Shares Dragon Boat Festival

McJohn 2020-5-16 17:59

Dragon Boat Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. This festival is a cheerful occasion, for on this day-the fifth day of the fifth lunar month- Chinese people would have a series of celebration. One of the celebrating activities is the Dragon Boat race.  ...

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Shares Travelled by air

McJohn 2020-2-7 10:01

18 years ago, I took my first flight when I was getting my first job as a tour guide. On May 1st-Labor Day, I was instructed by the travel company to take a bunch of tourists flying from Guangzhou to Kunming where is a big city in Southwest China. As the distance is not very ...

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Shares The biggest environmental concern

McJohn 2020-2-4 13:38

I had suffered a worst environment 17 years ago. In the early 2000s, I was living by a smelly canal which flowed through the midst of the city. At that time, I was usually waken up several times by a stench of the canal during a night. As ...

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Shares Death news around the Lunar New Year

McJohn 2020-1-31 15:44

When Chinese New Year was 9 days to go, before the new type of coronavirus was taken seriously in the whole country, on January 16, the famous Chinese news anchor and television host, Mr. Zhao Zhongxiang, died on his birthday in the morning at the age of 78. Zhao was not only the first C ...

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Shares The longest and worst Spring Festival ever

McJohn 2020-1-28 14:43

When the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission stated that 27 cases of a new type of coronavirus had been confirmed on December 31, no one took it seriously. As several of the patients had passed away, and two new cases of whom had never been Wuhan were diagnosed in Guangzhou later, experts b ...

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Shares True lie

McJohn 2020-1-25 23:03

When I was a little boy, each time I kept crying, I would be told that a tiger would soon come out from a mountain and down to the village to eat some crying kids. This is a common way for Chinese parents to prevent children from crying. However, if the tiger story doesn’t work, the ch ...

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Shares Lady Meng Jiang and the Great Wall

McJohn 2020-1-15 18:17

It was 2250 years ago, in 230 B.C., China had been divided into seven states. The King of the Qin State which was the strongest one of seven decided to unify the whole China. Then he invaded the other states by war. It took him ten years to beat six states ...

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Shares Regarded as a bad guy

McJohn 2020-1-4 10:38

Many years ago, a well-known English training institution set up a branch in my city. Right from the start, they stated that every English learner would have an opportunity to have a class for free for the first time. So I went. After the class had been finished, as soon as I w ...

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Shares What kind of international?

McJohn 2019-12-29 21:27

Last Sunday, I was taking part in a so-called International Marathon Race which was held in my city. When I opened the Runner’s Guide a few days before the race began, I could see nothing written in English except the race title on its cover. "What kind of international race without any ...

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