China opens fifth Antarctic research station

China’s fifth     1     (science) outpost in Antarctica, Qinling Station, opened on February 7, 2024.

The research facility, on Inexpressible Island in Terra Nova Bay, can accommodate 80 people in summertime and 30 in wintertime, according to the Polar Research Institute of China,     2     was in charge of its construction. The station has an area of 5,244 square meters and an external shape     3     (resemble) the Southern Cross constellation,    4     unique design to honor Zheng He, a legendary Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) admiral, mariner and diplomat.

All of its large components were built in China with inner hardware already mounted and then transported to Inexpressible Island for assembly.    5     (engineer) used lightweight, high-strength materials on the station, making it able     6     (resist) temperatures as low as -60 C and the corrosive environment on the island.

Construction began in December and     7     (undertake) by members on China’s     8     (forty) Antarctic expedition, which set out from Shanghai in early November and arrived in Antarctica later that month.

The other four Chinese research stations in Antarctica are Changcheng, Zhongshan, Taishan and Kunlun. The new station is the third Chinese research base in Antarctica able to operate all year, joining Changcheng and Zhongshan, which were built     9     the late 1980s. Kunlun and Taishan stations are     10     (current) operated during the summertime.

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2022-09-18 10:58

Air raid sirens echoed through the city of Shenyang, Liaoning province, at 9:18 am on Sunday     1     (remember) the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression 91 years ago.

More than 300 people from all walks of life, including veterans, students and local residents, participated in the commemoration in front of the square of Shenyang 9.18 Historical Museum.

The bell rang 14 times,    2     (represent) the 14 years during     3     the Chinese people fought the invaders. The period has been referred as the     4     (dark) days of modern China.

“The alarm of bell and siren is to salute the brave struggle of that year and warn     5     (we) to remember the history. We bear the future of our motherland, and should cherish the peaceful life,” said Wang Qiming, a local high school student.

On Sept 18, 1931, members of the Japanese Kwantung Army     6     (station) in northeastern China blew up a section of the railway near Liutiaohu and     7     (false ) accused the Chinese military of doing it. Using the incident as a pretext, the Japanese bombarded Shenyang and launched its     8     (invade) of China.

The museum     9     (build) in 1991 to mark the 60th anniversary of the 918 Incident. At present, it houses more than 1,000 precious historical photos and more than 3,000 sets of historical relics.     10     1995, Shenyang has been sounding an air defense alarm every year on this date.

Recently, a Chinese college research team has released China’s first large language model (LLM) “Xunzi”,     1     uses deep learning techniques and massively big data sets to help conduct research on ancient Chinese books. With the model, more information hidden in our cultural legacy can     2     (mine) for.

This model, named     3     Xun Zi, one of the most celebrated philosophers in ancient China for his Confucian classic Xunzi,     4     (comprise) the majority of Chinese ancient books and documents.     5     (design) to intelligently process ancient texts, the system aims to promote innovative development in the research and preservation of Chinese ancient books, enhance the efficiency and quality of the legacy of traditional Chinese culture,     6     boost integration between LLM and ancient book processing.

The research on Chinese traditional classics is     7     painstaking and laborious challenge. Since 2013, the team have worked tirelessly to digitize Chinese classics like the Siku Quanshu,     8     (lay) a solid foundation for the large language model. Committed to the philosophy of making their data and model     9     (access) worldwide, the team have a broader perspective targeting global users. To this end, they have     10     (handsome) shared the LLM on the Internet, enabling more individuals to appreciate traditional Chinese culture.

Wing Chun is a southern Chinese kung fu style descends from Shaolin Kung Fu. It has the distinction of having been founded by two women, Ng Mui and Yim Wing-chun.

The Wing Chun style is known for placing     1     (emphasize) on technique rather than strength. This style also calls for practitioners to stay relaxed while     2    (fight), allowing them to achieve a kind of softness or flexibility. This relaxed flexibility gives Wing Chun fighter     3     special kind of strength that allows them to bend, not break, just like bamboo.   

Legend has it that Wing Chun founder Ng Mui was living at Shaolin Temple     4     it was attacked and destroyed by Qing dynasty forcers. Surviving the attack, she escaped     5     the border area between Yunnan and Sichuan. There she met a young woman     6     (name)Yim Wing-chun, who     7     (final) became one of her top students. She taught Yim an improved version of Shaolin Kung Fu, known as Wing Chun now. This new martial art     8     (spread) and grown into different branches over the past two hundred years.

Ip Man, featured in the eponymous (同名的) hit films,     9    (be) a notable practitioner of Wing Chun style martial arts. He also taught the Wing Chun style to his student, Bruce Lee, who would go on to act in the beloved Hong Kong kung fu movies     10     helped make Chinese martial arts famous around the world.

Once celebrated as “the sport of kings”, polo (马球), a unique sport with ancient roots,     1     (play) on horseback with a ball. Its exact origins remain uncertain,     2     one early version of this sport emerged in ancient Persia (modern Iran) around the 6th century BC.

Different cultures developed similar games and, over time, polo evolved     3     the sport we know today. It also has a deep historical connection with ancient China, as     4     (show) through the discovery of numerous artifacts, including murals (壁画), stone carvings, mirrors and paintings.

During the 1930s, the modern version of the sport enjoyed a period of     5     (popular) , with polo grounds established in cities with foreign populations like Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Qingdao.

Polo’s noble and warrior-like characteristics have won it many     6     (passion) players, and among them is Jackie Wang. She and her family     7     (spend) the past three years researching and writing Polo in China, a book that documents the lengthy history of the sport in China.

Published by the Cultural Relics Press, the book gives a detailed introduction to polo in China, with photos of artifacts and events, and an engaging storyline     8     brings the sport to life.

As     9     combination of historical reference and artistic representation, the book serves both as an academic work and a general interest publication,     10     (contribute) to the study of polo in China while sharing the sport’s charm through its design and presentation.

Statistics show that there are more than 1. 9 billion videos related to stove-boiled tea on a popular Chinese short video platform. Stove-boiled tea, a newly     1    (emerge) social activity among young Chinese people, has been filling up social media feeds in recent weeks. Usually several friends sitting around a fire stove enjoy     2     smell of charcoal-grilled snacks and socialize while waiting for the tea     3     (boil). In many ways, it is the perfect activity in the winter,     4     (warm) body and soul in the colder months.

    5     it has recently regained popularity, cooking tea on a stove actually has a long history in China. Stove-boiled tea is derived from an intangible cultural heritage from southwest China’s Yunnan province: huotang roasted tea and a kind of huotang culture thus     6     (form) around it.

The reason why stove-boiled tea is gaining such popularity, apart from its embodiment of traditional Chinese tea culture, is     7     (part) because of its portrayal in the costume television drama “A Dream of Splendor”, which     8    (broadcast) last summer. The activity also shows young people’s pursuit of a sense of ritual, with their     9     (long) for traditional tea culture and aspirations returning to the pastoral (田园). It also helps that tourism is gradually recovering.     10    , stove-boiled tea acts as a social way of combining ancient and modern elements, attracting many young people who love both tourism and traditional tea culture.