The traditional Chinese Longtaitou Festival, also called Dragon Head Raising Festival,     1     (fall) on the second day of the second lunar month every year,       2     the rain-bringing Dragon King is said to awaken     3     his winter sleep. It's     4     (wide) believed that the second day of the second month on the Chinese lunar calendar means the start of spring and farming.

The festival is a     5     (reflect) of the ancient agrarian (耕作的)culture. Nowadays, although some of the old ways     6     (celebrate) the festival are no longer in practice, some still keep on. Most of them are still identical to those practised in the ancient times,     7     (include) eating Chinese pancakes and noodles. The most famous     8     (tradition) practice on this day is to have a haircut.Some people believe that going to the barber's on the second day of the second month will get rid of bad luck, while     9     believe it is bad luck to get hair cut during the first month of the lunar calendar. Folk     10     (activity)like dragon dance are also held during the Longtaitou Festival across China.

New Year in Chinese eyes is a family reunion. However, in foreigners' eyes, it is not only a kind of homesickness, but a spring migration(迁徙).Every year     1     (see) the largest annual mass migration on the planet     2     one sixth of the world's population travel home to celebrate     3     their families. That is around a billion people     4     (make) 3.5 billion journeys in a 40-day period. Meanwhile, over 250 million rail journeys are made across China during the festival.

Last year, 5.6 million rail tickets    5     (sell) in a single day. Every new year in the heartland of industrial China thousands upon thousands of motorcyclists brave the weather and hit the road, determined to make     6     home.

The Chinese New Year     7     (celebrate) is also known as the Spring Festival. It lasts 15 days. It is the main holiday of the Chinese calendar. In modern China,     8     (search) for work, many people have to move away from home. And they will travel home to be with the loved ones during the Spring Festival. In Chinese New Year, modern and     9     (tradition) customs are brought together when the Chinese celebrate the Spring Festival. Nowadays, not only does China have the     10     (fast) growing modern cities in the world, but the landscapes are also truly diverse.

One of China’s largest hanfu-themed     1     (event), the annual Hanfu Cultural Festival in Xitangancient town, East China’s Zhejiang Province.     2     (hold) from October 28 to 31 last year. According to statistics from the organizer, 157,326 visitors attended     3     festival, many of     4     were hanfu-wearing enthusiasts, called “tongpao”.

    5     (original) from the collection of ancient Chinese Poetry Book of Songs, the word tongpao is-now used to describe whoever appreciates     6     (tradition) Han Chinese clothing.     7     (forbid) during China’s last feudal (封建的) dynasty，the Qing Dynasty, hanfu clothing has been little known     8     the public for many decades.

Nowadays, hanfu is making a comeback.Tongpao has risen in number over the past 15 years     9     a worker in Central China’s Henan Province named Wang Letian made a hanfu-style suit and wore     10     in public in 2003.