Drum culture has accompanied Chinese civilization for thousands of years and has a deep spiritual meaning, far 【小题1】 its physical meaning. Confucius regarded the “Drum Dance” 【小题2】 (high).

At the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, 200 drummers in red formed a round drum array (队形) to dance and beat drums. The perfect beats 【小题3】 (draw) the curtain on the exceptional Olympic Games. Chinese drum is an ancient practice 【小题4】 Chinese culture is deeply rooted.

The earliest reference to a clay fired drum 【小题5】 (date) back to the Pottery Age. In ancient China, drums were played to pray to the gods for good weather in agriculture, strike fear in the heart of the enemies in the war and later on accompany some performances and labor 【小题6】 (compete).

Dozens of types of Chinese drums exist today. For instance, “Taiping drum” is used to express praying for peace and prosperity while “Ansai waist drum”, 【小题7】 (mean) to interpret the spirit of the Losses Plateau and the 【小题8】 (hero) character of Northwest farmers, is still popular.

The boom of drum culture reflects 【小题9】 stable and prosperous Chinese society. For thousands of years, the drum beats have played in the backdrop, 【小题10】 (diversify) Chinese traditional culture.

Tang suit often refers to a type of Chinese jackets. The term of Tang suit 【小题1】(create) by the overseas Chinese people last century.

Tang suit has two 【小题2】(variety) in Chinese culture, which are greatly different from each other in style. One refers to the real Tang Dynasty clothes developing from Hanfu (汉服), giving a free and easy and elegant 【小题3】(impress); The other refers to the Manchu male’s jacket developing from the clothes of the Qing Dynasty, and it is made by 【小题4】(absorb) a Western-style suit cutting method. A typical design of a Tang suit uses the Chinese characters, such as Fu and Shou,【小题5】(express) good fortune and best wishes, which is 【小题6】(extreme) popular among the Chinese people.

Tang suit has had a great impact 【小题7】 the clothing styles of other countries up till now. The Japanese kimono (和服), 【小题8】 is made on the basis of a kind of clothes of the Tang Dynasty, has become the national clothing of Japan. As an essential part of 【小题9】(tradition) Chinese culture, Tang suits are worn by overseas Chinese people during the Spring Festival each year, appealing to many foreigners to wear them. More and more young Chinese people are so interested in wearing Tang suits 【小题10】 they prefer to wear them instead of Western-style suits and dresses on their big days.

By drawing patterns on the surface of a cup of tea, Zhang Zhifeng, a practitioner of chabaixi, displayed a special Chinese tea trick in a recent TV drama, 【小题1】(arouse)great interest among ordinary people due to its apparent 【小题2】 (similar) with modern latte art (咖啡拉花艺术).

Chabaixi, with 【小题3】 name Shuidanqing, can create endless patterns such as bamboos and mountains or even calligraphy. It is different from making latte because people use clear water as the object 【小题4】(put) into the cup instead of milk. But when the water 【小题5】 (touch) the surface of whipped (搅打起泡沫的) tea, it turns into a white color and disappears in 20 minutes. The process before the drawing is known as the tea-making technique, diancha, 【小题6】 quality is crucial to whether patterns can be successfully produced later.

Chabaixi 【小题7】 (list) as part of China’s Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2017, after it was recovered by Zhang Zhifeng, who started researching the origins of chabaixi in 【小题8】 1980s and brought the technique back in 2009 after decades of trials and practice.

“Chabaixi, as one of the 【小题9】 (vary) forms of tea-making techniques in China, gives us a window into people’s lifestyle in the Song Dynasty, a period of time when leisure activities in some ways resemble 【小题10】 we have now. It would be a shame to let it fade. This technique must be passed on to the next generations so they can understand its history,” Zhang said.