Photographer Tony Taylor was leaving a football match     1     he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. He was having a heart attack.     2     (thankful) our volunteers were standby.

“As I walked to my car I was on the phone to my wife when I     3     (realize) I was really dizzy. ”

“I woke up on the floor and had been having a really vivid dream,     4     I thought I was asleep.”

“I didn’t feel any pain. I felt fine. I actually felt really upbeat.

“When they put me in the ambulance someone said ‘you were     5     (die) five minutes ago’.”

Tony, 53,     6     (suffer) a heart attack. Luckily, our volunteers Colin and Matt were nearby. They saw Tony     7     (fall) and performed CPR and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in the stadium car park. Other volunteers ran for vital    8     (equip) and the pair worked on Tony until the ambulance arrived.

Tony spent 33 days in hospital after a triple heart-bypass. When he     9     (send) home, his one priority was to meet Matt and Colin.

“The guys are     10     (hero),” he said. “Knowing I wouldn’t be here without them is a strange feeling, and all I could think about was getting out and thanking them.”

Livestreamers help spread reach of e-commerce, intangible heritage and cultural diversions in different ways nowadays.

In the     1     (absent) of a professional setting and a fill light, a mobile phone and a mobile phone holder are     2     Du Zhanping can count on for his livestreaming efforts.

Yet it was through this basic set-up that the 46-year-old man     3     (manage) to get a traditional felt-making (毛毡制作) skill     4     (know) to viewers across the country.

Felt-making skill is on the regional intangible cultural heritage list.     5     the improvement of people’s living standards over time, however, felt has been used less and less.

Starting from scratch, Du learned by himself how to film and then edit video, and is now     6     proud owner of an account with 150,000 followers.    7     (normal), he receives three to five orders during a single livestreaming session.

“In the past few months, my number of felt orders     8     (double) thanks to social media, with those from online platforms     9     (account) for about 70 percent of the total,” he said.

By bringing intangible cultural heritages into livestreaming studios, we can introduce them to more people while preserving traditional techniques,     10     expand their markets to boost both the confidence and income of inheritors.

Did you ever imagine that one day we could enjoy the benefits of Traditional Chinese Medicine in a cup of coffee?

Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM, is    1    approach used to help people re-balance their health and mind. A typical way of making a TCM formula (配方) is to get a prescription from a    2    (license) doctor, shop for all the medicinal materials, and then brew(煎) them with water in a pot. These materials    3    (say) to have a restorative effect by re-balancing one’s natural energy, or Qi,     4    runs through series of invisible meridians (经脉) throughout the body.

But if you ask younger generations of Chinese, few visit TCM shops nowadays, let alone brew these time-tested remedies for    5    (they). However, social media has recently seen a type of coffee    6    (feature) goji berry juice get popular.

The concept of combining TCM herbs    7    popular drinks could make young people access TCM more easily. The key of TCM is    8    (prevent). By trying such drinks, young people can take more care of their health, and nip sicknesses in the bud. Most people, attracted in such a cafe by the”new TCM drinks“ at first, would also be offered other TCM products like dried herbs and teas, after which they stay    9    (learn) more about TCM.

As Traditional Chinese Medicine becomes more    10    (access) to young people, many are integrating these ancient drinks into their daily wellness routines.

Keeping a tradition alive

In Beijing’s Dongcheng District lies a small house surrounded by a noisy neighborhood. It is the place    1    Wang Yifeng produces the traditional Chinese music instrument, guqin. Wang came to Beijing in 2017 to learn how to play it. But later, he became interested in how the instrument    2    (produce).

At first, Wang, who had his own job, considered his interest in the instrument    3    a hobby. As he began to study it, he was    4    (amaze) at the traditional way of making guqin and became curious about how to make it today.    5    (gradual), he fell in love with it more deeply and decided to become a full-time guqin maker.

Wang    6     (make) only four instruments in the past two and a half years. But this is because he makes the instruments all by    7    (he). For Wang, it takes about 7 months    8    (make) a piece of wood into an instrument. All materials are carefully chosen, and the making process is according to    9    highest standards of the Tang Dynasty (618 -907).

His instruments are very popular with    10    (collector) at home and abroad. He loves everything that records history, and he hopes to keep a tradition alive.