Overseas returnee's costumes of ethnic groups

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1Zhong Yetang,a post-95s girl from East China's Zhejiang Province,has made elegant costumes of the country's 56 ethnic groups and displayed them in a video she made herself to show the charm of Chinese clothing culture to more people.

2It took Zhong two years to design and create the stunning attire(极美的服装)of China's ethnic groups after she returned from the US,where she got her Bachelor's degree at the University of California,Berkeley and her Master's degree at the Johns Hopkins University.

3To make the ethnic costumes more authentic,Zhong not only referred to historical documents on each ethnic group,but also sought advice on dress-making craftsmanship from cultural heritage inheritors(继承者),as some traditional cloth-making methods and fabrics(织物)are China's cultural heritage items.After designing the clothes,she entrusted(委托)the job of producing them to a local garment factory.

4Zhong was most impressed by the difficulty involved in making fish skin clothes of the Hezhe people,one of the groups with the smallest population in China.“After peeling the fish skin off,Hezhe people used to dye it with different colors using a special processing method,”said Zhong.However,she eventually employedalternativefabrics to make Hezhe clothes,as fish skin is gradually being replaced by silk and cloth and there aren't many people left who know how to make clothes with fish skin.

5Zhong said that while studying abroad,she found that her foreign classmates were very interested in Chinese culture,such as the 12 Chinese zodiac signs(十二生肖),and asked her what Chinese zodiac signs corresponded with the year they were born.

6This experience motivated her to design ethnic Chinese costumes and spread traditional Chinese culture through videos.“I want to fully explore traditional Chinese culture with my limited ability to let more and more people better understand traditional Chinese culture and China,”Zhong said.

Reading Check

I.Choose the best answers according to the text.

Detail

1.Why did Zhong design costumes of China's 56 ethnic groups?

A.To get Bachelor's and Master's degrees.

B.To display the stunning attire in a video.

C.To spread Chinese clothing culture.

D.To learn from cultural heritage inheritors.

Vocabulary

2.What does the underlined word “alternative” in paragraph 4 probably mean?

A.Traditional. B.Optional. C.Different. D.Similar.

Inference

3.From where is the text probably taken?

A.A travel guide. B.A history journal.

C.A culture magazine. D.A biography.

Ⅱ.Discussion

What made Zhong successful in the design and creation of the costumes of China's ethnic groups?Give your reasons and find evidence from the text.

Language Study

I.Analyze the difficult structure in the text

Zhong was most impressed by the difficulty involved in making fish skin clothes of the Hezhe people,one of the groups with the smallest population in China.制作中国人口最少的民族之一的赫哲族的鱼皮服时遇到的困难给钟也棠留下了最深刻的印象。

【点石成金】be most impressed by是被动语态，意为 “印象最深的是”,the difficulty是先行词，involved in making fish skin clothes of the Hezhe people为定语，修饰the difficulty。one of the...in China为同位语解释说明Hezhe people。

Ⅱ.Memorize some text-centered chunks

56 ethnic groups 56个民族

return from从……返回

Bachelor's degree学士学位

Master's degree硕士学位

be most impressed by印象最深的是

involve in 参与；涉及

be replaced by被……所取代

correspond with符合；一致

more and more越来越多

Cutural Background

赫哲族和鱼皮衣

赫哲族世代居住在中国东北乌苏里江、黑龙江、松花江沿岸地带，是我国唯一以捕鱼、狩猎为主要谋生手段的民族，也是唯一能用“鱼皮”缝制衣服的民族，史称“鱼皮部”。赫哲族有语言，无文字，是我国人口较少的民族之一。

“鱼皮衣”是赫哲民族服饰中最具特色的服饰，也是识别这一民族的标志。鱼皮衣并没有用特定的鱼皮，就地取材即可。鱼捕捞上来后先剥鱼皮，然后将其阴干，去肉脂除鳞，鞣制鱼皮，最后再将其拼缝成大块鱼皮布。现在鱼皮衣已成为珍藏的工艺品。