Personal Narrative Essay: My Hometown Is Qingdao

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My hometown is Qingdao, let me give a brief introduction of Qingdao to you. The “Qing” is a color, as same as cyan or green. The “dao” is island. There is a small island on the sea near Qingdao. Because there are many plants on the island, the island looks green and this is the origin of the “Qingdao”.
Qingdao is located in the southern part of Shandong province. Qingdao's climate is typical temperate monsoon climate, so it is relative warm in winter and relative cool in summer. Summer temperature of Qingdao is about 30 centigrade and the winter temperature of Qingdao is about -5 centigrade, so Qingdao is very suitable for living in. A certain number of years ago, Qingdao was still a little fishing village. But now it become an important economic center city in china, and has a population of ten million. Qingdao was hailed as Eastern Switzerland.
Qingdao is a famous seaside tourist city, Qingdao is famous for it’s climate. Because it is located in the warm temperate monsoon climate zone and was influenced by the regulation of ocean, Qingdao is as cool as autumn in summer. There is a famous tourist spot on the coast of Qingdao, and it is “Zhanqiao”. “Zhanqiao” is the symbol of Qingdao. It is a very interesting thing that almost every native of Qingdao had
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Mountain Lao is 1133 metres above sea level, and it is one of landscape and famous scenery of china. The east side and south side of mountain Lao are linked to the sea, so that produce a characteristic landscape of mountain and sea connectivity. There are many natural landscape in the mountains including flowers, trees, all kinds of natural spring water which you can drink directly. Except the natural landscape, there are many human landscapes on the Mountain Lao. Mountain Lao is a holy place for Taoism. There are many Taoist buildings on the mountain, and Taoist priests can be found everywhere. You can make a wish for yourself or family on the mountain

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