Author | Du dude
Source | Once a day
ID | yryd115
Twenty-six years ago, Cui Yongyuan worked as an editor at a TV station, and when he saw a crew frequently auditioning for new hosts, Xiao Cui knocked on the side.
As a result, the crew of "Tell the Truth" targeted him.
A few days later, Xiao Cui wore a borrowed red suit, blew the head of the plane, stumbled onto the stage of the --- in the surprise and sarcasm of the audience, and Chinese television had the most popular talk show and talk show host.
At that time, with "Tell the Truth", there was also an alternative host.
She has not experienced professional broadcast training, no sweet appearance and slim figure, and she does not seek a whole situation when she speaks, but only "stimulates".
The TV station was afraid that the audience would not be able to accept it, so it could only announce to the public that she was a guest.
This host is Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue took over "Half the Sky", basically breaking the circle of the industry.
She later recalled that when she first entered the television industry, she was a "raw bastard".
Working with instinctive enthusiasm, just starting out, but confident, bold, and passionate.
Some viewers once wrote to CCTV, fiercely denouncing the station director:
"Is this Zhang Yue a relative of your family?" Why did you let her be the host? Are all the people in China dead? ”
However, Zhang Yue was able to rely on such an image to win the National Television Program Award and the "Golden Microphone" Award for three consecutive years.
China's "women's equal rights" came so suddenly that many viewers did not figure out what exactly is "equality between men and women", and "Half the Sky" is making up for this lack of cognition.
The emergence of "Half the Sky", in a sense, has condensed the power of women, and it only records an equal opportunity for free choice and free development with the lens.
But what is hidden in this is not only the "gender problem", it is closely related to the problems exposed in this era.
As the only program of CCTV that is gender-oriented and the earliest female column in China, the establishment process of "Half the Sky" is not easy.
In March 1994, Sun Suping, Shou Yuanjun and Wang Xian proposed the idea of running a women's column, and in May of the same year, they were supported by the leaders in the station.
Bringing gender awareness and sensitivity to television programming is no easy task.
At the beginning of the program, "women's problems" were often made into "problem women".
The story "Bitter Fruit" sets the camera on a women's prison in the northeast, and many prisoners are imprisoned for killing their husbands.
After interviewing several female prisoners, the program said that these women are rural people, have no culture, do not understand the law, and are legally illiterate.
The program reminds women to study the law so as not to take the road of crime and taste the bitter fruit of their own.
In fact, many of these female prisoners cannot stand their husbands' domestic violence and are desperate to take risks.
Physiological gender differences do not necessarily directly lead to gender consciousness in thinking, but one's own feelings are the driving force behind the acceptance of gender consciousness.
Over time, Zhang Yue, who always sat in the studio, deeply realized that what he thought and said only stayed on the concept, and did not go deep into the real life.
Zhang Yue lost his enthusiasm and resigned from home for two years.
Nevertheless, the gender perspective gave the production team of "Half the Sky" a pair of eyes and saw through many mysteries of social life.
In the "Public Toilet Heavy Place, Please Pay More Attention" program focusing on the women's toilet at Shenzhen Luohu Railway Station, many women vomit bitter water, such as not daring to drink water before going to the street; long queues on the toilet; menstrual blood leakage during menstruation, sanitary napkins can not be replaced in time...
Masculine facilities cause great physical inconvenience to women.
For the first time, viewers find that in this often overlooked field of life, men and women experience and feel so differently.
This episode gave Zhang Yue a great shock.
As a result, on top of the subversion of "Half the Sky" and the pioneering background, another stroke was added - "Zhang Yue Interview".
The spotlight surrounds some ordinary women.
There is a program called "Han Chunxia's Dowry", and the program team went to Hebei to interview the girl who was about to get married- Han Chunxia.
She worked in the field for many years, earned a lot of money for her family, wanted to stay in the city, but she couldn't find an object in the city, and the family urged her to find one.
A few days before the wedding, the program team came to her house, and she showed off a red and black sweater and said to wear it on the wedding day.
Although Han Chunxia is only like most rural girls, she marries and has children to teach her husbands and children.
But because of working outside, Han Chunxia's mind has always remembered a book- "The Red and the Black", which she heard was a very famous foreign novel, but she had never read it.
Seeing this sweater, she decided to get married and wear this one, and the sweater represents the world she yearns for.
On the day of the program team's departure, they gave her 10 copies of famous books and novels bought from The Xinhua Bookstore in Wangfujing.
The girl who was about to get married held the stack of books tightly in her arms, and she stood in the doorway, watching the van go farther and farther, not knowing what kind of life awaited her in the future.
How difficult is it to see in a woman's personal destiny, group, class, era, and history? And how missionful is it?
Zhang Yufang, a laid-off female worker, went to the city's largest bathing center to work as a bather.
Her macho husband let her stay at home and often quarreled over it, but the family of three only earned 300 yuan a month, and life was very difficult.
Zhang Yufang not only learned the craft of massage at work, but also had a good income, and when old colleagues gathered, everyone threw envious eyes at her, and she had a new identity for her professional identity for the first time.
In addition to the more common emotional marriage problems, the avant-garde perspective in the show, many of the issues involved in it, even in the current view, still have a strong sense of avant-garde:
"Killing machine" in beauty and skin care products;
Talk about male contraceptives;
Gender issues in advertising;
Conference against Domestic Violence against Women;
Peer sex education;
Before and after divorce...
"Half the Sky" is like a mirror, more and more women draw strength from one vivid story after another, constantly reflect on their own growth environment, bravely break the existing social discipline, and gradually find the lack of self-esteem and self-confidence.
"The Silent Majority" has this sentence:
"The so-called vulnerable groups are people who have not said some words, and it is because these words are not said that many people think that they do not exist or are very far away."
In Half the Sky, these people are seen, their words are heard, and those who are far away become very close.
Shaanxi peasant woman Liu Xiaoban, in the eyes of the villagers, is definitely a happy and jealous woman.
But Zhang Yue saw her "strange appearance", this peasant woman was ambitious and unsatisfied.
In the second year of culture, her husband was loyal, and a highway behind the village led directly to Xi'an, but she had never been there, living in her own circle, and she was in pain.
She envied life in the big city, and even the Mandarin of the people in the city felt particularly kind.
It wasn't until Zhang Yue was interviewed that she had the opportunity to sit on the wood in front of her door and tell her troubles in Mandarin for the first time.
She felt that the people around her did not understand her, and her thoughts were incompatible with the personalities around her.
"The outside world seems to be very close to you, as if you can reach out and grab it, but in fact it is so far away."
Liu Xiaoyan said that he went to the provincial city and looked at the pedestrians on the street so good-looking, so fashionable, and he wanted to cry when he was sad.
In the eyes of many people, Liu Xiaoban is an "outlier", her husband Wang Shusheng sighed:
"Why doesn't anyone look like her, and why is there a her on this plain?"
When the program team was leaving, she cried for about twenty minutes: "When you're gone, just throw me away." ”
She shouted out the words "I'd rather be miserable than numb."
In the past 10 years, she has helped her neighbors do farm work, went to the county town as a salesman, and worked in Guizhou and Jiangsu.
20 years later, people found her again.
She once "ran away", but eventually returned to ordinary rural life.
I went around in a circle back to the original point, as if nothing had changed, but in fact, I had changed a lot.
She chose to reconcile with the plain, and in order to join the group, she took the initiative to chat with the old people in the village and learn to play mahjong.
She said she was like a cockscomb flower in the yard, and some people said that she was not beautiful, but it also tried to bloom, no one appreciated, at best tragic.
Although "Half the Sky" has courage and ideas and popularity, it is also dancing in shackles.
It was adjusted less than a year after it aired, and the format of sharing personal stories has since become mainstream.
But this does not mean that "Half the Sky" is not good, although it is not so lively, not so much tongue and sword, but as long as it does not avoid reality, it is still closely related to the lives of ordinary people, and it is still telling the truth.
The in-depth topic of "Half the Sky" -
"Our Hundred Years" uses real history to restore the changes in women's status and the difficulties they have encountered in the past 100 years.
From the liberation of women's bodies (feet), to the early history of women's education and employment development, and then to the history of women and war, and women's fertility.
We've been through so many changes than those people a decade ago, and the train is faster, noisier and more comfortable.
Who would have thought that these issues, which we are still debating and calling for, have been advocated by TV programs 20 years ago.
There, we won not only the liberation of gender, but also the future, time, history, and possibility.
There, there is no male and feminist rights, only human rights.
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