A 23-year-old Chinese American vlogger is riding a new trend: mixing and matching modern clothes with traditional Han Chinese dress, or hanfu.

    1     latter refers to a historical dress of the people in China, which is said     2     (date) back more than 4,000 years. In recent     3     (year), when Chinese people talk about hanfu, they usually picture a long flowing robe (长袍) with loose sleeves and a belted waist. However, it is     4     (actual) a diverse term including different wardrobe trends from different dynasties.

In daily life, the vlogger often wears either an entire hanfu set     5     a blend of Chinese and Western elements.     6     (know) as an Internet celebrity on social media, she     7     (post) videos of herself dressed in a mixture of ancient Chinese styles, with matching makeup since last year. Her social media account now has over 628,900 followers. She has also attracted many fans on Chinese lifestyle and an e-commerce and popular video-sharing platform mainly     8     (target) young generations.

“I love hanfu and I love sharing it     9     the world. So I make videos for people to learn about this ancient type of dress,     10     allows me to learn more as well.” the Chinese American vlogger said in an interview.

2 . The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Major Cold, or da han in Chinese, is the last solar term in the annual solar calendar. Here are some things about Major Cold.

During Major Cold, as the cold current moves southward, the weather is often cold to the extreme. Though the related data in China show that the lowest temperature in a year is usually recorded during the Major Cold period, it may not be as cold as Minor Cold in most areas on the whole since spring is approaching.

During Major Cold, the freezing weather has a big influence on Chinese people’s lives. Rather than take up outdoor activities, people tend to reduce movements and choose to stay at home to keep fit in various ways. For example, to stay warm, people in Beijing have a habit of eating dispelling cold cake, a kind of rice cake that is thought good to warm and nourish. Besides, in Chinese, “rice cake” has the same pronunciation with the words “higher in a new year”, which symbolizes good luck and continual promotion. For another example, residents in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province like to drink nourishing chicken soup during Major Cold.

Major Cold often coincides with the end of the year, so the folk customs of this period have an added sense of farewell to the old and welcoming the new. With the traditional Spring Festival around the corner, people are busy making preparations for it, like stocking up delicacies, sweeping and decorating. The cheerfulness of the reunion adds warmth to the cold winter days.

Before coming to China to teach, I wrongly assumed that there would be much     1     (difficult) for me since I couldn’t speak Chinese well. Nevertheless, while it presented some interesting challenges, I cannot stress enough how warm the majority of people I met     2     (be).

Making friends was my big concern     3     first but I soon settled in and became good friends with the fellow teachers. There weren’t many foreigners at the school in     4     I was teaching, but I had plenty of friendly neighbours     5     (keep) me company. They often had me round for dinner!

In China, teachers     6     (normal) get several weeks off for Chinese New Year, so I was fortunate enough to travel a bit. I loved walking along the Great Wall and visiting the Forbidden City.

When it comes to my favourite Chinese food, how can I possibly choose?! Every meal was a feast, especially with the low cost of living which meant eating out wasn’t just something     7     (luxury). While I loved the big crowded dinners with 20+ dishes on the table, I was     8     big fan of the homemade dumplings my friend made for me. I'd strongly consider going back just to taste them again!

Overall, it can't be     9     (good) if you can have the chance to teach in China for some time. I’d absolutely do it again if     10     (give) the chance.

6 . Every year on the third Sunday in June, Father’s Day is celebrated by families all around the world. We celebrate and honor fathers and their influence in our lives. Apart from your biological father, you can also celebrate grandfathers, stepfathers, and others you consider father figures.     1    

The history of Father’s Day goes back to 1908, when a church in West Virginia honored 362 men killed the previous year in a coal mining explosion. The following year, a woman named Dodd started her quest to establish Father’s Day as a national holiday.     2     So she thought fathers should be honored in the same way as mothers.

    3     It was finally declared a national holiday in 1972. It took more than 60 years from the birth of the idea to Father’s Day actually being recognized as a holiday.     4     In the 1920s and 1930s, there was a national movement to get rid of both Mother’s and Father’s Day and replace them with one “Parent’s Day”. Meanwhile, many fathers didn’t want such a holiday. After all, as the only breadwinners at the time, they didn’t particularly want their hard-earned cash spent on flowers and chocolates.

    5     Struggling businessmen pushed the gift-giving holiday during the Depression, and during the War, Father’s Day became a way to honor the many fathers serving overseas. By the time President Nixon signed the Father’s Day as a holiday, it was already a national institution.

7 . From grand museum openings to music, art and theatre, these are the coolest new things happening anywhere this year.

This townhouse, where the controversial French singer Serge Gainsbourg spent the last 20 years of his life, has been completely closed off to the public since Gainsbourg's death in 1991, but next spring it'll finally open as a museum. The main attraction will be Serge's famously odd living area, with its huge collection of sculptures.

Just 90 minutes by train from Copenhagen, Odense is best known as the birthplace of Christian Andersen, and it's now home to the new HCA Museum. With its biographical exhibits and inanimate projects that come alive, this thoroughly fun museum would have delighted the “Little Mermaid” and “Snow Queen” author himself.

When it finally opens in November 2022, the Grand Egypt Museum will be the biggest museum in the world for a single civilization. Costing $1 billion, this museum will be about the size of the Louvre in Paris. Most importantly, this will be the first time that all 5,000 pieces of King Tut's treasure will be displayed in the same place.

Serbia's second-largest city will wear the crown of European Capital of Culture for the year. Ever fancied checking out of an exhibition in an abandoned pasta factory? The Mlin Cultural Station awaits. Novi Sad's unique architecture and history have long made it a major destination.

End of Heat (处暑) implies that most parts in China     1     (get) rid of the hot summer and entering autumn. But in some areas,     2    (especial) in South China, autumn is late in coming and people are still bothered by hot weather. End of Heat is also the busy harvest season for     3    (farmer).

In China, regions beyond the Great Wall will enter autumn in early September. People can enjoy the scenery as it changes gradually     4     summer to autumn. When the End of Heat comes, summer heat is     5    (go). Clouds in the sky scatter (散开) around,    6    (form) different shapes. There is a saying     7     goes, “Enjoying the clouds of various forms in July and August.”

It is a tradition     8    (eat) duck during the End of Heat period. Duck has a sweet flavor and according to Chinese traditional medicine it has a “cool” nature. There are many recipes for cooking duck such as roasted duck, cooked duck with lemon,    9    (smoke) duck with walnut dressing and sauteed duck with ginger shoots. The tradition of eating duck during     10     End of Heat period is still popular in China.