When most of us live in the city, we miss and look forward to the countrylife more and more. We like the sweet smell from the soil of countryside, the close touch with the nature. More and more people like to “plant ” on the internet, they enjoy the feeling of working and harvest.Why not to taste the life of a farmer?

Sweat, bug-bites, a few skull-meets-falling-orange episodes later… and I’m now officially hooked. Why? It’s fun! Whether you’re a social type or more of a contemplative loner, it’s honestly a great way to spend a few hours. Sure, there’s the do-gooder feeling that comes from knowing you’re bringing previously-wasted produce to poor families in need of nutritious food. But there’s also something actually enjoyable about plucking ripe, orange spheres from the sky and delivering them into boxes where they sort of glow against their own greenery. Before I wax too poetic about the whole thing, I’ll stop and say: Just come on. You can meet great people and make friends, or just find your own tree and let your thoughts wander while you help feed people.

If you have young children, your trip to Genting Highlands would be more complete if you visited the Strawberry Farm in Genting Highlands. It is best to visit the Strawberry Farm on the way home rather than on the way to Genting. Well, that is only my personal opinion.

You see, on the way to Genting, the kids are so excited about the prospect of playing all the games and rides, they probably couldn’t care less about picking strawberries. lol. However, on the way home, they are disappointed and a bit down and the strawberry farm is the best place to pick up their spirits again before leaving Genting. All you need is another 20-30 minutes for a walkabout.

You can handpick strawberries at the Strawberry Farm, look at the mushroom farm, the flower farm and the organic bean sprouts. There is a little Strawberry Farmhouse Cafe if you need a little snack. They also sell pretty kites and strawberry print umbrellas.

Playing Kite with your families and friends in Spring is a good recreation way and sports. This is not only a chance to touch with the nature, but also a good way of enjoy life.

Kite as a Chinese invention, has been praised as the forerunner of the modern aeroplane.They began there use in the military’s of China and then became and intricate part of their arts and entertainment.Chinese kites became so popular they spread worldwide. Now they are used for art, competition and even sports like surfing.

Most ancient Chinese butterfly kites were made from carefully chosen bamboo and silk cloth. However, light-weight paper or tissue is sometimes used as a sail material.

The weight and strength of the sail material, whether tissue or silk, must be matched to the size of the kite being made. The sails are made slightly over-size, with the excess material folded over the outline of the kite frame and glued down.

With silk kites, the sail is generally painted after the kite is constructed. The kite frame conveniently holds the silk taut while the brush strokes are applied. However, mass produced silk kite sails are screen printed before being cut out and attached to the kites.

Paper lends itself to having the art work done first, before it is attached to the kite frame. This includes applique, where colored cut-outs are glued to the sail to form a design.

Summarizing the methods, a kite can be hand-painted, screen printed, appliqued, or even a combination of these.

My family and I enjoy the art of Chinese kite making. There’s nothing more gratifying that seeing the kite you made in flight. Kite Crafts teach kids construction abilities, problem solving, patience and art all in one easy to do project. Kites are the foundation for many great inventions we see today, such as the Airplane, ever heard of it? Chinese kites are where it all started!

Lantern Festival or Yuanxiao Jie is a traditional Chinese festival, which is fall on the 15th of the first month of the Chinese New Year. It is the last day of two week long Chinese New Year cerebration. People with their family will gather in the show place to enjoy the beautiful lanterns displayed by individuals or the local municipal. Kids will carry their own lanterns to participate in the showcase. Usually there is competition for the most beautiful lantern.

There was a beautiful bird flew down to the earth from the heaven. It was hunted by the village people. The Jade Emperor in Heaven was very anger, because the bird was his favorite one. He ordered to destroy the village and kill all people with a storm of fire on the 15th lunar day. The daughter of Jade Emperor heard of this act of vengeance, and warned the villagers to prepare for that. Everybody worried about it and no one had any idea to face the fact.

Luckily, a wise man past the village and made the suggestion that every house should hang red lanterns around the house, setup campfire on the street, explode the bamboo firecracker, made fireworks on 14th, 15th and 16th lunar days. In this way, Jade Emperor might think all village people die under fire and all the villagers can save their lives and properties.

On the night of 15th lunar day, the troop coming down from the heaven looked the village was ablaze and returned back to heaven to report the Jade Emperor. Satisfied with the result, the Jade Emperor decided not to burn down the village. From that day on, people celebrated the anniversary on 15th lunar day every year by carrying red lanterns on the streets and explode the firecracker and fireworks.

The lantern displays can be found in the town center square and temples. Usually. there is the lantern competition at the temple. Traditional lanterns are made by paper. They can make the lantern tuning around by the heat circulation from the candle inside. Today the light of the lantern is from the electricity. People like to design lantern using zodiac animals, historical figures, saint and gods of Taoism or Buddhism. Certainly, the current year’s animal symbol of the Chinese calendar is most popular subject. Using the computer tool today, they can design the lantern with different movements, the different colors of light and even using the laser light with special visual and sound effects.

Lantern Festival is also called. Yuan-Xiao Festival. This is because Chinese eat Yuan-Xiao on this day. This custom originated from the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the fourth century, then became popular during the Tang and Song Dynasty.

Yuan-Xiao just like Tang-Yuan . They are made of sweet rice flour into sticky glutinous balls. They can be filled in with sesame, red-bean or peanut butter paste. Usually, they are severed with sugar water. But some people still make salty Tang-Yuan.

The difference between Yuan-Xiao and Tang-Yuan is the way they are made and cooked. This is because that Chinese in different geographic area prepare the food in different way. Chinese call the one they eat on Winter Solstice Day is Tang-Yuan. The one they eat on the Lantern festival is called Yuan-Xiao.

Who wants a cup of tea? It’s not just Britons, old ladies and laborers enjoying a cuppa any more, with the world’s most consumed drink after water getting a make-over and attracting younger, more discerning fans.

The Chinese have a saying:”‘Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea”, They are the most important things in everyone’s life. If you notice that, you will find the tea is the seventh necessities to begin a day, Yes, we still can see the importance of tea in daily life.

Chinese tea culture not only expressing on drinking, but also in tasting.Tea drinking is for refreshment and tonic effect. but Tea tasting is a higher level drinking. it is not for satisfy one’s thirst, but a enjoying course.Tea tasting has cultural meaning. Tea and tea wares should match surrounding elements such as breeze, bright moon, pines, bamboo, plums and snow. All these show the ultimate goal of Chinese culture: the harmonious unity of human beings with nature.

Tea has also gained popularity in recent years due to a heightened awareness of its health benefits, with study after study praising it for helping to ward off diseases.

According to the United Kingdom Tea Council, an independent body set up to promote tea drinking, tea can help to reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease while its high levels of antioxidants are also beneficial.

One of the latest studies, which emerged at the First International Congress on Abdominal Obesity, claimed tea could help slim the waistline. A recent Japanese study also found that elderly people who drink several cups of green tea a day are less likely to suffer from depression.

There is about half a month left before Chinese Spring Festival. Like the Christmas in the Western, Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. All of the people in China will go their home and have a reunion with their families. Reunion is the most important thing for Festival. No matter the distance they live, they will try to go home in that day.

Chuxi (New Year’s Eve) is the last evening of the twelfth lunar month. In Chinese, Chu literally means remove or change, and Xi means night. Thus Chuxi implies that the old year ends at this night, and the new one begins tomorrow.The reunion dinner, sacrificing to the ancestors, watching Spring Festival Party on CCTV , and staying up till 12 o’clock, are the major activity in Chuxi.

After the dinner, the whole family sit together, chatting and watching TV, and stay stay up late till the morning to guard the year. The houses are lit up brightly with lamps both outside and inside of the house.

On each New Year’s Eve, each family also sticks on their doors spring couplets and blow up firecrackers. Early in the morning of the 1st of the first lunar month they go to their relatives and friends’ to send their regards and congratulations.

The fireworks and the red color serve in order to drive away the year’s monster nian (in Chinese: year), for which according to a legend the Chinese once had immense fear and did conceal themselves in their flats in the evening until they found out, that the monster would come only one time during the year and that it feared noise and red color.

At the New Year’s Day during the morning, the Jiaozi, which were prepared in the evening before, are traditionally cooked. Afterwards, the family will gather in order to eat lunch together. However, nowadays, many families prefer going to a restaurant instead of spending New Year’s Day at home.

The Chinese spring festival traditionally ends with the Lantern Feast, which takes place on the 15th day of the New Year. The temples are decorated with lanterns at that day. Families go for a walk with self-made (or bought) lanterns holding in their hands and they eat the famous yuebing (moon cake), since there is a full moon at that day.

A family car needs to be adaptable, to accommodate an adult or teen driver; equipped with safety features to protect passengers of all ages and sizes; offer a range of flexibility to add cargo space when needed; and provide easy access to rear seats (for car seats or adults who may sit in back).

“Families come in all shapes and sizes,” says Kristin Varela, chief mother and senior editor at motherproof.com, which evaluates vehicles with children in mind. “And this is the up-and-coming sandwiched generation that is caring for aging parents and young children.”

With development of the auto industry,  the environment problems become a vital issue for people all over the world. So when you are enjoying the life brought by the auto, you  need to save the energy as possible as you can.

To buy a fuel-efficient car is a good choice.When it comes to fuel economy, it should be a concern for anyone buying a family car since gas prices have topped $4 a gallon. However, safety features are at the top of consumers’ considerations, according to a study by Ford Motor Company . Ford found that nearly 70% of car buyers are interested in side air bags, and 65% are interested in electronic stability control.

But since fuel prices can’t be ignored entirely, Consumer Reports says a combined mpg of 17 to 20 or higher is a good target for a family ride. Keep in mind, however, the larger the family–and, hence, the family car–the lower the fuel economy is likely to be. That’s not to say, however, that automakers don’t do their best to build larger cars that don’t guzzle gas.

Christmas Eve

Though the Christmas day sourced from the Western, it  is widely popular with the young all over the world. Such as me.I am a Chinese,  I like the Chinese festival, such as the Spring Festive. But the Chrismas is another festival I liked. The two are very different to me.When it come to Spring Festive, I miss my families very much. In China, The Spring festival stands for the reunion of a families. when the spring comes, every one will go home to meet others no matter how long the way to home. While the Chrismas let me happy like a Child. The music, the Father Chrismas, the Cart etc.

The Chrismas Eve is coming, forget all of the annoyance and unhappiness. Let’s enjoy the moment of happiness.You can do:

Prepare a special Christmas Eve meal. If Christmas dinner means ham or turkey, perhaps you can make a warm pot of chili. Or cook traditional foods from your culture on Christmas Eve, whether it’s Italian, Polish or Korean.

Host a Christmas Eve party that gathers your friends for an evening of food, laughter and good memories.

Get the children involved. Make a Gingerbread House or cookies for Santa. Allow the kids to track Santa’s progress by radar on the Internet. After leaving cookies and milk for Santa, read “A Visit from St. Nicholas” and tuck in the kids for a special Christmas Eve night.

Wish others a Merry Christmas. You don’t have to worry that you will offend them. If they want to wish you a Happy Hanukkah, in response, thank them and wish them the same. Wishing others a Merry Christmas helps spread the cheer.

Give to others. Whether to your family and friends, or to others less fortunate, spend some time this Christmas in giving. We give in remembrance of the gifts of the Magi to the Savior, but at the very heart of it all, recall that we are to give because He first gave to us.

This is the second day of Climate Conference in Copenhagen. It is essential for the worlds climate and the Danish government and UNFCCC is putting hard effort in making the meeting in Copenhagen a success ending up with a Copenhagen Protocol to prevent global warming and climate changes.

As a part of the globle, I think we have the duty to protect our unique and common home, the globle. What do we need to do in our lives? I think a healthy life style and habite will be a useful and effective method. Such as saving the water, electricity, gas and so on.

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