1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 151 Spring Festival Gala Influence
In the past, various TV stations have held New Year or Spring Festival galas.

But as the saying goes, the course of history... or it's fate, it's better to come at the right time than to come early.

The “Spring Festival Gala” organized by Director Huang Yihe this time became a hit!
There are already tens of millions of television sets across the country, making this gala an absolute hit.

The next day, many newspapers were urgently reprinted, and some even published special editions. On New Year's Day, many people were discussing last night's Spring Festival Gala.

At this time, the transmission of information and the response to many things are much slower.

When was it confirmed that this Spring Festival Gala was a hit?
It was probably the fifth day of the first lunar month. Xia Tian and Da Chun went shopping. Da Chun bought two bottles of Bei Bing Yang and was then told that the price had increased!

"The price has increased?!" Dachun's eyes widened, looking quite scary.

Dachun: "In my entire life, I have never heard of the price of the Arctic Ocean increasing!"

However, the salesperson's eyes were even bigger than his: "The price has gone up? What? Do you want to buy it?"

Dachun bid 50 cents: "Buy it~ just~ buy it~"

Because the Spring Festival Gala sponsor placed several bottles of Beibingyang on each table, many actors were drinking and chatting, which made Beibingyang popular all of a sudden!
The product is so popular that the demand exceeds the supply, causing manufacturers to run out of inventory and have to raise prices!

It actually grew to two hairs!
It’s popular. It’s really popular.

But to be honest, the Arctic Ocean factory does not specialize in beverages, it is a national food factory.

Their main product is canned food, which is sold to the northern countries. After a few years, it became difficult to sell, so they started to focus on beverages.

At this time, Mi Lan came to Xia Tian with two big piles of letters: "Hey, they are all written to you! I can't read them all!"

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, I received forty or fifty letters in one day!
Xia Tian and Milan sat at the table for quite a while opening the boxes, and more than half of them were love letters alone!
Previously it was limited to some areas around Yanjing, but now it is available all over the country.

She was on TV, and many people saw her. She was good-looking, could sing, and was humorous—the part where she begged for mercy…

That's such a heart-pounding feeling!

Of course, I wasn't that unrestrained at that time, and between the lines I wanted to make a pen pal with Xia Tian~
This is something that many young people in later generations cannot understand. Just think of it as a netizen of this era.

However, the communication is not done through the Internet or social software, but through letters.

Communication is naturally not very convenient, with letters only being sent once every two weeks or a month.

It's kind of interesting...

But where is the time now in the summer?

"Here, two more photos." Milan took out two photos of girls from the envelope and handed them to Xia Tian. One of them was a color photo. This girl must come from a good family... Well, she looks good too!

Milan occasionally sees a well-written love letter and reads it out vividly, as if to say "I'm so excited"! Scary!
The wooden box at home that holds letters has long been full, and now even the bookshelf is a little stuffed.

CCTV also started to receive positive feedback.

After the Spring Festival Gala, the audience wrote letters and made phone calls praising CCTV as "the people's good radio station." Such praise undoubtedly touched the station's staff.

It also made Director Huang and his colleagues in the Spring Festival Gala preparation team extremely pleased - all the hard work of several months was not in vain!

Moreover, the influence of this Spring Festival Gala has continued to spread, and many CCTV programs not only saw a surge in ratings after the first Spring Festival Gala was broadcast, but the number of people buying televisions also increased significantly, triggering a "television craze"!
Even the red jacket worn by Liu Xiaoqing caused quite a stir, with people rushing to buy it in an attempt to catch up with the latest fashion trend.

——It made Xia Tian laugh so hard, because that piece of clothing was provided by Xia Tian, ​​or rather, given to her as a gift!

And he already has hundreds of pieces in stock!
After the 15th, the same jeans and red jackets worn during the Spring Festival Gala will be on the market immediately!

My friends who roam the streets immediately set up stalls!

Of course, there are pros and cons. With such great popularity, it is definitely impossible for all the voices to be praises. There are quite a few criticisms.

For example, some people criticized Liu Xiaoqing for being immodest and lacking substance, some criticized Zheng Xulan for wearing jeans that showed off her figure and would corrupt the aesthetic taste of teenagers, and some criticized Xia Tian for singing "Singing Face Painting"...

The last criticism in particular has attracted the most attention.

Because what happened above is all old stuff. Liu Xiaoqing has received mixed reviews along the way, and Zheng Xualan is about the same.

Let’s talk about the clothing issue. This has been a debate for two or three years. Now there are aunties wearing red armbands on the streets who specifically target young people wearing bell-bottom pants!
That's not surprising.

But this is so rare in summer!

Starting from the third day of the Chinese New Year, summer has begun to "make friends through writing" with senior colleagues from different walks of life in the newspaper.

Many of the veterans who were defeated last year are eager to try and revive and fight again!
Some people who sing Peking Opera for a living feel like their tails are being stepped on!

"How dignified!"

"It's an insult to Peking Opera!" "It's a tarnishing of the national quintessence!"

"Play the piano randomly!"

There are already many troubles in this low-level profession, and Xia Tian's move of combining Peking Opera with songs has greatly changed the original situation of Peking Opera and is posing the intention of destroying one's livelihood. That's even worse!
The laws of our ancestors cannot be changed.
In the summer, he started to argue with them in the newspapers. After all, he was half an insider, so he "skinned" them one by one. So far, he has defeated four or five enemy generals.

As the temperature was rising, Fang Xiaoyan came to me with her interview notes as soon as I got to work on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year.

While it's hot, go for it~
Fang Xiaoyan: "The song "Singing Face Painting" that you sang on the Spring Festival Gala this time caused quite a bit of controversy, and many Peking Opera actors criticized you... What do you think about this?"

Xia Tian laughed: "The people like it, but if they don't like it, who are they?!"

"I'm used to criticism. If I'm surrounded by praise, I'll have to be careful."

Xia Tian was really not polite this time. From "Chi Ling" to "Singing Face Masks", he was more or less affected by the death of old man Ma.

Fang Xiaoyan also asked about the creative ideas behind this song.

"Thoughts..." Xia Tian was silent for a moment.

You can't say that you are speaking up for old man Ma, right?

"I named the style of this song Beijing song..." Xia Tian said.

"It is a form of art that uses the singing style, tunes, and routines of Peking Opera, combined with modern music elements, to perform."

"This concept has never appeared before, but similar ones have already existed. The earliest one can be traced back to 65, when the teacher's poem "Ode to Plum Blossoms" was composed and sung to the tune of a female role in Peking Opera... The correct name should be the teacher's poem "Ode to Plum Blossoms" sung to the tune of Peking Opera."

For things like this, you must "trace the source"!
You said you invented it yourself, so it must be broken.

But if you say that someone had it before and I inherited and developed it, many times they have nothing to say.

Besides, what Xia Tian said was right. Not a single word of it was false. It was watertight...

……

As people started working again and their lives returned to normal, they gradually stopped discussing the Spring Festival Gala.

Although it is sometimes mentioned, for example, the song "Homesickness", which was banned before.

For example, the song "Singing Face Painting" with a completely different style in summer, you can even hear old men humming it in the park in summer.

People's love is not fake.

Xiaodong was also holding a brand new tape recorder and played the tapes he had recorded from the radio broadcast for Xia Tian to listen to.

Xia Tian: You want to listen to my pirated version, and do it in front of me?!

However, Xia Tian also noticed his new tape recorder, which not only can be used as a radio, but can also record tapes!
very popular.

Xiaodong and Yanjing have become "rich" thanks to their small shop that repairs home appliances. At least they have enough money to buy the most popular Yanwu tape recorder.

This Yanwu brand tape recorder is very popular nowadays.

There was a trade fair in Yanjing after the Spring Festival. People lined up in a long queue in the cold weather just to buy a Yanwu brand tape recorder.

Two years later, they even started producing televisions and advertising on TV.
But the name of this brand is very...special!
When Dachun heard Xiaodong say it for the first time, he was shocked: "Y dance? What Y dance? Where is it?!"

……

A day later, Aunt Wang from the CCTV finally came and reported on "The Little Girl Picking Mushrooms" - Xia Tian breathed a sigh of relief.

This is like the other boot. You will not feel at ease until it lands on the ground.

However, this time she didn't want Xia Tian to sing...

This time, Aunt Wang consulted with Xia Tian and decided to let a little girl sing "The Little Girl Picking Mushrooms".

Xia Tian: It’s over, I’m out of fashion!

But I still have to say: "Okay! This song is suitable for little girls. I always feel that something is not right when I sing it..."

The more he sang, the more he sounded like a pervert stalking someone in the wild.

Soon, a report in the newspaper attracted Xia Tian's attention, and he no longer cared about the pervert.

Guangming Daily and Renmin Daily announced that the filming of the TV series Dream of the Red Chamber is under preparation - who will play the leading role in the series has become the focus.

(End of this chapter)