Li Lechen was also glad that he changed his wording to "dictation," because if he had said "memorization," it would have been embarrassing if he encountered unfamiliar characters.

You know, there are really many characters in those ridiculously difficult ancient Chinese texts that I don't recognize.

"Should I recite it from memory at my seat or go to the blackboard?"

Li Lechen once again made a high-profile appearance.

The Chinese teacher originally only planned to have him recite a passage from memory, but the teacher had no reason to refuse the student's additional request.

"Then let's write it down from memory on the blackboard, which will also be a good opportunity for everyone to review."

Just as Li Lechen walked towards the blackboard, Liu Yu also stood up: "Teacher, I also want to participate in reciting 'Ode to the Red Cliff' from memory."

That's right, Liu Yu felt he couldn't fall behind Li Lechen in what he could do.

Before entering No. 2 High School, he knew that the school emphasized science over humanities, while he belonged to the well-rounded type. Especially since he was born into a family of magicians, his observation and memory skills were unmatched by ordinary people. Although he couldn't read ten lines at a glance and remember everything he read, he wouldn't forget anything he seriously memorized in a short period of time.

The Chinese teacher felt that this was a bit too much; it was the first time he had ever encountered students vying to recite a classical poem that was difficult even to memorize.

Could it be that the humanities are about to rise in popularity at No. 2 High School?

Absolutely! Those who excel in Chinese will excel in the college entrance examination! This is a profound saying he repeatedly repeats.

During this Chinese class, while the teacher was emphasizing the importance of classical Chinese, the top students were either working on math problems or challenging science problems. Zhou Mi, in particular, was finalizing the theoretical proof for the experiment she had been conducting for the past two days.

But when Li Lechen and Liu Yu both said they would go on stage to recite classical Chinese texts from memory, everyone's attention was drawn to them.

It's lively, and everyone enjoys watching it.

Before Li Lechen, Liu Yu took a few big strides to the blackboard, picked up the chalk, and began to write furiously.

After watching for a while, in just over ten seconds, Liu Yu had silently uttered more than a dozen words.

"Teacher, I don't want to do the same dictation as him," Li Lechen suddenly said.

Liu Yu was suddenly stunned.

“I can’t write as fast as him, otherwise it will look like I’m copying his work,” Li Lechen explained.

Very sincere, and makes a lot of sense.

Reciting poems from memory is not about speed, but about memory. The Chinese teacher also thought Li Lechen's explanation was very reasonable.

"Which passage are you going to recite from memory?" the Chinese teacher asked, seemingly out of nowhere.

Li Lechen twitched his lips. The large glasses on his nose seemed somewhat mismatched with his fair and delicate skin.

Shouldn't the teacher be the one to set the questions?

The Chinese teacher was a little embarrassed after speaking, so he took out a book of classical Chinese texts and started flipping through it.

He should choose the most difficult one for Li Lechen to memorize, so he specifically chose the longest and most in-depth one to look at.

The Memorial to the Throne on the Eve of the Northern Expedition? It's over six hundred characters long, which is quite long. However, the whole text is easy to recite and has a profound meaning, so many top students can memorize it after reading it a few times, making it not too difficult.

Mencius's "Fish, What I Desire"? This text is extremely long and very difficult to memorize, with so many points of knowledge that each sentence can be explained in great detail.

However, if we're talking about poems that are difficult to memorize, the Chinese language teacher thinks "The Song of Everlasting Regret" must be included. How so? It's not a very long poem, and it's not particularly difficult to memorize, but based on over a decade of teaching experience, he knows that this ancient poem is very difficult to memorize entirely. The whole poem is easily confused; you memorize one line, but then you don't know the next.

Li Lechen deeply understands this. Memorizing a poem with many lines missing, yet still managing to connect the fragments, is truly terrifying. When Li Lechen was in a regular class, reciting this text was either a struggle of mixing up the parts or a jumbled mess of information; it was utterly frustrating. Even though he clearly remembered it all, it was toxic!

However, the Chinese teacher still skipped this article.

"Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng" is not required to be memorized in the textbook, but as a classic classical Chinese text, students are required to memorize the entire text.

This classical Chinese text is truly terrifying; even language teachers have a lingering fear of it.

Not only are the articles extremely long, but they also contain many rare characters and mostly four-character idioms, making them very difficult to memorize.

According to Chinese language teachers, "Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng" is the most difficult classical Chinese text to memorize, no, it is definitely the most difficult to recite from memory, without exception.

In comparison, "Ode to the Red Cliff" pales in comparison.

While the Chinese teacher was flipping through this collection of classical Chinese texts, Li Lechen was also looking at it from the side. When he noticed that the teacher's gaze lingered on the "Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng," Li Lechen adjusted his glasses.

"Teacher, you don't mean you want me to recite this from memory, do you?" The tone was innocent.

"This isn't a required text, but your Chinese teacher probably made you memorize it, right?"

"I've almost forgotten it..."

"Then perhaps..."

"...We can only give it a try."

After saying that, Li Lechen picked up a piece of chalk from the podium and began to write on the other side of the blackboard.

Yuzhang, the old prefecture, and Hongdu, the new capital, are located in the constellations of Wing and Chariot, bordering Heng and Lu...

As expected, having memorized it, he still had some recollection of it. Although he was just copying, Li Lechen felt deeply moved.

I recall the anxiety I felt when I was memorizing this text, and the painful experience of being punished by having to copy the entire text five times because I couldn't get away with it when I recited it to Lin Tiantian.

However, now that he had glasses that could take pictures, Li Lechen copied without even thinking.

On the other hand, although Liu Yu initially relied on his memory to quickly write down the words, the difficulty of doing so quickly and accurately increased as the game progressed, causing him to slow down his writing.

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