【推荐1】At the fifth Shenzhen Intangible Cultural Heritage Week on March 3, there was a performance (演) that caught everyone’s eyes. A woman in her 70s named Wang Xiaodan performed a kind of Chinese opera called Kunqu with her four-year-old grandson. It was amazing to see how they both worked together to make such a beautiful show.

Kunqu is a kind of Chinese opera. It is one of three oldest forms in the world, together with Greek Tragedy and Indian Sanskrit Drama. But out of these three, only Kunqu is still performed today!

The grandson named “Yumi”, is very talented (有天赋的). He started performing Kunqu when he was only two years old! He loves traditional Chinese opera and looks up to a famous person named Mei Lanfang for inspiration (灵感). Yumi spends a lot of time practicing his skills and even follow the movements of other performers he sees on TV.

Yumi’s family is very supportive (支持的) and helps him get ready for his performances. Wang Xiaodan made some training plans to get his performance skills better. Yumi’s mother and aunt supported him by caring his life.

【推荐1】His hometown is in Ma Jiatan Ling Wu, Ningxia, on the southeast edge of the Mao Wusu desert（毛乌素沙漠）. When he was a child, he saw the sandstorm fill the house again and again. The sand climbed onto the windows again and again. Finally, he forced the whole village to move away from their native land. From then on, he has strong belief that “endless life, prevent sand more than”.

Then he led the staff (职员) planted over 10,000 trees, and planted over 10,000 grass squares (草方格). They worked for more than 10 hours a day without a day off and built more than 600,000 acres of green barriers. He is the hero around us—Wang Youde. In 2014, he set up the Ningxia Desert Greening and Sand Industry Development Foundation (宁夏沙漠绿化与沙产业发展基金会) to draw wide attention to the environment.

In 2007, the government passed Construction of ecological civilization(生态文明建设). In 2017 President Xi said “Man and nature form a community of life”. And he said clear water and green mountains are as good as mountains of gold and silver. As human beings, we must respect nature, follow its ways and protect it. So we should pay more attention to the environmental protection. We will speed up prevention and control of water pollution, soil pollution and air pollution. We will take action to get everyone saving water, reduce the use of energy and materials in everyday life. We encourage simple, green, and low-carbon ways of life.We will improve the system for protecting natural forests, and turn more marginal farmland to forests and grasslands.