Festivals of all kinds have been held everywhere since ancient times. Many festivals would celebrate the end of cold weather,     1     (plant) in spring and harvest     2     autumn. Sometimes celebrations would be     3     (hold) after hunters had caught animals. At that time people would die because it was difficult for them     4    (find) food,     5    (especial) during the cold winter months. Today’s festivals have many     6     (origin), some seasonal, some     7     (religion), and some in order     8     honor special people. Festivals are a     9     (significance) part of society. They help us understand where we came from,     10     we are, and what to appreciate.

Today’s festivals have    1    wide range of origins,    2    (include) the seasons of the year, famous figures, important events, and religions. All festivals have the spirit of     3    (share) joy, gratitude, love, or peace in common.

The harvest festival is one of the     4    (much) popular festivals and is celebrated in many cultures. In China, families gather    5    (admire) the shining moon and enjoy delicious moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Customs play a significant role in festivals,    6    they can change overtime. For example, some Chinese cities no longer allow firecrackers during the Spring Festival, as they can increase air pollution. However, these days, festivals     7    (become) more and more commercial, with people    8    (spend) more money on gifts,    9    results in different opinions.

Festivals are an important part of society. They reflect people’s wishes, beliefs, faiths, and attitudes towards life. They are    10    (occasion) that allow us to relax and enjoy life.

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.

Many people may think the Forbidden City,or the Palace Museum, is an outstanding and old-fashioned museum.     1     in recent years, the museum has been working hard    2     (promote) Chinese cultural heritage among young people.

The museum’s online store now offers special cultural and     3     (create) products. For example, in 2014, it started to make T-shirts that look like     4     emperor’s coat. It also sold earphones that look like the necklaces worn by ancient officials which     5     (bring) in about 1 billion yuan in sales in 2016,reported China Youth Daily

To make youngsters know more about the Forbidden city, several documentaries and variety shows have been made in it.For example,a documentary    6     (title) Masters in Forbidden City became popular online.The documentary is about the people    7     job is to repair the relics(文物)in the museum Many of these workers are young,and some are even in their    8     (twenty). Some other museums across the country, such as the National Museum of China,     9     (inspire) by the Palace Museum’s efforts and are working    10     similar projects of their own.

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.