《Beijing Welcomes National Day》

Beijing,September 30chinacourt.org The Beijing government has beenworking hard to make sure the city's people enjoy a bountiful National Dayholiday, both culturally and materially.

Shichahai Lake in downtown Beijing was decked out with hundreds ofdazzling palace lanterns and colorful flags on Saturday evening, to kickoff a tourist festival highlighting traditional Chinese culture.Seated leisurely in a small boat cradled gently in the lantern-lit waters,Wang Lin, a 29-year-old teacher with Beijing Normal University, chattedhappily with her companions.

Wang, beaming in the twinkle of colored lights, called the boating aspecial start for her for the week-long national holiday which officiallybegins on National Day, tomorrow.

"I traveled during last year's National Day holiday, but got tired ofbeing crammed together with others," she said."So I chose to stay home and relax this year. And a rich treat oftraditional Chinese operas is not a bad choice for Chinese majors likeme."

In addition to large-scale performances by Peking Opera buffs during theShichahai Cultural and Tourist Festival, top rate Chinese artists in thefield will present their best on the stages of the city over the NationalDay holiday, which runs until October 7.

"Peking Opera has become an indispensable part of our annual National Daybanquet of performances," said Liu Lu, an official with the BeijingMunicipal Cultural Bureau.

Other kinds of performances are also scheduled.According to Liu, altogether 111 performances, varying from traditionalChinese operas, through dramas, music concerts and acrobatics to puppetshows, will be put on in Beijing during the National Day holiday.Among local officials busily preparing for the festival are also thoseresponsible for food.

Beijing's first green food fair, in which all the products are free fromchemical fertilizers and other kinds of pollution, will close today. Allvegetables, fruits, poultry, fish and meat sold at the fair had to gothrough strict examinations to make sure they are free of pollution.National Day Holidays

I went to my cousin's house on the first day of the holidays and got a piece of good news that his wife was pregnant;She said she's worrying about getting fat,but on her face there was a unconcealable pleasure of conceiving a baby.My cousin told me that he'll educate his child in a severe way,with a future father's matureness.I'm happy for them.:)

Yesterday,our research school's soccer team had a match with the graduate students from the department of international business.It was almost a close game in the first half,but we seemed lacking of vigor in the second half,so,we lost the game.

Half of the National Day holidays have passed by...life still goes with good and bad times.

National Day is coming,and we can have a seven-day.My family are going to Hainan.It's a good seaside city.We are staying there for a week. We are going to the beach and going swimming in the sea.We're visiting Tianya Haijiao,Wanquan River and many other beautiful places.I think we'll have a good time there.