B. celebrated for one whole month

C. only celebrated in China

D. a time for families to get together

D

"Do you like my dress?" she asked a stranger. "My mum made it just for me," she

said with tears in her eyes.

"Well, I think it's very pretty, so tell me, little girl, why are you crying?" The little

girl answered in a low voice, "After mum made me this dress, she went away. My dad says that she's up in heaven now with Grandfather."

Finally the woman realized why she was crying. She felt very sorry for the little

girl and gently held the child in her arms.

Then suddenly the little girl did something a bit strange. She stopped crying,

walked back from the woman and began to sing. She sang softly. It was the sweetest sound the woman had ever heard, almost like the song of a very small bird.

After the child stopped singing, she said to the lady, "My mum often sang that

song to me before she went away, and she asked me to sing it whenever I started crying and it would make me stop."

"See," she said loudly, "it did, and now my eyes are dry!"

Just before the lady wanted to go, the girl showed her a spot (印迹) on her dress,

and said, "Right here is where my mum kissed my dress, and here," pointing to another spot, "and here is another kiss, and here, and here. Mum said that she put all those kisses on my dress so that I would forget my sadness."

Then the lady realized that she wasn't just looking at a dress, no, she was looking

at a mother. The mother knew that she was going away and would not be there to kiss away her daughter's hurts any longer.