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China’s movie box office earnings reached nearly 6.76 billion yuan (about $998.5 million) during the 2023 Spring Festival holiday, making for the second-highest total figures for the holiday to date     1     sending a signal of the strong recovery of China’s film industry this spring.

The top earners     2    (be) the twist-filled hit Full River Red and the sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth II, which harvested about 2.61 billion yuan and over 2.16 billion yuan, respectively. This signaled that Chinese movies embedded (嵌入) with traditional values and culture were     3    (increase) appealing to domestic audiences, with the trendy rise of     4     (culture) confidence.

    5    (cover) diverse genres (体裁), this year’s holiday films were professionally made and fully met the particular demands of the audience. In terms of movie-goers’     6    (satisfy), domestic films screened during the week-long holiday scored 87.1 points,     7     year-on-year increase of 1.8 points, according to a survey conducted by China Film Archive.

“Film consumption     8    (anticipate) to continue to grow after the holiday, as people who were busy travelling during the Spring Festival holiday get an opportunity     9    (watch) films now,” said Rao Shuguang, president of the China Film Critics Association. He also predicted that people’s passion     10     cinema-going might last for several weeks.

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Little dumplings can do big things. And Disney-Pixar’s Bao certainly did after pocketing this year’s Academy Award for Best Animated Short.     1    (release) in 2018 and directed by Domee Shi, a Chinese-Canadian female director, Bao follows a Chinese’s mother’s struggle with empty nest syndrome. “Chinese mothers are underrepresented in mainstream media and we owe them a(n)    2    (apologize).” Shi said on receiving the award. Check out whatthe critics are saying about Bao now.

— Bao is the best Pixar animated short film that I     3    (see) in a long time. The director skillfully got her meaning     4    to me.

— It doesn’t matter whether you’re 4 years old or 40 years old. Everyone can get something from this short film. Sweet and lovely. It is well worth     5    (watch) for its bittersweet reflection of motherhood.

— Eager     6    I am to share with you the plot, I can’t give away too much. But I can assure you there is no     7    (great) comfort for a mother to see her concerns     8    (proper) addressed.

— The film does what every animated film should do; it tells a solid story with a lot of     9    (emotion) depth, and a message     10    can hopefully teach everyone important lessons.

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Passing along tie-dye tradition

If you have ever traveled to Dali in Yunnan province, you may find that many white cloth decorations with blue patterns are hung on the wall in the local buildings.

They are tie-dyed (扎染的) handicrafts of the Bai ethnic group. The textile (纺织品) dyeing technique can date back    1     more than 1,000 years ago and reached its     2     (high) during the Ming and Qing    3     (dynasty).

The tie-dyes use hand-weaved white cloth and colors    4     (obtain) from plants. People use needle and thread to make different folds in a cloth and put it into a dye vat (缸) several times until the color becomes    5     (dark). Common patterns are geometric shapes and flowers. The tradition    6     (list) as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2006.And to many, the process goes beyond craftsmanship (技艺).

“Tie-dyeing is a lifestyle    7    we want to pass on to others. It’s about harmony between    8    Bai people and nature,” Zhang Hanmin, 36, told China Daily.

Zhang leaned how to tie-dye    9     (use) plants and draw traditional tie-dye patterns from the local elders. After mastering the technique, Zhang started a class to teach the kids and young people in Dali. She believes that it’s like sowing a seed — “who knows which of them     10     (become) an inheritor (继承人) or guardian of our culture in the future”.

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Craftsmen enjoy their brush with success

NANCHANG — Zhou Pengcheng, 76, has dedicated his life       1     the centuries-old intangible cultural heritage of making writing brushes.

Zhou, who hails from Wengang township in East China's Jiangxi province, has been engaged in this ancient handicraft for more than six decades.

Wengang's long-standing tryst with brush pens dates back to 1979. Over the decades, the town has grown into one of the country's biggest brush-pen markets,     2     (attract) tens of thousands of buyers from across China.

In Chinese culture, writing brushes     3     (count) among the "four treasures of study", and Wengang is known as the "hometown of China's writing brush".

More than 400 brush-making enterprises and over 2,200 brush workshops are located in     4     township. And almost every family in the town makes     5     living through the brush manufacturing industry.

Zhou     6     (work) in the sector since he was 8 years old. "In the 1970s, writing brushes made in Jiangxi were not so well recognized by people in China and the rest of the world,     7     spurred me on to improve and adjust brush-making techniques according to the needs of customers," says Zhou, adding that he finally succeeded after about eight years of hard work.

The craft of making writing brushes in Wengang involves 128 steps. The local brushes have proved popular in overseas markets, such as Asia, Europe, and the United States, and particularly in Japan and the Republic of Korea.

"I found calligraphy     8     (fascinate), especially the power and visual impact of Chinese calligraphy," says Alister Inglis, professor of Chinese language and literature at Simmons University. The foreign teacher takes an interest in     9     the shape, length and bristles of the brush reflect the type of written characters.

In June, Wengang's brush-making skills were listed as a national intangible cultural heritage, says Wu Shaoyun, Party chief of the town.

"Since the beginning of this year, we have mainly focused on how     10     (transform) the brush-making industry into a cultural industry. We have been working hard to improve the techniques and further inherit this craft," says Wu.

Currently, the town is eyeing a new boom in the digital era. It has launched tailored services to better meet customer needs in areas of culture, tourism and e-commeice.