"Principal Lu, is this difficult?" Seeing that Lu Chaoge was still reluctant to agree, Matsushima Ji asked again.
She spoke English, which was not a problem for Lu Chaoge who had studied in the United States.
It's not difficult, it's very difficult.
Before the Wu Ren inspection team arrived, the school was worried that Fang Yan would do something again that would affect the school's reputation. The board of directors and management specially entrusted Lu Chaoge and Fang Yan to negotiate and appease Comrade Fang Yan.
Now, Fang Yan remained quiet, but the Wu Ren inspection team came to him on their own initiative.
Lu Chaoge knew that if she agreed to Matsushima Ji's request, things would develop in an uncontrollable direction.
Even though she was the vice-principal of Suzaku Middle School and thought she had a pretty good relationship with Fang Yan----but if Fang Yan was determined to do something, then she would not be able to stop him.
She couldn't say no, because the more she refused, the more it would arouse the curiosity of Matsushima Ji and these students.
Besides, the two schools are friendly schools. When the teacher of Suzaku Junior High School led a team to visit Wu Ren, Wu Ren did his best and did not hide anything. If Suzaku Junior High School kept it secret, it would affect the relationship between the two schools.
They will ask, what are you afraid of
"No problem." Lu Chaoge agreed with a smile. "Of course, I need to communicate with Teacher Fang Yan."
Matsushima Ji laughed and said, "That's what I should do."
She said in Japanese to the teachers and students who came with the group: "Dear teachers and students, I propose to go in and sit in on a Chinese class. Does anyone have any objections?"
"No." The students of Wuren High School answered with a smile. Their voices were in unison and very soft. They would not disturb the normal classes of Class 9 and the surrounding classes.
Lu Chaoge stood at the door of the classroom and said, "Teacher Fang Yan, I have something to discuss with you."
Fang Yan walked up to Lu Chaoge and said, "Principal Lu, what's the matter?"
"Behind me are teachers and students from Toyo Takehito High School. They are very interested in you and want to sit in on a class in your classroom," said Lu Chaoge.
"You're interested in me?" Fang Yan smiled. "Principal Lu must be very worried, right?"
"Fang Yan-----" Lu Chaoge was furious.
"I listened to you and stayed quiet and did nothing." Fang Yan was ordered by the school to be "calm", and he was very angry. Now that he got the chance, he would not give up easily. Although his sarcasm could only make Lu Chaoge and others feel uncomfortable, Fang Yan would feel much more comfortable when he thought about their discomfort. After all, Lu Chaoge represented Suzaku Middle School before and now. "Now they take the initiative to come to us to cause trouble-----"
"They're not looking for trouble, they're just eavesdropping." Lu Chaoge spoke out, ignoring Fang Yan's venomous tongue.
"I understand." Fang Yan nodded. "But if anything goes wrong, I will not be responsible."
"What will happen?"
"I'm so handsome, what should I do if their teachers or students confess their love to me?"
"You think too much." Lu Chaoge didn't want to talk to Fang Yan any more. Song Daoji and the others were still waiting nearby. Although Song Daoji didn't speak Chinese well, there were many translators who were proficient in Chinese in the delegation. Because of the long-term exchanges between the two schools, some students were also very familiar with Chinese. If they heard the conversation between the two, it would be such an embarrassing thing. "It's decided. You make the arrangements."
Lu Chaoge turned and walked towards Matsushima Ji, saying, "Teacher Fang Yan said that he would very much welcome the Wu Ren delegation to come and listen."
"Thank you." Matsushima Ji said. She walked to Fang Yan again and said in unstandard Chinese: "Thank you, Teacher Fang."
"You are a guest from afar." Fang Yan smiled. He made an inviting gesture and said, "Please come in."
The Wu Ren delegation had 20 students, plus five teachers including Matsushima Ki, for a total of 25 people. Because Matsushima Ki was the vice principal of Wu Ren Senior High School, according to the principle of reciprocity, Vice Principal Lu Chaoge was responsible for all reception work at Suzaku Middle School.
There were suddenly more than thirty people in the classroom, so there were definitely not enough tables and chairs.
Fang Yan thought for a moment and said, "Male students, please give up your chairs and let the ladies use them, okay?"
"No need." Matsushima Ji heard Fang Yan's words clearly and stopped him, saying, "We are just auditors and cannot affect the normal classes of our classmates. We can just stand in the back row----"
Fang Yan smiled and said, "You have your ideas, and we have our own ways. China is a country of etiquette for thousands of years, and Chinese men are brave and generous gentlemen. How can we sit down and let the guests who come from afar stand?"
The boys responded immediately and pulled out the chairs from under their buttocks and placed them in front of the ladies from the Wu Ren inspection group and the Suzaku Middle School reception group.
Matsushima Ji couldn't help but glance at Fang Yan Gao, thinking, regardless of whether this young teacher has talent or not, he is very good in dealing with people.
Because of historical reasons, the people of China and Japan have conflicts. Fang Yan suggested that the students give up their seats because they are guests from afar. In addition, he specifically pointed out that Chinese men are brave and generous gentlemen, and put bravery before generosity. The subtext is that we will beat you when we should, but we will not let people despise us when we pay attention to etiquette.
These guests from Japan were very self-disciplined. The girls who got seats automatically walked to the aisles and lined up one by one. The boys who didn't have seats stood side by side by the wall according to their height, without saying a word and with a proper attitude, as if they had undergone special training.
After everyone settled down, Fang Yan continued his lecture and said, "There is a saying that goes like this: the beauty of knowledge lies in confusing people. The beauty of poetry lies in inciting men and women to cheat - this is a joke, but it can also be true. Why is poetry said to incite men and women to cheat? It is because it is implicit and hazy, and people's hearts beat fast without realizing it. It can touch the shock of the spiritual soul and integrate into the myriad of secular society."
Fang Yan looked at the students in the audience and said with a smile: "At your age, have you ever been moved by a love poem? Have you ever been conquered by a poem? Have you ever thought about writing a love poem for the person you like? I don't need you to answer this question. I know you must have thought about it."
The students in the audience laughed.
At their best age, when they meet the most beautiful you, how could they be content with mediocrity and refuse to confess their love
They have fantasies about love and regard it as the most important thing in life. They are willing to do all kinds of crazy things for their other half.
Fighting with a love rival in a bar, riding a motorcycle on the road until late at night, sitting in the park on a winter night, shivering with cold, unwilling to separate, saving pocket money for half a year just to buy the other person's favorite birthday gift, walking hand in hand through one street after another without buying anything-----
Maybe it will seem silly when they grow up, but now they feel sweet to the core when they think about it.
Youth is like poetry, and they also use youth to write poetry.
"From ancient times to the present, our predecessors have left us a rich treasure of poetry." Fang Yan glanced at the whole audience, and recited with emotion: "Tearful eyes ask the flowers but the flowers are silent, the scattered red flowers fly over the swing. Tenderness is like water, the good time is like a dream, but I can't help looking back at the Magpie Bridge on the way home. If the love between two people is long-lasting, why should we be together day and night? I live at the head of the Yangtze River, you live at the tail of the Yangtze River, I miss you every day but I can't see you, we drink the water of the Yangtze River together-----vividly, thousands of years later, it seems that the beautiful scenery is still in front of us."
Fang Yan looked at the students in the audience with a smile and said, "Which poem is your favorite? Or which line?"
"I have been separated from my friends for ten years by life and death. I can never forget them without even thinking about them." A student answered.
"I searched for him among the crowd for hundreds of times. When I turned around, he was there, standing in the dimly lit area." Someone else answered.
"Flowers fall and water flows, one kind of lovesickness, two kinds of idle worries-----"
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Every student has a most beautiful poem in his heart, so everyone answered very actively. Qin Yitian was absent from class, and more than 30 of the 40 students in Class 9 answered this question.
After reading it, Matsushima Ki nodded secretly and thought that the teacher’s lectures were not boring and were able to stimulate students’ participation. This young teacher did a great job.
Some students can understand Chinese and can directly feel the artistic conception and beauty of the poems that Fang Yan is talking about.
There are also some students whose Chinese is not very good, so they can only rely on translation to help.
Of course, although the translator understands the language conversion, due to the limitations of cultural level or insufficient understanding of poetry, the effect of translation into Japanese will naturally be greatly reduced.
As the class was about to end, Fang Yan allowed students to ask questions freely.
A middle-aged man with thinning hair stood up and said in fluent Chinese: "Hello, teacher. I am Fujino Saburo, a Chinese studies teacher at Takehito University. I was deeply moved by your talk about the beauty of poetry. Chinese culture has a long history. Tang poetry and Song lyrics can be heard in every corner of the world."
"What I don't understand is that the Chinese people have such a long history of culture and have produced so many outstanding sages, why do we have such a strange saying now?"
"What?" Fang Yan asked with a smile. Someone is here to cause trouble? With this thought in mind, he unconsciously glanced at Lu Chaoge who was sitting in the back row.
"Tang Dynasty culture is in Japan, Ming Dynasty culture is in South Korea, and Republic of China culture is in Taiwan." Fujino Saburo adjusted his glasses and said with a smile. "Why is there such a saying? Could it be that the Chinese people are unwilling to inherit the excellent culture left by their ancestors?"
(PS: I was moved by your love letters, even though they were not written to me. I know that everyone has a unique love in their heart.) (To be continued)