60s: I have a store

Chapter 162 Cultural Activities
Seeing that people had come from every household in the yard, the old man finally spoke.

"It's like this, our district is planning to hold a cultural and artistic event, and we require each street to send representatives to participate.

Today, the subdistrict office informed us that there will be a subdistrict competition next week, and each courtyard will present a program. The winning courtyard will represent our subdistrict in participating in the district’s cultural and artistic activities…” An old man directly stated the theme of this meeting without wasting everyone’s time by giving a long speech.

He also explained that the district’s cultural and artistic activities would be visited by city leaders and even higher-level leaders.

The second uncle continued, "We called everyone over here to discuss what kind of program our hospital should produce."

The third uncle also interjected: "The whole theater will definitely be overstaffed. We still need to discuss who will participate in the performance. The candidates will be decided tonight."

As soon as these words came out, the people at the scene buzzed.

Many people are excited to be able to show their face in the district, or even in front of big leaders in the city!

The adults in the courtyard couldn't help but look at Zhou Yimin.

Zhou Yimin is an outstanding young man in their courtyard, so he must have a share, otherwise it would be unacceptable, right?
However, Zhou Yimin shook his head: "I won't go."

Mainly because it’s troublesome.

First he had to participate in the street selection, and then go to the district for rehearsal, which took a lot of time and energy. As for the opportunity to show his face in front of the leaders, he really didn't need it.

"Yimin, if you don't participate, who in our hospital will dare to participate?" an old man advised.

"Yes! You have a lot of ideas. By the way, can you give me some ideas on what kind of programs we should organize in our hospital?" said the second uncle.

The third uncle also spoke up: "If you ask me, Yimin, you can just pick someone to join you."

As soon as he finished speaking, those in the courtyard who wanted to participate all looked at Zhou Yimin with burning eyes.

Everyone expected Zhou Yimin to get a spot, and they had no objection at all. Now, everyone just wanted to show up with Zhou Yimin.

However, Zhou Yimin still shook his head and said, "I suggest that we just let the children in the courtyard participate. The adults are busy. As for the program! Singing will be fine!"

It was no problem to give advice, but it was impossible for him to do it himself. Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Zhou Yimin felt that it would be a bit offensive if he didn't pick anyone, so he simply let the children in the courtyard participate.

This time, no one said anything, right?
Do you have the nerve to snatch the opportunity from a kid?

When these words were spoken, everyone was stunned.

Isn't it a bit too frivolous to send the children out?

Of course, it wasn't that they had objections. Just as Zhou Yimin thought, they really felt embarrassed to compete with their children for opportunities. Besides, those who had children at home agreed with Zhou Yimin's proposal.

As a parent, you must be happy when your child is in the spotlight!

As a result, residents with children at home spoke up to support Zhou Yimin.

"It's okay to let the children go, but what about the show? You say singing, what songs should they sing?" The old man always felt that there was nothing original about singing.

He predicted that there would be many singing programs, and that children from their hospital would have no competitive advantage at all and it would be difficult for them to stand out and appear on the stage of the district's cultural and artistic activities.

In short, send your children to participate without insurance.

Cheng Siguang also supported Zhou Yimin and said, "Yimin is right! We adults have to work, how can we have so much time for training? Let the children participate!"

He has two godsons!
Especially Shengli, which made him very proud. Since he started to go to school, he has been praised by the school twice, and the teacher said that he will represent his school to participate in the mathematics competition.

This made him very happy, and sometimes he couldn't help but have a drink or two.

Therefore, he also agreed with Zhou Yimin's opinion and let the child show up.

Almost two-thirds of the residents in the courtyard have children at home, so the minority obeys the majority. In addition, this is Zhou Yimin's proposal, so everyone has to give him face and will not openly oppose it.

Then, the question became what songs to sing. In this era, the most popular songs are no more than about ten.

In fact, if it weren't for the children, Zhou Yimin could have suggested performing skits. Skits hadn't appeared at that time, and it wasn't until the 1983 Spring Festival Gala that the pantomime "Eating Chicken" took shape.

The real success of skits on the Spring Festival Gala stage was "Eating Noodles" performed by Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao on the Spring Festival Gala in 1984. This program still retained traces of skits as a training for drama performance to some extent, but it had already brought laughter to the ordinary audience at that time.

"How about 'My Motherland'?" someone suggested.

"My Motherland" is the interlude of the movie "The Battle of Shangganling". Everyone has seen "The Battle of Shangganling" more than once, so this song is relatively familiar to everyone.

It deeply expresses the strong patriotic thought and sings the infinite love and heroism of the volunteer soldiers for their motherland and hometown.

"Not very good. There will definitely be a lot of people singing it, and it will be difficult for us to pass." The second uncle shook his head.

It’s not that this song is bad, but too many people sing it, so it’s nothing special.

"Singing the Motherland?"

Zhou Yimin was speechless.

Wouldn’t it be better if “Singing the Motherland” became more famous?

Even our beloved CEO personally issued a people's government decree: to widely sing "Singing the Motherland" throughout the country.

In later generations, "Singing the Motherland" has become a ceremonial song, opening song or closing song for various major events in China.

There is no need for him to elaborate on how famous he is.

Zhou Yimin thought of a song that had not yet been released.

"We are the successors of communism."

Normally, the song "We Are the Successors of Communism" was not created until two years later. It is the theme song of the feature film "Heroic Little Eighth Route Army".

As the film "Heroic Little Eighth Route Army Soldiers" was screened across the country, the song "We Are the Successors of Communism" became a popular song and was widely sung among the masses.

This song was later designated as the anthem of the Young Pioneers of China.

It is a main theme song in itself, very suitable for this era, and also very suitable for children to sing.

Zhou Yimin can't write songs or anything like that, he doesn't know how to compose music, but he can sing! This song, even without music, is pretty good when sung a cappella.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yimin said, "Let's sing a new song."

"New song? What new song?" someone was puzzled.

What are the latest new songs? No one knows much about them.

"Come up with one yourself. It's just a nursery rhyme. It shouldn't be that difficult."

The residents in the yard looked at each other in bewilderment.

Isn’t it difficult to compose a song?

Only Zhou Yimin could say this.

Everyone knows that he can invent, and he might be good at composing songs.

Thanks to brother 08a for the 200 reward!

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(End of this chapter)