To Live and Love

  Time management  is the key  to delight our life , get prepared in advance is the first step to start.   Running into the class until  the class begins , scrambling textbooks into the bag to catch the school bus, or start a writing paper when the deadline is coming. That ’ s basically happened every   day in my freshman year.   High school life is like to be set up in advance, what we should do is follow the stable schedule. College life, a total ly  different schedule  with high school, gives us a more independent and governable  time to make us control ourselves ’  time freely, but on the contrary , why I ’ m always in hurry, and it seems like the time is shorter than before.   Fact from ReliablePlanet shows that most college students struggle with organizational skill . College is a transition to help to chang e  us from a student into a real value-creating citizen. Just like me, most freshman of colleg...

  The c ircle is the embodiment of union, which is the most important symbol in Chinese culture. So the round table is used for people gathering for dinner.   Nowadays, with the progress of the globalization, many western-style foods  like steak, lasagna and burgers or sushi, ramen are popular in big cit ies  in China. People from inland provinces who work in costal big cit ies  are getting too busy to have a serious dinner with friends or family.   In most frequent situations, if there are five people or more, the situation that round table will be served nearly 100%, especially at  dinner.   First, I believe it is because the eating habit is different. In western countries, they will order individual and different meals. Maybe for health reasons, it will be better if people get far away from other ’ s saliva.   Second, a traditional dinner should serve hot dishes, cold dishes, soups, including fish, chicken (or duck or goos...

      Plin's recipes is a place that you can learn some traditional Chinese food. I come from an inland province of China, both my family and I almost cook every day. Today, I will introduce some basic information of main cooking style and some table manners. So I will start cooking next week. Unlike the United States is famous for fast food, eating is the essential part to Chinese people, which means they treat it seriously. There are eight basic major components in Chinese cuisine, which represents eight provinces, Guangdong, Sichuan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Hunan, Anhui. There are dozens of taste even in the same province. So, it will be extremely difficult to try every taste in the country. What we can learn is some basic and apparent difference, like people in the north of China prefers flour than rice. And people from south central, like Sichuan, Yunnan, Hunan, Guangxi, are crazy about the spicy taste. Guang’dong, a coa...