1979 Golden Age

Last year, "People's Daily" published an article about UFOs in its supplement, officially introducing the term into the country and quickly cultivating a group of civilian scientists.

Times are sometimes amazing, able to connect two seemingly completely unrelated things. For example, Zhang Xueliang has listened to Jay Chou's songs, and Song Meiling has watched "Happy Camp". Of course, this has not been confirmed.

But it’s true that the Chinese in 1979 were studying aliens.

Their discussion quickly attracted many people, and Jiang Shan also listened with pricked up ears, wondering: "Are UFOs flying saucers?"

"No, it refers to a UFO. No matter what it is, as long as you don't recognize it, you can call it a UFO." Chen Qidao.

As soon as he finished speaking, one of the young people chatting there suddenly turned his head and said, "Hey, comrade, I don't agree with your point of view. UFO obviously refers to flying saucers!"

"Oh yes, you're right!"

Chen Qi was not interested in arguing with him, but the other party got entangled with him and walked forward: "Comrade, UFO has a rigorous scientific system. We use science to speak and have clear factual basis..."

He suddenly became very mysterious, looked at the crowd around him, and said, "I'm going to say something that shouldn't be said. Don't be surprised, you guys. This is the truth of this world."

"Is this world ruled by the old gods?"

Chen Qi was shocked.

"God? No, no, UFOs are not feudal superstition."

The young man shook his head vigorously and started the performance confidently: "In 1947, there was a place called Roswell in Utah, USA..."

"Roswell is in New Mexico."

"Tsk! Do you understand or do I understand? You know what I do. I am from the Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. I know a lot of information that you don't know. Speaking of Roswell, it was a night of heavy rain..."

The young people spitted and told the people of 1979 about the famous Roswell incident.

"In the end, this matter was covered up by the U.S. military. In fact, a base was built there to secretly study aliens. Why is American technology so awesome? It was developed by studying aliens!"

"Wow!"

When he told the end of the story, everyone was shocked and climaxed.

"The American emperor is full of evil!"

"China and the United States have established diplomatic relations, don't say that."

"Aliens have landed in the United States. They are capitalist aliens. We should oppose them!"

"Are there aliens in our country? You said that when old boy Richard Nixon came to China, he didn't bring any specimens or anything for us to see?"

"That's right, I heard that the Americans brought back hundreds of kilograms of moon soil when they landed on the moon. When we established diplomatic relations, they gave us 1 gram. You must be stingy! When we go up there, we won't give him even 1 gram!"

Excellent!

Chen Qi seemed to be watching "Strange Conditions Witnessed in Twenty Years", which was particularly interesting. He asked: "So, do you believe there are aliens?"

"Absolutely! The universe is so big, there must be planets with a similar environment to the earth, and it will definitely be able to breed life!" The young man vowed.

"Let's have a friendly discussion..."

Chen Qi touched his nose and smiled: "First of all, the definition of aliens is inaccurate, and you have never seen them. Why do you define them as adults? How do you know they must be human-shaped?

Can't they be silicon-based life forms? Or a tree, a stone, a lump of liquid, a mass of empty spiritual consciousness, or even a squid, sorry, anti-Semitic...

So I think it should not be called aliens, but extraterrestrial life.

Secondly, you just said that God is a feudal superstition.

It is written in the ancient book "Shiyi Ji": In the 30th year after Emperor Yao ascended the throne, a huge spaceship appeared in the West Sea, which could emit a soft light and was called Guanyuecha.

This description is very close to the so-called flying saucer.

It's just that the ancients didn't understand it and treated it as a god. Then let’s think about it from another perspective. Is it possible that the legendary gods are high-dimensional beings in the universe? Those indescribable things?

Look at the vastness of the universe and how insignificant human beings are. You should be in awe of the universe. Remember one sentence: weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is! "

Hiss!

The young man trembled all over, as if he had been enlightened by the Trisolaran.

Then he showed enthusiasm and his eyes shone: "Comrade! What you said makes so much sense. It's just that I'm narrow-minded. I didn't expect that UFOs could be explained in this way!"

"No, no, let's just communicate casually."

"No, no, no, your understanding of the mysteries of the universe is enough to be my teacher! Let me introduce myself, my name is Jiang Chao, from Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Several of my classmates and I are UFO enthusiasts.

We have set up a UFO interest group, can you leave us your contact information? Let's go visit! "

"That's fine. I'm not as interested in UFOs as I am in a plate of twice-cooked pork."

"You must stay, or I won't let you go!"

Chen Qi looked at this guy. He was in his 20s, chubby, as clear and stupid as future generations of college students, and he was running some kind of UFO interest group.

My balls hurt!

However, he then thought about it. When the 1980s entered, two crazes would sweep across the land of China. One was the qigong craze/superpower craze, and the other was the UFO craze—even Zhang Yimou said he had seen a UFO.

Qigong is sensitive to heat and difficult to mix - if he could, he would really like to play a magic stick style, but unfortunately he can't do 404.

UFO fever is interesting, and it can be expanded to science fiction. Although science fiction is raised by stepmothers in China, oh no, it is raised by maids, but he doesn't despise it.

Just make friends, just in case it will be useful in the future.

So Chen Qi left a contact number, Jiang Chao also left his contact number, and left happily.

…

"Everyone be quiet! Keep quiet!"

"Line up on both sides, let us writers come first, don't crowd, don't crowd! They came to visit everyone specially, we should not make it difficult for them, in case the meeting is cancelled."

In the afternoon, the whole book market was in turmoil.

People ran to both sides of the door, squeezed and scrambled for seats, leaving a path in the middle. Not long after, applause suddenly sounded like a storm, and Chinese textbooks walked over on the path.

Ye Shengtao: "Three or Five More Bushels"

Zang Kejia: Some people are dead while they are alive, and some people are still alive after they die.

Bing Xin: "Little Orange Lantern"

Liu Shaotang: "Elm Money Rice"

Ye Shengtao was already 85 years old. Seeing him in good spirits and greeting everyone clearly, the people couldn't help but clap their hands.

They all came to attend the National Congress of Literature and Art, and came to the book fair by the way. This is also a kind of support for the literary and artistic cause. Mao Dun also came to the book fair in 1957.

Zang Kejia was inspired to write a poem on the spot: "Looking at the enthusiastic smiling faces one after another, like the morning sun just rising from the mountains, some of us are already in our seventies and eighties, but we still want to live another twenty years and write for another twenty years..."

It should be said that this poem is very plain.

Bing Xin is also 79 years old. She wrote a poem for the book fair and said a few words.

Her reputation is not very good. Many people criticized her. The specifics will not be discussed.

It's just that she was not at peace after her death. Her tombstone was splashed with paint by her own grandson, and eight big characters were painted: "You are unworthy of being a role model for others because you have no way to educate your children." It is said that it was because her son cheated on her and got divorced, and her grandson sought justice for his mother...

Liu Shaotang is 43 years old, the youngest. He became famous too early. He joined the Writers Association when he was a teenager. He was hailed as a child prodigy. Together with Sun Li, he is a representative writer of the Lotus Pond School.

He has a son-in-law named Sima Bubei.

He also has a good friend who is a big leader.

Several famous writers appeared, and Gong Xue, Liang Xiaosheng and others wanted to shake hands, say a few words, and even get an autograph as if they had met a big star.

Chen Qi likes Wang Zengqi very much, but it's a pity that he didn't come.

(No more...)