13-09-17 The Qingming Festival is popularly associated with Jie Zitui, who lived in Shanxi province in 600 B.C. Legend has it that Jie saved his starving lord's life by serving a piece of his own leg. When the lord succeeded in becoming the ruler of a small...

13-07-30 There were once two brothers, the one rich, the other poor. The rich one, however, gave nothing to the poor one, and he gained a scanty（吝啬的） living by trading in corn, and often did so badly that he had no bread for his wife and children. Once...

13-05-23 An 80-year old Japanese mountaineer has reached the summit of Mount Everest, making him the oldest man to scale the world's highest peak. 一名80岁的日本登山者爬上珠穆朗玛峰顶峰，他成为最年长的世界最高峰登顶者。 Yuichiro Miura, who climbed Everest wh...

12-12-07 Dionysus was the god of wine. He was the son of Zeus by Semele. When his mother was burnt to death in the glory of Zeus. He was still a helpless infant. His father trusted his upbringing to some mountain fairy maidens. They took the greatest care of...

12-11-26 FRANCE has dashed the hopes of those who had planned to take refuge in one of the few places on Earth some believe will be spared when the world ends on December 21. 法国彻底打破了那些打算在世界末日12月21日来临前来法国避难的人的希望。人们相信地球上...

12-10-19 I was up the next morning before the October sunrise, and away through the wild and the woodland. The rising of the sun was noble in the cold and warmth of it peeping down the spread of light, he raised his shoulder heavily over the edge of grey mou...

12-03-01 Fifty million years ago, India slammed into Eurasia（欧亚大陆） , a collision that gave rise to the tallest landforms on the planet, the Himalaya Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau. India and Eurasia continue to converge（聚合） today, though at an e...

12-01-11 Climate change is having a more profound effect on alpine（高山的） vegetation than at first anticipated, according to a study carried out by an international group of researchers and published in Nature Climate Change. The first ever pan-European s...

11-07-15 One day the Mountain man said to the Sea man, I have never tried fishing in my life. I'd like to go fishing in the sea at a time. So why don't you exchange your fishing rod（钓杆） for my bow and arrows and try to go hunting in the mountain? If you...

11-04-18 The armored cavalry（装甲部队） deployed by Huyan Zhuo could not be destroyed unless barbed lances（长矛） were used. Tang Long presented a drawing of such a lance and lance could be made according to the drawing. However no one was able to use them...