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However, father and brother’s boat still had no sign. It was almost evening. The sun slowly set, and I think building the Great Wall was a mega proj-
From day and night, Ma-Zu continually held Lesson 9 : The Erupting Volcano the beautiful evening glows reddened the clouds in ect and it is sad that a lot of people sacrificed their
the lamp and waited for father and brother to come the sky. The front view is a wide, big river flowing lives for this historic project.
home. Sadly, Ma-Zu’s father and brother never came Teacher told a story about volcanic eruption in endlessly toward the farther side of the sea. I would
back, but she continued to wait on the shore. the class today. On June, 1991, the Mount Pinatubo like to see further, so I climbed one more story up- Lesson 12: Yang Ming Shan National Park
In order to memorize Ma-Zu’s benevolence, locating in the south of the Philippines came out a stairs. Wow, what a fantastic view.
people build a temple for her and make her “the plume of steam, following rumbles. This was the At the moment, my younger brother broke out There is an amazing tourist attraction called
guardian angel of the sailors”. Until today, Ma-Zu sign of erupting, while nobody believed that it would asking, “Grandpa, is water in the Yellow River really Yang Ming Shan National Park. Every spring during
temples are the most worshiped temples in the shore- burst because it had been six centuries since last yellow?” the flower season, tourists gather on Yang Ming Shan
line region. known eruptive activity. Grandpa replied, “Yes. The Yellow River is to adore its blossoming flowers and its amazing scen-
Unexpectedly, the volcano erupted. The hot lava originated from Qinghai Province, and it passes eries. Every year between February and March when

Lesson 8 : Guan-Yu slowly flowed out and destroyed everything wherever through the Loess Plateau where a large amount of the temperature starts to rise, Cherry blossom and
Rhododendron compete to blossom. The red, white
it reached. And, what was worse, the volcano ejected
dusty soil is carried away along the side. So the soil
Father and mother were happy because uncle a large amount of ashes, dust and rocks, as well as dyes the river yellow.” and thousands of other colors of flowers on the na-
came back from Taiwan, and they invited him to our lava at the same time and flushed down the slope to After hearing those from Grandpa, my younger tional park create an imagery of an ocean filled with
home for a meal. Uncle could drink a lot, so he and flood the roads, cars, farms and many villages, when brother and I both realized its background and flowers. A lot of people visit the Yang Ming Shan
dad had lots of cup of drink. Mom said: “Look at people were caught off guard. smiled. National Park during the weekends of spring time,
you two, your faces are as red as Guan-Yu.” Uncle A few days after the eruption, typhoon rains making it one of the best places to visit during the
laughed when he heard, and he touched his chin and took the deposits into rivers and caused flooding, Lesson 11: The Great Wall weekend in the spring time.
said, “Only thing that missing are some beard.” bringing another unbearable damage to the local. Each season of the Yang Ming Shan National
I asked uncle who the Guan-Yu is. He said, Many houses were destroyed and their family mem- There is a book mentioning that the only human Park has different scenery. During spring, the park
“He is the guy from the book, Romance of the Three bers were killed, so they could not but leave where built structure visible to an astronaut on the moon is offers scenery of flowers blossoming, butterflies
Kingdoms, who swings a big blade sword! Red face, they were born, while other more people braced up, China’s Great Wall. I did not believe this, so I ques- dancing gracefully in the air and bees harvesting
long beard.” Uncle started to tell me the story of The regardless of teardrops and sweat, they began to re- tioned my teacher. honey. During summer, when the weather is cool, the
Oath of Peach Garden between Liu-Bei, Guan-Yu, store the homeland. Filipinos are not afraid of failure, Teacher went online and downloaded a picture waterfall splashes. Standing under the waterfall pro-
and Zhang-Fei from the book along with his gesture. and they would not yield to the fate. Let us work hard of the great wall taken from the moon to prove the vides a cool sensation for the tourists. The fall of the
Uncle said, Guan-Yu was a very brave man. together. We believe that green grass and flowers will fact. On the picture, there is a visible long structure. park offers another amazing scenery as white silver
One time, his arm was injured by a poisonous arrow grow out of land of lava soon. Teacher said that the Great Wall is located in the grass flowers blossom and spread all over the nation-
while he was fighting. Afterward, Hua-Tuo, a leg- northern part of China and it was used by Emperor al park, while maple leaves turn red, creating scenery
endary doctor, performed a surgery on his arm. Hua- Lesson 10 : The Yellow River Flows to The Sea Qin to prevent invasion from outsiders. The total full of red leaves and white flowers. During winter,
Tuo cut the wound open and scraped out the poison length of the Great Wall is 6700 kilometer. If you the chilly wind from the north east brings along soft
on the bone by a small knife, and then he sewed the Grandpa was reciting a poem in his study yes- convert it into the Chinese miles used in the past, it is snow flakes to the summit of the park, creating white
wound. While performing the surgery, Guan-Yu’s terday, and my younger brother and I followed up more than 10000 Chinese miles. Such great construc- and silver snowing scenery.
arm was severely bleeding. Everyone around Guan- reciting. The following is what Grandpa recited: tion was built in the Warring State Period of China Between May and June, there is an amazing
Yu was frightening, but Guan-Yu was focusing on his The midday sun slips behind mountains (403 to 221 B.C). This is unbelievable. scenery, that thousand of butterflies dance in groups
board game like nothing happen. The Yellow River turns for the sea The teacher also added that the architecture was between the valleys of the mountain. A lot of tour-
Uncle also said that in whatever condition, Trying to see thousands of miles not advanced and during the Qin’s dynasty, the em- ists purposely visit the national park for this scenery.
Guan-Yu never betrayed his brothers. Therefore, I climb one more story peror forced men to work in Northern China, which Tourists were fascinated as they see such scene. If
Guan-Yu’s loyalty spirit had been admired among This is the jueju in five-syllable-long form con- is very cold during the winter. Majority of people, 8 you ever go to the Yang Ming Shan National Park,
Chinese from then on, and people entitled him “the sists of 20 characters. I memorized the poem in a short or 9 out of 10 who worked on the project died there; you will think it is an excellent tourist attraction. The
Lord of War” and built temples to worship him. time. therefore, there is a story of a legendary lady Meng- national park of Northern Taiwan, Yang Ming Shan
Uncle told me couple other stories from Romance Grandpa was happy, and he asked us to close Jiang who was bitter weeping over her husband, one National Park welcomes you!
of the Three Kingdom too, such as: Straw Boat Borrows our eyes and to think over connotations while recit- of the laborers, moved parts of the wall to collapse.
Arrows or Empty Fort Strategy…etc. Each story was ing this poem once again.
more fascinating than the other. I asked uncle to tell I closed my eyes, dreaming of climbing high
more, and he said he was going to bring the book for upstairs myself and looking into four directions, and
me. That was great, and I could not wait for this book to mountains-and-rivers natural landscape immediately
come. turned up:

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