New web series Run for Young shows the ups and downs of high school life. HUANXI MEDIA
Imagine this: A student interrupts a teacher while the teacher is delivering a speech, brags (吹嘘) about cheating to get higher scores, mocks others and runs away from the classroom when taking an exam.
想象一下：一个学生打断了老师讲话，大肆宣扬作弊考高分，嘲笑他人，还在考试的时候跑出教室。
Hard to believe? These things were all done by senior high school student Tu Jun (played by Peng Yuchang) in Run for Young. In this web series, Tu and his friends grow up together. They always think, act and talk in an unusual way, which embarrasses others.
是不是难以置信？这些都是《风犬少年的天空》中高中生涂俊（彭昱畅饰）干的事。在这部网剧中，涂俊和他的朋友们共同成长。他们总是以不同寻常的方式思考、行动和交流，令周围人感到尴尬。
Their behavior could be related to the so-called “chuunibyou” or “Middle School Second Year Syndrome”.
他们的举动或许与所谓的“中二病”有关。
Technically, it doesn’t refer to a mental illness diagnosed by medical experts. It was first used by Japanese radio host Hikaru Ijuin in a radio program in 1999. Chuunibyou strikes students mostly in their second year of junior high school, but it could refer to teenagers as a whole.
严格来说，“中二病”并不是一种由医学专家所诊断出的心理疾病。这一说法由日本电台主持人伊集院光在1999年的一档电台节目中首次提出。“中二病”反映了大多数初中二年级学生的状态，但也可以指代全体青少年。
Chuunibyou teenagers usually have certain “symptoms”, such as believing that the whole world is wrong while only they are right. Wang Liren, a professor at Northeast Normal University, said that when students reach puberty, they become eager to show that they’re different and independent. Sometimes, they overdo it. That’s where chuunibyou comes from. Basically, it refers to adolescent egocentrism.
“中二病”的少年通常都有如下“症状”：认为全世界都是错的，只有他们自己是对的。东北师范大学教授王立仁表示，当学生们进入青春期后，他们会迫切想要证明自己既与众不同又独立自主。有时他们做过了头，这就是大家所说的“中二病”。基本上，“中二病”指的是青春期的自我中心主义。
In Run for Young, the main characters seem to be foolish. But actually, they just pretend to be ignorant about life as a way to protect their self-esteem. “The web series conveys how teenagers cope with different problems when they grow mature,” director Zhang Yibai told Shangyou News.
在《风犬少年的天空》中，主角们似乎都有点憨憨的。但其实，他们都只不过是装作对生活漠不关心，以此来保护自己的自尊心。“这部网剧表现了青少年在成长过程中如何来应对不同的问题，”导演张一白在接受上游新闻采访时如此表示。
