Have you ever tasted or perhaps heard of sugar painting? As fewer people choose to make sugar paintings, the traditional Chinese folk craft might have become a (distance) memory in some ways. However, a 38-year-old craftsman, Li Jiangzhong, is devoted to (keep) the art of sugar painting alive.
Li worked as a miner for more than ten years. After the mine closed down, Li turned housing decoration until he (force) to give that up due to a finger injury. Earlier this year, he discovered sugar painting, something he really had interest in.
Since there was no sugar painting craftsman in his village, he studied by (he) through large quantities of videos and information on the Internet. Li loved painting when he was young, and he found it easy to learn the skill in sugar painting. He soon mastered the skill and could make (vary) of sugar paintings. A sugar painting is made with (melt) brown or white sugar. Craftsman (basic) paint animals and flowers on a stone board with the syrup (糖浆). When the sugar cools down, appears is a piece of sugar art.
In a remote village, selling chestnuts was the main source of livelihood for local villagers. In late autumn, the hills were covered by the trees and chestnuts were 1 from the branches of the trees, which 2 with the wind attracting local villagers to 3 them at this time of year.
The villagers took the chestnuts, carried them home and 4 them out. The whole family sifted (筛) and sorted them according to their 5, and then transported them to the city for wholesale or retail. Every villager knew that if they wanted to sell for a good price, what really 6 was to send the selected chestnuts to the market first. Many families, which were short of 7, would go to the nearby villages to hire workers with high 8.
Still, to many people's 9, there was a young man in the village who could never need help, 10 he had limited hands. He lived with his blind and old mother. He always arrived at the market one step ahead of the other ones 11 he could sell out of all the chestnuts and then happily drove back with his truck 12.
The secret of the young man was: after picking chestnuts, he put them 13 into a sack (麻袋) and carried them to the truck. When he set out, he chose the road, 14 and bumpy (不平的), to go, 15 the small ones would jump to the 16 of the bag and the larger ones would stay on the top of the bag. It would save time for classification and selection. When inquired how he found the way, the young man 17: "If you put your heart into it, you will find the right way. This is not an accident but a(n) 18 result."
There will always be people who get 19 or complain when they hear bad news. As a matter of fact, if you use your head, you will be 20 to the people and things in the environment. When you turn your mind into action to move forward step by step, you can also create a new world for yourself.
