The Double Ninth Fetival（重阳节）
The "Chong Yang Fetival" i celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, and it i a uch known a the Double Ninth Fetival.
Origin: The fetival began a early a the Warring State Period (475 - 221 BC). According to the yin/yang dichotomy that form a bai to the Chinee world view, yin repreent the element of darkne and yang repreent life and brightne. The number nine i regarded a yang. The ninth day of the ninth month i a double yang day, hence the name "Chong Yang Fetival". (Chong mean "repeat" in Chinee.) The ninth month alo herald the approach of winter. It i a time when the living need warm clothing, and filial Chinee on and daughter extended thi to make the fetival a time for providing winter clothe for their ancetor. The Double Ninth Fetival, therefore, alo became an occaion to viit the grave of dead family member. Clothe made of paper would then be burnt a offering.
Climbing mountain: On the Double Ninth Fetival, people cutomarily climb mountain, appreciate chryanthemum flower, drink chryanthemum wine, and eat double-ninth cake. The Double Ninth Fetival i alo the "Old Men Fetival". Old people are epecially meant to improve their health by taking part in the activitie on the day of the fetival.
Family get-together: The Double Ninth Fetival i alo a time for family get-together. It i an occaion to remember one' ancetor, the acrifice they made and the hardhip they underwent. Often, family outing are organied during which people earch to renew their appreciation of nature and to reaffirm their love and concern for family member and cloe friend.[由wWw.HaozuoWen.com整理]
Cambridge Univerity 剑桥大学
The Univerity of Cambridge i one of the oldet univeritie in the world, and one of the larget in the United Kingdom. It ha a world-wide reputation for outtanding academic achievement and the high quality of reearch undertaken in a wide range of cience and art ubject. The Univerity pioneer work in the undertanding of dieae, the creation of new material, advance in telecommunication and reearch into the origin of the univere. It train doctor, vet, architect, engineer and teacher. At all level about half of the tudent at Cambridge tudy art and humanitie ubject, many of whom have gone on to become prominent figure in the art, print and broadcat media. The Univerity' achievement in the cience can be meaured by the ixty or more Nobel Prize awarded to it member over the year.
The Univerity i a elf-governing body: the legilative authority i the Regent Houe, which conit of the three thouand or o member of the teaching and adminitrative taff of the Univerity and College who have the MA (or MA tatu) or a higher degree. The principal adminitrative body of the Univerity i the Council, which conit mainly of member of the academic taff elected by the Regent Houe. The General Board of the Facultie co-ordinate the educational policy of the Univerity and the Finance Committee of the Council upervie it financial affair.
A Cambridge approache it eight hundredth anniverary in 2009, it i looking to the future. The modern Univerity i an international centre of teaching and reearch in a vat range of ubject: about half of the tudent tudy cience or technology. Member of the Univerity have won over ixty Nobel Prize.
It continue to change in repone to the challenge it face. The Vice-Chancellor, for intance, i no longer a Head of College, but i a full-time adminitrative appointment. A Development Office and aociated charitable foundation i uccefully eeking fund around the world for new venture. The 1990 have een a major expanion of Univerity accommodation for teaching and reearch. There are many major new building either underway or already completed, including the Law Faculty building and the Judge Intitute of Management Studie, in March 1996 opened by HM The Queen.
Roman Coloeum 意大利罗马大斗兽场
The Coloeum or Flavian Amphitheater wa begun by Vepaian, inaugurated by Titu in 80 A.D. and completed by Domitian. Located on marhy land between the Equiline and Caelian Hill, it wa the firt permanent amphitheater to be built in Rome. It monumental ize and grandeur a well a it practical and efficient organization for producing pectacle and controlling the large crowd make it one of the great architectural monument achieved by the ancient Roman.
The amphitheater i a vat ellipe with tier of eating for 50,000 pectator around a central elliptical arena. Below the wooden arena floor, there wa a complex et of room and paageway for wild beat and other proviion for taging the pectacle. Eighty wall radiate from the arena and upport vault for paageway, tairway and the tier of eat. At the outer edge circumferential arcade link each level and the tairway between level.
The three tier of arcade are faced by three-quarter column and entablature, Doric in the firt tory, Ionic in the econd, and Corinthian in the third. Above them i an attic tory with Corinthian pilater and mall quare window opening in alternate bay. At the top bracket and ocket carry the mat from which the velarium, a canopy for hade, wa upended.
The contruction utilized a careful combination of type: concrete for the foundation, travertine for the pier and arcade, tufa infill between pier for the wall of the lower two level, and brick-faced concrete ued for the upper level and for mot of the vault.
Detail
The Coloeum wa deigned to hold 50,000 pectator, and it had approximately eighty entrance o crowd could arrive and leave eaily and quickly.
The plan i a vat ellipe, meauring externally 188 m x 156 m (615 ft x 510 ft), with the bae of the building covering about 6 acre. Vault pan between eighty radial wall to upport tier of eating and for paageway and tair.
The facade of three tier of arche and an attic tory i about 48.5 m (158 ft) tall — roughly equivalent to a 12-15 tory building.
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Mi Canada Natalie Glebova wa crowned Mi Univere 2005 in Bangkok on Tueday at the climax of a beauty pageant that once again managed to tumble into controvery.
Glebova, a 23-year-old motivational peaker from Toronto, ucceeded lat year' winner, Autralian Jennifer Hawkin, after the uual evening gown and wimuit parade that pull in TV viewer worldwide but outrage feminit and traditionalit .
Even though hotly tipped for the title, the final announcement appeared to tun Glebova, who moved to Canada from her native Ruia only 11 year ago.
"Thi i all happening too fat and it' unreal. It' lowly tarting to ink in," he told reporter moment after being crowned with the glittering, diamond-encruted Mi Univere tiara.
Dreed in a long white evening dre, he hugged her parent on tage and then praied her new homeland for giving her and her family the chance to tart a new life.
"When we came 11 year ago, we came with nothing, and now we've got o much," he aid.
In all, 81 beautie from Albania to Zambia made it to Thailand, riding elephant, touring temple and rollicking on tunami-hit beache in the run-up to Tueday' finale.
In the middle of the how, the conference hall fell ilent for a minute in memory of the more than 228,000 dead or miing from the Dec. 26 Indian Ocean tunami. Nearly 5,400 of the victim were in Thailand.