四年6班 陈迦瑜 2号 Life 500 years ago

Amy (陈迦瑜)

Class Six Grade Four

No. 2

                                                                            Life 500 years ago

Do you know life 500 years ago was very different from now? Let me show you.

First, we can talk about transportation. Today, transportation is very convenient. We have a lot of choices like bus, taxi, subway... So the transportation is diverse. We can choose many ways to go to another place. In the past, only rich people could have choices, poor people didn’t. Rich people could ride horses or ride in a sedan chair. Poor people walked. I think, it’s hard to walk a long way. It makes me tired. I don’t like walking. Thinking about it, you will know how happy we are now.

Second, we can talk about what food we have and the food people ate in the past. We can buy vegetable and meat. They are cheap. We can have good meals. In the past, rich people had rice and meat and poor people had congee and vegetables. Poor people didn’t have enough food for their family. At that time, no money equaled to no status or title.

At last, we can talk about clothes. We all have beautiful clothes. The clothes have different colors, appearances and materials. We wear clothes at different seasons. 500 years ago, rich people wore silk clothes and poor people wore cotton clothes. It was very cold in winter. Poor people had no clothes. Life was hard for them, but they were still happy.

Now, life is better than the past. The internet, the electronic equipments...... There are many high-tech in our life. But people destroy the nature. This causes iceberg melts, animals extinction...... We need to cherish the life we have now, and to learn how people lived 500 years ago. Learn how people lived so we can help the earth