2008年10月21日火曜日

Fall Festival




MOON FESTIVAL




The Chinese Moon Festival is on the 15th of the 8th lunar month. It's also known as the Mid-autumn Festival. Just like Christmas and Thanksgiving in the West, the Moon Festival is one of the most important traditional events for the Chinese.Why the festival called Moon festival and very famous in China? This is because the festival has a legend story. This storey says that a long time ago, Chang Er flew to the moon, where she has lived ever since. It is believed that people can see her dancing during The Moon Festivals. Also, Chinese think much of their own culture and traditional. The Moon Festival is also an occasion for family reunions. When the full moon rises, families get together to watch the full moon, eat moon cakes, and sing moon poem.The moon cake is the food for the Moon Festival.The Moon Festival is often compared to a sort of “Chinese Thanksgiving”because of its spirit of gratitude and its inclusion of abundant food — including the popular moon cake. Moon cakes are flaky, round, semi-sweet pastries often filled with bean or lotus-seed paste and topped with a duck egg, echoing the shape of the full moon. Many millions of moon cakes are gifted around the time of the Moon Festival.There are a hundred kinds of moon cakes and they are showing improvement every year. The Chinese eat the moon cake at night with the full moon in the skyems. The moon festival is a day that Chinese stop working. It's a holiday in China. If you go to China on that day, almost people might be at home and enjoy in the bosom of their family. It' a special day in China!


2008年10月7日火曜日

Movie


My favorite movie is Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi.. This movie was open to the public in 2004 in Japan as the studio Ghibli work. the story of this movie is very usual girls. Her name is Chihiro Ogino. One day, She and her parents find a strange tunnel. She is afraid, but her parents have curiosity and go to into the tunnel.It was on the hill in vast meadow that the exit had extended previously. A cold blue sky spreads out to the other side of the horizon, an old house is buried under ground, and the tiled roof lines up. There were none of quiet towns that were when advancing ahead, and the smell that stimulated the appetite was tossed there. Parents who trace the smell find the shop, and begin to eat the dish that has never been expected to be going to line up there. Because those dishes were the foods of the pantheon, parents are multiplied the curse, and become pigs. It is determined that 1000 fathoms left one person help parents by helping the boy neat of the mystery that meets in this world. I feel the interest of this movie as if the world of the imagination in the other side of which the train came out of the tunnel was connected with the real world really. Feelings to try to fight inevitably are transmitted also to easy what by hero's fineness of 1000 fathoms through the whole movie while felt admiration for the place where man's greed is expressed well. I think that it is a really good movie. We will recommend seeing once and seeing. The movie of studio Ghibli centers on the United States now and advances to foreign countries. This Spirited Away is nominated by Oscar and it has advanced to Venice International Film Festival. Hereafter, I want to expect it of the Ghibli work very much.