During the past winter, I have been wearing a dark blue down wears with a dorky hood behind it. Now, the cold snap is gaving way to warm stream, but I have no the same impulsion to put on blazers as before. Quite to the contrary, I pick up a dark brwon thin cotton jacket. The reason is simple--the sky is brown too. The biggest sandstorm since 1999 is waltzing through our motherlands. Harbin is just one of its stop. Designating yellow sand to knock open the door of spring instead of green grass, anyway, is not an expected way for us to usher in an engaging spring. In my memory, we should greet spring in the same way as Zhu Ziqing, a famous writer in China—In longing, the east wind is coming, the footstep of spring is becoming clearer. The whole world looks just awake, opening their eyes with surprise: Hills look bright and wet. Water is surging secretly. The face of sun is becoming ruddy…Spring is like a nascent baby, every part of it is new and is appealing…

While these years, springs always stagger toward us with the company of nasty sands and big winds. It is reportedly that in the soutern of china, which is not usually an stopover of sandstorm, is visited by sandstrom too this year and people in this region don’t know how to deal with sandstorms at all. According to a picture, a lady is staggering in a street, wearing a plastic bag on her head. Through the plastic bag, I discern a little panic and worry on her contenance.

In March20, Shandong province was hit by this sandstorm from west to east. The air was teemed with unbearable sands. No more pedestrians appeared in the streets. The whole pavement, surface of vehicles were covered with a brown gauze. According to the introduction of meteorologists, this sandstorm would affect an area of 180 million square kilometres, altogether 0.27 billion people would have intimate contact with the brown gauze.

And sandstorm has a new taste now---going aboard. Yesterday night, The middle of Honshu of Japan was dropped by yellow sandstorm ensued a heavy thunderstorm. It is reported that Japanese is plagued by sandstorm in this season with vehicles covered with a layer of earth, clothes stained by dirty raindrops. In other seasons, Japanese usually wash their cars monthly but now they wash them more frequently. We chinese at last can retaliate Japanese for their rampage in China in last centrury., but the cost we spend is quite huge.

For human beings, sandstorm is not a thing worthy of praise. The worry and fear of people toward sandstorm base not only on the nasty vision and discomfortable smell of earth, illnesses caused by it, but also on the adverse damage it imposes on plantation, people and husbandry safety.

Living with the sandstorm, quite a lot people walk outside with a mouthmask or a gauze scarf. These are unwilling choice: Who prefer to welcome spring in thick clothes. Scientific study shows that sandstorm is a hazardous weather whose forming result from globle warming, Elnino phenomanon, sharpe decrease of forest, deterioration of plantation and extinction of creatures. Among them, elements, related to population explosion, such as, excessive exploition of nature resources, excessive cutting down forest, excessive reclaimant of farmlands, are main reasons of freqhent standstorm. These years, in order to reduce the sandstorm, people do some strenuous work.. But desertification is still crunching farmlands. Compared to the prodigious debt we owed to our Mature Nature, those poor trees we plant, those lots which we change into groves from farmlands, those environment protection facilities, are nothing. What human beings repay nature is meager. We must acknowledge that the ubiquitous yellow sands are just the protest of nature aginst the nonstop usurping of its nature resources .

Spring is on her way, we can’t order the wind to recede and, we can’t scold the occasion fierceness of nature. On the countrary, we should thank sandstorm for its tolling the alarming bell for us. Those who living in the regions where sandstorm comes into being have the direct responsibilities of stymieing the march of desertification. We who live afar from those regions are not spectators too. Protecting our environment is our common challenging task and anyone can’t shy away from it. It is time for us to react to this crisis. Only when we all are equiped with environment consciousnesses, take care of our environemnt commonly, live low carbon lives, spring can come again with a refreshing smell of newly churned earth in her wind, blending with taste of green grass and fragrances of al kinds of flowers…