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"Chen Junqian from Anhui Province, also from the small town of Guoning in southern Anhui, has consistently ranked first in his grade in academic performance, making him a true academic star. He achieved outstanding results in this year's Chinese Character Dictation Competition, ranking first in the overall accuracy rate of the 100-person group with a 100% writing accuracy rate. He is also the contestant with the highest writing accuracy rate and the most correct answers in this year's dictation competition. We look forward to him continuing to write his legend in the finals!"

The scene then cuts back to Chen Junqian, who has stepped onto the stage and heard his first round question.

"To discuss national affairs together."

Somewhat strangely, he collaborated with Zhu Wenyun, who had just finished her performance. Both of them had the same problem: the character "shi" is a polyphonic character that is easy to misspell. So after hearing the question, Chen Junqian subconsciously smiled and showed his most confident side to the national audience in front of CCTV's cameras.

Watching him begin writing without any apparent pressure, the studio hosts and commentators started discussing the contestant and the topic again:

"Actually, this word is easy to misunderstand because of the word 'shi'. After all, it refers to national affairs, but since the word here refers to the country's major policies and guidelines, it is not 'that thing' but 'this thing'."

"Yes, but it seems like there's no pressure on Chen Junqian. Right now, Chen Junqian's online popularity is soaring. He's been hailed by many netizens as the youngest male god in history, and everyone thinks he's the most popular candidate to win this year's dictation competition."

"This young man is really amazing. He has been through so many episodes and hundreds of words of all kinds without being stumped. I personally think he has a good chance of succeeding."

The production team was certainly aware of the controversies surrounding Chen Junqian. In fact, it could be said that half the reason the finals were suddenly changed to a live broadcast was because of him. Therefore, the hosts and commentators would intentionally speak in his favor. After all, they had personally witnessed the past dozen or so matches and knew very well that he had only made it to the finals because of his strong abilities, without any backdoor deals or conspiracy theories.

"He has a humble personality, just like his name. He is a gentlemanly boy. As you just said, although he is very popular online, he still goes back to school and does what he is supposed to do. He has not applied for any personal accounts to become an internet celebrity, which is very rare."

Completely unaware that he was being chatted about by the host and commentators, Chen Junqian meticulously checked his work after finishing before nodding and submitting it. Accompanied by the three green lights on the judges' panel and applause from the audience, he bowed slightly to the audience and judges' panel after completing the first round of answers before walking back.

Zhu Wenyun's hand was already raised and held there, her elegant and beautiful face carrying a gentle smile, instantly reminding one of the many beautiful adjectives she had seen while reviewing.

Many characters with the radical for "woman" are actually related to beauty and elegance. However, Chen Junqian has also seen certain groups who get furious about other characters with the radical for "woman". They go crazy when they see them because of jealousy and insist on changing them to non-existent characters such as "愱", "忮忌", or even "男疾" and "男户".

Chen Junqian reached out his hand and gave her another high five.

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Chapter 84: The "woman" radical signifies beauty (Part 2)

In previous episodes of "Chinese Character Dictation Competition", the production team would use editing techniques to keep the total length of the program to around one hour and thirty minutes. The final, which had been promoted for so many days, naturally could not be shorter than that. However, as time passed, the situation on stage made many staff members silently break out in a cold sweat.

The rate of obsolescence is a bit too fast.

Unlike previous years when there were twenty contestants, the finals had two fewer contestants. The pressure of the finals, especially the pressure of a live broadcast, was even greater for the middle school students on stage. As the difficulty of the questions increased, the elimination trend began to emerge, and it seemed to get out of control, with three students being eliminated in succession.

In this situation, the production team could only signal the camera to focus on the backstage area to buy some time, while secretly praying that the other contestants on stage could hold on a little longer. A casual victory is never as exciting as a close contest that goes down to the wire, which generates neither buzz nor high ratings. They needed to at least last the usual hour and a half.

Perhaps they heard the show's message, or perhaps they simply adjusted their mindset, after experiencing this brief wave of eliminations, the contestants quickly regained their composure, and their accuracy rate in answering questions rose again.

"Okay, now that the third round is over, there are twelve players remaining on the field: three from the Zhejiang team, three from the Guangxi team, two from the 100-person team, and four players who advanced from the individual best qualifying round."

After another round of competition, the examiner also checked the information from the competition.

After eliminating six people, the gap between Chen Junqian and Shen Nianqiu became apparent. If Zhu Wenyun were in that position, Chen Junqian had no doubt that she would pretend to have mistaken his seat and plop down next to him after the next round of questions. But his sister obviously couldn't do that. Rather, she was completely focused on the competition itself and didn't have the relaxed and carefree attitude that Zhu Wenyun had shown so far.

There was no way around it. After all, if we were to really assess their abilities in this Chinese character dictation competition, Chen Junqian would definitely think that Zhu Wenyun was better than Shen Nianqiu. The two-year age difference couldn't make up for the gap in their reading volume. If his good sister was just selected as an ordinary outstanding student in school, then Zhu Wenyun just happened to be in her area of ​​strength. If Chen Junqian himself wasn't an exceptionally gifted person, he would definitely think that Zhu Wenyun had the ability to win the overall championship of this year's Chinese character dictation competition.

Just then, Zhu Wenyun, who was sitting next to him, went on stage again.

“hui (first tone) tu (first tone)”

"It means to collide, destroy, or harass. An example is from Liu Zongyuan's 'The Snake Catcher's Tale': 'When the tyrannical official came to my village, he shouted and clamored in the east and west, and went back and forth in the north and south.'"

After hearing the question, Chen Junqian felt relieved, because it was another article that Zhu Wenyun had read. The character "隳" appears in many ancient texts. In addition to "The Snake Catcher's Tale" which the examiner cited as an example, there is also a passage in "On the Faults of Qin" which is a classical text that students will learn in the first year of high school. All of these are within Zhu Wenyun's reading range.

Just as he expected, after hearing the explanation of the word's meaning, Zhu Wenyun calmly said, "No problem," and then began to write out the character "隳," which at first glance seemed quite complicated. He didn't forget to add the two dots at the bottom, which were the easiest to make a mistake. Every stroke was written quite neatly, and he quickly received applause from the audience and three green lights from the judges.

After Zhu Wenyun, it was Chen Junqian's turn. The word he received was "黉门" (Hongmen). As long as he started with the meaning of the word, "anciently referring to a school, with the example of a '黉门秀才' (Hongmen Xiucai)," he could easily figure out that it had the character "学" (xue, meaning school) on the top. It wasn't too difficult for Chen Junqian, and he quickly passed the fourth round with Zhu Wenyun.

Yes, in a physical sense, working together.

After all, they have to write down their words and start writing every time they come back. This time is no exception. It's just unknown how long they can keep it up. In the end, everyone only has one life in the finals. Once they lose, there is no way to recover. Besides, they are not a well-organized representative team like Guangxi and Zhejiang. Even if they lose the game, as long as their teammates are still there, they have a chance to win the championship by relying on their teammates.

Back in his seat, Chen Junqian glanced at the remaining three members of the Zhejiang team. If he was the contestant with the highest accuracy rate among the hundred-person group, then Liu Yichen from the Zhejiang team had the highest win rate among all the contestants. So far, he had maintained a 100% win rate without getting a single question wrong. If it weren't for him, who suddenly appeared out of nowhere, Liu Yichen would have been the student who garnered the most attention in this year's Chinese Character Dictation Competition and was considered one of the top contenders for the championship.

In Chen Junqian's previous life, his opponent stumbled in the finals, losing in the early rounds to a word that wasn't actually that difficult. It's just unknown whether things will change this time with his rebirth...

Just as Chen Junqian was thinking this, he heard a word that left a deep impression on him. The one who stepped forward to answer the question was Liu Yichen, the absolute ace of the Zhejiang team and the hero who led the Zhejiang team all the way to the finals.

“shi (fourth tone) wei (first tone) refers to the rise and fall of things.”

As the examiner's clear and resonant voice rang out, Liu Yichen nodded to indicate that she had heard him clearly, and then began to write. However, as soon as she wrote the first few strokes of the first character, the commentator in the studio frowned, and her tone became impatient, as if she had joined in the conversation.

"Oh dear, that's not right."

At the same time, Xu Youwei, who was backstage, also shook her head:

"It's written incorrectly."

Because the Anhui team also had players participating in the finals, she stayed with Chen Jun and the Anhui team's coach and supporters. Regarding this girl, who had previously only acted as a mood-maker and even became a meme, her sudden ability to directly judge whether the answers given on stage were correct caught the attention of Teacher Zhang from the Anhui team, who turned around with great interest.

"Does Youwei know how to answer this question?"

"Well, it's 'shiwei' (式微), the 'shi' in 'method', but he wrote it as the 'shi' in 'momentum'. This word comes from the line 'Shiwei, shiwei! Hubugui?' in the Book of Songs."

Xu Youwei was certainly not a literary girl; in fact, she had read far more horror and ghost story magazines than world classics from ancient and modern times. However, the Book of Songs was indeed a work she had read many times, because her mother had left her a whole notebook of nicknames containing long strings of lines from the Book of Songs. Her own nickname and the nickname she specially gave Chen Junqian were both taken from it, which is why she could immediately pronounce the error and its source.

She was one of the cameras' focus backstage, so the director's footage conveniently captured this segment and showed it live, which surprised Guo Ning's trio. It was as if their usual underachiever had suddenly transformed into a top student.

However, that doesn't seem quite right, since they also have Mu Mu, whose academic performance is genuinely inferior to Xu Youwei's.

"Liu Yichen has been eliminated. Zhejiang team only has two people left. Sister Shen is under a lot of pressure."

It can only be said that the three people who respect Shen Nianqiu the most in the entire Guoning are probably all here. Lin Mu is simply good to everyone, Chen Xi has no conflicts with anyone and has been shown goodwill by others first, and although Gu Lingguo feels that this sister has some problems, she is too far away from Guoning, so they all start to cheer for Shen Nianqiu who is about to go on stage.

"Qianqian is really something. Every time he comes back, he high-fives Wenyun, even though he knows Sister Shen too."

"This is indeed quite strange. We can see searches for Senior Sister Wenyun and Sister Youwei everywhere, but there doesn't seem to be any news about them. They haven't mentioned each other in any interviews either. Could it be that they had a fight?"

After finishing the figs, Chen Xi was now eating crunchy fruit. These things had a particularly strong condensed milk flavor, and she was crunching them in her mouth. They tasted sweet, and she didn't comment on them. After all, she had personally overheard many of the two people's phone calls during the New Year, and she knew very well that their relationship was much closer than most people imagined. Let alone high-fiving, if it weren't for the fact that her brother and the other person were in Lin'an and Guoning respectively, Chen Xi would almost think that in another two years they would be going to *** to give each other a different kind of high-five.

Alas, it's all the fault of "Xiaolin Guangji" (a collection of humorous anecdotes). There are just too many ridiculous and vulgar jokes in it. Chen Xi even felt that one of them could be used to describe her brother and Shen Nianqiu, which was the "Guifengbu" (a collection of humorous anecdotes about women's behavior).

The story goes that when a woman was unmarried, her parents demanded an exorbitant dowry from the suitors. On their wedding night, the man, resentful of this, said bitterly to the woman, "Your parents are so heartless! I'll take it out on you!" He then had sex with her. Afterward, he said, "Your brother and sister-in-law are also awful; I'll take it out on you again!" and did so again. After this, he felt exhausted and wanted to sleep. However, the woman woke him up and said, "My younger brother, though very young, is always talkative and has always looked down on you..."

Judging from the snippets of conversation between her brother and the other person, she figured that the other person might really be the one to be resentfully vented on later. At least she herself was starting to wonder why her brother had gotten involved in this mess. She even started to have the same subtle feeling as a certain sickly, weak sister watching her brother get violently raped by some supermodel neighbor.

Yes, after becoming curious, Chen Xi took some time to seriously explore Chen Junqian, Gu Linguo, and the world of anime and manga, and started her own appreciation session of "The Sky of Fate". In a sense, it filled in the gaps in the text of "Xiaolin Guangji" in terms of visuals and sound, and definitely opened the door to a new world for her.

Although Chen Junqian would probably complain that it would have been better not to open it at all after he found out.

Bringing her scattered thoughts back together, Chen Xi looked at the TV again and saw that only four contestants remained on the field. However, Chen Junqian, Zhu Wenyun, and Shen Nianqiu were still safely on the field.

The fewer the number of players, the more frequently each player needs to play and the shorter their rest time.

Sitting in his seat, Chen Junqian could clearly feel that the atmosphere on the field had subtly changed. Liu Yichen's sudden elimination became the trigger for the second round's crushing defeat. Now, only Shen Nianqiu was left to struggle on the Zhejiang team, and the same was true for the Guangxi team, each keeping their last hope of winning.

Little did they know that the members of the production team were just as nervous as the contestants. After all, less than an hour had passed since the start of the finals. If the eliminations continued at this pace and the final champion was decided, they would have to start thinking about how to fill out a half-hour awards ceremony.

Soon, the last member of the Guangxi team also fell victim to the difficult phrase "黼国黻家" (Fu Guo Fu Jia), leaving the stage with regret and handing it over to the three destined ones.

【仇雠】, 【鸱吻】, 【胤禛】.

After a round of new word battles, the three of them remained there.

【Ducks leap and frolic】, 【Under the Fen River Gate】, 【Floating Wine Cups on a Winding Stream】.

Another round went by, and still no one fell behind.

The production team's eyes began to light up.

After historical terms, literary terms followed.

When Zhu Wenyun stepped forward again, the words she heard stunned everyone.

"A large sum of money" is a dialect term meaning "all at once" or "all together." It originates from Chapter 51 of Cao Xueqin's *Dream of the Red Chamber* (written in the Qing Dynasty): "When Doctor Wang and Doctor Zhang came, they never gave money, but every year on the four major festivals, they would bring a large sum of gifts."

For the first time, Zhu Wenyun took the initiative to ask again:

Could you please explain the meaning of "dun" (pronounced with a third tone) again?

The judge nodded and replied:

"It means 'to fix' or 'to complete'."

"Okay, no problem, thank you teacher."

After getting the answer she wanted, Zhu Wenyun picked up her pen and first wrote down the three characters she had confirmed: 一, 大, and 儿. After hesitating for a moment, she wrote down the character 趸, which she had read the explanation for. After submitting the application and seeing the three green lights that indicated the correct answer, a bright smile appeared on her face.

She had read Dream of the Red Chamber more than once, and could even recite most of the judgments and poems that appeared in it. Although she didn't have a particular impression of the sentence that was being tested, she had indeed seen the definition of the word "趸" before, so she was able to write it down smoothly.

Chen Junqian received a much easier poem, 【逸兴遄飞】, and passed the test smoothly once again.

So in this round, only Shen Nianqiu was left.

The Hangzhou team members, who had already been eliminated, and their coaches started cheering her on in unison.

"wǎn luán" means young and beautiful, describing a beautiful appearance. It can be used to describe specific people or other things, such as the dance moves of wǎn luán.

It's another obscure word; just hearing the pronunciation, it's impossible to immediately recall which two characters it is.

However, Hsu Yu-Wei, backstage, gave the correct answer:

"This comes from the Book of Songs. It says, 'Wanxi luanxi, zongjiao dongxi,' which describes someone who is very pretty when they are young. My mother used Wanwan and Luanluan as nicknames in this passage."

However, not everyone has read through the Book of Songs so many times like Xu Youwei. Shen Nianqiu was the same. She could only recall the key points that Chen Junqian had mentioned when they were preparing for the dictation competition together, and like the dumbest student, she tried to deduce the Chinese characters bit by bit.

The beautiful Wan, that must be Wan.

The pronunciation of "luan" can be associated with the upper part of the character "鸾" (luán), the character "挛" (luán) in "spasm," and the character "脔" (luán) in "禁脔" (jìnluán).

But it should express something positive.

It should have the radical for "woman" (女).

The radical for "woman"...

Wanluan.

Correct spelling!

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PS2: The word "婉娈" was the winning word in the first Chinese Character Dictation Competition.

Chapter 85: Winning the Game, Winning at Life (Part 2)

If just a few tens of minutes ago, the production team of "Chinese Character Dictation Competition" was worried about insufficient time, lack of excitement, and a lack of tension and intensity, then just a few tens of minutes later, even their mood was intensely affected by the situation on the field. After all, unlike the post-production editing where the result is already known and the target is drawn accordingly, the charm of this live broadcast lies in the unpredictable stage of fate. Before the final result is revealed, no one can determine who will win.

The camera lens kept moving back and forth between the three people remaining on the field. Perhaps it was because they had developed a kind of mutual respect between heroes in the following rounds, or perhaps it was to uphold the principle of friendship first and competition second. After one round, Chen Junqian took a few extra steps and gave Shen Nianqiu a high-five. When Shen Nianqiu returned after answering the question, Chen Junqian naturally sat down next to him, so that all three of them could be easily captured in the same frame by a close-up camera.

The friendly interaction between the three eased the tension slightly, but soon a difficult word was uttered, making all the audience members hold their breath again.

"瘗玉埋香" means to bury a beautiful woman who has passed away. For example, "Looking back, the joyful things have changed like fleeting clouds, how many years have passed since the beautiful woman was buried?"