It’d be hard to look at pictures of Fenghuang Ancient Town without feeling drawn to the place. Lying in the southwest of Hunan province, the scenic town     1     (regard) as one of China’s most attractive places.

Fenghuang Ancient Town is     2    exceptionally well-preserved ancient town and it features unique ethnic(民族的) languages, customs, arts and many     3     (impress) architectural remains of Ming and Qing styles. The careful     4     (select) of the town site, layout (布局) planning and construction have made wonderful use of the mountain landscape and the water flow    5     (create) a harmonious relationship between human residence and nature. Over 200 ancient residential buildings, some 20 large or small streets and ancient town gate towers are well preserved there. They have given a full display of the intelligence and wisdom of those ancient    6     (architect).

Another element    7    makes Fenghuang unique is its ethnic makeup. Many local residents, both historically and in the present, belong to either the Miao or, Tujia minority. As such, the local architecture, like the typical stilt houses (吊脚楼)    8    (be) unique within China.

Fenghuang Ancient Town has also received modern additions. Every night, the town’s buildings are    9    (beautiful) lit it up, with tourists wandering through the streets    10     fun.

Heading off to the train station straight after work on Friday, checking in     1     least eight tourism attractions in one day for three continuous days, hopping on a late-night train and returning to work or lectures at 8 o’clock the next morning — the travel practice of visiting as many sights as possible within the     2    (short)period of time is known as “Special Forces” style tourism. Lately, the style     3    (become)a popular trend among China’s young tourists,     4    (allow)them to make the most of their short holiday breaks.

Last May Day witnessed the peak of this intense travel practice, as the number of tourists reached a record high of 200 million. The hashtag(标签) “Young People’s Special Force Style Tourism during May Day Holiday” enjoyed more than 3. 3 million     5    (view)on China’s largest micro-blogging site Weibo.

Many people flocked to the online space to share     6    (they)experiences of “Special Force” style tourism including two vloggers,     7     documented the three-day climbing experience of Wuyue. During the trip, they covered a distance of 4,600 kilometers with less than 10 hours of sleep.

This     8    (physical)demanding travel becomes a trend because of a video showing a group of university students travelling to the Tibetan capital Lhasa by taking an old-fashioned train. Although     9     entire journey took them 54 hours with only hard seats available, students     10    (see)to be in high spirits chanting “Youth is priceless, and hard seats take us straight to Lhasa!”

Representing wisdom, power, and wealth, dragons are respected and honored in Chinese culture, which are said     1     (scare) away evil spirits and bad luck. In ancient times, when there was no rain for a long time, people not only prayed     2     rain with a dragon dance,     3     prayed against insect attacks after planting.

If you’ve seen a Chinese New Year parade (庆祝游行), you’ve probably seen a colorful dragon     4     (wind) its way down the street. The dragon dance,     5     time-honored traditional folk activity in Chinese culture dating back to the Han Dynasty 2,000 years ago,     6     (observe) during festive celebrations much like the lion dance. Dragon dances can be performed in different ways with dragon costumes of different colors.     7     (specific), as many as 9 to 15 dancers use long poles to guide the dragon’s head and snakelike body, the tricks of     8     are often jumps or moves that make the dragon turn in     9     (variety) of ways.

The culture of dragon and lion dances has spread beyond China to southeast Asia, and even to some regions with significant Chinese communities in Europe, America, Australia, and New Zealand. It has become a     10     (substance) symbol of Chinese culture.

The 39th Shanghai Spring International Music Festival will take place from March 22     1     April 14.

“This is the     2    (old) music festival in China. It is     3     important platform for the communications of artistic institutions at home     4     abroad, and has witnessed through the past decades the     5    (develop) of the music and dance scenes of Shanghai,”     6    (say) Xa Yujing two days ago, Party secretary of the Shanghai Federation of Literary and ArtsCircles.

This year the festival will feature 66 performance     7    (production), 57 of     8     are concerts and nine dance shows.

The opening concert, taking place at Shanghai Symphony Hall on March 22, is a gala event     9    (show) outstanding Chinese compositions in celebration of the 75th birthday of the People’s Republic of China. The closing production,     10    (present) at Shangyin Opera House on April 14, will be a joint (联合的) production of The Barber of Seville by Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Como Opera House in Italy.

The film Poetry tells an inspirational story of a young     1     (construct) worker called Hailuo who dreams of becoming a poet and lands a job at a poetry magazine named Caiwei.

However, just as he begins to make an impact, the editor-in-chief is diagnosed with a serious illness. The weight of saving the magazine falls onto Hailuo’s shoulders. The challenge is     2     (overwhelm), but Hailuo faces it positively and saves the magazine     3     (eventual).

The film has received critical acclaim (好评),     4     (win) Best Picture at China’s Wushan Goddess Art Film Festival in early April. It has been listed     5     one of the key promotion films of one of China’s national film overseas promotion centers.

Though Poetry     6     (film) in 2020 under a very limited budget, Ning Jingwu, the director of Poetry and his crew insisted on finishing the film, hoping to inspire more people     7     (read) and write poetry.

The film’s Chinese name Caiwei takes its name from     8     poem in Shijing, or The Book of Songs, the earliest collection of poems in China. The film also quotes a large number of poems, some of     9     are suggestions provided by some poetry and drama organizations and some were selected by the crew due to the meaning these works     10     (hold) for them during the shoot.

There are many Chinese musicians on the internet     1     (sing) the song The Wind Rises, which was     2     (original) written and performed by Japanese singer-songwriter Takahashi Yuu.

From pop stars like Greeny Wu Tsing-fong     3     children performing the song a cappella, numerous artist have attempted     4     (present) the song in their own way. In November 2020, a video of four young students from the Sichuan Conservatory of Music,     5     play traditional Chinese musical instruments: pipa (plucked lute) , guzheng (Chinese zither) , erhu (two-stringed fiddle) and dizi (Chinese flute), performing the song on the helipad of a skyscraper in Chengdu, Sichuan province,     6     (share) on social media.

Within three hours     7     the release, the video had been viewed more than 2 million     8     (time) on short-video sharing platform Douyin. In 24 hours,     9     video had notched up over 10 million views on social media.

Because viewers expressed their interest in the video, which combined the beautiful ballad     10     aerial views of Chengdu, the team released more videos in a series under the title “Crazy Folk”.