The traditional Chinese skill of turning bamboo into beautiful pieces of tools and furniture has got much attention on the short video platform(平台)Tik Tok (Douyin). Skilled bamboo weavers(编织工人)are showing how they work —cutting, weaving, burning and boiling.
"That's amazing!" A Tik Tok user from America wrote after watching the videos. These skills are seen as a magic Chinese power in foreigners' eyes.
Pan Yunfeng, 51, is from Lin'an in Zhejiang Province. He makes pot brushes and bamboo umbrellas and puts the videos on Tik Tok. With over 5 million followers on Douyin, he has become popular among netizens abroad.
Bamboo weaving art began 2,000 years ago. In 2008, it was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage(非物质文化遗产). Now, the popularity of bamboo art on Tik Tok has opened a window for foreign netizens(网民)to understand Chinese culture better.
A. He started learning the skills at an early age.
B. What's more amazing is that workers do it simply by hand.
C. These skills are very amazing.
D. They have got thousands of likes.
E. It has become an important part of traditional Chinese culture.
Shadow puppet plays
Every Saturday, Wang Weifang puts on a play with his friends in a smalltown near Xi'an. The audience can hear them, but they cannot see them. That is (A)____ they are putting on a shadow puppet play.
Shadow puppets are made of hard leather. The leather is cut out in the shape of a person, an animal or an object. Each puppet is painted in bright colours and put on a stick. Some puppets have movable arms and legs. During a shadow puppet play, Wang stands behind a white screen (B)____ lights behind it.
The audience sit in front of the screen. Wang and his friends hold the puppets very (C)close to the screen so the audience can see the puppets' shadows clearly. Then they move the puppets around and do the voices of the different characters.Shadow puppet plays are an ancient Chinese art.
(D)Now with TV and films, shadow puppet plays are not as popular as before. Wang and his friends often work very hard for little money, but they do not (E)mind. (F)他们想让这种传统的艺术形式存活下去。