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The creative concept of jinhuidui (literally “a pile of beautiful things from ash”), a Chinese art form which is said    1    (start) in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and have boomed in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), shares similarities to pop art.

    2    (create) traditional jinhuidui artwork is much more difficult compared to pop art, as all the images are painted as if they were copied and pasted (粘贴). It requires    3     good command of calligraphy as well as excellent skill in painting flowers, birds, fish, insects, landscapes and    4    (figure), and a mastery of techniques such as seal carving.

Geng Xuezhi, 50, from Zibo city, Shandong Province, is one of the masters of jinhuidui. Geng has been learning Chinese painting and calligraphy     5     he was 16. He came into contact     6     jinhuidui painting skills through his father in 2006.

The artist says the distinctive feature of jinhuidui can be summed up as “broken”,     7         means that it has to present fragments in forms such as broken, rolled, overlapped,    8    (tear), burned or smoked. He adds it will take at least 10 years to master the skill.

The creation of jinhuidui is complex and lengthy, and    9    (it) dyeing process is laborious (费力的) and time-consuming. Sometimes a fragment needs to be dyed a dozen times. “A simpler work of jinhuidui takes about 20 days to complete, while a     10    (hard) one will take several months, and sometimes some extra effort has to be made,” Geng says.

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Tea Art

It’s common to see people in coffee bars create coffee art, but it’s a whole different ballgame doing the same thing with tea. Han Zheming has managed to perfect the skill, creating tea art in cups, or dian cha in Chinese,       1     used to be a ritual during the Song Dynasty.

Over the past six years, the 40-year-old Shanghai resident     2     (use) tea and spoons to create nearly 200 patterns based on ancient paintings. “It’s like     3     (add) bells and whistles to tea, giving people a stronger sense of occasion, so drinking tea is more fun,” Han says. It’s also his intention to bring the old ritual back to modern life and have more people     4     (appreciate) its charm. Dian cha enhances the taste of tea, Han says. “It is similar to the foam (泡沫) on top of a cup of coffee, except     5     it is made of tea rather than milk.”

Chinese tea culture started to enjoy popularity during the Tang Dynasty and boomed throughout the Song Dynasty,     6     tea became a necessity for almost everyone, from nobles and scholars to common people, just like other essential items, such as rice, oil and salt, as suggested by Song politician and thinker Wang Anshi.

Different from the method of making tea during the Tang period, in the Song Dynasty, the popular way of having tea was through dian cha. The process begins with hot water being poured over fine     7     (powder) tea creating a mixture. Then more hot water is added slowly     8     the tea is constantly beaten by hand with a bamboo stick. It is believed that this method later spread to other parts of East Asia, including Japan, where similarities     9     be seen in the way matcha (抹茶) is prepared today.

This action of pouring hot water is called dian; hence the name dian cha     10     (list) as an intangible cultural heritage (非物质文化遗产) of Runzhou district, Zhenjiang city, Jiangsu province, in 2019.

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    1    (locate) in Northwest China’s Gansu Province, the Bingling Temple World Heritage Tourist Area covers 150 square kilometers. It is home     2     the Stone Grottoes (石窟) of Bingling Temple, a component of the World Heritage of the Silk Road.

The tourist area lies along the most charming section of the upper reaches of the Yellow River, with magnificent natural scenery and splendid civilization. Thanks to     3    (it) places of interest integrating ancient and modern culture, the Bingling Temple World Heritage Tourist Area has become     4     good place for ecological tourism, science     5    (educate), and leisurely vacations.

As the largest stone grottoes in Gansu Province, the Bingling Temple Grottoes are a world cultural heritage with a history     6     dates back to more than 1,600 years ago. What is impressive is that the earliest China’s well-preserved statue inscription (铭文) during the Western Qin State     7    (discover) in the No.169 grotto. This grotto’s inscription, statues, and murals (壁画) provide     8    (rely) evidence for the confirmation of the history of the Bingling Temple Grottoes and the early stone statues in China.

With the grotto murals and stone statues of different historical periods, the Bingling Temple Grottoes are believed     9    (have) historical, artistic and academic value     10    (arise) from the development of stone grottoes and sculpture art in China.

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What’s the first thing that pops into your mind when you think of wheat straw? Most people would     1    (probable) just see it as a pile of waste in a farmer’s field. However, Wu Cui, an intangible cultural inheritor, can turn the straw left over from harvested wheat     2     beautiful functional artworks.

The earliest straw-weaving (草编的) products were discovered at Hemudu Cultural Ruins, a Neolithic cultural site     3    (locate) in Zhejiang province. Straw weaving is     4     method of manufacturing daily items or artworks. It     5    (list) as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2008.

Wu explains the process of straw weaving: selection of materials is the first step of a complicated process that can take weeks, or even     6    (month), to complete. You need to sketch (素描) the piece on paper,     7     requires drawing skills. Next comes weaving, shaping and preserving of the work. Actually the     8    (hard) part is to make it lifelike.

In her view, straw weaving should respond to     9    (people) needs and preferences, while still drawing inspiration from traditional culture. Wu wants to dig deeper into local traditional culture and create cultural creative products by     10    (develop) the straw-weaving technique.