动物园里的动物用英语介绍【汇集20篇】

导语：动物是人类的朋友，可是每天都有着很多的动物被人类消灭，但是这依然动摇不了我们保护小动物的决心，下面和小编一起来看看有关动物的英语作文。希望对大家有所帮助。

篇一：My Dog

I have a dog. My dog name is DuDu. DuDu is 9 years. DuDu is fat. It wears a white coat. DuDu has two big eyes and two small ears. It has one short mouth. My dog is smart. I like my dog. Do you like it?

篇二：熊猫

Panda is one of the scarcest animals. People in the world like it very much. There used to be many pandas in China long ago. As the balance of nature was destroyed and the weather was getting warmer and warmer, pandas became less. But at present, the number of pandas is increasing year by year. There are now so many pandas that some are being sent to other countries so that people there can enjoy them.

Nowadays, the biggest nature park for panda in China is in Sichuan. There is a research centre for nature and wild life there. Scientists hope that one day they will have enough pandas to be set free and let them live in the wild again.

篇三：The bird and cat

Once upon a time. There was a house. Beside the house there was a bird cage. One day a cat went to eat the bird, So the cat jumped and hit the bird cage. The bird cage fell down to the ground knocking the bird cage‘s door open. The bird then flew away. So the cat started to chase the bird and the dog chased the cat. However the bird flew on top of the tree. So the cat started to climb the tree and the dog barked at the cat. Before the cat could reach the bird, the bird flew away. this caused the cat to fall out of the tree. The dog then ran away, The bird quickly flew back into his cage and the man from the house carried him safely home.

篇四：大象

Elephant is the largest animal on land today. It weights some ninety kilograms and is about one metre high when born. When it is 12 years old, it studs over three meters and does not grow any more. Elephant is usually grey in color, having a long trunk with large ivory tusks protruding from each side of its mouth. Usually moving in groups and caring for each other, Elephant is know to be a very and gentle creamre. For many years people have used the strength of these poweful animals to move trees and heavy logs. Elephant has been and is a vital tool for people to do many things that would normally be imposs-ible. Elephant is and will continue to be one of the greatest creatures man has ever come into contact with. Its size. beauty, and power willforever be useful to man.

篇五：我最喜爱的动物

My favorite animals are swans.they are white.they can swim very well.I think they look like a beautiful girl in a white dress.they have a pair of wings and they can also fly well.I believe they are angles from the sky.they bring us love and make us happy.they are always friendly to us.We cant hurt them,because they are our friend.I love them!I like dogs,too.they are not beautiful,but they are the best friends.they keep the thieves away.Dogs have the best listening and eyes.they can hear in the nosiy,see in the dark.If we are in danger,they will help us at once.And they dont mind their lives.So,I love them.

篇六：My pet cat

I have a very beautiful cat.Its colour is white or yellow .its name isHaahua .Ithink it is my favourite cat .she likes sleep playing with the bell .she love ratting meat ,Though it is a kind of animals ,I treat it as my friend .sometime I give her some fish or pork to eat .When she sees the fool she begin to cry miao miao .As if she is very hungry and thirsty .Wherever I amwalk she follws me .

How happy I am !How nice my friend is !I love her more and more .

篇七：兔子

Everyday, they play with each other happily. One day, I couldn’t find them. I asked my mother: ”Where are they? ” My mother told me that She didn’t know. At last, I found them in the grass. They were very dirty. I was angry, but when I looked at their lovely faces, I was happy again.I love my little rabbits, and they love me. They are my good friends forever.

篇八：dogs

Dogs usually refers to the dogs, also known as dogs, a common canine mammals, is a close relative of the wolf. Often referred to as "human best friend" is also the highest rate of keeping pets. His life was about ten - more than three decades, in the absence of an accident, the average life span of small dogs to be longer.

篇九：Pigeon

I have a pet. It is a pigeon. It has got white and gray feathers, a red mouth and two small eyes. It’s cute.

I found it near a park. Its leg was injured and couldn’t fly. I took it home and cured it. Every morning, I give it some water and small pieces of bread. It gets stronger and stronger.

Now the pigeon has become my best friend. When I come home from school, it always flies to me and rests on my shoulders, it likes to talk to me. It makes my spare time colorful.

篇十：我最喜欢的动物

my favourite animal is the panda,is our"national treasure",bacause pandas nive,lovable and lively, it was very likr it. panda is an ancient animal, is a zoologist called "living fossile " long ago there were many pandas in china, panda bamoo living area has large flowers, dead,threatening the survival of giant pandas. The whole world is extremely concerned about the rare giant panda rescue and transfer work. due to the destruction of the natural balance, climate warming, fewer and fewer panda. Panda is one of endangered animals, now only found in China, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, people began to conserve this endangered species. Today, the number of pandas has increased, but there is still a long way to go. Care for animals, is to protect human, we should be animals as mans best friend, to care, to protect them. Protection of animals is a duty of each person, let us work together to protect the giant pandas, giving them a good home.

[有关动物的英语作文

Taiyuan is a historic city, Gu Cheng Jinyang, was founded in about 497 BC, for the early capital of the Zhao. In 246 BC, Qin Shi Huang at the world for 36 counties, Taiyuan County home early, from the start of Taiyuan said. After the Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang period, the city of Taiyuan has been for ages. In the Five Dynasties, has for the Hou Jin Yang, Han, the Norths capital of Seoul. In 960 AD, Zhao Kuangyin to overthrow the Later Zhou Dynasty, the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, sent his brother Zhao Guangyi in the year 979 years to capture Jinyang, set fire to the city, the city reduced to ashes generation. In 982 AD, Zhao Guangyi and Pamela reconstruction will be assigned to the Department of Taiyuan City. It was not until early in this warlord Yan Xishan rule of Shanxi, Taiyuan, in order to the capital, and down more than two thousand years, the ancient city of Taiyuan, after the war, repeatedly replacement. April 24, 1949, the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army to capture Taiyuan before the end, the ancient city back to the hands of the people, then on to obtain a new lease on life. In the long history, Taiyuan, has developed its famous handicraft industry and commerce. As early as the Tang and Song period, Taiyuan, has become a more developed cities in the handicraft industry. Taiyuan Ceramics of the Song Dynasty, grain porcelain patterns unique in the country. After the Yuan Dynasty, Taiyuan, the countrys arms manufacturing center. Tang, Song, Taiyuan, the business has developed rapidly. Especially in the Ming Dynasty, when the Taiyuan major Nanguan workshops, shops spread all over, unprecedented, the ancients had Bi Tian Guang, the vein to praise.

[介绍山西的英语作文

Hello everyone！ My name is Amy, this year twelve years old, I am from Xiaoshan District of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, the first primary school, is the sixth grade students.

You see, I am slim, so I round face, the nose is not high but it is the most important, because I protect their eyes, so my face is not a small pair of glasses.

I am warm and generous hospitality and a love of helping others, remember that in an emergency evacuation drill, we are reading poetry, suddenly broadcast rang, the students rush out of the classroom, in the course of my run, the students saw his feet twisted, he left behind. The other students, have run to the playground, to see this scene, I quickly ran back to the past, to help him up, I helped him, we went to the playground, and afterwards, the teacher praised me for the disciplinary board, not only that, but also let the students to learn from me do you know? At that time my heart.

I am good at skateboarding, write a soft brush, and speak English, my English is not good, in an English exam I ranked second last time, I felt very unhappy, I encourage myself to Study hard to win glory for the class, then, although I did not get the first, but I am not discouraged, I have tried my best.

I also have a very great dream. When a pilot is flying, he can fly his own airplane one day and fly freely in the blue sky. What an exciting and happy thing it is!

My name is . There are 4 people in my family. My father is a Chemistryteacher. He teaches chemistry in senior high school. My mother is an English teacher. She teaches English in the university. I have a younger brother, he is a junior high school student and is preparing for the entrance exam.

I like to read English story books in my free time. Sometimes I surf the Internet and download the E- books to read. Reading E- books is fun. In addition, it also enlarges my vocabulary words because of the advanced technology and the vivid animations.

I hope to study both English and computer technology because I am interested in both of the subjects. Maybe one day I could combine both of them and apply to my research in the future.

My dogs name is a lot, I can like it. It has a small monkeys face, black nose, round yo eyes, four short and fat legs, body hair a lot, feels warm and soft, a big mouth, red tongue, White teeth, there are four little feet, each little feet are long with five half-white half-white toes ... ...

Puppy both naughty and fun: puppies like bite wool, the wool is done everywhere. Like to eat bread, rice, like to drink milk, boiled water, like licking my hand. Every time I will lick my hands cleanly. It also likes to pull the toilet. Every time, when it is urine, mother picked up the stick to play it, it quickly hid under the table, a long time refused to come out ... ...

Whenever I go home from school, it always shakes his head at the door to meet me, as if to welcome me home. So I walked into the house, it will keep licking my big feet, bite my pants, let me play with it for a while. I ran at home and ran it with me. When I eat something, always give it half to eat. Puppy to eat when the time is also very interesting, in front of two legs on both sides of the bowl, behind the legs stretched the old long, the mouth into the rice, Come on, click, has been the bowl lick clean only to give up.

In the morning, it always came to knock on my door, as if to say to me: little master, get up, or the class will be late. I opened the door, it gently rushed to me, licking my nose Face, eyes. Sometimes it will be my socks Diao far away, it is really too cute.

This is my familys puppy, you met will certainly like.

我家有只小狗，是我妈妈在我生日的时候送给我的生日礼物，我很喜欢它，妈妈给它取了个可爱的名字叫旺旺旺。

My family has a puppy. Its my mothers birthday present to me on my birthday. I like it very much. My mother gave it a lovely name.

每天我放学回来第一件事就是拿东西去喂旺旺，我妈妈说过，要和小狗做朋友，就必须要好好的对它。

Every day I come back from school, the first thing is to take things to feed Wangwang, my mother said, to be friends with the puppy, it must be good to it.

所以，我平时还会帮它洗澡和带它出去玩。旺旺可调皮了，一开始每次帮它洗的时候，它总是不愿意，每次都会把我的衣服弄湿，但我也没生气，妈妈说过，多帮它洗几次它就会习惯了。

So I usually shower it and take it out to play. Want to be naughty, and at the beginning of each time to help it wash, it is always reluctant to, every time I wet my clothes, but I did not angry, mother said, and more help it wash a few times, it will get used to it.

每天晚上吃完饭，我就会牵着小狗和妈妈一起到外面散步，带它到公园和其他的小狗仔一起玩，可是旺旺太淘气了，整天欺负隔壁的阿王，妈妈就说，以后不带它出去了。旺旺虽然有点淘气，可是我还是很喜欢它，我要永远和它做朋友。

Every night after dinner, I will be holding the dog and her mother went to the outside for a walk, take it to the park and other puppies playing together, but I was too naughty, bullying next O king, mother said, dont take it out. Wangwang although a little naughty, but I still like it, I will always be friends with it.

June 23rd Sunday Sunny

It was a fine day today and the sun was bright. I visited Beijing Zoo with my classmate, He Song. The animals were so interesting that all the people loved them. When a bear asked for some food by waving its ann, a visitor threw something to it. At once I went up to him and said without thinking,Dont do that. Its bad for it. If you really love them, take good care of them. His face turned red and answered he wouldnt do that again.

6月23日星期日睛

今天是个风和日丽的好天，我和同学贺松去了北京动物园。动物们是那么可爱，大家都非常喜欢它们。一只熊挥动着胳膊向人们要吃的，一个游客就投进去了什么东西。我想都没想就走过去说：不要那样做。你的做法对它们没好处。如果真的喜欢它们，就应该爱护它们。他的脸红了，并且回答说他不会再那么做了。

[初一英语作文 爱护动物

My Favourite Teacher

Hello,my name is Jie. I have many good teachers, but my favourite teacher is Miss Li. She is a very good teacher.

She is very young, but her English is very good. She teaches us English every day. Her class has so much fun.She sings songs with us, plays games with us. We are so happy . And we learn English well. Our English are very very good.So I like her very much.

She likes reading books and playing sports. After class, Miss Li often plays sports with us. We are very happy. We all love her very much.

This is my favourite teacher.She is a good teacher .I like my English teacher very much. What about you?Do you have a good teacher, too?

我最喜欢的老师

嗨，我的名字叫杰。我有许多好老师，但我喜欢的老师是李老师。她是一个很好的老师。

她很年轻，但她的英语很好。她每天教我们英语。她的课堂很有趣。她跟我们一块唱歌，和我们一起玩游戏。我们非常快乐幸福。我们英语学得很好。我们的英语是非常好的。所以我非常喜欢她。

她喜欢读书和运动。下课后，李老师经常和我们一起运动，我们很高兴。我们非常喜欢她。

这就是我最喜欢的老师。她是一个好老师。我非常喜欢我的英语老师。你呢?你也有一个好老师吗?

去参观动物园的英语作文1

Today is Sunday. Its sunny today . I go to the zoo with my mother. I can see many animals . There are tigers ,lions ,pandas ,snakes and many more. Look ! The pandas are over there . Theyre from China . Look at the baby panda ! Its climbing trees. How cute it is ! I love pandas.

Next, we go to see the lions .The lions are so strong . Their mouths are too big. The tigers ae next to them. They are from Asia. They are yellow. At last,we go to see the monkeys . Some are climbing moutains , some are eating bananas . THey re so much fun !

I see many animals at the zoo and I m so happy today!

去参观动物园的英语作文2

last week I went to the Xiangjiang Zoo in Panyu.with my family. The zoo was very big and very beautiful , the zoo has a lot of animals , panda,lion,tiger,snake,elephant,fox Collected By Panda ws very cute and very fat , but it was not my favourite animal. Lion ws very strong , but it wasn t my favourite animal either, because it wasn t very handsome.

Tiger ws very strong and very handsome , it s my favourite animal, because it s very strong and very handsome. I feel very happy !

去参观动物园的英语作文3

The zoo provides the animals the comfortable and safe living conditions that can not be found in other places.

If the animals get hurt or ill, certain people will take care of them to prevent futher danger caused by the diseases.

Good opportunities for the people in the city especially those children who dont have the chance to set foot in the wild world.

Watching the animals in the zoo may give the parents a good chance to teach their children to love the animals and the world.

The parents can get the children know more about the animals in the zoo by watching listening even smelling instead of just looking at the dull pictures in the books.

You know, theres a lovely puppy in the aunts house. It has white hair all over the body, white as cotton candy; its eyes are black and white, like two precious stones; ears are semicircle, nose is black, tail is short. Its really beautiful!

One day, I went to the aunts home to play. As soon as I entered the door, I saw the dog barking in the doorway, as if welcoming me to his house. I saw it, smiled and said: "small naughty, do not worry, I will play with you immediately!"."

As I entered the room, I sat down on the sofa and wanted to rest for a while. But it licks me with its tongue. I cant stand this kind of "affectionate" reception, so I have to go out with him.

Outside, we played hide and seek. I hid in the middle of the back of the car, waiting for it to come to me. After a while, I saw him running nimbly towards this place. Suddenly, it came to me with a slam on the brakes, but it didnt realize my existence. So I decided to come and see what it was like.

It was the body of the hair, like a bath. It spat out its tongue against the sun. Yes, the weather is so hot today, just like the fire on the ground. But it also found me at this time. Ah! It become more lovely! Light shining white hair, looks very smooth. Its eyes were fixed on me, a smile on my face, as if to say, "look, boy, Ive found it."".

I really like this cute puppy!

My name is___________ . There are 4 people in my family. My father is a Chemistry teacher. He teaches chemistry in senior high school. My mother is an English teacher. She teaches English in the university. I have a younger brother, he is a junior high school student and is preparing for the entrance exam.

I like to read English story books in my free time. Sometimes I surf the Internet and download the E- books to read. Reading E- books is fun. In addition, it also enlarges my vocabulary words because of the advanced technology and the vivid animations.

I hope to study both English and computer technology because I am interested in both of the subjects. Maybe one day I could combine both of them and apply to my research in the future.

I have a happy family.I like my family forever.

I love my family, because I have a happy family.

My father is an English teacher. His name is Jacky. He is thirty-eight. He likes playing basketball. What’s my mother job? Is she a teacher? Yes, you’re right! My mother is very kind and nice, she is thirty-seven. My mother is always laborious work. I love my parents!

On Saturday and Sunday, I often go to the library and play the piano, My father go to play basketball. Sometimes, we watch TV and listen to music at home.

I love my family. Because I’m very happy to live with my parents together!

[介绍我的家庭英语作文5篇

My name is Jiao Rui. Im 9 years old. My birthday is May 16. Im a dog. My

weight is 95 Jin and my height is 143 cm. Im in grade 3 of Nanjing No.2 primary

school. My hair is black, my eyes are small, I am a single eyelid, my skin is

black. My mother said, "Im too fat.". I said, "although Im burnt and fat, Im

the fastest runner in my class. My favorite sport is swimming. shuttlecock. Play

football I like swimming best. I can swim six times in the natatorium. The coach

said I have made progress. I like not only sports, but also reading books. I

recommend Cao Wen to you

To solve the problems concerning making friends on line, I think, the government should take strong measures to punish those who cheat people on line.

As for those Internet users, they should be cautious when making friends on line.

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.

Nian Gao:The northerners eat Jiao Zi, but southerners like to eat Nian Gao, which translates to "New Year Cake". In Chinese, Gao is a homonym for high. Nian Gao is also called Nian Nian Gao, which is a homonym for "higher each year", symbolizing progress and promotion at work and in daily life and improvement in life year by year.

Nian Gao is a sweet, sticky, brown cake made from rice flour and sugar, a kind of glutinous white cake in the shape of rectangle. Often given as a gift, it is delicious when steamed, fried, fried with eggs or even eaten cold.

Given the importance of food in Chinese culture, it is not surprising that food plays a major role in Chinese New Year celebrations. "Lucky" foods are served through the two week Chinese New Year celebration, also called the Spring festival.

What kind of animals do you like in our common homeland - earth, how many animals do you like? Anyway, my favorite animal is our most loyal friend - dog.

My favorite dog is my neighbors home that is a Beijing dog and rounds and Coli sheep shepherd handsome. They play together every day, is a pair of good friends, I also like them, they saw me and wagged my tail came to me.

Handsome body Biao big, the body about sixty centimeters long. Two legs standing, fully able to my shoulder, his eyes, nose, mouth, ears are more than round, and most like to see him running when the figure - curly flying, like a horse. I often and round, handsome with the running, each time is handsome first, round second, my third It is no exaggeration to say that the speed of handsome hands run no less than the speed of purebred horses. The general dog ran up, will be issued a "blah" sound, handsome handsome hands up very small, not careful is not heard. Handsome handsome look is also handsome: curly flying, the body was arcuate. If you want to use a word to describe handsome, that is: handsome. If you use a word, that is: impeccable.

Relative to the handsome hands, round the size of a lot of small, only about thirty centimeters long, less than half the handsome handsome. The meaning of his name comes from his pair of eyes, it is too round. Like a shiny black gem. And his legs are round, round the name is so come. And his legs are very short, so even if he sprinkled his feet running, but also run fast, but I still like his kind of simple cute.

This is my favorite animal, you like it?

A pair of brothers received a letter which gave him a million pounds.

It turned out that the brothers made a bet, bet if a poor, honest man fall from the sky received one million pounds, he will have what results?

Brother that he would starve to death because he could not prove the money was his own, someone else will be suspected, even banks will not allow him to save money.

Brother believes that he will very well, so they brothers will check for one million pounds lent the poor, and abroad spent thirty days.

I did not expect at this time, people who suddenly rich riches rare, hard to actually draw him from the free food, buy clothes, to free accommodation, one by one like a beggar, like to please him, and continue to improve his social position, until the outdoor addition to the king on top of Duke!

Not only that, he got a good wife and thirty thousand pounds of bank interest.Since then lived very, very happy life.

See here, I am so envious of the "lucky" the hero, but I want to: The reason why people please him, not because it was too much focus on money yet?

Worship of money is shameful, something for nothing we should not!

Money is not everything in the world there are many more important things than money.

Article on the "money is everything" "Money is omnipotent," the idea for a satire and expose the ugly face of capitalist society and the rule of darkness.

参考译文：

一对兄弟收到了一封信,给了他一百万英镑。

原来兄弟打赌,赌如果一个贫穷、诚实的人从天空坠落收到一百万英镑,他会有什么结果?

哥哥,他会饿死,因为他无法证明这些钱是他自己的,别人会怀疑,甚至银行不会允许他省钱。

哥哥认为他会很好,所以他们兄弟将一百万英镑的支票借给穷人,和国外花了三十天。

我没有想到在这个时候,突然间丰富的财富的人罕见,很难真正吸引他从免费食物,买衣服,到免费住宿,一个个像乞丐一样,喜欢取悦他,并不断提高他的社会地位,直到室外除了国王公爵之上!

不仅如此,他有一个好妻子和三万英镑的银行利息。自那以后生活非常幸福的生活。

看到这儿,我很羡慕“幸运”的主人公,但我想:为什么人们请他,不是因为它太注重钱了吗?

敬拜的钱是可耻的,不劳而获我们不应该!

钱不是万能的世界上有许多比金钱更重要的东西。

文章对“金钱就是一切”“金钱是万能的,“讽刺和揭露资本主义社会的丑恶嘴脸,和黑暗的统治。

介绍自己学习英语的方法(introduced that oneself studies english the method)

now i’m going to share my experience of studying english with all of you.

i shall mention that speaking is the first skill we must learn by heart. the more we speak, the better we understand. and it’s good for you to try to speak well. as a language, english is really useful. so, we should practice it more, not only study for the examinations.

the next question is listening. if you can’t listen well, you won’t be able to understand what others say. perhaps you should do some more listening exercises when you are free, or talk with your teachers and friends in english more. reading after the tapes is also a good idea. in this way, you could try to imitate their pronunciation and improve your listening.

do you often read articles in english? i enjoy it very much. there are many great english storybooks and magazines in the stores. i have been reading the 21st century teens for a long time, and i think this copy of english newspaper is pretty good. if you are interested in them, read by yourself and you will find lots of fun from reading. and one day, you may fall in love with it.

some students may have a serious problem writing compositions. they worry about it but don’t know what to do, for their compositions are short and rambling, and they often make mistakes in grammar. of course, it’s a long process to improve your writing, but it’s not so difficult. for example, i have been keeping diaries in english since eight months ago. on the one hand, you could write more and get more experience in this way; on the other hand, you could express your feelings. isn’t it a good idea to kill two birds with one stone?

well, the most important thing is that you must think out why you study english so hard. i think i shall stress on this problem. don’t think of your test paper and marks now, think about your own life and the future of your homeland. that’s why we study so hard.

nothing is impossible in the world, believe it ,do it !

[介绍自己学习英语的方法作文

My name is Liyuanyuan. Im a boy and I am 12 yeas old, there are 4 people in my family. My father is a Chemistry teacher. He teaches chemistry in Zhengxin senior high school. My mother is a Chinese teacher. She teaches Chinese in the university. I have an elder brother; he is a junior middle school student and is preparing for the entrance exam. Im tall and I have a pair of big eyes. Now, I am in Grade 5, my study is not very good, but I like English, so my English is better than others. I like singing, drawing, playing basketball.

I like to read English story books in my free time. Sometimes I surf the Internet and download the English study materials. Because it also enlarges my vocabulary words. I think one day I can master English. Thank you.

我的名字叫黎圆圆，我是男孩，今年12岁，我们家有四口人，爸爸是一个化学老师，他在正心高中教化学，妈妈是个语文老师，她在大学里教书，我有一个哥哥，他是初中生，他准备参加入学考试，我很长的很高，眼睛很大，现在我已经五年级了，我学习不是非常好。

但是我喜欢英语，所以我的英语比别的科目好，我喜欢唱歌、画画、打篮球，在空余的时间我喜欢读英语故事书，有时也会上网和并下载英语学习资料，因为这样可以增加我的词汇量，我想我会掌握好英语。

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.