Welcome to our museum(博物馆). It is free and you can come only with your ID card. We don't ask you for any money, but we have some rules for you.

    First, don't bring any food to the museum. You can't eat in the museum. But you can bring some water to the museum. Second, you can take photos here, but you can't touch (触摸) the things. Third, keep quiet in the museum. Don't talk loudly. Fourth, don't run in the museum. Finally (最后), our museum closes at half past five in the afternoon. Please leave before five and we need thirty minutes to do some cleaning. Have a good time here! Thank you.

    It was a sunny morning. A poor(贫穷的) young man with 1 right hand came to Mrs. Brown's door. He asked her for some 2.

Mrs. Brown 3, "You see, young man. There are some bricks(砖头) behind my house. If you help me 4 them to the front, I'll pay you twenty dollars."

    "Can't you see that I lost my right hand? 5 can I do it?" The old lady smiled, put one of her hands behind her body 6 then picked up one brick with 7. Seeing this, the young man didn't say a word and started to work right away.

    After he did the work, the young man 8 with the money from Mrs. Brown and he looked a little different.

    Two years later, the young man came again with some gifts. "Thank you for 9 that day. I know you didn't need me to do the work. You just wanted to make me feel better. I learnt that I could make money by working hard, too. And now I have a pancake store and a beautiful wife."

    Think 10 and you will make your life better.

    Xie Wanying (October 5, 1900-Febrary 28.1999), better known by her pen name Bing Xin, was one of the most well-known Chinese writers of the 20^th century. Many of her works were written for young readers. Her pen name Bing Xin carries the meaning of a pure heart, and is taken from a line in a Tang Dynasty poem by Wang Changling.

    Bing Xin was born in Fuzhou, Fujian, but moved to Shanghai with her family when she was seven months old, and later moved yet again to the coastal port city of Yantai, Shandong, when she was four. Such a move had a key influence on Bing Xin's personality and philosophy (哲学) of love and beauty, as the hugeness and beauty of the sea greatly opened young Bing Xin's mind and heart. It was also in Yantai, Bing Xin first began to read the classics of Chinese literature, such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin, when she was just seven.

    In 1913, Bing Xin moved to Beijing. She started her writing career as she wrote for a school newspaper at Yanjing University where she was a student and published her first novel. Bing Xin graduated from Yanjing University in 1923 with a bachelor's degree, and went to the United States to study at Wellesley College, earning a master's degree at Wellesley in literature in 1926. She then returned to Yanjing University to teach until 1936.

    In 1929, she married Wu Wenzao, her good friend when they were studying in the United States. In literature, Bing Xin founded the "Bing Xin Style" as a new literary style. She contributed a lot to children's literature in China such as A Myriad of Stars (1923), Spring Water (1923), Six-one sister (1924), To Young Readers (1926), Homeward South (1931), The Collected Works of Bing Xin (1932-1933). Bing Xin's literary career was productive. She wrote a lot of works — prose, poetry, novels, reflections and so on. There is a Bing Xin Literature Museum in Changle in Fujian Province. The Bing Xin Children's Literature Award is named in her honour.

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