Countercurrent 1978 starts with the production team

After the reform and opening up, the mainland quickly entered a period of social transformation, full of vitality and uncertainty.

After ballroom dancing appeared in public in 79, a dance called disco was quietly introduced to the mainland.

Disco dance has a large amount of activities and a strong music rhythm. It is an impromptu free dance with no prescribed movements. The dancer is also an appreciator of the music, swinging with the strong and sharp rhythm of the sound.

Since there is no prescribed pace, they will improvise different body movements according to changes in rhythm, twisting various parts of the body freely.

At the same time, they will also create their own tricks, fully express their personalities without restraint, and perform various different actions.

This unrestrained dance was very popular among young people. It can be said that disco dancing was the most fashionable activity among young people at that time.

Wearing bell-bottom pants, spending 1000 yuan to buy a double-speaker tape recorder, and dancing to disco, you will be the most handsome boy in the eyes of others.

In the 80s, every Sunday, some young people and foreigners from the embassy area would spontaneously gather to dance in the then desolate Yuanmingyuan Park.

Regardless of whether they knew each other or whether the other party could understand them, everyone drank beer together in public and danced to the music on the tape recorder.

Then the good times didn't last long, and the wind soon changed.

In June 1980, a "Notice on the Banning of Commercial Dances and Spontaneous Dances in Public Places" was issued, and these activities were terminated.

If you couldn't dance in public places, you had to dance at home. Family dances became the most important form of dance at that time.

But soon there was news that a group of people were punished for dancing on the rooftop. The crime was: unhealthy dancing, and each person was fined 5 yuan.

Then it was stepped up again. In 1982, a document "On the Spirit of Banning Commercial Dances and Discouraging Family Dances" began to ban family dances.

Disco activities began to go underground and could only be carried out quietly.

Think about it, who are the people who like these activities? They are all teenagers and young people in their twenties, which is the time when they are most energetic in their lives.

They have no mobile phones, no computers, no Internet, nowhere to vent their energy, and no chance to dance. Some people start to cause trouble on the streets with a restless heart.

They appear in gangs on the streets and vent their excess adolescent emotions by fighting, robbing and teasing girls.

After disco went underground, some people began to organize dance parties in secret.

They can have physical contact with the opposite sex in the name of dancing in an unsupervised private space. This alone makes these young people even more attracted to it.

As the disciples of the big courtyard, Li Gui and the others were naturally familiar with these places in the capital.

After having people squat with them for a few days, Biaozi had already figured out their route. On Sunday, he even took Chu Jianghe to a secret dance party where they often went.

A courtyard that occupies a large area near the outskirts of the city looks unremarkable from the outside, but once inside, you realize that there is something special about it.

The decoration is naturally not good, it can be said to be shabby. It was renovated from an old factory building. The windows were deliberately blocked with black cloth, making it airtight. There were only a few light bulbs on inside, and men and women were crowded here. , but also creates an ambiguous atmosphere.

When Chu Jianghe arrived with Xiao Fei, there were already a lot of people there. Biao Zi led him to a corner and sat there, pointing at a few people not far away who were shaking their heads, and said: "Brother, that tall and thin guy That’s Li Gui, that fat guy is Liu San, and that horse-faced guy is Chen Hongqi.”

Chu Jianghe looked in the direction of his finger, only glanced at it, and asked Xiaofei: "Is it them?"

He is not interested in getting to know these people, as long as he doesn't find the wrong person.

Xiao Fei only took one look and was sure: "It's just a few of them."

The enemy was extremely jealous when they met. Xiao Fei gritted his teeth when he spoke, seemingly remembering the day he was beaten.

"Since I'm not wrong, just wait and watch the show," Chu Jianghe patted his shoulder and comforted him: "Don't tell me, it's my first time to come to this kind of place. It's quite interesting. You can do it if you like. Go dance, you will never see such an occasion again in the capital."

Xiaofei didn't understand what his brother-in-law was referring to. Looking at the passionate people in front of him, he was a little eager to give it a try, but he still couldn't let it go in front of his brother-in-law. He blushed and shook his head: "I don't know how. .”

Chu Jianghe smiled and did not force him. He waved his hand and let Biaozi make arrangements.

He just sat here and listened for a while, and there were two songs that he was familiar with. One was "Disco Queen" by Ouyang Feifei, and the other was an English song "Rivers of Babylon", both of which were dance hall songs in the 80s. Anyone who went to a disco in the 80s must have heard these two songs.

But they said that Li Gui and the other three were having a great time dancing over there, especially Li Gui who was twisting his body to wink at the girl opposite. Just as he was getting into it, he found that someone stepped on him.

Li Gui turned around angrily and shouted at the person who stepped on him: "Who doesn't have eyes? Are you blind?"

The person who stepped on Li Gui was a thin young man with sinister eyebrows. He quickly apologized to Li Gui: "Brother, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention."

Li Gui didn't like the other person and wanted to get angry. Unexpectedly, the young man opposite took out a pack of cigarettes and was about to apologize to himself.

"Brother, you smoke..."

Before the young man finished speaking, Li Gui snatched the cigarette from his hand, and the anger on his face turned into a smile: "Damn, Marlboro, American product, I didn't expect you to have such a good thing. "

The young man had a bitter look on his face. When he saw that Li Gui had no intention of returning, he clasped his hands and said, "Brother, I offended you today. This pack of cigarettes is my apology to you."

Li Guida was very satisfied and nodded: "That's pretty much it. You're a wise boy. Please pay attention next time."

The young man smiled bitterly and took two steps back, but without noticing, he stepped on the foot of a strong man again, and a roar louder than Li Gui's came: "You kid is blind!"

The bitter look on the young man's face became more intense, and he apologized quickly, but the strong man was reluctant and was about to take action. He quickly took out the money from his pocket and handed it to the other person: "Brother, it's my fault. Please forgive me, this money is my apology to you."

The strong man took the money, his voice became much lower, he muttered a few words, and finally said: "Okay, be careful next time."

The young man looked frustrated, apologized a few more times, and was about to leave.

Li Gui didn't care about dancing at this time. He looked at the back of the young man leaving, rolled his eyes, and called the other two people to come over. After a few words, the three of them followed the direction in which the young man left.