1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 306: What is the black guy chewing on?

Just when he was eating rice noodle sausage and having morning tea in Guangdong Province in the summer, he met an absolutely unexpected person in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province.

Dachun: "Fuck, it's black!"

Photographer Xiao Chen fiddled with the camera and asked, "Hey, what's that, Chun-ge?"

Dachun: “Black people!”

The black man over there seemed to have seen the situation here as well, and waved at the surprised Dachun.

Xia Tian walked over and said, "What are you doing? I asked you to take some outdoor shots, why are you making such a fuss? Did you see the founding father?!"

After all, this is Sun Tiequan’s hometown!
However, when Xia Tian followed the direction of Dachun and the other man's gaze, he was also surprised - why was there a black man?
Although this is Guangdong Province, it is not the "hometown of Heilong" that was later known as. How can there be "Lao Guang"? !
It’s not surprising to see one or two black people in Yanjing these days, after all, there are international students there.

But in Zhongshan...this?

However, when I looked at it again in the summer, I felt something was wrong - why did it look a little familiar?
No way? Are there any shows or movies set in the 1980s that still have black characters?

and many more!

Xia Tian walked towards the black man sitting on a stone by the roadside - he was wearing a newly made Zhongshan suit, with long curly hair, his skin was not pure black, he might be mixed-race, his facial features were actually quite good, better than 99.9% of black people!
"You...you are..."

The black guy looked at Xia Tian and was a little surprised and worried - he didn't know what this tall and handsome Chinese man was going to do?
Xia Tian asked, "Are you Michael Jackson?"

The black guy opposite was surprised and stood at attention: "Do you know me?"

Xia Tian: Yes, I very much know it!
(Note: At the end of October 87, Michael Jackson passed through Hong Kong and signed up for a local "one-day tour" group tour. He entered the mainland in a low-key manner as a tourist, and filled in "entertainment industry" in the occupation column. This was also the only time he traveled to the mainland in his life. He visited Zhongshan and inquired about the origin of the "Zhongshan suit". It is said that he later tailored a Zhongshan suit and brought it back to the United States.)
A "tour guide" came over nervously from a distance - it was hard to say whether this so-called "one-day tour" was legal or not.

He said: "Comrade, please don't harass our international friends... Eh?! Xia Tian? You are Xia Tian!" The tour guide even raised his voice!

"I, I really like your songs! "Chinese", "Understanding You", "Wujia Po", "Xintianyou", "Northeast Folk Songs", "Empty Stage"..."

That guy speaks so fast that if you don’t know, you would think he is announcing the names of dishes!

But I didn't hear him sing his latest album "Don't Ask Me What Disco Is" in the summer. I guess he is a traditional fan who doesn't like dance music.

Michael looked at his tour guide in confusion: Why is this tour guide more excited than me? !
……

"Tian'er, I'm leaving! If you go to the United States again, please let me know. See you there!"

Michael followed the "tour guide" and walked backwards, waving to Xia Tian and shouting in English.

Dachun asked, "Tian'er, how come you have a black friend?"

Xia Tian: "What's the big deal? We are all brothers from all corners of the world~"

But Dachun felt that there must be something special about this black guy. After all, Xiatian rarely showed such interest in someone and talked so much with him.

After passing the "checkpoint" and returning to Hong Kong, Michael, who was waiting for the plane at the airport, was still humming the song that Xia Tian taught him.

"Ah Zhen fell in love with Ai Qiang, on a night without stars~"

In a whole day, he learned most of the Chinese lyrics, but his pronunciation was a little strange.

This time, he was really happy to meet his new friend "Tian'er" - a Chinese friend who really understands music and is very good at chatting!

Simply dreamy!
If there was really no way he could stay any longer, he would have been reluctant to leave!

On November 11, Milan called Yangcheng's Xia Tian and told him that a "Western restaurant" had opened on Qianmen Street. "It's called something like gnaw chicken, and it's very unsightly."

Xia Tian: "You are talking about KFC, right? It's your own problem, don't blame it on others~"

Milan: "Aiya! It's all because of you. Just wait!"

"All right, all right, I'll wait."

Xia Tian knew about the KFC incident when he saw it in the newspaper in July this year when he was filming a TV series in Yanjing.

At that time, they had just started recruiting, the first batch of employees were undergoing on-the-job training, and the store was still being renovated.

No, it opens today.

It is said that they think our salt is too coarse, and mixing it with seasoning powder will cause uneven coarseness. So now the salt used by KFC is all imported!

Due to supply chain constraints, KFC in China can only offer eight products for the time being, including original chicken, mashed potatoes with chicken gravy, shredded vegetable salad, bread, cola, 8UP, Mirinda, and beer.

According to Milan, “The queue stretched to the east of Zhengyang Tower, but the foreigners made the most money!”

Later, according to Fangyan Ma Wen and his friends, there were not many people when the store opened in the morning. But around 5 or 6 in the afternoon, there were suddenly many people and a long queue formed!

There was also an advertisement in the "Yanjing Evening News" that day, which read: You can have a serving of American fried chicken for 5 yuan.

People are curious about what the fried chicken sold at KFC looks like?
Many people think that if you are buying fried chicken, you must bring a pot to put it in! So the people in the queue have cooking pots in their hands; some people think that eating chicken must be bought by the piece, so everyone's catchphrase is "Give me two KFCs."

The original chicken is 2.5 yuan per piece! The original chicken set is 7.3 yuan!
(KFC menu in 87) (This is Quanjude’s menu in 87)

The average salary now is only around 70 yuan!

A fast food meal can cost ten days’ salary!

This price is really high for Chinese people, and many people regard eating at KFC as a high-end restaurant.

The next day, on November 11, a short message was published in vertical format in the lower right corner of the People's Daily: "KFC fast food restaurant opens in Beijing."

Xia Tian listened to Milan chattering about KFC on the phone, and somehow, a melody suddenly rang in his mind!
As a result, he was made to laugh so hard that he laughed out loud.

Milan on the other side asked him, "What are you laughing at? Is Deng Jie here~"

"What are you thinking about? I suddenly remembered a song."

"What song is it?"

"Listen to me singing for you~
……

I was eating fried chicken on Qianmen Street
Where are you at this moment?

Although you may be making a feint to the east and attacking in the west
But I am too tired to doubt~"

"Goose, goose, goose..." Milan on the other end of the phone was indeed amused by Xia Tian and laughed like a big goose.

(I made myself laugh as I hummed this. As loud as a goose!)

……

On November 11, the first CCTV National Youth Peking Opera Actors Television Competition, referred to as the Qingjing Competition, came to a successful conclusion.

25 young Peking Opera actors won the "Best Performance Award" and 26 won the "Outstanding Performance Award".

In the Outstanding Performance Award Qingyi and Huadan category, there are names that Xia Tian is familiar with, one of which is Zhang Jinglin, also known as Qingwen!

The other one is Li Shengsu, Boss Li~
Boss Li became a very famous figure later on, and even in the Internet age, he was still followed by many young people.

Xiao Xu was still asking Xia Tian on the phone: "If you were in Beijing, would you go and participate?"

Xia Tian: "They all have teachers and masters, and they have people behind them. Should I go with them?"

"Besides, many of the judges hate me so much that if I go there, the whole camp will be in chaos!"

Zhang Li asked: "Is it because of the change to Peking Opera?"

"Well, that's mostly because." Mainly because I scolded him too harshly~
On November 11, Motorola established an office in Yanjing and began to sell analog mobile phones, commonly known as "big brothers", to the Chinese people.

People still don’t know what this big black brick is used for.

"Big Brother" was first invented by engineers from Motorola in the United States in 1973 and is the common name for mobile phones.

It was in 87 that the first TACS analog cellular mobile phone system was built and put into commercial use in Guangdong Province.

The current model is Motorola 3200, which is as big as a brick. Because the gangsters in Hong Kong movies often use it, it has the strange name "Big Brother"~
While in Pengcheng in the summer, I plan to take some photos of the city's ever-changing exterior scenes, and also meet up with friends who are doing business at the forefront of reform and opening up here.

As a result, I unexpectedly witnessed "history"!
A friend of mine has already started to get involved in real estate, and Xia Tian, ​​out of curiosity, followed him to participate in a "land auction"!
The Pengcheng government auctioned a piece of land with an area of ​​8588 square meters, which was bought by a real estate company for 525 million yuan.

This was the first time the new country had traded land as a commodity, and one of its top leaders had flown in personally to watch the auction.

Xia Tian's friend was just there to accompany him, and he was also there to watch the fun.

And now, few people realize what it means that land can be auctioned.

After this attempt, policies were gradually untied from the cabinet to local government offices, and the right to use land could finally be transferred for a fee.

The emergence of local land finance was even earlier, when the Pengcheng Special Economic Zone was first established...

Wang Shi, who was reselling permits in Pengcheng at the time, noticed this change. He keenly realized that the real estate industry would usher in a historic opportunity.

So Wang Shi gave up his previous speculative activities and started to transform into a real estate company.

Things far away will be shattered, and the people in front of them are still unaware...

After the land auction, they boarded the train in the summer to leave this magical place.

At that time, there were forty or fifty friends who came to the station to see me off, including friends who did business in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hainan and other places.

I thought we could only meet and chat at the end of the year, but I didn't expect you to come here in the summer. You all came here!

Xia Tian was reluctant to say more about the specific business operations. His main advice was: keep it steady!
This is a long-distance race. Running fast is not the goal. The goal is to reach the finish line... I hope we can see each other again in twenty years!
And now, it's time to go home!

(End of this chapter)