"In the first round, the China Pavilion's guidelines consisted of only 16 Chinese characters: 'Striving for self-improvement, great virtue encompassing all things, imitating nature, united but distinct,'" Yao recalls. "They wanted teams to take inspiration from this. A lot of foreigners saw it and just froze!"
「在第一輪比賽中，中國館只給了『自強不息、厚德載物、師法自然、合而不同』等 16 字箴言，要求所有團隊據此去發想創意，很多老外一看到就當場傻眼！」