Peking Opera is being introduced to primary and middle school students in an effort 【小题1】 (promote) the traditional art to the younger generation in our country. Textbooks about Peking Opera were firstly compiled and published by People’s Education Press in 2015. The textbooks for 【小题2】 (option) courses have been put on trial use in junior middle schools in the Fengtai district and 【小题3】 (use) in middle schools across the city in the future. The textbooks 【小题4】 primary schools also will be rolled out.

Since 2008, Beijing 【小题5】 (start) a program to provide opera training at dozens of primary schools. Peking Opera arose during 【小题6】 rule of Emperor Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty. It flourished for decades in China and 【小题7】 its fame spread, it drew audiences in other countries, 【小题8】 (include) the United States and Japan. Yet over the years, its 【小题9】 (popular) faded away. While a significant number of people listened to radio productions of Peking Opera before the 1980s, generations 【小题10】 (bear) after that pursued pop culture over the traditional arts.

According to experts, the word “Hutong” originated from Mongolian language, 【小题1】 means “a place where people gather and live.”

Hutong first appeared in Beijing during the Yuan Dynasty. Most of today’s Hutong were formed during the Ming and Qing Dynasties that 【小题2】 (follow). Nobody knows   【小题3】 (exact) how many Hutongs there are in nowadays Beijing. But one thing is for sure, if we connected all the Hutongs together, their total   【小题4】 (long) would even be longer than the famous Great wall!

Today you can find various Hutongs   【小题5】 (show) different shapes and directions. The 【小题6】 (short) one is only 40 centimeters wide. That means a person has to walk sideways to get through. And some Hutongs have more than 20 turns. 【小题7】 the growth of the population, many old Hutongs have disappeared to make way for high-rise apartments.

As we walk through the Hutongs, you may find most of them look almost the same with gray-colored 【小题8】 (brick). Actually inside those walls are the courtyard houses, in which people live. In Chinese we call them “Siheyuan”. At first when they 【小题9】 (build), usually one Siheyuan was owned by only one family, 【小题10】 nowadays most Siheyuans are shared by 4 to 10 families.

The Rise of China-chic

A renaissance of traditional Chinese clothing 【小题1】(know) as Hanfu has made a comeback among Chinese youngsters. If you look 【小题2】(close) around your city, you might spot girls wearing Hanfu in subways or on the streets. The boom of Hanfu, also called “China-chic”, is taking hold in China now.

The term “China-chic” mirrors the rise of some China’s native fashion 【小题3】(tendency). It has gained wide 【小题4】(recognize) as the representation of Chinese culture and aesthetics (美学) contained in home-grown Chinese brands.

The Hanfu movement is believed 【小题5】(start) in 2003 when a few people began to wear the clothing publicly. Slowly, 【小题6】 tendency caught on and universities started having clubs relevant 【小题7】 Hanfu clothing. The related keyword was searched for over 12.6 billion times in 2018, and from January to July 2019 that number increased by nearly 400%. Then what sparkled the Chinese customers’ passion?

The following 【小题8】(promote) factors can account for the popularity of Hanfu — the enhanced traditional cultural identity, the revival of traditional culture 【小题9】 the pursuit of personal individuality, etc. The enthusiasm behind Hanfu movement is also translating into big business.

No matter how the trend 【小题10】(develop), there’s one thing that won’t shift. Behind the craze is people’s positive attitude toward the country’s development and their growing confidence in national culture.