The Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain gained the World Heritage Site status,     1     (become) China’s 57th entry to the list and the first World Heritage Site related to tea. The newly named heritage site, located in Pu’er, Yunnan Province,     2     (consist) of five large scale old tea forests, three protective barrier forests and nine ancient villages     3     are mainly inhabited by Blang and Dai ethnic groups. According to the research, about 10% of the tea trees on the mountain are at     4     (little) 100 years old, with the oldest dating back more than 300 years.

The cultural landscape was     5     (joint) created by the ancestors of the Blang people, who immigrated to the Jingmai Mountain in the 10th century AD and later discovered wild tea trees and the native Dai people.     6     the basis of long standing practices, local people developed the understory growing technique, which involves allowing small and sufficiently shade tolerant trees     7     (grow) under the taller trees. They created ideal light conditions for growing tea trees, while preventing insect pests through a well-preserved forest ecosystem, thereby producing quality organic tea     8     (leaf) without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers.

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee noted the cultural landscape is     9     outstanding example of a human interaction with a challenging environment. It represents the ecological principles and wisdom which can inspire the     10     (sustain) development in the world today.

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Chinese architecture is a style that has taken shape in East Asia over many centuries. The structural principles of Chinese architecture have remained largely     1     (change), the main changes being only the decorative details. Since the Tang Dynasty, Chinese architecture has     2     (have) a major influence     3     the architectural styles of Korea, Vietnam, and Japan.

The architecture of China is as old as Chinese civilization. From every source of information, there is strong     4     (evident) that the Chinese have always enjoyed a native system of construction that has kept its principal characteristics from old times to the present day. Over the large area from Chinese Turkistan (突厥) to Japan, the same system of construction is popular and this is the area of Chinese cultural influence.

Throughout     5     20th century, western-trained Chinese architects have tried     6     (combine) traditional Chinese designs into modern architecture, with great success. Moreover, the pressure for urban development throughout contemporary China required higher speed of construction and higher floor area ratio (容积率),     7     means that in the great cities the demand for traditional Chinese     8     (build) has declined in favor of modern architecture.     9    , the traditional skills of Chinese architecture,     10     (include) major and minor carpentry (木工), and masonry (石工), are still applied to the construction of vernacular architecture in the large rural area in China.

Sichuan has long been known as the "Province of Abundance"．     1     （history） speaking， Sichuan was the home of the ancient    2    （state） of Ba and Shu． Their conquest by Qin     3    （strength） it and paved the way for the First Emperor's unification（统一） of China under the Qin Dynasty． During the Three Kingdoms era， Liu Bei's Shu    4    （base） in Sichuan． The area became one of China's     5    （productive） areas by the 19th century． The people of Sichuan speak     6     unique form of Mandarin， which took shape during the area's repopulation     7     the rule of the Ming Dynasty． The family of dialects is now spoken by about 120 million people， which would make    8     the 10th most spoken language in the world if counted separately． The area's warm damp climate long caused local people     9    （advocate） spicy dishes． The native Sichuan pepper was supplemented by Mexican chilis during the Columbian Exchange to form modern Sichuan cuisine，    10     Dishes--including Kung Pao Chicken and Mapo Tofu--have become famous around the world．