Last Friday, for our weekly event, we watched Peking Opera at the Qingdao Grand Theatre. As a young man from the United States, it was my first time to watch live Peking Opera, and it was special.

    Peking Opera, also known as Beijing Opera, is called “京剧 (Jingju)” in Chinese. It is a traditional Chinese opera and has a history of over 200 years. It is an art form that combines music, vocal performance, dance and acrobatics(杂技). The works of Peking Opera are mainly based on Chinese history and traditional stories and customs.

The performance we watched that night was called Meeting the Queen and Hitting the Dragon Robe (长袍) The story is from a Chinese classic literature. Bao Zheng was one of the most well-known ancient Chinese government officials in Chinese history. One day, he met an old lady on his way back home. The old lady claimed herself as the mother of the emperor and had been set up by others. After checking that the old lady was the emperor's mother, Bao Zheng helped her to get back to the capital and she blamed the emperor for all the misery she had suffered. She ordered Bao Zheng to punish the emperor and Bao Zheng hit the dragon robe instead of hitting the emperor in order to save himself from being punished.

When the opera started, we were amazed by the unique sound made by the musical instruments. They were in perfect cooperation with the singing of the performers. Also, the costumes the performers wore were extremely beautiful and attractive as they have several colours and patterns on each one of them. The performers also "told" the story by their movement. For example, a walk around the stage would mean they took a long trip somewhere. Even though it was kind of hard for us to get used to the music and to follow the story, we were glad that we decided to join the event! We look forward to such an event again. It really helps us know more about Chinese culture.

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"Tum left! Tum right!" In the information technology class, Zhang Ruixuan was controlling a robot to move around. What a wonderful and 1 classroom!

"This is part of our artificial intelligence (AI) courses," said the 10th grader 2 Beijing 101 Middle School. The school 3 Al classes to both junior and senior high school students. Students want to learn more, 4 there are also optional (选修的) courses, apart from compulsory (必修的) courses that teach basic knowledge. That means students have more 5 .

"This term in our compulsory class, we have 6 learned to code (编程) using a programming language called Python," said Zhang. Using Python to code is a 7 skill for training AI models. In recent years, Python has been 8 in high school graduation exams in places like Beijing, Jiangsu and Anhui.

9 , having AI education in schools has become a growing trend in many places, with Zhejiang Province being a typical example. In 2020, Zhejiang added AI 10 into textbooks from Grade 5 in primary school all the way to senior high. In the city of Wenzhou, the government is planning to 11 1,000 AI experimental schools by 2025.

"With the development of 12 , our textbooks have been changing all the time," said ShangVin, an IT teacher from Beijing 101 Middle School. "From typing to using Word and Excel, and then today's coding and AI, the courses are 13 the times and teaching students necessary skills." In the future, there will be more jobs where AI knowledge is 14 . Even in daily life, people may need to understand things like ChatGPT and things on the Internet. "AI education will become increasingly 15 ," Shang added. People are looking forward to more information technology classes.

①A digital(数字的) exhibition can offer more to visitors than traditional museums. Recently, a digital exhibition at the Shanxi Museum showed this to visitors .

②Zhang Shuyue, a student in Taiyuan, loves history and often visits museums. She thinks the digital exhibitions are of great help to visitors if they want to have a quick look at the exhibits before visiting them.

③" You can immediately know where the most valuable exhibit is and what the newest exhibition is at the museum. It makes a visit much easier," said Zhang.

④She added," What the exhibition brings you is not only the simple introduction. It can also give you the details (细节) of every exhibit."

⑤She then closely watched a 3D picture of a bird- shaped bronze utensil(青铜器皿)."I have seen it many times but I couldn't have a close view because it was behind glass, " Zhang said.

⑥" You can use the exhibition as a warm- up to a visit, afterward you can use it to enhance(增强) your memory and understanding of the exhibits," Zhang said." This digital exhibition is a great collection of history and culture."

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