One of China’s largest hanfu-themed 【小题1】 (event), the annual Hanfu Cultural Festival in Xitangancient town, East China’s Zhejiang Province. 【小题2】 (hold) from October 28 to 31 last year. According to statistics from the organizer, 157,326 visitors attended 【小题3】 festival, many of 【小题4】 were hanfu-wearing enthusiasts, called “tongpao”.

【小题5】 (original) from the collection of ancient Chinese Poetry Book of Songs, the word tongpao is-now used to describe whoever appreciates 【小题6】 (tradition) Han Chinese clothing. 【小题7】 (forbid) during China’s last feudal (封建的) dynasty，the Qing Dynasty, hanfu clothing has been little known 【小题8】 the public for many decades.

Nowadays, hanfu is making a comeback.Tongpao has risen in number over the past 15 years 【小题9】 a worker in Central China’s Henan Province named Wang Letian made a hanfu-style suit and wore 【小题10】 in public in 2003.

Sharing the sweetness

On the 25th of December, my mother expects her children to be present, exchanging gifts and eating turkey. When she pulls on that holiday sweater, everybody better gets festive. Of course, I would be the first Jones sibling 【小题1】 (go) rogue (叛逆). As the middle, artist child, I was going to do my own thing, making some new traditions. From a biography of Flannery O’Connor, I drew inspiration— I would spend the holiday at an artist colony!

No one took my new idea seriously. From the way my mother carried on, you would think I was divorcing the family. Still I held my ground and made plans for my winter adventure in New Hampshire. The MacoDowell Colony was   【小题2】 I could have wished for. About 25 to 30 artists were in attendance, and it was as artsy (艺术的) as I 【小题3】 (imagine). It felt like my life had become a strange independent film.

By Christmas Eve, I had been at the colony for more than a week. The novelty of snowy New England was wearing off, but I would never admit 【小题4】. Everyone around me was having too much fun. Skiing! Deep conversation by the fireplace! What was wrong with me? This was the holiday   【小题5】 I’d always dreamed of. No artificial decoration. Not a Christmas sweater anywhere in sight. People here didn’t even say “Christmas,” they said “holiday.” Then why was I so sad?

Finally, I called home on the pay phone. My dad answered, but I 【小题6】 barely hear him for all the good-time noise in the background. He turned down the volume on the holiday album and told me that my mother was out shopping with my brothers. Now it was my turn to sulk (生闷气). They were having a fine Christmas   【小题7】 me.

Despite a heavy snowstorm, a large package showed up near my door at the artist colony on Christmas morning. Tayari Jones was written in my mother’s beautiful handwriting. I rushed to that parcel 【小题8】 I were five years old. Inside was a gorgeous red-velvet cake, my favorite, 【小题9】 (wrap) tightly in about 50 yards of bubble packaging. “Merry Christmas,” read the simple card inside. “We love you very much.”

As I sliced the cake, everyone gathered around. Mother had sent a genuine homemade gift. It was a minor Christmas miracle that one cake managed to feed so many. We ate it from paper towels with our bare hands, 【小题10】(satisfy) a hunger we didn’t know we had.

March 14 is, perhaps quietly, celebrated as Pi Day, 【小题1】 day to honor the number that many people are familiar with. The date comes from the first three number of Pi: March is the third month, 【小题2】 (follow) by the one and four that make 14. Pi 【小题3】 (appear) wherever there are circles. Pi is a ratio. It measures the 【小题4】 (distant) around a circle to its diameter(直径).

A website, Piday.org , shows little known facts about the number. Pi has been【小题5】(universal) known for thousands of years and gets its name 【小题6】 a Greek letter,. The Greeks are believed to have used the letter to describe the ratio. The first Pi Day 【小题7】 (celebrate) on March 14, 1988. San Francisco’s Exploratorium Science Museum started the event, according to the site. The museum marks the day with a daylong celebration 【小题8】 (include) a parade.

March 14 has other scientific 【小题9】 (link). It is the birthday of physicist and Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein. Princeton University, 【小题10】 Einstein lived for many years, celebrates Pi Day as well.