Green, a color of life and hope, is not how you'd think to describe a place like the sandy and dry Loess Plateau.
What's one way to make Chinese city slickers laugh out loud? Tell them your bicycle has been stolen. I'm sure they'll all sympathize a bit, but not too much. Why? Because most Chinese know that empty feeling of falling victim to these dirty rotten scoundrels.
Silence fell upon the China World Shopping Mall in Beijing's CBD area as it neared closing time one Saturday night. However, the LeCool Ice Rink on the underground floor, still bustled with twirling and jumping skaters. Some were seizing the last minutes of operating hours to practice dazzling movements for an upcoming amateur figure skating competition to be held at the rink.
A few days ago, I followed my wife to a fruit market and we were both tempted by something beautiful jumping from the boxes. The bright red fruit looked extremely fresh and inviting. On a shabby piece of paper, the stall owner wrote "lian wu". A light shone on us: This was the fabled "King of Fruits in Taiwan" the wax apple.
Instead of inching my way to work along a jammed road, I found myself waiting outside a bank at 9 on a Monday morning.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263 Registration Number: 20100000002731 
Raymond Zhou
Op Rana
Berlin Fang
Zhu Yuan
Huang Xiangyang
Chen Weihua
