The Chinese zodiac animal is calculated by the birthday, so different birth day has different zodiac animal. I wrote a tiny program to calculate it, it is easy to know what is your zodiac animal via it.

New site has done, the next work is popularize it. There make a todo list to achieve my aim:

1. Blogging an article to introducing the new website. Actually, this article is the right article;

2. Submit it to my delicious account and digg account, I guess there must be someone like my bookmark;

3. Exchange the site link with other websites, this way is a diffcult method for me, because I don’t know how to do it. But I have to try;

4. Publish an advertisment, but I would spent lots money on this way, just want to buy some cheap AD banner for it;

5. Make a email list that who asked me the zodiac question, and sent email to them.

Last week, I went to climbing, I like outdoors, and found a crying baby, it’s a good story for blogging I think, so I got the process.

In fact, I don’t know why the baby crying, but never try to understanding them, because you never know what they are thinking, right?

Ouch, You Hurt Me!

It doesn’t matter what you say, or what you do.

Everything just changed, forever.

Unless you apologize, I’ll let you know who am I.

This is not the end.

The more I thought about it, the angrier I grew.

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Have you ever tried to view a city on the top of a bus? It must be exciting and amazing. CitySights NY can do it. CitySights NY is operating a brand new fleet American-made buses, uniquely-designed with seating on the top deck only to offer all of its passengers a grand view of the sites of New York City’s attractions, neighborhoods and places of interest.

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The dragon dance is a traditional Chinese custom. When there is a festival, especially during the spring festival, people all over China will do the dragon dance to express their hope for peace and prosperity.

The origin of the dragon dance custom was the Chinese totem of dragon. Chinese people have been worshiping the dragon since ancient time. However, the dragon does not really exist. We can see that a dragon has a deer’s antlers, a horse’s head, an ox’s ears, a snake’s body, a fish’s scales, an eagle’s talon and a tiger’s soles. In fact, the image of the dragon was the combination of animals with power and good auspice, thus it became a sacry beast in the mind of Chinese people.

In the feudal society, the dragon was a symbol of imperial power. The emperor was called “the Son of Heaven” and “A Real Dragon”. There were dragons on the emperor’s clothes and chairs. His body and expressions are all those of a dragon. The dragon’s symbolic meanings showed that it was a perfect and authoritative image in Chinese people’s mind. However, the dragon belonged not only to the emperors. From the beginning of its appearance, the dragon has been the totem for all Chinese people. It symbolized their seeking for peace, justice and self-empowerment.

Chinese people consider themselves as “descendants of the dragon”. Therefore, they worship, respect and love the dragon. They have held different kinds of ceremonies to worship the beast, which has generated the dragon boat competitions, the dragon lantern display, and the dragon dance, etc.

The dragon dance skills and set forms are not complicated. There is no fixed set form besides a few set movements. The dancers can design their movements according to their own understandings. There is no fixed rule. Therefore, everyone can be a dragon dancer, and express himself through the dance.

The flexibility of the dragon dance makes it an activity for men and women, old and young. Moreover, its mobility, and requiring for team work makes it a very popular sport in China. According to some statistics, there are tens of millions of people in China join the dragon dance every year.

In the westerners’ mind, dragons are vicious and terrifying. However, Chinese people consider the dragon as a symbol of power. It can beat down the vicious beasts and terrifying monsters that endangers the human kind. It is a god of peace and stability. Through different kinds of dragon dances, Chinese people express their wishes for happiness and fortune. Thus the dragon dance has been popular in China for thousands of years.

The lion dance always appears with the dragon dance in celebrations as a wish for peace and prosperity. However, unlike the dragon dance, the lion dance is not for everyone to join in. It requires high skills of the dancers. One can not be a good lion dancer without long-time training and practice.

The lion is not a totem of Chinese people. It is even not a Chinese animal. The lion came to China with the spread of Buddhism. Buddhism was born in India, and the lion’s hometown was there, too. Legend has it that the Gotama Buddha had the voice of a lion when he explained the sutra to his disciples. So the lion is a sacred beast of Buddhism. As time goes by, Buddhism declined in its birthplace, but it has become part of Chinese culture by combining with the local customs. The sacred lion of Buddhism has become another god of peace and stability for Chinese people.

The same as the dragon dance, the lion dance was a religious activity in the beginning. However, it lost its religious features as time goes by, becoming a common entertainment and sport.

There are two kinds of Chinese lion dance, that in the north and the south. The northern lion dance focuses on flexibility, likeness, and has many difficult movements. The southern lion dance focuses on the likeness of the characteristics, and does not pay much attention to seemingly-real appearance.

The vivid Chinese dragon and lovely Chinese lion have gradually become popular all over the world. The professional Chinese dragon and lion dancers have been invited to foreign countries for many times, for either performances or lectures. The good wishes in the dragon and lion dance will become a beauty in the world’s arts through the effort of these artists and people all over China. Of course, if you want to really feel the charm of the dance and the Chinese spirit, welcome to China during the Chinese festivals.

I figured that the one child policy is a specialty policy only China, any other countries has no this policy, right? One child policy means that advocating one child for one couple, not allowed the second for them.

Around the world, whether other countries carry out this policy? I have to agree, this policy effective control the population for China. Howevery, China’s population is too large, there were roughly 1.3 billion people there, it accounted for one a fifth of the world’s population.

One child policy performed since 1979, I was born in 1982, that is to say I am very fortunate to catch up with this policy - I am a singleton, no brothers and no sisters.

So far, this policy as a basic national policy has been performed more than 25 years, so most Chinese young people are singleton today.

The aging society question in China is more and more pressing at present, that is to say China faces with the problem of the population fault, and perhaps decades later, the number of China’s population will be a huge decline.

Thus on the issue of population control, as same as 25 years ago, Chinese government have to research how to increase the population and control the population balance. The solution of the population control will be a fairly long and complex process, the key is people who have to really see the long term.

So as to prevent population fell sharply, one child policy has been modified. In some cities, allowed the second baby for couples if the dad and mon are all singelton. That means if someone is singelton, and his wife also singleton, they could get two babies :D

I’m not sure the modify is really, because I did not read news from any offical newspaper.

I like children, and I think two children is better. If there just one child in a family, it’s too lonely for the child. I am lonely when I was a child, no friends and brothers play with me in my childhood. If I became father, I hope my wife is going to have two babies. If three, I will be the happiest, three children must be very funny for a family.

How did you think about the China’s one family one child policy? Is there similar policy in your country? How many children do you want?

I created a subject in community for this topic, so if you have any question or words about this article, please talking with me in the community.

In Chinese has an old saying: Spring rain is more precious than oil. It’s spring now, so the rain must be important for farmers, it foretold this year is a harvest year in the Autumn.

In past time, Beijing was a lack water city, so rain is a valued resources. The emperors visited the Temple of Heaven every year, they asked god for rain and good harvest. Spring and summer, people put water urn in their quadrangle that catching or collecting the rainwater.

Today, Beijing changed to a modern city, there is no farm and farmers. But modern city need trees and green plants, so rain is also very important. But Beijing lacks water too, there blow sandstorm in Spring, last week the wind brought a lot of sand yet.

Yeah, today is rainny, so tomorrow must be a good weather.

I found the new version is more easy and clearly, but it also added more functions. So, I have to learn it for some times.

The processing of the upgrade is easy, I export and import the database, then installed the template that designed by myself, and the last added the friend links (Blogroll) manual.

Then, modified some tiny options, as like as the Settings, Prelinks, Ping Servies, etc, that’s all

It’s the second upgrading in my blogging life, the first time is upgrade from wordpress 1.7 to 2.3, the second time is from 2.3 to 2.7.1, I like blogging, and I will go on.

There is a community in the new website, if you want to talking with me, please visiting the community, and posting any subject you want.

In the new website, the first column is Beijing Impression, the articles will be sync here in the first time.

I will posting “Beijing Impression” every week, 3 to 5 pictures per post.

The Prince Gong’s Mansion or Gong Wang Fu Museum is located in the western part of central Beijing, China, north of the Shichahai Lake. Consisting of large mansions in the typical siheyuan laylout and gardens, the Pince Gong’s Mansion is known as one of the most ornate and extravagant residence compounds in all of Beijing. (Prince Gong’s Mansion)

Jiumen Xiaochi is a famous snack seller in modern Beijing, there are a lot of traditional foods selling. There are 11 old and famous enterprises, you can eat hundreds snacks if you can.

This taxi is an unusual style in Beijing. I saw this style first, and it likes England Taxi I think.

And today will show another for you. It’s also named Beijing Botanical Garden, yeah, these two gardens have the same name, and they were built togeither, but the second is smaller than the first one.

The other two Botanical Gardens in Beijing are Beijing Education Botanical Garden and Beijing Chinese Medicine Herb Garden. I never went to there, if I have time, I will go to visitting them and take some photos.

Beijing Botanical Garden (the smaller one) nearby the laggest botanical garden, it was founded in 1956, it is base for researches for conservation of biodiversity and plant germplasm and for their sustainable use in northern China.

Among the display areas are the Arboretum, Perennial Garden, Rose Garden, Magnolia and Peony Garden, Chinese Medicinal Herb Garden, Gymnosperm Section, Wild Fruit Tree Resources Section, Environment-Protection Plants Section, Aquatic and Climbing Plants Garden, Rare and Endangered Plants Section, Crape Myrtle Garden, and Tropical and Subtropical Plant Houses.

The Botanical Garden had a collection of nearly 6000 plant species and varieties from home and abroad, which is one of the largest site for ex situ conservation among the botanical gardens in China.

Let’s read the photos now, they were taken today: