For those 【小题1】 travel to China, the beautiful scenery and long history are attractive things, and 【小题2】 is Chinese cuisine.

Chinese people are crazy about eating. Nobody can tell 【小题3】(exact) how many restaurants a city has. Besides, they think of eating as 【小题4】 art and pay much attention to the color, shape, 【小题5】(appear) and flavor of food.

【小题6】(divide) into eight items—Lu, Yue, Chuan, Xiang, Min, Zhe, Su, and Hui, Chinese cuisine 【小题7】(know) for its rich tastes and delightful colors. The difference in local climate, history and eating customs in each region has produced various local dishes and snacks. It is the diversity 【小题8】 makes it possible to be accepted worldwide. No wonder that Chinese cuisine 【小题9】(gain) increasing popularity in the past years. For people 【小题10】(ask) why Chinese cuisine is widely enjoyed in every corner of the world, the answer is above.

Oil paper umbrellas have a history of over 1,000 years in China. Once they 【小题1】(be) everywhere. Nowadays people use the hand-made umbrellas 【小题2】 (little) in daily life than before. However, they are a symbol of Chinese 【小题3】 (tradition) culture.

Yuhang in Hangzhou is known for 【小题4】 (make) oil paper umbrellas for over 230 years. Umbrellas here take more than 70 steps to make, such as making bamboo ribs and pasting (糊) paper. 【小题5】 takes at least a week to make an umbrella. In 2007, this kind of umbrella was added to Zhejiang province’s intangible (无形的) cultural heritage (遗产) list.

In 2015, Liu Weixue left a well-paid job to learn 【小题6】 his grandfather the art. “I want to bring the art to life,” Liu said. "When it rains, someone uses the umbrella, that’s 【小题7】 I want to see.”

After Liu mastered the skills, 【小题8】 studio was started in Yuhang, where he gathered umbrella-making masters. 【小题9】 (sell) umbrellas, Liu opened an online shop in 2017. It now has more than 80,000 followers.

Liu hopes the art can be passed on. He goes to schools in Yuhang to teach students. He also shows up at 【小题10】 (event) and activities in different places to show more people about the art.

After xiao man, or “grain buds”, it’s time for mang zhong, or “grain in ear”. It is 【小题1】 Chinese solar term for summer. According to this solar term, most of China will see the hot days of summer【小题2】 the areas around the Yangtze River experience rain.

Mang refers to the awn, or the thistle, on the seeds of grain plants and zhong refers to harvesting and sowing, which happens at the same time. The 【小题3】 (begin) of mang zhong means the grains are mature and waiting to be harvested, so like other solar terms, it also reflects 【小题4】 (agriculture) phenology (物候学). In Chinese, mang has the same pronunciation as another mang, 【小题5】 means “busy”. Mang zhong is also translated by Chinese farmers as “busy farming”. Tang Dynasty(618-907) poet Bai Juyi portrayed (描绘) the busy scene of people 【小题6】 (work) on farmlands during the period in his poem, titled Guan Yimai(Watching the Wheat Harvest): “Farm families have few leisurely months. In the fifth lunar month, they are twice as busy. The southern breeze arises in the evenings, 【小题7】 (cover) fields of wheat now turn yellow…” The poet praised the hardworking spirit of farmers, reminding people to cherish their hard labor, and expressed his empathy (共鸣). With 【小题8】 (difference) in geography and climate, the crops also vary greatly in northern and southern China.

Bai’s poem reflects the 【小题9】 (life) of people in northern China, who race against time 【小题10】 (harvest) wheat. However, it’s not the same for people living in southern China, who work around the clock to plant rice.