After countless pieces, I finally selected the
piece for submission to this year's The New Year Exhibition of Sankei
Sho International Association 産経国際書展新春展. It is a revisit of an old phrase that I came up with a long time ago, with a slight change to 风声雨声读书声千声入耳 家事国事天下事万事关心 instead.
I finally gave up counting the pieces that I set aside, since I wrote quite a lot, but realised the amount of progress I was making each week, and ended up throwing away anything set aside from more than a week ago as I went along.
This is a candidate that was not submitted.
And these are earlier candidates, but I found them a bit too spaced out.
I also tried to see if I can switch to the original phrase (风声雨声读书声声声入耳 家事国事天下事事事关心) at the last minute, but it didn't turn out as well, due to lack of preparation, so I decided not to go with this.
This is the last submission for 2026, and the cycle will start again in April 2027.
