介绍狗的英语作文(优秀20篇)

关于城市介绍高中英语作文篇1

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

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

关于城市介绍高中英语作文篇2

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

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

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

Good afternoon and nice to see you at this sunny afternoon.

I am very glad to be here for interview.

My name is YYX . I come from DLUFL and my major is english special lised in business.

Computer, books, films and climbing moutains are my favourite.

I have been a class president for nearly 4 years, and I also have been an interpreter at Dalian Garment Fair for twice.

I think all these exprience and my responsibility, creating thinking and passion would make me qualify for this job.

And whats more, my laptop computer is HP, so I have a better way to recgonize HP.

I believe that it would be a challenge and a chance for me to be a HP man.

Thats all ,Thank you so much!

My name is xxx from beautiful "jiangbei city"-liaocheng. Now study in hometown of Confucius-qufu normal university.

My personality stable, also do not break again cheerful. Good at making friends, make more friends.

My hobby is widespread: listen to music, photography, playing computer, of course, the most like or physical exercise, basketball, ping pong, football, and so on, this is why I choose the cause of professional sports.

Now in college, I want to in the university study hard, and actively participate in school activities and occasionally to do a part-time job.

As for the future, after four years I may continue my professional, use

professional knowledge to find work, perhaps I will choose my own business.In a word, I will use my hands and ability to create life without regret.

Chinese panda living in the south they are a bamboo for food eat slowly eat 12 hours a day every day to eat 15 kilograms of bamboo. Their numbers are fewer and fewer of the panda in the wild only just over 1600 have a small number of people living in the zoo.

They are a lovely precious animals we should pay more to protect.

熊猫生活在中国的南部，它们以竹子为食，吃的很慢，一天要吃12个小时，每天要吃15公斤的竹子。它们的数量越来越少，在野外的熊猫只有1600多只，还有少数生活在动物园。

它们是一种可爱的珍贵的动物，我们应多加保护。

Hello everyone,

my name is Lee. This is really a great honor to have this opportunity, and I believe I can make good performance today. Now I will introduce myself briefly. I am 20 years old，born in Guangdong province, south of China, and I am a senior student at Guangdong ××University. My major is English. And I will receive my bachelor degree after my graduation in June.

In the past four years, I spent most of my time on study. I passed CET4 and CET6 with a ease and acquired basic theoretical and practical knowledge of Language. Besides, I have attended several Speech competition held in Beijing, which really showed our professional advantages. I have taken a tour to some big factories and companies, through which I got a deep understanding of English for application.

Compared to developed countries, unfortunately, although we have made extraordinary progress since 1998, our packaging industry is still underdeveloped, messy and unstable, and the situation of employees in the field is awkward. But I have full confidence in its bright future if only our economy can be kept at the growth pace still. I guess you may be interested in why I choose this job. I would like to tell you that this job is one of my lifelong goals.

If I can work here,I will work hard. As to my character, I cannot describe it well, but I know I am optimistic and confident. Sometimes I prefer to stay alone, reading and listening to the music, but I am not lonely, for I like to chat with my classmates about almost everything. My favorite pastime is to play volleyball, to play cards or to surf online. From life at university, I learn how to balance study and entertainment. By the way, I was an actor in our amazing drama club. I have a few glorious memories on stage.

The name Christmas is short for Christs Mass. A Mass is a kind of Church service. Christmas is a religious festival. It is the day we celebrate as the birthday of Jesus.

There are special Christmas services in Christian churches all over the world. But many of the festivities of Christmas do not have anything to do with religion. Exchanging gifts and sending Christmas cards are the modern ways of celebrating the Christmas in the world.

The birth of Jesus had a story: In Nazareth, a city of Galilee. The virgins name was Mary was betrothed to Joseph. Before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Joseph her husband was minded to put her away secretly. While he thought about these things, Gabriel, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and told him did not be afraid to take Mary as wife. And Mary will bring forth a Son, and he shall call his name, Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.

Before Jesus births, Joseph and Mary came to Quintus was governing Syria. So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city. Joseph also went up out of Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and of the lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. So it was that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

And that, Christmas is the feast of the nativity of Jesus, is on 25th, December every year. But nobody know the actual birthday of Jesus. And the Christmas has become popular when Christmas cards appeared in 1846 and the concept of a jolly Santa Claus was first made popular in nineteenth Century.

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“圣诞节”这个名称是“基督弥撒”的缩写。弥撒是教会的一种礼拜仪式。圣诞节是一个宗教节日我们把它当作耶稣的诞辰来庆祝，因而又名耶诞节。

这一天，世界所有的基督教会都举行特别的礼拜仪式。但是有很多圣诞节的欢庆活动和宗教并无半点关联。交换礼物，寄圣诞卡，这都使圣诞节成为一个普天同庆的日子。

耶稣的出生是有一段故事的，耶稣是因着圣灵成孕，由童女马利亚所生的。神更派遣使者加伯列在梦中晓谕约瑟，叫他不要因为马利亚未婚怀孕而不要她，反而要与她成亲，把那孩子起名为“耶稣”，意思是要他把百姓从罪恶中救出来。

当马利亚快要临盆的时候，罗马政府下了命令，全部人民到伯利恒务必申报户籍。约瑟和马利亚只好遵命。他们到达伯利恒时，天色已昏，无奈两人未能找到旅馆渡宿，只有一个马棚可以暂住。就在这时，耶苏要出生了!於是马利亚唯有在马槽上，生下耶苏。

圣诞节便始于十二月二十五日纪念耶苏的诞生，但真实的诞生日就没有人知道了。十九世纪，圣诞卡的流行、圣诞老人的出现，圣诞节也开始流行起来了。

[介绍圣诞节的英语作文2篇

I grow is not high also not short, but, our class wang to call me "little

man", in fact, she even shorter than me! I a pair of double-fold eyelid eyes,

others see I said my eyes are very beautiful.

I am a timid person, because I was born and they were afraid that grow

hairy, looks very dirty, strange insects. Just said a few days ago, a few heavy

rain, I came to school in the morning, saw the campus has a lot of earthworms in

climb ah climb, I was scared scream, I stood on tiptoe a bouncing ran towards

the classroom, however, the door of the classroom is not open, suddenly, Im

dumbfounded, looking at the earthworm climb in front of me, I cant help

trembling body, when I stand in situ like a cat on hot bricks dont know what to

do? At this time, open the door of the students come, I was the first to rush

in, at my desk, I go in for a long time, my heart finally calm down.

I am very hardworking. Remember once, mom and dad didnt go off work, home

is very dirty, I took the broom to sweep the floor clean, and mop the floor to

drag earnestly again, also put the rubbish into the trash can, and I wash mop

clean. Mom and dad come back to dig the kua I grow up.

Look, I am such a little girl, would you like to make friends with me?

我长得不高也不矮，可是，我们班的王琴非要叫我“小矮子”，其实，她比我还要矮呢!我长着一对双眼皮的眼睛，别人见到我都说我的眼睛很漂亮。

我是一个胆小的.人，因为我天生就怕那种长得毛茸茸的、看起来很脏、稀奇古怪的虫。就说前几天吧，下了几场大雨，早上我来到学校，看见校园里有好多的蚯蚓都在爬啊爬的，我被吓得大喊大叫，我踮起脚尖一蹦一跳地朝教室跑去，可是，教室的门还没有开，顿时，我傻眼啦，看着蚯蚓在我的面前爬动，我的身子不禁颤动了一下，我站在原地像热锅上的蚂蚁不知道该怎么办?这时，开门的同学来啦，我是第一个冲进去的，我一进去就趴在桌子上，过了好一会儿，我的心终于平静了下来。

我还很勤劳。记得有一次，爸爸妈妈没有下班，家里很脏，我就拿扫把把地上扫得干干净净的，又用拖把把地上认认真真地拖了一遍，还把垃圾都送进了垃圾桶里去了，又把拖把洗得干干净净的。爸爸妈妈回来一个劲的夸我长大了。

瞧，我就是这样一个小女孩，你愿意和我交朋友吗?

Good morning, everyone! It’s a great honor for me to introduce myself to all of you. My name is Serena and I’m fifteen years old. I come from Dalian city which is a beautiful and attracting place. Wish you can visit there and I believe that you will be impressed. English and movie are my favorites which can help me learn and relax. I like making friends, especially the ones who share common interests with me. And I think we can have much to share and talk. I hope to make progress with my friends. Thank you.

大家早上好。我很荣幸向大家介绍我自己。我叫Serena，今年十五岁。我来自美丽的海滨城市大连。希望你们可以去那旅游，我相信你们一定会对它留下深刻印象的。英语和电影是我的爱好，它们能够帮助我的学习，使我放松。我喜欢交朋友，特别是和我有共同兴趣的人。我觉得我们有很多可以分享可以聊的东西。我希望和我的朋友共同进步。谢谢。

I have a lovely lttle dog named Dion.He looks pretty with short legs,big ears and short tail.He is my good friend and he is also easy to take care of.I walk him at least twice a day,feed him and spend time with him.He also gives his love to me in return.He is always there to lick me and lie on me.I like playing with him.I think he can tell when I am happy,sad,angry or toubled.Sometimes he can be noisy and run around the room.

In a word,he is not only my dog,but also my friend.

I was graduated from xx xx college graduates, I have a bright and cheerful disposition, treat people sincerely, treat serious and responsible work, good at communication, coordination has the strong organization ability and team spirit; Lively and cheerful, optimistic and aspirant, has the compassion and good at teaching parallel; Self-motivated, diligently study can improve their ability and comprehensive quality. In future work, I will be with abundant energy, studies assiduously the spirit to work hard, steadily improve their ability to work, and the company synchronous development.

Strong self-learning ability, self-study at school a lot of computer knowledge, can skilled assembling computer, know the computer maintenance, familiar with Windows, office software, familiar with the interne resources. Auto cad ps/" target = "_blank" software such as photoshop; Will be written in c language program in general.

Solid professional knowledge, have positive work attitude, ability to work independently, and vastly team spirit, has the good cultural quality at the same time; Endowed with initiative, good people management and communication and coordination ability.

I am strong adaptability, a strong sense of responsibility, hard-working unremittingly, and have good team spirit. After engaged in service industry, the assistant job, accumulated the rich service industry and management experience and excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to skillfully operate word office software and equipment, in order to fit for the demand of the modern office, please give me a chance, I will also you to dazzling brilliance.

Treat serious and responsible work, good at communication, coordination has the strong organization ability and team spirit; Lively and cheerful, optimistic and aspirant, has the compassion and good at teaching parallel; Self-motivated, diligently study can improve their ability and comprehensive quality. In future work, I will be with abundant energy, studies assiduously the spirit to work hard, steadily improve their ability to work. In the four years of work, in order to prudent working style, positive work attitude seriously, carefully to complete the job. I work steadfast, hard work, if lucky enough to be hired I will try my best to create benefits for your organization, to reflect their own ability and value.

本人是毕业于xx学院xx专业毕业生，本人性格开朗，待人真诚，对待工作认真负责，善于沟通、协调有较强的组织能力与团队精神;活泼开朗、乐观上进、有爱心并善于施教并行;上进心强、勤于学习能不断提高自身的能力与综合素质。在未来的工作中，我将以充沛的精力，刻苦钻研的精神来努力工作，稳定地提高自己的工作能力，与公司同步发展。

自学能力很强,在校自学了很多计算机知识,能熟练组装计算机，懂得计算机的维护，熟练操作windows、office办公软件，熟悉interne资源。会auto cad ps/ target=_blankphotoshop等软件;会用c语言编写一般程序。

专业知识扎实，有积极的工作态度，能够独立工作，又极赋团队精神，同时具有良好的文化素质;赋有进取心，有良好的人员管理和沟通协调能力。

我本人适应性强，责任心强，勤勉不懈，并具有良好的团队精神。在从事多年服务行业、助理工作后，积累了丰富的服务行业和管理方面的经验以及优秀的口头、书面表达能力。能够熟练操作word办公软件及设备，以胜任现代化办公的需求请给我一次机会，我必将还您以夺目的光彩。

对待工作认真负责，善于沟通、协调有较强的组织能力与团队精神;活泼开朗、乐观上进、有爱心并善于施教并行;上进心强、勤于学习能不断提高自身的能力与综合素质。在未来的工作中，我将以充沛的精力，刻苦钻研的精神来努力工作，稳定地提高自己的工作能力。 在4年的工作中，以谨慎的工作作风，认真积极的工作态度，细心完成本职工作。本人工作踏实，刻苦耐劳，如有幸被录用我将会竭尽全力为贵单位创造效益，以尽情体现自身能力和价值。

[大学关于自我介绍的英语作文

我家有一条大狗，他全身的毛白白的。锐利的眼镜，总是左看看、右瞧瞧，像一位巡逻兵。朱红的鼻子，一张大大的嘴巴，露出两排锋利的牙齿，它有锋利的爪子，还有一条卷起来的尾巴。

我家的大狗非常尽职。只要一看到熟人，就马上摇摇尾巴。若是看见陌生人，它就对他狂吠不止，等主人出来。要是看见有人总是偷偷摸摸，并怕它的话，它就会认为他是个贼，就会对他叫个不停，再追过去。要是主人来了，就非常高兴又热情地欢迎主人回家。并用舌头舔了舔主人的脚。

我家的大狗还非常贪吃和挑吃。它只吃大鱼大肉和骨头。其它的什么也不要。我们把菜拿去给它吃。它马上推开，一口也不吃，就连一眼都不看。若是你拿肉、骨头给他吃，它马上狼吞虎咽地吃起来，把肉吃得一干二净的。

大狗既是我们忠诚的朋友，又给我们带来了快乐。

[介绍小狗的优秀作文说明文

Chapter one：self-introduction

Tips:

名字和年龄：My name is peter, I am six years old.

兴趣：My hobby is playing basketball.

个性：I am a talkative person.

My name is peter. I am six years old. I am from Taiwan. Many people ask me about my Chinese name because they think the meaning of it is very interesting. But I hope my friends can remember my English name rather than my Chinese one. My hobby is playing basketball. I usually play it with my friends after school, and I believe playing basketball will bring me good health. I am a talkative person. It is very difficult for me to keep quiet. Now I am studying in English, so I hope everyone can speak English to me. Otherwise I will feel very bad if I keep quiet.

In the Midwest of Guizhou Province, there is a beautiful city, which is my lovely hometown - Anshun.

Anshun is a famous historical and cultural city in Guizhou province. It is known as "the abdomen of Guizhou and the larynx of Yunnan".

In this land, storage of ancient culture, piercing Yelang Culture, unique culture of Tunpu culture. Known as the "mystery" of Guanling "Red Cliff mumbo-jumbo"; known as the "Oriental first dye" Anshun batik; known as the "living fossil Chinese drama" Anshun Dixi is digging on the land. Here is the hometown of Comrade Wang Ruofei, the old proletarian revolutionist of the old generation of our party.

In my hometown of Anshun, in a pleasant climate, where rich high-quality rice, rape, tea, ginger, fruit, there are a large number of cattle and chicken dog and so on moving animals. There are three national scenic area, which is the world famous Huangguoshu Waterfalls falls, Dragon Palace Getu River Scenic Area and national scenic area, here is the Jiulong Mountain national Forest Park, Huajiang gorge, Yelang lake, Ezra River Provincial Scenic area.

In these beautiful scenic spots, I dont know much about it. Here I would like to introduce to you a few of my most familiar attractions, they are:

The former residence of Wang Ruofei: This is my party early outstanding proletarian revolutionary, political activist, loyal communist fighter Wang Ruofei young life, a place of learning outstanding, it is located in the north of Anshun City, covers an area of more than 1000 square meters, from towards the door, corridor, gate, room, car, etc. to North and South hall. It is "the national patriotic education base", "the National Red Tourism classic scenic spot", "the Guizhou patriotic education base" and "the national defense education base". It is the Guizhou provincial cultural relic protection unit.

West Mountain Pagoda: located in Anshun City West southwest of Xiushan, trees around the tower is divided into nine stages, a wild profusion of vegetation, five cubits high, tower six, is one of the most important ancient buildings in Anshun.

Rainbow Lake: Rainbow Mountain Reservoir in Anshun city is important for flood control, irrigation, industrial and domestic water comprehensive water storage project. When the sun rises, the surface of the lake becomes glittering and glittering; when the spring comes, the lake appears particularly clear. There are jiukongqiao, peach forest and antique Pavilion, is a public rest, resort.

My hometown, Anshun, also allows many of the overwhelming majority of the customs, the natural landscape, which is also waiting for us to be familiar with, to find, to enjoy.

Nowadays playing computer games is a very common hobbies, especially among young people and teenagers. However there are many arguements on whether computer games are advantageous to people or not.

Although many people doubt the advantages of computer games, if used wisely computer games can actually be used in educational purposes, for example typing games to allow students to learn typing English or Chinese. Also another advantage of computer game is that the games may be played together among friends or family members, which may improve the relationship between family members and allow parents to know more about their children on their hobbies and interests.

However computer games if misused can also have very bad effects on human beings. Firstly spending long time in front of the computer screen will bring to various health problems, such as eye sore, back pain and headache. Also if people spend too much time on computer games rather than the work they should do, for example school work for students and projects and presentations for employees, it may have bad effects on their real life and social life status.

It is true for everything that it is beneficial if used wisely, therefore although computer games are widely said to be bad for people, it can still be used as a good tool if used wisely.

My hometown Nan Chang City is in Jiangxi , this is a beautiful , civilized city. There is a lot of places of historic interest, for instance , rope Jin Ta county, prances, king cabinet , all sorts of flowers in Nanchang continent , child pavilion , uprising memorial hall August First, ... Limpid eyes the public square fountain has attracted many visitors , the fountain high and low alternatively with music like naughty child in dancing. Have arrived at evening , the whole city colourfully decorated lantern Gao Zhao , is very beautiful! Take a look on that my hometown is what beautiful , what beautiful! I love my hometown Nanchang!

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 am in primary school now, and I like my campus so much. The first time I

walk in the school, I am attracted by its beautiful scenery. There are so many

green trees and colorful flowers around. The environment here is so lively. So

many students do the sports in the playground. The comfortable environment makes

me study in good mood.

When I was young, I had a lovely dog, it has a white hair; a pair of big black eyes seemed especially clever; down from his ears on both sides; the black nose in the white face, very conspicuous; pink small mouth is like a lipstick on the tail; like a flower blooming flowers. A man who walks with a swing like a gentleman with great grace, and I affectionately call him "Beibei"".

"Beibei" is a very conscientious security guard in our family". Dont look at it usually lying on the sofa, lazy, fun, but as long as the door has a ring, it will suddenly raised his head and ears, all eyes staring at the door. If it is a visitor who knows it, he will greet it warmly, his tail wagging; if he has never met a stranger, he will raise his throat and shout at the man, as if to frighten others.

My family lives on the five floor, every time I go home from school, footsteps on the third ring, playing the "babe" will stop immediately, ran to the door and waited; when I went to the door, it will be exciting scratching at the door, and will go back to his family to open the door for me; when I entered the house. It will happily came at me and hugged my legs, the affectionate interest dont mention it.

"Beibei" is so lovely that he brings laughter and laughter for our family!

It is the day that the families get together.

The spring festival is usually in the February ,sometimes in January.In the spring festival,every family all paste the lucky inscriptions,they fire the cracker,they eat the dumplings.The day before the new years first day is the new years eve,same as the christmas eve,all the families get together to have the new yaars dinner,wishes each other,talk about the wishes about the new year.Small children will receive the money given to children as a lunar new year gift.

I remember in the fifth grade, in a winter vacation, because my outstanding achievements, my father in order to reward me, gave me a fluffy puppy.

The puppy is clean, but the temper has some strange, always have a person around it all the time to accompany it to play, take care of it.

Once again, because of the festivals, we would like to go out shopping, when we happily with a photo back, I saw the neighbors whispered to me, said: "You are really, put a puppy on "Oh, Im sorry, noisy to you, please forgive me." The gas disappeared. I just breathed a sigh of relief, entered the house, the dog will be like a gust of wind generally rushed over to me, but also kept licking my hand. "I do not appreciate it! I point it with his head and said:" You bad things that harm us scolded. "At that time it seems to understand my words, suddenly behaved like a small sheep, like a few times from time to time, as if to say:" I just want you to accompany me! See it look like that, I suddenly Played an unnamed compassion, then in the heart to forgive it.

If it is not hygienic, it is true that is right, do not know how the matter, this dog is very nasty bath, but it is smart puppy, so in the bath, it will be the first match, And then secretly put the claws out of the basin, and then people do not pay attention when the "wind" of the sound will be able to escape the lightning in its view is desperate brazier small tub.

This puppy is also very much like to play, if you have shopping, then do not take it out, because if you take it out, I am afraid it is not going to go home at night, because it just can not stop playing, unless Until it is hungry or dark, otherwise you do not want to go home.

How about it, this is my family that a strange quirky puppy.

Henan has a humid warm-temperate climate. Dry and windy in winter and spring, the province is hot and rainy in summer and bakes in strong sunlight during the autumn months. Rainfall averages about 600-1000 millimeters increasing from north to south, as does the annual temperature which increases from about 12.8C in the north to 15.5C in the south.

Henan province is considered the cradle of Chinese civilization due to its location on the Yellow River. This rich historic heritage has endowed Henan with numerous historic treasures, from primitive dwellings to earliest wheel thrown pottery. The remains of some of the earliest human settlements have been unearthed here, including the over 7000-year-old Peiligang Culture Site, the 6000-year-old Yangshao Culture Remains and the 5000-year-old Dahe Culture Remains. All these cultural remains have profound significance in the history of Chinese civilization.

Luoyang City has been the capital of nine dynasties since the time of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770BC-221BC). There are many historical sites to be viewed in Luoyang as well as the opportunity to purchase replicas of the famed Tang three-glaze horses. Luoyangs Longmen Grottoes, famous for its grand treasure trove of Chinese Buddhist statues, are located 12km (7 miles) south of Luoyang. First sculpted and chiseled around 493 AD when the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534) was moved from Datong City to Luoyang, the grottoes of Luoyang house an awe-inspiring collection of sculpted Buddha and other religious subjects.

Kaifeng, one of the ancient capitals, also boasts the following buildings worthy of a visit: Iron Pagoda (Tie Ta) of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), Dragon Pavilion (Long Ting) - site of imperial palace of the Song and Jin dynasties - and the 1400-year-old Xiangguo Temple which is one of the most famous Buddhist temples in China. Also on view in Kaifeng are ruins of the Shang Dynasty, an important part of human cultural and historic heritage. The Shang Dynasty Ruins, also known as the Yin Ruins, are famous because of the unique style of the large palace and its grand mausoleums, in which emperors of the Shang Dynasty are buried. The bronze vessels of the Shang Dynasty, which were both finely decorated and popularly used by the citizens of the Shang Dynasty, are well-known at home and abroad.