The successful start of Yunnan South made Chen Xia completely relieved.
The next things like business opening and advertising are all his aunt's business, so he will just enjoy life. Last time he came to Hong Kong, he was in a hurry, so this time he is ready to have some fun.
Chen Xia had been to Hong Kong for tourism in her previous life, but Hong Kong in 1983 was different, especially since Hong Kong's entertainment industry was at its peak at that time, with cinemas and dance halls everywhere.
Chen Xia wanted to go see a movie, but found Gu Lin hiding in the room and refusing to go out. After hearing about "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" that day, the little girl developed a deep interest in this TV series.
Even though she didn't understand much Cantonese, the roaring sounds of fighting on TV still deeply attracted Gu Lin, who had never watched a martial arts TV series before. She even didn't want to go shopping, her favorite thing to do.
It was extremely difficult for people in mainland China to watch TV in this era, let alone exciting TV series. The few TV series that were available were just like the current Qidian novel website, all with mainstream themes.
Needless to say, in the 1970s, there were only a few televisions in mainland China, and the signal was pitifully poor.
In the 1980s, as people's living standards improved, televisions gradually appeared in cities. Of course, almost all of them were black and white, with the smallest being only 9 inches and the largest being 14 inches. Color TVs were rarely seen.
It was not until the late 1980s that farmers could afford to buy televisions. This is not to say that rural people are necessarily poor. There are still many people who go out of the countryside to do business, and there are many rich people. It’s just that there is no television signal in the countryside.
Just like Yuezhou, the TV signal tower is placed on Fushan Mountain in the city center. The signal is very clear for people in the city or surrounding towns, but it is not good if it is farther away, let alone in mountainous areas.
There weren't many TV brands, like BJ, Venus, Feiyue, Panda, Kaige, etc. Domestic brands that everyone knows later, like Changhong, TCL, and Chuangxin, had not yet appeared.
You need a ticket to buy a TV, and there's a scene like this in the movie "Hi, Mom." But these tickets are so rare that only large state-owned factories and government agencies occasionally allocate a few according to the proportion of workers.
If you have a ticket but no money, you can’t buy it.
Even if you have money but no ticket, you can’t buy it.
Even though I had money and tickets, I still couldn't buy a TV in the department store because they didn't have one.
It's too difficult.
Foreign goods were not available in ordinary department stores. They could only be purchased at Friendship Stores with foreign exchange coupons. Those were things that only the powerful and wealthy could enjoy, and ordinary people had no chance of getting them.
Most TV casings were still made of wood, probably because plastic wasn’t yet fully popular in that era.
Anyway, when Chen Xia went to buy something, the salesperson never put it in plastic bags. If it was food, they would just wrap it in that kind of khaki paper and tie it with a thin rope.
When ordinary people buy a TV, the first thing they do is set up an antenna. In Yuezhou, there are only low-rise houses and very few high-rise buildings, and the requirement for the wires is that they are as high as possible, otherwise the signal will be poor.
Therefore, Yuezhou people usually use bamboo poles, the longer the better, and tie the antenna on them and stand them up. When the signal is not good, they have to go out and rotate the bamboo pole continuously to adjust the direction.
Sometimes, when you are just watching a crucial moment, a gust of wind blows and turns the antenna a little, and the TV signal is gone or becomes very blurry. It can make you so anxious that you want to smash the TV.
Just as televisions began to slowly enter ordinary people's homes, domestic TV dramas also slowly began to appear, but the level and quality are really nothing to say. The characters are very stereotyped, the plots are quite old-fashioned, and the central idea is very mainstream.
For example, in 1981, CCTV broadcast the first TV series "Eighteen Years in the Enemy Camp", directed by Wang Fulin. The series had a total of 9 episodes, only about 2,000 shots and more than 100 scenes.
There are always long shots, the costumes never change, and you can tell who the good guy and who the bad guy are just by looking at the actors. Even so, people all over the country still enjoy watching the show.
As for the later famous "Desire" and "Editorial Story", they would have to wait a few more years before they appeared.
So later, when Hong Kong TV dramas were introduced to the mainland, such as "Heroes of the East" starring Huang Yuanshen, Liang Xiaolong and Michelle Yim, the streets were really packed.
I heard that even the police were very happy because the petty thieves no longer came out and all hid somewhere to watch TV.
Later, a large number of Japanese TV dramas were imported into China, including "Oshin", "Blood Ties", "Dinosaur Express Ks-X", "The Volleyball Girl", and "Secret Force".
Japan's cultural invasion is really severe. The TV dramas in the 1980s and the cartoons in the 1990s turned two generations of Chinese people into "Japan fans", completely changing the image of Japan into a positive one.
So at that time, there was a trend of traveling abroad, and Japan was also a very popular destination. It seemed that people in Shanghai particularly liked to go to this country, and the largest number of pro-Japanese elements were also in this area.
Of course, this does not mean that domestic TV dramas are not good. There are many classics among classics, such as the 1986 version of "Journey to the West", the 1987 version of "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", which are the pinnacle of domestic TV dramas and have not been broken so far.
When Chen Xia was a child, he also liked the Weng Meiling version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", otherwise he would not have thought of letting the beautiful Huang Rong be the spokesperson for Caiyunzhinan.
So the couple forgot about going shopping and started watching the movie together with great interest.
Chen Xia has watched this TV show countless times. When it comes to the exciting parts, she can even help Gu Lin explain a few words. Fortunately, only Miss Gu is thick-skinned. If it were a smart woman, she would have asked,
"You haven't even seen it, how do you know the plot?"
Women should not be too smart, or pretend to be confused, otherwise men will be very tired and will have to find a lot of excuses and lies, which is not good for everyone.
Thinking of the TV series, Chen Xia had an idea: "Come on, stop watching it. Let's go buy a video camera and then buy all the videotapes on the market. Then when we get back to Yuezhou, you can watch as much as you want every day."
"Video camera? Honey, I only know about tape recorders. What is a video camera?"
"Come on, follow me out and you'll find out. It will definitely open your eyes."
The streets of Hong Kong were already very prosperous at this time. Chen Xia held Gu Lin's hand and walked out of Chen's house on Garden Street in Mong Kok. Soon they found an electrical appliance store.
When the boss heard that they spoke Mandarin, he looked down on these mainlanders, but this was not a melodramatic novel, and there was no plot where they swore and then got slapped in the face by the protagonist.
People may look down on them, but looking at what Chen Xia and Gu Lin are wearing, they are definitely children of top powerful families, how could they be poor?
As long as he has money, he won't frown even if he sells out the boss's wife, no matter where you are from.
"Sir, what electrical appliances would you like to buy? We have all the world-renowned brands here."
"We want to buy a video camera. Does the boss have any recommendations?"
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