There are some special traditions in Hawaii. People there are very friendly and always welcome visitors. They give visitors a lei, a long necklace of beautiful fresh flowers. Men wear bright flowered shirts, and women often wear long flowered dresses.
     In Hawaii you may find some traditional Chinese  Japanese and Philippine holidays  Of course  many holidays are from the United States. People call Hawaii the Aloha State. Aloha means both “hello” and “good--bye”. It also means “I love you ”.
     Usually when people from different countries, races or traditions lives together, there are serious problems. But in Hawaii there are few problems, people have learned to live together in peace.
     Hawaiians earn most of their money from tourists, most of whom come from the mainland and from Japan. The families of the first people who came from the U.S. mainland own the important banks and companies. Japanese are  also starting business and buying more and more land.

In a hanfu show in Changsha, Hunan, 20 models in beautiful hanfu won many people's hearts. They looked like they walked out of old Chinese paintings. The 20 sets of hanfu are a recreation(再现)of clothing in Yongle Palace murals (壁画). Zhang Zening made these clothes. 

Zhang Zening is from Nanjing. When she got to know about hanfu, she fell in love with it. She has great interest in hanfu. But Zhang found that some styles she liked were not available on the market. So she started to learn to design(设计) hanfu herself. 

In 2015, Zhang started to teach herself how to recreate hanfu. Zhang visited cities, studied museum murals and looked for information online to learn more about hanfu. Eight years later, Zhang recreated over 50 sets of hanfu from different times. She got ideas from murals in places like Yongle Palace in Shanxi, Fahai Temple in Beijing, Dunhuang in Gansu, and from paintings by Tang Bohu. 

The work is not     ▲     because Zhang always tries to make the clothes the same as those in murals and paintings. It takes about a month to recreate each hanfu set. In Zhang's eyes, recreating hanfu is not just about making a piece of clothing; it's also about learning about traditional Chinese culture. It helps her understand people from earlier times. Zhang finds it exciting to learn about the traditional culture. 

Many players at the Olympics represent(代表) their countries. However, some players cannot do this because they are refugees. Refugees are people who had to leave their home countries because of war, problems, or being treated badly. There are more refugees now than before.

 To help these players, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) made a special team for refugees. This team started in 2016 to let refugees take part in the Olympics. They don't represent any country, but they can still win medals.

 The refugee team first played in the 2016 Olympics in Rio. They also took part in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2024 Paris Olympics.

 This year, the team had 37 players from 11 countries. They showed that more than 100 million people around the world who had to leave their homes could still do great things. In Paris, they played in 12 different sports like swimming, running, badminton, boxing, and more.

 The IOC President said that even though these players didn't have a flag or a national anthem(国歌), they were welcomed at the Olympics with the Olympic flag and song. They showed that people could be strong and do well even in difficult situations. This gave hope to many people who had to leave their homes.