Sunshine

The pronouns stage a role: 老师我 is the teacher referring to himself, claiming the right to “handle” the pupil. At first the offense is merely 调皮, being naughty; within a few lines the same child is worthless, stupid and told to die. The escalation makes the adult’s language grotesquely disproportionate before the student’s destructive fantasy even begins.

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戒尺 is a ruler-like implement historically used by teachers to punish pupils. This one is described as iron. The following line specifies the palms and backs of the hands, making the classroom's authority physical and painful.

• Ministry of Education dictionary: 戒尺
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长记性 literally means to develop memory, but in a reprimand it means finally learning not to repeat a mistake. Coming immediately after the strikes to both sides of the hands, it turns “learning” into the memory of punishment rather than understanding a subject.

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罚站 compresses a punishment into one verb: being made to stand. The doorway places the pupil at the class’s boundary, visible but excluded from the lesson. Between blows to the hands and threats over exam results, this quieter detail shows another form of classroom power—controlling where the child’s body is allowed to be.

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教育事业 is elevated language for education as a profession or public undertaking. In the teacher’s mouth, “my” career matters more than the pupil’s welfare. The lofty noun is immediately followed by a very precise fee schedule. That collision of official-sounding purpose with private earnings is the verse’s central exposure.

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补课 means supplementary or make-up lessons. This teacher makes the child’s survival conditional on attending paid classes at his own home. The conflict has a concrete institutional background: a 2015 Education Ministry notice explicitly prohibited serving schoolteachers from inducing pupils into paid tutoring. The satire exposes how authority over a child’s grades can become leverage over the family’s money.

• Education Ministry: prohibition on paid tutoring by serving schoolteachers (2015)
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After extravagant threats, the voice suddenly becomes an invoice: hourly rate, then settlement period. The plain administrative precision is part of the cruelty. It makes the impossible bargain sound routine and manageable, as though paying on time could resolve a system that has already declared the child disposable.

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The teacher recruits parental disappointment after specifying his fee. A familiar appeal to family pride now works as the final push in a sales pitch. The line makes shame portable: even outside the classroom, the pupil is asked to carry the teacher’s demand home and experience it as an obligation to the parents.

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The hook remakes 上学歌, a cheerful Going to School Song, through a playground parody circulated by children long before this recording. A 2007 school report describes the explosive-schoolbag version while condemning such songs and organizing replacement singalongs. That history sharpens the joke: even the supposedly childish escape fantasy became something adults tried to discipline.

• Tongling Daily: a primary school’s campaign against playground parodies (2007)
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The little bird’s repeated morning greeting is deliberately simple, friendly and easy to sing. It stands opposite the adult’s dense sequence of insults and transactions. Retaining that bright nursery-song diction while changing the schoolbag preserves the pleasure of a children’s chorus, which makes its revenge fantasy more unsettling than a uniformly grim verse.

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The decisive substitution comes at 炸药包: a bag of explosives takes the schoolbag’s place. The sun, flowers and bird have continued their cheerful routine, so the destruction enters through the object that normally signals obedient attendance. Keeping the nursery-song setup intact makes the rupture work; the world still smiles while the child imagines removing school from it.

• Zhengzhou Evening News / China News: the school-song rewrite
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The repeated 有什么不能 asks what could possibly be forbidden; 你要 then turns that freedom into commands directed at an audience. The voice changes from being handled to insisting on being heard and seen. Its rebellion adopts the same commanding grammar as the teacher, suggesting how thoroughly the classroom has supplied the available language of power.

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马眼 literally says “horse eye,” but it is slang for the opening at the tip of the penis. “Pisshole” carries both the anatomy and the coarse register. Two lines earlier, 狗眼 is an insult directed at someone’s eyes; 马眼 repeats 眼 while moving to a different body part. The sequence then shifts into pixelation and an impossible autopsy.

• Urologist Li Hongjun: the anatomical meaning of 马眼
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马赛克 literally means mosaic; in media language it also means pixelation used to obscure part of an image. The line turns the preceding violent image into something one cannot clearly see, before the next line says even an autopsy is impossible. It changes from bodily detail to the image that might be left on a screen.

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做不了一点 uses 一点, “even a little,” for emphatic total impossibility. After the image dissolves into mosaic pixels, the punchline is that no examination can recover it. The casual, almost conversational degree-word shrinks an extreme bodily image into an offhand judgment—the same deadpan mismatch that drives the teacher’s opening speech.

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