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Hi Xiaowei!
Thanks for your long article and also for your photos; I've enjoy it, especially the photo which represented the loto's flowers, I've got some "Ninfea" plants in my little pond in my garden and for this reason I really appreciate this thing. Where I live here in Noth-east of Italy the seasons are completly different in fact the winter is very cold instead summer is dry and warm. I like a lot the continue changement for the different colours of the nature and also for the different activities that you can do; for example in winter we go to the near mountains to ski and in summer we enjoy the swimming and the sea. I won't never live in a place all the time warm like Tropical Island or on the other hand always cold like a place near North pole.
Bye
I'm looking forward your next blog

This is my first comment.
Please allow, if there are many defects, since it is not used to writing in English.
I live in Saitama Prefecture in Japan.
The year before last, I went to Paotou in the Nei Monggol area , and Yinchuan, and have planted trees to the desert of the neighborhood.
It turned out that global warming is advancing so that you may tell.
But green power is valuable.
No less than 400 million trees were planted since 1990 and people's life is led.
I am glad if the poplar and Chinese date trees planted at that time are growing vigorously.

Now、I don't figure out what that fruit is.

Hi Xiaowei,

Thanks for your new post, it was really nice to read about your hometown, Anshan. I'm interested in every part of a different culture, but in fact, what attracts me most is the allure of a foreign food culture!

The candy stick made of thorn apples in your picture looks really tasty! It is no wonder that the candy used to be your favorite sweet in your childhood. I've never seen thorn apples in Japanese supermarket, but I've once tried a liquor made of them. It was quite sweet-and-sour as you mentioned, and definitely tasty.

By the way, let me guess what is the orange fruit in your last picture. First I thought it was the famous "Nanguo pear" from your hometown. However, I realized that the color of Nanguo pear looked rather red than orange when I checked it on Anshan city's website, so maybe it's not a pear. I'll make a wild guess that it is an apricot!

Finally, thank you for your compliments on my writing. But it's not really something worth praising, as I went it over at least three times before posting my comment! And I want to say that I'm also learning a lot from your blog, Xiaowei.

My favorite way of studying English is to read. The point is, you have to read the sentences "aloud" when you practice. My English teachers adviced me to do that because they believe that the process of reading sentences aloud in English make it easy for the student to remember how to make sentences which are grammatically correct, and also keep some of the phrases and vocabularies in his/her mind anyway.

I don't like to read newspapers so much for some reason, but I do love to read books or my favorite actress's interview on the web aloud. If you have some books, magazines or online articles you're interested in, why not try reading them aloud?

I'm looking forward to your another post!

Hello Xiaowei... and happy new year everybody.
I like your pictures and I read your commentary about of each one, I really would like to travel to China. Over all for the food jajaja, yes I love eat.
I'm sorry if I don't write a lot but I'm new in this blog, and this is my second commentary.
I hope that you can visit your hometown soon, and also my country =).
I'm from México the weather in this month is strange jajaja, because sometimes it's cold and sometimes warm. But the food is also so delicious, jajaja Do you see? I like so much the food.

Well thank you so much for your post and take care of yourself.
I hope to became your friend. See you.

Hi Xiaowei
First of all let me say happy new year to you as tommorrow is Chines new year Eve.
You story telling is fantastic and enjoyed reading all the story about your home town and immediately looked for it on google map to get a clear imagination of it as you are talking about.
I see a variety of colours on the photo from "Bing Tang Hu Lu" What is the yellow one ?
Anshan is really beautiful city, let me guess the first photo is from the lake Laodonghu in 219 park. I also hope you to visit you hometown and family very soon.

Xiaowei

XIN NIAN HAO !!

My　friends who have both Chinese and Japanese nationality were working restless today and pressed me for New Year's present of money " yasuiqian".

Are those orange-collered fruits Chinese lantern for medicinal purposes?

Hi Xiaowei,

I really enjoyed reading your post. While I was through it, I realized how much I miss asian cultures. I stayed in Asia for almost 5 years, but I have never been in China though. Thanks to your dad for the beatiful pictures. And happy new year again (Chinese new year this time). I do no have any idea about the orange fruit!!!

Looking forward your new post!

Hi Xiaowei,

It's really nice to read about your homtown and to see those wonderful photos.
Especially the photos of street sellers reminds me of my own trips to China. I liked to get some tasty snacks from them when I was walking. There were too many stuffs to draw my attention though, fruits from local were always the best choice for me. Well....If only I could try all the fruits in the baskets, I am sure I could tell you what the fruit is...^^

Now here it is winter season. Not that chilly or snowing though....I am enjoying the crisp cool day. We have for seasons as you have in your hometown. I like the change of weather and each productions that brought by the different nature.

Thank you for bring your homtown here. It helped me to recall all those beautiful natures of China where I've been to with my friends. And I hope to travel Anshan one day as well.

Your post is really fantastic.The photos are beautiful and the fruits are mouth-watering. When I was reading your post I remembered my childhood. When I was a child, the snow was heavy and I and my brother played in snow and made snowman. I am agree with you that snow is not heavy as before. About ten years ago in Tehran, I and my father went to roof and shovelled snow onto the road. But nowadays, snow fall is light and only two or three times in winter.

halo everyone...
the article is good, i sorry if me have mistake to comment in here, cause i'm bengginer in writting, i'm from south sulawesi in indonesia. i want to study engglish.
mybe your confusse to read, what is my write?. but i really want to learning about engglis. please help me..

thank's..

Hi Xiaowei!

Your photos and the description of your hometown is so wonderful and peaceful! I feel a wish to travel and see it. I have never been to Asia and don't know too much and too good information about China.
I'm from Hungary. And all in my childhood my parents told about their childhood with big and cold winters with a lot of snow. I was always envious, because in the 1980's there wasn't so much snow. But sometimes I feel that this winter is the warmest in my life. There was very little snow and it melt within few hours. I don't like this warm winter. I love walking in snowfall and I miss it very much.
The fruit in the blue basket is maybe strawberry ...
Please write new blogs, because I'm very curious about China.

Have nice days,
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Hehe, so you from Anshan,liao ning province .I've never been there.

I guess the orange-color fruit is in the blue basket seems like Caribbean chilli------Scotch bonnet ,I only guess it.

Hi everyone,

the orange color fruit is winter cherry. It is a special local product in the north east of china and has a lovely name in our dialect:"gu niang er" which means young girl.If you google "winter cherry" to see the pictures of fruit inside, perhaps you'll find they look indeed as lovely as young girls. It tastes sweet, a little sour when it's still green.

Haha, it's amazing to see the guesses. The photos are too small anyway, my apologies.

Hi Saki,

It's amazing that you mentioned "nanguo pear", it's indeed a tasty fruit from my home city, but not that well-known outside of China I guess. You must have done some research.

And thanks very much for the suggestion. I think it's a brilliant idea to build linkage between words and sounds, in this way we may remember word groups and sentences more effectively. I will try your method next time when I get do the reading.

Have a nice day!

Xiaowei

Hello Chely,

Thanks for your comment and very nice to meet you! I've never been to Mexican before, but I like Mexican food very much, although they are a quite hot for me. When the Mexican chicken wrap was first introduced in China several years ago, it soon won a big number of young fans just like I...Jajaja.

All the best,

Xiaowei

Hi Ali,
Thanks for your interesting comment!
The orange "bing tang hu lu" are made of mandarine and is very juicy. I like it.
You find out the lake is lake Laodonghu in 219 park! Such a good guess really demands some talent.

Hi kishino,

XIEXIE NI! And your friends are funny.

The fruit are Chinese lantern indeed, a good guess! or they are called winter cherry in English as well. they can be used in medicine, yet mainly we just buy a bag of them and eat them as snacks when walking in the street, they are sweet.

hi Xiaowei
thanx of ur fantastic and interesting post,after reading i felt that i was born and grew up there!
i wish snow and coldness come back in ur hometown ,i agree with u i can feel that winter in my town isnt like old times
waiting for ur next blog

Thanks,Xiaowei.
(wo tai gaoxing le !!) I am very very glad to like to run about all over the world indeed!!
I very like wild grass.
Also when I went to China,I pictured some of them.
Especially ,beaty of having scarity plants in the desert moved me greatly.
That impression made me buy any illustrated plants books at Yunchuan to check those names early.
Anyway,"gu niang er",this name perfectly satisfied my image of it.
How beautiful name !!
Thanks again,Xiaowei.

Thank you for you blog i have been readed your posts since a week , I'm trully glad to share you in a conversation , in fact the season in my country a little differn so you draw for me brightly picture i wish i had been there speacially in winter becaus my country is so hot and people lost thier appetite as well as people is became lazy but when winter al thought short but little bit an intersting i eat greadly and people is work an enthusiaticlly and the general moods in thoroughfare or in transport is better than in summer. so far we had tow seasons in my home , i wounder if we could stay tow or changing . the climate change is a serious disaster and it had grave implication .

I feel very familiar with your post because I come from Taiwan. I envy of winter in your country.You can see and play in snow easily. However, in my country, to see snow is very uncommon.
"Tang Hu Lu" is one of my favorite snacks,especially with tomatoes.
I really want to go China, a big, beautiful and fertile country. Now, your post make me more yearn to being there.

woww dear Xiaowei after reading your story or seeing your countries picture i felt in sadness because of my past and childhood you have very peacefull country and very beautifull pleases to go and for enjoy the each steps of life may god bless you...