About a hundred days before the gaokao, many high schools hold an oath rally, bairi shishi. On the morning of February 27, 2023, at Qingdao No. 2 High School, class teams led by student representatives shouted their oaths: “Draw the sword in June and write a brilliant chapter. Give everything and vow to create glory!”
The principal told them: “Ask not about the harvest, only about the plowing.”