On the coast of the South China Sea and the east of Shenzhen, the mountain and sea forms a beautiful and splendid picture. A famous high school, with its four campuses, together with a group of vigorous shadows composes an excellent movement with their youth. To enjoy the beautiful mountain and sea scenery, temper a strong will, carry forward and inherit the “May 4^th” spirits, and manifest the spiritual demeanor of a new generation of Shenzhen High School faculty, under the uniform organization and leadership of the labor union of the Group, on May 15^th, the young teachers of the four campuses had an extraordinary and interesting hike – crossing from Dongchong to Xichong.

The coastline of Dongchong and Xichong is the most beautiful and typical coastal hike route. The beautiful mountain and sea scenery together with the blue sea water and sky liberates all away from the worry and pressure of city life. However, the coastline basically keeps its natural and original features, so there are also some safety risks. To guarantee the safety of the crossing from the Dongchong to Xichong, with the care and requirement of the Group Party secretary and principal Shao Aiguo, the responsible person and senior hike “coach” had a field investigation one week ahead, and made thorough preparation for the activity. On the day before the activity, the WeChat group of the crossing activity had pushed messages about the activity now and then, covering the basic materials to be taken, the departure time and return time, the route arrange of the crossing, the possible difficulties in the activity and the solution, etc. and the guiding teachers offered us just expectation but no worry with their utmost care.

Embracing the beautiful morning glow and listening to the pleasant chirping of cicadas, on the morning of May 15^th, the young teachers of the four campuses gathered together and departed toward Dapeng. While the beautiful scenery on both sides of the road waved to us, the route for this crossing came into our view gradually. For sure, it was a must to have a collective photo before the crossing start, and young teachers of Shenzhen High School had their first dialogue and interaction with Dapeng with their smile, shout and beauty. The crossing started from Dongchong and passed by the long coastline. By the blue sea and under the blue sky, opening our ear, we could hear the sing of the waves. How pleasant it was! When we just immersed ourselves in the beautiful legend on the great change of the nature as told by the shells, a nearly 90º mountain slope suddenly appeared in front of us, which just made us wonder how wonderful skills the nature has and how such unique and splendid mountains and stones are created. At this moment, we must put back our mobile phones, started to climb the stones while holding the chains with our hands tightly, watched out the falling down rocks and the flying dust in front of us, and climbed toward the top of the mountain all the way. We thought we would have the feeling of holding all small mountains in our view when reaching the top of the mountains; however, when we took out our mobile phones to record the beautiful scenery that the sea and the sky integrate together as one of the same color, it was already the time for us to go downhill. As a saying goes, it is easy to climb a mountain but hard to go downhill. It is true. We needed to use both our hands and legs and watched out each step carefully in case of slippery, as well as undertook the mental pressure of affecting others in case of falling down. Unexpectedly, under such double pressures, we all went downhill safely. In such a mentality of “quick switch between excitement and pressure”, by walking on the beaches and climbing on the mountains now and then, time passed by, the group slowly drew back and the destination waved to us slowly.

Every journey of our life embodies the philosophy of life. When all were just in front of you, including the hot sun, high temperature, timidity, fear, as well as beauty, life is just holding your hands for progress together. When the voice of giving up ring around our ears, the determination of being unwilling to be a evader, loser and mediocre person will push us to go ahead constantly. In our brain, here linger the inspiring words of the ancients that many tourists prefer to travel to flat and near places while few may travel to dangerous and far places; however, usually the dangerous and far places have the stunning, rare and extraordinary scenery but are inaccessible to most tourists, so only the strong willed may access to them and enjoy them. This is journey and life as well.

Beauty lies in not only appreciation and enjoyment, but also in our record and memory. What pleases our eyes is not only the beautiful scenery on the road, but also numerous touching moments in our journey, including a leading and supporting hand in front of us in difficulty, the yummy foods in rest and adjustment, which drives our exhaustion away, our integration with the sea and mountains in each of our pose and smile, and the greeting and help when we feel helpless upon falling behind, which helps us ignite the spark of hope again. Travel alone progresses quickly, and travel with a team enables you to walk far. Different pictures and different images showed different figures but the same movement. Behind the movement stands a group with a common name – faculty of Shenzhen High School, and erects a spirit deeply remembered by all faculty of Shenzhen High School – Cooperation and coordination makes success.

Feeling a little fatigued physically, we finally reached the destination. The new generation of faculty of Shenzhen High School shared the interesting and unforgettable experience in this crossing activity. When the cars were through the dense forest, the sun had gone down the sea level.

Maybe this is just one common hiking and crossing travel, but it blooms the most splendid flowers. The young generation of Shenzhen High School, who work hard, input without reservation, and fight hard without being pushed, manifested their elegant demeanor again between the sky and the sea, along the coast and in the mountain, and depicted the group image of a new generation of youth with their actions.

(Text by: Cheng Kang, Ye Qing)

Group Labor Union

May 18^th, 2021