In the rehearsal of the Spring Festival Evening that year, Faye Wong was brushed off because of the unqualified live singing effect. Lang Kun, the director of the Spring Festival Gala, started his new job that year. His requirements for the real stage effect of the Spring Festival Gala are almost harsh. He not only emphasized the importance of real singing, but even changed the music with accompaniment to live band accompaniment. At the 30th party, Ma and his long-distance running team were praised by professional households. In the real world, the oral liquid of life nuclear energy, which is said to be "Ma Jiajun's exclusive secret recipe", is widely sought after. This year, health care products, diet pills and other industries flourished, and the word-of-mouth of "Taiyangshen Oral Liquid" shocked the whole of South China and went deep into the north of the Yellow River, becoming a new benchmark for self-employed individuals across the country who went to sea like crucian carp crossing the river.

As we all know, with the development of economy, the demand of Chinese mainland urban residents for food and clothing is unstoppable.

At that year's Spring Festival Gala, I also tried to invite retired Teresa Teng, but the latter declined.

In 1980s, Teresa Teng's singing opened the door to a new world for the vast majority of young people in mainland China. The tracks in Faye Wong 1985' s debut album "Where Does the Wind Come from" are all Teresa Teng's covers. Of course, for Faye Wong, not being on the final list of the 1994 Spring Festival Gala will not affect his career. This year, the mainland has been trying to export its own culture to Hong Kong and Taiwan in the opposite direction. On the same day, He Yong stood on the stage in Hung Hom and shouted, "Hong Kong girls, are you beautiful?" His atmospheric performance on the same stage with Dou Wei and Zhang Chu somewhat reduced his impression lost in the harsh Hong Kong media due to his aphasia of "the four kings are clowns". This year, Faye Wong, who established a love relationship with Dou Wei, released a new album "Fan" in Taiwan under the name of "Wang Jingwen", with a cumulative sales volume of nearly one million. The title song "I Do" was popular for a while and was covered by Chyi Chin and Yu-Ching Fei.

While cross-strait literary and artistic exchanges are thriving, shadows are also breeding in the dark.

1In March, 1994, the Qiandao Lake incident in the western suburbs of Hangzhou was an objective reflection of social disorder in the mid-1990s.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Public Security, 740,000 cases were filed and 270,000 cases were major cases, an astonishing increase of 20. 1% compared with 1993. On August 12, the office of the Ministry of Public Security was announced to be established, and the once fearsome sports law enforcement in the 1980s was staged again.

In the summer of the same year, the film "Chongqing Forest" starring Faye Wong, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Takeshi Kaneshiro was released in Hong Kong. Faye Wong plays the shop assistant girl, whose temperament is natural, innocent and lovely, and her performance is well received.

Like other films in Wong Kar-wai, behind the blurred lens language and alienated characters, the theme of the film is still to express the smallness, alienation and loneliness of individual human beings in a modern city full of steel jungle.

1994, the first sitcom "I Love My Family" in New China was officially released.

In the play, Hong Kong, as always, exists as a distant and developed image on the other side. The Beijingers played by Song Dandan and Yang Lixin won the grand prize of "Seven-Day Tour to Hong Kong", but the swindler company that won the prize prevaricated that "the procedures are too complicated, and we will wait until 1997 when Hong Kong returns to China".

Their daughter has a crush on Leslie Cheung, who just created the role of Cheng Dieyi, and the room is covered with posters of the latter. In the plot, although the couple have been married and have children for many years, they still live in a big house with their elder brother, and this house comes from the allocation of their elder units. In that year, according to statistics, the housing price in the suburbs of Beijing needed 7 10~ 1099 yuan/square meter. The housing accumulation fund system was implemented in Beijing on 1994 after three years' trial in Shanghai. This year, the urbanization process in the mainland is like a fetus in the womb. Although it has begun to take shape, it is far from mature.

For Chongqing Forest, a film that reflects the alienation and loneliness of young people in cities, it will be many years before the audience has enough life background to accept and harvest a similar theme.

However, on the TV screen of China in 1994, the young urban new middle class began to try to make their voices heard. Besides I love my family, excellent works emerge one after another. According to Wang Shuo's novel, only eight episodes of Addiction tell a love story between young men and women in a city. Love is the most important and only main line in the plot. On the screen, 27-year-old Jison shouted: "Say you love me!" Lying in bed, Wang smiled and said, "I hate you."

By 1994, the love plot itself is no longer a forbidden area, but the TV series with love as the only expression object is still a powerful challenger to the old ideas at that time. For the previous generation, this year's TV series Romance of the Three Kingdoms has a greater impact on the TV screen, and it is the last afterglow of the national system in the TV drama industry.

This year, the tear and tension between the old and the new era are also clearly reflected in the eternal classic "I Love My Family". Theoretically, the protagonist of this drama is Fu Ming, a retired director who is full of bureaucratic jargon, but in the first half, a lot of drama conflicts come from self-employed people who have been in and out of cafes and dinners for a long time, and Tian Liang plays Jia Zhixin. Unlike canned laughter, which was widely used in later Ying Da-style assembly-line comedies, most of the background laughter in I Love My Family came directly from the audience who watched the live recording. Liang Zuo, the screenwriter, rejected the proposal of inviting residents of old Beijing Hutong as audience, arguing that only college students in Beijing can best understand the "stalks" he buried in this play. The fact is just as he thought.

1994, this university has not expanded its enrollment. Although students no longer care too much about politics and are immersed in mahjong tables and TOEFL words, idealism has not completely disappeared. That year, the State Education Commission and CCTV jointly held a graduation party for college students, which was broadcast live throughout. The audience and actors are all college students who graduated that year. This is the first and only party in New China that is completely attended by college graduates and open to the public. The host of the party is Yang Lan, who directed and performed a short piece for He Jiong who took the stage in Beiwai. The old wolf plays the guitar and sings "You at the same table". This is the first time that this song has appeared in a large public place.

This year is also the graduation season for Premier Li. That year, he received a doctorate in economics from Peking University, and his graduation thesis was entitled "On the ternary structure of China's economy". In his paper, he put forward the view that due to the limitation of special national conditions, China can't copy the traditional agricultural social model of developed countries and move towards a modern industrial society step by step, but needs a transitional period. Among them, the expansion of rural industrial sectors and the transfer of rural population to small towns will become important hubs and windows. In the same year of writing this paper, statistics show that the Gini index of urban residents in China is 0.37, while that of rural residents is 0.4 1 1, both of which are much worse than ten years ago or even five years ago, and this figure will continue to soar in the middle and late 1990s.

The gap between urban and rural areas has gradually widened, and the urban-rural differentiation has become increasingly serious. At the 15th "Flying Awards" held in 1994, dramas reflecting the rural reform, such as The Ditch Man, The Farmer's Son, The Story of Five Blessingg, and Qinchuan Niu, all won various awards, and the mainstream media forwarded press releases as usual, praising these TV dramas for reflecting the instructions of the central authorities to "carry forward the main theme and persist in diversification". However, most of the 280 million TV sets distributed all over China this year are undoubtedly owned by urban residents. Of course, these series didn't make any waves in ratings, and soon disappeared from people's sight.

When recalling the cultural life of 1994, future generations will certainly not mention these names that once occupied newspaper pages.

Living, a Chinese Odyssey, and sunny days were all born in 1994. This year, the bright starlight shining in the cultural dome often makes us ignore the dark and vast night sky behind us. In terms of culture, the work of "cracking down on pornography and illegal publications" is being carried out in an all-round way, and the intensity is no less than the "strike hard" carried out by the public security at the same time. According to statistics, in the first nine months of 1994, 5.94 million prohibited books and periodicals were collected nationwide, including 660,000 suspected "obscene books and periodicals". In parallel with the slow and firm urbanization process, the aesthetics of an era is also undergoing a transition period.

Unlike the immature 1980s, the cultural market is no longer dominated by elites. It is inevitable to respect the needs of the market economy and publish various publications. The market has made the intellectuals who used to give orders in the past ten years fall into the hesitation of self-cognition. Some of them are involved in the spring tide, and some are struggling to find their own support points. Returning to tradition has become a temporary trend. In bookstores, the Dictionary of Appreciation of Tang Poetry has replaced the works of Camus and Foucault and become the favorite of intellectuals.

Similarly, there are drifters who have no roots after their ideals are disillusioned. 1994, Zhou Wei and Li Ti arrived in Berlin, and Yu Hong was on her way to Wuhan. North Island tried to return to China from the United States. When he entered China Customs, he was detained and sent back to the United States soon. This year, he wrote in "The Next Tree":

We travel everywhere.

Always start with the next tree.

Returns, used for naming.

The sadness on that road

North Island has been teaching in California since then. In 2003, when his father was critically ill, he quietly returned to China to visit and left immediately. This year, the outgoing generation of economic officials began to review the gains and losses of the reform in the past decade. The data shows that since the implementation of the tax-sharing reform in 1994, ten years later, the annual revenue of the central government increased by 16. 1%, and the local revenue increased by 19.3%. The official caliber believes that this shows that the reform has achieved a win-win situation for the central and local governments.

1994, as a reflection and amendment to the decentralization of financial power to local governments since the 1980s, the tax-sharing reform led by Premier Zhu was launched in an all-round way, and the central finance was expanded in an all-round way. This had a far-reaching chain effect at that time and later. On the one hand, it is strong and weak, on the other hand, it continues to deepen the market economy, which will become the basic prototype of the vague concept of "China Model" in the future. After the tax reform, the local government's land finance has become a new stimulus point. A few years later, the reform of the urban housing system was fully implemented, and the era when I loved the housing allocation in my family completely became history.

This has led to the further development of urban housing as a pillar industry of local government, which reflects each other with the urbanization process, laying a distant foreshadowing for the staggering housing prices in first-tier cities today.

1994, with the institutional reform sweeping state-owned enterprises, the gale of "laid-off" began at the end of Qingping, and nearly 654.38+million laid-off workers in Beijing in the first half of the year. A large number of surplus laborers were exiled to the society, which caused a great burden to local governments. 1994 after the tax reform, the government has the power to return local taxes, and local governments have no capital to resist.

So in the middle and late 1990s, the reform of state-owned enterprises deepened day by day, and laid-off workers became the "silent majority", which became a gray force deeply affecting the social placement in contemporary China.

The massive abolition of state-owned enterprises, like dominoes, brought new consequences to the next generation.

State-owned enterprises are no longer able to receive most fresh college students at fixed points. In the middle and late 1990s, a large number of fresh college students entered the free employment market and competed with laid-off workers. For policy makers, if unemployed young people re-enter the saturated job market, the consequences will be unimaginable. Therefore, before the end of this century, colleges and universities began to expand their enrollment on a large scale, and the waste in society became the waste in schools. College students are no longer the sacred nouns representing knowledge and civilization.

The number of college students is increasing, but compared with the previous generation, the peers of newborns in 1994 are decreasing. According to the statistics of that year, the national birth rate has dropped from 33.43‰ in 1970 to 17.7‰, and the natural population growth rate has dropped from 25.83‰ to 1.2 1‰. The family size in cities and towns and the fertility will of young couples have further declined, and it has not rebounded again until today. That year, compulsory family planning in rural areas was still in full swing.

The emotional apathy of a generation of only children has caused their desire for emotional intimacy, coupled with economic development, urbanization, housing prices and enrollment expansion, which constitute the immediate concern of contemporary young people's anxiety and hesitation, and all this was planted in 1994.

1April 20th, 994, China was fully connected to the Internet, so that year was generally considered as the first year of Internet in China. But not every pioneer can realize the energy of information technology explosion in the future.

Due to the lack of in-depth communication and concept expression in real life, the virtual space represented by the network has brought spiritual sustenance to many young people, including the generation born in 1994.

This year, according to the normal academic system, they will graduate from college, join the tide of the crowd and work hard to make a living.

One spring afternoon, one of them consulted some historical documents and memoirs, and found that this happened in the year when he was born, so he wrote an unintelligible article. Speaking of it, his purpose is nothing more than to look back and comfort ourselves in an era that is neither the best nor the worst. It is difficult for us to find a higher meaning from it.