紅樓夢斷知何處, 夢裡猶是建中人

紅樓夢斷知何處, 夢裡猶是建中人.


My NTUMC1968 classmate T.Fu. called me the other day saying he
was attending a high school class reunion in Los Angeles. T. Fu
was one year ahead of me at 建中. Our conversation brought back
建中 memories, both 酸甜 and 苦澀.

Once in a while, I dream about my junior and high school days at
建中. The image of the school is always the famous old red brick
building, or what we called 紅樓. Therefore, my dreams about 建中
were, in a practical sense, "紅樓夢".

“紅樓夢斷知何處, 夢裡猶是建中人.”

After all, six years of studying and learning at 建中 is not a short
period of time.

I remember our school 校歌 begins with “東海東、玉山下, ........”.
Although I now consider it to be a kind of “delusion of grandeur”,
I was always proud of being a 建中人, the nickname we used to call
ourselves. Even after we graduated and started college, we still
referred to our own class as 建中 高四四班, 高五四班, 高六四班,.....,
for the following several years.

建中 is in the perfect location for a school. The National Botanical
Garden, the National Central Library, the National History and
Culture Museum, and the National Science Museum are just across
the street, and the 美國新聞處 is right next door. The Botanical
Garden was our hang-out place during the school lunch hour.
美國新聞處 , where there were a lot of English reading materials and
magazines, was the perfect place for us to improve our reading and
practice of the English language. (But as you can tell from my writing,
I obviously had not exactly benefited from that opportunity.)

During the Christmas holidays in 1995, our family took a trip
to Taiwan. While in Taipei, I proudly brought our children to
visit Dad’s old school. The 紅樓 did not impress them very
much, but they were amazed by the size of the school.


PS “紅樓夢斷知何處, 夢裡猶是建中人.” was an article in "建青"104期,
written by 劉玉春, the principal of 建中.

建中校歌 ( 趙友培詞 李君重曲 )

東海東 玉山下；
培新苗 吐綠牙，
春風吹放自由花。
為樑為棟 同支大廈，
看！我們重建燦爛的新中華。
體格強，志氣大；
勞不辭，苦不怕，
樂群敬業，忘己利他；
知恥力行，愛校如家。
同學們！同學們！同學們！
努力奮鬥同建大中華。


Yeh Tze