Chapter 1108: Various Schools of Thought
The rules of "Poetry Meeting" are very simple. In each issue, there are 5 contestants competing on the same stage. The first one among the 5 will challenge the champion of the previous issue. If he wins, he will become the champion of this issue; if he loses, the champion of the previous issue will continue to be re-elected.
Therefore, as the champion, Xiong Jie did not appear at the beginning. After showing his cheerleading team, five new challengers came on stage amid applause from the audience, and the three poetry judges took their positions.
The host first introduced the five newcomers. They were of different ages and genders, from different cities across the country, and engaged in various industries. Among them, a man named Wang Daoxin left a deep impression on Liu. Because the host asked him why he came to participate in this program, he said, "My goal is to defeat Xiong Jie, end his winning streak, and become the new champion!"
After he finished speaking, half of the audience applauded and cheered him, while the other half booed him for overestimating his abilities. Wang Daoxin, who spoke arrogantly, was not affected by the boos at all. He looked confident in front of the camera, and he was obviously well prepared! The host just introduced him as a doctor of literature and history, and he is also a top student. He does have the capital to be arrogant.
In fact, tens of thousands of people across the country sign up to participate in the "Poetry Conference" every day. The five contestants in each issue are selected after rigorous assessment, and their knowledge reserves in poetry are definitely the best among the crowd.
To increase the topic, the camera immediately switched to Xiong Jie's waiting room in the backstage, and the host asked Xiong Jie, "Are you scared by Wang Daoxin's challenge letter?"
Xiong Jie crossed his arms and laughed disdainfully, "He's not challenging, he's just provoking."
Liu? was surprised. The Xiong Jie on TV looked even crazier and more confident than Wang Daoxun. He was completely different from the one in school. Perhaps it was the nine consecutive wins and his talent and accomplishment that gave him the confidence to look down on everyone.
Liu pointed at Xiong Jie and said to Lina, "He was my classmate in college."
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Lina looked at him carefully and concluded, "He's quite handsome!" She looked serious, and it didn't seem like she was talking nonsense or complimenting him. Xiong Jieren wasn't here, so who was she complimenting him to? !
Then she really thinks Xiong Jie is handsome. Foreigners have different aesthetics for Asians. Some people are severely face-blind, while others regard the ugliest as the most beautiful. Similarly, they will not be too harsh on people's appearance. Talent is more important than face. Li Xiaoru is now the piano goddess in the minds of countless foreign netizens.
"He would definitely be happy to hear your praise," Liu said.
Lina said cleverly, "I'll tell him again face to face when he wins this match."
Of course, both of them were joking.
The theme of this episode began to be introduced on TV. Each episode of "Poetry and Prose Club" has a fixed theme. For example, the previous episode was "Remembering Jiangnan" and the previous episode was "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove". After all, the content of Chinese classical poetry and prose is vast, and no matter how powerful a person's brain capacity is, it is impossible to memorize all the content at once. There are examination outlines for the middle school entrance examination and the college entrance examination to let students know the scope of the examination.
Even if there really is such a person with an extraordinary memory, once he stands on the live stage, facing professional judges, hundreds of live audiences and tens of millions of TV viewers, he cannot help but be nervous. What if he is too nervous and anxious and cannot answer the questions? He will be embarrassed, the show will become much less interesting, and it will also seriously affect the efficiency and effectiveness of the live broadcast.
Therefore, each episode of the program will set a theme so that contestants can prepare for it in advance and have a general idea in their minds, but the program team will only tell them the theme two days in advance. If they have not accumulated a certain amount of knowledge in the past, they will not be able to prepare much in two days.
On TV, a dynamic mural of the moment unfolded on the screen, and a magnetic male voice said at the same time, "It was an era of war and iron cavalry, the swords of the princes were sworn in, the philosophers of the pre-Qin period were like stars in the night, and they all prescribed good ways to govern the world. The violent collision of hundreds of schools of thought..."
After a long foreshadowing, the screen freezes on the four words "Zhu Shi Bai Jia". This is the theme of the tenth issue - Zhu Shi Bai Jia. The audience exclaimed, ordinary people are more familiar with Tang poetry and Song lyrics, and Zhu Shi Bai Jia gave people a feeling of being more profound and difficult to understand.
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