Probably as the most famous rabbit character in the 2023 Spring Festival Gala, Tu Yuanyuan made     1     (it) first public appearance in Beijing on January 8.

The chief director of the 2023 Spring Festival Gala showed the image design of Tu Yuanyuan was inspired from the digital recreation of the fossil of an ancient rabbit     2     was believed to exist in Anhui Province around 62 million years ago. The design of the image was created     3     many reasons, varying from the big data investigation to     4     (display) the traditional aesthetics (美学) and highlighting the achievements of Chinese scientists.

    5     (host) by China International Television Corporation together with China Television Industrial Group Co. Ltd. , a promotional event to release a series of cultural and creative products about Tu Yuanyuan     6     (hold) in downtown Beijing in December,2022.

As a centuries-old tradition,     7     is often bought for Chinese children is the lantern during the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival. Tu Tuantuan was designed as a red-haired rabbit role decorated by trademark     8     (pattern) found on most clay sculptures in Fengxiang, Shaanxi Province.

More     9     (interesting), tuan and yuan could be read together to mean reunion, representing that Chinese people are expecting     10     (reunite) with their long-time-no-see family members and relatives at their hometowns.

Gaodang Village is a Buyi Ancient Village of one thousand years     1    (locate) in Anshun City, Guizhou Province. The preservation project of Gaodang village recently earned a special mention at the Architizer A⁺ Award.

In the past several years, Gaodang Village     2    (face) problems including ecological degradation, disorderly construction, low housing quality, especially the young going out    3    the built heritage being forgotten.

    4    response to the challenges, an architecture design project, along with a field research,    5    (start) by the Anshun Architectural Design Institute and Zhou Zhengxu’s team from Tsinghua University in 2015. After seven years of efforts, they    6    (successful) established a traditional village and rural revitalization (振兴)station    7     (promote) the development of Gaodang village.

The project also won the 2021 Landscape Architecture Award. The Architizer A⁺ Award is one of the world’s most established architecture     8    (award). It promotes and rewards the best architecture and product designs every year, aiming to raise public    9    (aware) of excellent architecture and increase architectures’ positive influence on daily life. Now Gaodang is     10    good example that has been achieving sustainable development in ecology, economy, culture, and other fields, and is now on the way to rural revitalization.

As a sacred thing     1     (love) by Chinese people, the dragon is inclusive in all kinds of traditional Chinese art, like sculpture, painting and embroidery (刺绣). With various meanings, the dragon appears in buildings, porcelains and decorations, and everything you can imagine may     2     (decorate) with dragon elements. All those art works reflect Chinese aesthetics (美学), and Chinese people’s     3     (wise) and love for the dragon.

The dragon is a popular object of drawings and there     4     (be) many famous paintings about the dragon. Ink wash painting is     5     unique style of Chinese painting, especially in ancient China. Therefore, famous dragon paintings which are     6     great value are that style, and the painted dragon is called the ink dragon.

The Nine Dragons Painting is a scroll (画卷) of a dimension of 46.3 cm×1496.4 cm     7     it shows nine dragons with different facial and body looks, soaring in waters and mists. The painting is marked with dragons features and perfectly demonstrates how     8     (power) dragons are. The scroll painting,     9     creator is Chen Rong, is now collected in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Chen Rong is a painter in the thirteenth century and good at     10     (paint) various dragons. Many other painters, such as Cao Buxing and Zhang Zengyao, are also famous for their dragon paintings.

In China, 2022 marks the Year of the Tiger. The animal     1     (regard) in Chinese culture as “the king of all beasts”.

Most children here, when     2     (ask) to draw a tiger, would write on its forehead the Chinese character wang, as the markings on tigers’ foreheads resemble the character for “king”, who conquers the kingdom of animal.

Since ancient times, tigers     3     (indicate) power, solemnity(庄严) and     4     (brave) in our ancestors’ mind, with objects bearing tiger-related image created to drive away the alarming evil spirits and invoke good fortune.

To celebrate this year’s Lunar New Year, it is therefore necessary to prepare     5     advance a few traditional tiger stuffed toys — the classic type is usually made of cloth and comes in colors such as red and yellow —     6     (decorate) one’s home or to give to children as a fascinate mascot(吉祥物).

The eve of Lunar New Year is a time to say goodbye to the past and ring in the new year, with the reunion dinner an indispensable feature of the night.

Although the     7     (food) prepared for the feast vary throughout the country, jiaozi (dumpling) is     8     must-have for most families in northern China. Dishes like fish and chicken, the words     9     sound like “surplus”(盈余) and “good luck” in Chinese, are usually the centerpieces on dining tables. These could make a     10    (wonder) feast and show the host’s generosity and hospitality.

March 12th is China's annually National Tree-planting Day. On this day, millions of Chinese, from all walks of life, will put their works at hands aside for     1     moment, take shovels and buckets as well as saplings, and trek out to green up their hometowns.

First     2    (create) by the US agriculturist Sterling Morton in 1872, Tree-planting Day was set in order to inspire people's passions for planting and protecting trees, and     3    (protect) and improve the     4    (nature) environment on which people depend on for their living.

China's Tree-planting Day could date back     5     a proposal made by Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), a great China revolution leader, to Beiyang Government (1915-1927) in 1915 and then regulation was     6    (formal) publicized that Tomb-sweeping Festival (April 5th)     7    (adopt) as Tree-planting Day. However, April 5th was a late time for tree-planting in Southern China and so it was changed to March 12th by the Nanjing National Government (1927-1949) in order to memorize Sun Yat-sen,     8     passed away on March 12th.

In February 1979, the 5th National People's Congress of People Republic of China made a     9    (resolve) that March 12th would be taken as Chinese Tree-Planting Day, requiring the whole country to carry out tree-planting     10    (activity) on this day and support the construction of forestry.

Every September, kids of all ages leap from the starting line of the Louis Tewanima Footrace on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. Many have come from nearby Hopi villages, and others have travelled from faraway places     1    (take) part in the race.

Running is very important within Hopi culture. Long before they used modern cars, the Hopi relied    2     running to travel great distances, deliver     3     (message), and care for their corn and fields. But the Hopi also ran for    4     (religion) reasons. Hopi runners of the past would run far beyond Hopi lands as a prayer for rain. They believed that they could attract rain clouds to follow them home with their    5    (swift) of foot.

Hopi youth     6     (instruct) to run on dirt trails according to Hopi customs and to study the graceful movements of deer and antelope in order to learn from    7     (they). Elders teach youngsters to run with good hearts,     8    (keep) the well-being of the entire Hopi community in mind.

And so at the annual footrace, high on top of Second Mesa, Hopi children run not just to honor Louis Tewanima     9    was an Olympic medalist or for the chance of winning     10     prize. They also run for their people, for their villages, and to continue the long tradition of distance running in Hopi society.