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Hi. My name is Kelvin Cao. I am now a former student of Rowland High School. Right now, I am a sophomore that attends the school. Attending the school, I am part of the swim team. I live with a family of 5 including my father, mother, grand mom, my little brother and me. During the weekends, I like to play video games, sleep-in, and like to eat many types of food. After I graduate my dream college is to go to USC. If I do want to go to USC, then I have to work hard daily. This is a brief introduction fo myself and here is what I have been learning in Ms.Kuo's chinese class.
你好.我的名字是Kelvin Cao. 我在Rowland High School 上学。我现在是一个十年纪的学生。我在Rowland 的游泳队上。 我家里有五口人，爸爸，妈妈，奶奶，弟弟，和我。星期六和星期天，我喜欢打游戏，睡懒觉，和吃美味的食物。高中毕业以后，我想去USC的大学。我要是想要去我想要去的大学，我要天天努力。 这就是我的生活. 这是我做的让你们看我在Ms.Kuo 的科学了什么。

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Courtesy of Natalie Brophy

"Swimmers, step up," says the official, followed by two short whistle blows.

You step up on the starting block, plant your feet and bend over to grab the front of the block with your hands.
You hear the official say, "Take your mark" and you grip the block harder, tensing your muscles.
"BEEEEEEEEEP!"
The buzzer goes off and you throw your body forward, using all of your strength to propel yourself off the blocks, up into the air and down into the water.

Once you hit the water, you kick up to the surface and start swimming like mad. This is the moment you've been training for. All those months of hard work have led up to this one race.

This is the life of a division III college swimmer.

5:30 a.m.
"BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEEEEEEEP!"
You groan loudly as you sleepily pound on your alarm clock, willing that god-awful shrilling sound to stop.

After laying down for five more minutes and contemplating quitting for the ten thousandth time in your life, you drag yourself out of bed and into the bathroom to splash some water on your face and brush your teeth.

You shuffle back to your room, pull on your workout clothes and lace up your sneakers. You grab a granola bar from the kitchen because it's too damn early to eat a real breakfast and walk to the front door to wait for your ride to come.

"Maybe they'll forget about me so I can go back to bed," you pray as the minutes tick by.

Then you see a pair of headlights cut through the morning darkness.

"Damnit!" you curse as you walk out to the car.

When you get in, no one talks. Everyone is too tired and too miserable. You drive to the pool in silence. There is a collective groan as the driver shuts off the car and everyone gets out and trudges towards the pool.

The silence continues as you plod into the locker room to hang up your coat and go down to the weight room.

When you get to the weight room the rest of your teammates are talking quietly in groups, lying on the floor or finishing up their morning PowerBar. You sit against the wall, sipping from your water bottle as you wait for practice to start.

"GOOOOOOD MORNING!" booms your overly enthusiastic weight room coach. "Everyone to the gym for warm up!"

More groans erupt from you and your teammates as you make your way up to the gym.

"Six laps around the perimeter!" barks coach. "No cutting corners!"

Reluctantly, you start running.

"I hate this," you think to yourself. "I can't run. That's why I'm a swimmer!"

You finish your laps, huffing and puffing as if you just sprinted a marathon. You go through the rest of the warm up exercises and head back down to the gym to start your lift. You grab your lift sheet from the desk and meet up with your lifting group. You make small talk with them while you wait for coach to demonstrate the day's exercises.

7:30 a.m.

After the hard workout you change out of your sweaty clothes and wriggle into your swimsuit. You grab your equipment

and wait behind your lane as you watch in horror as coach writes this morning's set on the board.

1,000 SKIPS warm up
8×50 build 1-4, 5-8 @1:00
4×75 long turn drill
50 mid-pool 25s-work your turns!
200 cool down

"This shouldn't be too bad," you think to yourself as you get ready to dive in to the chilly water. "At least I won't be sweaty after this."

8:30 a.m.

You drag yourself out of the pool and into the locker room to shower and change before class. Everyone is a bit more talkative and there is a lot of conversation as you shampoo your hair and wash the chlorine off of your body.
"Why do I even bother showering before I go to class?" someone wonders aloud. "I'll just be back here in eight hours anyways."
"I have a class at 9:10, who wants to eat breakfast with me in Cooper?" someone else asks.
"Me! I will," you respond.
You never turn down an invitation for food.
You finish changing and you and your teammate head over to the dinning hall for breakfast. The two of you wolf down enough eggs, cereal, hash browns and coffee to feed a family of four and rush off to class.

9:10 a.m.

You make it to your Tools for Computing class just as the professor begins his lecture.

"We'll be watching a video today in class," he says.

"Ugh! I hate this class," you mumble to yourself.

The drab voice of the narrator begins droning on about god-knows-what. The lecture hall is so warm and you're so tired.

You fight to keep your eyes open and your attention on the screen.

"I'll just close my eyes for a second," you think as you get comfortable in your seat.

Suddenly, you're awoken by the lights flicking on and your professor saying, "That's it for today. Check Angel for this week's assignment."

"Damn! That's the third time I've fallen asleep in this class! I hope I can stay awake in my next two classes. I need a coffee..."

2:00 p.m.

You're finally finished with class and back in your room. You sit down at your desk to start your homework. You turn on your computer and open up your public justice textbook, but you can't focus on the words on the page. Your chair is so uncomfortable and you're sick of sitting at desks all day.

"I'll just do this in my bed," you decide as you climb into bed and get comfy. "Ahhhhhh, much better."

Your bed is so much more comfortable than your hard desk chair. And the handmade quilt your grandma knitted you for Christmas two years ago is so soft and warm. The arms of your boyfriend pillow are wrapping around you, begging you to lean back and relax. You're trying so hard to be productive, but you're so drowsy and you just can't keep your eyes open any longer.

Suddenly, you're shaken awake by your roommate.

"Wake up, it's 3:45!" says your roommate. "Our ride is here for practice."

4:00 p.m.

You're back at the pool for afternoon practice. The looks on your teammates' faces who just finished one o'clock practice do not reassure you.

"Was it a hard one?" you ask a teammate.

"Oh yeah," he nods.

"Greeeeeat..." you say as you head into the locker room to put on your suit.

For the second time today, you grab your equipment and wait behind your lane as coach write this afternoon's practice on the board.

"Jerry's abs!" says your assistant coach. "Everyone grab a mat."

By the time you're done with the 20-minute set of planks, pushups and crunches, you're dripping sweat and cannot wait to dive into the pool to cool off.

"I don't even care if we do 21-Club today," you say to your lane partner. "I just want to get in the water!"

6:30 p.m.

Practice is over and you and your teammates make a mad dash to the dining hall before it closes at 7:00 p.m. You make it there by 6:55 and you swear you see the dinning hall staff cringe when they see a gang of 15 hungry swimmers stampede up the steps.

You fill your tray with lots of protein and carbs-just what you need to build muscle and recover after that hell-ish practice. You don't even feel self-conscious when you see people staring at the pile of chicken and mountains of pasta on your tray. You worked hard for this. You deserve to eat this food.

Dinner with your teammates is your favorite time of the day. Over the last few months, these people have become like your second family.

After "family dinner" you head over to the library to squeeze as much homework in as you can before you can't keep your eyes open anymore. Coach always says that grades come first, so you can't let yourself fall behind.

11:00 p.m.

After your study session in the library, you decide it's time to relax before bed. You're stretched out on one of your "non-swim" friend's bed watching the last season of "How I Met Your Mother" on Netflix when you catch a glimpse at the time.

It's already past 11 o'clock!

"I have to go!" you exclaim.

Your friends look confused.

"Why?" one of them asks, looking puzzled. "It's only 11."

"I have to go to bed," you say. "I have practice at 5:30 tomorrow morning."

Your lungs are burning as you come off your last wall and take a breath. Your body is exhausted and it would be so easy to give up now. But you've been training too hard all year to give up. You put your head down and sprint with all you have left to the wall.

You hit the touchpad, stopping the clock, and look up at your time. You won your heat and went a personal best time.

"YES!" you scream as you pump your fist in the air. "I did it!"

That is why you swim. That is why you wake up at 5:30 every morning and go to practice twice a day. That is why you sacrifice my weekends at swim meets and stay in when your friends are going out on a Thursday night.

You swim because you crave that feeling of accomplishment that comes after a hard race when you finally reach your goals.

You swim because you love the sport.

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Courtesy of Natalie Brophy "Swimmers, step up," says the official, followed by two short whistle blows. You step up on the starting block, plant your feet and bend over to grab the front of the block with your hands. You hear the official say, "Take your mark" and you grip the block harder, tensing your muscles.

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Charlie Chaplin is a famous american actor. He acted in many comedy movies, shows. Charlie Chaplin is the representation of an American mime. In the comedy that he acts in, he is able to make the audience laugh due to his body shape and his crazy behavior. He is a very short man that has small ears and eyes. On stage, he wears a lot of make up. His costume on stage is a top hat with a bushy mustache. This is the story of Charlie Chaplin.
Charlie 卓别林是一个很伟大的著名的美国演员.他演出了很多喜剧，他是美国默剧的代表人物。他用他的肢体和夸张的行为演绎了一出出喜剧。 通过他活林活现的表演， 把小人物的喜怒哀乐演绎的淋漓尽致， 让人们身临其境. 他虽然很矮， 小耳朵，小眼睛，在演台上，他化妆成各式各样的人物，表演着人世间的悲喜。 大礼帽和小胡子是他的代表服装， 这就是Charlie 卓别林。

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你们应该来我的面包店！！You Should Come to my Bakery! 

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你们应该来我的面包店！！You Should Come to my Bakery! 

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All of you guys!! All of you should come to my bakery. Welcome to my bakery. It is called eighty-five degrees. I opened this bakery for the happiness of other people. Most of the time, when people start off their day with a cup of coffee and some fresh bread it potentially can make their day. My bread isn't as bad as the others but also much cheaper. So you guys should come down to my bakery to start your day off with a fresh cup of coffee and some freshly baked bread.
你们好欢迎来到我的面包店叫，八十五度c. 我开的这一家面包店是让人家和我一起开心。很多时候大人天天早上会很难受所以一早吃一个美味的面包和喝一杯新鲜的咖啡应该会让人开心和谨慎起来。我的面包店的面包不是很贵比别的面包店的面包便宜。我的面包比人家的面包便宜可是我的面包比他们的好吃。 所以你要是早上有空的话来我的面包店我保证你们会吃到新鲜的面包和喝倒一杯美味的咖啡。

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Everyday, we interact with artificial intelligence. We interact with it so often, we don;t really even know that we interact with it. For example, GPS is a representation of A.I. When you are using a GPS, they are able to tell you how to get to a certain destination safely and quickly. Smartphones are also an example of A.I. With such small devices, they are able to answer questions that you ask. As A.I continues to develop, our future will be more complicated having more A.I involived with our lives.
我们先在几乎每时每刻接触到人工智能。比如我们即时GPS是人工智能的代表，在我们驾驶途中， 它能把交通状况及时通知你，并且提供不同的选择顺利把你带目的地。聪明的手机现在成为一个必不可少的用品，它也是一个典型的人工智能的结晶。它已经成为我们的生活中一部分， 通常一机在手，可以解决衣食住行。人工智能还在继续向前发展， 它是人类进程的代表。

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What is artificial intelligence? - BBC News

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为什么香港是一个该去的地方？

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为什么香港是一个该去的地方？

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Why should you go to Hong Kong? Listen to me and then make a decision if i'm right or wrong. Hong Kong is a beautiful place with many beautiful sights. Looks like I must explain to you the fun that Hong Kong is awaiting for you. One of their most famous place there is "The Peak". To get to the peak, a train must be ridden to get there. With the famous places being talked about, Hong Kong is also consists of many famous small dishes that are very delicious. some of their most famous dishes are the Shu Mai and their marinated duck feet. Almost everyone their enjoys the small dishes that they cook. With all that being said, Hong Kong is also a very crowded place with lots of energy. Thus these are the many reasons why you should go to Hong Kong.
你想想听听我说的对不对。因为香港是一个很美丽的地方并且拥有很多特色的东西。看来我以下的介绍， 希望你去香港看看和玩玩。香港有很多世界闻名的地方，比如美丽的维多利亚港和太平山。 当你坐着古老的单轨列车缓缓驶入香港的太平山顶， 你在山顶上可以看到整个香港的全景。 远处美丽的维多利亚港包揽的过往的船只像一个耀眼的明珠在远方徐徐的闪耀着迷人的光芒；著名的中国银行大厦就好像一个巨人屹立在太平山脚。 除了美丽的景色， 香港也是一个很热闹的地方， 它拥有很多广泛流传的美味的小吃， 如烧卖， 肠粉等著名的小吃让很多人喜欢。除了他们的小吃，粤剧是香港娱乐的一大特色，它有自己的特色和自己的旋律 是香港人的钟爱。香港的影业也有很大的影响力， 如著名的电影演员成龙就来香港 。香港还有很多很多吸引人的地方和元素， 我就不再一一叙述， 希望你能自己亲自去体验香港的美丽和热闹。

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Some that I had in Hong Kong, short trip but at least I had enough dim sum and seriously the Bubble Tea was really good!

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A very long time ago in China, there were many gods and goddesses. Back in the books of China, there were many gods and goddess. Every god back in the days all had a certain type of power. For example, the Dragon would be in control of water. Many people don't realize but the ancient gods were the people that created Earth and everything around us.
很就以前中国有很多神和女神。在中国的神话故事中，我们流传了很多很多的代表神话人物。有些神代表了正义， 有些神代表了邪恶。 每个神都拥有不同的力量掌管各自的不同的领域行使不同的职责。 如龙是代表了世间的阴阳， 掌管着人间的雨水。阎王掌管了人间的生死离合。

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There were over 200 gods and goddesses worshipped throughout ancient China, but if one were to count every deity or spirit, the number would be over 1,000. Each town, village, city, field, farm, and sometimes even separate plot in a graveyard, had its own Tudi Gong, an elemental earth spirit, who was recognized and honored. There were also spirits known as Kuei-Shen, nature spirits, who might inhabit a tree or live by a stream or preside over a garden.

These were eternal spirits who had never been mortal but others, known as guei (or kuei, gui, kui), had once been human beings who had died and passed on to the afterlife. The guei could return to haunt the living for various reasons, and rituals, spells, and religious practices developed to appease them. There were also deities who had once been mortal and now lived with the gods, such as the Baxian ( Pa Hsien), the Eight Immortals of holy Taoists who were rewarded by the goddess Queen Mother of the West with immortality. The Baxian were prayed to like any of the other gods, as were one's ancestors who had passed over the bridge between the land of the living and the realm of the dead to live among the gods and watch over the living.

The gods were believed to have created the world and human beings, and they kept the world and surrounding universe functioning. Each deity had his or her own special area of power and influence, and the most important were given their own shrines and temples, although shrines were also erected to local spirits and to noble men and women who became deified after death.

The gods were believed to have created the world and human beings, and they kept the world and surrounding universe functioning.

These deities lived in palaces and castles high above human beings in places like the Kunlun Mountains, Mount Tai, the Jade Mountain, and Mount Penglai which was the mystical island of the afterlife somewhere far out at sea. Even though they were far away, they were still connected to human life on a daily basis, watching over and keeping account of the good and bad deeds people did. Each of the deities had their own part to play in the lives of people and the operation of the world from the most intimate moments to events of national importance such as a dynasty's collapse.

All of the gods, goddesses, and spirits were important to the people of ancient China, and remain so today, and selecting a certain small group leaves out many, many others who remain just as significant. However, one can single out those deities who had national prominence, are among the oldest, or are without question the most popular as shown through ancient writings and evidence from archaeological excavations. The gods and goddesses listed below are given in the order they appear in Chinese writings. Most likely, deities like Nuwa, Fuxi, and P'an Ku were recognized much earlier than written records indicate, and the same is probably true of most of the gods and goddesses on the list. These deities are selected because they were all very important to the people of ancient China even though some were more prominent at certain times in history than at others.

Dragon

The dragon is the oldest symbol of a deity found in China. The dragon symbol appears on pottery found at the Neolithic site of Banpo Village dating from between c. 4500-3750 BCE. Dragon was considered a composite of yin and yang energies and was originally seen as a balancing force who was wise and just. The dragon Yinglong was known as The Dragon King and god of rain and waters. As god of the sea, he was known as Hong Shen and was prayed to regularly by sailors and fishermen, but farmers who needed rain for their crops worshipped Dragon as well. He is also shown in human form as a wise man with the full sun behind his head watching over a boat full of people.

Shangti

Shangti was the supreme god of law, order, justice, and creation. He is also known as Jade Emperor, Yellow Emperor, or Yu Huang Shang-Ti, although there are sometimes important distinctions made between these names and Jade Emperor can mean another deity. Shangti was considered the great ancestor of all Chinese, who gave the people culture, architecture, skill in battle, agriculture, controlled the weather, regulated the seasons, and was king over the other gods, human beings, and nature. He was worshipped primarily during the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BCE) when he was considered a deified king who ruled c. 2697-2597 BCE and was included in the mythical or semi-mythical grouping of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, demi-gods who ruled China between c. 2852-2070 BCE. During the Zhou Dynasty (c. 1046-226 BCE) Shangti was replaced by the concept of Tian (Heaven) but re-emerged as Shangti during the Warring States Period (476-221 BCE). The Zhou developed the concept of the Mandate of Heaven which legitimized the rule of a certain dynasty. Tian judged who was worthy to rule and for how long, and when a dynasty was no longer fit, it fell and another took its place.

Queen Mother of the West

She was the queen of the immortal gods and spirits, especially female spirits who lived in the mystical land of Xihua ("West Flower"), and goddess of immortality. She is also known as Xiwangmu or Xi-Wang-Mu and lived in a castle of gold in the Kunlun Mountains, surrounded by a moat which was so sensitive that even a hair dropped on the waters would sink. This moat served as protection for her Imperial Peach Orchard where the juices of the fruit of the trees gave immortality. Xiwangmu is shown as a beautiful woman with sharp teeth and a leopard's tail, or as an old, unattractive woman with a hunched back, tiger's teeth and a leopard's tale, depending on her mood. She rewarded her followers with eternal life but punished those who angered her. During the Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) her cult was very popular and shrines were built for her by the government. She is the wife of Mugong, Lord of the Spirits, who watches over male spirits in the land of Donghua ("East Flower") but is sometimes seen as the wife of Shangti.

Guanyin

Guanyin was the goddess of mercy and compassion who became the patron of sailors and fishermen. She was originally a deity in India known as Avalokitesvara whose name means "One Who Gazes Down Upon the World and Hears the Cries of the People". She came to China from India through trade via the Silk Road during the Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE). She was so compassionate that she incarnated as the maiden Miaoshan in order to experience life as a human being and offer service to others. Miaoshan's father wanted her to marry a wealthy priest. Miaoshan refused to marry unless the marriage could end the sufferings caused by illness, aging, and death. When her father told her no marriage could end such things, she replied that a doctor could, but her father did not want her marrying someone of such a lowly occupation. She was allowed to enter a temple instead of marrying, but her father made sure that she was given all of the worst work, which she accomplished with the help of the nearby animals who responded to her goodness. Her father then tried to burn the temple down but Miaoshan put the fire out with her bare hands. He then had her executed, but when she went to hell, she released all of the goodness she held inside and turned it into paradise. The king of the dead, Lord Yama, sent her back to earth before she ruined his realm, and she lived afterwards on Fragrant Mountain where she watched over human beings. From her mountain home, she would often notice people in trouble on their boats at sea and rescued them, which is how she became patron goddess of sailors and fishermen. She was one of the most popular deities in all of China, and both men and women adored her.

Yan Wang

Yan Wang is the god of death and king in the afterlife. He is the greatest of all the Lords of Death who rule the regions of the underworld. He is also known as Yang-Wang-Yeh, Lord Yama, and Lord Yama King. Yan Wang presides over the judgment of souls and decides whether they will be punished for their crimes in life, go on to live with the gods, or be reincarnated. In one famous story, a soldier named Commandant Yang, who had caused a great deal of suffering and misery in his life, died and appeared in the court of Yan Wang. Yan Wang asked him how he had managed to build up so many sins on his soul in the short time he was on earth. Yang claimed he was innocent and had done nothing wrong. Yan Wang commanded the scrolls of Yang's life to be brought in where the date and time of his sins were read along with who was affected and how many had died because of Yang's selfishness. Yang was condemned by the Lord of Death, and a great hand appeared which snatched him up and crushed him. It was said that one could escape punishment for one's sins on earth but no one could escape justice in the court of Yan Wang.

Nuwa & Fuxi

Nuwa and Fuxi were the mother and father deities of human beings. Nuwa was born at the beginning of creation and fixed the mistakes made at first so that everything was perfect. She built a palace for herself, which became the model for Chinese architecture, and lived there with her friend and brother Fuxi, both depicted as human-dragons with human heads and dragon bodies or human bodies to the waist and dragon legs and tails. Nuwa became lonely and created human beings for company from the mud of the Yellow River. She breathed life into them and they moved and lived. She continued to make more and more human beings but it was tiring work and so she created marriage so that they could reproduce themselves. The humans were alive but had no knowledge of anything and so Fuxi gave them the gifts of fire, writing, how to get food from the sea, and all the other skills they would need to live. He also gave them the gifts of music, culture, and divination so they could make good decisions by knowing what the future held.

Caishen

Caishen, the god of wealth, was one of the most popular gods of ancient China and still is today. Statues of Caishen (also known as Ts'ai Shen) can be seen in businesses run by Chinese merchants all around the world and in Chinese homes. His statue shows a wealthy man seated in a silk robe holding riches in both hands. He is sometimes accompanied by two attendants carrying bowls of gold. He was not just the god of material wealth but of a rich life which meant a happy family and a secure, prosperous, and respectable job. Caishen was very generous to his followers but was not foolish and did not give out his wealth to just anyone. People had to prove themselves worthy of his generosity by working hard, praying to him regularly, and thanking him for his gifts. Temples and shrines to Caishen were probably the most numerous in ancient China.

Chang'e

Chang'e, the goddess of the moon, was another of the most popular deities in ancient China and is the most often mentioned deity in Chinese poetry and literature. She was the consort of the archer god Hou Yi who saved her during a lunar eclipse and brought her back safely. Chang'e betrayed him by stealing from him the elixir of immortality, which the gods had given him, and ran across the night sky with it, pursued by Hou Yi. She reached the moon where she transformed herself into a toad to hide from him until his rage passed. Hou Yi had been stopped in his pursuit by a hare who would not let him pass until he calmed down and promised he would not harm her. When Hou Yi reached the moon, Chang'e had remained in her toad form too long to change back and so, when one looks at the moon, one sees the outline of a toad on its surface. The story of Chang'e and Hou Yi was celebrated at the Mid-Autumn Festival in ancient China which is known today as the Moon Festival when people go outside at night to appreciate the moon, eat moon cakes, and give gifts to friends and family.

Zao-Shen

Zao-Shen (or Tsao Shen and Tsao Wang), also known as The Kitchen God, lived in the kitchen above the stove of every home. He was represented by a paper image made by the most prestigious woman of the household and was kept in the same place throughout the year. Zao-Shen was responsible for the happiness of the home and the prosperity of the family, but this depended on their behavior and values. Every month Zao-Shen left the home to report to the local gods and spirits on the family's conduct. If they had behaved well, he was instructed to increase their riches and happiness; if they had behaved badly, he was told to withdraw riches and happiness. "Riches" meant not only material wealth but comfort and well-being, which was further assured by his warding off evil spirits. When he left the home to make his report, families were especially anxious because they had no household protector. At the end of the lunar year, on New Year's Eve, Zao-Shen had to leave to report to Shangti himself and the universal gods on how the family had behaved throughout the year. At this time, more incense was burned than usual in front of the paper statue and its mouth was smeared with honey so that only sweet words about the family would be reported to the gods. Offerings of fine foods and good wine were placed before him to thank him for his protection. The paper figure was then burned and firecrackers set off to speed him on his way. The next morning, the first day of the New Year, a new paper statue was made and placed above the stove.

Niu Lang & Zhi Nu

The god and goddess of love. Zhi Nu was the goddess of weaving for the gods and daughter of Shangti. Every day she wove the beautiful robes the gods wore and looked down on earth from her place among the stars and wished she could visit. She was finally granted permission by her father and went to earth where she left her clothes by the banks of a stream and went swimming. A cowherd named Niu Lang saw her and fell in love with her so he stole her clothes so she could not run away from him. When Zhi Nu came out of the water she was outraged that her clothes were gone but when Niu Lang explained himself she fell in love with him. She forgot all about her home in the heavens and her duties as divine weaver and stayed on earth with Niu Lang. They were very happy together, every day they were more in love, and they had many children. Shangti was not pleased, though, and neither were the other gods and so soldiers were sent to bring Zhi Nu back home. Niu Lang tried to follow but Shangti threw a wall of stars across his path and stopped him; these stars are known on earth as the Milky Way. Once a year, magpies fly from earth to the Milky Way and form a bridge the two can cross to be with each other on the evening known as the Seventh Night of the Seventh Moon. This became a very popular story referenced by writers and poets in many different eras of China's history. The Lady in the famous poem, Song of Everlasting Sorrow, references this story toward the end when she is on the island in the afterlife. The myth was the basis for the Festival of the Seventh Night of the Seventh Moon which officially was dedicated to women's art in sewing and weaving but unofficially was a night for romance. Zhi Nu is the star Vega in the constellation of Lyra, and Niu Lang is the star Altair in the constellation of Aquila, separated by the Milky Way except for once a year.

Menshen

Menshen, the guardians of the door, known as "Gods of Peaceful Sleep" who protect a room, house, or building from evil spirits and ghosts, originated in the early Tang Dynasty (618-901 CE). The emperor Taizong (626-649 CE) was having a hard time sleeping because of nightmares. He consulted a doctor who blamed the bad dreams on evil spirits. Taizong's nightmares were so real he thought people were actually in the room trying to kill him, and so two of his most trusted guards were posted outside the door of his room, one standing on each side. Taizong began to sleep better with the guards outside and so ordered that their images be painted on the doorway. News of Taizong's painted soldiers spread and soon more and more people were painting guardians on their doors and rooms. These images can be seen on many buildings and homes in China and elsewhere. Part of the Chinese New Year celebration is cleaning and re-painting the Menshen on doorways.

P'an Ku

The god of creation, P'an Ku (also known as Pan Gu and Pangu) is pictured as a hairy dwarf with horns. Once there was only darkness everywhere in the universe and in this grew a cosmic egg which was kept warm for thousands of years until it broke open and P'an Ku appeared. He cut through the darkness and separated the yin from the yang principles; then he made the yin into earth and the yang into sky and pushed them apart from each other. Every day he stood on the earth and pushed the sky a little higher, and each day he grew taller and taller until he was a giant. P'an Ku then began to add pretty details to his creation like mountains and valleys, which he made according to the principles of yin and yang so that everything would be balanced. He worked on his creation for thousands of years until it was perfect, and then he died. His breath became air and his blood the rivers and streams. The fleas from his body ran off and became animals while his body hair became forests of trees and bushes. His left eye became the sun and his right eye the moon. Many centuries after his death, Nuwa appeared and created human beings and Fuxi taught them how to survive in the world P'an Ku had created. In another version of the myth, human beings are the fleas which run from P'an Ku's body after he dies.

Other gods & goddesses

These gods and goddesses and many others were worshipped by the Chinese people for centuries. Some developed later than others but all were important to the people. There were many other notable gods who deserve mention: Guan Gong (also known as Guandi), the god of war, who was a great warrior and hero deified after his death; Sun Wukong, the god of mischief, who ate the peaches of immortality and tricked the gods into giving him eternal life; Fu-Shen, the god of happiness; Hou-Ji, god of Millet and grains; Kailushen, "Spirit Who Clears Roads", a protector against ghosts and evil spirits; Sheji, god of soil and grain, a harvest fertility god; Wen Chang (also known as Wendi), god of literature who was the patron of scholars and writers and kept accounts of how well writers used their talents in life; and Cheng Huang, "God of Wall and Moat" who protected the walls and gates of the cities. Although worship of these gods was outlawed as "superstition" when the communist party took control of the Chinese government in 1949 CE, they continued to be worshipped privately by the people and are still honored in many homes all over the world today.

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Most Popular Gods & Goddesses of Ancient China

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There were over 200 gods and goddesses worshipped throughout ancient China, but if one were to count every deity or spirit, the number would be over 1,000. Each town, village, city, field, farm, and sometimes even separate plot in a graveyard, had its own Tudi Gong, an elemental earth spirit, who was recognized and honored.

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Mid Autumn Festival
Mid autumn moon festival is an event that has happened for many years in China. This is when the moon is very big. Due to the event, many people know this event from the ChangEr story. On this day, when we eat a moon cake, we are reminded of the beautiful ChangEr. Thus this is why the Chinese has created this event so we are able to be reminded of the long lost ChangEr.
中秋节是中国的传统节日。 中国的日历八月十五是定为中秋节，这一天的月亮又圆又亮。 对于中秋节的由来， 有很多的传说， 其中著名的传说是嫦娥奔月的故事。 我们可以在中秋节这一天， 可以看到美丽的嫦娥在玉兔的陪伴下看着地球寻找后羿的身影。我们着这一天吃着象征团圆的月饼， 看着又圆又亮的月亮为嫦娥和后羿祈祷早日团圆

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Chinese Legend of Mid-Autumn Moon Festival