Theme: Illumination “粲”

Central theme: Illumination
Illumination: lighting, light
粲：鲜亮发光的样子

“ 最黑暗的时刻也是最接近光明的时刻。
与其咒骂黑暗，不如燃起一支明烛。
人生应该如蜡烛一样，从顶燃到底，一直都是光明的。”

"The darkest hour is also the closest to the light.
Instead of cursing the darkness, it is better to light a bright candle.
Life should be like a candle, burning from top to bottom, always bright. "

我们以生活中遇到的困难阻碍和努力克服逆境的勇气为主题：讲者将结合自身经历讲述他们在经历挫折的时候，那束指引自己前行的光亮为何物；讲者将分享他们克服苦难，战胜黑暗而得到自我提升的过程。此主题意在鼓励青少年们在面对逆境时能够更加坚定，勇敢。

We take the obstacles encountered in life and the courage to overcome adversity as the theme: the speaker will talk about the light that guides them when they experience setbacks; the speaker will share how they overcome the suffering and the process of self-improvement by defeating the darkness. This theme is intended to encourage young people to be more determined and brave in the face of adversity.

ShenzhenSeniorHighSchool
No.8 Zetian Road, Futian District
Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518
China

Sijia Huang

Current Master student at Yale

"To enjoy music happily and purely is a big blessing for me." ——Sijia Huang. I was graduated from the Curtis School of Music in the United States and is now studying at the Yale University School of Music. The anxiety caused by the previous Covid-19 epidemic, coupled with the stress of academic work, are the source of negative emotions. But at the same time, those little things in our daily lives, the sense of achievement after stress-they are like light shining on ourselves. You chase the light, and then go on. Because like everyone else, I was an ordinary person who grew up listening to the brilliant deeds of other people's children. I also experienced many setbacks in the process of growing up, so my story and my study is narrated and popularized from the perspective of an ordinary person.

Travis Hayes

Owner of Shenzhen’s only strongman studio, Sponsored Athlete

I was born in an area that was deemed too dangerous for us to continue to live in, so my mother (white) moved us out of the city into the country. Being a mixed child in a racist town brought on many tough learning curves and the need to learn to adjust quickly while being level-headed. Once I graduated I was luckily accepted to CCAD, how I would come to pay for it, would take me years, and years. But that is something I’d learn long after Id graduated. I got tons of help here and was by no means one of the best artists. But I wanted to be. I went from envying my classmates to being excepted to the school's final Exhibitions. I’d like my speech to be about learning to adjust. I think. My path took me from not knowing what to do, to being in art school, to fitness, to film, back to art and fitness. And I feel like it’s just beginning. Also, I talk to so many people, you start To learn patterns. Adjusting is really just accepting the fact things are hard and you’ll fail at first.

Xinyao Li

Currently as an IBDP Theatre teacher

I am a drama teacher with a bit optimistic, a bit serious, and a bit lively. My most special experience is when I graduated from university, I communicated with a Russian director who did not speak the same language and successfully completed the two-hour performance task (I realized the importance of translation software). The most shared scandal was during the graduation performance (I played the princess) when my stomach made a loud noise as I fled the palace late at night after the prince came to visit me. Because of our professionalism, we all persevered!

Xuanxiao Wang

Freshman at Shenzhen Senior High school

When I was young, I was ignorant and thought my willpower was superior. So the pain I experienced when I was a child, I just gritted my teeth and endured it and passed away, thinking that nothing can beat me. But the mental pressure before the high school entrance exam made me almost collapsed. Sometimes I felt that my investment was not rewarded, and I was very disappointed when I failed. And parents and teachers cannot understand. The parents think that I cannot give up pursuing, and the teachers think that I have not made any effort. In addition, my body has reached its limit. The practice before the high school entrance exam made my body break down, but my spirit is still persevering. I thought I could overcome everything, but then I found the limit of my will. But after reaping the rewards, I finally understood that the value of spirit lies in the process of struggle, not the result.

Yuhan Hu

Sophomore at Shenzhen Senior high school

Among my tragically comedic stories, most of the time, they have rather lucky endings. With those stories of mine spent most of their time to compose themselves to be tragedies, no one would have expected a good endings for these stories. However, just as we read about in so many fairytale stories, “with a sudden mysterious light shines in, the protagonist is saved from suffering a bad ending miraculously”. So are my stories, people who read the tragic part with “ the outcome is a foregone conclusion” ideas, would definitely be surprised by how sudden my light came, and how I was saved when “ the day is darkest”. Here I’m gonna share my story about light, about how it’s like, and how it save me from darkness. A little bit bitter, a little bit depressed, but end with more than a little bit of warmth...

Ziyang Wu

Student at Shenzhen Middle school

My passion is studying astrophysics, which is the dream from my childhood. I spend lots of efforts to achieve my will to become an astrophysicist under the support from teachers and my passion!