Shoes may not be the first thing one would notice of these 2, 200-year-old Terracotta Warriors,     1     an initial analysis of their footwear showed that these humble accessories might have played a “vital role” in the Qin army. Two Chinese researchers made     2     copy of the footwear using the shoe-making techniques and materials known to be used by the Qin people when the warriors     3     (build). The study found that the replicas provided the wearers with “a more comfortable, stable and efficient”     4     (walk) experience.

    5     (equal) fascinating are the warriors’ clothes: they were candy-coloured. When the Terracotta Warriors were originally created, they were painted a bright array of reds, blues, and greens,     6     are believed to have matched the colours of the clothing worn by the Qin soldiers. In many cases, the paint has not survived the centuries after the warriors     7    (burn) by fires or soaked in floods, but a few of the warriors have been unearthed     8     their original colouring still largely undamaged. A 2019 study found that the colors were mixed with various protein-based binders, such as egg, animal glues and milk, before     9     (paint) onto the soldiers to help secure the paint.

    10     (reconstruct) based on this research seem to suggest the Qin fashion-at least in the army-was to clash colours (撞色).

Shortly after dawn, the 680-year-old Lion Grove Garden wakes up to the sound of birds and its moist air is suffused with ascent. With a view of pavilions, early     1     (visitor) to this garden in downtown Suzhou, can feel     2     sense of Zenlike inner peace.

When monks during the Yuan Dynasty first constructed this garden, they may have wanted to enjoy a quiet retreat. But this charming garden has attracted celebrity guests,     3     have left poems, paintings and     4     (history) anecdotes in the following centuries.

“In recent years, we’ve tried     5     (restore) the landscapes of classical gardens, but a delicate garden cannot be an empty shell,” says Bai Lingzhi, deputy director of Suzhou Administrative Bureau of Garden and Landscaping. “We need creative ideas to lead people to the lifestyle     6     (advocate) by the gardens in the era,” she explains.

Last year, a new project was launched,     7     (allow) tourists in small groups to reserve places to enter the garden in the early morning before the regular opening time. Their visit ends up     8     making a traditional folding fan.

In 1997 and 2000, nine of the best-known classical gardens of Suzhou     9    (register) onto the World Heritage List. As UNESCO remarks: “Classical Chinese garden design, which seeks to re-create natural landscapes in miniature, is nowhere     10     (well) illustrated than in the nine gardens.”