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 I lived in the countryside during my childhood. The county is an agricultural county in Taiwan, people call it Yun-Lin County (yes, it is the same pronunciation with as somebody from mainland China.). The place is south in of Chang-Hua county and north in of Chia-Yi county, and has is a four hours drivieing distant far from Taipei.

There The county have many fields. Every summer vacation after harvesting, children were hurrying hurried to dig a caves and build a mud ball tents to bake sweet potatos, chickens, eggs and corns. If everything went smoothly, we just waited just for 3 or 4 hours to eat those food, if not….hmmm…come back tomorrow early tomorrow. This is an advantage of living in the countryside, children had have wide ground spaces to run, free time and many games to play. What did neighborhood kids and I played? We played hopscotch, hide and seek, catching tadpoles and butterflies, catching cicadas and ladybugs, jumping rope and even fired fireworks.

This agricultureal county has one vegetable terminal market a wholesale vegetable market where many farmers’ harvests are sent to there and then they be are transferred to other community markets. Most of my neighborhood farmers are kind, they often bring their left left-over harvest to their neighborhood. This is the reason why we don’t usually need to shop for food in the market.

Every year, some temple fairs are held in the countryside. It brought people short pleasure and a chance to thanks the Gods like Buddale. Some traditional fairs keep as before have been kept, but some are gone. My favorite traditional fair is the Lantern Festival when I was a child. My father always brought me and my younger sisters to see the huge lantern show in the Bai-Kong temple, old . Old masters made huge lanterns with many different Chinese ancient legends, those huge lanterns moved like robots and some even could make sounds, sometimes those the stages blow blew off white smoke suddenly. I felt that as if I had had a tour in an magic house, it impressed me with many curiosityies and fun. What a most pity is the biggest for me is that sort of show was has gone now, but it will leave live in my memories.

 25 NOV 2008.        This is my terrible acticle. Correcting those wrong grammars for me is very improtant if I wamt to achive.