Xiangjiang old events [entertainment circle]

As soon as the beginning of spring in 1978 passed, it was already New Year's Eve in the blink of an eye.

It’s the New Year’s Eve, and there’s basically not much work in the field, and everyone is enjoying the rare relaxing days throughout the year in this rare winter.

The old banyan tree at the entrance of the village has always been a good place for people to rest. Even when the north wind is howling, there are still seven aunts, eight aunts, girls and daughters-in-law, who gather under the tree to do some light work in the sunlight.

During the holidays, it is the new year and the new atmosphere. After the past natural disasters and national mourning, taking advantage of this good opportunity to quell the future of the New Deal, many people finally have long-lost smiles on their faces.

"Hey, have you heard that the village has invited someone from the county cinema to show a movie tonight!"

In mainland China these days, not to mention the rural areas, even television sets in the cities are still extremely rare. Being able to broadcast movies in the countryside is already a rare and popular form of entertainment for the broad masses of the people.

"Of course I've heard of it. This movie is one of those foreigner movies, isn't it?"

"A few days ago, those educated youths in our team fought over their heads to go to the city to watch the first show, just for the seat of that movie commentator!"

"What is this narrator?"

"Which thing is that those who have read the book read it first, and after reading it, they figure out what the story is about, and then explain to us what the story means when the movie is shown."

"Hey, it's a good feeling. People like me who haven't read books are afraid that they won't understand that foreign thing!"

In fact, it is not only the peasants who are quite new to the term "film commentator", even many people in big cities and the educated youth who were invited to participate in the first round of screenings are also very new to this term: Isn't this just watching a movie? ?Still need someone to crush it like a lecture and explain to others what story is told here?Isn't it enough to just look at it?

As everyone knows, it took a lot of painstaking effort for Su Yun to come up with this method.

Now the mainland is in a stage of turmoil just after a thousand wastes are destroyed, and there are not many people who can read. Just like this, the film is broadcast to the countryside in accordance with the policy of promoting culture. Most of the time, it is just for people to watch lively and fresh. To see the prosperity on the outside, but not really touch the core of "seeing the world with your eyes open".

When the time comes to be misunderstood and misunderstood, it may be another chaos in which people join forces to criticize capitalist thought, and in the end it will be self-defeating.

Therefore, Su Yun, who had completed the dubbing at that time, submitted a proposal to invite educated young people from surrounding rural areas to watch the first round of the film when the film began its first round of screening in Shanghai and surrounding towns. "Application for the post.

A patriotic entertainer like Su Yun who is well-known in the capital, and who once helped Tangcheng and offered to donate half of the movie profits as funds for post-disaster reconstruction, coupled with the support of policies, this application is very easy. Immediately got an affirmative reply.

The Shanghai stock market has already started broadcasting after the National Day. The average knowledge level in big cities is relatively high. Even if the working people don’t understand it on the spot, there will be intellectuals next to them to explain their confusion. Su Yun pretended to watch a few episodes , so I'm not too worried about the movie show in big cities.

The only exception is the rural areas where the average level of knowledge is currently relatively low, so she pays great attention to the situation of movies going to the countryside.

As the end of the year is approaching and there is policy support, the ticket price of movies in rural areas is lower than the common ticket price of about 3 cents in big cities, and it will be gradually adjusted depending on the local rural situation: the ticket price in a wealthy village with a large auditorium is between 5-1 It costs about 2 cents, and the price of the amphitheater that is just pulled up anywhere with a machine is correspondingly 6-60 cents. Children under [-] years old and seniors over [-] years old are free of charge.

Every time a film is shown, two educated youths will be assigned as film commentators as required, and this will be counted as work experience. At this time, the term "educated youth" will soon become history, and the news of returning to the city in batches fills them with new hope. , but how to determine the sequence is a big problem in many places.

As soon as Su Yun's proposal of letting educated youths act as film commentators, ranked according to their achievements in cultural promotion, was submitted, it immediately gained a lot of support.

In this way, it can not only solve the situation of intellectual youths fighting openly and secretly in order to return to the city first, but also continue the true meaning of the educated youth going to the countryside to promote culture, so that educated youth can bring knowledge and culture to the countryside.

After getting the permission, Su Yun traveled to various surrounding towns in the next month, and while helping to publicize, she summed up an outline text of the film's content and core ideas, and sent it to rural groups everywhere. Come out for an informed reference.

In the early stage, the educated youths were processed into their own commentary notes based on the outline text, and this group was basically carefully selected activists and young people full of fighting spirit to return to the city. Su Yun didn't worry about them not working hard.

Because of the lack of film resources and Su Yun's willingness to surrender, the few films she sent were basically set to be released for more than half a year.At the end of the show, the movie was rebroadcast many times. Most of the working people understood the content of the story and were able to explain it to later generations with the old and new. Movie region for reference.

All of the above, in addition to saying that Su Yun spared no effort to promote the cultural promotion of movies to the countryside, I can also say that the capitalists are really amazing in squeezing the surplus labor...

When the villagers under the banyan tree were talking happily, the arrival of a few uninvited guests suddenly broke the excitement.

These are the most stubborn old lady Li in the village, her daughter-in-law Wu Xiulan, and her posthumous daughter Zhang Xiaoying.

It is said that Mrs. Li used to be a maidservant of a rich family when she was young, but she was sold to the Zhang family as a daughter-in-law when she fled. Her husband died in an accident while fishing, and her eldest son also married her husband the year she got married. Following in his footsteps, now only the three wives and grandchildren are left to depend on each other.

However, Mrs. Li especially disliked her daughter-in-law Wu Xiulan, thinking that she had given birth to a daughter and failed to leave a legacy for the Zhang family. She beat and scolded her daughter-in-law and granddaughter at every turn.

The cadres in the team persuaded Mrs. Li many times by saying, "Times are different, boys and girls are the same, women can still hold up half the sky", but they failed to change Mrs. Li's mind.

To this day, Mrs. Li still devotes her heart and soul to the boys from the other Zhang family who moved to the town, and sends them what they have, regardless of the starvation of their own family members.

Everyone was surprised to see Wu Xiulan and Zhang Xiaoying, who were following behind, in a rare spirit today, and wearing new clothes without patches.

But what is even more surprising is that Mrs. Li also bought a set of movie tickets for her daughter-in-law and granddaughter!

The price of movie tickets in their village is not high, 3 cents a piece, and a set of New Year’s gifts includes "A Couple Born", "Artificial Intelligence", "Memoirs of a Geisha", "The Sixth Sense", "This Killer Is Not So Cold" As well as six movie tickets for "Pounding Heart", one movie is shown every night from New Year's Eve to the fifth day of the new year. The total asking price is 1 cents, which is cheaper than buying it alone. Bought a full set of New Year's gift packs.

Why is a person like Mrs. Li who is so harsh on her daughter-in-law and granddaughter full of feudal thoughts suddenly treating them so well? !

"Your mother-in-law has finally figured it out? Do you know that your granddaughter can do the job?" An old lady couldn't help asking when Mrs. Li was going to buy a movie ticket at the grocery store.

Wu Xiulan bit her lip and shook her head, unable to utter a word, but her tears fell like broken beads.

"It's Chinese New Year, why are you crying here, you mourner! Why don't you hurry back and cook! I don't want to see how thin Xiaoying has become!" After buying the ticket, Mrs. Li immediately scolded the scene. open.

"Grandma, don't scold my mother, I'm not hungry..." Zhang Xiaoying held back the fear in her heart, and weakly tugged at the corner of Mrs. Li's clothes.

Mrs. Li glared at her granddaughter, and after seeing her subconsciously tremble, she changed her blunt tone as if to react: "Okay, let's go home for dinner, I have to go to the auditorium to occupy a seat in a while." Already!"

Looking at the back of the third wife, Sun Yuanqu, a young girl couldn't help but muttered, "Isn't the seat already set on the movie ticket?"

"So the seat is determined according to the movie ticket? Oh, I still want to finish the meal early and take the front seat like Mrs. Li!" The aunt who was picking up the soles of her shoes patted her thigh.

"That's not necessary, the location of your old man has been written on the movie ticket, and someone will take you there." An educated youth girl passing by explained with a smile.

After talking about the position, the topic turned back to the Zhang family: "Then what's the matter with Mrs. Li? Why are you so kind to Xiaoying and his wife today? Not only did you not beat or scold them, but you also gave them good clothes to wear?"

You must know that Wu Xiulan and Zhang Xiaoying's clothes are patched and patched at ordinary times, they are short and old.

Because Zhang's family has two accidental settlement expenses, Mrs. Li and Wu Xiulan can work hard, and the family's situation can be regarded as average in the village; it's a pity that Mrs. Li is so devoted to her nephew's house that she hides all good things to be careful Taking care of Xiaoying and his wife, they sent them to the town whenever they had the opportunity. Instead of giving their daughter-in-law and granddaughter good rations, they gave them to their nephews and grandchildren who had a better-off family than theirs.

At that time, when Mrs. Li said that her granddaughter Xiaoying was thin, a narrow-minded person said, "You don't think carefully about why your granddaughter is so thin." Unfortunately, Mrs. Li just pretended not to hear it, and she didn't feel ashamed at all. meaning.

Everyone was wondering, an aunt thought and thought, and finally couldn't help but said: "I went to the market the day before yesterday, and saw Mrs. Li at a tea stand, talking to Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Zhang to send her daughter away. Whispering about another son's succession..."

"Isn't that right, Mrs. Li, has she lost her mind and gone crazy? Giving away her own granddaughter, and asking her nephew's grandnephew to be raised at home?!" opened.

Those extremely poor and backward villages who really can't afford to raise children send their children to others to support them. It is a remnant of patriarchal feudalism. Such progressive villages like theirs are economically inferior to the top and have more than the bottom. Can this happen? !

"It's no wonder Mrs. Li is so kind to Xiaoying and his wife today. I dare say this is a 'beheading meal'!"

Contacting the previous matter, many people couldn't help but get angry because of it when they suddenly realized it.