The removal of the stove of the central heating system in our bungalow seems necessary because of its leaking pipe. This evening when I tried to heat the kang up by lighting the stove, its mouth produced a rattling noise with massive steam. I have to ask brother to come over for help.
Since our school was put under the administration of the New District of Changchun Municipality, we have been benefiting and suffering from it simultaneously. Now and then we have been demanded to take teaching training on different subjects at some hard- to- find places in the provincial capital. Almost all of us teachers are reluctant to go and just return after signing names, taking some pictures and making some videos there .

Relax in a cool place during summer and sunbathe
in winter. Be under mother’s wing in childhood and keep healthy at the advanced age.

夏納凉兮冬浴陽，幼庇母兮老安康。It’s a life good enough for us to enjoy. What’s the use of the
eager pursuit of fame and wealth?

人生若此足盡歡，何必汲汲名利塲。

Today is Wednesday. In the evening, after watching the weather forecast, I changed the channel from No 13 to No 3 of the CCTV to appreciate the program Get Braver with Fighting. It’s more like an affectionate program than a singing contest only. Usually each participant has to introduce himself and relate his educative experiences of life. As a result, it is their moving stories we can remember even after a long time rather than their singing. Most of the participants are amateur singers. Sometimes a professional singer is permitted to turn up. In such circumstances, the competition seems unfair to the amateurs.

A child won’t be happy unless his parents
are affectionate. A couple won’t last long except that they are deep in love with each other. The senior
citizens won’t feel relieved until they see their children living in a perfectly
satisfactory marriage. So the young or middle-aged couple plays a key role in
ensuring the welfare of the family by linking the minor with the senior. The couple
must bear responsibility for raising the young and supporting the old. Unfortunately,
more and more couples fail to carry out their duties, leaving their children
and parents alone. It is not that they have no time and money but for lack of
love.

FAST is acclaimed as the Eye of Chinese Astronomy, conceived and put forward in 1994 by Nan Rendong, one of the astronomers of our country; completed and brought into operation on September 25, 2016 after twenty-two years of construction.

When I was young,
I would like to be alone on the seashore,
Rolling up my trouser legs
And stepping barefooted on the sands.
I would imagine the existence of another world by the end of the ocean,
Take the brave sailors for real men
And myself a coward too weak to withstand a gust of wind.
I used to hear the sailor say when bullied,
‘In the stormy life, this pain is negligible.
Don’t be afraid and wipe away your tears.
And don’t ask why.
At least we still have dreams. ‘

He resigned his official position and
returned home tilling personally near the Southern Hills.

棄官歸田園，躬耕近南山。He dispelled his melancholy by reading and
playing the zither and composed poems before the clear spring water.

琴書以消憂，賦詩臨清泉。I have been engaging in a humble job
without any desire to seek fame and wealth.

形役事卑職，心洗漸淡逺。How can I wallow in the mire with the
laymen against the principles of conduct of the ancient sages?

焉得淈泥波，愧對古聖賢。

Bai Fangli came from Baijia village, Cangxian county, Hebei Province.

白方礼，河北省沧县白贾村人。

He moved countless Chinese for subsidizing nearly 300 poverty‐stricken
students with the ￥ 350,000 earned
by pedaling his tricycle transporting passengers from 74 covering a distance
equaling circling the equator 18 times.

从74岁开始，白方礼用相当于绕赤道18周的奔波，将蹬三轮车挣得的35万元用于支教，资助了近300名贫困学生，感动了无数国人。

Just for saving a fare of 4 yuan, a lone 72-year-old man covered 18 kilometers walking
home with the purchased rice and vegetables on his shoulder .

72岁孤寡老人为省4元车费 扛米和菜徒步18公里回家。

Now without the heat and mosquitoes, I can have
a good sleep at the long autumn night.

秋夜漫漫恰得眠，燥熱去兮蚊不見。

I’m lying comfortably on the warm kang feeling
no cold. The sun also seems tired and rises late.

寒逺我兮身下暖，朝陽遲遲亦困倦。