Sugar sculpture blowing is    1     Chinese folk art where artists blow and sculpt hot sugar to create 3D    2     (figure).The finished sculptures not only look good, but also have a good taste,    3     (make) them popular among children.

The main raw material for sugar sculpture blowing is malt sugar (麦芽糖).The malt sugar     4     (use) in sculpture blowing has to be heated to high temperatures. It can only be used after several steps,    5     include the sorting and cooking of the malt sugar followed by the firing and melting of it.

Sugar sculpture blowing is     6     (careful) made. It can be divided    7     two methods—one uses molds (模子) ; the other does not, and involves sugar figures taking shape through a combination of blowing air into the processed malt sugar and the artist's flexible hand skills.

The complex process may explain why there are fewer people making sugar sculpture. To protect and promote this     8     (tradition) craftsmanship, the government of Hebei Province founded a sugar figure art     9     (organize) in 2011.Now it     10     (consist) of over 90 artists recognized as the inheritors (继承人) of the technique.

5 . Craziest Food Festivals sounds like a joke topic, but once you start looking into it, you’ll realize they’re everywhere — the crazier, the better.

Bibimbap Festival

In a Korean town in Jeonju, their “mixed rice” dish is a hearty serve of rice topped with raw beef, a rainbow of vegetables, a raw egg and gochujang sauce (韩国的辣椒酱) so much. They take four days out of October to celebrate it.

Like any festival there’s music, entertainment and magic, but making it that little bit different is the bibimbap that’s whipped (搅拌) up in a big bowl by dozens of chefs and served to over 400 people.

Waikiki Spam Jam (怀基基午餐肉节)

Who knew this canned meat had so much love?   Well, it turns out that a can of Spam is the go-to item in Hawaii, along with a grass skirt and garland (花环). The people of Hawaii love Spam so much that they even spend a day in May serving out the best Spam, a type of cheap canned meat made mainly from pork.

Bessieres Easter Egg Festival

At Easter time, for those in the French town of Bessieres it’s all about an egg far less sweet.

Here they celebrate the holiday by getting dozens of chefs to make one large omelette (煎蛋卷) — 15, 000 eggs strong — for the townsfolk (市民).

Potato Days Festival

This festival actually takes place in Barnesville, Minnesota (明尼苏达州), the US. Over the last Friday and Saturday in August the town celebrates its potato-growing skills by hosting potato picking and peeling contests, as well as a Miss Tater Tot pageant (盛典) for five- and six-year-old girls.

The exhibition“From Shang to Qing:   Chinese Art Through the Ages”    1    (hold) by the Richfield Museum of Fine Art. It aims     2    (display) the Chinese artistic genius from ancient times. The highlight of this exhibition is the painting Clearing After Snow on a Mountain Pass,     3     was created by Tang Yin.     4     (being) 500 years old, the painting looks as fresh as the day it was created. Also     5     (include)in the exhibition are some bronze objects from the Shang Dynasty and many fine examples of Tang Dynasty     6     (sculpture). With trade     7     (boom) and Buddhism expanding, works influenced by Buddhism are     8     exceptional beauty and quality. The exhibition     9     (run) until November 25. The opening hours are from 9: 00 a. m. to 5: 00 p. m.   from Tuesday to Sunday. No photos     10    (allow) in the museum.

Of all the t    1     festivals, the harvest festival can be found in almost every c    2    . This important a    3     festival takes place after all the crops have been gathered in. People celebrate to show that they are g    4     for the year’s supply of food. In a    5     Egypt, the harvest festival was celebrated during the springtime — the Egyptian harvest season. It f    6     a parade and a great feast with music, dancing, and sports. Today, in some European countries, people d    7     churches and town halls with flowers and fruit, and get together to celebrate over a m    8    . During the Mid- Autumn Festival in China, families gather to a    9     the shining moon and enjoy d    10     mooncakes.

By the Shang Dynasty (around L600-1046BCE), these s    1     had become a well-developed writing system. Over the years, the system developed into different f    2    , as it was a time when people were d    3     geographically, leading to many v    4     of dialects and characters. This, however, c    5     under Emperor Qinshihuang of the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BCE).

Emperor Qinshihuang united the seven m    6    states into one unified country where the Chinese writing system began to develop in one d    7    . That writing system was of great importance in uniting the Chinese people and c    8    . Even today, no matter where Chinese people live or what dialect they s    9    they can all still c    10     in writing.

10 . The “Chong Yang Festival” is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, which is also known as the Double Ninth Festival.       1    .

Climbing mountains.

People like to climb mountains on this festival, so the Double Ninth Festival is also called “Mountain-climbing Festival”. The ninth lunar mouth, with clear autumn sky and cool air, is a good time for sightseeing.     2    . It is really cheerful to climb mountains and enjoy the beautiful nature at this clear time in autumn.

Climbing mountains also means “climbing to a higher position”.     3    . Climbing mountains on the Double Ninth Festival was already popular in the Tang Dynasty. A lot of poems were closely related to this custom.

Drinking Chrysanthemum Flower (菊花) Wine.

The chrysanthemum flower wine is made with special process. In ancient times, people usually picked fresh chrysanthemum flowers and leaves on the 9th of the 9th lunar month, and made the mixture of them and grains into the wine.     4    . The wine is said to be good for the health and make people live longer.

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The Double Ninth cake is also known as “flower cake”. It is from Zhou Dynasty. It is said that the cake was prepared after autumn harvests for farmers to have a taste of what was just in season before, and it gradually turned into the present cake for people to eat on the Double Ninth Festival.