In 2018, a delivery man with only a secondary school degree appeared on the competition site of the third season of "Chinese Poetry Conference".
He is not highly educated, and he also relies on food delivery in Hangzhou to make a living.
But such an inconspicuous person crushed the Master of Arts of Peking University in the finals and won the championship.
The source in this article comes from the CCTV column "People" in 2018, but in order to improve the readability of the article, the details may be polished, please read sensibly, for reference only!
The takeaway brother became the overall champion of poetry
In 2018, the third season of "Chinese Poetry Conference" slowly came to an end.
The winner of the championship is not Peking University master's degree student, but Peng Min, a seeded player who is favored by everyone, but a takeaway brother in Hangzhou.
This takeaway boy's education is not even a university, he is just a student who graduated from a secondary school.
But his performance at the poetry conference really impressed everyone, and almost no one was unconvinced that he could win the championship at the beginning.
Kang Zhen, a professor at Beijing Normal University, asked questions for all the contestants, and as soon as he drew an eaves and window on the paper, a contestant immediately pressed the answerer.
And it was Lei Haiwei who pressed the answering device, and he also answered the correct answer.
This game is the championship of the poetry conference, and Lei Hai successfully won the championship of the third season step by step.
The overall champion of the first season was 19-year-old student Yin Yihang, and the champion of the second season was Wu Yishu, who was known as a "talented girl", and then she was admitted to Xinya College of Tsinghua University.
With the foil of the first two seasons, it seems that Lei Haiwei is out of place in it.
Although his performance in the show is very powerful, there are still many people interested in his experience, wondering how he successfully transformed from a secondary school graduate to a poetry conference champion.
I love poetry and songs
Lei Haiwei was born in 1981 in the countryside of Hunan.
His father was engaged in literature-related work, so he also attached more importance to Lei Haiwei's education.
At that time, many people were unable to continue to go to school for various reasons, but Lei Haiwei was able to wander freely in the ocean of knowledge in school.
When he was young, his father began to teach him Xi ancient poetry.
His father himself was very fond of ancient poetry and literature, and the house was full of books he bought, and he would copy these poems on paper, and then paste them in the kitchen and other places, so that Lei Haiwei could see them at any time.
Whenever Lei Haiwei goes in and out, he can always see the poems posted on the wall at a glance.
Lei Haiwei's accumulation of poems began when he was a child, and he memorized many poems because of his father's teachings when he was a child.
The accumulation of literature far exceeded that of his peers, and after he entered the school, his grades were also very good.
If you follow this trajectory, Lei Haiwei is very likely to be admitted to a better university in the future.
But it backfired, Lei Haiwei had good grades after he went to middle school, but when he was in school, he didn't like to talk and was not good at dealing with interpersonal relationships.
In the end, for various reasons, he still chose a secondary school.
After graduation, because he had no academic qualifications and no skills, he went to the society to do a lot of work and went to many places.
Eventually, he went to work in Hangzhou, where he would often go to the bookstore because his salary was not high, where he would read the poems and memorize them, and then go back and copy them in his notebook.
Without time to read, he squeezes out time from various places.
When he was working as a delivery boy, he would take out his books while waiting for food, and even if he didn't have much time, he would not waste a single thing.
Time is like water in a sponge, and there will always be a squeeze.
Although he doesn't have a lot of free time, he can always memorize more poems in his spare time.
Lei Haiwei recited poems while delivering takeaways in this way, and after a long time, he gradually became familiar with a lot of poems and songs.
If there was no variety show "Chinese Poetry Conference", perhaps Lei Haiwei would have spent his life in obscurity with his enthusiasm and poetry.
Participate in the show and win the championship
In 2016, the first season of "Chinese Poetry Conference" was broadcast, and Lei Haiwei also paid attention to this show.
His accumulation over the years finally has a chance to vent, and he also wants to participate in the show and change his fate by relying on the poetry he has learned and Xi.
Because he usually has to deliver food and make money to support himself, he uses those fragmented time to memorize poems silently.
Before going to bed, he has plenty of time to read the literature and prepare himself for the competition.
Later, the third season of the competition finally passed his interview, and he stepped onto the stage in 2018 to win the championship by virtue of his poetry knowledge.
However, Lei Haiwei did not have any advantage at the beginning, he was in the 100-person team in the first three rounds of the competition, until the fourth game, he stood out from the 100-person team.
Lei Haiwei looks ordinary, dresses plainly, and his Mandarin is not standard, and in his debut in the fourth round, although he got all 8 questions right, the score of the 100-person group was not low, so he failed to win.
However, Lei Haiwei still gained the admiration and admiration of many people, because many of the people who came to participate in the competition were students or company employees, Lei Haiwei is a takeaway brother, and his education is technical secondary school.
Although Lei Haiwei unfortunately lost, he did not give up, and in the 9th round, he returned to the game.
At the beginning, Lei Haiwei answered a question incorrectly, but he had a good mentality, calm, and did not become panicked because of the wrong answer.
In the end, he won the match and became the champion, and as long as he succeeded in the final defense, then he was the final champion of this poetry conference.
Even if he fails, he is the runner-up of the competition, and Dong Qing bluntly said that he is getting closer and closer to the goal.
Lei Haiwei also said that the moment he won the championship, he experienced the meaning of the idiom of applause for the first time.
The members of the 100-person group cheered for Lei Haiwei, just like Dong Qing said, from Lei Haiwei, it seems to reflect our own growth.
The guest professors at the scene also praised Lei Haiwei, and it was really not easy for Lei Haiwei to break through to the last hurdle.
However, in this last level, his opponent should not be underestimated.
Peng Min holds a master's degree in literature from Peking University and is the deputy director of the editorial department of Poetry Magazine.
Although Lei Haiwei showed his strong ability, the opponent has a deep literary foundation, so this game is almost suspenseful in the eyes of many people.
But Lei Haiwei played steadily in the finals, against Peng Min, what he took was to answer accurately and steadily.
Sure enough, Lei Haiwei took the lead in scoring two points at the beginning of the game, and then he rushed to answer two questions correctly, and at the last critical moment, Peng Min answered incorrectly again, and Lei Haiwei won the final championship of the game.
The audience applauded and cheered for him, and the trophy was also held in his hand, at that moment, Lei Haiwei's heart should be the happiest.
After Lei Haiwei won the championship, CCTV's "People" column did an interview for him.
After winning the championship, Lei Haiwei's life has not changed much.
He is still busy delivering takeaways, still loving poetry and songs, and this title of champion is an incentive for Lei Haiwei.
He continued to build up his reserves and didn't let the championship take hold.
In July 2018, Lei Haiwei appeared at Xintian Huakai School, he was not tempted by various fame and fortune from the outside world, and chose to go to educational institutions to teach Xi children poetry.
In November, he won the Global Chinese Sinology Public Communication Award.
In November 2022, he joined Young Storyteller full-time, and in May of this year, he also held a launch for his new book.
Lei Haiwei graduated from a secondary school as a takeaway brother, became the current poetry champion, and also published his new book.
He used his own experience to tell us that love can overcome many difficulties, unless you are unwilling to make changes.