An animated giant panda named “Bing Dwen Dwen” and a red lantern baby called “Shuey Rhon Rhon” have been uncovered as the two mascots for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The giant panda, which will be the Olympic mascot,     1     (regard) as a symbol of China. Its name “Bing Dwen Dwen”,     2     helmet also stands for the snow and ice of winter sports, is a combination of several meanings in the Chinese language, with “Bing” the Chinese word for “ice”, and “Dwen Dwen”     3     (mean) health and liveliness. The Paralympic mascot choice of the lantern is seen as “symbolic of harvest,     4     (warm) and light”. In the name “Shuey Rhon Rhon”, “Shuey” is     5     Chinese word for “snow” and “Rhon Rhon” has the double meaning of tolerance and integration (融合).

The vivid red image is a perfect fit     6     the gala event, especially as the Games will take place at the same time with China’s Lunar New Year celebration in February and March 2022. The mascot     7     (combine) the best elements and     8     (characteristic) of China and the Chinese people. It will be a wonderful spokesperson for China and the Olympic Games Beijing 2022. It’s a mascot that not     9     (simple) represents a Chinese lantern, but represents the Chinese New Year. It’s a message of the future to the future generation of Chinese people who will be inspired by the     10     (amaze) faith of the Paralympic athletes.

The Chinese Longtaitou Festival, or Dragon-Head-Raising Festival falls on the second day of the second lunar month every year. Chinese people believe that rainfall     1     (increase) after this day because the rain-bringing Dragon King has awakened from his winter sleep.

The festival celebrates ancient agricultural Chinese culture, and while some of     2     (tradition) ways to celebrate it are no longer practiced, others persist. The most famous tradition is getting     3     haircut. Some believe that going to the barber’s on this day gets rid     4     bad luck, while others believe doing that during the first month of the lunar calendar brings bad luck. Another saying warns that     5     (cut) your hair in the first month will cause your uncle to die in several months. Although today few pay attention to it, it was once a tradition     6     (line) up outside barber shops on the day of Longtaitou, having avoided haircuts for the previous month.

People eat toufu balls in Fujian province during the festival, and     7     (frequent) make tofu and vegetable balls to pray for family and business. Eating chengyao cakes,     8     are made of sticky rice, is a tradition in Suzhou in memory of the saying, “If he eats chengyao this day,     9     (he) waist won’t hurt all year.” Meanwhile other foods, like noodles, dumplings, and spring rolls,     10     (name) after dragon body parts to mark the day. Noodles are dragon’s beard, dumplings are dragon’s ears, and spring rolls are dragon’s scales.

Classical Chinese poetry is traditional Chinese poetry     1     (write) in Classical Chinese and typified by certain traditional forms and close connections with particular historical     2     (period), such as the poetry of the Tang Dynasty. Its existence     3     (document) at least as early as the publication of the Classic of Poetry or Shijing.     4     (variety) combinations of forms and genres exist. Many or most of these     5     (arise) at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

Use and development of Classical Chinese poetry     6     (active) continued up to the year of 1919,     7     the May Fourth Movement took place, and is still developed even today. Poetry created during this 2,500 year period of more or less continuous development shows     8     great deal of diversity-classified by both major historical periods and by dynastic periods.

Of the key aspects of Classical Chinese poetry, another is     9     (it) intense interrelationship with other forms of Chinese art, such as Chinese painting and Chinese calligraphy. Classical Chinese poetry has proven to be of strong influence     10     poetry worldwide.

Jointly produced by Shanghai Animated Film Studio and streaming site Bilibili, Yao—Chinese Folktales,     1     (gain) over 26 million views and a score of 9.6 out of 10 on rating site Douban since it aired last Sunday.

The eight-part series was inspired by various classics from traditional Chinese literature and showcases a range of artistic     2     (style) such as paper cutting, watercolor painting, and computer graphics.

The first episode (集) is based     3     the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, with characters preparing     4     (capture) a Tang Dynasty Buddhist monk.

Its plot,     5    depicts one of the characters being punished after their leader was dissatisfied with their work, has resonated (共鸣) with     6     wide audience, reminding     7     (they) of their own dilemmas and hardships in the workplace.

The new series is part of the growing trend of Chinese animation     8     (turn) to ancient legends and folktales for     9     (inspire).

    10     (domestic) produced animated films featuring classic figures such as “Monkey King”, “Ne Zha”, and “White Snake” have proved to be big hits in recent years!

Dressed in long robes, a crowd of young people wanders around royal gardens, with their flowing sleeves (衣袖)     1     (gentle) swaying in the breeze. They are not actors nor actresses in a movie set, but Hanfu fans in a themed event held in Beijing.

“Over a decade ago, Hanfu fashion was a subculture, but relevant     2     (activity) often draw thousands of participants these days,” said Liu Xiang, an organizer of the event.

Hanfu,     3     was a traditional style of clothing     4     (wear) by the Han people, nowadays enjoys a growing     5     (popular) among young Chinese people, including Liu. Liu is a co-founder of a Hanfu community in Beijing. This community, called Hua Yan Hui,     6     (found) in 2011 following a Hanfu revival (复兴) movement that emerged from growing cultural confidence and the desire     7     (express) national identity. Since then, Liu has been volunteering to support the group.

“My passion     8     Hanfu came from two of my friends who love traditional Chinese clothing,” Liu said. Her interest grew as she learned more about     9     culture behind it and acquired her first Hanfu costume. Currently, more and more young people wear the adjusted Hanfu with the belief     10     the best way to preserve tradition is to adapt it to modern life.

Seal cutting or Zhuanke in Chinese is a comparatively independent traditional art form. It takes Chinese characters as its form of     1     (express), using carving knives instead of the writing brushes, and stone instead of paper. It is similar     2     inscriptions (碑文) on ancient bronze and stone tablets (石碑)    3     it can be viewed as a pocket edition of tablet inscription.

The seal has many names in history. It was called Xiyin (玺印) during the Warring States period, the Qin and Han dynasties, and the Wei and Jin periods. The Ming and the Qing dynasties were     4     (universe) acknowledged to be the two golden periods in the history of seal cutting. And     5     long period from the Tang Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty turned out to be a time     6     the royal seal was on the decline. The use of the seal also varied. Clay impression was used before the Sui and Tang dynasties and inkpad or red ink paste     7     (use) since the Tang and the Song dynasties.     8     (classify) into two categories — official seals and private seals, Xiyin is still widely used nowadays. Official seals refer to     9     of emperors and officials. The making materials in ancient times mainly include gold, silver, copper, jade, stone, bamboo and wood with seals     10     (make) up an overwhelming majority.

Consisting of a bamboo frame and a     1     (beautiful) painted paper surface, Chinese oil-paper umbrellas have long been viewed as a symbol of China’s tradition of cultural craftsmanship and poctic beauty. Not just are they an instrument to keep off rain or sunlight, but also works of art     2     (possess) rick cultural significance and aesthetic (美的) value.

The first oil-paper umbrellas appeared during Eastern Han Dynasty. Later, they     3     (bring) overseas to Japan and ancient Korca during the Tang Dynasty, which is     4     they are known as “Tang umbrellas”.

It takes quite a lot of time and effort to make a traditional Chinese oil-paper umbrella    5     hand. For example, in Fenshui township in Luzhou, Sichuan Province, craftsmen must complete more than 90 steps and use over 100 different tools     6     (create) a single handmade oil-paper umbrella.

Since the     7     (appear) of modern mechanical umbrellas, traditional oil- paper umbrellas     8     (suffer) from declining sales and     9     number of craftsmen has been on the decrease. Fortunately, with the inclusion of Fenshui oil-paper umbrellas as one of China’s national intangible cultural heritages in 2008, things have been improving. These great items appear in many fashion shows and media publications due to the positive publicity     10     they have received.

A small village in Yunnan Province is     1     (wide) known as the Dai paper factory. There are nets for drying paper all over the village and inside villagers’ houses. Dai paper     2     (make) for over 800 years there up to now.

One of the best papermakers is Yan, who was already interested in Dai paper     3     an early age.     4     (teach) by his grandparents to be a papermaker at 16, Yan was quickly able to complete     5     production independently.

Unlike ordinary papermaking     6     trees need to be cut down, Dai paper is environmentally friendly. This is     7     its raw material is the recyclable bark of a kind of trees unique to the area. Dai paper’ production process is still used today. In a workshop, Yan demonstrated 11 different papermaking     8     (process) to us.

Although Dai paper     9     (carry) the culture and belief of the Dai people, the crafting of it is faced with great challenges. To address the problems, Yan improved Dai’s papermaking technology, thus saving production time and     10     (reduce) labor costs. And then he started teaching the villagers his new papermaking process for free.

Located in Guanghan city of Southwest China’s Sichuan province and covering an area of 12 square kilometers, Sanxingdui Site is the remains of the ancient Shu culture, which dates back     1     4, 800-2600 years ago, and is considered to be one of the     2     (great) archaeological (考古的) discoveries in the 20^th century. This particular discovery is a strong proof of the     3     (exist) of the ancient Shu State and the integrative pattern of the multi-cultures of the Chinese nation.

In fact, as a cultural site, Sanxingdui had come into the notice of archaeologists as early as in the 1930s, and     4     (exploration) were made soon. It all began     5     a farmer called Yan Daocheng dug out a number of treasures     6     (accidental) in the spring of 1929. In the summer of 1986, thousands of rare treasures were unearthed from two large newly-discovered sacrificial pits (祭祀坑). The unearthed objects are unique in shape and superior in techniques,    7     (confirm) the extraordinary creativity of the ancient Shu people and their desires     8     (understand) the universe.

After sleeping for 3, 000 years, their awakening has shocked the world. When our eyes     9     (catch) by the creations of the ancient Shu ancestors, it is     10     encounter with a civilization lost for 3, 000 years.