As China is a country that pays great attention to good manners,the food culture is deeply rooted in its history. As a visitor or guest in either a Chinese home     1     restaurant,you will find that table manners are essential in our daily life!

It is really an     2    (admire) custom to respect others at table,the aged,teachers and guests     3       (include),and to take good care of children. Meanwhile,    4     practice of presenting the best food first to the senior members of the family has been observed for countless     5    (generation).

Although the hosts in China are all friendly,you should also show them respect. Before     6    (start) to eat dinner,the host may offer some words of greeting. Guests should not start to eat until the host says“ Everybody,please enjoy     7    (you)“ or something like that,otherwise it suggests disrespect and causes displeasure.

When hosts place dishes on the table,they     8    (arrange)the main courses at the center with the side dishes evenly placed around them. When the main dishes     9    (prepare) in a decorative form,they will be placed facing major guests and elder people at the table,    10     also represents virtue.

The use of chopsticks has been     1     big part of Chinese food culture for centuries. When cooking food or picking it up, a pair of chopsticks always comes for use.

So how did chopsticks come into being? It’s said that Dayu, a legendary ruler of ancient China    2     helped his people fight floods, invented them. In those days, people    3     (eat) only with their hands. But Dayu was busy preparing for flood control work and often had his meals in the wild. Mostly, he hurried to deal    4     unexpected accidents and didn’t want to wait to eat. The meat    5     (cook) in the pot was too hot to pick up with his hands. So one day Dayu picked up some twigs(细枝)     6     (help) him hold the meat. Later, the twigs    7     (gradual) became the chopsticks we know today.

But of course, this is just a story. The    8     (early) chopsticks archaeologists(考古学家) have found so far are more than 3,000 years,     9     (date) back to the Shang Dynasty. The six bronze chopsticks were found in Yinxu, one of China’s oldest archaeological    10     (site) in Anyang, Henan Province.

People of the Dai ethnic group in southwest China’s Yunnan province annually celebrate their Water Splashing (泼洒) Festival. It lasts for three days and marks the official New Year celebration for over one million people     1     (live) in China, mainly in Xishuangbanna and Dehong prefectures. The festival     2     (include) in China’s National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2006.

Originating in Persia in the 5th century, the water splashing ceremony spread to China around 1200 AD, and gradually became     3     folk custom among Dai people. On the first two days, people clean their houses, have their hair cut, and take showers. Various     4     (performance) can also be seen. Some people send Kongming lanterns into the sky, dance and sing freely on the streets, and watch     5     (color) dragon boat races on the Lancang River. On the third day of the festival,     6     marks the first day of the New Year on the Dai calendar, people often get up early in the morning     7     (wash)Buddha statues (佛像) in temples with clean water. After that, they     8     (joyful) join in the mass water splashing. People use anything     9     hand to splash water over others, from friends and neighbors to strangers, as an       10     (express) of their wishes for good luck for whoever is on the receiving end.

Lion dance is a form of     1    (tradition) dance in China,     2     can often be seen in important festivals and great events. China is home     3     the dragon dance and lion dance. Both the two performances have been welcomed by people from various ethnic     4    (group) for generations.

It is said that the lion dance in China originated in the Southern and Northern Dynasties with     5     history of more than one thousand years. The lions stand for joy and     6     (happy). Therefore, during festivals and grand ceremonies, people would perform lion dance     7     (create) a happy and exciting atmosphere. Many young people know that the dragon dance and lion dance     8    (perform) during festivals such as the Spring Festival and celebrations but they don’t know that after several thousand years, the two activities have accumulated thick historical cultures and are     9     (true) valuable cultural heritages     10    (pass) down from Chinese people’s ancestors.