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“The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” ~James Truslow Adams [点击 More>>>]

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” ~Plato Valentine’s Day is celebrated annually on February 14. It is a day on which lovers exchange their truest love and [点击 More>>>]

葉顒: 天地風霜盡，乾坤氣象和。曆添新歲月，春滿舊山河。梅柳芳容徲，松篁老態多。屠蘇成醉飲，歡笑白雲窩。 Chinese New Year, also known as Spring Festival 春節 commences on the first day of the first month in the Chinese lunar calendar, and concludes [点击 More>>>]

陸游: 公卿有党排宗澤，帷幄無人用岳飛。遺老不應知此恨，亦逢漢節解沾衣。 Yue Fei (1103-1142) was born to a peasant family in Xiangzhou (today’s Henan Province) during the warring period of the Northern Song Dynasty. He was very studious and scholarly. He received [点击 More>>>]

#img!# 文天祥: 山川如識我，故舊更無人。俯仰干戈跡，往來車馬塵。英雄遺算晚，天地暗愁新。北首燕山路，淒涼夜向晨。 Wen Tianxiang 文天祥 was born in Luling 廬陵 (Ji’an 吉安縣), Jiangxi Province 江西省 in 1256 during the Southern Song [点击 More>>>]

李白: 君不見黃河之水天上來, 奔流到海不復回。君不見高堂明鏡悲白髮, 朝如青絲暮成雪。 人生得意須盡歡, 莫使金樽空對月；天生我才必有用, 千金散盡還復來。 Time flies as swiftly as an arrow. 光陰似箭, [点击 More>>>]

“As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light… Halloween wraps fear in innocence, As though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat…” ~Nicholas Gordon Halloween is celebrated on October 31. The origin of [点击 More>>>]

劉禹錫: 天將今夜月，一遍洗寰瀛。暑退九霄凈，秋澄萬景清。星辰讓光彩，風露發晶英。能變人間世，翛然是玉京。 Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, is observed on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month in the Chinese calendar. It was [点击 More>>>]

李商隱: 絳節飄飄宮國來，中元朝拜上清回。羊權須得金條脫，溫嶠終虛玉鏡臺。會省驚眠聞雨過，不知迷路為花開。有城未抵瀛洲遠，青雀如何鴆鳥媒。 Zhongyuan Festival 中元節, also known as Ghost Festival 鬼節 or Hungry Ghost Festival [点击 More>>>]

杜牧: 菱透浮萍綠錦池，夏鶯千囀弄薔薇。盡日無人看微雨，鴛鴦相對浴紅衣。 After residing in Florida for the past decade, we are accustomed to the hot and humid weather. From time to time, we are refreshed by the cool ocean breeze. Seemingly, in the Sunshine State, [点击 More>>>]