This research examines the evolution of female protagonists in Qing palace dramas, utilizing My Fair Princess, Empresses in the Palace, and Story of Yanxi Palace as case studies, to explore how their transforming archetypes reflect broader societal shifts. Through textual and case analysis, the study identifies a clear trajectory from Xiao Yanzi’s archetype of the Innocent Rebel, whose instinctual defiance resonated with the post-reform era’s optimism and yearning for individuality, to Zhen Huan’s archetype of the Tragic Strategist, whose calculated adaptation and moral compromise mirrored early 21st-century anxieties about hyper-competition and institutional power. Finally, the archetype culminates in Wei Yingluo’s Proactive Conqueror, whose efficient, assertive agency and mastery of the system align with the digital age's "shuang" culture and a modern, competence-based model of female empowerment. This progression from challenging rules to mastering and redefining them demonstrates how these popular narratives function as a cultural barometer, chronicling the evolving psyche, gender norms, and social consciousness of Chinese society over two decades.

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This study examines the effects of recreational screen time on sleep quality and perceived stress levels. The duration of mobile phone use was defined as a key predictor variable to more accurately and systematically assess its association with a range of critical health outcomes. Using a mixed-methods approach that combines self-reported survey measures and objective passive detection data, the researchers identified statistically significant and meaningful correlations between this prolonged exposure to the screen and several adverse health indicators. Specifically, increased screen time was robustly and strongly associated with significantly elevated stress and further accompanied by impaired stress regulation, thus leading to reduced outdoor activity time exhibited a greater individual variability across participants. Overall, the findings suggest that excessive recreational screen exposure may disrupt healthy daily behavioral routines, reduce crucial opportunities for physical engagement, and contribute to cumulative psychological strain, underscoring the critical importance of balanced digital usage for individuals' overall well-being.

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Phonological awareness, also referred to as phonemic awareness, means that children are able to identify and manipulate the sound structure of words, which is the most reliable factor predicting the effectiveness of young children’s early reading learning. Because it is important to teach literacy, Chinese character recognition, and form consciousness during the primary school lower grades, the article summarizes the impact of phonological awareness teaching on students’ reading, and attempts to discover this through a literature overview and a comprehensive case study. According to the literature review part, the relationship between phonological awareness and acquisition of reading ability has been confirmed to be close; among them, training phoneme skills like separation and synthesis is especially helpful for the decoding ability and reading smoothness of students. It can be seen through the cases that students had experienced remarkable improvements after the intervention of phonological awareness training in decoding skills or reading fluency. This paper argues that the earliest stage of teaching children to read and write is Phonological awareness. The author proposes suggestions based on this article that teachers may give systematic phonological awareness training and teaching activities for students in normal lessons to help children learn to read better. This research can be extended to subject field in future investigations of phonological awareness interventions on the reading abilities of children.

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With the continuous evolution of high technology, digital technology is profoundly reshaping the form of documentaries and the connotation of their "authenticity." In an era dominated by "simulacra," interactive documentaries have constructed a new representation of "authenticity" through the innovative application of digital technology. This study takes Baudrillard's theory of "simulacra" as its starting point and uses case analysis and textual analysis to explore how interactive documentaries construct "authenticity" in the context of digital media. The study finds that, unlike traditional documentaries that rely on "objective reproduction," interactive documentaries construct a sense of authenticity through three dimensions: "data authenticity," "perceptual authenticity," and "algorithmic authenticity," presenting a more complex and diverse picture. While possessing social and open aspects, it is also necessary to remain vigilant against algorithmic manipulation and technological ethics. Overall, the authenticity of interactive documentaries has transcended the "reproduction" of images, moving towards a process of co-construction between the audience and the media, and the social function of documentaries has been expanded to a deeper level.

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