英语作文介绍喜欢的人物汇总20篇

篇一：我喜欢读书

My father likes to tell me a story before I sleep,so I like to read story book.My parents buy me a lot of books,I read them everyday,I always finish reading a book in a week.I like adventure story very much,I imagine I am the guy who is so great.Books gives me happiness,I like reading.

篇二：我爱读书

I like reading very much. When I was a small girl，I was interested in reading picture books on science and history. At the age of seven，I entered a primary school and began to read more books.

Now I am a middle school student. I have many subjects to learn. Every day I must finish a lot of homework. I am very busy. But when I have spare time I still want to read some story books. One day my young sister brought me a book XI YOU JI.I read the book with great interest.much.

I like Monkey King very much.

[我喜欢读书英语小作文

在我们漫漫的历史长河中，涌现出了许许多多的小名人，如远古让梨的孔融，抗日时期的小英雄嘎子，新时期的护林英雄赖宁……在这些人物当中，我最喜爱的是沉着冷静、睿智机敏的司马光。

司马光是北宋时期著名的史学家、政治家，他身上有着许许多多的历史事迹，其中，最让我难忘的是砸缸事件。

司马光小时候常常和小朋友们到花园里去玩耍，花园里有一座假山，假山下面有一口大水缸。一天，司马光和小朋友们又到花园里玩耍，忽然，不知怎么的，一个小朋友从假山上摔下来，掉进了大水缸里，水缸里装满了水，一下子没过了小朋友的头，小朋友们都吓慌了，有的哭，有的喊，有的跑去找大人。只有司马光既没有哭喊，也没有跑开，而是搬起一块大石头使劲朝大水缸砸去，大水缸破了，里面的水流出来了，水缸里的小朋友得救了。

司马光的这个故事告诉我们，无论遇到多大的困难，多要冷静思考，不要盲目从众不要惊慌失措，这样，才能解决问题。如果司马光没有冷静思考，那也就没有掉进缸里的孩子的存活。正是因为有了这样的机智善思，这样的处变不惊，才成就了流芳千古的一代名人司马光。而他的善思、多思、镇定、从容也是我应该学习的地方。

Good morning. I am glad to be here for this interview. First let me  introduce myself. My name is ,24. I come from Nanchang,the capital  of Jiangxi Province. I graduated from the ****** department of *****University  in July ,2001.In the past two years I have been prepareing for the postgraduate  examination while I have been teaching *****in NO.****middle School and I was a  head-teacher of a class in junior grade two.Now all my hard work has got a  result since I have a chance to be interview by you.

I am open-minded ,quick in thought and very fond of history.In my spare  time,I have broad interests like many other youngers.I like reading books,  especially those about ****.Frequently I exchange with other people by making  comments in the forum on line.In addition ,during my college years,I was once a  Net-bar technician.So, I have a comparative good command of network  application.I am able to operate the computer well.I am skillful in searching  for information in Internet.I am a football fan for years.Italian team is my  favorite.Anyway,I feel great pity for our countrys team.

I always believe that one will easily lag behind unless he keeps on  learning .Of course, if I am given a chance to study ****** in this famous  University,I will spare no effort to master a good command of advance  ******.

The the Imperial Palace in Beijing is a beautiful The Grand Palace. The the Imperial Palace is also called the Forbidden City. There are 24 emperors who have lived in the two dynasties of Ming and Qing Dynasties. The the Imperial Palace of the entire building beautiful decoration, magnificent, known as one of the worlds five palace.

When I entered, the first show in front of me is the lamps. The lamps are "living place, beautiful scenery here, green grass, flowers blooming like a piece of brocade. The Imperial Palace is the palace of ancient buildings Chinas largest and most complete, a total area of more than 720 thousand square meters, the temple palace has more than 90 million rooms, very spectacular.

Through the study to the palace, this is where the emperor on the morning, in front of the palace stood a gilded throne. The dragon carved on many dragons, some Shuanglongxizhu, some around each other is really vivid. I looked up and looked up, there is a large plaque on the wall, the plaque reads "open and aboveboard" four characters, four characters as if it is told ministers: "all things are open and aboveboard to do." I stand in the middle, also saw the emperor and ministers to negotiate the momentum of state.

Out of the Front Gate, I once again looking at the ancient palace, the grand vision is greatly! What a beautiful the Imperial Palace!

北京的故宫是个美丽的大皇宫。故宫也叫作“紫禁城”。这里居住过24个明清两代的皇帝呢！故宫的整个建筑金碧辉煌，庄严华丽，被誉为世界五大宫之一。

当我进去后，首先展现在我眼前的是坤宁宫。坤宁宫是皇妃住的地方，这里风景优美，绿草如茵，繁花似锦。故宫的宫殿建筑是中国现存最大、最完整的古老建筑，总面积达到72万多平方米，殿宇宫室有9000万多间，极为壮观。

穿过书斋就到了乾清宫，这是皇上上早朝的地方，乾清宫的正前方摆着一张镀金龙椅。龙椅上刻着许多龙，有的双龙戏珠，有的互相缠绕，真是惟妙惟肖。我抬头往上一看，墙上有一块大大的匾，匾上写着“正大光明”四个大字，仿佛这四个大字是告诫大臣们：“凡是做事，都要正大光明地做。”我站在这中间，也仿佛看到当时的皇上和大臣们商议朝政时的气势。

走出正门，我再一次遥望这座古老的宫殿，气魄宏伟令人赞叹不已！故宫真美啊！

I like winter best. Though it is very cold, it is good for skating. I often go skating on Sundays with my father.

When it snows, everything turns white. Trees and houses are covered with thick snow.

How beautiful the world looks!

My friends and I like to make snowmen. Sometimes we make snowballs and throw them at each other.

Thats a very interesting game. I like winter holiday very much because the Spring Festival is the happiest time of the year.

dear eric,

My hometown is beautiful place It stands near a wide river at the foot of low green hills. It has many tall buildings and wide streets. There are trees and flowers everywhere.

But it has not always been like that. In the old days, it was a sad dirty little town. Landlords and merchants lived in the few good houses. For the working people there were only dark, unhealthy rooms in old buildings and huts in narrow muddy streets. Nearly everyone was poor and many had no work.

Everything has changed since liberation. The people, led by the Party, have got rid of the mud and dirt. They have put up schools, theaters, shops and flats. They have an assembly hall and a hospital. Along the river they have built offices, hotels and parks. A lot of factories have sprung up. On the river, streamers and boats come and go busily, day and night. They carry the products of our industries to all parts of the country.

I love my hometown, and I love its people. They also have changed. Healthy and happy, they are going all out to build socialism.

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.

Hello everyone, my name is Wang Dongpu, I am a student of grade three, nine years old this year. I have a head of black hair, a round face, a pair of bright eyes.

My character is very gentle, others in my mouth sometimes cry, see small animals to eat food, see the bird fell off to find a way to send her home.

My weakness is I love watching TV, ecstasy at the sight of the more wonderful programs, mother call I eat dinner, I sometimes hear, unless my mother pulled my ears to eat.

People say I look like a girl, actually I am a boy, this is me. Hee hee...

大家好，我叫王东浦，我是一名三年级的学生，今年9岁。我长着一头乌黑的头发，一张圆圆的脸，长着一双透亮眼睛。

我的性格很温柔，别人一气我就咧嘴有时还会哭，看见小动物就给它吃食物，看见小鸟掉下来就想办法把她送回家。

我的缺点是爱看电视，一看到比较精彩的节目就入迷，有时妈妈叫我吃饭我都听不见，除非妈妈揪我耳朵才去吃饭。

别人都说我长得像女孩，实际我是男孩，这就是我。嘻嘻……

Hello,everybody.大家好

My names(  ).我的名字叫（ ）

Im in Class( )Grade six of(  )school.我在（ ）学校6年级（）班级 Im tall(short).Im ( )centimeters.我很高（矮），我（）厘米。 I like English very much.我非常喜欢英语

Beacuse English is interesting.因为英语很有趣。

So my English is very good.所以，我的英语很好。

I acquire many award.我获得过很多奖项。

I hope that every of you will love me。希望大家能喜欢我。

Today, I have the geography class. I am afraid of the geography class, because I have the bad memory and can’t remember the places. But in this class, our teacher does something different, she shows us many pictures and tells us many interesting things about her trips. I listen to her carefully. I like this lesson, it is vivid and I can learn many things about geography.

今天，我有地理课。我害怕地理课，因为我记忆力不好，无法记住地点。但是在这节课上，我们的老师做了点不同的事情，她给我们展示了很多图片，告诉我们很多有关她旅游的趣事。我听得很认真。我很喜欢这节课，是如此的生动，我也学到了有关地理的很多知识。

[我喜欢这节课英语作文

Hi，boys and girls, good morning, it is my pleasure to take this change to introduce myself,

my name is Leo, I am 10 years old. About my family, there are 4 people in my family, father, mother, brother and me,

my father and mother are all very kind, welcome you to visit my family if you have time!

嗨，男孩女孩们，大家上午好，很荣幸能有这个机会来介绍我自己，我叫力欧，今年10岁。关于我的家庭，我家有四口人，爸爸妈妈，哥哥，还有我，我的爸爸妈妈都是很友善的人，如果你有时间欢迎来我家玩。

I ’m a very outgoing boy(girl), I like reading、playing games and listening to music, of course, I also like to make friends with all the people in the school, I hope I will be your best friends in the school life.

我是一个很外向的男孩（女孩），我喜欢阅读，玩游戏，听音乐，当然，我也喜欢与学校里所有的人交朋友，希望在以后的学校生活中，我能成为你们最好的朋友。

My hometown Nanchang is the Peoples Republic of China Jiangxi Provinces provincial capital, Chinese one of 35 super cities, has the essence or quintessence of things tianbao, the human outstanding earth deities since the ancient times fine reputation.It has more than 2200 years history and the deep cultural inside story, is the Peoples Republic of China State Council names the historical city.Not only Nanchang is the ecological environment exquisite the Chiangnan region of rivers and lakes, Communist Party of China it the colors raise place.Has the honor to receive many times the Peoples Republic of China"the nation cultured and civilized city", "the national health cityadvanced city", "the Chinese outstanding traveling city", "thenational two supports model city" the title.

Nanchang is situated at middle and lower reaches Yangtze River, westPoyang Lake the Nanan, is only 11 the provincial capital city whichwith southeast the Yangtze River delta, the Zhujiang Delta and Fujianthe economic zone adjoin west, receives opens, north-south north andsouth. Beijing nine, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, the Anhui Jianxithree bar iron routes connect to this, is Beijing nine on-line theonly provincial capital city; 105th, 320, 316 federal highways gothrough vertically Nanchang; The Changbei international airport mayreach national each big city; The water transportation enters YangtzeRiver after Ganjiang River to leave East China Sea. Looked from theeconomic significance that, Nanchang has become international andeastern part the coastal developed area industry gradient shift idealarea.

"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.

1.Rabbit is an cute kind of amimals.It has two long ears.They can make rabbits hear carefully.It also has a short tail.They make rabbits so lovely.Rabbits likes carrots.If you are lonely.You can keep a rabbit.It can be your friends.

2.The little Rabbit has a coat of white hair.The two ears are long and prick up on its head.It is furry,soft and white with two red eyes glaring above the chin.Its eyes are like a pair of small red hulbs.Exposed to sunlight,they become little pieces of red thread.Its ears are straight and long and they can turn and move slightly.How cute it is!

小白兔全身盖一层雪白的毛.两只耳朵很长,直立在头上.它长着一身柔软的毛,瞪着l双红眼睛.眼睛像1对红色的小灯泡,见到阳光时就微微眯起；耳朵长而直竖,有时还会微微转动,它多可爱啊

dear eric,

it’s very kind of you to write me and let me know about your beautiful city. now i’d like to tell you something about my hometown quanzhou.

the city stands on the west bank of the taiwan straight. it is a beautiful place for people to live in. its economy has been developing rapidly in the past ten years. new factories, houses, roads and bridges have been built. more schools and hospitals are available for its people. however, there are still some problems, such as water, air and noise pollution and heavy traffic in rush hours. in my opinion, quanzhou should develop its economy scientifically. i would also think that the growth of its housing construction should be brought under control so that we’ll have a better hometown in future.

yours,

lihua

My Family

there are five people in my family。they are my grandfather，my grandmother，my father，my mother and I 。

My father is doctor。He works in Yueqing。He goes to work on foot everyday。My father is not very tall，but he is strong，he is very kind to his patients and he loves his work。

My mother is teacher。She works in a middle school in Yue Qing。She goes to work by car。She is a very good teacher in my eyes。

I am a student in Yueqing FLS。My school is very beautiful。there are many tall buildings，GREen tress，nice flowers in our school。We have wonderful teachers too。I like studying in my school。

My grandparents don’t go to work any more。they have retired。they stay at home everyday。In the morning they go to the park and do morning exercises。In the afternoon，they drink tea with their friends。In the evening，they enjoy themselves watching TV and reading newspapers。

We have a happy family。I can’t say how much I love it！

我的家人

我家里有五个人。他们是我的祖父，我的祖母，我的父亲，我的母亲和我。 我的父亲是医生。他在乐清市工作。他每天步行去上班。我的父亲个子不高，但他很强壮，对病人很好，他喜欢他的工作。 我妈妈是老师。她在岳青的一所中学工作。她开车去上班。在我眼里她是个很好的老师。 我是一名在乐清市的学生。我的学校很漂亮。在我们学校有许多高大的建筑物，绿色的树，漂亮的花。我们也有很棒的老师。我喜欢在我的学校学习。 我的祖父母不再去工作了。他们已经退休了。他们每天呆在家里。早上他们去公园做早操。下午，他们和他们的朋友喝茶。晚上，他们喜欢看电视和看报纸。 我们有一个幸福的家庭。我不能说我有多爱它！

[介绍家人的英语作文及翻译

每个人都有一个心中的爱国人物，我也有一个心中的爱国人物，这个爱国人物就是许多人众所周知的黄继光。

黄继光原来是一个团的通讯员，他们团接到一个任务离他们驻扎地只有十里路的方向有一个日本鬼子的碉堡。但是这个碉堡事实上是一个鬼子的驻扎地他的防御是古诺金汤，想攻进去比登天还难，特别是这个碉堡的攻击力也是不同凡响的。碉堡4周的围墙的洞并不是非常的大，但只要在那里架上机枪四周疯狂扫射那只要向前走一步就会被射死，所以他们团长编一个爆破排其中就有黄继光。在爆破排前进时他用自己的身体给堵住在机枪口上，同时扔出手榴弹把碉堡给炸出一个大窟窿。最后帮助团获得胜利。

黄继光这种为团队的胜利牺牲自己的精神，值得世人学习。可以想像当时当时冲向碉堡，身体一步一步走向前最后扑倒在地堡哪是对自身肉体的极大的折磨呀！这种为团队牺牲自己的精神在当年，那个被战火覆盖的时代是十分常见的。在这个没有战火没有刀与血与枪的和平时代里却非常的少见。要是当时黄继光会想：“为革命的胜利为打倒日本帝国主义，个人的牺牲这不算设么只有团队的胜利才能获得真正的胜利。”所以说我们要学习这一类人物。

这就是我心目中最喜欢的爱国人物——黄继光。

Mr Wang, born on June 29, 1971, Chinese famous musicians, one of the representative figure of Chinas new rock and roll. BaoGu street number 43 band, have been receiving professional music education. Mr Wang himself has stronger songs creation ability, known as the "music" of a person. Repeatedly won the domestic each big music awards ceremony of the best maleSinger, best producer award. Announced on September 13, 2013, such as a divorce from his second wife, kang, and zhang ziyi was romance, November 9, love conversation in the concert.

Former supervisor "Chinese good voice" 2013, 2014, and led the Zhang Hengyuan and parr, won the runner-up

往事如风，曾经上过的课的记忆大多都随着时间慢慢流走，但是，英语兴趣班的一堂课，却一直萦绕在我的脑海里，每每想起都让我回味无穷。

那是一个春光明媚的下午，我照例来到英语学校上课。“Hello，Catherine！”一进门，就听见老师热情地对我打招呼，离上课还有十几分钟，老师正在做着课前准备，只见她一会儿低头在卡纸上写着单词，一会儿在黑板画一些迷宫似的格子和一些奇怪的图形，忙得像个团团转的陀螺。“这难道是新改版的飞行棋游戏？还是要玩迷宫？老师今天又准备了什么秘密武器？”此刻，我心里打了无数个问号。

过了一会儿，Summer老师抬起手腕，匆匆瞟了一眼手表说：“上课了。”老师指着黑板上刚画的那些古怪的图形，告诉我们这是她新设计“大富翁”的游戏，她把我们分成两个组进行比赛，哪组回答的问题多，读出的单词多，分就越多，“钱”也越多。第一个要学习的单词是“Italy”(意大利)，老师教我们读时，我就想：“待会老师一定会考我们背单词”，所以我边读边努力地背着，果不其然，读了几遍后，Summer老师就给了我们一个抢背单词的机会，我毫不犹豫地高高举起了手，站起来流利地背出了单词，旗开得胜挣了3分，我们组的同学都露出了胜利的微笑，对方组故意装出不在乎的“面无表情”。我们的比赛很激烈，当我们恰好前进到“监狱”而被暂停一回合时，对方会开怀大笑，像捡了个宝似的；当对方经过我们的地盘而必须留下“买路钱”时，就轮到他们“黯然神伤”了，像打败了的兵似的……

Summer老师上课有时也会“开火车”。当我们前进到“America”(美国)的地盘上时，我们发现美国的版图不像中国是一大块集中在一起，而是有许多小块分布在各个地方，“这到底是怎么回事呢？”“为什么美国的版图上会东一块西一块的呢？”“这真是太奇怪了！”我们在下面窃窃私语，老师为了解答我们的疑惑，开始扯起了美国的地理，然后又扯起了美国的历史、文化，直到她下意识地看了看墙上的时钟，才发现“火车”开得太远了，可她还好像讲得意犹未尽，我们也听得意犹未尽。就这样，在玩玩闹闹中，我们就学会了很多的单词，收获了一些有趣的小知识，最重要的是我们始终努力着并快乐着。

这样的课，我喜欢！要是我们学校的语文数学课也能上得这样活泼有趣该多好呀！

Some people like the high jump, long jump some people like, some people like to play badminton, shuttlecock was like, but I love jumping rope alone.

Skipping is a very good sport. Both to enhance immunity, enrich school life, but also to exercise, so I like to jump rope. There are many jumps rope skipping, such as: being able to jump, can rebound, can jump rope flowers, flower jump positive rope, rope ...... anti flowers of all kinds, to make people see dazzling.

Every time the bell rang, I would like Mustang, like outside the classroom, the teacher said, although a few times to keep the sprint on campus, but I still can not change, because interested in playing too high. Students threw me praise eyes, applause rang immediately. I am very happy, but I am proud that no one, other students are also taught how to dance more. Since then, I told the students a learning school, skipping a class.

Students, rope skipping is a good event, I hope the students after a lot of jump rope!

有人喜欢跳高，有人喜欢跳远，有人喜欢打羽毛球，有人喜欢踢毽子，而我却独爱跳绳。

跳绳是一项非常好的运动。既能增强免疫力，丰富课余生活，又能锻炼身体，所以我非常喜欢跳绳。跳绳有很多种跳法，比如：可以正跳，可以反跳，可以跳花绳，跳正花绳，反花绳……各式各样，能让人看得眼花缭乱。

每当下课铃一响，我就会像野马一样跑出教室，虽然老师说了几次不让在校园里疾跑，可是我还是改不了，因为玩的兴趣太高了。同学们向我投来赞许的目光，掌声马上响起来了。我很高兴，但我一点也没人骄傲，还教给其它同学如何跳得多。从此以后，我就跟同学们上课一块学习，下课一块跳绳。

同学们，跳绳是一项很好的活动，希望同学们以后多多跳绳！

[英语作文 我最喜欢的运动

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.