In the United States，every year, Thanksgiving Day is on the fourth Thursday of November．People in Canada also celebrate Thanksgiving Day. But because Canada is in the north of the United States，so it is colder and the harvest comes earlier in the year．In Canada，people have Thanksgiving Day on the second Monday of October．

    The harvest brings a lot of food to people．On Thanksgiving Day people in Canada and America like to have a big meal with their friends and family just like what Chinese people do at Mid-Autumn Festival．Many Canadians and Americans put flowers，vegetables and fruits around their homes．

    At a Thanksgiving Day dinner, many Canadians and Americans will eat turkey, potatoes and pumpkins pie．These are food like the food of many years ago．They are saying “Thank you” for the harvest that comes every year．

    The Beijing Opera is our national opera. It is an important part of Chinese culture. Do you like watching the Beijing Opera? Why does Bao Zheng always have a black face? Why does Guan Yu have a red face? Let's take a look at the art of the Beijing Opera facial painting or lianpu.

    Different colours and patterns of the Beijing Opera facial painting are for different roles. For example, a red face is for brave people; a black face is for fair people; a white face is for bad people; a blue and green face is for heroes and a gold face is for gods.

    There are five big roles in the Beijing Opera: sheng, dan, jing, mo and chou. Sheng is the biggest role for a man. Dan is the biggest role for a woman.

    In many English homes people eat four meals a day, breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner.

    People have breakfast at any time from seven to nine in the morning. They eat porridge, eggs, or bread. English people drink tea or coffee at breakfast.

    Lunch comes at one o'clock. Afternoon tea is from four to five in the afternoon and dinner is about half past seven. First they have soups, and then they have meat or fish with vegetables. After that they eat some other things, like bananas, apples, or oranges.

    But not all English people eat like this. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day. Their meals are breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper and all these meals are very necessary.

    Green is an important color in nature. It is also the color of most growing plants. Sometimes the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes it describes something that is not yet ripe(成熟的) or finished. For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no experience, who is new to a situation. In the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed. A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in battle. By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today—a person who is new in a job.

    Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early 1900s. A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.

    The Green Revolution is the name given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural scientists who had green thumbs.

    Green is also the color used to describe the powerful emotion, jealousy(嫉妒). The green-eyed monster is not a frightening creature from outer space. It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has something he wants. A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else. Or, that green-eyed monster may affect your friend if you get a pay raise and she does not.

    What is a Chinatown? Is it a town in China? Of course not! It is in a foreign country. It is a place where many overseas Chinese live together. Chinatowns are throughout the world, including those in East Asia, Southeast Asia, North America, South America, Australia and Europe. The biggest one is in New York. There are about 150, 000 people in it. It is the home of Chinese New Yorkers. And it is also a good place to go.