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成都地震？不可以！

早上听到当闹钟用的无线电新闻说"中国中部、差不多是中国人口最多的城市。。。成都地震，900学生死亡"，大城市成都大地震，那么大伤亡！那还了得！震惊之下，赶紧上新浪网，一看104死亡，放下心来，然后听到电视里说900学生"believed"死亡，或者"might"，更加放心，心里说，哼，美国新闻，就是浮夸，耸人听闻，不确定的猜测估计也敢乱发呀。据说美国媒体发布的缅甸灾难死亡人数就比中国媒体的要多得多。

然后，新浪和别的中文网站显示的死亡人数开始成千增加了，才知道地震在都江堰附近，确实离成都不远！

成都怎么可以地震？中国怎么可以地震？多灾多难的中国，刚经过一场罕见雪灾打击，人民还在修生养息，怎么经得起这样的大地震？

如果要地震，为什么还是在中部人口密集的地方？查看一下中国地图，成都，真的就算是中部了。中国不比美国，没有那么长海岸线和可耕地，西部有那么大的不适合人居住的荒原，地震，为什么不发生在那些无人的戈壁滩？

而四川、特别是成都，那是富庶的天府之国啊！以前去成都开会的路上，乘着火车进入四川，只见沃野平畴，如锦似绣，景致与江南无异。特别是成都，气候湿润，物产丰富，丝绸衣物都便宜，麻辣又香又鲜美，小吃便宜又好吃，抄手、肥肠粉、夫妻肺片、凉粉、罐罐面、珍珠圆子、魔芋、芝麻糖、麻辣米糕、鸳鸯火锅，。。。品着鲜香的麻辣，再去杜甫草堂仿古，去武侯祠拜谒，想象着峨眉山的秀丽，体会着嘉陵江的深沉，向往着九寨沟的奇幻，。。。情不自禁迷醉在四川的风情里，流连忘返。

记得道教胜地青城山，树深林茂，山色苍翠，空灵幽静，仙风道骨，让你把仆仆风尘一洗而空。

记得从成都去都江堰游玩的路上，公路的隔离带上种的都是芙蓉花，那耀眼的粉红，给成都增加了很多浪漫情调，让人想起杜甫杜甫《春夜喜雨》的诗句"晓看红湿处，花重锦官城"。成都，就是个鲜花盛开的地方。

记得那天都江堰云雾缭绕，山水如黛，宁静安详，感觉好象凭空跌入一幅古典的水墨画，如梦如幻，只有那饶有情趣的吊桥，有惊无险，晃晃悠悠中游人的大呼小叫，给这幅幽美的山水画增加了动感。

那样一幅安宁美好的都江堰山水画卷，怎么可以被破坏？那么多活蹦乱跳的生命，怎么可以霎那间被夺去？中国难得有一个天府之国，父老乡亲难得有一些安居乐业的日子，为什么，还要经历这样的大地震？

但愿这是伤亡最小的大地震。但愿再没有更多地震。但愿地震只发生在无人区。

天佑中华！

The night before our trip to the legendary Chengdu Research Base for Giant Panda Breeding, I was so excited that I hardly got any sleep.

I just lied there, with my eyes and mind wide open, reviewing what information I've heard and gathered on the internet, and wondering what it will be like for my first date with some of the the world's most endangered living fossils.

Well, after bouncing out of the bed way before the alarm rang, trekking all the way from the city center to the area outside the Third Ring Road in the picturesque Northern Suburbs, and forking out 30 yuan to get in, my friend was superised to notice no traces of fatigue on me at all.

"Behold! Behold!" I cried out every time I saw a ginat panda, no matter it is basking languishly in the sun or climbing agilely to get its food, brazenly ignoring the prohibitive regulations against speaking loudly while visiting, "Isn't it adorable? Isn't it?"

"What else are you expecting?" she asked.

"You don't understand, this gonna be very much differenet. " I replied, couldn't stop myself from taking a picture of each and every one of them. "Just remember that they are as old as the long-extinct dinosaurs."

"And consider ourselves super lucky, because whatever the folks see and adore in San Diego Zoo, Zoo Atlanta, Memphis Zoo and the National Zoo in DC, as well as the Berlin Zoo, Mexico Zoo, Tokyo Ueno Zoo, and Chiang Mai Zoo, they are bred in here in the first place!"

"Cool! Just give me one picture in your pile, OK? I'm gonna make others jealous!!"  

It's known that he who has never been to Chengdu does not realize how burdensome he lives his life. How True!

While some say Chengdunese idle away their time strolling, some say they enjoy their time sitting back and sipping several cups of tea or two, or simply lazing away the entire day doing nothing more productive than playing chess or mah-jong, Chengdunese themselves express and define their concept of lifestyle as: Just go with the flow like a fish swim with the current through the sea of life.

Either way, they live their lives in such a relaxed pace that those who are accustomed to the frantic urban pace would find hard to believe, to resist and to fall in love with.

The best place to have the first hand and most direct experience of their lifestyle is the teahouse. It certainly is not the unique phenomenon in Chengdu, but you simply can't find another place that carries on more ubiquitous a street life scene, more contagious a folk culture and more versatile a socializing function than Chengdu's teahouses.

I really admire how "chill" Chengdunese always are. They can be genuinely happy in almost every situation and don't seem to become easily bothered by anything.

Just live through lackadaisical days after lackadaisical days of endless lackadaisical sun over endless refills of tea, with a lackadaisical attitude and tempo, what do you call this lifestyle, laid-back, or lazy?

After experiencing such traditional teahouse culture here and there throughout Chengdu, my friend concluded: "No wonder the Kingdom of Shu was the first to be conquered during the Three Kingdoms Period."

The first day in Chengdu, I was already overwhelmed by its intriguing charm and delicious treats.

Chunxi Road was just as bustling as Nanjing Road in Shanghai and Wangfujing Street in Beijing, with a slightly smaller scale, but more groups of beautiful girls. My friend was a pretty girl herself, and would always stand out in streets, but not here in Chengdu. She grumbled jokingly that she would never come back to this city again.

Chengdu food was super delicious. As a typical first-timer traveler, I was fool enough to eat to my heart's content the very moment our first dish was served. I was not quite ready to receive so heaping a plateful of food for so reasonal price and there was practically not enough space for the rest of our meal only after two or three dishes. So I took the chance to take a photo. I only wished I could have another stomach along!

熊猫基地的明星------一对双胞胎正对着观众午餐.

一只熟睡的宝宝被幼稚园阿姨温柔地抱进房间去.

十点多了,还在两个两个睡觉的熊猫宝宝.

只有一只勤快的熊猫宝宝起来了,它慢慢地爬下来,踱到后面吃竹子去了.