Young Chinese bring hanfu to the world during Spring Festival

Young people dressed in hanfu, the traditional clothing of the Han ethnic group in China,【小题1】 (spot) in many【小题2】 (locate) around the world during this year’s Spring Festival holiday.

An initiative launched in late January by Xiaohongshu, 【小题3】 Chinese lifestyle-focused social media platform, invited users to upload photos or videos of themselves and friends wearing hanfu at landmarks around the world from January 28 to February 19.

The first two weeks of the initiative saw some 10,000 Xiaohongshu users share their photos 【小题4】 (take) from around 30 countries and regions around the world. One user even posted photos from Antarctica.

Many young Chinese people working or studying overseas also invited 【小题5】 (they) foreign friends to wear 【小题6】 (tradition) Chinese costumes to celebrate the Spring Festival together.

Hanfu, as well as other traditional forms of Chinese costume, 【小题7】 (experience) a surge in popularity in recent years. Clothes featuring traditional Chinese elements combined with modern designs, 【小题8】 are dubbed the “new Chinese style” have developed into a fashion trend among the 【小题9】 (young) generations not only in China, but also worldwide.

Analysts say the rise 【小题10】 “China chic” reflects young Chinese people’s confidence in their own culture. Wearing Chinese-style costumes not only reflects the wearer’s Eastern temperament, but also presents Chinese aesthetics to the world.

From: chinadaily.com.cn

Purple is one of the most popular colors today. There are purple clothes. purple bicycles, and even purple computers! But in the past, purple 【小题1】(be) a very expensive and unusual color. Let’s take 【小题2】 look at the rich history of the color purple.

Some 【小题3】(scientist) believe that the first organisms(生物) to appear on Earth over 500 million years ago【小题4】 (probable) looked purple, not green. Plants today are green because they use green chlorophyll(叶绿素)to produce energy.

During the time of the Roman Empire, 【小题5】 was very difficult to make purple dye(染料). But 10,000 dead sea snails(海螺) got you just one gram of purple dye as well 【小题6】 a very bad smell! This special purple dye was called Tyrian purple.

In sixteenth-century England, only royalty wore purple. Queen Elizabeth I’s clothes were purple, but ordinary people were not allowed【小题7】 (wear) the color.

In 1856, William Perkin, an 18-year-old science student, noticed something strange while 【小题8】 (conduct) an experiment. The chemicals, 【小题9】he used to clean his equipment, combined with the chemicals he used in his experiment and produced a bright purple color. The dye was much 【小题10】 (cheap) than the sea-snail dye. Thanks to Perkin now anyone can wear purple clothes.

Dressing smartly is, of course, important for your confidence and sense of self-empowerment. But your style can do more than just send 【小题1】 (message), to your mind or to others. New research shows that the clothes you wear can actually have a significant effect on 【小题2】 you think. Professional dress, according to the study, increases abstract thinking and even gives people 【小题3】 broader viewpoint. So a tie might actually be switching on the button of your unlimited 【小题4】 (create).

“The degree of formality of clothing not only could affect how people assess a person and how people assess 【小题5】 (they), but could influence decision-making in 【小题6】 (importance)ways through its influence on the processing style, ” the researchers say.

They also find formal clothing is associated with enhanced (增强的) social distance and can increase psychological distance between people. When you are more socially distant, you tend 【小题7】 (think) in a more distant and abstract way. For example, in distant social situations, titles rather than names 【小题8】 (use) to call an unfamiliar person. Even after controlling socioeconomic status, people 【小题9】wear more formal clothing show a stronger preference 【小题10】abstract processing.