Many people believe hot pot can really tell how much Chinese like to get together to enjoy happiness. A new documentary, Pot of Fire allows Internet users to “enjoy” hot pot together online. If you want to look for a nutritious meal to share with your family, you should choose hot pot. Hot pot has a history of more than 1,700 years in China. To keep out the cold, people pull lamb chops in the boiling pot and ate them. Ingredients in Hot pot should be selected carefully. Only five parts of a lamb should be used and cut into sheets for cooking. The sauce is composed of more than ten seasonings. The ingredients of the sauce are the commercial secret of hot pot. There are various styles of it. Vegetables and meat can be boiled in hot pot. Sharing hot pot meals of meat and vegetables boiled in savoury both with your family is a great experience in the depth of winter.

Some people think hot pot can bring warmth to our body in winter and help cool the body in summer. But eating hot pot is much more than enjoyment for our mouth and health. It’s also a connection of life and friendship. For most Chinese people, eating hot pot is usually a social event. A survey showed that 40.2 percent of Chinese usually eat hot pot with friends, while 17.6 percent with family.

When a group of people sit around a table to eat, chat and drink, it’s a good time. So if you feel hungry or lonely, why not cook hot pot to fill your stomach and heart as well? Or at least you can watch Pot of Fire. (Update (更新) at 21:00 every Friday from February 14th on Tencent (腾讯)).

Flying was once man’s dream. When man saw a bird fly, he wanted to fly, too. To be up in the sky, people studied the wings of birds. They tried many other ways, but nothing worked.

The great artist, Leonardo da Vinci, made designs for flying equipments, However, his try wasn’t successful. 800 years ago, a man in England made a pair of wings from chicken feathers (羽毛). Then he fixed them to his body and jumped from a tall building. He didn’t fly far. He fell heavily and broke his bones.

Things changed in September in 1783. Two brothers from France made a very large balloon

Two months later, they did it again. They had two people in the basket. That was really man’s first time in the sky.

Over thirty thousand years ago people from northern Asia went to America. Today, we call these people Indians.

The Indians went to America because the weather began to change. Northern Asia became very cold. Everything froze. They had to move or die. How did the first Indians go to America? They walked!

Later Columbus found the New World in 1492. At first, only a few Europeans followed. They traveled to America in boats. For the next three hundred years, about 500,000 people went there. Then the number grew very quickly. From 1815 to 1915, over thirty-two million Europeans left their countries and went to the United States. The biggest groups were from Germany and Italy. These Europeans spoke many different languages. Most of them took almost no money. They went to America so that they could find a better life.