Christmas is a Christian holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. No one knows the exact date of Christ's birth, but most Christians observe Christmas on December 25. On this day, many go to church, where they take part in special religious services. During the Christmas season, they also exchange gifts and decorate their homes with holly

Christmas
The Feast of Christmas
It is not easy to pin-point the origins of the Christmas feast, today the more important feast of the Christmas season in most western Christian churches. One can only say for certain that the birth of Jesus Christ was being celebrated in Rome by the year 336 A.D.; afterwards the feast was celebr

　　 MUTABILITY
　　The flower that smiles to-day
　　To-morrow dies;
　　All that we wish to stay
　　Tempts and then flies.
　　What is this world's delight?
　　Lightning that mocks the night,
　　Brief even as bright.
Virtue, how frail it is!
　　Friendship how rare!
　　Love, how it sells poor bliss
　　For prou

The ICD had its origin in the World Conference for the Wellbeing of Children in Geneva, Switzerland in 1925. It is not clear as to why June 1 was chosen as the ICD: one theory has it that the Chinese consul-general in San Francisco (USA) gathered a number of Chinese orphans to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in 1925, which happened to b

Life comes in a package. This package includes happiness and sorrow, failure and success, hope and despair. Life is a learning process. Experiences in life teach us new lessons and make us a better person. With each passing day we learn to handle various situations.
Love
Love plays a pivotal role on o

Titanic- it has many different names: the Ship of Dreams (梦幻之船), the Unsinkable Ship, and the worst Maritime Disaster (海难) in all of history. Designed and manufactured by the White Star Line Company, this huge British luxury liner weighed approximately (大约) 46,000 gross tons.
Titanic set

A security guard picks up a shoe that was thrown towards Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao at the University of Ca

Help! Doctor!
Help!  Doctor! Please come quickly!
"My ten-year-old son has just swallowed a pen!"
"Ok , I'll be right there. I'll be there in 10 to 20 minutes."
"Good,but....what am I supposed to do in the meantime?"
"Just use another pen!"
急诊
“唉！医生！你赶快来！
我那个十岁的小孩刚刚吞下去一支笔！”

Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.
　　　　 在遇到梦中人之前，上天也许会安排我们先遇到别的人；在我们终于遇见心仪的人时，便应当心存感激

Living Like a PigOne day, a guru foresaw in a flash of vision what he would be in his next life. So he called his favorite disciple and asked him what he would do for his guru in return for all he had received. The disciple said he would do whatever his guru asked him to do.
Having received this promise, the guru said, "Then this is wh

The Close Alliance
One day a farmer went with his bullocks to plough his field. He had just turned the first furrow, when a tiger walked up to him and said, "Peace be with you, friend! How are you this fine morning?"
"The same to you, my lord, and I am pretty well, thank you!" returned the farmer, quaki

Bear and fox What was
the young's
name?THE big bear and the clever fox had once bought a firkin of butter together; they were to have it at Christmas-tide, and hid it till then under a thick spruce bush.
      After that they went a little way off and lay down on a sunny bank to slee

A Drum A poor woman had only one son. She worked hard cleaning houses and grinding grain for the well-to-do families in town. They gave her some grain in return and she lived on it. But she could never afford to buy nice clothes or toys for her son. Once, when she was going to the market with some grain to sell, she asked her son,

One More Use for Artists A great raja's daughter was beautiful and talented, and she loved to hunt in the woods on horseback. One day, as she was galloping after a fine buck, she suddenly found herself in a dense forest, all alone. She climbed a tree to see if she could spot her followers anywhere in the distance. As she reached th