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Thirty-eight, two stories of Han Xianru

To be honest, this requirement is a bit difficult for ordinary middle school students.   ?

During the debate, proficient in using traditional Chinese language discourse system to accurately express one's meaning, which requires debaters to read ancient classics for a long time, master the ancient vocabulary and sentence structures, proficient in memorizing some famous quotes and famous works, immerse themselves in it, fully enjoy the ancients' thinking and language habits, and finally turn everything into their own on-the-spot scripts. This is a bit like the eight-legged essays made by sages in the Ming and Qing dynasties, just one with a pen and the other with a mouth.

If it is a bit difficult to proficiently use the traditional Chinese discourse system, then the prohibition on the use of Western philosophical terms, conclusions and arguments is almost harsh. Today, when cultural exchanges between the East and the West are becoming increasingly frequent, the terms, conclusions and arguments of Western philosophy have long been spread throughout every corner of daily life, becoming an inseparable part of the language expression of many people. Just like those big Vs, who do not allow votes when chatting and writing articles, do not let votes be raised, democracy, and lighthouse countries, isn’t it equivalent to using ropes to tie their hands and feet and sticking them on their mouths with tape?

To avoid these words in a decisive manner during debates, not only does it require a flexible brain, but also requires long-term targeted training. Otherwise, you will inadvertently violate the ban and be directly sentenced to be eliminated. Therefore, in the first-level selection competition, in many cases, less than ten minutes into the opening, all four players on one side were killed!

Jiang Shuiyuan tried several times during the holidays, and it felt very difficult and awkward. Before each time he spoke, he had to carefully pass all the words in his head. Even so, it was difficult to guarantee that he would not be fouled.

"Very good!" Liu Xinying then asked: "The second question is how well do you master the competition skills of Chinese studies? In other words, if you participate in the competition now, how much chance of winning will you have?"

"God knows!"

"No chance of winning..."

"I don't know the strength of the opponent, how do I know how much chance of winning?"

Having seen the strict rules of the competition, everyone's answers were a little unreasonable. When Liu Xinying heard everyone's low voices, she couldn't help but smile, stared at Jiang Shuiyuan and asked, "Jiang Shuiyuan, how likely do you think you have to win?"

"It's hard to say!" Jiang Shuiyuan was not sure, but he still analyzed objectively: "According to the rules of the competition, the question is announced two hours before the competition, and the draw lots of the positive and negative sides are decided. In other words, the contestants have two hours to prepare. As long as they are well prepared, there should be no big problems in the opening argument of the first part and the summary statement of the last part. The key is to promote the three aspects of improvised statements, the summary of the attack and defense, and the free debate. Not only should we aim at the other party's loopholes and be targeted, but we should also always pay attention to our own words not to violate the rules. It is similar to dancing on the tip of a knife, and if there is a slight mistake, I even feel that these three parts are not about who speaks wonderfully, but about who makes fewer mistakes!"

According to the competition rules, each game is 10 points. Five judges score based on the comprehensive performance of the players on both sides of the positive and negative sides, and then add them to determine the winner or lose. In the first few sessions, the rules of the competition were not perfect. The judges scored based on the overall performance of each team. Many participating teams adopted the "lost the car to protect the coach" strategy, that is, players who performed averagely deliberately left the field in violation of regulations and gave all debate opportunities to the seed players, thereby ensuring the team's victory.

This passionate scene of "Zhuge Liang's verbal battle against scholars" is certainly popular with the audience and has high viewing quality, but it violates the basic principles of the group debate competition. The final competition rules are adjusted to 4 players in each team, each player has 25 points, and the judges score each player. Once the player is sentenced to the game, it is calculated with O points. Under normal circumstances, if two players on one side withdraw from the competition, the other side only needs to ensure that the whole team is present. Even if four of them are stuttering and their words are not smooth, they can still win with a firm victory!

This is what Jiang Shuiyuan means.

"The analysis of Jiang Shuiyuan is very reasonable!" Liu Xinying sincerely praised, "In the first-level selection competition at the government level, it is indeed not that it is more exciting than who says it, but that it is less mistakes. So before the competition, everyone must fully prepare the speeches of the opening and summary of the statements, and then adjust it in time according to the other dialect at the competition site; as for the three aspects of mutual attack, defense summary, and free debate, everyone should think about saying it, don't rush to say it; if you are not sure, you would rather not say it or say it randomly. As long as you don't leave the game and don't be in a cold manner, you can basically qualify in the selection competition!"

"A word by word, it's okay to make a sentence?" Chen Di asked.

Liu Xinying smiled and said, "Okay!"

"Will it be okay to talk about the same thing? Just as the Chief of Foreign Affairs said a few days ago when he answered the House of Representatives' inquiry: As we know, there are some things that we know, and some things that we know, and some things that we should know. We also know some things that we don't know, that is, we know some things that we don't know. But there are some things that we don't know, and we just don't know."

"As long as you have the ability of our diplomatic chief, not to mention slandering, nonsense, clichés, empty talk, and nonsense, there is no problem! But then again, if you have that ability, why bother to participate in the Chinese studies of middle school students? Just go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be a news spokesperson!"

Liu Xinying's words immediately made everyone laugh.

Then she continued: "Of course, the competition skills are not empty words, they must be honed and tested in actual training. After the start of school, we will use our daily activity time for special training. However, before that, we need to solve another problem, which is also the third question I want to ask everyone. What do you think about team formation? For example, are there any unseparable couples, gay friends, or teams that have been agreed upon?"

Everyone looked around at the scene, but no one spoke.

Liu Xinying nodded: "Since everyone has no objection, I will do my own thing and start by roughly dividing everyone into two groups so that they can carry out training in the future. As for the official candidates in the future, I will decide based on everyone's performance in training and their mutual evaluation. The first group is Jiang Shuiyuan, Chen Di, Lu Zongguang, Huang Shuhui, and the second group is Fu Shouzhang, Shi Xuan, Lin Shaoyan, and Zeng Ping. As for who is the main general in the group, who is the second debater, and who is the free agent (fourth debater), you will negotiate and resolve it later. Is there no problem?"

"No problem!" Obviously, there are problems, no one will tell you now.

Liu Xinying suddenly smiled and said with a smile: "Okay, let's enter the second agenda of the meeting. Now, Mr. Han, who was the former principal of Huai'an Prefecture Normal School, served as a judge on Chinese studies for more than ten consecutive terms in the province's middle school students, said a few words to you about some issues that need to be paid attention to in the competition. Welcome!"

"You little girl!" Han Xianru touched Liu Xinying's head indulgently, and then slowly said: "There have been more than 40 years since its establishment. Old man, I have the honor to serve as a judge in more than ten provincial competitions. As for the judges in our competitions, there are countless judges. The ancients said, "I have become a good doctor with three folds of arms." Although I am dull and have never eaten pork, I have always had some insights when I have seen so many pigs running."

"Mr. Han, are you saying we are pigs? We compete for pigs?" Liu Xinying asked in a low voice.

Han Xianru ignored her and continued, "What is the difficulty of Chinese studies? To put it bluntly, we must discuss issues like the ancients. Not only are the issues discussed by the ancients, but the language of speech must also be the ones of the ancients. For you little dolls born in the spring breeze and growing under the red flag, the problems you need to face are exactly these two aspects, that is, the language must be right and the rules of the competition must be violated; the discussion must be answered well, the argument must be clearly established, and the classics must be appropriate."

"Everyone understands the truth, the key is how to do it!" Liu Xinying said with a pout.

Han Xianru stroked his beard and nodded and said, "Yes, the key is how to do it! In addition to hard training, I think there is also a need to pay attention to an understanding. As the saying goes, "Master leads the door, and practices are individuals." This is the truth. The old man below, I will talk about dialogues, answer questions and tell two small stories, hoping to make it clear to everyone. The first story comes from "New Words of the World", which tells the servants of Zheng Xuan, a great scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, like to read books and are well-versed in the Five Classics. Once, Zheng Xuan thought that his maid was not satisfied with his work, so he planned to move.

The maid felt that she was wronged and tried her best to defend herself. At this time, Zheng Xuan was in a bad mood and asked someone to drag her into the mud in the courtyard. Soon another maid passed by and asked in a sentence from "The Book of Songs·Bifeng·Shiwei": "Hu Weihu in the mud?" It means why are you falling in the mud? The unlucky maid immediately answered in "The Book of Songs·Bifeng·Bizhou": "I'm going to be angry when I meet him." It means that I was going to explain it clearly to him, but who knew that it happened to touch him.

"Zheng Xuan was from the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the two maids' questions and answers quoted the Book of Songs written in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. The two were seven or eight hundred years apart. Needless to say, there must be differences in their language habits. But from the text alone, let alone people from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, even people from the Western Zhou Dynasty could accurately understand the meaning and smiled at it. This is the first story I want to tell."

Everyone began to secretly guess what Han Xianru wanted to express.
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