When 2019 will come to you and me in the name of the future, this also means that 1999 is 20 years ago.
1999, 20 years ago, the end of an era, the final chapter of a century, do you remember that classic year?
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On the second day after New Year's Day, a modern program "Today's Statement" entered the public eye. The host was Sa Benin who was still young at the time.
Sa Bening, who was forced to "be drifted to the north", received the admission notice from Peking University three months before the college entrance examination. He hesitated a little and felt that "Peking University is okay.
When he graduated from Peking University and was once again undergraduate insurance, he met CCTV to recruit the host. The teacher said you talk the most, so go and try.
In this way, a small white host in the industry has sparked a spark with a show that wants to be different, and this is the beginning of 1999's "Today's Statement".
On the other side, 30-year-old Li Yong just became famous for "Lucky 52".
In one occasion, Li Yong watched a foreign live guessing and winning program, and the money fell from the ceiling. He was stunned, looked for the leader over and over again, and strongly proposed to introduce this program.
In 1999, this host with long curly hair became popular with "Lucky 52", and the ratings of the show soared. At that time, "Happy Camp" had just started, and "Lucky 52" had become the top entertainment program in the country.
Ten years later, Li Yong designed a farewell ceremony for himself in his autobiography: Come to see me today, don't send flowers, give me the microphone.
It was an era of unprecedented prosperity for sketches.
In the skit "Veteran on Horses", Zhao Lirong held her eldest brother in her hand and said "Nod yes, shake her head no, come is come, go is go, say hello to hello" became the most magical buzzword at the time.
"The Veteran" is Teacher Zhao Lirong's eighth Spring Festival Gala trip. Two months before the Spring Festival Gala, she coughed to the point of vomiting blood. She still insisted on learning English and singing English songs... Until two weeks before the Spring Festival Gala, she was admitted to the hospital.
On New Year's Eve in 1999, Teacher Zhao Lirong used her Tangshan English to make the audience laugh, but her sons were crying in front of the TV because the mother’s medical certificate said lung cancer.
The following year, Teacher Zhao Lirong died of lung cancer, and "The Veteran" became a hit.
In 1988, Teacher Zhao Lirong appeared on the Spring Festival Gala for the first time. Many people became popular in 1999, many people left in 1999, and many stories began in 1999.
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One evening in 1999, Wang Baoqiang stood out of breath at the door of the Beijing Film Studio, and like everyone beside him, he was eager to be hit by luck.
After seven years of martial arts training in Shaomishan, he embarked on a train bound for Beijing with the dream of being an actor.
His other partner Huang Bo, this year, took a two-hour bike ride from a suburban accommodation to a karaoke bar and sang as a dance instructor.
He liked to sing and dance since he was a kid, because his appearance is out of tune with the students of the film school, he is often stopped by security at the school gate; he went to audition with his classmates, and the director asked him, "Are you their agent?"
At that time, he couldn't think that one day he would be able to eat something like an actor.
Compared with Huang Bo and Wang Baoqiang, Xu Zheng in 1999 has made little achievements in the drama world, but he is still one "Pig Bajie" from becoming popular, and there is a "Medicine God" from Fengshen.
In 1999, Jin Dong, an "veteran cadre" who had been in the film and television industry for several years, decided to go to the Central Academy of Drama: I am more dogmatic. If I want to learn acting, I have to go to the best university.
So Jin Dong became the most handsome boy in grade 99 and the oldest student. Liu Ye is 2 years younger than him but three terms older than him, joking with a trumpet: Jin Dong, you are the oldest freshman in the history of Chinese opera.
is grade 99 in the middle of the show, and Jin Dong is in the front row. Similarly, Deng Chao, who is three years younger than Jin Dong, is one term older than Jin Dong. Deng Chao fell into the "Magic Way" as soon as he came into contact with the drama, which was in the eyes of the students.The tail of the "drama lunatic".
And his wife, Sun Li, was a small female soldier at the time, and she was short of a Haiyan drama, "Jade Guanyin".
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Haiyan drama can be regarded as popular with many people.
In 1999, "Never Look At My Eyes" was broadcast. Lu Yi, who had not graduated from school, became a hit overnight, and his handsome, sunny appearance fascinated an audience.
Eighteen years later, college student Xiao Tong faded from immaturity and became Hou Liangping, a young cadre in "The Name of the People".
In 1999, two ancient dragon dramas "Little Li Fei Dao" and "Peerless Twins" were broadcast almost simultaneously. With instant noodles, Jiao Enjun became the childhood male god of countless people; the male partner was Wu Jing, who had a green face at the time. This "wolf of war" was 18 years away from the box office myth of 5.6 billion. Although the
ancient dragon drama assembled Xiao Qiang, Yu Feihong, Jia Jingwen and other goddesses, they were still killed in seconds in front of Aunt Qiong Yao.
In the previous year, the phenomenon-level comedy "Han Zhu Ge Ge" turned out, setting a national average rating record of 47%. At that time, everyone asserted that this would be the highest rating of a TV series.
Just a year later, there was another TV series that surpassed it, that is, "Huanzhugege 2", which won the 1999 ratings championship with a national average of 54%.
With the popularity of Huanzhu, Ruby Lin, Su Youpeng and others became the most popular idols at that time.
In 1999, the pioneering work of the domestic youth idol drama "Keep Love Through to the End" became popular with Li Yapeng and Xu Jinglei, and "Keep xxx through to the end" became a popular sentence. Four years later, Faye Wong simplified "carry love to the end" to "love love" as the album's title song.
Speaking of the 1999 TV series, "Yongzheng Dynasty" has to be mentioned. This historical drama adapted from Er Yuehe's novel, landed on CCTV after New Year's Day that year, and almost won all the awards of domestic TV dramas, setting off a wave of historical dramas.
Twenty years later, the Three Songs of the Falling Clouds became exquisite, and the Eryue River was not seen in the world. Compared with the prosperous mainland dramas, TVB in 1999 looked a little lonely.
Zhang Weijian, who just became popular with Monkey King, asked for an increase in salary when filming the second part of "Journey to the West", but was rejected by TVB executives: You are worthless without hair.
Zhang Weijian, who was not convinced, switched to ATV. The bald-headed "Young Fang Shiyu" set the highest ratings record in ATV history, proving that he "can do it without hair."
was able to compete with Qiong Yao's drama that year, it is estimated that there is only one TVB Jin Yong's drama "Dragon Ba Bu".
After it was introduced to the mainland in 1999, 18 local TV stations appeared to be rushed to broadcast in the prime time. For a time, Jin Yong's martial arts dramas swept across the country.
Jin Yong's departure 20 years later is considered the end of an era.
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can be some ages, which ended 20 years ago.
, the four kings who once monopolized the music scene in Hong Kong, were at the end of the battle in 1999.
In 1999, Liming first announced that he would no longer receive music awards. Jacky Cheung then withdrew from accepting the awards. Andy Lau and Aaron Kwok were not present at the awards ceremony.
The era of the king of heaven ends, and newcomers have appeared.
Nicholas Tse, who is only 19 years old, is coming fiercely. The total sales volume of his first album "Thank You 1999" has exceeded 1 million copies, becoming the most popular little fresh meat at the end of the century.
He threw the guitar to a pulpy on stage and sang "Azuki Bean, Your Love 1999", using the combination of "Thank You for Your Love 1999" and "Azola" to express Faye Wong's high profile.
In that year, the September 21 earthquake occurred in Taiwan. Karen Karen sang "Suddenly", which talked about the earthquake and her relationship with Feng Delun during the disaster.
In that year, Taiwan's Rolling Stones signed the 21-year-old Liang Jingru, and the release of his first album was cancelled due to the September 21 earthquake, so there was no response. In the same year, Mayday joined the Rolling Stone with 12 songs on his first album. Chen Xinhong's lyrics and music were all done by Chen Xinhong.
In that year, Zhang Huimei released five albums "Can I Hold You My Love", which occupied the charts for more than two months and sold more than 8 million in Asia.
That year, the Chinese music scene really opened upHung up.
The 19-year-old Jolin Tsai released her first album; the classic animation film "The Lotus Lantern" was hit, and the ending song "Love is One Word" sung by Xinzhe Zhang became the most popular melody of the year; the Mandarin version of "Promise" became popular all over the country. , But many people don’t know what Zhou Hui, who sang this song, looks like; Liu Ruoying’s "Later" spreads all over the streets, and it is said that people who listen to crying have stories...
is in Singapore, Lin Junjie, who is still serving in the military, Thinking of her young and casual first love, she wrote a song "Remember" to Zhang Huimei.
In the mainland, Pu Shu brought his first album "I'm Going to 2000" that year; the first domestic underage band, Huaer Band, also released its first album, Da Zhang Wei was only 16 years old at that time; The male and male group Yuquan is refreshing, and the first album "The Most Beautiful" blooms in the music scene...
20 years later, the "most beautiful" fades.
Seeing this, you must want to say why one person is missing. That's right, Jay Chou.
In 1999, 20-year-old Jay Chou still nestled in Wu Zongxian’s record company, and next to him was Fang Wenshan, who was ten years older than him. Wu Zongxian said to Jay Chou, if you can write 50 songs in ten days, I will release an album for you. Whether the music dream of
can be realized depends on this last fight. As a result, he really wrote dozens of poems in one go, and at the same time ate two boxes of instant noodles.
The following year, a "Jay" album blew a tornado, and the Chinese music scene turned into the era of Jay Chou.
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There is a classic line in the movie "Party A and Party B": 1997 has passed, and I miss it very much.
Chen Kaige is not so lucky. He became famous internationally with "Farewell My Concubine", and then focused the lens on the Warring States Period, scoring 70 million to produce a magnificent "Jing Ke Stabbing King of Qin". The long blockbuster movie
received a dull response after it was released. In the end, it only received 10 million at the box office, and Chen Kaige lost his money.
However, three years later, the same "Jing Ke assassinated the King of Qin", Zhang Yimou's "Hero" won the box office title, and was also known as the pioneering work of domestic commercial films...
Zhang Yimou was not idle in 1999. He has Two films were released in succession, one is "None of us", and the film market has received mediocre response; the other is "My Father and Mother", which continued his keen artistic sense...
Zhang Yimou at that time, boldly launched Newcomer, Zhang Ziyi, who just turned 20. With "My Father and Mother", the second "Mou Girl" won the first film, and the "International Chapter" came on stage.
In 1999, Jiang Wen was very busy, busy directing and acting "The Devil Is Coming". At that time, Hollywood came fiercely, especially "Titanic" set off a movie-watching frenzy in China in 1998. The domestic box office record of 360 million yuan has been dominating the championship for 11 years.
Many post-80s generations can still describe in detail the scene when the film was released. Streets and alleys are talking about the love of "Jack and Ruth", and countless young girls cry because of this. The titanic trend of
spread until 1999. People are still talking about the shock that this movie brings. The demand for pirated CDs is in short supply. Several people take turns watching a CD.
In the 1999 Spring Festival Gala, Gong Hanlin and Jin Zhu imitated the classic poses of Jack and Ruth in "Titanic". Of course, they were standing on a tractor instead of a cruise ship.
Hollywood, under the Lion Rock on the other side of the ocean, Hong Kong movies have entered a period of weakness.
Wang Jing used his best gambling film "A Thousand Kings 2000" to grab the last wave of traffic in the golden age; Zhou Xingchi was the "last stubbornness" that year, and his "King of Comedy" sold nearly 30 million box office. At the beginning of the
film, the extravagant Yin Tianqiu shouted toward the sea: "Work hard! Struggle!"
shouted the strongest voice at the end of the century. Everyone believed that everything is possible.
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Many "hard work" stories laid the groundwork 20 years ago.
On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year in 1999, Ma Yun convened 17 small partners to open the most famous mobilization meeting in the history of China's Internet in the remote Hupan Garden community in Hangzhou.
In that year, Peking University became the first university in China to cover the campus network, but stillMore than one-fifth of Peking University students have not been exposed to any form of internet. On the campus of Tsinghua University on the other side of
, Wang Xing, a junior, and his roommate bought a computer. To this day, he still remembers the wonderful feeling of "the whole world is at his fingertips".
On the last day of 1999, a small company named "Tencent" in Shenzhen went out to have a dinner, but was blocked by the New Year's Eve crowd rushing to the streets and could not move.
instant messaging service OICQ, the predecessor of QQ, was developed by Tencent in February 1999. Less than a year after it went online, the number of user registrations exceeded one million, but there was still no profit model.
In 1999, "Code Farmer" Zhang Xiaolong had nothing to do with Tencent. More than ten years later, this "sentimental" product manager was known as the "father of WeChat."
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In 1999, someone said goodbye, someone set off, and someone was on the road.
That year, Yao Ming, who had just turned 18 and was a rookie, joined the national basketball team. Three years later, he became the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA. He used his perfect performance to "strengthen" those Westerners who questioned and mocked him.
That year, Liu Xiang, who was only 16 years old, joined the national track and field team. At that time, his most basic task was to train well.
That year, Liu Guoliang won his only men's singles championship in the World Table Tennis Championships. Twenty years later, this "fat man who doesn't understand the ball" became the chairman of the Table Tennis Association. A few days after
took office, seeing the 15-year-old Japanese teenager become the youngest table tennis champion, Liu Guoliang said calmly, "Welcome to create problems."
At the beginning of that year, "Sprout" held the first national "New Concept Composition Competition", and the rebellious teenager Han Han submitted a paper to the competition.
Han Han (first from the left) won the award
memories back 20 years ago, many things are still as clear as a knife.
On the 1999 Spring Festival Gala, Zu Hai dedicated a song "For whom" to the flood fighting fighters, and countless people burst into tears. In the essay "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow", Zhao Benshan has a line, "Working together to cross the century, a big water is not good", it can be said to convey the main theme of the year.
On May 8, NATO flagrantly used missiles to attack the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia. Three journalists were killed and more than 20 were injured. Students and citizens took to the streets to demonstrate.
On September 21, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck Nantou, Taiwan. The earthquake caused tens of thousands of casualties. We prayed for our compatriots on the other side of the strait.
On October 1, New China has gone through half a century and ushered in its 50th anniversary celebration. The grand military parade held on Tianmen Square is known as the "Military Parade of the Century".
On November 15, China and the United States finally reached an agreement on China's accession to the WTO. "After 13 years of talks, the black hair turned into white hair."
On December 20, Wen Yiduo's "Song of the Seven Sons" sounded, and Macau, which had been away from home for more than 400 years, returned.
1999 is destined to be an extraordinary year.
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These are the epitome of 1999, some people, some things. No matter where you were or what you were doing at the time, what moved people the most in that year was the answers, responses and easter eggs we gave to each of us 20 years later.
Please answer 1999, what is it that everyone wants to answer? I think what we want to respond to is: In the past twenty years, have you lived what you want?
Please answer 1999, Hedong for twenty years and Hexi for twenty years. The world is like a white cloud dog, even if it is pitch black at the moment, it will be beautiful when it dawns.
Time is always the best answer to life.
