Ancient Chinese people loved planting trees. 【小题1】 they didn’t have a special day like the Tree-Planting Day, the tradition of planting trees has been there for a long time.

Back then, it was always warm and 【小题2】 around the Qingming Festival. The trees were easy to grow in spring. The ancients 【小题3】 the tradition of planting trees around the Qingming Festival.

There are 【小题4】 of kinds of trees. However, mulberry trees (桑树) and fruit trees used to be especially popular in   ancient times. Silkworms (蚕) took mulberry leaves as their food. Silk was produced from the cocoons (蚕茧) of the silkworms, and then made into soft and beautiful 【小题5】 for noble (贵族的) and rich people.

The taste for 【小题6】 of the ancient people reached a high level. They planted trees to beautify their neighborhood and 【小题7】 the environment as well.

Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, loved planting trees. 【小题8】 he went, he would plant trees in places where he worked.

Dong Feng, a doctor in the Three Kingdoms Period, 【小题9】 accepted money from his patients. Instead, he asked them to plant apricot trees (杏树) on a hill. Gradually, a forest of apricot trees appeared on the hill. That is why we 【小题10】 a doctor who has noble ethics (高尚品格) and excellent skills with the words “warmth in an apricot forest”.

If you travel around China, you’ll find dragons almost everywhere. For thousands of years, the Chinese people have had a 【小题1】 admiration (仰慕) to Loong, the Chinese dragon. Many Chinese 【小题2】 have tried their hand at painting the dragon. One of them was Chen Rong, a great painter in Song Dynasty. He is widely considered the best of the dragon painters and his Nine Dragons was regarded as one of the 【小题3】 paintings of the Chinese dragon.

Born in Fujian in 1200, he once served for the government in his home province. His career (事业) wasn’t going very smoothly. However, he was 【小题4】 for his talent in poetry and painting.

Chen usually painted after drinking wine. After getting drunk, he would shout, take off 【小题5】 scarf, put it in ink and spill (泼出) the ink madly on Xuan paper. After that, the painter would use brushes to paint some details to 【小题6】 his work.

Nine Dragons shows nine energetic dragons freely dancing 【小题7】 clouds, fires and mountains. There are both crazy drops of ink and very fine lines. They show both the painter’s 【小题8】 of great disappointment with his career life and his great skills in brush work.

Nine Dragons was 【小题9】 in the palace in the past. It’s said that Qianlong Emperor 【小题10】 praised it and he liked it so much that he ordered a palace painter to make a copy of it.

Chinese names have a long history—Many Chinese families have a family tree. You can find all the family members（成员）in 【小题1】.

Chinese family names are passed down（传承）from fathers to 【小题2】. Many Chinese feel 【小题3】 when they meet a new friend with the same（相同的）family name. Some of them 【小题4】 they were from the same family 500 years ago. There are over 4,100 family 【小题5】 family in our country. Li, Wang and Zhang 【小题6】 the top three family names.

We Chinese put family names first, 【小题7】 English names are different（不同的）from ours. English put their 【小题8】 names last. And they usually have 【小题9】 names: a first name, a middle name and a last name. People don’t use their 【小题10】 names very often. So John Henry Brown is often called John Brown.