1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 49: Old Look, New Face
On the first day of 79, Milan saw a passage in his summer notebook:

This is the best of times, this is the worst of times;

This is an age of wisdom, this is an age of stupidity;

This is a bright season, this is a dark season;

This is the spring of hope, this is the winter of disappointment;
People have everything in front of them, and people have nothing in front of them;
People are on the road to heaven, people are heading to the gate of hell.

A passage written by Dickens more than a hundred years ago now seems like an early tribute to this era.

In this era, every inch of progress has been hard-won.

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On January 79, 1, Xia Tian saw a change on his small color TV at home - CCTV officially used the C@C@TV logo.

I heard that because CCTV used C@C@TV, Northern Spring City had to compromise and use C@TV.

The changes of the times are like the changes of clouds in the sky. If you keep staring at it, it seems motionless; but if you lose focus for a moment, it will become something you don’t recognize.

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"Tian'er, have you eaten?" Dachun poked his head out from the top of the wall.

"Let's eat something together? Meat buns!" Xia Tian folded the newspaper in his hand. This was a trace of history.

When Dachun heard Xia Tian say that they would have meat buns in the morning, he suddenly became excited. He jumped onto the top of the wall and came over.

In the morning, I had three meat buns and two bowls of porridge from Xia Tian, ​​and then we went out. I made an appointment with Xiao Dong, who had glasses, to go to Xinhua Bookstore first.

Basically, the 1st of every month is the busiest time for bookstores, and the lines for buying books and magazines can stretch for dozens of meters!
People these days lack spiritual food.

Hungry, hungry and thirsty!
After waiting in line for a long time, the four people finally entered the bookstore.

I looked around in the summer to see if there were any new books published. Finally, I found a book called "Popular Movies"!
"This is--" Xia Tian picked it up.

The magazine cover has a very old feel, like a still from a drama with oil painting quality.

It says "The Great River Flows Through It" below, starring Zhang Jinling and Liu Yanli.

(Zhang Jinling was one of the famous "Three Flowers of Beijing Film Academy" in the 80s, the other two being Liu Xiaoqing and Li Xiuming.)
"It's actually a movie magazine?!"

For Xia Tian, ​​this "Popular Movie" is both familiar and unfamiliar.

I am familiar with it because as a semi-practitioner who has worked in film and television self-media and online movies, I am familiar with this professional magazine which played an important role in China in the early years.

What’s strange is that this magazine declined in the 1990s, and I didn’t personally experience its heyday.

It is said that during the heyday of Popular Movies, it was a magazine that tested the popularity of actresses.

The magazine covers all featured the most popular movie stars at the time, and the stars’ outfits became trendsetters.

If you haven’t been on the cover of "Popular Movies", you can’t say that you are famous!
Unexpectedly, I came across its re-publication issue!

After taking a look, wow, it's even more amazing~
The magazine even contained a congratulatory message written by Mr. Mao Dun, as well as a notice of the memorial service for the famous film actor Shangguan Yunzhu.

There are also introductions to the movies "Xiang Lin Sao" and "Nezha Conquers the Dragon King".

It contains the latest domestic and international film news, introductions to classic movies, and an interactive column for movie fans called "Letters from the Masses."

Buy it!

In addition to this re-issued issue of "Popular Movies", Xia Tian also saw a copy of "People's Pictorial", a painting magazine.

The cover of this issue of "People's Pictorial" is actually a 6-year-old boy.

His name is Asi, and he is the only painter besides Qi Baishi to appear on the cover of People's Pictorial.

(The painter is now middle-aged and still paints)

Xia Tian took a look and it was another story of forcing things to grow faster and hurting Zhongyong.

I bought a copy of "Popular Movies" and a copy of "People's Pictorial" in the summer, and then I turned around and found Dachun smiling foolishly while holding a copy of "Story Club".

This is very famous!

Even in the new millennium, when the era of literature gradually passed and other publications and magazines gradually became silent, it was still active for many years.

In previous years, the name of this publication was "Revolutionary Story Club", and now it has been restored to its original name "Story Club".

In just the first month of this year, countless changes have occurred, and sensitive people have already felt the breeze on their faces.

A slow-witted person may not notice the storm until it comes, and passively bear everything.

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In mid-January, a heavy snow fell for almost a whole day and night.

Heavy snow began to fall yesterday afternoon, and the snow had not stopped until I got up at 5:30 in the morning for morning exercise.

The snow that fell for more than twenty hours directly covered the city of Yanjing with a thick quilt.

When I opened the door in the summer, I found that the snow was so thick that it even blocked the door.

Don't do morning exercises. Light the stove first, put an extra piece of honeycomb coal in, boil some hot water, and then sweep the snow.

Xia Tian found a shovel and a broom and first cleared a path to the gate. Then he swept the open space in the yard and also cleared a path to the warehouse where the honeycomb coal was stored.

After more than 20 minutes, halfway through the work, Xia's father came out wearing a cotton hat and gloves. He first put a hat on Xia Tian's head - Xia Tian didn't feel cold, even when sweeping snow, he didn't wear gloves, but Xia's father was worried that he would catch a cold.

The father and son swept for another ten minutes before they almost cleared the yard - long snow piles more than one meter high were piled along the wall!
Next time Dachun jumps over the wall and comes in, he can be buried directly~
"It's snowing so heavily that it's very inconvenient to travel!" Dad Xia opened the door and looked at the thick snow in the alley. When he stepped down, it reached his calves!

Dad Xia went out to buy breakfast, Xia Tian had already cooked the porridge, and Mom Xia was washing her face.

"Mom, it's snowing so heavily. Do we still need to go to the group?" Xia Tian asked.

Mother Xia carefully applied the snow cream on her face - she was reluctant to do so - and said, "It's just a little snow, I still have to go to work."

"This is just the beginning. If one day you go back to the Northeast and see the heavy snow there, oh! You often won't be able to open the door!"

Dad Xia is more motivated at work than Mom Xia. After dinner, he pushed his bicycle and went out to work directly - given the situation today, the bus must have been broken down.

By the time Xia Tian called Da Chun to go out together, the neighbors were already sweeping the snow.

People on the street were walking with one foot deep and one foot shallow - just as Xia's father had expected, all the buses had stopped running.

Although it snowed heavily, it couldn't stop the enthusiasm of the young people.

On the contrary, this kind of time makes enthusiastic young people more eager to go out.

Just as Xia Tian arrived at the entrance of the alley, he saw a dozen kids of the same age from the alley gathered there, laughing and chasing each other.

"Hey, Brother Tian! Good morning!"

"Morning, morning."

Many boys greeted Xia Tian, ​​and Xia Tian responded one by one.

Someone was so credulous that he asked, "Brother Tian'er, are we going to have a wrestling competition this year? This heavy snow is perfect!"

Before Xia Tian could answer, someone shouted from afar, "What wrestling competition?"

Xia Tian saw that they were a group of people speaking the same dialect.

The kids in the alleys don't have much to say to the kids from the big courtyards. It's only because of Xia Tian's existence that the two sides get along peacefully and can be considered acquaintances. Otherwise, they would definitely look down on each other.

Xia Tian said, "There is no snow wrestling competition."

"If it was just normal snow, it would be fine. But this snow is so heavy that many people are affected and traffic is paralyzed. What's the point of holding a wrestling competition?"

"I want to help clear the snow, do you want to come?"

"Go, together!"

Friends in the alley can’t just sit there and watch the snow cover them, which is 20 to 30 centimeters thick. With Xia Tian taking the lead, they are naturally willing to do something.

Fangyan and the other six came to play with Xia Tian, ​​not to work, so they definitely wouldn't want to do that.

But seeing these twenty or thirty peers busy sweeping the snow, it would not be a good idea for just a few of us to just stand there!

It was still Zhuo Yue. He was still relatively simple, with a childlike heart. He didn't have any airs to hold back. He just grabbed a shovel from the side and started working.

Others saw it and said: OK, let's help. Just think of it as serving the people.

"Tui~" Pants spit on his hands, "Just wait and see~"

Fangyan was slacking off at work, and he was teasing him, "Alright, alright, stop teasing that dirty guy!"

A large group of people lined up in a long queue and used shovels to push the snow out and pile it up in the flower beds on the side of the street.

Ma Xiaojun, Liu Yiku and a group of five or six people also came here, and the children from the nearby alleys also heard the noise and came over with shovels and brooms.

Xia Tian saw this and said: "Okay! Forget the wrestling competition, let's have a voluntary snow-sweeping match!"

"Xiaodong, call a few people and go to the nearby area to inform everyone in the alleys and schools, and ask those who are willing to come to bring their weapons!"

You can't just mind your own business and ignore the troubles of others, right?
Xia Tian asked Xiaodong to take people to notify the neighbors living nearby, classmates at school, etc.

Word spread quickly from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. In half an hour, nearly two hundred people gathered here!

Xia Tian shouted, "Hey, everyone, be quiet. We are here to learn from LF to do good things and serve the people. We can't mess around."

"Let me tell you, let's divide into groups of five or six people each, and form our own teams."

"We don't ask for anything else. Just clearing this Di'anmen East Street will be our contribution! What do you think?"

"it is good!"

"Let's get started!"

When there are more people, everything becomes lively and energetic.

A group of young men started sweeping the snow along the street!
There were already some neighbors cleaning up small areas, and now with the addition of new forces, it will be even better.

Moreover, in the summer, these teenage boys took action here and attracted another group of people - the educated youth returning to the city.

Those young people in their twenties are now sitting at home with nothing to do.

Since so many people are clearing the snow, why not contribute your part too!
Things were different back then. Nowadays, no one dared to help an old man or woman who fell on the street.

It’s different now.

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