江南丹橘，经冬犹绿。岂伊地气暖？自有岁寒心。

     虽无柔雨，也无春风，但回到江南故里，心神愉悦。对于年归二次的家，除了温暖，似乎别无他语可以形容，可以暂时抛开烦恼，浸溶于这一片和暖中。

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    “ 雪霁天晴朗，腊梅处处香。

     骑驴把桥过，铃儿响叮铛。

     响叮铛，响叮铛，响叮铛，响叮铛。

     好花采得瓶供养，伴我书声琴韵，共渡好时光。”

     之于四君子之一的梅，古往今来有太多的诗人对其寄寓了情思，众多诗文中最爱放翁的《卜算子.咏梅》“驿外断桥边，寂寞开无主。 已是黄昏独自愁，更著风和雨。 无意苦争春，一任群芳妒。 零落成泥碾作尘，只有香如故。”

                 (偶拍得她丽姿，共享下）

     有很长一段时间是依靠梅来勉励自己，只要望一眼那傲枝，深呼吸那沁人心脾的芬芳，每天的自习便充满动力。但凡遇到嫁接梅枝作卖的农妇，便会买几枝插在花瓶里，当宿舍畅流它的香气时，人人都心情爽朗。

     之于驴，常常幻想倒骑驴的悠闲，但却一次都没有见识过，即使在西安吃了驴肉。这次有幸在淮安见到了，但朋友硬是不让我靠近，说是怕我被踢去，可是你瞧他的懒样会踢人吗？

     之于《踏雪寻梅》，虽然带着朗朗上口的轻快调子，但却让我愁眉不解。从咿呀学语至今，已然二十多个年头，但对于未来似乎不断地在坚定与迷惘中徘徊。“人事有代谢，往来成古今。”在历史的汹涌波涛亦或平静流河中能闪耀那么些许水花吗？望着步履蹒跚的外公外婆、爬上父母面庞的皱纹，我如此孜孜追求的打拼远乡的意念是否有些自私？这样一个缺漏重重的柔弱女子能在新天地中开拓与发展吗？有太多太多的不确定，有太多太多的疑问，最后总是拿出那句“过往不可究，未来不可见，珍惜当下”来告戒自己。学好英语，看好书，画好画，学好开车是我当下要做的。

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     冬日里的暖阳，贝多芬的F大调第六交响曲68号，掌控着厨房的角角落落，生活处处洋溢着幸福。回到家，一日学车的倦意全无，知足常乐。

     最近读到一篇文章，其中经典地指出幸福恰到好处的底线是一个耐人寻味的“半”字。

     清朝李密庵有《半半歌》，共享下：

    看破浮生过半，半之受用无边。半中岁月尽悠然，半里乾坤宽展；

    半郭半乡村舍，半山半水田园。半耕半读半寒廛，半士半民姻眷。

    半雅半粗器具，半华半实庭轩。裘裳半素半轻鲜，肴馔半丰半俭。

    童仆半能半拙，妻子半朴半贤。心情半佛半神仙，姓字半藏半显。

    一半还之天地，一半让将人间。半思后代与桑田，半想阎罗怎见。

    饮酒半酣正好，花开半时偏妍，帆张半扇免翻颠，马放半缰稳便。

    半少却饶滋味，半多反厌纠缠。自古苦乐半相参，会占便宜之半。

    如果真的能放下我时常执着的完美主义，我可能会更幸福些吧。

        Today (Jan.8.2008) is premier Zhou Enlai passed away the 32th anniversary commemorates.Our country lost a great  servant in this day 32 years ago. Every time when somebody asked me about the idol in my heart, my answer would be "nobody except ZhouEnlai ." He is the great man whom I had taken a fancy to since I was an innocent little girl. As the years pass by, my respect and love to him accumulates, he becomes the only person can not be removed from my deep memorate.To my thinking, he is the hero in the hearts of a large amount of people in China.

        Beside his great countribution to the country's foundation and foreign affairs as we all know, his views in the areas of life and love are attractive to me. He is one of the very few leaders lead a sinple and crude life but put all their focus on the country.Obviously can we see that he judges his lover by the inside much more than the outside  through his successful  marriage. In the period of over 4 years he stayed abroad, they could merely keep in touch with each other through the mails, but there was no replacement of Den in his mind. And they braved countless dangers and shared weal and woe through the hardships of white terror and years of war. They dedicated their lives side by side for the prosperity of the motherland and happiness of  the people.For all I concern, this sort of relationship is what I revere and look for.

        I made a trip to Huai'an , the birth place of  ZhouEnlai, last month before I came back home. After I read ZHOUENLAI written by Dick Wilson and visited all the places about him there, I knew more about him to my mind. And I'd like to share some pictures  to commemorate him with you.

the living room                           the study room                                     his mother and father                               

a door to his grandfather's house     an elm tree over one thousand years in the yard      a couplet written in seal character

a part of the sky seen from the yard                                     his nanna who influenced him mostly in his childhood

his aunt's  bedroom          a sentence he said when he was a little boy  All these above taken in his former residence

outside the ZhouEnlai's memorial         inside the memorial          a bronze of him with a posture he was fond of       

A copy of  his  residence in Beijing          his simpleand crudebedroom              the guardhouse                        

the quadrangle of his residence with his favorate flower "Chinese flowering apple"

                                              "red flag" saloon car in the very old version            the big artificial lake  there                 

   the day I went there               the peachful river on my way to the memorial

Here are some other places in Huai'an:

the beautiful night piece of the city        the bridge is called "as if  flying"                        the  city gate tower

the ancestral temple of GuanTianpei         the former residence of WuCheng'en                   the ancestral temple of HanXin

       We can see such an imposing scene every day if we like, but few of us do. So far as I concern that it is not because we don't want to enjoy it but there is something in our mind really more importatant than  going to watch the birth of a new day. How many of us can think it out clearly?

        I had planed to see the sunrise since 2006, but the weather didn't allow me to. My deam comes true this year,  I wish that all things will be favoring in 2008.

       Compare to the great sight of the sun, exhaustion and cold is nothing.And I find I am lack of words to describe it when I catch the picture.

       Is there anything  more beauteous than this dayspring?

(The fog in Nanjing was so thick these days, lots of people there droped the hope, but I had never abandoned the faith as I did in Hua mountain, I got the beauty at the very ending.)