A recent short video series, Escape from the British Museum, which tells the story of    1    a Chinese cultural relic escapes from the British Museum and finds it swayback to China, has sparked    2    (heat) discussions about the return of Chinese cultural relics from overseas.

Directed by two Chinese vloggers, the three-episode series circles around the personification of a Chinese jade(玉) teapot. The female vlogger who plays the role    3    the jade teapot comes across a Chinese journalist in London whom she believes to be her long-lost family and asks him to take her back home. The series not only entertains but also     4    (touch) on a powerful message that Chinese people are longing    5    (desperate) for the return of cultural heritage.

    6    (release) over August 30 to September 5, the series had received more than 20 million likes on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, and each episode    7    (play) over 5 million times on Bilibili, another Chinese video platform, by September 8. Millions of viewers made    8    (comment) expressing the hope that the cultural relics could return with dignity and honor.

The     9    (popular) of this short series demonstrates the enthusiasm of young people for history and traditional culture, their emphasis on cultural heritage and preservation,    10    the hope of the Chinese people for the return of their lost cultural relics.

The term Xuan paper first appeared in On Famous Paintings through the Ages, а book       1    (write) by Tang Dynasty (618-907) scholar Zhang Yanyuan, in which he described Xuan paper as    2       ideal carrier for calligraphy and painting. Handmade Xuan paper from Jingxian county, East China’s Anhui province, was listed as а tribute to the imperial court for its supreme quality during the period. The traditional craft of making Xuan paper is extremely    3     (demand). Sandalwood bark, а plant native     4     southern China, goes through 108 procedures together with rice straw over the course of three years before it can transform into а batch of fine Xuan paper. The entire procedure is so complex that even the most skilled craftsman can only master limited number of steps.

The flow of ink, both guided and resisted by water,    5     (determine) the output of Chinese art, and Xuan paper outshines others with its excellent ability     6     (give) full play to ink. Different proportions of bark to straw during the papermaking process can create different canvases best suited for artistic expression in freehand ink    7     (painting) or calligraphy.

Xuan paper    8     (accompany) passionate brushstrokes of the Chinese literati (文人) for thousands of years. Unlike other forms of paper, it is very resistant to damage brought by time.     9     impresses people most is its durability to preserve many    10     (value) works from ancient China. Papermaking is a crystallization of wisdom of the ancient Chinese, and Xuan paper is the zenith (顶点) of papermaking.