Wu Song and the Tiger

When I was a 11 year old boy (Pri 5) in Catholic High (Pri), my Chinese teacher had taught the story of Wu Song and the Tiger. In essence, the story was about a hero (Wu Song) who killed a hill Tiger using a stick and his fists. The story was shown above and it was closely resembling to the story told when I was 11 years old. The text was extracted from my daughter e-learning on-line programme. When it was played, it bought me back in time to the days when I was a School boy.

During the lesson, my Chinese teacher had asked for the story to be acted out.  I was chosen to be Wu Song, the hero. Till this day, I wondered why my teacher had chosen me. Perhaps, I was a class monitor. Nonetheless, I was given a stick (from the classroom broom) and a classmate of mine was the tiger. We acted according to the text and I could remember that the stick was supposed to hit the tree branch in the story. That was translated to the broom hitting the classroom light fitting.

That was the first time I had acted and though it was a simple act, I had great memory of it. I had a fantastic Chinese teacher and his surname was Zhang (Lao Shi).