Yangko, a rural Chinese folk dance with a history     1     (date) back thousands of years, originates from farming life in ancient times. The dance relates to sacrifices to the farmland god when people prayed for a good harvest. As time passed, the     2     (origin) dance developed, taking in various artistic forms and skills, including opera, acrobatics and martial arts, and eventually turned into the type of Yangko     3     is seen today.

    4     (preserve) this Chinese folk culture, it was included in the inaugural(首批的)items of national intangible cultural heritage in 2006. It is     5     (common) performed in northern China during festivals, especially for Chinese New Year and the Lantern Festival. Performances or competitions     6     (organize) in towns and villages to express people’s joy and their hope for a better life.

Yangko employs drumming, Suona, dancing and singing. Content is based     7     folk stories and legends. Costumes are richly-colored and opera-styled, enabling     8     (character) to be easily identified. During a performance, the actors will dance and sing, following lively rhythms. Highly. skilled and interesting acts such as stilt(高跷)walking     9     carrying a wedding sedan chair(花轿)are also included. As a part of traditional Chinese culture, Yangko     10     (concentrate) the group consciousness of the Chinese people, and has outstanding historical and cultural value.

The Chinese zodiac, also known as Sheng Xiao or Shu Xiang, is a     1     (repeat) circle of 12 years. Each year     2     (represent) by an animal. Chinese New Year 2024 is a year of the Loong.

Chinese Zodiac Loong is the     3     (five) of the 12 zodiac animals, following the Rot, Ox, Tiger and Rabbit. People born in the year of the Loong — an animal no one knows if it existed in real world—are enveloped in mystery, and very charming.

Back in the pre-Qin period over 2,200 years ago, there was already the Chinese zodiac signs theory. So it is     4     (reason) that Chinese Zodiac years are in agreement with the beginning of Chinese Lunar New Year. If you have an idea of Lunar Calendar, you will know     5     Chinese zodiac year often starts from late January and ends in middle February of the next year.

Therefore, to see what your Chinese zodiac animal is,     6     to confirm whether you are a Loong, you need to change your Gregorian calendar birthday to Lunar Calendar of the year you were born. For example, if you were born     7     February 16, 1988 (a year of the Loong), the Lunar New Year’s Eve, which was very close to Loong year, but you are a Rabbit.

    8     is also worth mentioning is that if two people were born in the different Loong years, they may have very different     9     (personality), and horoscope, due to the Five Elements, which are Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth. Each element     10     (come) in a 60-year cycle.

Led by China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration, the country’s first conference     1     (dedicate) to future trends in cultural relic conservation through high-technology was held on Wednesday in Chongqing.

The conference focused     2     China’s innovations in recent years in technological equipment for protecting cultural relics. It also looked into the challenges in the field     3     discussed future paths to better integrating high-tech designs into the country’s archeological     4     (project).

The experts discussed initiatives such as application of big data in the archeological field, the use of nuclear technology     5     (conserve) relics, and the application of Radar Technology Equipment in the archeological field.

Li Qun, director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, said that the cultural relic protection equipment has become     6     “indispensable” means of the preservation of cultural heritage in China.

In 2018, experts from China and Italy gathered in Chongqing to share exchanges on technological inventions,     7     (address) issues such as stone relic restoration and new materials for wooden relic     8     (restore).

Aside from the main conference, an exhibition called Crafts First: Technology and Equipment for Cultural Relics Preservation     9     (launch) as part of the event. The show features 64 items of technological equipment such as a wearable smart piece     10     provides visitors with immersive experiences from inside the cave temples.

The Wuhan silk flower is a famous specialty of Hubei. It has been produced and sold for many years and enjoys a high reputation.

Over the past hundred years, Wuhan silk flower     1     (adopt) the traditional silk flower making techniques from the royal courts. It draws spirit from the folk silk flower making techniques throughout China, while perfecting     2     (it) on the basis of the traditional flower skills that have been known far and wide due to its fine workmanship.

Silk flowers are the flowers     3     (typical) made with silk, satin and other high-grade fabrics. The flowers look vivid and are unique skills. Whether due to its long history or the strong     4     (decorate) effect, silk flowers were common accessories of the ancient women.

Among Chinese traditional skills, making flowers     5     fabrics emerged more than 1,700 years ago. In the Tang Dynasty, it was recorded     6     women wore flowers made with silk.

The silk flower     7     (artist) in Wuhan have handed down and carried forward silk flower workmanship from generation to generation, making silk flower     8     art craft specialty with local characteristics. The varieties of the flowers     9     (make) with silk include peony, rose, Chinese rose, and other flowers in total of more than 400 varieties. The finished flowers are classified into inserted flowers, hat flowers and more,     10     (enjoy) great popularity among consumers.

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In a wooden fan workshop in Jiangxi Province, China, Yu Xiuying is     1     (busy) than usual, and as she paints, delicate flowers appear across the fan.

“Now I decorate at least 120 fans a day,” says the artist,     2     has 14 years of fan painting experience under her belt. “As the market recovers, orders for this kind of handicraft (手工艺) wooden fans have been     3     the increase,” she adds.

The fans Yu has painted in Ganzhu Township in Guangchang County     4     (export) to Spain next month. The small town owns a flourishing (繁荣的) handicraft fan industry,     5     its annual output of fans is over 70 million with an output value of over 300 million yuan.

The fans are     6     elegant that they attract more and more European buyers. “At the end of each year, the     7    (prepare) for the coming year begins. The fans are shipped to Spain,     8     (distribute) all over Europe,” one owner of a fan company says. He also adds that the wooden fans needed by Spanish traders     9     (become) the main products of his enterprise so far. The handicraft fan craze fanned by the success motivates a large number of locals     10     (work) in the industry now.