Woodblock painting（木版画）are often hung at homes during the Chinese Lunar New Year.

    For many Chinese, the bright-colored paintings are quite time-limited. As soon as the festival comes to an end, these print works are at once thrown away. ____, these short-lives New Year paintings require a year of hard work by the artists, many of ____ have devoted their entire life to this traditional folk art.

    Yang Luoshu, a 92-year-old man from Weifang City, Shandong Province, is ____ those who have had a great love of the art. Yang has worked as ____ craftsman for 77 years, and has kept improving his carving skills with every piece of work.

    Yangjiabu New Year woodblock paintings, which Yang has fallen in love with, ____(appear) in the Ming Dynasty. As a national cultural heritage, it is now one of China's three ____(representative) of traditional folk paintings for the New Year, together with Tianjin's Yangliuqing and Suzhou's Taohuawu.

    ____(run) a centuries-old folk art family workshop named Tongshunde, Yang has carved all kinds of images, including flowers, birds, mountains, rivers and traditional Chinese gods. But he realizes that something must be changed ____(make) sure handmade New Year paintings live on. “We are now thinking about development, allowing the paintings to be more ____(create).” he said. For him, the next thing to do is to find qualified successors to ensure that the skills ____(pass) to younger generations.