Ge Zhichen’s livestreams on Douyin have attracted thousands of viewers to learn about Suzhou Pingtan, a traditional storytelling and music art form.
Pingtan faces
Inspired by five national treasures in the Hunan Museum, six groups of digital artists let their imaginations run free. They used digital art to carry out a number of dialogues across time and space,
The exhibition aimed
An artist from Taiwan, who now lives in Shanghai brought to the exhibition his understanding of the traditional Chinese landscape paintings that have been favoured by Chinese scholars and
French artist Tony Brown said he
3 . If you are a psychology enthusiast, you have probably heard of the famous marshmallow test (棉花糖测试). In this task, kids are given a marshmallow, and are told that they can eat that marshmallow now, or they can wait a little while, and have two marshmallows instead. Some kids eat the marshmallow immediately, while others try their best to wait for the experimenter to come back with two marshmallows.
Wait time in the marshmallow test came to be seen as indicators of self-control. But is it really the case? A 2022 study by Yanaoka and his colleagues tested the idea that children may decide how long to wait for rewards based on what they are used to waiting for in their culture. In the United States, there is no widespread custom of waiting until everyone is served to eat your food. However, in Japan, there is a mealtime custom of waiting until everyone has been served before anyone starts to eat.
Because of this difference, the researchers hypothesized that Japanese children would wait longer in the marshmallow test than the American children. This is exactly what they found. This certainly suggests that cultural standards are important. The researchers did a clever follow-up experiment. They found one situation where children in the U. S. are used to waiting longer than Japanese children are: unwrapping presents. In the U. S., when children are given gifts on special occasions such Christmas, they usually have to wait before they can unwrap their presents. In Japan, however, children usually open presents immediately.
Given these cultural differences, Yanaoka and his colleagues expected that if they ran the marshmallow test with Japanese and American kids, but they replaced marshmallows with wrapped gifts, then American kids would wait longer to open them. Once again, their theory was correct. When the potential rewards were wrapped gifts instead of food, American children waited 15 minutes on average, and Japanese children waited about four minutes on average.
1. What do we know about marshmallow test?| A．Its design is perfect. | B．It only tests a kid’s self-control. |
| C．Its results might be misunderstood. | D．It is famous among kids and parents. |
| A．By listing varied gift-giving customs. | B．By contradicting existing concepts. |
| C．By summarizing previous theories. | D．By examining newly-made guesses. |
| A．Expected. | B．Designed. | C．Assumed. | D．Assured. |
| A．children’s age | B．cultural custom | C．self-confidence | D．self-belief |
Learning Chinese calligraphy was listed as one of the must-do things when I came to China. Now, I’m in the course of learning this unique art,
As someone who paints, draws, and loves all
After taking the lesson, I now understand the difficulty of calligraphy and that it will take efforts and commitment
China is widely known
At the beginning, written Chinese was a picture-based language. It dates
Written Chinese has also become an important means by which China’s present is connected with its past. People in modern times can read the classic works
As China plays a greater role in global affairs,
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China’s taijiquan, also known as Tai Chi,
Chen-style taijiquan has the longest history, and other styles directly or
In recent years, public enthusiasm for Tai Chi has grown greatly throughout the world.
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9 . Wherever we go, we are surrounded by history. Across the globe, cultural heritage is passed down through generations. It is in the buildings and structures around us. It is in the arts and artifacts (手工艺品 ) we treasure. It lives in the languages we speak and the stories we tell. But today, it is under attack as never before. Not only is the damage of time intimidating our cultural heritage, but wars, climate change, globalization and tourism are all exacting a heavy price. Technology is now the most important weapon in the battle. Here’s how technology is preserving our cultural heritage.
As you can imagine, creating the replicas (复制品 ) via crowdsourced 2D images is extremely time-consuming. Increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to do all the required sourcing, allowing millions of images to be stored in a matter of hours. AI will also make restoration-and-preservation of existing cultural heritage far easier and much better than former methods.
Virtual reality (VR) technology will play a leading role in preserving our cultural heritage in the coming years. Many of the most important sites and architecture are easily damaged. Human interaction with these locations is doing a great deal of harm. Wastes left could be seen everywhere, causing many problems. As more cultural heritage sites and objects are digitally mapped and recorded, VR technology will increasingly become the way that people experience them. We’ll all eventually be able to walk through places, look at and touch artifacts and works of art without ever seeing them with our own eyes.
Finally, our cultural heritage will be preserved via technology. Efforts in research, innovation (创新), data sharing and project work will help promote and preserve the cultural heritage of countries all across the world.
1. What does the underlined word “intimidating” in paragraph 1 probably mean?| A．Fading. | B．Preserving. | C．Recording. | D．Threatening. |
| A．By recycling huge amounts of waste. |
| B．By stopping visitors touching artifacts. |
| C．By reducing human effects on the sites. |
| D．By educating people about the sites’ importance. |
| A．Positive. | B．Unclear. | C．Doubtful. | D．Unsupportive. |
| A．How Technology Changes Arts |
| B．What Cultural Heritage Means to Us |
| C．Prepare for an Innovation in Technology |
| D．Preserve the Ancient with the Advanced |
10 . The Chinese fashion icon, qipao, was born a century ago in Shanghai. However, the dress made its way through history from the hands of old craftsmen and is deep-rooted in Chinese culture.
“Qipao used to be so popular,” Leung Long-kong, 89, a well-known qipao craftsman, says, adding that the dress was an everyday outfit among women, from the less well-off to women at the highest levels of society. “Now, nobody is wearing them except on grand and happy occasions.”
To carry on the tradition, fashion designer Mary Yu, 41, who has been attending classes teaching knot button-making techniques, is trying to renew the design of qipao by taking symbols from Chinese history and literature.
“I feel I should look into Chinese culture and learn more about the past. People should have an in-depth understanding of their culture in order to move on. Fashion design requires a profound knowledge of one’s culture before visualizing it. After a period of wearing foreign brands all the time, there will be a day when one looks back to traditional Chinese culture. It is about finding the stuff that exists in your genes and suits you best,” Yu says.
Yu set up her own qipao brand in 2016. Most of the clothes were made by tailors based in Shenzhen and Hangzhou, for their lower cost and more traditional work.
In the constantly evolving fashion industry, qipao is catching up with the times. Zippers, digital print patterns and new materials such as lace and denim have been introduced to a new generation. More daring ideas like 3D printed qipao have also become a reality. Yu believed that with the help of these new technologies, qipao will find its way back to the daily life of Chinese people in the near future.
1. How popular was qipao in the past?| A．Every Shanghai woman wore qipao. |
| B．Various women wore qipao as an everyday outfit. |
| C．Only women of the highest rank wore qipao every day. |
| D．Every woman wore qipao on grand and happy occasions. |
| A．She is teaching knot button-making techniques. |
| B．She is seeking ways to cut down the cost of making qipao. |
| C．She is taking inspiration from Chinese history and literature. |
| D．She is attempting to break away from the influence of foreign brands. |
| A．Cautious and persistent. | B．Patriotic and conservative. |
| C．Innovative and passionate. | D．Considerate and ambitious. |
| A．Qipao: Where to Go? | B．Qipao: a Treasure Lost |
| C．Qipao: When to Wear? | D．Qipao: a Symbol of Wealth |
