【推荐3】Are you excited that the FIFA World Cup 2022 is around the corner? Follow us to Qatar 2022. There is truly nothing quite like the World Cup. In fact, more people watch the World Cup than any other sports event in the world, even more people than the Olympic Games. So what is FIFA World Cup? The FIFA World Cup is an international football competition that takes place every four years. The FIFA World Cup 2022 took place in Qatar. There are a lot of things that happened for the first time in the FIFA World Cup 2022.

For the first time, the competition was held in the Middle East. This was the first FIFA World Cup played in November and December instead of summer. Do you know why? One reason is that December 18 is a special day in Qatar, it is the birthday of Qatar. So the FIFA World Cup 2022 was held on November 20 and finished on December 18. The other reason is that it is too hot to play in summer. In Qatar, the temperature can reach close to 50℃ in summer.

Qatar is the smallest country to host the FIFA World Cup. Qatar is a very small but very wealthy country, because of its rich oil and gas resources. They have spent $200 billion on the basic systems and services, most of it for the games. The FIFA World Cup 2022 is the most expensive World Cup in history.

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When Singaporean Tong Weiqiang watched Hong Kong Wuxia dramas more than 10 years ago, he was impressed by the exciting plots and the traditional clothes. He even organized some activities to introduce local people to Hanfu, the traditional Chinese clothing, and set up the Singapore Han Cultural Society in 2012 to attract more fans.

Tong said he became interested in traditional culture from an early age through classic novels such as Dream of the Red Chamber and Journey to the West and so on. When he grew up, he read Wuxia novels by writers such as Jin Yong, Gu Long and Liang Yusheng,and has remained a fan of the type. “Many people in our cultural society first learned about Hanfu from these costume dramas(古装剧),” he said.

In recent years, with the increased popularity of Chinese culture such as dramas and online literature(文学), wuxia-related works have started to get popular with overseas people again,including those in Southeast Asia.

Set up in 2017, Funstory. ai Company is a platform that uses Artificial intelligence (AI) for digital publishing overseas. It helps develop the international dissemination(传播) of Chinese literary works. It has helped more than 100 Chinese online literature companies to bring nearly 10,000 novels to some 50 international platforms such as Kindle and Google Books.

Tong Ye, CEO of Funstory. ai Company, said half the novels on the fun platform of his company are Xuanhuan and Xianxia books. He added, “Whether in Southeast Asia or North America, a large number of fans are following this kind of works. Besides, China’s cultural products have made a difference to more people in the world in recent years.”

With a huge fan base, online literature has become a pioneer for Chinese cultural and entertainment content. reaching overseas people. In the meanwhile, we can see that Chinese culture opens its wings across the world.

【推荐3】China’s Twenty-four Solar Terms is considered to be the country’s fifth great invention. It has been added to UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage (联合国教科文组织非物质文化遗产名录).

The Twenty-four Solar Terms was invented by ancient Chinese. At that time, most people were farmers. They had to learn about the movement of the sun in a year and do the farming accordingly. The Twenty-four Solar Terms shows the changes of climate, seasons and some biological phenomena (生物现象). For example, Rain Water is between February 18th and February 20th. When it comes, the temperature goes up, snow melts and there will be more and more rain. Start of Spring, Start of Summer, Start of Autumn and Start of Winter are openings of the four seasons. Awakening of Insects is between arch 5th and March 6th. During this period, many living things come out after a long winter of silence.

The Twenty-four Solar Terms shows ancient Chinese people’s wisdom. Now it is added to UNESCO’s heritage list. This means that it is accepted and will be accepted by more and more people in the world.

【推荐1】Astronauts have to solve two problems: how to get food and how to keep their spaceship clean. They need to solve them in order to stay alive. They are in a spaceship far from Earth, and they need to take care of everything themselves. They need to be sure they have what they need to live there, because the astronauts may be in space for weeks.

Here is how they solved the food problem. At first, the astronauts took tubes of semi-liquid (半流质的) food with them into space. They look like the toothpaste you use when you brush your teeth. The food did not taste great, but because astronauts did not need to take dishes with them,   they had no dishes to wash.

Today’s spaceships have a bigger menu. Astronauts can eat from bowls. In fact, they take cereal (谷类食物) and other foods with them. The foods are kept in a special way to stay fresh.

They have a kitchen on the spaceship. Its oven can heat food to 170 degrees. The kitchen has water and sets of meals that come on plates. The astronauts choose their menu before they go into space. They take a lot of food with them.

How do they keep the kitchen clean? They do not have to worry about mice or other rodents (啮齿类动物). They make sure that there are no rodents before the ship leaves. But sometimes mice travel on the ship. Those mice are part of experiments. They live in cages.

How do astronauts keep their plates clean? That is another health problem the astronauts solve. They need to stay healthy in space. To carry a lot of water to wash plates would be much heavier. They take wet wipes (湿巾) in bags. They use them to clean plates. So, their kitchen is clean and they stay healthy.

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