Principal applauded for handling a controversial game on campus

校长为处理校园有争议的比赛而鼓掌

Round Table China

2024-04-15

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A popular children's game involving cigarette packets attracts controversy, but a principal in Central China masterfully handled the potentially lose-lose situation, by letting the students have a say. / Motivational Monday (17:40)! On the show: Laiming, Niu Honglin & Brandon Yates
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  • Discussion keeps the world turning.

  • This is round table.

  • Chinese.

  • People of my generation must remember the game of Pei Yanghua, a children's game remotely resembling pox or milk caps.

  • Though their rules may vary from school to school and from region to region, people of my generation must also get mixed feelings when they find out that the game is making a comeback in a more controversial form.

  • Hello, I'm Lai Ming and this is roundtable.

  • Today with my colleagues new holing and Brandon Yates, we will look at a discussion on banning a children's game which uses secret packets.

  • What exactly is this game?

  • So it's called cigarette cards?

  • Yeah, yeah.

  • So the cigarette cards get together, they smoke all the cigarettes and then they see that, they see who passes out first.

  • In that case, there's no discussion whether this should be prohibited on campus.

  • Oh, definitely.

  • That's not the game.

  • Actually ran it outright.

  • Actually, the cigarette cards game, I'm naming it, or actually Da Yenpai is the official name because I don't think there is an english name just yet.

  • But these cards are actually made from cigarette packaging boxes, which is why it has the keyword cigarette in it.

  • And the caveat here, the cigarette packets here in this country, they are not as horrible as those in the western world, for sure.

  • Like when I've been around a couple of stores, I've seen some very bright and shiny and colorful cigarette boxes where in South Africa, it's normally just warning signals saying don't smoke and pictures of people with, like, diseases and missing teeth.

  • And so, yeah, it's very different in other parts of the world.