II.Fill in each blank with a word from the box.
leaves long North artists printed decoration layer talk
Dong Ho Painting is a kind of Vietnamese (1) ...............painting originating in Dong Ho Village, Bac Ninh Province. Dong Ho paintings have about 300 years of history in the (2) ............ of Vietnam.
Dong Ho pictures are (3) ..............on a special kind of Dzo paper. The printing paper is made of bark of a tree called “Dzo”. Colours of the painting are refined from various kinds of tree (4)............, which people can easily find in Vietnam. Traditional (5)................use all-natural colours for their pictures: burnt bamboo leaves for black, cajuput leaves for green, copper rust for blue, etc. The painting is covered by a (6)............of sticky rice paste to protect the painting and their colours. They are so (7)................lasting, so that it is very difficult to make them dimmer even time or daylight.
Vietnamese people used to buy Dong Ho pictures for (8)................during Tet.
1. talk
2. north
3. printed
4. leaves
5. artists
6. layer
7. long
8. decoration
