Before coming to Guangzhou, as a famous historical and cultural city, what was imprinted in my mind was in addition to "Flower City Literature and Art", Qin Mu's prose, that is, Zhao Rong, who won the championship in the beauty contest.
The farmhouse in a remote mountain village watches black-and-white TV at night, and can only watch one channel of the provincial station, and has no choice. After dinner, when there is nothing to do, I will watch it on TV. I remember the scene and advertising words of the advertising Tuopai wine at that time, and I felt that it was very beautiful. "Long years of wine, grain Tuopai song", pure maidens wearing long white skirts on the placket and old men with wrinkled faces and straw hats, in the village surrounded by green mountains and rivers, brewing Qiong Pulp Jade Dew. That ad went on for years.
Before the advent of the mobile phone era, television was the main medium through which it could be widely publicized, followed by newspapers. Especially in the countryside, many people can huddle together to watch a TV, but almost no one reads the newspaper. At that time, it was also television that let people know that the outside world was wonderful, and let people have the urge to go outside to see.
Mei's draft competition in Flower City, after many nights of competition, finally let me write down the name of the champion winner, Zhao Rong. Because of her, Guangzhou, thousands of miles away, seems to be no longer so ethereal and illusory, that high-rise city, everywhere neon night, she is like Chang'e in the moon palace, vaguely, attracting people's yearning.
I vaguely remember that on the bus to Guangzhou, when she stopped and rested, she was still hanging a huge billboard with a portrait of Zhao Rong over the city in Guangxi, and she wore a crown on her head and smiled brightly and sweetly. That year was 2003. I remember seeing her on TV one night and showing up as a guest. Later, I learned that she was a host on TV, but she hosted a car-related program, which I didn't see often, and I wasn't interested, so my impression of her slowly faded. Coupled with the fact that playing computers later became the mainstream, and the time spent facing the TV at night became less and less, this beautiful woman who was once closely associated with Guangzhou almost disappeared from my memory.
Thinking about these many years, from a teenager full of longing, to a middle-aged man full of boredom, when recalling the golden years when he first came to Guangzhou, Zhao Rong's name clearly appeared in front of his eyes. For so many years, she had never deliberately searched for her information. Now pick up your phone, enter her name, and the introductory text about her will come out. At that time, I only knew that she had been a host, but I did not expect to participate in many TV series and have the identity of an actor. However, in my memory, there are only the beauty pageant champion Zhao Rong and the host Zhao Rong. I don't know anything about the TV roles she played.
In recent years, the advertising rising star competition "Beauty in Flower City", which once made a name for Guangzhou, seems to have been suspended, and I have not heard any news anyway. Or the increasing abundance of entertainment has led to a loss of enthusiasm for shows like pageants, and some home televisions are completely cosmetic and don't even have to buy them because no one watches them. Many reasons are entangled, and the pictures of life that once occupied the main space of memory become distant shadows and become blurred.
Time is not old will be old. The original yearning, the original passion, the original lofty ideal, finally under the polishing of reality, only a tired and numb body remains. Fast forward twenty years, and I am no longer the teenager I used to be.
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