin, my cousin and my sister are all happy for me. The cousin said, "you are very observant!" I heard it, I was very happy.

Sakura is the Japanese name for ornamental cherry trees, Prunus serrulata, and their blossoms. Cherry fruit (known as sakuranbo) come from a different species of tree.

Sakura, a well-known and ubiquitous symbol of Japan, are represented on all manner of consumer goods, including kimono, stationery, and dishware. Cherry blossoms are an enduring metaphor for the ephemeral nature of life, and as such are frequently depicted in art. There is at least one popular folk song, originally meant for the shakuhachi (bamboo flute), titled "Sakura", as well as a number of pop songs. "Sakura" is also a common Japanese female name.

Sakura is indigenous to the Himalayas and east Asia. Some trees can be found in China and Korea but the largest number and variety of sakura, more than 305 species, can be seen in Japan. Many of them were artificially hybridized or grafted by the Japanese many centuries ago.

"On the other hand, in China, cherry blossom is the symbol of feminine dominance, female beauty and sexuality. Additionally, the cherry blossom is the Chinese symbol of feminine principle and it also symbolizes love in the language of herbs. Interestingly, cherry blossom is the flower of the April in China, whereas in Japan, it is wisteria." Spring flowers of Japan

Japans most beloved variety is the Somei Yoshino. Its flowers are nearly pure white, tinged with the palest pink, especially near the stem. The flowers bloom, and usually fall within a week, before the leaves come out. Therefore, the trees look nearly white from top to bottom. The variety takes its name from the village of Somei (now part of Toshima in Tokyo). It was developed in the mid- to late-19th century at the end of the Edo period and the beginning of the Meiji period. The Somei Yoshino is so widely associated with cherry blossoms that jidaigeki and other works of fiction often depict the variety in the Edo period or earlier; such depictions are anachronisms.

Other categories include yamazakura, yaezakura, and shidarezakura. The yaezakura have large flowers, thick with rich pink petals. The shidarezakura, or weeping cherry, has branches that fall like those of a weeping willow, bearing cascades of pink flowers.

Annually, the Japanese Meteorological Agency and general public track the sakura zensen, or Cherry-Blossom Front. Nightly forecasts follow the weather segment of news programs. The blossoming begins in Okinawa in January, and typically reaches Kyoto and Tokyo at the end of March or the beginning of April. Then it proceeds north, arriving in Hokkaidō a few weeks later. Japanese pay close attention to these forecasts. They will go to parks, shrines and temples with family and friends and hold a "flower viewing party" known as hanami. Hanami festivals celebrate the beauty of sakura, and for many, it is a chance to relax and enjoy the beautiful view. Hanami custom in Japan dates back to many centuries ago. It is witten in Nihon Shoki that the Hanami festival were already held in the 3rd century.

Most Japanese schools and public buildings have sakura trees outside of them. Since the fiscal and school year both begin in April, in many parts of Honshū, the first day of work or school will coincide with the cherry blossom season.

【内容提示】

用英语写一篇介绍你的母亲的文章。内容要求如下：

①我的母亲刚过50岁，像我们的国家一样，经历了传统美德和现代意识两个时代。②我的母亲受过高等教育。但她有家庭责任感，为了我们家她牺牲了自己的事业。

③她善于接受新鲜事物。近年来，她成了股迷，还成了足球迷。

④我爱我的妈妈，我们成了亲密的朋友。

【作文示范】

My Mother

My mother is just over fifty, a little bit older than our republic nation, so she has experienced two periods just like our country, showing both the traditional goodness and modern ideas.

Like all mothers, she is responsible and devotes most of her efforts to our family. So sometimes I feel regretful for her to give up her work, but she thinks it is the proper social role for a woman to be a housewife. She is satisfied with the family members＇ achievements. She insists on keeping her children under her wings. You see how traditional she is.

However, since she is intelligent①and has received the high education, it is easy for her to accept something new. In recent years, she is interested in the stock②. Therefore, she cares about the political and economic③ situation of the country and the world, and actively collects information of the companies whose stocks she bought. What is more, she is a fan of the Argentine④football team. So she was very sad after the defeat of this team in the 14th World Cup Tournament ⑤.

I love my mother, just because she loves me. Since we share some interests such as playing chess, we get chances to communicate⑥with each other, which makes us close friends.

【词语解释】

①intelligent[in＇telidN nt] a．聪明的；明智的

②stock[st&k] n．股票

③economic[?i:k ＇n&mik] a．经济（上）的

④Argentine [＇a:dN ntain] a．阿根廷的

⑤tournament [＇tu n m nt]n．锦标赛；比赛

⑥communicate[k ＇mju:nikeit]v．交流（感情、信息等）

【写法指要】

这是一篇介绍家庭成员的说明文。本文是典型的启、承、转、合结构的文章。“启”就是开始，即引言段，作者在该段写出篇题：“showing both traditional goodness and modern ideas”，指出“母亲”既保持了传统美德，又接受了现代意识。“承”即接续之意，也就是扩充引言段篇题方面的内容。本文第二段写“母亲”的传统美德，就是“承”的段落。“转”是用来表示与第二段相反或不同意见的内容，常用“however，but”等词语来表达。本文第三段即为“转”段，它说明篇题的第二层意思，也就是“母亲”的现代意识。所谓“合”就是结束，即指结尾段，该段往往综合前三段内容，对全文做一总结。本文作者总结说，由于母亲和自己的情趣相同，所以他们相亲相爱，如同亲密无间的朋友似的。

Everyone is good, I should be more obedient, I like green, blue in my heart is a symbol of freedom, happiness and loveliness. I wont be furious when Im angry, but I just face it.

Remember again, my deskmate clashed with another classmate, my deskmate fell in my bag, my bag is pressed by him, I was very angry, picked up his pen to fling caution to the winds and threw all of a sudden, pencil, pen, ruler of the fly.

Look at it! I can lose my temper in some times, but most of the time will be very obedient. Are you willing to be my friend?

I was a tiger boy, and everyone would laugh and say, "look, how nice the boy is!" Remember to learn taekwondo, teachers and brothers affectionately call me: big head, rain not worry!

I grow so well, because I can eat specially, composition self-introduction. When I devour the meat, my mother will say I am a little beast. Besides meat, I also have a taste for fruit. I like to eat crooked bananas, red apples, yellow oranges and very individual tomatoes. One of my favorite oranges is the yellow one. I remember grandmas little fruit stand on the front door, filled with all kinds of fruit, but grandma always kept me at home. Just can walk that day, I finally catch a chance and staggered came to the fruit stand, enjoy a little enough, then holding the rounded belly home with grandma go to pay, is really very ah!

Although I am very strong, but not a bit clumsy, running, I can always take the lead; The popular skateboard I also play very well; A year ago, I began to learn badminton, and the progress was obvious.

I am also more able to calm down, thanks to the three years of calligraphy training, not only let me write a beautiful brush calligraphy, but also developed a stubborn perseverance. I love it. In the past six months, I have read books such as the terrible science, journey to the west and Hans Christian Andersens fairy tales.

I, a sunny boy, would you like to make friends with me?

Dear teachers, students are good:

My name is Xiao Ming, is a confident, cheerful, friendly and active girl, I have widespread interest hobby, piano, reading, playing chess, listening to the story, to host performances and also has a strong interest in, hosted by my kindergarten graduation performance, first prize in a good result.

Mom and Dad, the kindergarten teachers careful cultivation, I have become a qualified primary school students, in the next six years to learn life, can and dear teachers, the students become the best friends! We all together happy to learn, happy to grow!

Thank you!

亲爱的老师，同学们好：

我叫小明，是一个自信，开朗，友好，积极向上的小女孩，我有着广泛的兴趣爱好，弹琴、看书、下棋、听故事，也对主持和表演也有着浓厚的兴趣，由我主持的幼儿园毕业演出，获得了一等奖第一名的好成绩。

在爸爸妈妈，幼儿园老师的精心培育下，我已成为一名合格的小学生，希望在今后六年的学习生活中，能和亲爱的老师，同学们成为最好的朋友！我们大家一起快乐地学习，快乐地成长!

谢谢大家！

I have a white dog.Its name is Bobo.She is a female dog.She comes from Beijing,China.She has two big eyes and a small month.She wears white clothes.

She often walks around at home.It has nothing to do.She likes eating ice-cream so much,So do I.When I eat ice-cream,she will look at the ice-cream carefully.So I will give her some to eat.

my dear teachers,my dear professors.i am very glad to be here for your interview.my name is song yonghao,i am 22 years old .i come from luoyang,a very beautiful aicent city.my undergratuade period will be accomplished in changan university in july ,2004;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 homepage. 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

Hello, my name is Leo. Im from. Zhengxin school. As you can see I have a round face and the big eyes. I like music very much. In my spare time, I like take some reading and go shopping.

It can make me feel happy. I like chatting with others, because it can help me to know this world. I have lots of friends. All the things in the world are colorful. I love peace and I take proud of my motherland. Thank you!

您好，我的名字叫力欧，我来自正心学校，正如你看到的一样 ，我的脸很圆，眼睛也很大，我喜欢音乐。

空余时间我喜欢阅读和购物，这些都可以让很开心很愉快，我喜欢跟别人聊天，因为能帮助更了解这个世界，我有很多朋友，这个世界的东西都是多姿多彩的，我喜欢和平，我为我的祖国感到骄傲和自豪。

Li Yan, my best friend, is my classmate. She has big eyes. Her long hair is often plained. Sweet smile is often on her face, which makes her more lively.

Li Nan is very clever. She is good at her school subjects. She has won the school scholarship twice. I always take her as my model in study. She tells me that we should make good use of time.

Li Yan is kind-hearted and is always ready to help others. Any student in my class who has trouble in study likes asking her for help. But she doesn’t like others to praise her, because she thinks what she did is ordinary.

I feel proud to have such a friend.

我的挚友

我最好的朋友是我的同学李艳。她有一双大眼睛，长头发梳成了辫子。脸上时常有甜甜的微笑，使她显得更加活泼。

李艳很聪明，学习很好，两次获得学校的奖学金，她是我学习上的榜样。她告诉我说我们应该充分利用时间。

李艳很热心，乐于助人，班里同学学习上有困难，都喜欢找她带忙。但她不喜欢别人夸奖她，因为她认为她做的很普通。

我为拥有这样的好朋友而感到骄傲。

Dear teachers and students:

Good morning everyone!  Now, I`m very happy to make a speech here. My name is xue meng yao. I`m 11. I come from Class3 Grade 5  of Dai Yue Qu DaoLang No.2 Primary School. I`m an active girl. I like playing table tennis，  Because I think it`s very interesting. I like English best too. It`s fun. I like my English teacher ,She`s quiet and kind.

On theweend, I like reading books and listening to music in my room. I like the color is green and red. I have a happy family. My father is a teacher. My mother is a doctor . And I`m a good student. My dream is to be a teacher, because I want to help the children in the future.

Thank you very much!  Please remember me! Goodbye!

[小学生英语自我介绍范例

Goodafternoon, teachers! Today, I`m veryhappy to make a speech here. Now, let me introduce myself. My name isZhuRuijie. My English name is Molly. I`m 12. I come from Class1 Grade 6 ofTongPu No.2 Primary School. I`m an active girl. I like playing basketball.Because I think it`s very interesting. I`d like to eat potatoes. They`re tasty.My favourite colour is green. And I like math best. It`s fun. On the weekend, Ilike reading books in my room. I have a happy family. My father is tall andstrong.My mother is hard-working and tall, too. My brother is smart. And I`m agood student. My dream is to be a teacher, because I want to help the poorchildren in the future. Thank you for listening! Please remember me!

Good afternoon,

It’s my great pleasure to stand here for this interview.

First, let me introduce myself. My name is ** and you also can call my English nickname **.

I like a word said by Napoleon: I succeeded because I will it; I never hesitated. I believe in all time: If you think you can, you can.

I come from **, the capital of ** province and will graduate from the management of department of ** university, in July this year. In undergraduate period, I achieved scholarship when I was sophomore and junior, meantime I became the chairman of pingpong club.

In term of which, you could feel I am an optimistic and active man. Moreover, I am a thoughtful student. Specially, I am pretty good at learning form daily life and study. It is energetic of me to think some meaningful issues. When I face to problems, I am capable of analyzing and settling them by myself. If the matter is special intricate, I also can corporate well with others as a team.

In spare time, I have broad interests like many other young people. Sport and reading are my favorites. I am also a pure sport fan. In all of these, I do well in playing Pingpong, there are several medals I won as the captain of school or department team include individual game and team games. Taking part in some sport game can help me study energetically.

In this fast-change time, I am also skillful in operating computer and network. Frequently I exchange with other people by making comments in the forum on line. In additional, I am familiar with searching for information in internet.

I have past cet6 test, however, I am aware that there’s lots of room to develop my English speaking.

In the past one year, I have been preparing for the postgraduate examination. In this course of studying, on one hand, I gain knowledge in some fields, more importantly accumulated enough study ability and willpower for further developing in this famous school. Now all my industrious work has gain return for this opportunity to present myself here.

I will appreciate it very much if you could send me the chance to further my study toward management.

I have a good friend.Her name is Huang Jiayan .She was twelve years

old.She is very polite and helpful.She has two big eyes,a small nose and long hair .Her hobby is singing ,dancing,read books and surfing the internet.

This is my good friend.

大家好，我叫XXX，我XX岁，毕业于XXX，从小就有一个梦想，有一天我能像小鸟一样在蓝天飞翔。现在我有机会实现它。如果我能接受这份工作。我会尽力做好每件事。因为我热爱这份工作。谢谢你。

你好，我叫XXX，我今年XX岁，毕业于XXX，从小我就有一个梦想。我梦想有一天，我能像鸟一样飞向蓝天。现在我有机会实现它。如果我能接受这份工作。我会尽力做好每件事，因为我热爱这份工作。

你好，我叫XXX，我今年XX岁，毕业于XXX，从小我就有一个梦想。我梦想有一天，我能像鸟一样飞向蓝天。现在我有机会实现它。如果我能接受这份工作。我会尽力做好每件事，因为我热爱这份工作。

大家好，我叫XXX，我XX岁，毕业于XXX，从小就有一个梦想，有一天我能像小鸟一样在蓝天飞翔。现在我有机会实现它。如果我能接受这份工作。我会尽力做好每件事。因为我热爱这份工作。谢谢你。

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!

I began to like English when I entered the senior high school. I owe it to my English teacher who has stimulated① my great interest in learning English and then influenced my future, and whose name is Zhang Yanshu----a name I will keep in my mind forever.

She showed great love to us which is deeply appealing to②our heart. Different from other teachers, she has never been impolite to us. Oppositely, she treated us equally. She made efforts to attract us to the world of English, to understand the beauty of the language and enjoy the cultures of the foreign countries. With her skillful help, the students in our class took great interest in this course and improved rapidly.

She was kind and patient. She did not mind the students slowness in learning new knowledge, but it did not mean that she was not strict with us. To make what we had learned strong, she often asked us to recall③ the knowledge in class. This was also a method to examine the homework she had assigned④. In that case, we had to work hard so as to live up to⑤her hope.

She is such an excellent teacher that we got so much from her, not only the knowledge but also kindness, diligence⑥ and appreciation for beauty. All these will be useful to all my life.

My mane is......Im....years old.My weight is...kgs.and height is.....cm.I have stuied English for about ...years.At school my favourite subject is English.I often talk with my classmate in English.In my spare time I like playing bascketball and swimming.My health is very good .I think I can be fit for the job because I like this kind of work and l enjoy learning new things.I am ready to deal with people.I have much patience and care.So I think I can do the job well.At last,I hope you can give me the chance.If you choose me,you never regret for ever.

Good afternoon, Everyone! I am XX. And I am 23 years old. My previous job was a Front Office Supervisor. During the three years when I was working, I also majored Tourism and Hotel Management in the local radio broadcasting and television college. I like this job very much and I like to deal with different guests every day. I hope I can have this chance to one of the members in this hotel. Thank you so much to share my brief introductions.

[面试酒店的英语自我介绍

Good morning. My name is xxx .It is really a great honor to have this opportunity to introduce myself，and I hope I can make a good performance today.

早上好。我的名字是某某某。非常荣幸能有这个机会来介绍我自己,我希望今天我能有个好的表现。

Now I will introduce myself briefly ,I am 23 years old，born in wenling, the capital of Zhejiang Province. I graduated from the The Chinese peoples armed police force academy department of Frontier command in July, 2011. 现在我将简单介绍一下我自己,我今年23岁,出生在温岭市,是浙江省的省会。我毕业于中国人民武装警察部队学院前沿指挥部门,2011年6月。

During the four years in university, I spend most of my time on study, I have

passed CET4 and I have acquired basic knowledge of Frontier command. Besides, with my efforts and cheerful personality，I received a scholarship and outstanding student awarded. Generally speaking, I am a hard worker especially do the thing I am interested in. I like to chat with my classmates, almost talk everything ,my favorite pastime is Basketball, swimming or surf online.Through college life,I learn how to balance between study and entertainment.

在四年的大学,我把大部分时间花在学习上,我已经通过国家基本知识,我已经获得了国境的命令。同时,我的努力和性格开朗,我收到了奖学金和优秀学生奖励。一般来说,我是个很勤奋的工人特别是做我感兴趣的东西。我喜欢跟我的同学,几乎谈一切,我最喜欢的消遣是打篮球、游泳或者网上冲浪。通过大学生活,我学会如何平衡学习和娱乐之间。

And now，I am a inspector. I am well aware that the Inspectors job is to complete the ships exit-entry frontier inspection procedure, so Ill use my efforts to be an excellent border inspectors. In my spare time, I will learn more about inspectors professional knowledge, constantly improve my own. Whatever difficulties I encountered will not give up, this is a four-year university taught me. I love my job and like to work together with like-minded people. I believe that through continuous efforts, I will realize my dream and to be a good, serve the people of border inspectors That is all, thank you！

早上好。我的名字是某某某。非常荣幸能有这个机会来介绍我自己,我希望今天我能有个好的表现。

现在我将简单介绍一下我自己,我今年23岁,出生在温岭市,是浙江省的省会。我毕业于中国人民武装警察部队学院前沿指挥部门,2011年6月。

在四年的大学,我把大部分时间花在学习上,我已经通过国家基本知识,我已经获得了国境的命令。同时,我的努力和性格开朗,我收到了奖学金和优秀学生奖励。一般来说,我是个很勤奋的工人特别是做我感兴趣的东西。我喜欢跟我的同学,几乎谈一切,我最喜欢的消遣是打篮球、游泳或者网上冲浪。通过大学生活,我学会如何平衡学习和娱乐之间。

而现在,我是一个官员。我深知检查员的工作是完整的船的出入境边防检查手续,所以我会用我的努力成为一个优秀的边境的核查。在我的业余时间,我将学习更多关于核查人员的专业知识,不断提高我自己。无论遇到什么困难,我遇到过不会放弃,这是一个四年大学教过我。我爱我的工作,也喜欢和志趣相投的人一起工作。我相信,通过我们的不懈努力,我要实现我的梦想,要成为

一名优秀的、为人民服务的边境的核查 “这就是全部了,谢谢!

One explanation is that the Duanwu Festival originated from people’s worship of dragons. In ancient China, people believed the dragon was the god in charge of water, which was vitally important to daily life and agricultural production. On the day of Duanwu, people raced dragon boats to entertain the god and offered him Zongzi as a treat. The sole purpose was to please the god to ensure a year of favorable weather.

Some people believe Duanwu comes from activities instigated by ancient sorcerers. These activities were held in early summer when the hot weather was about to bring diseases to people who didn’t have modern devices and medicines to protect themselves. So, ancient sorcerers encouraged people to wear fragrant pouches and hang mugwort and calamus on their doors to drive away the so-called evil spirits that caused diseases.

Scholars may provide many other explanations about the origin of the Duanwu Festival. But if you ask ordinary people about its origin, you’ll get the same answer. They will tell you that the Duanwu Festival honors the great poet, Qu Yuan. They’ll also tell you the story that has been passed down for more than 2,000 years.

Qu Yuan was born in 340 BC, during the Warring States Period. At that time, there were seven states struggling among themselves to unify China. Of the seven states, Qin was the strongest and Chu the largest.

Qu Yuan was a noble of Chu. During his lifetime, the powerful kingdom of Chu fell into a decline.

Early in his life, Qu Yuan won the confidence of the King of Chu, and was his deputy prime minister, helping draft laws and determine foreign-policy. When he saw the danger posed by the ambitious Qin State, he proposed government reforms and an alliance with the neighboring Qi state as a way to ensure Chu’s safety.

But the King of Chu was surrounded by self-seekers, who were jealous of Qu Yuan. They accepted bribes from the Qin’s envoy, dissuaded the King from taking Qu Yuan’s advice and brought about the poet’s estrangement from the King. Qu Yuan was finally sent into exile for 20 years.

During those desperate years, Qu Yuan helplessly watched his beloved country become weaker every day. In the year 278 BC, the capital of Chu was stormed by troops from Qin. In great pain, Qu Yuan wrote “Lisao” or “The Lament”, the greatest of all his poems. On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, he drowned himself in the Milo River, because he was hopeless about his country’s future.

Qu Yuan died thousands of years ago, but he is remembered every year for his love of and loyalty to his country and his people.