China National Silk Museum is located at the southern bank 【小题1】 West Lake in Hangzhou City. There are three buildings. The museum covers three floors of the first building. The second building covers silk worm biology, while the 【小题2】 (three) covers the earliest silk technology. It 【小题3】 (house) many historical silk relics.

Why should you visit it? China was the first to make clothes with silk. The museum is a great visit for those wanting 【小题4】 (know) the history and culture of silk and silk 【小题5】 (develop) in China during the various dynasties since the New Stone Age. There are textiles (纺织品) of the Han and Tang dynasties, 【小题6】 have been dug along the route of the Silk Road. There are also costumes from areas south of the Yangtze River in the Song Dynasty, modern Qipao and traditional cloth-making 【小题7】 (machine).

You can learn about the influence of silk on China and global cultures, about silkworm (蚕) care and biology, silk goods 【小题8】 silk production technologies in China. You can see how silk clothes 【小题9】 (make) from natural silk.

The museum also shows evidence about the famous Silk Road, the world’s oldest and most 【小题10】 (historical) important overland trade route.

In the workshop of 【小题1】 brush pen store in Huzhou, Shi Wangli makes traditional Chinese brush pens. Her hands are immersed (浸泡) in water for at least eight hours a day, in 【小题2】 summer and winter. The choice of the hairs in steps of making a quality brush pen 【小题3】(be) of great importance and the work she does cannot be performed 【小题4】 a machine. It is a difficult but meaningful job. She is 【小题5】 (young) brush pen technician in Huzhou. The manager of the store says he is worried the thousand year old technique for 【小题6】 (make) the Huzhou brush-pen used in calligraphy (书法) will be lost with few young people willing to learn it. In Chinese history, brush-pen is an essential (基本的) tool for cultural inheritance (传承). 【小题7】, with the rapid progress of modern technology, brush pens were replaced firstly by pens, then ballpoint pens and now keyboards.

The Ministry of Education required elementary and middle schools to start calligraphy classes 【小题8】 (protect) the Chinese traditional culture. There is a general belief that brush pen making should 【小题9】 (consider) as a technique that represents Chinese culture. People should get to know the 【小题10】 (meaning) and thoughts behind these traditional techniques.

A 4D Chinese shadow puppet show (also called Piying Show or Piying Xi in Chinese language), staged at a shadow puppetry theater on its first day of business in Tengchong city, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, 【小题1】 (impress) the audience with a brand new immersive (沉浸式的) viewing experience on Oct. 3, 2022.

“It’s a novel show. I didn’t know shadow puppet shows could be enjoyed in such 【小题2】 amazing way. The 【小题3】 (combine) of Chinese culture and modern technologies is really eye-opening,” an audience member said after 【小题4】 (watch) the show.

【小题5】 traditional Chinese shadow puppet shows, during 【小题6】 puppeteers control shadow puppets to create the illusion of moving images on a cloth screen from behind, the innovative 4D show combined traditional Chinese shadow puppet performance with modern technologies including holographic projection (全息投影) technology and modern scene simulation technology.

“I want 【小题7】 (surround) the audience with the shadow puppets and let them feel they are a part of the show,” Liu Chaokan, a 30-year-old inheritor (继承人) of Chinese shadow puppetry and the brain behind the 4D Chinese shadow puppet show, told reporters.

Inspired by 4D movies, he came up with the idea of 4D shadow puppet show 【小题8】 has been making preparations for the show for nearly four years.

Born into a family with 【小题9】 (generation) of shadow play artists, as the sixth-generation inheritor of the shadow puppet performance skills of his family, Liu 【小题10】 (influence) by his family’s determination to carry forward the skills since he was young.