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Pui Ching Middle and High School, in Gwangzhou (Canton), Kwangtung Province, China

Location: East Hill, Gwangzhou (Canton), Kwangtung Province, China Emblem: Upmost righteousness, upmost kindness The first of the Chinese Baptist established school system that includes the Primary School secondary School and the Pui Ching High School. When WW2 ended and Chinese citizens returned to canton, the School re-opened for the Chinese. The primary school accepted students from other primary schools in China. The Secondary School accepted mainly the graduates from the Primary School of the Pui-Ching with address directly across the street from the Secondary School. Curriculum: The primary school consists of six years, accepted student according to their evaluation principally those finished the Kindergarten of one or two year’s duration. Therefore, the standard was quite high. The teaching of Chinese started from the first grade. Teaching of English alphabets started from either the third or the forth years of the primary school system. The arithmetic’s start from the first grade of counting, addition and subtractions. The time table starts from the fourth grade and must be very well fluent and adapt by the fifth grade students. Geography, maps, earth history, history of China are started at fifth grade and be good prior to graduation of the primary school, the sixth years. The chemistry symbols were taught at the fifth and six grade and most have the periodic table memorize to a certain degree by graduation from the sixth grade of the primary school. The nature of the inorganic chemistry was taught at the sixth grade and the concept of the organic chemistry was taught at the sixth grade. The time table was recited at the fourth and fifth grade and is well versed at graduation from the primary school system. The single syllable of the digits make it easy for the Chinese students to recite the time table very fluently with much relative easy due to the single digit representation of the numbers (numerals), such as, in English one, in Chinese is yi, in English two, in Chinese is ue, in English three (two syllables), in Chinese is san, four is si, five (two syllables again) is wu, six is lu, seven (again two syllables) is chi, eight is bau, nine is jil, ten is xu; By extension on reciting the time table: 1x1=1 English: one times one is one;     Chinese: yi yi e yi    2x2=4  English: two times two is four;    Ch : ue ue e xi    3x3=9  Eng: three times three is nine;    Ch : san san e jil 4x4=16 Eng: four times four is sixteen;  Ch : si si Xu lu    5x5=25  Eng: five times five is twenty five; ch : wu wu ue xu wu    6x6= six times six is thirty six        ; ch : lu lu san xu lu.....and so on It takes one third the time to recite the time table in Chinese as in English. Couple with the Abacus method with five to ten fingers doing the work, no wonder the abacus could rival the old day digital computing calculation, due to the cumbersome of pronunciation of multiple syllables to represent a single digit. By the time one graduates from the Primary school in Pui Ching, they are considered to be a math genius by the Latin way of calculation pronunciations. Pui Ching, because of this advantages, had always been looked upon as a very high standard school especially when math or arithmetic’s concern. In China, after WW2, because of the national humiliation by the Japanese whose adaptation of chemistry science often made them feel superior, catching on the math advantage, also lend themselves studied hard on the western knowledge of chemistry and biological science. These both trend of natural advantage of arithmetic’s and hard and diligent study on western sciences enable the Pui Ching students to be looked upon as the top students in China. The graduates from the Pui Ching high School were eagerly accepted by all famous universities in China and abroad. Because of religious assimilation, the 'Westerners' also look upon the graduates from the Pui Ching School system as favorites due to the close resemblances of what they (Westerners) are accustomed to know. Soon, the graduates from the Pui Ching High School were accepted by all schools in Europe and America. Sister Schools: The Pui Ching School system in Canton (Kwangtung Province, China) was a mixed boys and girls school in general. However, with the high nationalism spirit, the studies of all subjects were pushed hard. It was desirable to separate the high school of boys from girls. The sister school was named Pui Do Middle and Pui Do High School, although the parents still sent their girls to the Pui Ching Middle and High School due to the famous education standards (Pui-Do was just as advance and famous). Pui-Ching meaning: nurture and culture the ways of the righteousness; Pui-Do meaning: nurture and culture of the ways and ethics. Although the schools are only a street apart, but cross school dating was rare to the point of non-existent. The 'sisters' from Pui-Do high schools were invited to the theatrical acts for the Pui-Ching High Schools a couple times a year. So, it is customary for a family who could afford it to send their boys to the Pui Ching Middle and High School and their girls to the Pui-Do Middle and High School in Canton, Kwangtung Province of China. The common saying for the elite schools in China: South has Pui Ching, North has Nan Hoi The graduates from these schools usually went straight into several famous universities in China with no questions asked. These remains so when the Mainland China was taken over by the regime of Mao in 1949, when the graduates from Pui Ching schools often take the first few places at the entrance examinations of the National Taiwan University of Taipei, Taiwan, China.