2004 China Annual High School Student Essay

Author: Han Yubo
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The so-called lack of interest in liberal arts or writing is because you gave up before you found your passion. It's either insufficient effort or being cursed with the unreasonable belief that "you're not cut out for liberal arts." Just as river water on the ground will eventually merge into the sea, the knowledge one has acquired, especially the of not truly understanding it, will one day reveal itself in life's journey. It's like someone who has never learned to pull a grenade's pin—eventually, they will encounter that situation on the battlefield.
Someone asked the great physicist Enrico Fermi, "What is the difference between language and arithmetic?" He replied, "Isn't language just arithmetic?" Among masters, everything—language, arithmetic, rites, music, horsemanship, and archery—can be interconnected. When things are connected, there are no barriers, and everything becomes clear.
Selected and edited by Mr. Zhang Haipeng, the editor-in-chief of Essay News, a leading authority on middle school student essays in China, this annual collection of middle school student essays is meticulously curated from a vast number of essays published in middle school student publications across the country that year. It aims to assess the achievements of middle school student writing that year and objectively select outstanding essays that are both ideologically profound and artistically excellent, representative, and influential.
The selected works are divided into 10 categories: Excellent High School Essays, Awards, Whispers of Things, Youth Wind Chimes, and Topic Essays, covering a wide range of genres, themes, and techniques in high school student writing. The essays are vivid, fresh, lively, full of active thinking, sincere emotions, and strong language expression, making them excellent examples of middle school student essays.
This volume includes nearly 120 essays by nearly 100 high school students, accompanied by concise, succinct, and instructive comments from experts. This book is selected by an authority on middle school student essays from a large number of works published that year, featuring nearly 150 essays by nearly 150 authors, along with author comments. It has strong representativeness and influence. The essays are lively and full of expressive language, while the comments are concise, to the point, and highly instructive.