Suzhou is home to some wonderful classical-style gardens in China. The following are the greatest examples.
Zhuozheng Yuan
It's the largest and the most famous garden in Suzhou, perhaps the finest of its type in China. Throughout the centuries, the central part of the garden still contains its original Ming Dynasty flavor. Since it is such a large garden, with caves, forests, islands, bridges, paths, and all sorts of pavilions and halls, no simple description of the garden will do.
Liu Yuan
The 2.3-hectare Liu Yuan was built in 1593. The garden has Chinese couplets beside nearly every gate and door. These are two-line poems written in classical Chinese. Their use in the garden is meant to set the tone for each section and add to the reflective nature of the experience by describing or drawing attention to different features of the garden in a poetic way.
Shizilin
At a little less than one hectare in size, Shizilin was built in 1342. The garden gets its name because it is filled with strangely shaped rocks which are said to look like lions posing in various shapes. The garden's many paths wind through caves and more rocks than can be counted, making it easy to get lost. Apart from being beautiful and interesting, the garden is perhaps the oldest rock garden of its kind, making it important historically.
Huanxiu Shanzhuang
At 0.2 hectares, Huanxiu Shanzhuang is one of the smallest of the important gardens in Suzhou. Centered in a pond, a huge rockery, 7.2 meters in height, was created, using nearly every technique known in the art form. A winding path goes through and around the rockery, allowing for it to be viewed from many directions — each direction giving a different idea of what the rocks represent.
After his eighth attempt, 30-year-old Liu Zheng finally passed the National Judicial Examinations in January, the professional qualification exam that everyone wishing to be a lawyer in China must pass, in addition to getting a degree in law.
After graduating with a bachelor's in automobile engineering from the Hebei College of Science and Technology in 2015he took a job at Peking University as a security guard in the hopes that he would someday be able to pursue a master's at the prestigious (有声望的) university.
"I dreamed of studying somewhere famous, but my family's financial situation meant I had to work while I prepared for the exams," he said As he studied in his spare time, Liu developed an interest in law and decided to prepare for the National Judicial Examinations, which have a pass rate of only 10 to 15 percent.
He later became a facilities manager at the Peking University Law School to help him better prepare. Liu works from 5 p.m.to midnight. He follows a simple routine, shuttling from his dormitory to the school canteen, to classrooms and to his job and wakes up early so that he can arrive at the law school by 8 a.m. for lectures, or to study by himself for a few hours.
He said that despite his having to work, his teachers and other students have been helpful. Professors have sent textbooks and invited him to their courses, and students have sent notes of encouragement. "Nobody has treated me differently. I am just another face in the class."
Looking back over the past seven years working and studying at PKU, Liu said the experience has reaffirmed his determination to shape his future through education.
This past January, Lucy Liu reached a milestone in her art career(事业). The world-class actor, director and visual artist presented her work titled "Unhomed Belongings" in a museum exhibition for the first time.
Liu has been making art since she was a teenager and still sticks to a consistent studio practice alongside her work as an actress and director. She got her start while growing up in Queens in the 1980s, wandering New York City streets with a camera in hand. Her first artworks were photographs. After taking a class at New York Studio School, she turned to painting. "I felt like I wasn't able to express fully what I wanted with the photograph," Liu explained.
With painting, she discovered that her work didn't have to be realistic or exacting, or meet certain expectations. "Everyone has a different format for how they want to show what they are thinking about, or what they are seeing to the audience," he said. "I just had to let go of the audience and just started thinking about what I wanted to see." Over time, Liu has also experimented with sculpture, silkscreen and textiles. She looks up to artists like Willem de Kooning, Agnes Martin and Robert Frank, but she feels that her lack of a traditional art-school background has helped her to naturally grow and experiment as an artist, which helps a lot to set her apart from other artists.
Much of Liu's work traces(追溯)back to her childhood. "Because we were an immigrant family and I am first-generation, I always had this imbalance of belonging," she explained. "I think at first it was the language barrier, not speaking English, but then it started becoming about how I look." Art, she explained, became a way to reflect on her younger self. "I think that art helps evaluate some of the psychology of yourself as a child, and to throw light upon some things you may never have understood," she said.
The 2022 Future Science Prize, a privately funded science honor established by a group of famous scientists and entrepreneurs, called "China's Nobel Prize," was awarded on Sunday to three Chinese scholars for their outstanding achievement in basic scientific research, an exciting boost to encourage innovation in the country's basic science.
The Life Science Award, the Physical Science Award, and the Mathematics and Computer Science Award of the 2022 Future Science Prize respectively went to Li Wenhui, Yang Xueming, and Mok Ngai-ming, with each of them winning $ 1 million, the award organizer announced.
Lin Chao, chairman of the scientific committee of the 2022 Future Science Prize, said the winners' research has achieved great international influence. It is the spirit of exploration and continuous scientific research of these scientists that have broadened human beings' cognitive boundaries in the macro and micro world, and set the direction for an uncertain future.
The Future Science Prize aims at recognizing scientific successes and innovations in China with long-term significance to the world. Chinese research fellows generally believe the selection of famous scientists will play a positive role in encouraging innovation in basic science in China and inspire scientific eagerness among young people.
Liu Dingzhen, a professor from the College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, said that on Sunday that encouraging China's basic science is of great significance, because basic science takes a long period of time to harvest achievements but it is one of the key factors for the country to resolve bottlenecks in technology, secure supply chains in global competition and achieve the goal of becoming a powerful nation in science and technology.
The prize committee, composed of 23 outstanding scientists, is at the core of the award selection. The award ceremony of the 2022 Future Science Prize is scheduled to be held in November.
Since 2016, 24 winners have been awarded the Future Science Prize, all of whom have been widely recognized both in scientific circles and in society.
Rich and Famous
Twenty years ago the most common ambition of American children was to be a teacher, followed by working in banking and finance, and then medicine. But today's situation is quite different. . Instead, they most commonly say they want to be a sports star, a pop star, or an actor—in other words, they hope to become a celebrity.
According to experts, young people desire these jobs largely because of the wealth and the fame. . Let's take athletes and singers as an example. Many athletes' best time only lasts a few years and singers can have a very limited career. The field that was once the focus of their lives becomes something they have little or no involvement in. As a result, they'll have a feeling of worthlessness and a lack of control. Besides, it can be difficult for them to adapt back to a normal everyday life.
They are not satisfied with just making a living—they want to be rich and famous. Globally, more and more TV shows provide talent competitions where winners can achieve their goals in just a few weeks or months. This quick way of gaining wealth and fame creates a celebrity culture among people.
While many people argue that there is nothing wrong with having such ambitions, others feel that this trend will finally lead to dissatisfaction as more and more people are unable to reach their goals. That means they ignore the simple fact that great effort is needed before success. As a result, many people won't realize their childhood dreams, which could have a negative effect on their happiness.
A. They don't value talents anymore.
B. Nowadays the younger generation prefer excitement.
C. The younger generation don't favor these professions any more.
D. Unfortunately, they do not always have a positive effect on people's life.
E. The reason is that they don't realize it takes talent and hard work to be rich and famous.
F. Even so, there is greater ambition than ever among young people to achieve that status.
G. They unrealistically believe that this lifestyle is easily obtained and leads to great satisfaction.
When storm clouds gather, and the wind howls in anger, the natural reaction for most people is to seek shelter. But some run towards the 1 . Photographer Liu Yijing is one of that rare type, as he captures and 2 nature's anger.
For the past year, Liu, 21, has travelled about 24,000 kilometers across 11 provincial-level administrative regions in China, chasing (追赶) and 3 thunderstorms. From the first 4 — a small wind developing into a strong wind, a violent sky, and birds fleeing— he 5 what appears to be a 6 task.
Liu has received a great deal of 7 for his work. His photos captured a complete supercell structure, a type of thunderstorm which 8 in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Aug 22. This image has been 9 as the cover photo for the May edition of Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, a key publication in its field.
"It is a typical supercell and I still have a vivid memory about how 10 I felt the moment it formed. While recording, I couldn't 11 myself and kept screaming, he says, 12 that the picture and video have become popular on the Internet, 13 among meteorologists (气象学家).
Many social media users nicknamed him "storm chaser". A Sina Weibo user 14 that Liu's photos and videos show how amazing 15 is and how insignificant humans are.
The first English version of the famous martial arts novel, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" (《射雕英雄传》) (schedule) to come out in the UK next year.almost every Chinese person knows, the novel was written by Louis Cha, better known by his pen name, Jin Yong. London-based MacLehose Press has confirmed that the novel will come out in 12 volumes (册), with the first (set) to come out on Feb. 22.
In the publisher's promotional (introduce) of the "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the series was referred to as a Chinese version of "Game of Thrones" (《权利的游戏》). The first volume has been translated by Anna Holmwood, an English publishing agent (work) together with many famous Chinese writers, such as Yu Hua, Liu Zhenyun, and Yan Ge. Holmwood (translate) "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" since 2012, and from the second volume onwards she invited Gigi Chang to help her the translation.
Louis Cha is China's most influential martial arts author with total of 15 novels. Since the 1950s, about 100 million (copy) of his works have been sold around the world. But only three of them have been translated for the English-speaking world. They are "Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain", "The Deer and the Cauldron" and "The Book and the Sword". Louis Cha is widely recognized as one of the most (success) authors in China.
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I'm writing to tell you something about one of the most famous tourist attractions in China.
Looking forward to your early reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
Jenny was a fifth grader. She was considered one of the most popular girls in her class. She was very pretty, but that was not why she was considered popular. She was popular because she was known to be among the brightest in her class. She could do the most cartwheels in a row, but mostly, she had the talent to dance.
In February, she entered the school's dance competition and won the first place. Her whole class was there to support her. Since that day, she had been the class attraction. In December, the school was holding another dance competition, but there had been a change in the competition. The competition had to be done in pairs.
Jenny's class was looking up to her with high expectations of her winning again this year. On the other hand, Jenny was unsure of this competition outcome. She wanted to enter the competition, but she had never danced with a partner before. She decided to ask some of the boys in her class to enter with her. They all said no to her because they did not know how to dance. Jenny was becoming hesitant about joining.
She finally decided to turn to one of her closest friends, Carl. Jenny and Carl had known each other since the first grade. Carl was unwilling to join at first because he also didn't know how to dance. Jenny insisted. He eventually agreed to join the competition. Jenny was happy and relieved. However, she was still worried because she knew her class was counting on her to win this year's competition.
All she needed was some time and practice in order to increase her chances of winning. This time, it was going to be more of a challenge considering the fact that Carl was not a good dancer. The competition was in two months, and only time could predict her chances of winning.
After selecting Carl as her partner, Jenny needed to start planning for the dance competition at her school.
Jenny and Carl went up to the stage and were ready to perform.
