Overseas returnee's costumes of ethnic groups海归设计民族服装

2021-11-23安徽王涛涛

疯狂英语·新悦读 2021年10期

安徽王涛涛

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3To make the ethnic costumes more authentic,Zhong not only referred to historical documents on each ethnic group,but also sought advice on dress-making craftsmanship from cultural heritage inheritors(继承者),as some traditional cloth-making methods and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。