1 . The most affectionate memory of my childhood is about a round table. When I was still little, my entire family would ________ on almost every traditional festival to have dinner. While the ________ were discussing something beyond our comprehension, we kids would play hide-and-seek.

The round table is a ________ of a reunion of our families and an ________ to our families. But as a matter of fact, in China, almost everything can be solved over a ________ table. The marriage bells between a loving couple and the ________ between business partners can all happen on the same round table. ________, I start to wonder what this round table is to us, and its true significance starts to be ________ in front of me.

The food on the table may ________ with time. The reasons why we come together may be ________, but the feeling behind it remains the same. And that is our tolerance of different people or willingness to ________ different cultures.

In less than two months before the Spring Festival, a(n)________ massive migration (迁徙): would take place in China. The power that ________ us to do so has been keeping Chinese civilization for thousands of years, and even the history of our nation has been the stories of ________ or running to the round table to which we ________. The round table is and will always be a symbol of the Chinese feelings.

2 . Born and raised in Dunhuang, Northwest China’s Gansu Province, YaoYanbei _________ to Dunhuang as a promising _________ after graduating from a college in Xiamen.

In 2016, inspired by patterns in Dunhuang murals (壁画), Yao _________ a toy camel. “Through the toy camel, I intended to _________ the spirit of the locals who are usually tough-minded and hard-working,” Yao said.

In August 2017, Yao spent nearly a month inside grottoes (石窟) drawing the murals. “Staying in the grottoes from dawn to dusk, I felt _________ connected with the ancient artists who _________ the murals. It was an amazing _________,” she said. Inspired by the sculptures and murals, Yao later designed some innovative products, including T-shirts, bookmarks, pocket mirrors and key rings.

Thanks to the efforts of designers like Yao, the _________ and creative industry began to take root in Dunhuang. Starting from 2018, every year the city has _________ an international design week to help __________ the industry. “By pooling the wisdom of designers from home and abroad, we want to make Dunhuang’s creative __________ more fashionable,” said Liu Mengxing, a vice general manager of a local company.

Looking ahead at her __________ in design, Yao plans to __________ Dunhuang’s ancient art further and apply the wisdom of ancient artists to products of modern life. “I want to design more creative products that __________ to more international customers,” said Yao. “I hope my design can bring people __________ to Dunhuang.”

3 . Every month, Zhang Lingling holds a party with her friends in a KTV room. At the party, all the people wear hanfu — a _______ type of dress worn by the Han people — and sing songs that are _______ by ancient poems. “I’m _______ by the clothes, songs and games based on the culture. I’m not buying the items just because they are Chinese — they just _______ my aesthetic (审美的) needs.” She _______ China Daily.

Like Zhang, there are many young people who have a _______ for traditional Chinese culture. _______ the reason behind this fascination with traditional culture, Ji Fangfang, a professor with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said it’s _______ traditional culture is the best way for young people to _______ their national identity (身份).

________ some prefer inheriting (继承) traditional Chinese culture, others are creating on it to be more ________ to the young generation. Pop culture ________ Yu Yang is one of them. When he made a(an) ________ of products featuring the ancient God of Fortune, the god wore ________ shoes and a cap, and had a microphone in his hand. “Pop culture is a universal language. I hoped more people would accept and love my work and ________ Chinese culture through my art pieces,” he said in an interview with China Daily.

5 . Dressed in a pretty long robe (袍服), stylist Xiao Hang walks across the busy Beijing metro, attracting curious glances.

China has been _________ by Western fashion in recent decades, but many young people like Xiao are looking to the _________ for their choices of clothing and wearing traditional hanfu. These historic costumes of the Han ethnic group are _________ a renaissance (复兴) in part because the government is promoting traditional culture to boost patriotism (爱国主义) and national _________. Period dramas have also contributed to the _________ in interest in traditional Chinese clothing — The Story of Minglan, a TV series set in the Song Dynasty _________ more than 400 million viewers in three days.

There is no _________ definition of what counts as hanfu since each dynasty has its own style, but the clothes are _________ by loose, flowing robes, with sleeves that hang down to the knees. “When we were little, we would drape (披) sheets and blankets to _________ we were wearing beautiful clothes,” Xiao said.

“Two-thirds of my wardrobe is hanfu,” said Yang Jiaming, a high school student dressed in a Tang-style robe and black boots at a hanfu gathering. He wears hanfu under his uniform at school and his classmates and teachers have been ____________ of his style.

The support of the government for Chinese culture has given the hanfu community a(n) ____________. In April 2019, the Communist Youth League of China ____________ a two-day conference on traditional Chinese clothing, including hanfu.

Clothes are the “____________ of culture”, said Jiang Xue, a member of Beijing-based hanfu club Mowutianxia, which has received ____________ from the Communist Youth League of China. “If we do not even ____________ our traditional clothes or don’t wear them, how can we talk about other essential parts of our culture?” she said.