Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 23 CCTV Interview
The interview was arranged in the reception room of a high-end hotel near the crew, and the room was temporarily renovated.

Once the lights and camera are in place, the interview begins.

"Hello, classmate Chen Linfeng, I am Wang Zhi, a reporter from the Oriental Son column.

Although I was mentally prepared, I couldn't help but be surprised when I saw you. How can you, at such a young age, be a student actor and develop in the field of literature at the same time?"

“Maybe you have learned some information about me. I have some advantages in memory.

So the school study content is not a burden to me, and I spend very little time on it. Apart from acting in the crew, I have plenty of time to arrange freely. "

"I have seen this report. Can I ask you to demonstrate it briefly on the spot?"

This was something that had been communicated in advance, and Chen Linfeng nodded in agreement.

Wang Zhi took out a yellow pages directory he brought from BJ, which was filled with random names and phone numbers of enterprises and institutions.

How about we pick out a page from them to verify?
Chen Linfeng had no objection. He turned to page 9 as Wang Zhi requested and spent about 30 seconds reading it from beginning to end.

"Okay, I've memorized it."

Wang Zhi was a little dumbfounded, and he verified it doubtfully.

Then Chen Linfeng recited it for about a minute, without any error.

“Okay, okay, no need to memorize it, the verification results are already very clear.

So with this ability, you can spend almost no time on school courses and devote yourself to the field you like, right? "

"Yes, but I'm just not going to spend time on it for now. I've read the high school textbooks. The difficulty of subjects like mathematics has increased a lot, and the liberal arts also place more emphasis on understanding.

When I get to high school, I will spend more time on my courses.”

"I'm curious, why did you choose to be an actor and author instead of doing something that can better utilize your memory advantage?"

“I prefer to do things that can bring people a sense of accomplishment.

Acting requires abilities in voice, stage, shape, and expression, while writing requires literary skills and imagination, all of which require things other than memory.

Not only these two, I am also practicing martial arts and learning music. These are all challenging and bring me a sense of accomplishment.

People always seek some spiritual satisfaction.”

"How do you allocate your time in your daily life when you are doing so many things at the same time?"

“Every morning from 5:30 to 7:30 is martial arts practice time.

After dinner it is time to learn music.

If I am at school during the time, I can write or read, and if I am on the crew, I can act.

Recesses, dinner, lunch, and weekends are times for rest and entertainment, usually watching TV or playing with friends.

My life is pretty regular, and it’s basically always been that way.”

"Don't you find this boring? I've met many classmates of your age, and few of them are able to focus on improving their abilities for a long time like you do. Most people even find it difficult to persevere in their studies for their jobs."

“Of course it can feel boring sometimes, but when you have a goal and hope to achieve it, and you can see your progress in the process, then learning is no longer a painful thing.”

……

"What do you think of education in China? You are stuck in school even though the courses taught by teachers are not a problem. Do you think school education is a shackle for you?"

"I strongly support China's exam-oriented education. I think it is the fairest and least bad education system.

I do not agree with incorporating any quality or ability other than academic performance into the education evaluation system. That will only put children in backward areas at a disadvantage, which is not a good thing.

At the same time, I don’t think school is a shackle. Even if you can’t learn knowledge from books, learning how to get along with others and understand other people’s emotions and thoughts is itself a very rare knowledge.”

... "What do you think about Han Han winning the first prize in the New Concept Essay Competition but failing several subjects in school?"

“I think Han Han is a typical person with partial talents. Even if he is not very adaptable to school education, this will not necessarily affect his future personal development.

For individuals, sometimes it is enough as long as the strengths are long enough.

Now some media see it as rebellion and criticize it, which I think is not a good thing.”

……

After this episode was broadcast on China Central Television, the impact it had on Chen Linfeng was no less than his novel.

Under the influence of the powerful coverage of China Central Television, many people learned for the first time that there is such a young genius in China.

Hearing is believing, seeing is believing. Seeing Chen Linfeng demonstrate his photographic memory with your own eyes is completely different from just hearing about it.

Even his close relatives and friends only realized how good his memory was after watching the show.

Not only that, during the interview, Chen Linfeng spoke eloquently, showing a conversation style beyond his age group, a unique perspective on things, and a self-disciplined lifestyle.

All of these left a deep impression on the audience, and combined with his current achievements, this is definitely not something that can be summarized by a child or a middle school student.

Therefore, the national audience formed a preliminary impression of a genius in their minds.

The people of this era were relatively simple and honest, and did not know about the various practices of falsification and character creation in later generations.

Of course, Chen Linfeng did not commit fraud, and CCTV's programs do not allow fraud, but he did create a character, which was also something Chen Linfeng deliberately showed and wanted to achieve.

Such a genius character is actually very easy to fail.

However, on the one hand, Chen Linfeng has accumulated sufficient memory in this life and is unlikely to fail.

On the other hand, he wanted to use this to influence his family and the public's views of him.

It is easy to understand that Chen Linfeng has influenced the public. He is not only a child star, but his achievements in writing novels are also becoming widely known. At the same time, he is also working on composing music.

All these things combined would easily make ordinary people doubt him, so he simply created a genius persona to minimize the public's doubts about him.

His main purpose is to influence his family's views

Before Chinese children reach adulthood, they should not even think about participating in family decision-making. Adults will treat them as children and will not take their opinions seriously.

Even though Chen Linfeng's parents are open-minded enough, they will never let him make decisions on his own when it comes to money or things that are not in line with the adults' understanding.

This requires influencing his parents through external public opinion and asking them to allow Chen Linfeng to do things that only adults can do.

For example, you can have your own small treasury and make investments.

After the broadcast of Son of the East on Central China TV, the public opinion in the newspapers, as he wished, began to discuss the topic of how to treat geniuses.

China has always had a complex about young geniuses. Gan Luo became prime minister at the age of 12, and Chen Linfeng was exactly the same age. There is no shortage of young geniuses in the history of both the East and the West.

Some people like to write eloquently, criticize history, and make comments on history and the present.

Does China's education system suppress the development of genius interests?

"If Newton and Einstein were born in China, they would only become best-selling authors"

"China's exam-oriented education will never produce an Einstein even after another 100 years"

Experts and professors came forward one after another to express their opinions.

These are all clichés. Chen Linfeng doesn't care about these public opinions. He has read many similar articles in his previous life.

What he cares a little more about is the direction of public opinion.

(End of this chapter)