From: jamesou@ZYGOTE.HSC.USC.EDU (James Ou)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Jian4 Zhong1 Sr. High (Was Re: Those good old days...)
Date: 16 Apr 92 01:06:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: zygote.CMM.0.90.2.703386408.jamesou


yu@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (meng-lin.mark.yu) wrote:

> By the time I left Jian4 Zhong1, they had
>torn most part of Hong2 Lo2 down.

What?!! Hong Lou was gone? But we used to say "Hong2 Lou2 Jing1
Shen2" (the spirit of Hong Lou)...  :-(

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clin@athena.mit.edu (Chia-Liang Lin) wrote:

>I heard that once
>upon a time, Jian4-Zhong1's students claimed that the Ji2-Wu4-Yuan2
>(botanical garden) was part of their campus and Mei3-Hsin1-Chu4 (American
>News Center) was indeed their library, based upon the fact that there
>was no wall to confine the campus of Jian4-Zhong1. In those days Jian4-Zhong1
>provided a unique academic atmosphere for her students to pursue the
>excellence. However, later on somehow a wall was built to confine the
>campus and the atmosphere of Jian4-Zhong1 was consequently changed.
>I wonder if any one of you knows something about that story.

Oh, although I wouldn't say they were a part of Jian Zhong, I did
feel that that was the case. I used to hang around Zhi2 Wu4 Yuan2
(Botanical Garden), Li4 Shi3 Buo2 Wu4 Guan3 (Historical Museum),
and Ke1 Xue2 Guan3 (Science Gallery). I know some of my
classmates also had the library card of "Zhong1 Yang1 Tu2 Shu1
Guan3" (Central Library). I used to have lunch and dinner on the
noodle stands (Mian4 Tan1 Zi0) by the Mei3 Xin1 Chu4 (American
News Agency/Center) and went to lectures held in MXC. The
neighborhood was sort of like a part of Jian4 Zhong.

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chang@cmb00.larc.nasa.gov (Chau-Lyan Chang) wrote:

>   Now, I remember there were some bao tsong students (spouse of diplomats).

You meant "children" of diplomats? My brother's classmate was
"Shen3 Jian4 Hong2"'s son. (Two of my brothers are also alumni of
JianZhong.) He told me a joke after school one day: Shen was the
ROC ambassador to the US at that time. On that day, my brother's
teacher said that, as a delegate, a pretty face would help giving
people a good impression at the first sight. The teacher then
went on to say that "Shen JH" was too ugly to be an ambassador.
The class all turned around and started laughing at Shen's son.
Of course, the teacher was embarrassed. :-)

>   But, still I do not recall any students entered Jian Zong through a
>   gifted program or something like that. This reminds me that the rugby
>   (the non-American football) team of Jian Zong used to be #1 in the
>   nation. And then it fell because good rugby players could not enter
>   through bao tsong scheme (one other main reason was because of the
>   removal of the junior high of Jian Zong).

Now, we are really talking about history. :-) It was called
"Sheng3 Ban4 Gao1 Zhong1, Shi4 Ban4 Chu1 Zhong1" (the province
does the Sr. High and the city does the Jr. High). The separation
of Sr. High from Jr. High was followed by the termination of the
gifted (Bao3 Song4) program. What you said was true, after that,
the rugby football team of JianZhong went down the hill and lost
its first championship game after winning 19 seasons
consecutively. After the loss, those Black-T-Shirt guys bursted
into tears. I think I was still at J.Z. at that time.