【推荐1】Lantern Festival is one of the most famous traditional Chinese festivals. It’s on the fifteenth day of lunar January. To celebrate it, many traditional Chinese culture events such as paper cutting, kung fu and calligraphy got introduced to schools. Schools do it to make young students to experience Chinese culture.

On that day in 2023, Beijing City International School had an event called Chinese Festival. It held some cultural activities like hanfu clothing, tea art and traditional Chinese medicine skills. They were warmly received by the students from home and abroad. It also invited some special persons to show their artworks or skills. Its purpose was to raise some money for those in need according to one of the heads of this school, Li.

Li is a big fan of traditional Chinese culture. She said the event was a good way to celebrate the Lantern Festival, because it could make her students have close touch with the Chinese cultural heritage （文化遗产）. Mark Sullivan is the secondary school headmaster of the school. He said they completely supported the Chinese culture event started by the students. They should love their roots and culture. We are also very proud of the cultural activities here.

【推荐3】While most TV stations and video—streaming platforms try to attract people by producing reality shows with many popular stars, Henan TV has become popular by producing seven dance pieces highlighting traditional culture, such as Rhapsody on the Luo River Goddess, a two—minute underwater dance.

Yao Wei, director of the TV station’s Innovation Center, was invited to talk about how the TV station had produced the hit dance pieces at the three—day forum centering on the research of Chinese dance last month. “The seven dance pieces have got nearly 30 billion hits on social media platforms. That’s a huge success for Henan TV,” said Yao.

The pieces made an emotional effect on people, most of whom are members of Gen Z (people born between 1995 and 2009), Yao said.“Young people have grown up with a more open mindset and they accept Chinese culture willingly and are proud of it,” he added. “What we need to do is present Chinese culture in more interesting ways.”

Yao pointed out that they are also changing their shows to attract younger people. One of the keys is to produce content with strong visual creativity, such as the latest technology and stage settings, like underwater scenes, which have become the new ways of telling stories about traditional Chinese culture. Another key to successfully reaching younger people is using social media platforms to move up the shows.

“Social media is being shaped and driven by young people. It’s a powerful form of communication. When they take a quick scroll through their phones, they easily become interested in an eye—catching video.” Yao said.

【推荐2】If your friend says she feels relaxed, but you see that her fists are clenched, you may doubt what she says. Robots, on the other hand, might take her word for it. Body language says a lot, but even with the development of computer vision and facial recognition technology, robots cannot easily or successfully notice small body movement and can miss important social cues as a result.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed a body-tracking system that might help solve this problem. Called Open Pose, the system can track body movement, including hands and face, in real time. It uses computer vision and machine learning to process video frames, and can even keep track of several people at the same time. Also, it can track not only a person’s head torso, and limbs but also individual fingers.

This technology could be applied to all sorts of interactions between humans and machines. It could play a huge role in VR experiences, allowing finer detection of the user’s physical movement without any additional hardware like stick-on sensors or gloves.

It could also help build more natural interactions with a home robot. You could tell your robot to “pick that up”, and it could immediately understand what you’re pointing at. By perceiving and interpreting your physical gestures, the robot may even learn to read emotions by tracking body language. So when you’re silently crying with your face in your hands because a robot has taken your job, it might offer you a tissue.

【推荐3】How to Communicate Effectively

Effective communication is a must for everyone who hopes to be successful. It helps express your thoughts and improves your career prospects (职业前景) as well as improves relationships. Therefore, it’s necessary to work hard to improve your communication skills.

Gather your thoughts

Before you are ready to talk to a group of people, you should think about what you are going to talk about. It is necessary to put something important in your mind. This will help you remain focused throughout your communication. Then you may not get away from the main issues (问题).

Choose your words

Choice of words is the most important part of any communication. Simple, clear words are appropriate (适合) for the issue you are discussing. Words that could make others unpleasant are best kept out of the communication. Most people try to be careful about their language while at work. However, when they get home, they often use colorful language. This may hurt your loved ones beyond your imagination.

Body language

Many people use body language by mistake and end up making fool of themselves. Body language means keeping eye contact and using hand gestures on wherever required.

Listen and concentrate

Communication is an exchange of ideas. Once you are done with your part, listen carefully to what other people plan to say.