Peng Jingxuan, a 26-year-old Chinese girl, is now studying in a music university in Paris. While learning abroad, she is also working at spreading traditional Chinese culture to the world. She can often be found on French streets, wearing a silk Han Dynasty-style dress and playing the guzheng to passers-by.

Born in 1995, Peng began to learn the guzheng when she was seven years old. After arriving in France in late 2017, she saw many people do street performances, but few of them knew about Chinese music. So she decided to play the guzheng on the streets.

Peng made her first performance in front of a theater in October, 2018. “I was very nervous at that time, but a lot of people said they enjoyed my performance,” Peng said. Then she started to perform during weekends and holidays. After being asked plenty of times by local people about the guzheng, Peng now carries a book that explains the instrument to foreigners. Later, she posted her first video of playing the guzheng online and it spread quickly. From then on, Peng has posted many videos of her street performances. The videos have got many likes and made her a very popular guzheng artist. She has millions of fans on the Internet now.

More and more people show great interest in the guzheng after watching Peng’s performances. “People come to me and praise me for the beauty of the instrument and the music. Every time they ask me which country the guzheng comes from, I am very happy to tell them it’s from China.” Peng feels she has more responsibility to spread traditional culture. “What is national is universal. I hope to play a bigger role in making Chinese music known by the world.” said Peng.

Peter comes from Canada. He speaks English. 【小题1】 Now he studies Chinese in Beijing. It’s sunny today. He goes to Beijing Library. Look! 【小题2】

Bob is in Guangzhou. He is from France. 【小题3】 He usually eats in restaurants(餐馆).Bob wants to go to Guangzhou Hotel with his friends today. 【小题4】 Look, a policeman helps them.

Jenny lives in Nanjing. She is an American. She thinks Chinese people are friendly. It’s cloudy today. 【小题5】 A monkey sleeps in a tree. Some horses eat grass and some birds sing songs. They are having a good time.

School starts tomorrow. My good friend Li Peng and I want to buy some school things. We go to the shop near my home. There are many students in the shop. Li Peng buys a green pen and two pencils, a black one and a red one. He buys a pencil box, too. My sister has a lot of pens and pencils, so I only buy some notebooks (笔记本).

“Look! There is a nice watch on the floor. Is that your watch, Lin Tao?” Li Peng asks me.

“No,” I say.

Then he picks up (捡起) the watch and asks the girl near us, “Excuse me, is this your watch?”

“No, my watch is at home,” the girl answers.

Just then, a boy comes to us and says, “It’s my watch. My mother buys it for me as a birthday present.

“But how do we know it belongs to you?” asks Li Peng.

“There are two words on the back of the watch. They’re Ma Jun, My name is Ma Jun,” the boy says.

When we look at the back, we see the two words. So we give the watch to the boy.