Dressed in a pretty long robe (袍服), stylist Xiao Hang walks across the busy Beijing metro, attracting curious glances.

China has been 1 by Western fashion in recent decades, but many young people like Xiao are looking to the 2 for their choices of clothing and wearing traditional hanfu. These historic costumes of the Han ethnic group are 3 a renaissance(复兴) in part because the government is promoting traditional culture to boost patriotism (爱国主义) and national 4. Period dramas have also contributed to the 5 in interest in traditional Chinese clothing — The Story of Minglan, a TV series set in the Song Dynasty 6 more than 400 million viewers in three days.

There is no 7 definition of what counts as hanfu since each dynasty has its own style, but the clothes are 8 by loose, flowing robes, with sleeves that hang down to the knees. "When we were little, we would drape(披) sheets and blankets to 9 we were wearing beautiful clothes," Xiao said.

"Two-thirds of my wardrobe is hanfu," said Yang Jiaming, a high school student dressed in a Tang-style robe and black boots at a hanfu gathering. He wears hanfu under his uniform at school and his classmates and teachers have been 10 of his style.

The support of the government for Chinese culture has given the hanfu community a(n) 11. In April 2019, the Communist Youth League of China 12 a two-day conference on traditional Chinese clothing, including hanfu.

Clothes are the "13 of culture", said Jiang Xue, a member of Beijing-based hanfu club Mowutianxia, which has received 14 from the Communist Youth League of China. "If we do not even 15 our traditional clothes or don't wear them, how can we talk about other essential parts of our culture?" she said.

I just counted how many foreign languages I've studied so far in my life and it's been twelve!

I always follow my interests and find ways to put my language learning into things I'm already interested in. I like to read blogs(博客) in other languages. . For the most part, bloggers tend to write the same way they speak, so I don't have to worry much about adopting strange terms that are only used in writing.

Movies are also a really good tool, especially if you can find subtitles in the language you're learning. , they will still keep your brain listening and reading in the same language. Music is another way to start listening to things in your new language. Personally, I'm so bad at understanding lyrics(歌词) even in English, so this one doesn't really work for me, but I have friends who learn a language through lyrics. Games are of course also an excellent way of studying a new language. A lot of language learning computer programs include games. I'm super competitive and if I play any of them, I can be hooked for hours. .

When the initial excitement of learning a new language begins to fade, it can be hard to stick with it. The hardest bit for me is when I'm comfortable enough with a language to understand most things and make myself understood. I'm actually stuck at this stage in Norwegian. . Ideally I should sign up to take a big language exam. Each time I start getting self-satisfied, it's time to take a new course or sign up for online lessons, or take up some sort of challenge that will require me to level up my skills.

. The best language class I've ever taken was my beginner's Russian course at university where my professor never used any English. It got to the point where I would kind of just forget about English while in Russian class, which helped me to really immerse myself in the Russian language and do a whole lot with the limited Russian I had.

A. That's really uncomfortable

B. Whatever languages they're translated into

C. I also try to think in the language I'm learning

D. It's time well spent if I'm learning the language

E. Computer games always make me feel worn out

F. Though they don't always exactly match what's being said

G. I found them the perfect learning tool because they're usually written in oral language​

Top Poetry Writing Tips

Tip 1: Poetry involves work, rest and play.

It involves hard work, especially in the early stage when you are deciding on the overall form and tone of the poem, and getting the bones of it onto the page. But writing poetry should be a playful activity, too. Have fun playing around with the language, the ideas and the music inside the poem.

Tip 2: Poetry requires both words and silence.

Poetry has been defined as "the best words in their best order". Choose your words carefully for their sounds and meaning.  Just as the white space on the page is needed to shape the pattern of words, so the thoughts that are left unsaid, the pauses and the quiet hints, will add something extra to your poem. If you have created enough solid stepping stones in words and thoughts, then the reader will follow you to the end of the poem.

Tip 3: 

Poets often turn to writing a poem when they experience a strong emotion and have the need to express it. The reading of other people's poetry can also give comfort or a sense that you are not alone in how you are feeling. But be careful not to write your poem with abstract emotions and don't tell your readers how to think or feel.

Tip 4: Writing poetry can be difficult to start and hard to let go.

It is often difficult to know how to start a poem, but the trick is to recognise the beginnings of them, in everyday life. They can start from remembering a funny conversation that you've overheard at the bus stop, yesterday's nightmare, a secret you've been told, or an interesting postcard that you have noticed in a shop. If you catch yourself thinking about something for more than a minute or two, that's when you reach for a pen and some paper and start jotting down(匆匆记下) thoughts, words and phrases.

A. But poetry is also about silence.

B. Writing a good poem rarely comes easily.

C. Don't be afraid of the gaps that you leave.

D. Poetry needs an emotion and a control of it.

E. Poetry sets the scene for readers to step into.

F. Poems don't have to come from exciting events.

G. You must write your feelings and views with passion.