Chapter 1448: The Year of the Dragon Arrives
The Year of the Dragon, with its head shaking and tail wagging, has arrived as expected.
On February 16, 1988, the New Year's Eve of the Lunar Year of Wuchen, this year's Spring Festival Gala program was brilliant and attracted the attention of thousands of households.
On this day, at the National Television Station's Spring Festival Gala, crosstalk actors Niu Qun and Li Lishan performed the crosstalk "Qiao Li Ming Mu".
As a new crosstalk star, Niu Qun once again left a deep impression on people with the magical phrase "Leader, colon" this year.
Pingju actor Zhao Lirong performed the sketch "Emergency" with actor You Benchang, who became famous for the TV series "Ji Gong". This old lady with a Tangshan accent was also remembered by the people of the whole country.
In addition, the national football team appeared for the first time at this Spring Festival Gala.
Coach Gao Fengwen and his disciples rushed into the Olympics for the first time, and they greeted everyone in the form of a video.
In the song program, the most dazzling mainland singer is Mao Amin.
Mao Amin's solo song "Missing" not only became a model representative of family songs through the Spring Festival Gala live broadcast, but she also collaborated with the emerging Wei Wei on a song "Crying and Laughing".
In addition to their programs, the song that was most well received by the national audience was "Xintianyou" sung by Cheng Lin.
As for the Hong Kong and Taiwan actors, who were responsible for taking the lead this year and the main focus of the entire program, of course, mainland fans had already learned the news and had been looking forward to it for a long time.
Since both of them are actors from the island and partners in the movie "Crazy Rich Asians", they are very harmonious and natural when they form a male and female partner
They stand together, whether talking or singing, or joking with each other, they are very tacit.
According to the director's arrangement, the two first greeted the compatriots on both sides of the strait on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, and jointly reviewed the historic event of the ice-breaking of cross-strait relations this year and the opening of the mainland's visit policy to relatives on the island.
They expressed the good wish that blood is thicker than water and hope that cross-strait relations will develop in a better direction in the future.
After that, Teresa Teng began to display her unique and charming humorous talent and started her signature style of self-mockery.
By the way, she also talked about her starring role and gave a GG for the upcoming movie "Crazy Rich Asians".
Under Fei Xiang's mockery of pretending to oppose, she "hummed" and put her hands on her waist, singing a clear line with her voice, "None of the girls in Alishan are beautiful, only I, Teresa Teng, am the most beautiful..."
Then after making people all over the country laugh, she officially started the performance mode of the Asian Queen of Songs.
Finally, the long-lost mainland audiences enjoyed her wonderful performance and beautiful Deng-style singing on the TV screen for the first time.
As for the specific songs she sang.
Teresa Teng first collaborated with Fei Xiang on a light-hearted, humorous and slightly ambiguous song "Slippery She".
Then there was a song she sang alone, "Seeing the Smoke Again".
This is a song adapted from the Japanese folk song "Autumn in the Village".
The song is clear and simple, full of poetry, fully expressing the beauty of rural life, and it is very consistent with the theme of the Spring Festival Gala.
After that, Fei Xiang took the stage alone with his male god style and sang "365 Miles" for the national audience, which reflects the wanderers' longing for their homeland.
After a short break, Teresa Teng returned to the stage again and sang the song she used to sweep the Japanese music scene in 1986 and won the "double crown" for mainland fans.
That is, "I Only Care About You" and "Toki no Nagase" Chinese and Japanese bilingual versions.
That's not all. In the audience's proud and long-lasting applause, Teresa Teng finally took out her best thing in the bottom of the box - the theme song of the movie "Crazy Rich Asians".
That is, the song "The Flowing River" "taken" by Ning Weimin, which can be called a classic.
As expected, the affectionate melody and lyrics full of life philosophy immediately triggered emotional resonance among the listeners after the song was sung, and I don’t know how many mainland audiences were moved in front of and behind the screen.
Just by the fact that the applause was even more enthusiastic at the scene, and the applause gradually stopped until the countdown to midnight, we can know how popular this song is.
It must be said that Teresa Teng’s Spring Festival Gala performance was really successful.
She really sang to her heart’s content, and the people of the country also enjoyed watching her.
Of course, the perfection of all this is absolutely inseparable from the special care of Teresa Teng by the Spring Festival Gala Organizing Committee.
Because anyone who knows a little about the Spring Festival Gala knows that the above showed unreserved sincerity this time, which really gave Teresa Teng enough face, and the treatment she enjoyed was completely extraordinary.
Not only did she perform as many as four songs, but her program time was also extremely important, which was arranged before the clock struck midnight, which shows how much she was valued.
To put it bluntly, except for the 1983 Spring Festival Gala, the most popular singer in China, Li Guyi, once made such a splash.
In the history of the Spring Festival Gala, no other performer has dominated the Spring Festival Gala stage for so long in the best time period like Teresa Teng.
So this Spring Festival Gala is destined to be one that will never be forgotten by history.
Let alone the fact that it successfully made up for the emotional regret of the people across the country - Teresa Teng finally came to the mainland to perform.
Just say that this year, because of the easing of cross-strait relations, Teresa Teng's appearance on the Spring Festival Gala stage has extraordinary significance - compatriots on both sides of the strait really should not let the gap caused by history be further exacerbated.
This is not a simple mutual forgiveness and acceptance, but reflects the common wish of all Chinese descendants on both sides of the Taiwan Strait under the tide of the times.
This is by no means an idealistic pretense, but an inevitable choice derived from common blood and common culture.
This matter is worth remembering and deeply interpreted by all Chinese at home and abroad.
As Teresa Teng said on the stage of the evening party, "It only takes three hours for me to go from Hong Kong to Beijing. But it took me more than 30 years to fly across this short distance!"
In short, Ning Weimin, who facilitated this matter, can be regarded as a great merit.
And the generation of Asian queens took this positive step to the best of her ability in this major event that is conducive to national unity, and her performance can be called perfect.
Whether on stage or off stage, Teresa Teng fully met the expectations of mainland people and mainland fans, making everyone feel a kind of intimacy that can be called "a long-lost reunion".
So after watching the Spring Festival Gala, not only the mainland government was satisfied, but also gave a high evaluation of Teresa Teng, believing that she was not ambiguous on major issues and lived up to the love and support of the mainland people.
Even among the people, the "Teresa Teng fever" that had faded a little has been rekindled.
Starting from the first day of the Lunar New Year, countless families across the country have dug out the "Teresa Teng" tapes that have been gathering dust in drawers and listened to them again.
So there is no suspense that Teresa Teng's movie soundtrack album "Crazy Rich Asians" will be a hot seller when it is released. It is a natural thing.
Fortunately, the new Teresa Teng album that Ning Weimin brought back from Japan had been produced by Pacific Records for 5 million copies in advance.
So after he saw the signs, he did not wait for the movie to be released, and simply contacted Pacific Records and decided to officially launch it on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
And this temporary change of plan immediately caused mainland fans to rush to buy it.
In just three days, there was no need to fight GG at all. Millions of copies were sold in audio and video stores across the country, and the speed of distribution could not keep up with the speed of sales.
Such enthusiasm even surprised Teresa Teng herself. When the sales data was fed back, she couldn't believe it.
She never thought that her tapes could sell this many copies in the mainland.
You know, in Japan, her best-selling albums only sold 700,000 or 800,000 copies, and it seems that it has not really broken through one million.
Millions of copies, in her opinion, are numbers that she can't even dream of.
Needless to say, when everything is proved to be true, this singer has really seen the hugeness of the mainland market.
In fact, how could she know that Ning Weimin was not satisfied even with this number that she thought was impossible.
The number he agreed with Pacific Records was to issue 10 million copies.
If this number can be sold in the end, then there is nothing to say.
Teresa Teng will undoubtedly break the Guinness World Record and become the singer with the best-selling music album in history.
Why do people always say that miracles happen in the mainland?
This is the power of the people!
As for the hidden dangers of this matter, it should be that some people on the island will probably feel very unhappy.
However, considering that Teresa Teng did not make any clear political speeches during the Spring Festival Gala, and Ning Weimin prepared a huge contract fine for her as a shield, it is not a problem for Teresa Teng to deal with the questioning of the island authorities.
Especially since Jiang had just passed away three months ago, and the island is now undergoing a power transfer, the political structure is in great need of stability.
Everyone who is involved in politics knows that policy issues are not to be joked about, and they must not be changed overnight, otherwise they will be backlashed.
Moreover, the visits between the mainland and the island have already been substantially launched, and the government department responsible for propaganda on the island is itself preparing to vigorously promote cross-strait exchanges in culture. '
Then since this hole has been opened, it is like a dam bursting, and it cannot be closed even if you want to.
This is not something that can be freely received and sent by human intervention.
Presumably, with all the advantages of time, place and people, those people on the island can't really make things difficult for Teresa Teng.
So I'm afraid some people will suffer this loss.
As the saying goes, a single move can affect the whole body, and this is called the general trend.
Whether they are willing or not, whether it is like a thorn in their throat, they have to swallow it hard.
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The purpose of celebrating the New Year is to have a good mood. If you don’t have a good mood, you can’t celebrate the New Year well.
Manager Sha of Pierre Caton Company is like this.
Although he has a high salary, high income, and high position, he should be reunited with his wife and children, celebrate a prosperous New Year, and have nothing missing at home.
But in fact, he didn’t have this blessing. He still spent the New Year in a mess. It’s not an exaggeration to say that he was broken to pieces.
His mood was not much better than those politicians on the island who were angry about Teresa Teng’s sudden appearance on the mainland Spring Festival Gala.
The cause was the year-end summary meeting held by Zou Guodong before the New Year.
Zou Guodong seemed to be made of iron. No one could do anything if he was tough, especially with the full support of Song Huaigui.
In fact, after the meeting, he announced the internal reform measures at the meeting and implemented them without any transition.
So Pierre Cardon and other senior executives began to complain secretly.
The first thing that made them heartbroken was the financial reform of the reimbursement system.
You know, in the past, everyone had always taken what they needed, cared for each other, and got along well with each other under certain unspoken rules.
Now someone has broken this balance, and everyone can't adapt at all.
Especially this kind of internal reform, which has no benefits for those who broke the balance, is not only surprising, but also unacceptable for a while.
Especially Manager Sha, who is in charge of logistics and is the biggest expense, complained bitterly and felt miserable.
To put it bluntly, logistics work is the most trivial, and it is just a job to serve people.
It is basically the same as a waiter in a shop, and it is thankless.
If you do a good job, no one will remember your contribution, and if you do a bad job, everyone can criticize you.
The only benefit is that it is lucrative, and you can always add some extra money from miscellaneous purchases, and then rely on expense reimbursement to get some cash out of the public account.
But with Zou Guodong's reform and Xiong Jianmin's implementation, there are fewer loopholes to exploit.
The original bittersweet taste suddenly turned into pure bitterness.
It's like a cup of Nestle coffee without creamer and sugar cubes, only pure coffee powder, how can people swallow it?
Manager Sha had not approached Zou Guodong to play the victim, and had also privately begged Xiong Jianmin to play the emotional card with him.
But it was all in vain. The two guys were now die-hards who wore the same pants, and they didn't want to show mercy at all, not even giving a few days of grace.
Instead, they asked about Manager Sha's past accounts, which made Manager Sha unable to do anything.
As a result, because he was afraid of losing both the wife and the army, and digging up the past, Manager Sha had to stop immediately and returned in disgrace.
That's not all. Adjusting the positions of secretaries of the opposite sex and not allowing the company's senior management to interfere in the operation of the Grand Prix caused countless troubles for Manager Sha.
To put it bluntly, Manager Sha is not a gentleman. How can he not be tempted by the female secretary around him?
Since he was in charge of logistics, he had to deal with the model team. It was normal for him to develop a super-friendly relationship with several models who wanted to climb up at all costs.
However, these things that were not a big deal in the past could not be covered up now because of a piece of paper from the company.
Several girls in the model team thought Manager Sha was a liar, and the female secretary was also dissatisfied with the job transfer.
As a result, some things were not discussed. During the Chinese New Year, these little goblins actually went to his home one by one and asked him for youth compensation. How could he not get rid of it?
So his childhood sweetheart wife was furious, and the house was in chaos. It was a literal disaster.
Not only did the neighbors in the building laugh at him, but he naturally couldn't spend the Chinese New Year.
To be honest, Manager Sha is now unable to return home. During the Chinese New Year, he had to hide in the Chongwenmen Hotel.
The days of drinking alone made him extremely disgusted with this job, and he couldn't help but think of resigning.
Isn't this strange? If a job has no benefits, what's the point?
However, he is still undecided whether to quit or not. After all, Pierre Cardon's salary is not low.
Not to mention state-owned enterprises, it is also the top in foreign companies.
It is easy for him to change jobs, but he can't find such a salary.
After thinking about it, Manager Sha suddenly thought of someone.
A person who should have returned to Beijing to celebrate the New Year, but did not attend the company's regular meeting.
Although this person's position is not as good as Zou Guodong, he is one of the company's shareholders and is also deeply trusted by President Song.
So if he wants to compete, even Zou Guodong is not his opponent.
Then he didn't show up in the company this time... Does this show an attitude?
Does it mean that he is also dissatisfied with Zou Guodong's new policy in his heart?
In any case, Manager Sha decided to meet this person, not for work, but for stamps.
Even if he can get some advice on stamp speculation by the way.
Needless to say, the person Manager Sha wants to meet is Ning Weimin.