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China's traditional Qingming Festival, also called Tomb Sweeping Day, usually falls on the first day of the fifth solar term on the lunisolar calendar, and this year, it's the 4th of April. Tomb Sweeping is the most important custom of the festival.
The weather will get warmer with the coming of spring. People usually like to go for an outing at this time of the year. Up to now, I still remember one of my spring outings. It was a very interesting experience. One weekend, my schoolmates and I dec
Our school usually holds a spring sports meeting each year. The spring sports meet this year was held last Friday. Many students took an active part in it. So did I. The sports meet began at 8 oclock. After the opening, all kinds of races, both field
A new species of primate has been identified and named the Skywalker hoolock gibbon at the Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve in southwest China. The Star War gibbon in China lives to the east of the Irrawaddy river. [Photo: Yun Shan] While the an
'Silent Spring' Turns Fifty In the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was spraying more than a quarter-million kilograms of pesticides each year. Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, revealed that pesticides like DDT were lethal not only for insec
Official data shows China see robust sales during the week-long Chinese New Year holiday. Tourists visit the Ruins of St. Pauls during the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday or Spring Festival in Macau, China, 10 February 2016. [Photo: IC] Tourists visit
Chinese authorities are anticipating a significant boost to the national tourism sector during this year's Spring Festival holiday. A new survey suggests that 83% of the people in China are willing to travel through the first quarter of the year, wit
A group of orphans were invited to the Chinese embassy in Zimbabwe to share the happiness of traditional Chinese New Year and Spring Festival celebrations. CRI's correspondent in southern Africa, Gao Junya, brings us the story. At an open house event
Doing Spring Cleaning Malcolm: Do we really need to start doing spring cleaning today? Lorna: We really should. The drapes need to be washed, the walls need to be wiped down, and the attic needs cleaning out. And we really should clean the upholstery
051 The Flower Greet the Spring It was a very cold winter. The seeds of the flowers were crouching in a room under the ground. The room was comfortably warm. The seeds were all sleeping peacefully. One day, it rained moistly. The raindrops sank into
Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' Celebrates 100 The opening notes of The Rite of Spring are iconic and beloved today. But for many audience members who came to the Ballet Russes in 1913, they were unwelcome. A bassoon had likely never been performed in
Thursday marks a traditional Chinese festival, called Xiao Nian, or Little Spring Festival, which is celebrated on the 23rd day of the last lunar month. According to Chinese tradition, Xiao Nian is a day for people to offer sacrifices to the Kitchen
今天我们要学的词是spring break。 Spring break, 春假。虽然经济不景气,但是春假旅游的学生并不见少。 It is estimated that the number of students visiting Cancun this spring break will remain the same as it was last yea
Pre-Listening Vocabulary energized: feeling awake and ready to do something physical wardrobe: all of the clothing that you own serotonin: a chemical that affects ones moods melatonin: a hormone that helps you fall asleep endorphin: a hormone that ac
While Chinese people bask in the afterglow of Lunar-New-Year celebrations, a BBC documentary - entitled Chinese New Year, the Biggest Celebration on Earth - is coming to CCTV's documentary channel. It reflects the growing global recognition of the fe
China's State Council recently encouraged local governments to experiment with giving primary and high school students a spring and autumn break. Students in China currently have only two breaks - usually two months in summer and one month in winter
Zhang Yu, from Shanghai, has plans to visit cities across the country during the Spring Festival holiday. He is using a new car-pooling service to give rides to others who plan to travel during the holiday. It would be good if I can share my car with
Spring makes Wenatchee come alive. Because there are so many flowering trees, like Dogwoods and Magnolias, the town becomes full of pink and white. There are also lots of orchards still; apple, pear, apricot, and cherry trees are grown in this area,
Nearly a thousand local residents braved the continuous snowfall and cold weather Wednesday evening in Ottawa, capital city of Canada, to watch the Carnival China Style 2013 variety show. I bring my daughter, my step-daughter and my mother-in-law. So
Over 300 million railway trips have been made during this year's spring festival travel rush - though the latest numbers only count until the end of February. The highest single-day travel happened on February 14th - Valentine's Day - with over 10 mi