A few days ago, I met an high school classmate who I haven't seen for about three years. We chatted about the old days and our current lives and jobs. He proudly told me that he had won a literature award at school and was now preparing to publish a book! I was quite surprised because he has always been very interested in Chinese (or literature, especially classical literature). He read "Dream of the Red Chamber" when he was very young, and he could recite "Water Margin" backwards!