The Palace Museum is working to take cultural relics into people’s daily life and bring their cultural value into full play by selling cultural and creative products, on the theme of “Bring the Palace Museum culture home”. The creative products mostly are creative daily necessities, like stationaries, bags, decorations and so on.     1    (Base) on the treasures in the museum, the Palace Museum has developed products such as Qianli Jiangshan series and Qingming Shanghe Tu series, Palace Dolls, folding fans,    2    are very popular with young people. The Palace Museum now     3    (change) the traditional way of communication, learns to use a variety of ways to publicize excellent traditional culture, and lets the Palace Museum cultural heritage resources live. The culture creative products are definitely brilliant choices for     4    (gift) that bear unique royal features.

By drawing patterns on the surface of a cup of tea, Zhang Zhifeng, a practitioner of chabaixi, displayed a special Chinese tea trick in a recent TV drama,     1    (arouse)great interest among ordinary people due to its apparent     2     (similar) with modern latte art (咖啡拉花艺术).

Chabaixi, with     3     name Shuidanqing, can create endless patterns such as bamboos and mountains or even calligraphy. It is different from making latte because people use clear water as the object     4    (put) into the cup instead of milk. But when the water     5     (touch) the surface of whipped (搅打起泡沫的) tea, it turns into a white color and disappears in 20 minutes. The process before the drawing is known as the tea-making technique, diancha,     6     quality is crucial to whether patterns can be successfully produced later.

Chabaixi     7     (list) as part of China’s Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2017, after it was recovered by Zhang Zhifeng, who started researching the origins of chabaixi in     8     1980s and brought the technique back in 2009 after decades of trials and practice.

“Chabaixi, as one of the     9     (vary) forms of tea-making techniques in China, gives us a window into people’s lifestyle in the Song Dynasty, a period of time when leisure activities in some ways resemble     10     we have now. It would be a shame to let it fade. This technique must be passed on to the next generations so they can understand its history,” Zhang said.

The Forbidden City in Beijing, home to the Palace Museum, houses more than 1.8 million cultural relics and is one of the world’s most visited tourist attractions.

    1     (mark) the 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City, the Palace Museum will hold a series of events throughout 2020. Over 20 exhibitions will be held,     2     (cover) different areas such as history, art, festivals, and so on. For the special occasion, Along the River during the Qingming Festival, one of China’s most     3     (wide) known masterpieces, will go on display in September 2020. For     4     (it) best preservation, this treasured artwork is seldom fully exhibited. The painting     5     (display) for the first time back in 2005 to celebrate the museum’s 80th anniversary. Such     6     rare sight is expected to draw huge crowds.  In addition, the museum will also display exhibits from other     7     (country).

During the past few years, the Palace Museum has been working hard to get the public familiar     8     the history and culture of the Forbidden City. And it seems that these efforts have been paying off, with its     9     (popular) reaching a new height. Over 17 million people visited the museum in 2018, of     10     40 percent were under 30 years old.

Today, enjoy the highlights of Shanghai, China's most     1    (energy) city consisting of people from different parts of the world. Your tour will begin with a tour of Old Shanghai, a     2    (mix) of pretty narrow streets, traditional Chinese stores, and restaurants selling delicious dumplings,     3    is the original pre-war Shanghai. Dating back to 1911 Shanghai, Old Town, was a walled city made up     4    (main)of fishermen, but the walls of the city     5    (tear) down to allow free movement and easier trade. Continue through the Old Town,     6    you’ll find the Yu Garden there, first     7    (establish) in the Ming Dynasty by a Mandarin named Pan Yunduan, who used to be the governor of Sichuan. The Yu Garden is considered     8    the best garden in Southeast China, and enjoys     9    history of over 400 years long. A large-scale restoration of the Yu Garden was conducted     10    it opened to the public formally in 1961.