Elf's Album of China. NO 1: Zhu Jia Jiao

Excellent pics! Great Photographer you are. Welcome! I'm Chinese too. I come from NingBo. Not far from ShangHai... though I live in U.K...

NingBo is the home of intelligent merchants

And my hometown is quite near there :wink:

And frankly elfself, your photographic skills are far more better than me

If you agree you can also post some of your pics in the topic "Vision China" just in this Asia section

by the way, Will you mind if I ask for your age?

Intelligent merchants... heh heh... no comment...

hey add some comments please?

Does my English cause some confusion? or...?
please!?

Nah your English is good as mine..... no comment is just my way of saying... well... no comment... >_< cos the way you said it.... sounded like "intelligent" has double meanings..... >_<

Hi Elf... Cute Name, Cute Avatar, Nice Photos.

I could only see a few of them... the first two. Sometimes it is hard to display that many photos in one post on a2k.

I've made some suggested changes for you, Elf. You've done well and I understood you with no problem, however, if you want your English to be standard, it might be written something like this:

Hi, I am from China. I want to practice my English writing skills here, so I will share my photos with everybody. All the photos were taken by me. I am practicing my English by describing them. If there is any mistake in my English language usage, please let me know, or you can give me suggestions about the words and sentences. I have a personal website that I want to translate into English so I need to perfect my writing skills.

1. This small town is one of the famous water towns of China.* It has been a peaceful old town since the Qing Dynasty.**

2. The boat is the main vehicle for the people living in Zhu Jia Jiao. A small river runs through it.***

Because you are trying to describe and inform, it would be good to give more information to your readers, for example:
*Iif you have space, you might want to use an adjective to describe that part of China (of northern China or of central China or wherever it is.)

**It would also be great to say when the Qing Dynasty was and put it in parentheses... (351-762 CE or whatever it is.)

***"It" could also be further identified, for example: "through the main thoroughfare of town" or "through old town."

You have posted very interesting photographs and I'd be happy to help you with the English in your captions. Could you please re-post the rest of the photographs, two at a time, as you have time?

Thanks,
Piffka

3. People act their story on the stage of boat.


4. Black rooftop and white wall. Red lantern beautify their home.


5. Two parts of small town connected by Stone bridge.

6. This kind of food are very common in the street, pig's hand. Little sweet and very fat so I dare not to taste it (I want to keep my weight )


7. An old-age Gingkgo tree standing on the street. This kind of tree is popular in east of China. Its leafs will turn to be yellow in autumn and fall to the ground like dancing golden butterfly.


8. A small tree out of a yard.

9. Rings on the door. It seems no one knocked at this door for a long time.


10. A traditional house in this small town. The red stairs and wooden window. If you chat with house-husband friendly maybe he will invite you into his house.


11. Big jar for watery-wine. If you know the famous poet Li Bai you will know watery-wine well who would be talent after he drank watery-wine. The symbol on the jar means "watery-wine".

12. We taken a boat drifted down the river. A bridge over our head. You can not see cloudy sky only flourishing tree standing on the side of bridge.


13. This is the green town with fresh smell of trees.


14. Their true life living on the river.

15. Deep wrinkles of the door.


16. House of their life: Small dooryard with cherry bay and bicycles leaning to the wall. You can not see clearly of their hall but you can fell their life through the shadow and light.


17. Only the tree can tell you the story of this town. Green turns to yellow years for years.

18. River past by the tree silently. They watched eachother every day, every year, then their language when they are meeting turn to be history.


19. A lantern lighting their life. Chinese people like this lantern as a festive symbol.


20. Doorplate

21. Husband and wife.


22. At the small corner, the birds singing the song.


23. Jumping poem.

24. Cruel age leaves only broken face.


25. A hole, a world. Where is Outside, where is inside?


26. You read history, they write you down.

27. They are ordinary people living a ordinary life. They seed, they gain.


28. A story behind this lock was forgotten.


29. Steps with green grass.

30. Red life with spicy food.


31. Road pointer.


32. Color anywhere. You will love this Chinese-style Read when you come to China.

To Rosslyn: My hometown is Yangzhou City in Jiangsu Province. Maybe next time I will show some picture of my beautiful hometown. There are lots of royal building in U.K. I know. A very gentle country in my mind:)

To ^JB^: Thank you for your suggestion, I will put some photo to your topic in future. My age? The only fact I can tell you is I am not young, beyond the age of chatting in Internet. I am sure I am older than you.

To Piffka: Thank you very very much..... You are very kind to give me lots of suggestion about my English. I have re-posted my photo and put some modification here I hope you can see them. I will put all of these content on my personal website and will invite you to access it when I complete.

I like to write some articles in Chinese from my childhood and dream I can write something in English someday. For reading English, It's not very difficult for me because I have translated lots of technical tutorials from E to C. But you know translating an article from foreign language to mother-tongue depend on the skill of your mother language.

More practice make more perfect I know:) I am a web designer and like to take picture of nature landscape in China. I will share more photos with you and hope my English will be improved soon.

Hooray!