Text/Hao Xiaode
Last month, a 34-inch flat-panel tv set in my house broke down, and I wanted to sell it as a product, but no one cared about it, so I had to put it at home, but it was very difficult to occupy the place. Shi inquired from many sources, and a buyer who specialized in breaking refrigerators and TVs came to my house. I took him to watch TV and asked how much money was given? He held out a finger. I asked is 100 yuan? He said no, it was $10. Oh my! Although it is a broken TV, it is not worth only 10 yuan! Why don't you sell? Then you can pull out dozens of miles away and throw away the garbage! Oh, yes! The community where you live will not let you throw it, if you find someone to throw out the freight will cost tens of yuan! Although it only sells for 10 yuan, it is still suspicious. This reminds me of the black-and-white television set of my childhood.
In the past, black-and-white television sets made the deepest impression on me, and they were also particularly rare and precious in my mind. I am a native of the countryside, the poverty of the past made the rural people suffer hunger and suffering, especially the backward cultural and artistic life, not only let the rural people feel lonely and bored, empty thinking, but also tightly clamp people's minds, bind people's thoughts, restrict people's concepts. I remember when I was a child, a village in the countryside only acted in a movie every two months, and the content was "Red Lantern", "Sha Jiabang", "Wise Tiger Mountain" and several other films. In addition, it was only in the New Year that the village's literary and art propaganda team performed a few small operas written and performed by themselves, which made people feel particularly boring. But things are evolving, and what's really surprising is that by the '70s, I heard people say that the country had produced "little movies" called black-and-white televisions. Say that the play art does not use a generator, does not use a movie machine, does not use a screen, does not need to be performed by a special person, does not have to go out of the house, as long as you turn on the switch, open the channel, you can want to see what there is, that is called an addiction! But what does that TV set look like, no one in a village of more than two thousand people has really seen it, and people really dream at night and look forward to it during the day.
Fast forward to the early '80s. Our village had the first black-and-white TV in the winter of 1982, when the secretary of the village party branch bought a 12-inch panda brand black-and-white TELEVISION set, which is said to be the first batch of televisions promoted in the commune. This is the first television set in the village, the TV is rectangular, the screen is not large, and the shell has an antenna, which makes people look very delicate. When the first performance was performed, the courtyard of the secretary's house was crowded with men, women and children who had come to watch, and they could not perform in the house, so the secretary simply asked people to help move the TV to the courtyard and put it on a three-draw table, although the weather was colder, but the people watching the lively people walked a wave after a wave, which made people full of eyes and long insight. People say that this is so good, when you have money in the future, you must buy a self-watching, saving more people who can't see the shadow and can't hear the sound. I remember that the time when the secretary's TV really contributed to people's efforts to make people addicted was 1983. This year, the 20-episode TV series "Huo Yuanjia" filmed in Hong Kong was staged across the country, which fascinated hundreds of millions of Chinese and also fascinated countless rural people. Since then, the secretary's tv has become a public product, and every evening, people invariably eat early and take the bench to the secretary's house to occupy a place to watch "Huo Yuanjia". The secretary and his wife were also extra enthusiastic, boiling water and preparing cigarettes early, waiting for the appearance of the old and young masters. The TV series was staged every night, people went to see it every night, and the time was long, water- and electricity-intensive, and smoked, but the two mouths did not complain. Subsequently, the TV series "Chen Zhen" and so on were broadcast on the TV, and people were still sounding and still interesting to watch. But at this time, more than a hundred thousand yuan households in the village have also bought black-and-white television sets, and some are still 14 inches!
After I was transferred to the Municipal Public Security Bureau, the year I bought was 1990, and the TV I bought was a 14-inch color import from Japan. Don't look at a white ruler too big, but the effect is really a heaven and an underground, the color TV effect is good, not only clear, and the color is particularly good, no wonder people see the color is no longer willing to look at black and white. I remember when I bought color TVs, there were only three color TVs in the village, and at first people still felt good and curious, but later with the continuous improvement of people's living standards, villagers bought more and more TVs, the size was getting bigger and bigger, and the quality was getting better and better. Later, in addition to the widows and the elderly, almost all the families bought television sets, and replaced the black and white ones with large color TVs that were tens of inches large, and the black and white TVs could only consciously or unconsciously stand aside.
In recent years, with the development of high technology, what closed-circuit television, network television into people's lives, and the style of television is getting newer and newer, and the functions are becoming more and more complete. But as far as the current development of science and technology is concerned, the function of mobile phones has gradually replaced television, people watching TV or movies can be watched at any time with mobile phones, and many of the positions of television have been occupied by mobile phones, because this is the natural law of the times and scientific development, and we should be happy for this.
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