Overview

• The late‑August ceremony at Pengdao’s ancestral hall, staged by the Guo Family Education Fund, drew national attention after videos spread on Chinese social media.
• This second installment of the event recognized one Tsinghua University PhD candidate, 15 incoming master’s students, and 46 new undergraduates.
• Organizers distributed 217,000 yuan in scholarships, with the largest single award set at 8,000 yuan.
• Honorees wore red sashes reading “wu zu zhi guang” and paid respects with incense and bows before ancestral memorial tablets.
• The village now counts 33 PhD holders from institutions such as Tsinghua, the University of Hong Kong, Cambridge, and Cornell, a result tied to a multigenerational emphasis on education in a community of roughly 6,000 people, as fund director Guo Dongyu noted.