Traditional Chinese clothing hanfu finds new life傳統服裝－漢服煥發新生

戚莉莉

主題語境：服裝 篇幅：284詞 建議用時：6分鐘

1 Dressed in long robes， a crowd of young peoplewander around gardens， with their flowingsleeves and heavily embroidered （繡花的）skirts gently swaying in the breeze. They are notactors on a movie set， but hanfu enthusiasts at athemed event in Beijing.

2 Benefiting from the growing popularity of social media and a craze for traditional cul?ture， hanfu， a traditional style of clothing once worn by the Han people， has enjoyed anew life thanks to a new wave of young Chinese fans.

3 At first， people who wore hanfu in public were occasionally greeted with mockery，while more passers?by asked about their clothing style.“ More young people are takingto wearing adapted hanfu as they believe a good way to preserve tradition is to adapt itto modern life，” says Liu.

4 Yang Kunning was born in the 1990s and works in public relations. She is fond ofsharing her love for hanfu online. She opened an account on the video?sharing platformand posted videos featuring herself wearing the traditional attire. Thousands of com?ments and likes pour into her channel as viewers find her videos attractive and creative—blending traditional culture with modern dance movements.“ Social media has madehanfu culture popular in China and abroad，” says Yang.“ Traditional culture has nonational or ethnic boundaries.”

5 Companies and factories also smell the massive potential in hanfu?related industries.Caoxian County， Heze City， East Chinas Shandong Province， is one of the major hanfumanufacturing centers， gathering over 2000 enterprises and promoting the increase ofemployment. Over 600 clothes?processing companies have their own designs with intel?lectual property rights. In addition to domestic clients， a number of companies in Cao?xian County reported a rise in foreign orders this year.

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1. What contributes to a new life of hanfu？

A. Hanfu?themed events.

B. Youths love for traditions.

C. Hanfu?related industries.

D. The popularity of social media.

2. Which can best describe Yangs attempts to popularize hanfu？

A. Productive.

B. Academic.

C. Controversial.

D. Conservative.

3. What benefit may hanfu?related industries bring about？

A. Improving traditional designs.

B. Protecting intellectual property rights.

C. Creating more job opportunities.

D. Attracting foreign investment in China.

4. In which column is this text likely to appear？

A. Travel.B. Culture.C. Science.D. Amusement.

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Ⅰ. Difficult sentence in the text

Dressed in long robes， a crowd of young people wander around gardens， with theirflowing sleeves and heavily embroidered skirts gently swaying in the breeze. 身披長袍，一群年輕人在花園中漫步，他們飄逸的衣袖和精美的繡花衣擺隨著微風輕輕搖曳。

【點石成金】本句中，Dressed in long robes為過去分詞短語作伴隨狀語；with theirflowing...the breeze為“with+賓語+非謂語動詞”構成的with的復合結構，在句中作伴隨狀語。

Ⅱ. Text?centered chunks

be dressed in 穿著……

enjoy a new life 迎來新生

craze for traditional culture 對傳統文化的熱愛

in public 公開地

adapt...to modern life 使……適應現代生活

thousands of comments and likes 成千上萬的評論和點贊

blend traditional culture with modern dance movements 將傳統文化與現代舞蹈動作相結合

foreign order 海外訂單