【小题1】 the most prosperous and powerful dynasty in the history of China’s feudal (封建的) society, the Tang Empire (618-907) was so famous in the world that foreigners call the overseas Chinese people “the Tang people”, the areas 【小题2】 they live “Chinatowns” and the clothes they wear “Tangzhuang” (Tang suit) .

【小题3】   (refer) to as “Tangzhuang”, the Tang suit has two varieties in Chinese culture. One is the authentic Tang-era clothes evolving from hanfu, 【小题4】 (give) a free, easy and elegant impression; 【小题5】 other is the Manchu male’s jacket developing from magua of the Qing Dynasty. A typical design of a Tang suit employs the Chinese characters, such as Fu (literally meaning happiness in Chinese) and Shou (literally meaning longevity in Chinese) 【小题6】 (express) good fortune and best wishes, which are 【小题7】 (extreme) popular among Chinese people owing to the cultural connotation.

The Tang suit is an essential part of traditional Chinese culture. Nowadays, an 【小题8】 (increase) number of young Chinese people tend to wear Tang suits on their big days. Moreover, Tang suits 【小题9】 (wear) by overseas Chinese people during the Spring Festival each year, attracting many foreigners to wear them out of 【小题10】 (curious) .

The cheongsam is a female dress with distinctive Chinese features and enjoys growing【小题1】 (popular) in the international world of high fashion. The name “cheongsam” 【小题2】 (mean) simply “long dress” entered the English vocabulary from the dialect of China’s Guangdong Province. In other parts of the country including Beijing, however, it 【小题3】 (know) as “qipao”, which has a history behind it.

After the early Manchu (满族的) rulers came to China, the Manchu women wore 【小题4】 (normal) a one-piece dress which came to be called “qipao”. 【小题5】the 1911 Revolution ended the rule of the Qing Dynasty, the female dress survived the political change and, with later improvements, has become the traditional dress for Chinese women. 

The cheongsam 【小题6】neck is high, collar closed, fits well the Chinese female figure, and its sleeves may be short, medium or full 【小题7】 (long), depending on seasons or tastes. In addition, it is not too complicated【小题8】 (make). Nor 【小题9】 it need too much material. Another beauty of the cheongsam is that it can be worn either on casual or formal occasions. In either case, it creates an【小题10】 (impress) of simple and quiet charm, elegance and neatness.

Henry James said the two most beautiful words in the English language were “summer afternoon”. And the only thing 【小题1】 can make a summer afternoon more perfect is a perfect summer dress. The perfect summer dress is the one that makes you feel the way you do on that beautiful afternoon: 【小题2】 sunnier，more carefree and more relaxed version of yourself. The perfect summer dress is pretty, but easy 【小题3】 (wear). It is romantic or a little poetic, rather than 【小题4】 (drama) or aggressive. Not too formal—it has to work 【小题5】 sneakers or bare feet. It shouldn’t be too 【小题6】 (particular) fashionable, because it is a love letter to the platonic (柏拉图式的) ideal of summer, rather than to summer 2023 or any other fashion season 【小题7】 (spend) in the past.

But that doesn’t mean we agree on 【小题8】 the perfect dress looks like. There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all summer dress. What brings you 【小题9】 (please) is your perfect dress, which means that your perfect summer dress tells the world quite a lot about who you are and what you 【小题10】 (go) through in the past years.