I went to Laoting(Chinese name is “乐亭”) from 15th to 18th.The main purpose is to eat the seafood.

I’ve been there last year.I went to the Puti island(菩提岛).I took a lot of pictures.

Unfortunately,I have no extra DC this time.

 This picture was took in the transportation station.The pollution is increasing severe in the local.

It is the highway to the Laoting city.

I grabbed a introduction on this city.

====================

独幽城历史考辨

独幽城村，现在仅是个150几户人家，600余口人的小村。旧县志把它列在了古迹之中。但说：“事迹则不可详”。1986年全县文物普查时，发现该村为汉代遗址。（县志有载）。
　　据民间传说：明代拟建乐亭县城时，候选城址定在乐安亭（现救阵）西南二里和独幽城，两地择优取一。县令提出称土定音，就是以同体积土的比重来比较，重者为首选。因当地人在土中做了手脚，在土中掺盐，结果以土重胜过独幽城而取胜。且不说这种传说之真伪，值得研究的是当时全县数百村庄，为啥仅以此二地相竞呢？其先决条件是：所建新城位置在乐安镇西南，与旧址基本连接，背靠滦河，河、海水陆相通，地理位置优越。那独幽城是以何条件、何资格与其争雄的呢？无疑，那时独幽城村的位置在乐亭地域的正中，从历史上看，也有一定的地位和影响，在当时看来，与乐安镇相比，一定是伯仲不分，雌雄难辨。
　　独幽城在乐亭县内，是唯一一个以城命名的村庄。城是区别于乡的。通常是人口集中，是周边地区政治，经济，文化的中心。特别是在辽代以前，它曾叫“千金千人邑”。这就更增添了一层神秘色彩，值得探究了。查邑，《辞源》释：“①都邑也，大曰都，小曰邑，如邑侯邑宰。②古称王畿曰邑。③侯国之称。④大夫称采地曰邑。⑤今称县曰邑。《辞海》释：①古称国为邑。②京城。③泛指一般城市，大曰都，小曰邑。④旧时县的别称，县令曰邑宰。”按上述解释，独幽城在历史上可能也是个城镇所在地。查史料：
　　一、旧县志中有“古城”一地。说“在县西南三十里。”现独幽城在旧镇西南16里。按汉制1尺相当于今尺6寸，正合此说。据此，我认为独幽城是汉、晋时的乐安亭古城，以后迁徙于旧镇。
　　二、《永平府志》古迹中有“蹋顿城。”载：“后赵，石虎谋伐昌黎，遣曹伏，将青州之众渡海戍蹋顿城”。又云：“本皆乐安旧城，赵石虎使典农中郎将王典率众万余屯田海滨，以谋击燕”。民国年县志疑蹋顿城为新桥镇（现马头营镇）。查史，新桥镇最早见于金，盛于明，现距救阵42里。合汉制为70里，不合其说。且，地处海口，（那时海，还没退到现在的位置）。周围多为盐碱地，只生盐蒿，不长庄稼，不可能于此屯田。我认为，蹋顿城也即独幽城。
　　三、《辞海》对碣石山的解释，引《汉书，地理志》：“骊城，大碣石山在县西南。”一说：“今河北乐亭西南某古城，当为骊城故址。”又引《水经注》云：“山在濡水（今滦河）口，本居陆地，后为海水所浸，沦入海中。”我认为此说可信。二说：即现昌黎碣石山。论据是，现乐亭西南无山。我认为这不足据。《汉书》成书于东汉，距今近两千年。《水经》成书于北魏，距今一千五百多年。在这近两千年的历史长河中，沧桑几变，谁人能说清？我认为当年班固，郦道元绝不会无据、不考而著书立说。八十年代初，复旦大学考古系曾来人考察过骊城故址，我给他们当向导。他们疑为独幽城或滦南独莫城。我赞同独幽城之说。因独莫城不是“乐亭西南”。
　　四、汉海阳县《前汉书，地理志》云：“有芦水南入玄水，玄水东入濡水，濡水南入海阳。”《水经》云：“濡水从塞外东南过辽西令支县北，又东南过海阳，西南入于海。”《辽史》称：“海阳本汉县，滨海地多碱卤。”旧县志说：“汉时海阳当属境内。”可是北魏、唐、宋海阳均有城址，汉海阳则无城址。
　　独幽城历史悠久。解放前后在村内外曾出土大量汉代陶瓮、陶缸等残器。文物普查时，又发现好多汉陶残片。周边一公里左右的兰坨老母庙、蔡庄、孙庄等村，不是战国遗址即是汉代遗址（见乐亭县志），说明了这一地区的悠久历史。
　　独幽城村内有一古寺，名“正觉寺”。始建年代，因寺中碑碣，古钟均已损毁，现难查考。据该村老书记刘一新（现年89岁）和几长者回忆，在他们上学时，寺中有石碑四块，其中一块大明永乐年“重修正觉寺碑记”的碑文中有“建于隋唐，毁于兵燹”的字样。当时因不识“燹”字，印象颇深。
　　正觉寺之大全县非其莫属。东西宽35丈，南北长55丈，（现有地基可寻），占地32亩。前后两层大殿，每层五间。前殿是青砖灰瓦，为普通砖瓦结构庙堂建筑，后殿建筑宏伟，青砖绿琉璃瓦，吊柱悬梁，飞檐斗拱。顶上五脊六兽，异常壮观。前殿供奉关羽大帝，为清前期所建。后殿，供奉我佛如来，为古时所建。殿北有僧房十数间，清朝末年辟为学校。民国中期，因年久失修，殿堂，僧舍相继坍倒，被伪大乡折除，盖了西高学校。寺中原有古钟一口。铸于何代，村民更无记忆。钟高近六尺，底口直径有三尺二、三寸。平分时卖了铁。寺西50米，有一和尚坟。占地十多亩。当时有坟头一、二百个。大跃进时平除。
　　1978年平整地面时，在寺内大殿西侧，发现一辽代塔基地宫。地面塔身毁于何时，村民无记忆。发现时，地宫光整无损。正方形，穹隆顶，砖结构，占地10平方米。宫内拱顶高1.8米。因村民缺乏文物保护意识，抢拆砖石，破坏殆尽。宫内出土陶函一具，银棺一口，内有舍利子数颗。银盒一个，铜镜一面，辽白瓷净瓶，瓷盂，各一个。陶塔五座。陶碑四块。其中一块，碑额正面书“平州马县南千金千人邑同建无垢净光佛舍利塔”二十个字，背面书有“大契丹国昭孝皇帝重熙十三年三月廿六日记。”二十个字。为正楷汉文。这是乐亭史上唯一最早有明确文字纪年的碑记。有一定的历史考古价值（现在县博物馆）。
    按：契丹国称辽国，建于公元907年。太祖天赞二年（公元923年）克平州，自此乐亭归属契丹。昭孝皇帝为辽兴宗耶律宗真。重熙十三年为北宋仁宗赵祯庆历四年，（公元1044年），距今962年。平州在现在的卢龙。马县，旧县志上马城县，即现在的滦南县马城镇。
    总之，我认为：①乐安亭最早见于史册是在北魏，晋为乐安镇。旧志有：“后赵，石虎伐燕，自河通海运谷1100万斛，于乐安城。”此址始是于史册之文。而从独幽城出土文物分析，早在汉代就已是个人烟聚集的地方了。②对全县来说，独幽城周围村庄密度最大，人口也相对集中，这也能说明历史。③周边十几个村庄为古代遗址群。④地理位置在乐亭县中心。（那时姜各庄尚未划入）所以我说，独幽城是汉晋以前的历史古城。因乐亭县在明万历以前无文字记载，志书出所撰也不尽其详，大胆提出个人见解，做为引玉之砖，供有识之土研究、探讨时参考。

I will have the IELTS test tomorrow.It will be the second time paticipating in the test.

I got a special prediction for the oral in August.oral-test-preparation-for-august.zip

I logged in the host control panel(Cpanel).I was surprised that the theme of Cpanel  had changed.And it is support Chinese.It is a great progress.

I upgraded my old computer yesterday.The old computer had serverd for seven years.The CPU and the Mainboard cannot adapt the new operating.Here are some details about the old one.

CPU:Pentium III! 800MHz(133MHz*6)

Memmory:512MB Kingmax(128MB*2+256MB*1)

Harddisk:Maxtor 40GB(System use only)

Removable Media:CD-RW*1 DVD-RAM*1 Floopy*1

Mainboard:Soltek 65ME+(815G Chipset+ICH2)

Power:Greatwall 300W P4 Power

The resources of the computer are limitted a lot.I used to make this computer serve as a download server.

Now,there are more details about the new computer.

CPU:Pentium E2140 1.60GHz(200MHz*8)

Memmory:1GB Kingston(DDRII 667MHz)

Harddisk:Seagate 320GB

Removable Media:CD-RW*1 DVD-RAM*1 Floopy*1

Mainboard:SOYO I5GC-L(945G Chipset+ICH7)

Power:Greatwall 300W P4 Power

I tried to overclock the computer.But it was not successful because of the limit from the chipset.I got 233Mhz*8=1.86GHz as a result.

I installed the Windows Vista.

The Vista system enabled the Areo function.But I need to have a single graph card instead of the graph on the motherboard.

Here is the result of the test after the overclock.

I will attend IELTS test on 11th,August.It is the second time I have the same test in the same place.I have prepared for the test for several days.I plan to review the listening part on Cambridge IELTS Book one to five.And I will have a simulation test before I have the test.I will make full use of the Cambridge IELTS Six.

Now I have the listening practice twice a day.I read the two passages every day.Reading part is my shortcommings.It is necessary to have some practice.

I got The Prediction For IELTS on 11th,August on the website.I would like to share with my friends.

The-prediction-for-11th,August.zip

I got my IELTS score today.I got up at 8 o’olock.And I got on the bus No.732 to help my senior classmate to change his AGP graph card.We went to the Zhongguancun three days ago.And I also had my Meizu Miniplayer repaired.It will take  me about 20 days.I think I will miss my player because I have no MP3 as well as the M6.The waiting will drive me mad.

When I was taking on the bus,I open the QQ software on the mobile phone.Walter,Tracy,and  many of my classmates are chatting on the QQ.I joined the talk.Most of my classmates did not get 6 band on average score.But it was the first time we took the IELTS test.It does not matter even if we lost the scholarship(1500 RMB).Nobody is prefect.I satisfied with my score.Oh,I forgot to mention that I got my score on the mobile phone.I bought a Chinaunicom GPRS card several days ago.The most difference between the new GPRS card and the BMCC WAP card is the APN.I can surf the Internet without any limits.So unicom GPRS card gave me the opportunity to get my score on time.

Here is the score:

I was satisfied with my Listening and the Reading test.Because reading part is my shortcommings.But I did pretty well in the test.I also had a great job on my Speaking test.But I failed in the writting test.

I plan to study tomorrow.I will fight against with the IELTS test on 11th,August.And the main task for me is the writting part and reading part.

Good luck for my second IELTS test!

I was busy these days. But I got much experience and achievements. First of all, I would like to summary working on these days.

On July 10th,we finished this semester and selected the lesson. Eric Hu came to the BUT and had a presentation to us. He gave us a brief introduction for the engineer course when we go to Australia. It is very interesting and meaningful. Well,I had the last lunch with Black&Tian and in the dining hall of the school.

July 11this another important day for me.I was back to senior school and met my senior teacher. I got accustomed to this because I want to talk to them and keeping in touch with our teacher every six month.I also help some of the teacher to repair the computer(not fix,because the computers were abused after I came to the university.). And I was back home untill it was 23 o’olock. 

I did not have a rest on July 12th,I went to the Vicki’s home for a reparation of her family computer. It was much easy to fix than in the senior school. We started at 12:00 and finished at 18:00.I just for a good sleep today. But I ordered some goods on the Internet. So it is possible for the agents to delivered the goods. So that is why I did not sleep well in the mid-night. But I was very happy because I updated my blog system from version 2.0.2to 2.1.2.I began to use WordPress system in July, 2006.And I did not upgrade it. It was the first time I tried to update it. It seems that the process of the upgrading was not difficult. But I got some trouble in the last step.It was the encoding mistake because of the different types of the Mysql databases. In China, most of the Mysql databases are formed with utf8.But the Hostmonster is the latin1.It does not matter when you are using, but you will find the difficulties when you are setting it.The new blog system is clearer and easy to manage. The new updates addressed some security problems. I would like to montion that I changed the old theme into a new one because the old style did not work in the new version of the blog system.

There is the summery for these days offered above.Let me introduce some achievements for the past semester.

I got great achievements in this semester.Espically the listening part and the writing part. I am very excited to get them. To be honest, The GIS gave me the great help even if  the skills are not practical for the English learners.The second point I would like to mention is the final test-IELTS test. I think I did it quite well. Maybe the result is not good enough.Here are some good exceptions in the summer holiday.

Firstly, the next semester will begin on 6th,September,2007.It was the same day I walked into the Beijing University of Technology last year. Haha,It means that that day will become the anniversary for my first year in the college. I am not sure where I was in the same day of next year.Australia?Or China?

Secondly,I need to take actions for the comming IELTS test on 11th,August,2007.I am sure I will be more confidence in my second IELTS test.

Thirdly,I will get a preparation for my comming course,Such as CAD,VB,VC.The first thing I should do is to reinstall(ghost) a new operating system.I will install two systems.One is the old-XP,the other is Vista.I need to get accustomed to the new system.Oh,I also plan to make a better Website in the holiday.Maybe the time is not enough.I will make two site:Chinese version and Endlish Version.My space is so big that I cannot use them up.It is a waste if I cannot use them well.

Last but not least,I want to have a trip for three or four days in the last several days.I want to go to someplace where I can eat some seafood.:-) My task are used to eat in the passed several trips.

OK,there are my plans in this semester.

I got some good material for the IELTS.useful-tool-for-the-comming-ielts-test.zip

I went to Teaching Building of Beijing Education Examinations Instructive Centre for my IELTS oral test.I think I did well in the test.

Part one : Hometown(What is the oldest building in your city;What do you like about your hometown,etc.),Books(What are the factors that people dislike reading?),Internet(What is use of the Internet;What is your mind about the computer technology on young people?)

Part two-Cue card:Talk about the swimming pool in your hometown.You should describe the points are mentioned below:

1.What is the swimming pool’s name?

2.What is it looks like?

3.Who often go to the swimming pool?

Part three:

1.What type of the people who go to the swimming pool?

2.What are the factors for the people who choose the sport facilities?

3.What the good effects for the people swimming?

It is the first time I have my first IELTS test today.

(it is very colorful,isn’t it?)

We stayed at the Yifu Building in the afternoon to ask some oral test information.

I searched on the Internet and find some feeling about the test:

Listening:
S1，租房的，不知道是否基金有，里面有多少钱，其实是80，但有干扰项，说自己住的大的是110，给他的是80，车可以停在GARAGE，有干扰项，说不能停在路边，电话在KITCHEN，后面有讲到自己最好带个TOASTER，也有讲到HEATER，搬近来的时间是1st June，  喜欢在FRIDAY EVENING 看体育一起，大家一起分享 PETROL,在SUPERMARKET打工

Section2:讲standford的open day的一个介绍
时间从8:55a.m.开始， 提供一个什么什么样的午饭，没听见，听见一个hot meal 之类的，就给写上了。考试安排在month, 鼓励学生参加sport, 教学生做poster,每次课间休息15minutes，其他还有几个填空忘了，后面紧接着是个图，填出几个房间的位置。记得好像有个gym,其他的忘了。

后面的Section3(V50101)和Section4(V30043
)是机经里面的，关于选课的，3我记得有Picture framing、dark room、craft什么的大家应该很熟悉吧，4是关于动物研究的，后面的表第一个答案是Frogs,大家搜一下机经就知道啦！！
section3 讲一个人打电话到学校打听相关课程，先关心还有没有，女的说这种课很受欢迎，位置不多了，然后说了你需要关于大概是一个航空的专业的课，男的说不好，他比较喜欢休闲类的，翻过来填了一个信息表，只需要你填街道，会拼给你听的，witerton大概是，还有阶段是beginning，付款方式cash。section4 采访一个专业人士，讲的环保话题，他们搞了一个研究，主要是关于有些物种慢慢减少的，先是6－7个选择题，最后4个填表题，填表题讲了三种动物，第一种frogs,后面两种鸟，第二种具有某些特点所以比较便于统计数量

Reading Part:
Passage1:V56 S1
section 2 讲一个被毁灭的城市.. DAG(名字挺怪），科学家用先进手段研究他，开始先是拍照，过了N年又有人从热气球上拍照，后来包括地磁效应之类的研究，题目先是一个matching然后是从第三段开始的summary，最后一个选择题。
section 3 讲国际贸易中需要对该国的文化语言有一定了解的问题， 先是一个lists of heading 五个小题，然后是match 6个题7个选项，分别是这六个人的态度，最后是selection 2个题，会提示你在几段。

Writting Part:
这次大作文预测准了，education，考前准备过，不过可惜小作文花了过多时间分析，大作文最后结尾的时候时间比较赶～～
小作文是bar chart，描述的是2004年New Zealand的游客对交通工具的不同选择比例，有car，Air，coach＆Ferry四种，竖轴是百分比，横轴按游客国籍分为四组，每组按上述交通工具各含有四个bar。
大作文是关于教育的，大概意思是讲学校目的在于提供一种general education包括大范围的subjects，而children则关注于小范围的subjects related to their particular career.问哪种更好？（大概记得是这个意思）

Monday Interview at Beijing Education Examinations Instructive Centre – July 9th, 2007

The interview time for some candidates registered for the July 7th, 2007 test in Beijing will be arranged on Monday July 9th, and the venue is the Teaching Building of Beijing Education Examinations Instructive Centre.  Please check your interview time on the registration website 2 working days prior to the test.

The following transportation details are for your reference. If you still have inquiries about the location of this Monday venue, please call 010-64265966, 64269308 for further information. 

Address: No. 23 An Ding Men Wai Waiguan East Street

Transportation:

No. 18、113、407、417(branch)、850、T2: Getting off at Ganshui Bridge Station
No. 104, 108 (Trolley Bus), 124: Getting off at Ganshui Bridge (Anzhen Bridge) Station
No. 300、302、387、731: Getting off at Anzhen Bridge Station
 

The written test venue in the morning of July 7 (Saturday) remains to be the No. 1 Teaching Building of Beijing Language and Culture University. The speaking test venue on July 7 (Saturday) afternoon and July 8 (Sunday) remains the Yifu Building of Beijing Language and Culture University.