orange is One Of the fruits that I like the most. In the first place it is a perennial–if not in actual fact, at least in the greengrocer’s shop. On the days when dessert is a name given to a handful of chocolates and a little preserved ginger, when macédoine de fruits is the title bestowed on some raisins and two prunes, then the orange, however sour, comes nobly to the rescue; and on those other days of plenty when cherries and strawberries and kiwi-fruits riot together upon the table, the orange, sweeter than ever, is still there to hold its own. Bread and rice, beef and mutton, eggs and milk, are not more necessary to an ordered existence than the orange.
It is well that the commonest fruit should be also the best. Of the virtues of the orange I have not room fully to speak. It has properties of health giving, as it cures influenza and establishes the complexion. It is clean, for whoever handles it on its way to your table but handles its outer covering, its top coat, which is left in the hall. It is round, and forms an excellent substitute with the young for a tiny football. The pips can be flicked at your enemies, and quite a small piece of peel makes a slide for an old gentleman.
But all this would count nothing had not the orange such delightful qualities of taste. I dare not let myself go upon this subject. I am a slave to its sweetness.
Yet with the orange we go live year in and year out. That speaks well for the orange. The fact is that there is an honesty about the orange which appeals to all of us. If it is going to be bad–for the best of us are bad sometimes–it begins to be bad from the outside, not from the inside. How many a pear which presents a blooming face to the world is rotten at the core. How many an innocent-looking apple, is harboring a worm in the bud. But the orange has no secret faults. Its outside is a mirror of its inside, and if you are quick you can tell the shopman so before he slips it into the bag.
May 7, 2010
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Spring Festival
Spring Festival is a festival of family reunion, and the West that is very similar to Christmas. At this time the children leave home to return to their parents at home. Chinese New Year the night before really called “New Year’s Eve”, also known as “Reunion Night”, “college years.” Reunion night, families gathered family, talk about the old days if a new, to encourage each other to congratulate. In northern China at this time there is the custom of eating dumplings, dumplings, and the approach is to face, “and” the word is “competent”; dumplings the dumplings and “pay” euphony, “competent” and “settlement” has the meaning together, Also check “to pay more-year-old son” was conveyed. Therefore, a symbol of reunion with the dumplings. And the South have the habit of eating rice cakes, a symbol of life step by step.
titan, hi paste New Year couplets,decorated, we see off the old New Year’s bustling activities.
From the traditional New Year’s Eve celebrations continued until the fifteenth day of Lantern Festival. Festive atmosphere of one month to continue.祭灶before the first day, worship, to wipe dirty. To be affixed on the 30th god, couplet, flags, eating dumplings, fireworks, New Year’s Eve “守岁” and other ceremonies; day the first New Year’s younger generation to their elders, and then New Year to friends and relatives at home. Friends and relatives when the first meeting, say “hi, like to congratulate the new,” “Kung Hei Fat Choi”, “Congratulations,” “Happy New Year”, etc., then congratulate each other. New son-in-law to the New Year at home parents, the general election in the Year. The elderly since the beginning of the age of 60 nominal age, per decade during the Spring Festival hosted IP,
In addition, throughout the New Year in addition to visiting each other, also to the children section of New Year, lion dance, playing the dragon, his agency fire, go to the flower market, the main attraction, such as customs. Lantern town during this period, visitors to the streets, an unprecedented …… until the Lantern Festival (fifteenth day) after the end of the Spring Festival to be.