About twenty minutes later, Shen Xian also got his number, No. 108.
After a while, the staff counted the numbers and announced: "Today, a total of 191 numbers were issued. This means that there are 191 participants in this literary gathering, an increase of more than 80 people compared to the previous gathering!"
This number of people was something many people did not expect.
And this is just the number of people who took numbers, and does not include the number of people who formed teams.
Teams are allowed in this literary competition.
Under the name of one number, there are at least three or four people working together to form a think tank and write poetry together.
For example, some people are good at writing poems about objects, while others are good at writing graceful poems. They cannot predict the judges' ideas. If some judges ask tricky questions, they can discuss and ponder them together to get high scores.
Moreover, each judge can only give a poem one point at most. There are nine judges in total, which means that a poem can get a maximum of nine points.
There is no way to advance with nine points, so you can only write another poem. If the second poem also gets nine points, that would be eighteen points.
Usually people from the poetry association of each province form a team together.
The staff then explained the process of this literary meeting in detail.
It is divided into four stages.
The first stage is the audition stage, and everyone can scan the QR code to submit their works.
First, use your mobile phone to scan the QR code on the big screen on the first floor, then enter your number and dynamic password, and then enter your own poems into the mobile phone, and your poems will be displayed on the big screen.
The judges will see it and start scoring.
Once the score reaches the requirement, you will enter the next stage.
The judges began to randomly select questions from the question bank, asked everyone to start writing poems, and then gave scores.
Once the standards are met, we enter the third stage.
The judges will ask questions again through the screen, using the "Flying Flowers" method. This will test everyone's on-the-spot performance and ability to improvise poetry.
After passing this level, you will enter the fourth stage.
The fourth stage is also the most difficult because it is the stage of couplet poetry!
There are nine judges in total. Even if each of them only says one sentence, they have to match eighteen sentences. If each of them says two sentences, that would be thirty-six sentences.
The previous champion Zhang Hongting's team was defeated in the tenth sentence, but they also became famous.
If you can cheat by guessing the topic in the first and second stages, then the flying flower orders in the third stage and the couplet poems in the fourth stage are the hell stages!
What is tested is the ability to perform on the spot and the ability to improvise poetry.
You can predict the topics for both the first and second stages, and the topics have been announced long ago. They are nothing more than writing poems and songs around Dongting Lake and Yueyang Tower.
The Feihualing in literary gatherings requires complete originality, which means that it requires a vast reserve of knowledge and the ability to improvise poetry.
In the last session, four people from Zhang Hongting's team flew three theme words and lost a total of 18 sentences.
"I'll give you five minutes. Those who need to form teams should do so as soon as possible. After five minutes, we'll start giving questions," said the host.
Soon, many people gathered in groups of three or five and started to form teams.
As the champion of the previous session, Zhang Hongting naturally became the target of others' alliance.
"Professor Zhang, you are here alone this year, right? Do you want to join our provincial poetry association and form a team together?"
"Professor Zhang, please team up with us this year. We have prepared a lot of poems this year, and we will definitely win."
Many people found Zhang Hongting and talked to him very politely.
Because Zhang Hongting is very capable and has been very active in the literary world for many years.
The Internet also holds ancient poetry competitions every year, and Zhang Hongting basically participates in them and has published quite a few poems.
But Zhang Hongting just smiled and refused. He knew the strength of the poetry associations in various provinces, and there were no particularly outstanding figures among them.
Soon, many people formed teams, and only Shen Xian stood there alone, looking around.
Zhang Hongting suddenly saw Chen Xian. Seeing Chen Xian alone, he felt that he looked familiar.
I remembered that I had met him once on a plane. He was sitting in front of me, and there was a very beautiful girl sitting next to him.
On the plane, he and Chen Xian exchanged a few words. He had a very good impression of Chen Xian, thinking that he was polite, modest and gentle, and had a gentle literary temperament.
So he came over and asked, "Don't you have a team?"
Shen Xian smiled and nodded: “Yes, old sir, I have not joined any poetry association, nor do I know anyone.”
He suddenly recalled the scene when he first attended a literary gathering. At that time, it was organized by the County Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Just like Chen Xian now, he was alone.
I was a little nervous and confused at the time, and many people were laughing at me.
Just like today's leisure.
"Do you like poetry culture?" Zhang Hongting asked.
If one can come to a literary gathering alone, it is either because he or she comes purely to join in the fun, or because he or she really loves poetry.
Shen Xian smiled: “It’s okay.”
Zhang Hongting nodded: "Then do you want to team up with me?"
Shen Xian was stunned. Facing Zhang Hongting's kindness, he naturally would not refuse, so he asked: "Will it hinder the old man?"
Zhang Hongting smiled and waved his hand: "No, I need a teammate to help me input it on my phone anyway."
Just as Shen Xian was about to agree, a gorgeous-looking woman came over, followed by two young men wearing expensive and trendy brand clothes.
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