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Change Ubuntu 16.04 default Chinese font

Ubuntu Xenial(16.04) uses the “Noto Sans CJK“ font for CJK language including Chinese by default. However, this font is ugly for Chinese characters. To change it, do the following steps(from here and here):

Added on 2017-10-23: This issue also exists on Ubuntu 17.10 and the fix here works as well.

Added on 2018-05-16: This issue also exists on Ubuntu 18.04 and the fix here works as well.