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Hello everybody, and welcome to a new episode of News Bites!
I'm Nancy Sun…
And I'm Ryan Drillsma.
In today's news:
Taiwan's national treasures, a new type of life at sea, and a song you can't get out of your head.
All that and more, coming up next.
台灣新增4名"人間國寶" Four Artists Named National Living Treasures
Four artists have been named "national living treasures" ("人間國寶") .
If someone or something is a national treasure, it means they are very important to the country.
And Taiwan has its own special list of "national living treasures".
People or groups on this list help preserve (保存) Taiwan's culture.
Last week, four new artists have been put on the list.
文化部新增4名「人間國寶」，這四位藝術家是重要傳統工藝保存者。
Yu Li-hai (游禮海) makes art with wood.
He is famous for using both traditional and western styles in his woodworking.
Yu Li-hai's skills make a type of Taiwanese craftsmanship (工藝) that is new and unique.
Chuang Wu-nan (莊武男) has been painting traditional buildings for over 60 years.
He is a master of painting traditional Taoist temples.
Chiang Shi-mei (江賜美) is a puppeteer.
She has been performing with glove puppets in Taiwan for 70 years.
Chiang Shi-mei has her own special style, and can use many different voices for different characters.
She also started Jin Kwei Lo Puppetry Company (真快樂掌中劇團).
And Cheng Rom-shing (鄭榮興) is a Hakka bayin (客家八音) master.
The name bayin, or "eight notes", is for eight things used to make music instruments.
They are metal, stone, string, bamboo, fruit shells, earthenware, animal hide (動物皮毛) and wood.
Cheng Rom-shing learned all about Hakka bayin from his grandfather.
He also started the Rom Shing Hakka Opera Troupe.
The government says these four artists have all helped Taiwan's traditional arts and crafts.
豪華郵輪就是家 Buy a Home… on a Cruise Ship
How would you like to buy a home… on a cruise ship?
A company plans to build a giant cruise ship.
And it will let people pay to make the cruise ship their home.
The homes come in different sizes.
Some homes have one to four bedrooms.
And some even have two floors.
And they cost from about $10,000,000 NT to $220,000,000 NT.
You can buy the home for 12 years, 24 years, or forever.
豪華郵輪上的房屋舒適方便，還能享受濱海景觀。
The company says people who buy homes can also enjoy other parts of the ship.
It says there will be 20 restaurants and places to drink and eat.
There will also be three swimming pools, a library with over 10,000 books, a movie theater, a bowling alley, and a garden and farm.
But after people buy a home on the ship, they also have to pay a "living fee".
The fee can go up to $5,500,000 NT.
That's for food and other things you use on the ship.
The cruise ship will start its first trip around the world in 2024.
The trip will be 1,000 days long.
The ship will stop in many different countries on all six continents.
And the people who live on the ship can sometimes help choose where the ship stops.
For families with children living on the ship, there will be an education program, so they can keep learning.
And there will be doctors, nurses, a pharmacy, and even a post office.
It's a whole new way to live life at sea.
"Baby Shark Dance"成為YouTube首支破百億觀看影片 "Baby Shark Dance" Hits 10 Billion Views
Uh oh…..
Now this song will be stuck in your head all day.
Many people say "Baby Shark Dance" is an earworm.
It's a bit of music that plays in your head over and over again, and it's very hard to stop!
And it looks like "Baby Shark Dance" is unstoppable on YouTube too.
The song has become the only YouTube video to get 10 billion views!
洗腦神曲 "Baby Shark Dance"上個禮拜成為 YouTube 史上第一支點擊破百億的影片。
"Baby Shark Dance" was made by South Korean company Pinkfong in 2016.
And now it's known all over the world.
"Baby Shark Dance" has been made into TV shows, all kinds of toys, a cereal (早餐穀片), and it might have helped a U.S. professional baseball team win games.
Is it still playing in your head?
So, in today's News Bites:
Four artists have been named Taiwan's "national living treasures".
People or groups on this list help preserve (保存) Taiwan's culture.
The government says Yu Li-hai, Chuang Wu-nan, Chiang Shi-mei, and Cheng Rom-shing have all helped Taiwan's traditional arts and crafts.
A company plans to build a giant cruise ship, and let people buy a home on the ship.
You can buy the home for 12 years, 24 years, or forever.
The cruise ship will start its first trip around the world in 2024.
And,
"Baby Shark Dance" has become the only YouTube video to get 10 billion views!
It was made by South Korean company Pinkfong in 2016.
And now it's known all over the world.
And that's today's episode of News Bites!