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Sixth grade Chinese character description composition teaching plan
1. Experience of the sixth-grade character description composition teacher class 1 At the beginning of the composition, the teacher should encourage more and ask fewer questions. Let the students write boldly, and the teacher should comment carefully. This is mainly to make students "look as easy as writing, but not as difficult as writing".

(2) In extracurricular reading, reading classics, masterpieces and classics is not encouraged, which can not only broaden students' horizons, but more importantly, form a big composition concept in students' minds from the beginning, regardless of the external form of composition and not "writing for the sake of composition". Literature shows that the selected compositions sell well in the market and are "welcomed" by students, which also reveals that China is not good at teaching compositions.

(3) Requirements can be lowered, but imitation is not encouraged. Liu Xiqing pointed out that respecting individuality and innovation are the life and soul of composition. There are also differences between "composition" and "creation", only the differences between students and writers, teenagers and adults, exercises and publications. It's all the same as writing.

Therefore, on the one hand, our composition teaching should be lowered. Although the requirements are low and the speed is slow at first, the pace of composition teaching will be accelerated and the effect will be good after guiding students to the "right path". On the other hand, students are not encouraged to imitate, especially when the teacher clearly points out that students can imitate. Professor Liu Xiqing has fully explained the reasons.

2, find the breakthrough point, choose a good road, a road that teachers are familiar with, and let students go by themselves.

There are many such practices in China. The traditional practice is to emphasize students to keep a diary, but the practice of keeping a diary is synchronized with students' study of composition, and there is no problem of "leading the way". Training students to look at pictures, write words, paragraphs and articles in the form of composition, and then put forward composition, which is the general arrangement system of composition teaching content in Chinese textbooks in the past. It can be said that pictures are introduced into composition to guide students' composition. In recent years, Teng, a primary school teacher attached to Xiangxi Normal University (now Hainan), has been launched in Zhejiang, and the teaching reform experiment of "fairy tale guidance" has had a great influence in China. Obviously, fairy tales are used to guide students' composition. A leap from picture-based composition to fairy tale guidance is that the role (picture) that guides students to "go on the road" has become the role (fairy tale) in the composition door; In addition, there are more and more experiments such as "story guidance" and "popular science guidance" all over the country. The author advocates guiding students with letters, news, newspaper clippings, children's poems and ancient poems. In fact, this kind of guidance is to liberate students' fear of difficulties and let them take the first step in learning composition! Only when students have confidence in learning composition well can they take the initiative to learn and learn it well. Therefore, every time I receive the first composition class of a new class, it is not difficult to tell students that composition is not difficult. "I write with my mouth", and composition means speaking with a pen. Write as you say, write as you say. Who can't speak, as long as he can speak, he will write an article, thus eliminating students' unattainable fear of writing.

The essence of "leading the way" is to apply the theory of "releasing first and collecting later". Professor Liu Xiqing from the Chinese Department of Beijing Normal University pointed out that the common problems we have now are: "not releasing" enough, "closing" too early and being too harsh. There are too many propositions and too many restrictions; There are also many "frames" on the question of "how to write"; Too many corrections on "correction" are not only useless, but also greatly dampen students' enthusiasm for writing. Never "letting go" but always "receiving", it's so cool, the wings of imagination are broken, and their thoughts and hearts can't fly. Liu Jiaoshou said that the serious performance of cursing students' writing enthusiasm is to bring psychological barriers. Therefore, Professor Liu Xiqing believes that students should write boldly from the beginning. As for what to quote, I think teachers should have their own methods. It is not only unrealistic to copy others' methods mechanically, but also a strange phenomenon of "teaching has a fixed method" in the whole composition teaching circle, which is contrary to scientific laws.

2. Sixth grade landscape composition teaching plan [sixth grade landscape composition teaching plan] Teaching ideas: 1, so that students can enter the writing state as quickly as possible in a limited time and master the writing points.

2, with the help of multimedia, from perceptual to rational, to obtain language interest. 3. Conception: Step-by-step training method.

Teaching time: Two class hours (the first class is taught and the second class is written) Teaching process: First, analysis: Most students often only pay attention to the surface (appearance) of things (natural landscape) and only pay attention to the perceptual feelings of things, resulting in a situation of writing thousands of people, and there are not many places to shine in their compositions. Analysis of the reasons, mainly is not open thinking and imagination, making the writing appear rigid.

Second, we should guide the composition. Composition is the spark of collision between thoughts, feelings and life.

Understanding the mystery of writing and experiencing the pleasure of writing from life are practical and effective ways to stimulate writing inspiration and improve writing level. Association and imagination are precious wealth of human thinking.

Bold association and imagination of life will make our emotional world richer and better. Today, let's put our thoughts on the wings of imagination and experience the natural scenery! Third, reward 1, under the guidance of the teacher, use the projector to show several points for attention in writing scenery: observation angle, scenery characteristics, specific description and expanding thinking.

2. Show the paragraphs about landscape writing in the text and the wonderful sentences about landscape writing in famous American prose after class. A. Show wonderful excerpts from the fifth volume of the text "Listening to Springs in Dinghushan" at the booth (omitted).

B, the projector shows the famous sayings after class (if there is no wavy line first, then the words on the wavy line): the village is sleeping, and the dark night sky is wrapped in silver. Green stars, as gentle as summer nights, are looming from the unfathomable sky and from the depths of the distant galaxy, winking at me kindly.

When I walk on the dusty night road, it walks with me; When I stopped at the edge of the birch forest, in the quiet shade, it waited among the trees; When I walked through the house, it shone on me kindly and tenderly from behind the dark eaves. -(Soviet Union) Bondarev's "Stars and Moonlight" Fourth, I would like to invite some students to talk about their feelings and analyze where to choose.

1. Why can the author grasp the characteristics of the scenery? Any tips? Clarity: with the help of association and imagination. Dose.

The projector shows two lines: I think, therefore I am. Descartes

Man is a thinking reed. Pascal.

2. Beautiful features of the selected language: appropriateness; The sentence patterns are diverse; Emotional, primary school students write "sixth grade landscape composition teaching plan" practice 1. Has anyone been to Zhangjiajie? If someone answers that he has been there, let him talk about his feelings, or simply describe them. If not, the teacher will play the scenery of Zhangjiajie directly through multimedia.

.../.../Sony Pictures/Tianshui Zhangjiajie Tour/Zhangjiajie Scenery Film /AVSEQ02. DAT description: according to the time, select the playback duration (which should be controlled within 5 minutes). Teacher's Tip: Pay attention to the beauty of these scenery, the photographer's angle and so on.

2. Observe students' emotions. When they are in high spirits, freeze a picture, such as the reflection point of the colorful sea in Zhangjiajie scenery and the waterfall splashed with pearls and jade ... 3. Give students five minutes to describe the scenic spots in the picture and choose a few good ones to read in class. 4. The teacher summed up the possible advantages and disadvantages of students' segmented training: ① lack of writing skills, such as single sentence pattern, lack of rhetorical devices and unfamiliar expression techniques; ② Lack of association and no comparison with other similar landscapes.

Positive examples: winter in Jinan; (3) Lack of imagination, unable to give readers more emotional thinking from the language. Positive example: Dinghushan Tingquan; ④ It didn't rise to the height of rationality, and didn't combine the description of natural landscape with humanistic thought.

Positive example: painting mountains and embroidered water. Sixth, the projector shows the fragments about Zhangjiajie in American literature.

Jinbianyan is higher than the peak forest, which is quite different from other peaks. From the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, it is like an axe, without trees, bright, tall and square, like an angry golden whip, pointing to the sky. What makes people feel particularly strange is that the Golden Whip Rock is close to a giant peak and looks like an eagle. The eagle's head is very high, and its wings are spread out in the air. One wing holds the golden whip rock with half a push, which is the golden whip of the famous eagle.

(Jun Qing's "Emerald Zhangjiajie") People are used to associating the images of monkeys watching Taiping and boys worshiping Guanyin to praise the beauty of natural forms, and they often use vividness to describe their similarities. In fact, many stones are beautiful in themselves, and beauty lies between similarity and difference. There are many famous stone peaks in Zhangjiajie, such as Qin Shihuang's golden whip and three sisters ... beautiful stories are created by people's imagination! No one knows her. On my way back from my visit, I found that it was not just my feeling of meeting someone, but the feeling of human beings who were late.

I remembered the story of Bole and the horse. The ancients in China lamented that swift horses often have bole, which can also be used to illustrate people's discovery of natural beauty.

When human beings look at nature with caring eyes, they will find that many beautiful scenery cherished by nature have been ignored by human beings, and the beauty of nature is closely related to human awakening. Therefore, we should not only call for Ma Bole and talented Bole, but also call for beautiful Bole or beautiful Bole. I wonder how many Zhangjiajie are waiting for Bole to discover.

(Sun Sun's "Meet Late") Its mountains and rivers are beautiful, and there is no artificial carving and whitewashing. One mountain, one water, one grass and one tree are all made in heaven, cut by wind and rain.

No matter mountains, depressions, deep streams, valleys, caves, stone pools and exotic flowers and plants, they are all naturally shaped, interesting, scenic and famous. It is hidden, like a Tujia girl who grew up in a deep mountain, smiling like a flower and full of vigor, and it is impossible to form a specific scene in her heart.

Jin Bianxi is a beautiful natural stream, named after Golden Whip Rock. The stream winds from west to east and still flows after a long drought.

Approaching Jin Bianxi, there is green everywhere, and even the clothes reflect light green. Listen gently, the water is gurgling, accompanied by birds singing.

Walking, I suddenly felt a chill, only to realize that the breeze was blowing gently, and the fragrance of attacking people made you stop to think about it.

3. I want to describe the composition of the characters (sixth grade level). My deskmate is called Ni Jianwei. He has black hair, about an inch long.

He has light eyebrows under his hair and big eyes under his eyebrows. His lips are slightly upturned and there are some wrinkles on his nose. When he laughed, he stared at his big eyes and looked as if he were laughing. Ni Jianwei has many advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages are helpful and love physical exercise, especially running. The disadvantage is that the action is too slow, and sometimes I like to hit people.

When Ni Jianwei was happy, his eyes narrowed into a crack. Originally, he was laughing instead of laughing, but now he smiles naturally and sometimes gives me something to eat. Today is the mid-term exam. Of course, Ni Jianwei also has problems he can't do.

He buried himself in writing for a while, then frowned when he encountered problems that he couldn't do, smiled on his face, held his head in his hand, looked like a little doctor, and sometimes yawned. He's angry again. His big eyes, which are usually full of smiles, now emit two cold lights, which are aggressive, his teeth are creaking and his nose is panting, as if he were short of oxygen.

Ni Jianwei also likes to meddle. I haven't bought "100 moved the father of middle school students" until now, so he will come to talk about me. It's really annoying But he is very generous. Whenever I forget something, he always lends it to me.

After a relaxed and happy winter vacation, I got a grade. In the sixth grade, I heard that Teacher Yao taught us Chinese. I wonder in my heart, is Teacher Yao fierce or not? Teacher Yao is strict with horses? Will he punish the students? Countless little question marks are spinning in my head, which makes me dizzy.

After more than ten days of school, I gradually found that Mr. Yao was so amiable and humorous. Teacher Yao is of medium height, with dark hair and heavy eyebrows, and his eyes are shining with wisdom.

Teacher Yao loves to educate us with laughter, so that we can learn knowledge unconsciously. What impressed me the most these days was Mr Yao's first composition class.

When the music sounded crisp and sweet in the classroom, Mr. Yao walked into the classroom, and the classroom was still noisy. The teacher didn't blame us, but ordered two students who were whispering to each other and asked them to stand in front of the podium and be models.

Then the teacher asked us to observe them, master their appearance characteristics and write self-portraits for them. After a while, the teacher asked me to read first, and I immediately became nervous and played the small drum.

"A pair of ..." I said, with a long sigh of relief. Teacher Yao praised my practice and pointed out the highlights of my article. I'm flattered, sweeter than honey.

The teacher asked several other students to read it, and after reading it, the teacher asked us to participate in the evaluation. We also had a little teacher addiction. Teacher Yao pointed out that one student's writing was untrue, so he wrote by imagination. The teacher told a joke about the truth of composition, which made everyone laugh from ear to ear.

Finally, the teacher asked two "models" to talk about their feelings. They are flushed and may be ashamed of their behavior. Teacher Yao asked us to learn writing knowledge through laughter and educate people at the same time.

Let's learn to be human and be true through laughter. This is really a humorous teacher. Miss Zhu's eyes Miss Zhu's eyes are double eyelids, and her black eyes are round and big.

It seems nothing special at first glance, but take a closer look. Hey, Miss Zhu's eyes can talk! In Chinese class, I looked at the beautiful new eraser on the desk, and my fingers itched. I reached out my hand unconsciously to touch it. Teacher Zhu happened to see that she seemed to be hinting: "Gu Yu, what are you doing?" My hands stopped itching immediately, so I quickly put my hands behind my back and listened to the teacher carefully ... I understood what Teacher Zhu's eyes were saying, and the students also understood what Teacher Zhu's eyes were saying.

One day in the self-study class, Mr. Zhu stood at the door of the classroom and talked to his parents, and everyone chatted casually. This is Mr. Zhu turning his head and staring at us with his eyes, as if criticizing us: "Why are you talking?" So, everyone immediately calmed down, and the classroom suddenly quieted down ... Once, Teacher Zhu gave us a lesson on "Crow Drinking Water" in the auditorium, and more than 300 teachers participated! Teacher Zhu asked: Why can crows drink water? I immediately called to Miss Zhu, who held her hand high.

I was in a panic when I saw so many teachers. My heart is pounding and my voice is very light. Teacher Zhu's eyes immediately gave me an encouraging look, as if to say, "Yes, yes, louder!" " "I looked into Mr. Zhu's eyes, and my courage grew louder and louder.

At this time, Mr. Zhu gave me a favorable look, as if to say, "What a good speech!" I got "Double Hundred" in the mid-term exam. Teacher Zhu is so happy! When she gave me the award, her eyes bent with laughter, as if to say, Gu Yu, she did really well in the exam this time, and she will definitely be able to take the "Double Hundred" exam next time. I remember once, I was ill in hospital and it took me more than a week to go to school.

In class, Teacher Zhu looked at me from time to time, as if to say, "Grain Rain, can you eat?" Are you comfortable? My illness happened, and I'm not in good spirits. But when I saw Miss Zhu's eyes, my spirit came back ... After class, Miss Zhu joined us, and her eyes could speak. Once, we played the game of "the eagle catches the chicken", and Teacher Zhu was the "eagle".

She suddenly ran east and the runway went west. Where are her eyes? Open your mouth wide, as if to remind us: "Hey-be careful!" I want to catch you! "That's terrible! Finally, a "chicken" ran too slowly and was caught. At this time, Mr. Zhu's eyes seemed to say, "Haha, I caught him now!" " "Although Miss Zhu doesn't teach us now, whenever I see Miss Zhu, I always look into her eyes and see what she says to me.

Unit 5 Composition Writing Characters My head teacher, Miss Yang, is in her thirties, with dark curly hair and bright eyes.

do you believe that? Her eyes are different ― they can talk! Whenever I make progress, her eyes seem to say, "You are great!" Whenever I go to the classroom early to clean up, her eyes say, "You are really a hardworking little bee!" " "If I am absent-minded in class, her eyes will remind me:" Listen quickly! " "Teacher Yang's open class is different, and the courseware is perfect. I remember the open class last semester.

As soon as the bell rang, we all sat up straight, folded our hands and held our breath, as if our hearts were about to jump out, waiting quietly for the teacher to attend class. I looked at the big screen, wow! The seven characters above-roses that never fade-are beautiful, with thousands of small yellow roses in the background, which means that more than 50 students follow their teachers closely and study hard for a better tomorrow and their own ideals.

In class, Teacher Yang spoke vividly and simply, and we listened carefully. As long as the teacher asks a question, the students raise their hands like a small forest.

At this time, Teacher Yang will give us a favorable look. In this way, the class passed unconsciously.

However, there is still a lot left in our hearts.

After class, I found a few more silver lines on Mr. Yang's head and several thin wrinkles on his forehead. At this time, I remembered that "there are stars in the quiet night, and the teacher's room is bright all night."

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This song. Teacher Yang: You must have stayed up late to make courseware for this lively open class, right? Teacher Yang, Teacher Yang, you have worked hard! Teacher Yang, I admire you very much! Please believe that in the near future, you will be full of peaches and plums.

5. The composition of sixth-grade primary school students describing characters should highlight the characteristics of characters, and the life of about 500 words is slightly blue. Let the fragile mind go through the storm and become stronger. In the blue sadness, I completed my emotional trek and spiritual growth. Unload the heavy sadness, let the faint sadness turn into a wisp of light smoke, drift away with the wind and disappear into the boundless sky. ...

When I was young, who didn't have a dream? The heroism that once "overthrew Fang Qiu" has now lost its direction in the deep-rooted realistic soil. The cruelty and helplessness of reality sometimes make you struggle and wander in the whirlpool of pain, so a shallow loss and a shallow sadness will breed in your heart.

How many masts have you broken in your life? How proud is the spring breeze? Young and frivolous, after grinding away the edges and corners, can't fade away the desire in the heart, because: if the heart is there, the dream will fly! After a difficult journey and numerous setbacks and failures, I learned to endure, learn to be helpless, learn to be strong and learn to taste sadness quietly. Tears flow, the heart will be stronger, and the wet mood will be dried in the sunshine of the New Year.

Looking back at the distant scenery, how many memories will life leave? Young and frivolous, how many times will desire be rekindled? Let the dream set sail again? Deep in the rain curtain, the memory of a thousand years was washed away; The night rain is endless, and how many longings are stranded in the hazy moonlight? I let go of my dreams countless times, and all I got was loss and sadness, so I closed myself up and quietly forgot the past. However, love is a burning weed. After the spring rain, you will see a touch of new green, which is the vitality from the bottom of your heart.

Give up the glitz of the world and give your mind a moment of peace. In the symphony of life, there are high notes and low echoes. Sadness is not the main theme of life, nor is love and hate the theme of life. In the long river of history, every life is just a rainbow across the sky, short but gorgeous. Sadness is just a touch of blue in the color of life, lightly smeared with layers of sadness.

There are green vitality, crimson spring, fiery pursuit, orange ambiguity, gray gloom and white essence in life. Through the tunnel of life, you will know the true meaning of life better, and out of the gray memory, life will be more free and elegant. Out of the continuous plum rain, we will feel the brightness of the sun more deeply. Don't let sadness play up your life, it's just a slight blue stroke after loss. The picture of life still has mountains and rivers, poems and paintings, bloom and grass. In the years of life, there will still be infinite scenery, birds and flowers. Life, that touch of blue, adds a lot of color to your life, and eventually there will be an ark sailing in the vast sea of the soul!

Indifferent to ambition, quiet and far-reaching Seek a quiet mind and face all the ups and downs in the future, and you will find that you are really mature.

Life, how many storms? After the rain, that touch of new green will bring you infinite vitality. More colors will make life more meaningful. The joys and sorrows of the world, the success or failure of the cause, and the magnificent emotions can only be better understood if we have experienced the hardships of "no water". Learn to enjoy loneliness and taste sadness. It is a touch of blue and a heavy life. Without her, life would be a pity.

Life, that touch of blue. Let the fragile mind go through the storm and become stronger. In the blue sadness, I completed my emotional trek and spiritual growth. Unload the heavy sadness, let the faint sadness turn into a wisp of light smoke, drift away with the wind and disappear into the boundless sky. ...

6. A composition describing the personality characteristics of the sixth-grade primary school characters, 400 words. Sometimes she can be childish to my mother. He will bury himself in writing for the time being.

Ni Jianwei also likes to meddle. When she was busy making the bed, she told me that my clothes should fit. I'm sitting on the spare rack of my mother's electric car, and I'm light. At this time, I always yawn at my mother and love to exercise. Mother's love is like flowing water. Mother's love is like a swallow in spring, which brings us intoxicating spring scenery. I tried my best to speed up and rush to my head. Yes, just frowning.

He's angry again. He's really annoyed. There are a pair of bright eyes under the curved eyebrows.

When Ni Jianwei is happy, he will give you warm sunshine in the severe winter; Motherly love is selfless; Motherly love is like a stove in winter. He has black hair and the sweetest spring. On the way, my mother and I are the happiest. I hugged my mother and shouted, Come on, be simple. She is wordy and stares at her eyes when she smiles. Motherly love is like the warm wind in spring; Motherly love is the best gift from God!

Fan Wener, my mother's love is the most affectionate music score. She told me all day "nothing like my birth", but proudly said "she is my daughter" in front of others. Mother is like a quiet harbor, feeding us.

Mom, but now she smiles naturally, which is a word envied by children all over the world. My mother, my mother and I just come and go in the wind and rain; Motherly love is like a drizzle. Day after day, my teeth creak, but I have a pair of wise eyes, especially running, which is completely different from my taciturn temper. There are faint eyebrows under the hair, sometimes very poetic. I haven't bought "100 Touching Middle School Students' Dad" until now, and I enjoy my mother's selfless love unconditionally year after year. She is kind-hearted and taps your face. It was a smile.

Today is the mid-term exam. She gets up early every day, always nourishing our innocent souls and being aggressive. Motherly love, she is very upset:

My mother works as a nurse in a hospital. She smiled, and he always lent it to me. When I encounter a problem that I can't do. Because my father is busy at work, he seems to lack oxygen. At this time, he shot two cold lights and prepared breakfast for me himself. Maternal love is great and severe, holding her head.

My mother loves me very much and has some wrinkles on her nose. The disadvantage is that the action is too slow, and sometimes I like to hit people, blowing my heart and nourishing my heart. I have big eyes under my eyebrows and my nose is panting.

The love my mother gave me was real, and the smile on my face was unobstructed, which played the most holy rhyme for us. Big eyes that are usually full of smiles also have many shortcomings. She is tall and has short black hair. Whenever I forget something, she will pat me on the shoulder and wake me up. She looks like she is thinking, and her lips are slightly upturned.

Ni Jianwei has many advantages. Advantages are beneficial, on the dining table, about an inch long:

My deskmate's name is Ni Jianwei, and sometimes she gives me something to eat. But he was quite generous, so he began to cut in and scold, wanting to go out for air all day.

My mother, and then rushed to school with her mother, so most of the time at home, I live alone with my mother; Motherly love only knows how to give and expects nothing in return. Just like a little doctor, Ni Jianwei certainly has problems that he can't do, so he will talk about me.

Motherly love is pure, sometimes yawning makes my eyes narrow.

7. The sixth-grade characters who describe the details always ask you for it, but never say thank you.

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In the journey of my life, the person who cares about me most is you, and the person who touches me most is you, my father.

From the moment I came to this world, it was destined that you would accompany me all my life. When I cry, you will play all kinds of' small acrobatics' to make me laugh; Will help me change smelly diapers; Every night, after you are awakened by my crying, you will still hold me gently; Will patiently sing to me, tell stories and put me to sleep. Suddenly I feel that you are so capable.

When I was fourteen, I began to hate you. When I was playing games, you turned off the switch angrily and shouted at me,' I just know to play every day, so do your homework quickly!' As soon as I said I was going out to play, you kept chasing me and asking if it was a boy or a girl. I always get angry with you impatiently and slam the door.

On that gloomy Friday, my report card plummeted when I came home. I was worried about how to face you all the way. Maybe you will encourage me to work harder next time like other people's fathers. 1 of "pa" broke this childish idea, and my five fingers were deeply imprinted on my left face, which made me * * * hot. I looked up and stared at you with hatred. Your thick black eyebrows are wrinkled into a ball, and there is quite a kind of anger and helplessness that hates iron and does not produce. That night, you sat alone in the living room smoking and stayed up all night.

Why didn't I notice the wrinkles on your face, how didn't I see your rough hands, how didn't I realize that the white hair on your head has occupied the black territory, and how didn't I find your trembling hands and tears of regret after you hit me?

You made me feel the warmth of my father's love. You let me grow up in my father's warm arms all the time ... You are like a jasmine flower, emitting a faint fragrance all the time.

8. 600 words of composition in the sixth grade of primary school: How to describe the appearance of characters There is such a competition, which I still remember vividly.

The boys in our class won the basketball match. However, the girls lost the basketball game. I am not convinced, and I am not convinced. The teacher is right. I really didn't go all out. The last time I was red, my bones were falling apart and I was so tired. But this time I can't feel the sweat on my back and the * * * on my face.

The teacher sent us home. As soon as I left the classroom door, Luo said to me, "Wow! Why is your face so red? " The boy with his back to me in front turned to look at me. Liang Yuancai smiled jokingly and said, "Ha! Fang Zi became Guan Yu! " I sneered, "Oh." My body is shaking and my eyes are getting darker and darker.